The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-01
News Of the Week.

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The Cuban sugar crop will make about
one million boxes and it is valued at
$50, 900, 900 less than last years crop.
General n. w. Watkins died at his res
idence at Moberly, Mo-, last Monday, in
his eighty-frst year. He was Il half
brother Of Henry Clay,
An ingot of steel, weighing ten tons,
intended for the Centennial Exhibition,
was cast in the Pennsylvania Steel Works
at Baldwin, Pa, on Monday night.
Thomas w. Piper, who murdered the
little girl Mabel Young in the Warren
Avenue Baptist Church, Boston, in May
last, was Monday sentenced to be hanged,
The boot factory Of Claain, Coburn &
Co., at Hopkinton, Mass, was destroyed
by FIRE Sunday morning, with the stables
and outbuildings. Loss 100000. $50
persons were thrown out of employment.
The Mark Lane Express says there has
been general advance in prices ia both
the English and Continental grain mar
kets, and the caution lately exercised by
dealers has given place to feeling Of
greater confidence.
The recent "Polar wave" extended its
chilling influence as far south us Gaines
vile, in Florida. All the early vegetables
in southern Georgia, and large portion
Of those in northern Florida, were killed
by the frost
Nathaniel Mckay, of Boston, has COM
menced suit for libel aga inst Col. A. X.
Mcclure and Frank Mclaughlin, of the
Philadelphia Times, that paper having
charged Mckay with being connected with
certain navy yard frauds.
A FIRE in Pittsburg, late on Saturday
night, destroyed the whole block of Penn
sylvania avenue, between Tenth and
Eleventh streets The loss is about $780,
600. Two fremen were injured, one per-
haps fatally, by the fall Of building
Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, has
instructed the District Attorney of Baton
Rouge to take prompt proceedings against
the parties who have driven the Parish
Judge aud Tax-Collector from East Baton
Rouge, in violation of the law.
General Fitzpatrick is reported in the
Boston Post as saying that General But
terrified offered him $4,000 to assist in
securing the New York Collectorship for
the latter, and that he can prove his as
sertion by at least half dozen witnesses.
The bill legalizing the marriage between
Mr.. James Parton and his stcp-daughtcr,
Miss Ellen Willis Eldridge, in spite of
the adverse report of the Committee, was
passed to engrossment in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives Monday by a
vote Of 81 to SO.
Michael Edwards, native of York,
Pa, died at Moundsville, West Virginia,
on Monday, aged 10S years, Z months
and Is days. The old man was anxious
to live to visit the centennial exhibition
at Philadelphia, but his pilgrimage is at
length ended.
b. p. Rogers, receiving teller of the
Fulton Bank of Brooklyn, n. Y, abscon-
ded . few days ago, after embezzling money
from the bank. The amount Of his deial-
cation. according to the latest reports, is
$4,000. Rogers has been tracked to
Knoxville, but there traces of him have
disappeared.
Charles III. Barth, transportation clerk
in the Quartermaster's Department at San
Francisco, was arrested few days ago
for stealing 5000 of the Government
funds. He restored most of the money.
On Saturday he was ordered to be confn-
ed at Fort Alcatraz, but escaped from the
officers, and has not been recaptured.
1t was by IS majority that the British
House of Commons, on Thursday, made
Queen Victoria Empress of India-the
vote standing 209 to 1874 Had action
been postponed one day, the bill would
have been passed on the 273d anniversary
of the death of Queen Elizabeth March
oath, l603,) who Incorporated the East
India Company on the last day of the
sixteenth century.
The trial of Adler and Fust, distillers
aud rectifiers, of st. Louis, for violation of
the revenue laws, was concluded at Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, on Friday of last week.
They were found guilty on iifty-fve counts
of the Indictment. Under this verdict
the minimum penalty is fifty-fve years
imprisonment and S27 800 fine, Another
indictment is pending against the same
parties. Seventeen other persons have
also been indicted at Jefferson City for
whisky frauds.
A new counterfeit FIVE dollar note on
the Merchants National RAM of Nav
Bedford, Mass has appeared in Baltimore
1t is said to have been printed in Texos
by the notorious sPete" Mccartney. who
at last accounts was one of n gang Of cat-
tie thieves The execution e very cood
1t is stated for the information of those
liable to be imposed upon that, as the
National Bank notes are printed on fibrous
paper, the use of pin will show whether
that which looks like fibre is genuine or not
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