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

The stcams hip Abyssinia, from Liver.
pool to New York, Wednesday brought
one million antl flfty-two thousand dollars
in specie.
The London Standard Of Thursday
has a report from Berlin of intelligence
coming from Warsaw that an Instruction
was pending in Poland, and placards had
been posted in that city by the authorities
prohibiting any gathering in the streets
The Circuit Court of Richmond has re-
ceived and fled petition asking that
freceiver be appointed for the James River
and Kanawha Canal Company. The pc
titioners charge the management with
having brought the company to insolvency
by large and wreckless expenditures, and
with committing otherserious breaches Of
trust.
A little son of Mrs. Hodge, living in
A uburn, Mass, the other day found
Sun. I'll copper cylinder, which he asked his
mot. YER to help to prepare as head to
leadpe neil. While she was attempting to
pick out substance inside of the cylinder
it exploded tearing off her fore6nger and
part Of her thumb. The cylinder was a
dynamite cartridge.
The Japanese Commissioners have con-
tributed to the record of their share of the |
Exhibition, valuable work entitled an
"0utline History of Japanese Education,
prepared for the Philadelphia Interna-
tionaI Exhibition" 1t is volume Of two |
hundred pages, edited by Mr.. David Muir
ray, the foreign superintendent Of educa-
ton in Japan.
The report Of the Commissioner Of Ag-
riculture shows that the Department has
distributed the past year one million five
hundred and twenty thousand packages of
seeds which were selected from all parts
of the world because of their peculiar ex-
cellence. These have been placed in the
hands Of thousands of farmers, gardeners
and others in every part of the country.
The annual session of the conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South in
Virginia began Wednesday at Richmond.
Besides routine and other business, q res
olution was adopted for the appointment
of a committee to consider the subject of
formal relations between the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North and the Church South, and
to recommend such action as they deem
proper.
A report has reached Havana that some
of the Spanish troops recently arrived
have been disastrously defeated near Pu-
erto Principe. 1t is also reported that
the correspondence has been captured
between refugees in New York and insur-
gents on the island that an expedition,
with arms, ammunition and money, was en-
route, under command of Quesada. A
court-marshal at Holguin sentenced one
woman to be shot and another banished,
it is supposed for being concerned in the
Las Tunas matter.
The Pal Mall Gazette believes that
Russia intends war, being prepared to in
sist upon claims which she knows the
Porte will refuse. She is getting ready
to impose them by force. Turkey con-
tinues her concentration of troops and
general warlike preparations. Lord Bea-
consfield Thursday returned to London in
response to an urgent telegram from his
colleagues. Twenty-one battalions of in
fantry, seven regiments Of cavalry and
eighty guns have been told off as the first
British force for the East, should the Gov
eminent conclude that their services will
be required. Great activity is noticed at
the Woolwich Arsenal, aud the orders for
the production of rife ball cartridges have
been increased to two million per week,
instead of half million as heretofore.
The whole Polish contingent of the Rus
sian army has been ordered out for SER
vice in the field. The London Times pub
fishes telegram from its Vienna cores
pendent, stating that there is every pro-
liability that the Porte will consent to the
oonfaranna