The Democratic advocate., 1876-01-15
Nsvs Of .As Week.


be strained.
\ The Chorpenning claim Of s443,0O0
against the Puslofice Department was
argued in the Court Of Claims Monday.
Jonathan p. Cilley, sou of the Cilley
killed IN the famous duel with Graves, has
been elected Adjutaut- General Of Maine
A man and wife, named Fruits, reside
in Montgomery county, Indiana, aged
respectively ll3 aud Ill years,
4 negro named Burgess, confined In
Baton Rouge Jail for killing white man,
was hanged by a mob GU Friday night
I Col. J. w. Forney will return from
Europe about the middle of February aud
resume editorial charge of The Pliladet-
phia Press,
The school children Of America annu-
ally pay s50, 900, 900 for school books, of
which it is said the publishers pocket
100000.
The Peaks of Otter, near Lynchburg,
Va. long supposed to be an extinct volca-
no, have recently given unmistakablo evil
denccs ofaction.
Governor Tilden has declined to inter
fere in the case Of Stokes, the Fisk mur-
derer, for whose pardon application had
been made.
AT its late session in Charleston, the
South Carolina Annual Conference passed
a resolution forbiiding Methodist minis
tens attending circuses.
The colored citizens of Iowa are in favor
Of third term They held Convention
at oskaloosa on Tuesday, and adopted Il
resolution favoring it.
The Post Office Department is prepar.
ing for exhibition at the Centennial a com.
plete framed collection of all United States
stamps and stamped envelopes ever issued.
The number of deaths in Baltimore
during the year 1875 was 7,25l; births
S,23l-showing an increase Of births over
deaths of $50 1t is not believed that all
the births were reported
a reduction of some s2l0,OO0 is pro.
posed by the Committee on Appropriations
in the West Point Military Academy ex. |
pcnses. This is to be done by cutting
down the pay of cadets and professors.
Timothy Kirby, an old citizen of Gin |
cinnati, died Monday morning. aged 81
years. He leaves over g., 900, 900 in pro-
perty, and among his heirs are Dom Pmtt
and Congressman Banning.
Ohio has declared war upon the tramps,
and the tramps seem disposed to retalnte
by organized incendiarism. One town
near Cincinnati was fred in several places
on Sunday night and had narrow escape.
The failure on the part Of the Western
Var Company to pay To the State of In.
diana s3i 900 due for convict labor has
resulted in the abrogation Of the contract
and the labor of the 500 conyicts will no
relet
The Philadelphia Tine, publishes list
OF two hundred and fifty failures and
twelve millions of liabilities in one year in
!Pllttsburg and the adjoining country
They must either have touched bottom or
1t is out in that section.
At Washington, on Saturday, n verdict
ol s3OO damages was rendered against tho
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com.
pany, for refusal to carry the plaintiff an
an ex'urslon ticket few hours out Of
date The case will be appealed.
A telegram from Cheyenne reports the
discovery in the Centennial lode nenr
Laramie City, of "a large body of quartz,
showing an amount of free gold which il
Is believed exceeds anything ever before
seen IN rock. A large mass ofthis quartz
Is TO be sent to the Centennial Exhibition
-, AT Baltimore, on Saturday, William {
Thompson, convicted Of an assault upon a :
g'rl II years of age, was sentenced 10 2l !
years imprisonment in the Peniten,iarv
Policeman Patrick Mcdonald, convicted Z
o' mansiaughter, in killing Joseph Brown :
eolored, in July last, was sentenced 10 five !
years Imprisonment in JAIL
:, lnmps are at work on the Eastern
shore At Ferry Neck, Talbot county on $
wednesday the house of Captain John f.
Harrington was burned, and on Monday ?
the store of Mr. Lloyd, at Hambleton n
,ne same county, was robbed of s3OO
po'h these deeds are believed to have
been done by wandering vagrants.
The debt of New Orleans is stated bv
o .ne Auininistrator Of that city to be s2l'. T.
ooV,00O. Ii is proposed to comnrom;so
WIN the bondholdens by issuing new con.
soiidated bonds at the rate of 60 cents On .
'ne dollar, in lieu of outstanding obliga.
'ions' An attempt will also be made N
'puace the assessment for school purposes. a
Mrs; Myra Clark Gaines, of litirious 70. Y
nown, has arrived in Washington 10 at,.nd i
to sui, in the Supreme Court involving . .
inc inc probate of will ut New Orleans 4
Ms ualnes says that she has been on. O.
saged IN litigation concerning her interests =
Tor ~ years and has spent three fortunes :,
in the curts. '''u"'' N
ihere was wholesale robbery ,, N
osborn, small town on the Hannibal and
SI y, Joseph Railroad, in Missouri las, r
thursday night. Burglars broke ipto 4 J"
drug store and stole bottle of chloroform
with which, it is said, they druoged al
Inc inhabitants, robbed both the bo,eIs
All the stores, and many private residences
'nu escaped with several thousand dollars
Jacksonville, Florida, is shipping orap.
ses through to Cincinnati and CIeveland i.
N the new patent ventilated ears of ,La a
Atlantic and Gulf road. 1t takes opIv
.hree days to e through. Our pork back.
rs are feeling uneasy. They are afraid [
na. so much warm weather will destroy re-
he'r chance of saving the meat thew have b
'ul away We hear of several parties who in
laye lost great deal of pork.-Madi,on. N