The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-06-10
News Of tho Week.

1 Most OF the Black Hills miners arc dig.
giug-for home.
Philadelphia consumes 75 900 quarts of
ice cream daily.
A brisk lass in Fulton, Ill.,, sheared dir
teen sheep in two hours.
A Wisconsinite forgot his name when he
went to register at u hotel
Gen. Joseph Hooker is dangerously i'll
at the Hot Springs of Arkansas.
"Marshfeld, the estate of Daniel Web
ster, was sold on the I'd for $500.
Madam George Sand died at her chateau
in Nohant, France, on Thursday.
There are 10000 children living on
boats in England, who receive no educa-
ton.
Tennessee has forty cotton mills, en-
ploying 56,35s spindles, and consuming
IA, 443 bales of cotton.
Don Pedro arrived ut Lowell, Mass. on
Thursday, from Montreal, and visited the
schools and factories.
j. A. Holtzclaw, lately revenue collector
at Atlanta, Ga, is reported in that city to
be defaulter for $4,000.
William Thomas Isaacs, mail carrier
in,Anne Arundel county, Nd, was arrest
ed on the I'd, for robbing the mails, and
taken to Baltimore for hearing.
Mrs Knight, living on Chestnut Ridge,
has attained the good old age of one hun.
dred and three years. The old lady is
unable to walk, but Her mind is very little
impaired
A New York dispatch announces that
Cochrane, Mclean & Co., dry goods deal
ers, No. 1872 Broadway, have failed
Liabilities 81 100000; assets nearly 81.
900, 900.
The conferences between the iron man
ufacturers and the puddlers at Pittsburg
have failed to produce an agreement, and
most of the pudding mills in that section
have ceased work
Three Baltimore policemen have been
arrested for larceny. Among them was
Sergeant Clipper, who made an assault on
Mr.. McCardle, of Cumberland, Md. during
the session of the recent Legislature, at
Annapolis
One hundred aud twenty newly import-
ed Cinnamon have been placed at va b.
the ROckaway branch of the Long Island
Railroad, at seventy cents per day. There
was laborers strike on this road not long
since, and this is the result
Iceland has had very mild winter,
with much rain and little snow. This
mildness is attributed to the absence Of
the usual Greenland ice, that had not
made its appearance early in March, and
to the prevalence of southerly winds.
Old fishermen, who hear that the rocks
of Hell Gate are to be blown up on the
Fourth of July, are preparing to go out in
skifis and pick up the great quantities of
fish that will be stunned to insensibility
and come to the surface of the water
A wild black duck, large and splendid
specimen, weighing about ten pounds,
dashed through the plate-glass window of
the pilot-house of the steamer City of
Hartford, in u very dark night, when off
New Haven. 1t fell dead, with its neck
broken.
In battered trunk belonging to an old
woman supposed to be poor, who lately
died at Bangor, Me-, there were found
about two quarts of gold and silver coin,
together with large number Of bank bills
ranging in denomination from five to one
hundred dollars.
Allen G. Laros has confessed that he
poisoned his fathers family at Easton, Pa.
by putting arsenic in their coffee. Martin
Laros and wife, mother and father of the
murderer, and Moses Schug, are victims.
Money was his object, and $3.50 are mis-
sing.
On Sunday while Mrs. X. p German,
West Pratt street, Baltimore, was fondling
n pet parrot, il suddenly flew at her and
fastening its bcak in her lip pierced it
through and through. Ms. German states
that she has owned the bird for number
of years and this is the first time it ever
attempted to bite her.
Four convicts, named Carpenter, Quinn
Murphy aud Farrell, escaped from Sing
Sing, Friday morning, by empowering
their keeper. They forced the engineer
of locomotive on the Hudson River
Railroad to take them down the road, and
got off near Tarrytown. Two of them
were subsequently recaptured.
A violent storm Of wind and rain did
great damage near Starkey, in Yates coun
ty, n. Y, on Saturday afternoon. The
roof Of one church and the steeplc of an
other were demolished, two houses were
blown down, and much havoc was done
among trees, fences, barns and telegraph
poles. The path of the storm was two and
half miles wide, aud its duration was
three quarters Of an hour.
The strongest vessel yet planned-tho
RedoutaJie, now building at Lorient, in
France. This vessel has twenty. five inches
of solid armor, with thirty-fye inches of
oak backing and two inches of teak back
ing besides She will carry six 100 ton
guns, is 10000 tons burthen, and will
have engines of 800 horse power. When
she is finished the French navy, it is
thought, will have the strongest var-yessel
ever constructed.