The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-06-12

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1t is estimated that there are over 800
tons Of old rubber shoes manufactured into
car-spriugs in Boston annually.
A general strike Of the journeymen
plasterers of Baltimore began Monday.
They have been receiving 81 per day and
demand $3.50
The body of Miss Ada Marble, missing
since she went to take walk on Sunday,
was found on Tuesday, in the river, at
Harmony, Me. II is supposed she was
murdered.
In Washington, on Monday night, Jas.
johnson, colored, had his head split open
by another colored man, named George
Washington Drunkenness and jealousy
caused the deed.
The Metropolitan Collar Company, the
largest manufacturing firm Of the kind in
the world, have suspended. Their bust
ness for several years amounted to nearly
two million a year.
Deputy U. S, Marshal Ramsey was shot
By horse thief whom he was attempting
to arrest, at Stockton, Kansas, on Monday.
After being shot, he killed the thief, but
survived only an hour himself.
Rev. j. w. Hedges, some time since
baptised n child in the city of Annapolis
with water brought from the river Jordan.
Two other persons in the same city, were
baptised with water from the sacred river
The clerk Void, who was arrested in
the Post-office at Boston, last week, for
robbing the mails, is the eighth arrested
in that Office during the present year. The
evidence of the guilt in all cases was
abundant
The President has ordered that all lands
contiguous to the Mississippi with twelve
miles of its mouth be reserved for military
purposes, under the act authorizing Cap
tain Eads to construct jetties for tho deep
cning of the channel
Saturday afternoon band of Arrapa-
hoes made descent on llarper's ranch, in
Wyoming Territory, aud ran off one hun
dred and ninety head of horses. Citizens
are in pursuit, but the Indians have nearly
two days start Of them.
The National Association of Canned
Goods Packers assembled in Convention
mt Philadelphia Tuesday, and adopted a
constitution and bylaws. Mr.. J. Brink
ley, of Baltimore city, was elected Presi-
dent of the Association.
j. B. johnson, the champion swim
mer,' has agreed to swimming match
with Thomas Coylc, Of Chester, Pa, for
$1,000 side. The match win take place
in the Delaware river next month, and
the distance is to be from Chester to Phil
aJelphia-sixteen miles.
At Chicago, Monday, twenty two alder
men, declared guilty Of contempt of court
in having violated an injunction intended
to restrain them from counting votes cast
at the last municipal election, were fined
each 800 and costs, and their counsel
were each fined $500 and costs. They
have taken an appeal.
The paint shop of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company,
at Hartford, Conn, was burned Tuesday
night. The building was $50 feet long
by 60 wide, and contained several passen-
ger and freight cars and tenders, which
were burned with it. The loss is about
$4,000, Frank Herriek, fireman was
ijured-it is thought fatally.
The rooms in the Treasury Department
where money is kept or handled we're in-
spected Monday by the Secretary of the
Treasury, who intends to have the desks,
&C., altered, for the better protection of
the Government funds. Hereafter, no
visitors will be admitted to the Bureau of
Engraving and Priting, the Treasury
Vaults or any of the rooms in which the
money is handled.
Six men of Warrensburg, Missouri, re-
Gently sat down TO banquet of grasshop-
pers. The first dish was thick soup,
with the bodies and legs Of the 'hoppers
floating in it, and the verdict of the ban
queters was that it was fully equal to
chicken soup. Cakes, consisting mainly
of 'hoppers converted into dough, came
next, and were eaten with relish. The
final dish was made up of roasted 'hoppers,
plain, which were found to be delicious.
In the u S. District Court at Baltimore,
Tuesday, Captain Frank Moody, of the
ship Alexander McCallum, was convicted
of cruelty to his men, and sentenced to
three months imprisonment and fine of
$500 and costs. The McCallum is owned
in Thcmaston, Me-, and recently voyaged
from England to the Guano Islands in the
Pacific, and thence to Baltimore. It was
shown on the trial that the men were sub
jected to treatment of most atrocious
and disgusting character, and that one of
them died from its effects.
The centennial birthday of Father Henry
Boehm, Of the Newark Conference, was
celebrated on Tuesday in the Trinity NJ.
Il. Church at Jersey City. The church
was crowded, and many ministers were
present. Father Boehm arrived some
time after the commencement of the SER
vices, and remained until after their close.
Bishop Simpson and others made address,
es. MIR. Boehm was born in Lancaster
county, Pa, aud has been as years in the
ministry. He is believed to be the Oldest
minister in the United States
The Quahnda tribe of wild Coma inches
came into Fort Sill on the I'd instant, with
DIR. Storm, who had been sent for them,
and surrendered themselves, with 1000
ponies. The tribe numbers 407 men, wa,
men and children All the Indians be-
longing to the Fort Sill Agency are now
on the reservation, except the Essaquetas,
who have fed-not from hostility, but
fear. Their speedy return is expected.
The Quahadas had been raiding in Texas
for two years, and nearly always managed
to elude the military.
The case of the Knickerbocker Life
Insurance Company u.s. Magdalena Peters,
was decided by the Maryland Court Of
Appeals on Saturday, the jury finding a
verdict for Magdalena Peters, the plaintiff
in the Court below 1t was held BY the
Court that the clause in the policy which
makes it void ''if the assured shall die by
his own hand act, does not apply to d
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