The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-05-13
News Of the week.


Chicago has two Mayors, Hayne aud
Colviu, and they are Illuminating procla-
nations against each other.
II is stated that the GoveruorG General
Of Canada will visit the Centennial Exhi-
bition during the summer
The Spring meeting Of the Maryland
Jockey Club commences at Pimlico May /
23d, and will continue four days.
The Rev Mr.. Spurgeon, of London,
has again declined the invitation ola Bos-
ton committee to lecture in this country.
Ex-President Pclks widow has been
invited by Col. Tom Scott to visit the Cen
tennal in special car placed at her dis
posal.
Wicomico county voted on the 9th of
April "for and against the license of spir-
ituous or fermented liquors The major
ty for license is 2Sl.
Hon. Jacob Tome, Of Cecil county, has
taken ST., 900 in stock in the Hagerstown
Agricultural Implement Manufacturing
Company.
The forest fires which have been raging
for some time in the mountains in Pike |
county, Pa, were extinguished by the
heavy rains of Monday night.
The Grand Jury of the United States
Court at New York on Tuesday presented
thirty indictments against prominent liquor |
dealers of that city for transactions in
crooked whiskey.
A letter to the Herald from Midland
on Georgia Bay, Canada, says VIM. NJ
Tweed is in Canada. He has spent the
winter on the Muskowa river, one hundred
miles from Toronto.
The resolution Of the centennial mana
gers to close the exhibition en- Sunday, has
not prevented the work of preparation
from going on as usual, for all has been
activity at the grounds for several Sundays
lately.
What with its hotels, new aud old, and
good, bad, and Indifferent, and its board
ing houses of ike sorts, the Centennial
Commissioners announce that Philadelphia
can accommodate $4,000 visitors.
Mr.. Thos. Convey, residing near Mat
thewstown, Caroline county, Nd, has
young colt with no tail Where the tail
ought to be there is little tuft of hair
similar to that of rabbit.
While Northern mill owners are com
planning, it is interesting to know that the
Graniteville Manufacturing Company of
South Carolina divided S54, 1860 among
its stockholders during the year ending
February 26,
The United States Supreme Court adj
journed on Monday until October next.
Two hundred and six opinions have been
delivered during the term just closed, and
three hundred and thirty eases have been
disposed Of. There remain on the docket
1913 cases.
1t has just been discovered that the
building at Philadelphia in which Jeffer-
son lived and wrote the Declaration of
Independence is number 702 Market
street in that city, and not number 700,
as has been supposed, so that large num-
bers of patriotic visitors to the building
have doubtless wasted their sentiment
Mr.. A. Koerpen, of Chicago, aged As,
has beard nine etloug He takes care
of his name, or tail, call it how you please,
just US young woman does of her tresses,
and as he stands it hangs down combed out
to its full length, the surplus carried on his
arm. He is good looking German, evil
IDENTIFY proud of his flowing locks.
The motion for new trial in the case
of Piper, the Boston murderer, was with
drawn on Monday by his counsel, Piper
having made a confession. He acknowl-
edges that he murdered Mabel Young. and
also says that he murdered Bridget Land
regan in December, 1873. He also at
tempted to kill Mary Tyner, in July,
1874, but she recovered, and is now in
luuatic asylum He says he was frenzied
by the use of stimulants, which inspired
him with an insane desire to shed blood.
Before the Civil Service Committee on
Monday, Miss Ada c. Sweet, Pension
Agent at Chicago, testified that in consid-
GRAFTON Of receiving the appointment, she
agreed to pay David Blakely, the retiring
agent S2l00, and paid the money over to
b. IL Campbell, then and now United
States Marshal for that District. Camp
bell is General Babcock's father-in law.
Blakely was also defaulter, as Pension
Agent, to the amount of $4,000, and she
was subsequently compelled to pay this
also. When the President found out that
she was paying money for her appoint
ment, he notified her that a combinations
OF il would be sufficient cause for her
removal.
There was warm debate in the Gencr-
al Conference on Monday on the Book
Concern and personal explanations were
made by Drs. Hitchcock and Walden, the
agents Of the Western Book Concern DR..
John Lanahan, of the Baltimore Concern.
and finally by Bishop Harris. The i'm.
mediate subject of the discussion was the
memorial presented by four members of
the Baltimore Conference upon the finan-
cial condition Of the Western Book Con.
Germ, but incidentally the old troubles of
the New York Book Concern were brought
in and the debate took Oh a personal com
plexion. 1t took up nearly the whole day,
and resulted in the appointment of two
special committees of Investigation.
A letter from the Black Hills, April 10,
says there are now over 1000 men in that
region, and that the daily arrivals are
unabated. They are chiefly concentrated |
around the Big Horn Mountains, where
the gold is most abundant. The Indians
Of the Big Horn region are very hostile,
and il is evident that they mean war to
the knife. They are making their prepa-
rations accordingly, and it is easy to fore
see that there viii be bloody work in the
northwest in the next few months. Al
number Of expeditions Of adventures have
already been cut of aud massacred by the
exasperated sayages, whose reservation has
been recklessly invaded BY the white man
without the shadow Of right. United
States troops are marching to the scene to
protect miners and emigrants, and the
Indians have no right which the white
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