The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-12-11


Mayor Stockley, of Philadelphia, is
carrying on vigorous campaign against
the gamblers.
By the LIST of January, 5000 persons
will be thrown out of work by the closing
oil the coal mines in Schuylkill county, Pa
The Mark Lane Express said on Mon
day that the wheat market was firmer, but
there was no prospect Of an advan ce until
spring
A number of prisoners escaped from the
Raymond street Brooklyn jail Sunday,
including John and Thomas Longhrey,
two counterfeiters.
The Baltimore Water Board, NJ onday
evening, awarded the contract for cl Gaming
out aud dredging Lake Roland, to James
NJ. Allen for $4,000.
Mr.. Abraham Cole, overseer at Balti-
more county Almshouse, came near going
10 Abraham's bosom by accidentally taking
dose Of poison last week
One firm of Paris, Bourbon county, KY,
during the last ten days before Thanks
giving, shipped 10000 pounds of turkey
W N'Vh Aoih uuu DUstOu.
Mr.. Charles S. Abel, son of Mr.. A. S.
Abel, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun,
died Friday of last week, after brief i'll.
ness of typhoid fever, aged % years.
A suit has been begun in the United
States Circuit Court, New York, by Mr..
Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama
Railroad Company, against the Tribune
Association for libel. Damages 800, 900.
A terrible explosion occurred on Monday
at the Swaithe Main Colliery, near
Barnsley, in the West Riding of York
shire, England, by which 1870 men we're
killed
The number Of idiots in the United
States, according to the census of 1870,
was 24,527, Of whom II, 4S5 were males,
and l0,042 females; 349s were colored
and l645 foreign born.
Ralph Vreeland and his wife Susannah
Mary, have been arrested at Boardville,
n. j., on suspicion of killing Vreelands
son, aged six years. The stepmother is
arrested principal, Vreeland as accessory
The West Virginia Legislature has
adopted design for flag. 1t will be
nine feet long, three feet wide, four diagonal
bars, two red and two buff, with white
ground in the upper part of the right hand
corner, with the State arms and motto in
gilt
Sharks nre said to have done consider
able damage to the fisheries on the lower
st. Lawrence. So numerous have they
4 haf ~ e.Ga -,
single system of nets at the mouth of the
Saguenay last week. They had followed
school Of porpoises into the nets and
become eptangled
When the rolling mill at Leechburg is
not in operation, the gas from the big well
at that place is conducted to the top of a
derrick about enc hundred feet high and
burned In six large burners, which illumi-
hates the country for miles around, and
makes it so light in that town that the
finest print can be read on any Of the streets.
A Newport r. L. clergyman preached
sermon on temperance Sunday evening,
and one Of the deacons, who had imbibed
insult, and after the service he gave the
minister good Gaming in the church, and
being pleased with the performance, fol-
lowed him home and several times repeat
ed the operation.
The frankling privilege voted itself by
the Forty third Congress expired at noon
on Monday. The present Congress may
find excuse to re-enact the privilege in the
statement Of the Postmaster General that
the forwarding Of franked matter during
the year has been accomplished without
delay to transportation of regular mails,
and without perceptible increase of cost.
The discovery has been made that certain
records in the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, at Towson-
town, have been mutiated. The Decem-
Der Term commenced Monday and the
attention of the Grand Jury was directed
to the matter by the Court, with instruc-
tons to investigate it thoroughly with a
view Of bringing the guilty party or parties
to justice.
Ex-Governor Bigler, General Hawley
and Mr. Thomas Cochran, of the Centen-
NAL Commission, are 10 Washington for
the purpose Of urging an appropriation in
aid of the Centennial, and inviting the
President, Cabinet and members Of Con-
gress to visit the Centennial Buildings
1t is proposed that they shall come to
Philadelphia on the 18th and remain until
the next day
The steamer Deutschland, of the North
German Lloyds Line, which sailed from
Bremen Sunday for New Nork, went
aground on Sunday night on the Kentish
Knock Sands, few miles eastward ofthe
mouth Of the Thames, and became total
wreck The details Of the disaster are
very meagre, but the latest dispatches put
the loss of life ut fifty. One hundred and
fifty of the passengers and crew have
arrived at Harwick.
Great stories are told about the prepare
tions Philadelphia Is making to lodge aud
feed "all the world and his wife, who are
expected at the Centennial next year.
One restaurant promises to provide 80, 900
meals n day, and others have pledged
themselves to 10000 more 1t is said,
one company has invested 100000 in
poultry, to be packed frozen in White
Mountain store-house, and to be forwarded
in reffigerators next summer. Another
firm has 100000 hams in store for Cen
tennial visitors.
Foreign dispatches announce great
calamity in one of the Yorkshire colieries
Monday. An explosion occurred while
the mine was in full operation, and II is
supposed that fully two hundred lives were
lost. At the latest advices dead bodies
were still being brought to the surface,
and the calamity appears to be one of the
most appalling Of the long list Of deaths
by wholesale ia coal mines. The explosion
Is said to have been caused by careless
blasting operations. Another explosion is
reported from Pentrych, South Wales, by
which twelve persons were killed and ten
injured.