The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-12-18
News Of the Week.

said TO be larger than for several years past.
| General Babcock gave bail at Chicago,
on Saturday, to the amount Of $1,000, for
his appearance at st. Louis
Burbank and Reynolds, rectifiers, were
convicted at Milwaukee, on Saturday, Of
conspiracy to defraud the Government.
Three carloads of silk worm eggs, worth
s6,O00,000, are en- route from San Fran
cisco to New York.
The Judges Of the Supreme Court and
Members Of Congress visited the Centen-
NAL grounds on the 18th instant.
Estimates of 4, 100000 bales as the ag-
gregate Of the current crop Of cotton, begin
to be pretty generally acquicsced in.
The Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine
factory at Bridgeport, Conn. was destroyed
by FIRE Tuesday night, entailing loss Of
100000. The insurance is 100000.
One hundred and eight workmen, in.
GLIDING many skilled mechanics, have been
discharged from the Washington Navy
Yard.
1t is now positively asserted that Paul
Morphy, the famous chess player, is not
insane, but is merely suffering from i'll
health.
The Border City Mills of Fall River,
Mass, have received an order from Man
chester, England, for $4,000 pieces of
printing cloths.
The State census of South Carolina,
which has just been completed, shows u
total population of 923, 446, an increase of
80 per cent. in Eve years.
Bears in Wisconsin are not going into
winter quarters, the Indians say. This
indicates mild season, but makes it bad
for stray calves and small boys.
Alexander Kirkwood, public school
teacher in the Fourth District of Hartford
county, has been fined 50 by Squire Al.
derson for whipping one of his scholars.
Ex-Treasurer Mann, of Saratoga county,
n. Y, who is under bonds to answer a
charge of fraud, has disappeared from
Ballston, and is supposed to have fed from
justice.
Charles B. Blades, resident eff st.
Michaels, Talbot county, Nd, committed
suicide on Sunday evening, by cutting his
throat with razor. He had been afflicted
with softening of the brain.
An attempt was made on Monday night
to burn the Uniyersalist Church at Pro-
vincetown, Mass, while there was an audi
ence of about eight hundred persons pres
ent. Quite panic ensued, but fortunately
without injury to any one.
An attempt was made on Sunday even
ing to wreck train on the Delaware
Railroad, near Middletown, by placing
wooden ties and an iron bar across the
track, but no damage was done The
perpetrators are unknown.
The twenty cent pieces have proved u
failure in California The San Francisco
Pos, says nobody seems to want either to
pass or receive them, and in some mystic
rious manner they disappear and so back
to the mint.
In the trial of Deputy Collector Hill, in
the U. s. Circuit Court at indianapolis,
Hiram d. Snyder testified on Saturday
that in 1874 he was assured by John W.
Bingham that "thc ring was safe, as Bah
cock was in it"
The citizens of Frederick are making
efforts to erect monument to the memory
Of the author of "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner" A series of entertainments has
been inaugurated, the first Of which came
off Tuesday night in Frederick city, and
was handsomely patronized.
The melon trade of Richmond county,
Georgia, reached last summer the enormous
aggregate of 256, 450 melons. The Cen
trail Railroad carried away 90,S50, over
one-third Of which were grown on the
plantation of Pollard & Co. Ten thousand
melons were carried northward by the ex-
press companies.
For the year ending the LIST Of Novem-
Der last tramps cost the towns Of Orange
county, N. Y, outside Of Newburg, ST.
$50. The number kept was l8,491.-
Many of the towns now refuse to entertain
tramps, or set them to work breaking
stones in return.
The Newburg Journal says The faith
er of the wife of VIM. B. Astor, the New
York millionaire who died last week, was
Major John Armstrong, the man who
wrote the Newburg letters urging Wash
ington to make himself king at the close
of the Revolution.
The dwelling of VIM. c. Van Ness, near
Waterford, n. Y, was entered on Tuesday
night by burglars, who chloroformed the
family and stole $500 worth of clothing
and jewelry and $1,000 in promissory notes.
The latter were found next day. T
A leopard which was shipped to Phila-
delphia from New York by the Clyde barge
Chesapeake, affected his escape from the
cage ia which he was confined and for
several days held undisputed sway in the
hold of that vessel. It was finally recap
tured and carried to the Park.
At Walnut Bend Ark, on Thursday
last, o. n. Thompson was shot dead by
John +. Smith, with whom he was quar-
relling about wages. Smith was tried and
acquitted, it being shown that Thompson
attempted to kill him. 1t was stated by
Mrs. Thompson that her husband had
killed four men since they were married.
Captain Peter L. Stedman, of the
schooner Isle Of Pines, died on board that
vessel, in Hampton Roads, last Saturday,
from the effects of blow on the head
given him the same morning by muffin
Gus colored sailor named Arthur Randall,
Randall and another colored sailor named
Lawton, who encouraged him, were arres-
ted and lodged in the Norfolk Jail.
The sugar interest of Louisiana, which
was aforctime the basis Of prosperity in
that State, is now giving promise Of re-
newed vigor The crop this year is esti-
mated at about 100000 hogsheads. This
is the largest crop produced during the
past thirteen years, being fully one-third
larger than last year, and equal to about
half the average yield of the ten years i'm
mediately before the war
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