The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-09-18
News of the Weak.

There are six thousand eases of cattle
disease in Deyonshire, England.
Eleven persons were suffocated by poi
sonous gas in an English colliery Sunday
President Grant and family are expec.
ted to return to Washington about the
10th inst.
Brick Pomeroy delivered u lecture on
Monday night at the Maryland Institute,
Baltimore.
George A. Flint, aged Is shot himself
at Brooktield, Ontario, Monday, because
he did not want to 60 to school.
The teller of the Canadian Bank OF
Commerce, of Montreal, absconded on Sat
urday, taking with him $4,000.
Mrs. Amanda DeFord committed suicide
in Baltimore by taking laudanum, Satur.
day night; cause, domestic infelicity.
DR.. Helmbold has sued out writs against
those who were instrumental in securing
his arrest and Incarceration in Kirkbride' (
Asylum,
The white boys of the Senior Glass of
the New Orleans Central High School
have refused to attend because colored
manhas been appointed Professor of Math.
ematics.
The steamer Mendoza foundered during
the storm of Thursday, 9th inst, on Lake
Michigan. There were twenty persons on
board, of whom seven were saved and thir-
teen drowned
The Lawrence" Commodore Perry s
flagship, which was sunk in the harbor of
Erie sixty-two years ago, was on Monday
raised and found to be in a good state Of
preservation. She will be exhibited at the
Centennial
Abraham Muenthal, Chicago ieweler,
recently secretly removed all his goods
from his store and absconded. He was
traced to Baltimore aud arrested there,
aud, waving an examination, he consented
to return to Chicago without requisition.
He left Baltimore Sunday night in charge
Of an officer.
The General Council of the Indian Ter
ritory before adjourning passed rcsolu-
ton, with reference to the question Of
opening the Territory to white settlers,
that the country was secured to the Indians
by solemn treaty, and if ever it is settled
it must be by the Indians, and with gov.
eminent suitable for Indians.
Four alleged couuterfeiters have been
captured near Decatur, Alabama A fifth.
named Bowers was previously arrested
there with $500 in counterfeit money in
his possession, and the telegram says he
was foreman Of the last Grand Jury, a
steward Of the Methodist Church and su.
perintendent of a Sabbath school
The Treasury Department having re-
ceived information that many vessels and
boats on the Lakes, ostensibly engaged in
fishing, are extensively used in smuggling
Canadian liquors and other merchandise
into this country, Customs officers on the
frontier have been instructed to exercise
special vigilance to prevent infractions Of
the Customs laws.
The severe storm on Friday, 10th inst.
on Lake Michigan caused sad disaster.
The propeller Equinox, from Chicago for
Bay City, Michigan, foundered with all
on board, twenty-five persons, thirteen Of
whom were Gorwned. The vessel was
very old and was overloaded. Tho storm
which caused this disaster seemed to have
extended over almost the entire northwest.
Reports of its ravages come from the lake
region, and from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota. In
some places much damage was done, and
there was an almost universal stoppage Of
railway travel for some hours on account
of culVert washouts and other damage to
tracks,