The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-01-01

for home in the Russia on January 8,
Another shock of earthquake was felt
on Friday evening last at Grass Valley,
F California.
BY an explosion Of fire damp 10 the
Hutchinson mines, near Kingston, Pa
three men were killed and others injured
DIR. Henry T. Helmbold has again been
put in Kirkbrides Insane Asylum, near
Philadelphia, on the certificate Of two ply,
sicians.
Two trees in Dennison, Texas, ARE Joined
BY horizontal limb, and on that natural
gallows FIVE men have been lynched within
zen years.
Diebold, Morris & Co. manufacturers Of
IRON safes, at Canton, Ohio, have made an
assignment. Their assets and liabilities
are not stated.
Mrs. s. NJ Dickens, of Dubuque, Iowa
has given birth to half pound of son, and
the Chicago Inter Ocean calls ii pocket
edition of Dickens"
The General Postal Union treaty, regu-
lating postal rates, &C., throughout the
whole Of Europe aud the United States,
goes into effect to-day, January /.
Judge Donohuc gave decision Tuesday
morning in New York declaring the re-
cognizances Of Tweed bail on seven recent
Indictments for felony to be forfeited.
Tweed is now thought to be at Halifax.
Detectives have been trailing him through
the Canadian parishes, but returned to
Quebec without accomplishing anything.
1t is proposed to reduce the regular
army to fifteen thousand men by stopping
promotions aud new appointments, and
gradually mastering out all supernumerary
officers.
A man supposed to be Martin Nee, Of
Ellicott City, was run over and killed by
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road. about four miles from Baltimore du.
ring Saturday.
At Vinalhayen, Me-, during the cold
snap last week, the residents cut with axes
over hundred bushels of herrings out of
The ice in the harbor where they had
been frozen in.
Arrangements have been made for An
International regatta in the harbor of New
York about the 22d of June, next, under
the auspices of the United States Centcn-
NAL Commission. rt
A prayer meeting, under the auspices
Of the Women's Temperance Union, was
held in Washington on Sunday night, to
plead against the use of Intoxicating liquors
at New Year calls. '1
The editors of Indiana, with their wives
Numbering in all about two hundred per-
sons, will visit Philadelphia about the ! 9th
Of January for the purpose of viewing the
centennial buildings.
General Joe Lane, the candidate for
Vice President in 1860, on the Brecken-
ridge ticket, is farmer in Oregon. His
son, Lafayette Lane, is representative in
the present Congress from that State.
The Iowa State census has just been
published, and indicates a population OF
,250, 544 souls, an increase since 1870 Of
99,21l. The males are considerably in
the majority,--Go west, girls, so west.
A Boston telegram states that child
answering the description of Charlie Ross
had been placed on the Montreal train
near Nashua, and taken to st. Adams, VT.
In order to allow Mr.. Ross to be commu
nicnted with.
Thomas II. Chandler, town marshal Of
lebanon, KY, attempted to arrest Georgs
r Northcraft, with u posse Of citizens, fol-
dieorderly conduct, when general row
ensued and Chandler killed Northcrait
Northcraft's friends then killed Chandler.
Mr.. John d. Starr, Of the late firm oil
Starr l. Higgins, was on Tuesday declared
EXPELLED from the Baltimore Coru AMI
I Flour Exchange. The association Ia:
been in existence twenty.one years, and
this Is the first instance OF the kind sine,
lis formation.
TIE Macon, Ca, Telegraph and Mes
senger says ;-Mrs. c. A. Hamilton, o
Jones county, sends us saucer of rip,
strawberries gathered from her garden on
Saturday last, How did they escape thu
freeze of Friday night before, when thu
mercury was down to twenty?
A severe storm Of wind, rain and light
ming visited the country north and north
west of Cincinnati, December 20, nea
Rushyille, Indiana. A freight train wa
ditched by an overturned tree on the track
At Hamilton, Ohio, the Miami river swell
ed rapidly, flooding cellars on the ives
side of the river At Carthage, Ohio, tn,
Hamilton county In6rmary was partly un
rooted.
The Hudson River Sugar Refinery a
Hastings, on the Hudson, n Y, owned
BY Messrs Kattenhorn, Hoppe, OffermaI
4 Doscher, was destroyed by fire Sunda,
afternoon. The loss is about $500, 900
and 100 persons are thrown out Of employ
inent The FIRE hall and its contents, a
Winnipeg, were burned on Saturday.
Loss, $4,000. An incendiary fire a
Jacksonville, ILL.,, on Saturday night, dc
siroyed dwelling, stock yards and sal,
stables. Loss, $4,000. The summe
residence of Elijah T. Therman, of New
York, at Barnfeld, Mass, was burned b,
ian legendary Sunday morning. Loss
sl5,0oO A barn at Eliot, N. H., wal
struck by lightning on Sunday evening
and consumed,
The Washington Republican says =
e'Mr. Hill, the well known paper manu-
facturer of Georgetown, has recently pur
chased Of the Government one hundred
ions Of greenbacks and script for the pur
1ase Of manufacturing them into printin,
aad other marketable paper. There i
/ something interesting in this announce
ment that will at once attract the mind o
The reader, and bind it to reflection. On,
hundred tons Of money, the actual where
with NC buy our necessities and our luxu
5ies of life, carted to paper mill to b,
0 krsnelormed into paper from which on,
day We will read I'll morning news On
hundred tons, a weight that would requir
ten dozen wagons and two hundred ant
forty horses to move it at one time"
y The immigrat ton to the United State
d. during the last fiscal year numbered 227,