The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-18

near Snow Hill, Nd.
Don Pedro is vigorou Wy making exeul
sions all around Athens.
The yellow fever has not entirely aoa'e
at Savannah, Georgia.
Boss Shepherd, of Wash ington, ha
failed. Liabilities 81 100000
Mr.. Moulton has abandoned his SUI
against Henry Ward Beecher f VI mai
cious prosecution.
John Walter, proprietor of the Il mac
Times, sailed for England from New \ orr
on Wednesday, accompanied by his fam ny
Russia and England are about to GRO
swords over Turkey, and it will probably
involve the other powers before it is
ended.
San Francisco will lay 100 miles of
pipe from the Sierra mountains to lis
waterworks. The iron is ordered from
st. Louis.
The Methodist ministers of Boston
forty to eight-haye passed resolutions
disappearing the policy of holding camp
meetings on Sunday,
The U. s. steamer Franklin, with
Tweed on Board, put into st. Thomas
short of coal. She will arrive in New
York probably to-day,
By the premature explosion of dyna-
mite cartridge in tunnel in Baltimore
county, Md, an Saturday evening, Ferdi-
nand McKew was killed and Daniel Ha-
gerty severely injured.
The October reports of the cotton crop
in South Carolina and Mississippi show
decrease of III per cent. in the former
State, and "a per cent in the latter, com :
pared with the yield Of last year.
The rumor Of proposed Fenian raid
into Canada from Vermont is discredited
in Ottawa. The Toronto Globe says that
''if the Fenians should again come into
Canada, they may expect no quarter"
An intoxicated person, while going to
his home in Louisville, KY, the other
night, fell into little park where there
were two pet deer that almost killed him
with their horns and hoofs before he was
rescued.
The fire at Savannah, Ga. on Monday
night destroyed 1900 bales of cotton, 38
railroad cars, 20 barrels of whisky and a
large quantity of bacon, lumber, fertilizers,
cotton ties aud buckles. About $50 bales
Of cotton were also damaged.
Francis Grappotte, convicted of murder
in the first degree, hanged himself in his
cell in the Jail at Watertown, N, Y, on
Sunday night. He possessed $4,000,
and his sentence was to have been defer
red until Saturday, to enable him to dis
pose Of it.
Hughs, the murderer of Richard S.
Hook, on Solomon's Island, is securely
ironed in jail at Prince Frederick, Calvert
county, He will be presented and indict-
ed by the Grand Jury of the County
Court, which is now in session, and his
trial pushed at once unless he removes his
case. '' t.i HtL-.
The six days walking match at Central
Park Garden between Miss Won Hillern
and Miss Marshall terminated last evening
at 11.55, when Miss Won Hiern was
declared the winner. Miss Marshall vir-
tually gave up the race at four, being too
lame and weak to go on. Miss Won Hill
lern walked 1923 miles in all.-N Y.
World Of Sunday.
The warlike tone of the utterances of
the English premier and the Gar of
Russia have clouded over the prospects of
peace in Europe. The Pail Mall Gazette,
a conservative journal, which has stead
lastly supported the policy of the govern
ment and is not given to alarmist articles,
takes very gloomy view of the situation
and seems to regard war as imminent.
The forthcoming report of the Post
master General will show that the receipts
of the Post-ofice Department for the year
ending June 80, 1876, were S29,644, 1877,
an increase on the receipts for the previ-
Gus year Of 81 ,852,S36, while the expen-
ditures were S33, 253, 487, decrease of
S347 1921. The revenue from the money
order business was $4,000.
Further accounts of the effects of the
clycone in India on the 31st of October
represent them as much more terrible
than at first represented. Twenty, some
estimates say forty, thousand persons per-
ished In one of the towns three thou
sand houses were blown down. The de-
struction appears to have extended over
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