The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-07-03
News of the Week.

s.n francisco expends over 50, ATS, 900 on
tobacco annually.
rla estimated value Of the last French vim
tage is slOO,OOO,0OO.
r;obt sunstrokes occurred in Baltimore,
uj On SATURDAY. aud Sunday, three Of which
proved fatal.
Iobn Reed. Of Frederick, Del. cleared
esnoa r.or, Strawberries this year. He paid
his pickers 1920 cash.
The Hon. Asa Packer, Of Maueh Chunk,
~ psnnsylyania's railroad magnates, is
. OeJ TO he worth $50, 100000. He began life
poor boy .o 80,
=, VII Pa. on Monday, by hanging himself
~ b;s brothers cellar. II is supposed that
ha was crazed By pecuniary trouble,
The international rife match between the
Irish and Americans teams took place on
Tuesday near Dublin, and resulted IN a victory
for the Americans by a score OF s67 to 929.
movement has been inaugurated to raise
funds for the erection Of u memorial column in
the public square at Gettysburg 70 the memory
Of the unknown soldiers who fell in the battle
there.
II IL believed that after the Alabama Claims
Commission has completed its awards there
viii he balance Of nearly Sl0,0OO,0OO Of the
Geneva award remaining to the credi, Of the
Government.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has directed
tho Assistant Treasurer Of the United States
n, New York to sell 81 10000 gold coin on
soch Thursday during the month of July.
The total amount to be sold is S5,000,000,
Very cold weather prevailed on Sunday
r;gb, and Monday morning throughout the
Tor,bwest The thermometer at Chicago at
h moon. marked SO degrees, while at New York
il marked 81, Philadelphia 92 and Boston 95.
Knoxville lawyer shot himself some days
400. and left the following note :-"R. b.
4 Dowell has suicided. The grave is welcome
home. God will take care Of my boy. |
Leave $50 TO bury me with. Some men say,
"Crazy!'' Nary time.
colored man named William Keemar,
who attempted to commit an outrage on
lady in Rash county, Indiana, and who was
taken from Nashville to Greenfield for fear
4 of violence was taken from the jail at the lat.
ter place on Friday night and hanged
Missouri correspondent of the Chicago
u Tribune tells Of a swarm of locusts from 30
N 10 rs miles wide, half mile deep passing
Il through the air at a speed of Is miles an hour
for sixty hours continually, and driving peo-
8 ple indoors for fear Of being smothered to
~ death.
Mr.. George Bancroft, in letter to Mayor
& Cobb, Of Boston, urges that the people of that
city ought to take the present time to begin
the construction Of the monument at York.
~ town, Va, which so long ago Us 1881 Congress
promised should be erected there to common.
q orate the British surrender.
Bergner l. Engle of Philadelphia have been
granted the privilege Of selling beer on the
Centennial grounds. Theypay SO, 600 for the
privilege and will, at their own expense, con.
struct garden. Mr.. Matthews, of New York,
has been given the privilege Of selling soda
water. He gives $40, 900 for the privilege.
In the stomach Of valuable horse that re.
Gently died at East Nantmeal, Chester county,
" Pa, we're found half pint Of cinders of sand,
SIX iourpenny nails, seven pieces Of horseshoe
nails, one carpet tack, u ROSTERS spur one
inch and quarter long, six stones the size
OF beans, and one cent bearing date of 1864.
A shooting affair occurred at the st. Clair
. Hotel, Baltimore, Wednesday, Col. J. Lyle
Clark being shot by two brothers named
Brewer. The latter allege that Clark had
violated the chastity Of their sister, an aceusa
IA ton which he denies. He is no, seriously
wounded, and his assailanis have been arres
g ted.
The Washington National Monument So
cety have issued an earnest appeal to the
churches and Sunday schools OF the country
to take up collections on Sunday, the 4th of
July, for the purpose of completing the unhn-
# tons should be forwarded to the Treasurer of
The Society at Washington. Mr.. !. r. H..
Smith.
A suit for libel was instituted in Pittsburg
on Saturday last by VIM. $. Evans against
VIM, J. COUNT, and the Mail Publishing
Company to recover S25, 900 damages for an
alleged libelous article, published in the Allie
ghany Nail on the 23d, speaking of Evans
and others as living shere in a luxurious style
on money stolen from the Indians and the
GoyernmenL
From the first Of January, 1875, to the LIST
e of July, there has been a decrease of national
bank capital in Maryland of 1850, 800 There
has been decrease in the same period in
nearly every Southern and Western State
(which is very significant when taken in con
nection with the demand for more circula-
bon, which comes entirely from those two
sections. Illinois alone has surrendered vol
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IA, sne i'praiy IL ,os'ng e'Vo year, VIII, &c a
H. sa,ne VI w.. 70 nous lesens u ssnoo and
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fiye brothers named Alfred, Frederick A.
Charles, Edward and George hoe, formerly
Engaged in the grocery business, were arres,
ted at Chicago, on Saturday, on the charge OF
aving defrauded Messrs. o. z. Gregory, j..
n. Callinsworth aud 5, A. Ellison, OF Rich
a ! No. va: out OF merchandise 10 the amount
sz'o,OOo The alleged fraud Is said 10
ave been committed on the hrst o. Sep.em.
~, 1873. ihe accused were were h oad 70 answer
ponds OF IRON so'ooo to Slo'Voo eacn'
An application was filed in the United
states CIRCUIT Court, before Judge Shipman,
New York Tuesday, asking such modiica-
on of order of sale in the foreclosure suit
fgainst the Northern Pacific Railway Com.
fany as will give claims of first mortgage bond
FOLDERS precedence over all others. Il is I'M
erstood that there vii! be no opposition to
He motion and that IL will he Substantially