The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-23

Flocks oil wild geese are doing great
damage to the wheat fields Of Colusa county
California W.
| Eighteen inches Of snow fell in North
ern New England Monday night. Trains
were generally delayed.
There are now five "Molly Maguires"
in Mauch Chunk Jail who will be hanged,
and six in Schuylkilljail
At Norristown apple dumping party
40 persons ate $50 dumplings. One man
ate "a and another 18.
Seven cars Of silk worm eggs, valued
at three million dollars passed through
Omaha on Sunday last.
The legion of Adrian Mich boys who
have sworn off from nsing whisky and to-
bacco now numbers about 400
George Shaw, Of Hobokeu, N. j., fatally
injured his six-year-old son by striking
him on the head with poker
John Smith formerly of Geneva, N. Y,
died in Philadelphia on Saturdaylast aged
104 years and IL months.
Ex-Gov. VIM Cozzens died at Newport,
r. l., Monday Of typhoid fever, said to
have been contracted at the centennial
exposition. n
The Atlanta Times says an unbroken
stream of Immigrants to Texas and Ar
kansas has been, for some time, flowing
through that city.
Three men have been arrested in New
Haven, Conn, for passing counterfeit ten
dollar bills on the Lafayette National
Bank, of Lafayette, Ind. J&l
Owing to the difficulty of placing de-
posits in profitable Investments at this
time the Park Savings Bank Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has concluded to surrender its
charter.
Advices from Panama, to the 9Th inst,
report that the Federal forces had gained
q great victory over the Antioquian rebels,
and the latter were negotiating for sur
render. Two thousand were killed in the
battle on both sides.
Ten thousand seven hundred and fifty
photographs and sixteen albums, sent
through the mails by William hoffman, of
Montreal Canada 10 HE aoa,t Oh Can,
br;Jgo Noes n evodo drty baya Laan
seized bv cnstom. bonse of;csrs and mo-
ceod;nos viii ha ;nstitnted og.;ns, hin
| The duties on The seized articles would
have amounted to al 900
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New York on Mcndav bov;n, baoni air.
rendered by the Canadian authorities
under the cStradition treaty
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a1haso .o caII Ss.;p 'N ' "en'
rescned from tho l;fc.soving station The
tbree.master Relic Crowell Of Dannis
Mass was cansized off West Onaddv
Me. and the crew taken In Eastnort
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C0ndlt, the man arrested In New \ ork
for originating the forged dispatch an
nouncing the death of Commodore Van
derbilt, has been identified as the person
who on Thursday week telegraphed to
Wall street agency from Newark, over
the signature of the New York Heralds
correspondent, that the President of the
New jersey Central was before the chan
cellor, and the appointment OF receiver
was anticipated ~ ~ = t'''''f
Elkana H. Ingalls, and his wife an aged
couple, we're suffocated in their ,room, at
Providence, R. l., Sunday morning. On
going to bed they left lighted lamp on
the bureau, and the top Of the bareau
caught fire. When the police, attracted
by the smoke, entered the house they