The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-03-20
News Of the Week.
The National Fire Insurance Company
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was recently married to man aged GO.
The United States steamer Pensacola
arrived at Honolulu February Is, with
King Kalakaua.
The famous California trottcr, Occiden.
bal, will leave San Francisco for the East
on the LIST of April
a The Legislature of Indiana has repealed
the stringent liquor law of that State, and
passed license law 10 its stead.
Gov. Tilden has pardoned VIM. B.
4 Keane, the man who was sent to prison on
Ieomplaint of Mr., Bergh for killing cat
George S. Giseman, butter dealer, of
Baltimore, hanged himself on Saturday
night lie was addicted to intemperance,
One of the conviets in Sing Sing was
recently married in the jail, Mt the earnest
solicitation Of the woman who became his
wife,
A refrigerator car to be used in trans
porting strawberries from the South has
nst been constructed by Bridgeport,
Conn, Company.
J The Worcester aud Somerset Railroad
N once more under the SheriiTs hammer,
Ind is advertised 10 be sold in Princess
Aune, Md. on the Odd inst
Two hundred employees of the Saco
Water machine shop at Biddeford, Me, /
we're discharged on Saturday, there being
rery little work on hand
Mr., NJ Wyyil Boyd has purchased the
material Of the Free Press Office Mt Ha-
tcrstown, and intends to start new paper
allied the .Hurytoad Leader.
The New York poliea authorities are
hbout to commence taking the census of
be children in that city, under the pro-
Visions Of the Compulsory Education act
The Maryland State Grange of the Pa
hons of Husbandry, which was in session
b Baltimore last week, adjourned to meet
b Frederick ON the second Tuesday in
March, 1876
Joseph w. Graham, Deputy Postmaster
IL Frankford, Penn, has been held in
s., 900 bail to answer charge of embez.
ling draft for clio sterling, passed
urough that Office.
The Sixth Regiment Maryland National
Hnard, Col. Peters, Baltimore, has now its
ihl complement Of ten companies. The
Fifth, Col. Jenkins, proposes to go to
Cape May next summer
The Reading Times announces that
general suspension Of the wool hat facto-
ries of Reading will take place on the 18th
oil April, caused by the large stock on
& tand anil tho dniloeus Of ,roda
A reduction of % cents per ton on coal
% the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be
tEeen the mines in Allegany county and
Baltimore, will cause corresponding re
dnctiou, it is believed, on the canal.
A few weeks ago party of young men
from Carlisle stole six hundred inc-sized
trout from the Letort Springs, in Cumbci
hnd county, catching them with n seine
They threw along the banks Ill Of the
anal fry they caught.
On Monday last, Mcssrs W. H. d.
fpsselbaugh, Harry Gilmor and John
Hilroy entered upon the discharge of their
duiies as Police Commissioners Of Balti-
moro City. DIR, Marriott Boswell was
eiected Clerk Of the Board.
A short-horn steer was butehered in
Detroit that weighed l,ll0 pounds alive;
eight of dressed beef 5000 pounds, hide
40 pounds; aud tallow, 300 pounds This
= supposed to be the largest animal ever
<hughtered for beef on this continent.
There are in the United States $50 stove
}qpndries, consuming annually 100000
<ons Of iron. In 1871 there were 275
fonndries, which produced in that year
1,200, 600 stoves The number of stoves
induced in 1874 is estimated at $685.
l|'s, valued at 81, 063,0O0.
Another ingenious attempt to relieve
William NJ Tweed from the penalty of
bis crimes has come TO nanght The Gen
ofsl Term Of the Supreme Court on the
lzth inst. unanimously affirmed the dccs-
Ipn Of lower court in refusing to release
4|le prisoner on n writ Of habeas corpus
Lloyd Lowndes, Sr. of Clarksburg, West
Nhginia, father Of the Hon. Lloyd Lown-
dag DR., was robbed short time since of
<3.200 in u. $. coupon bonds, 81 800 in
Nhesapcakc aud Ohio Railroad coupon
bcnds, besides several registered Virginia
bonds and certificates of bank stock The
tHief was captured last week in Cincinnati
ma made full confession.
We haven't had all the cold weather on
l1k side after all DIR. Dc Ilaus, the
american Consul at Jerusalem, sends the
l1iormation that for the first time known
n the present inhabitants the cold weather
Nas so severe as to form ice. The Arabs
wing never seen ice before, were com
r|etely puzzled and could not understand
WY sater should change into glass; y
The Apaches have become very hostile
h 5hc Mexican State of Sonora. Among
tl1ir recent outrages was the killing OF
4|Ifee men and the wonnding of another
nqar Campos. Numbers Of people are said
4 be leaving for Arizona and Southern
(1liiornia, some to escape the Apaches,
and others to profit by the mineral discov
efIes in Arizona.
Whitfield, Nd. now claims population of
400 The town has sprung up within
|I|Ic past seven years, aud tlriyes almost
e<clusiyely from the oyster trade. The
1o1ses are built on piles, out in the river,
md the town Is called the Venice of
Anerica or the City Of Shells It is cs,i-
znesed that 1000 Of the population live in
eyater boats.
NJ. William J. stoddcra, insurance
a&cnt in San Francisco, l.r horse with
ai< perfectly formed feet, but only four
1t The two extra feet grow out Of the
1el|ocks Of the two fore-lcgs, and though
4E4all, are fully developed The horse,
hieh was riised in, Oregon, is five years
'o|d stylish, aud works IN single aud double
h>1ness. His extra feet cause him no in
crpgenienee.
9eueral Sherman being asked on Thurs
taI If the gold hunting expeditions to the
H|ek Hills would be interfercd with by
wv Gosernment, replied that they would
n prevented from entering that region, or
by got there thatlshey would be driven
N1'I As soon as the weather shall permit
[<4eps will be nut In the field to prevent