The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-01-30
News Of the Week.

III scaiVh VI N""i'o ieVaoi pehlE uHecttu
by a dream.
The population of the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland is l57, 254, and of the whole
peninsula 3i0,724
Senator Jones says that seventy thou
sand more persons settled in California
last year than left il.
North Carolina rejoices over the dis
coyery Of black lead deposit Of splendid
quality and great size,
Captain H. A. White, leader of the
Connecticut Colony in Russell county,
Kansas, was recently frozen to death near
his home.
Among the escort given the Prince aud
Princess Of Wales on their recent visit to
Birmingham were twenty persons riding
on byeicles.
The fourth Duchess Of 0neida, a COW,
for which s25, 900 was paid last year,
died recently on the farm of its owner,
near Paris, Ky.
The New York World says 1T is
reported that irregularities involving ST.
100000 have been detected in the Custom
House in this city.
Mary Reynolds, and female accomplish,
Of Holliston, Mass, have been arrested for
poisoning FIVE infants, whom they had
been nursing for pay
Tho dwelling Of John Gleason, at Craw-
ford, N. j., was burned on Friday. Two
Of his children, aged respectively two and
four years, were burned to death.
The mother Of Francis d. Moulton died
on Tuesday. Notwithstanding this afiIic-
tion he was kept on the witness stand all
day by Beecher's lawyers.
Marcus Denison, an esteemed citizen Of
Baltimore, died Tuesday, aged 80 years.
He was the father of General Denison,
present Postmaster of that city.
At Indianapolis recently, the family Of
a dying man quarrellcd so fercely about a
will he was about to sign, that the police
had to interfere to restore order.
Robert Davis, an old man that lived a
secluded life, his home being a cave in
the woods on the farm Of SewelI Biggs,
Del, died on Monday from exposure.
New York had both the North and
East rivers completely blocked with ice on
Saturday, so that the steamboats, could not
move and people crossed upon the ice.
Nearly thousand persons have been
thrown out of employment by the closing
Of Landenbergers hosiery mills, Philadel-
phia, caused by the failure of the firm
The amount received by the Comptroller
of Maryland up to the present time from
arrears Of taxes fronlnational banks, under
section of the act of 1874, is s59,G25.
One hundred heirs Of the Ash family,
among whom Is included the Hon. j. A j.
Creswell, Of Elkton, Md. are claiming some
three or four millions of dollars in the city
Of Amsterdam, Holland
An elevator Of an ice.house near Ron
dout, N. Y, fell on Monday, and six men
were buried in its ruins. Two of them,
named John began and James Harvey,
were fatally injured; the others will recover.
W. A. Weeks, colored, Assistant Sec
rotary Of State Of Louisiana, was killed on
Saturday night at New Orleans, in quar-
rel with a colored tax assessor, named
George Paris. Sheridan did not interfere.
Henry Nicoll, q well known New York
lawyer, is in trouble on account of having
misused $500, 900 of trust funds that were
in his keeping. His personal estate is
said to be sufficient to settle all his indebt-
edness.
The colored naval cadet at Annapolis is
said to be so much behind that he will
unayoidably fail to pass his examination.
Tho japanese cadet was dismissed for
some misbchayior, and since that has not
been heard from.
The Grand Jury of the U. S. District
Court at Baltimore, on Monday, indicted
Captain George McGonegle, of the Brit
ish bark Countess of Duifcrin, and John
McGonegle, seaman of the same vessel
for smuggling. The accused were released
on bail
The laborers employed on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, ia West Virginia, have
given notice that, unless their pay is rails
ed from the present rate. s1l5 per day,
to $3.50, by the 10th Of March, they will
strike. They arc willing to work on the
l2-hour system, provided they are paid
Sl.50
The ice from Kent Island wharf, Mary
land, and vicinity, broke loose January 20
and floated out the river As il passed
the lighthouse on Love Point, It struck
the stone wall around the house and
knocked down stones weighing as much
as two tons. No other damage was done
to the house, however.
The Beecher trial progresses very slow.
ly, aud the Legislature has been obliged
10 extend the term of the Court, 10 order
that IL will not be stopped midway, and
have to be all gone over again. Moulton
was on the stand all the week, and has
been subjected 10 the most rigorous cross
examination, perhaps, which any witness
ever endured.
Mrs. Kate Il. Clark, recently seams
tress 10 the family Of Senator Stewart, at
Washington, was arrested in Baltimore on
Monday, on the charge Of having robbed
Mrs. Stewart on Saturday Of $4,000 worth
Of bonds, diamonds, laces, etc The prop
erty was recovered and sent to Washing
ton with the accused Two trunks were
also found, containing over $4,000 worth
Of plate. laees, yelyets, and other valuables.