The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-05-22

nre seekers visited ftorida curing Tue past
season.
Sixty thousand ounces Of gold were
melted in the San Francisco Mint We'd
nesday.
A burglar IN North Carolina who was
shot by farmer, was found TO be woman
in male attire
| Six Cinnamon were ordained as deacons
by the Methodist Conference at Calais,
Me-, last week.
The cost Of the public schools in Ten
nessee last year was at the rate of about
81 so each scholar
A feet Of fourteen fishing boats has
left Collingwood, Ont, for the Lake Su.
perior fishing grounds,
A woman was recently arrested for sell
ing some colored people in Boston liquid
warranted to make them white
c. s. Hall, cadet, was fatally injured
at West Point, last week, by being thrown
from his horse during cavalry drill.
Attorney General Pierrepont and Com.
missioner Pratt entered upon the duties Of
their respective Offices on Saturday
The house Of Alderman Meagher, at
Houston, Texas, was burned on Saturday,
and three men persisted in the flames.
Three colored men have been convicted
at Atlanta, Ga, of two murders, and SEN
fenced to be hanged on tho 18th of June.
At Lexington, KY, on the 18th inst,
Searcher ran mile ia l:4lf This is
the fastest time ever made by any horse.
Six steamships sailed from New York
on Saturday for European ports, with
l006 cabin and 1898 steerage passengers.
The New Orleans Times of the sth inst.
says The prospect Of good and large.
ly increased rice crep in this State is ia
vorable
DR.. Brown Of Springfield, III, has sold
his boa constructor, % feet long, for So 900.
1t has been purchased "for the British
Museum
The total value Of the silk manufactures
in this country last year is given at SlS,-
692,4S2. The quantity Of silk used was
s97 $40 pounds
Hon. Thomas Biddlc, of Philadelphia,
United States Minister Resident of Ecua-
dor, South America, died at Guayaquil,
on the 9TH of May.
A monster Black Hills expedition is
organizing in Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, which, it is claimed has already
enrolled 800 men.
The President Of the Philadelphia and
Darby City Railroad Company is accused
Of illegally issuing between 100000 and
! 1900 900 worth of stuck
A stnnge man entered the house of Eli
Hoas at Shamokin, Pa, on Saturday night,
by mistake, and was shot by Hoas, He
is not expected to recover.
A mule lately died at Fredericksburg,
Virginia, at the remarkable age of sixty
years, having been an excellent worker up
to the day before its death
Charles Davis, late Postmaster at Union
Springs, Ala, on the l4th instant pleaded
/ guilty of embezzlement aud was sentenced
tn six months imprisonment.
The next Centennial Celebration in
Boston, after that Of Bunker Hill will be
on July 3, the anniversary of Washington's
taking the command of the army.
Samuel White, prominent citizen of
Ludlow, Mass, was bitten in the thigh by
boar on Saturday forenoon of last week,
and bled to death before assistance could
reach him
James Milligan has been arrested aud
lodged in the Pike County Jail, for placing
distinctions on the Delaware division of
the Erie Railway His object is supposed
to have been robbery.
A mastodon skeleton weighing 1000
pounds, the largest ever found. has been
sent to Yale College, from Obsvile, in
Orange county, n, Y, where it was dug
up two years ago.
The Winchester Arms Company, of
New Haven, Conn, has received an order
from the Turkish government for 80 ,000,-
900 cartridges, which will keep the com.
pany busy for about year.
The troubles with the striking miners
in the Pennsylvania coal regions still con
tinue. A fight took place between the
police aud the strikers at the Sterling
Mines on the l4th and several miners we're
arrested on
A bill has passed the New York Legis-
lature authorizing the Governor to appoint
a Board of Seven Commissioners to rep
resent the State at the Centennial Expo
sition. The bill appropriates $4,000 for
the expenses Of the Commission.
A child, it is related, was recently born
in Michigan with two complete faces, one
in the natural position, and the other at
the back Of the head The faces arc said
to be complete in all particulars, there be-
ing two eyes, mouth and a nose on each
face.
The large whisky house of Pipe, boy lie
4 Barrett, at Cincinnati, was seized last
week, and placed in charge of the U. s.
Marshal. The reetifying establishment of
b. A. Feinman 4 Co, at Kansas CITY,
and the distillery of Shehan 4 Sons, at St.
Joseph, Mo-, were also seized
Brooklyn is troubled by boy thieves.
The young robbers steal door mats, hang
ing baskets, and bird cages with great
dexterity, and occasionally invade the
public Lighthouses, carrying of the outer
garments of the pupils. They also waylay
and rob children in the public streets, re-
sorting to violence in case of resistance.
They work in gangs of three or more each,
and are so expert and feet footed that
they are rarely captured by the police,
The Postmaster General has issued an
order forbidding the postmaster at Cincin-
natl to pay L. d. Sine, alleged to be con-
ducting gift enterprise, any postal money
order, and instructing the postmaster to
return to the remitters, upon proper APP
plication, the amount Of such orders The
postmaster is also instructed to return all
registered letters directed to l.. d. Sine
to the Offices where they were originally
mailed, with the word fraudulent plainly
written or stamped upon the outside.
While the engine Of freight train on
the way to New York was passing through
the arch at Sing-Siug prison, about four
O'Clock a. m. on the 18th instant, four
eonvicts jumped upon il, and presenting
revolyers at the engineer and fireman,
compelled them to get of. The eonvicts
then cut the engine loose from the train