The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-30
Nav. Of the wsek.

VI Nuim NcuthcNs
Christopher Columbus Taylor, colored
residing near Battle swamp, Cecil county
Nd, is Ill years old
There was loud peal of thunder fol
lowing avivid fash of lightning, during
snow storm at Boston, on Monday of las
week.
A young man named Smith was kille,
last week at Salisbury, Nd, by bein,
thrown out of a sleigh, his horses having
runaway.
The great Baltimore dog show will begil
January 2. OF course there will be th,
usual number of jolly dogs, sly dogs and
sad dogs,
Emanuel Schwerin, so North Thirt
street, Philadelphia, wholesale dealer il
clothing, has failed, with liabilities o
1870, 900.
Advices from Japan state that the fire
in Toxic, on November 10Th, destroyed
5000 houses, causing loss of $4,000,
600. Fifty lives were lost
The steamship Essen is at hand She
comes here for the purpose of taking to
Bremen the celebrated Krupp gun ex
hibited at the Centennial Exhibition.
George Kirkwood, late of Hartford
county, Nd, was killed recently in Iowa
by falling into an excavation near his
house. His neck was broken by the fall
Gov. Grover, of Oregon, left San Fran
cisco for Washington on Tuesday afternoon
A delegation escorted him to the ferry
boat, and salute was fired in his honor
The steamer Celtic, which arrived at
New York from Liverpool Monday, brought
$4,000 in gold coin. The steamer Lab
rador, from Havre, brought $4,000 in
specie
At fire at the convent of St. Eliza
beth, Quebec, on Monday night the build
ing was entirely destroyed, in the terri
Bile panic which seems to have prevailed
nine children persisted from suffocation,
and four others are missing.
The managers of the Central Vermont
railroad have issued notices that the wages
Of their employees, on and after the first
day OF January next, will be reduced 10
per cent ana IN some cases los per cent
Wolves and foxes are so numerous in
some of the Western States and Terrific
ries this winter that many persons make
very profitable business out of poisoning
these pestiferous animals for their pelts.
Comptroller Woolford will hold a con.
ference at Annapolis, January 3, with
members of the boards of control and re-
view, for the purpose of establishing
uniform valuation Of all railroad property
in the state.
The swamps in Louisiana are said to be
dryer than they have been for thirty.fve
years A man may ride on horseback or a
wagon may be driven through tracts of
country heretofore impossible within the
memory of man.
A false alarm IF fro in ,ho ono..
House, at Newark, N. j.. on Monday
night, caused panic among the audience
and rush for the doors. The panic was
finally quoted, after woman and little
boy had been seriously injured.
An unknown vessel wont osboro ~
Marshal Island near Ellsworth Ma
during the recent storm. When discov.
cred she had gone to pieces, and three
dead bodies, frozen stiff, were found
among the timbers.
A train on the CLEVELAND columh,.
Cincinnati and Indion.noI;s R.;lrnad :. .
off tho tract Mondar norn;nO 0aa
passenger car was turned completely over,
some of tho occupants-about
twenty-but none fatally.
A FIRE followed by an explosion took
place at Oil City, Pa, Monday. causing n
loss of thirty-ive thousand barrels Of oil
and five iron tanks. The total value of
the property DESTROYED is estimated Mt
100000, on which there was only A mar.
tial insurance.
Tho San Froro;.oo p,,u.,s. .... ~
the appropriation made last wear for the
monitor Monadnock, at Mare Island has
been devoted to the building of new
monitor, the sections of which have been
shipped from eastern yards, and NOTHING
whatever has been done to the Mopadnoct
A nnmber of rowd;os .,,.olo, a.
cunants Of two slsigbs cbr;s,mas , ;"S w.
the Hackensock Mani road naar H., In