The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-09-02
News Of the Woak.

tons of ice per day.
Good sheep can be bought in orcgol
for one dollar apiece.
A mosquito one inch in length has bee,
slain in Calvert county, Md.
At hreeyear-old boy in Topeka has bee
removed from a tapc.worm 30 foot long.
California has more than hundred mil
liouaires, one half Of whom live in Sal
Francisco.
Farmers in Orange county, New York
are already obliged to fodder their cattle
because of drought
Spain will send 2i,S5O men. will
hrupp and Pacentia guns, to Cuba before
the first of November.
A boy Of Is, weighing i6s pounds, /,
among the Indiana visitors at Lebanon
Springs, Massachusetts,.
Tennessee has forty cotton mills, employ
ing spindes aud consuming "A All
bales of cotton.
The Washington Monument Society
has decided To transmit the property OF
the society TO the government.
The Baltimore ,Sam notes tho largely
increasing travel from the South through
that city for the Centennial.
james Morrison, of Bellaire, Ohio, is
making arrangements to ship 1000 barrels
of apples to Glasgow, Scotland.
A wealthy Baltimorcan, who died the
other day left all his properly to his wife
on condition she should not remarry.
Saturday last was % cent day at the
Centennial, and more than one hundred
thousand persons we're in attendance.
A Somerset, Mass, man, in cxcayatins
on his house lot for a well, recently found
vein Of black lead, five inches in depth.
A terrible drought is prevailing through
out China, aud rice, the staple food of the
inhabitants, has to be imported from Japan.
GrasshOppcrs are still very thick in
Eastern Nebraska, doing II good deal of
damage to vegetables and corn planted
late.
An indianapolis child swallowed nick.
ell, few days ago, since which time it has
lost all appetite and is Visiting away to a
skeleton.
State Tax Collector Yates, of St. James
Parish, Louisiana, is under arrest on
charge of being deiaulter to the amount
of $4,000.
A prize fight took place in Salem coun-
ty, N. j., between two men named Weed
on aud Walker, from Philadelphia
Walker was killed.
Mrs Davidson, of Reading, Pa, 1O2
years, summering at Mount Washington,
never chewcd tobacco aud has always es-
chewed alcoholic stimulants.
An Indian mound, between Red Bank
aud ClayvilIe, Ohio, was cut across sever
al days ago, and an arched tomb, holding
a skeleton, was discovered
Three brothers, sons of the Siamese
twins, are joint owners of fine farm in
jackson county, Missouri, on which they
raise large crops Of tobacco.
Five of the Molly Mcguire gang were
sentenced to death at Pottsvlle, Pa, on
Monday, for the murder of Police Officer
lost, and Thomas Sanger, in 1875.
While Waiting on barge on the llud-
son river, several days ago, a couple lost
their balance and fell overheard. The
man was rescued, but his partner was
drowned
In an old tin box unearthed in newly
plowed field at Bolivar, Tenn, were found
fifty Mexican dollars and twenty half
dollars, none of which had been coined
later than 1880.
Reports received at Havana from San
Domingo represent that the revolution in
that island has not been quelled. Several
ports have been blockaded and the Govern
ment is organizing more troops.
Gen. Babcock's trial for completely in
the safe burglary conspiracy has been
set down for Sept. 10. He will be de-
Tended by Mr.. Emory A. Stcrrs, the man
who did him such excellent service at St.
Louis
An effort is being made to divide Cali
fornia into two States, on the line of
Santa Cruz county, giving fourteen coun-
in the south for the new State, with thirty
thousand voters and hundred millions
taxable property.
Adyces from Panama say the revolution
in Columbia continues. The President
OF Costa Rica has been overthrow and
Provisional President put in his place.
DIR, Mariana Pardo was inaugurated Pres
idcnt of Peru on the I'd inst. A Chinese
riot has occurred at Trujillo, Peru, grow
ing out Of the murder of two overseers.
Several of the Chinese were killed by the
Peruyians.
Orders have been issued from the War
Department for the establishment of two
winter posts in the Indian country-onc
near Fort Phil Kearney and the other
on the Yellowstone near the mouth Of
Powder river-for the use of troops and
the storage of supplies during the coming
winter. The Government has decided to
take permanent possession Of the Black
Hills and Big Horn country and to keep
the Indians out of it altogether.
"The mills of the gods grind slowly
it is true but they are grinding Exceed.
ing small" in Schuylkill county, and when
they stop there viii not be much left of
the Mollie Maguires. New grist has been
found in the discovery Of the murderers
of Morgan Powell, the first known victim
of the order. "Ycllow Jack" Donahoe
and Alexander Campbell are now in jail
and the evidence against them is said to
be conclusive.
A boy named Thomas Joseph CLANCY,
aged ten years, son of Nelson Clancy, Of
Annapolis, shot and killed his cousin,
Thomas CLANCY, aged about fourteen, on
Tuesday at the farm of Wesley Wright,
on South river, Anno Arundel county, Md.
The murder is believed to have been
deliberate one, as the accused had been
heard to make threats that he would kill
his cousin. The youthful murderer was
lodged in the county jail.