The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-29

Don Pedro arrived safely IN san Francis
co on Tuesday evening.
The Metropolitan hotel at Long Branch
was totally destroyed by FIRE on Tuesday.
The post-oiFice at Highland Falls, N. y,
was robbed on Thursday night of 1850 in
stamps.
Barney Williams, the actor, died on
Tuesday, in New York, after an illness Of
several weeks.
Florida is in the height of a land fever.
Land has more than trebled in value with.
in the last two years.
At louisville, Frederick county, Chas.
II. Saylor is appointed Postmaster, vice
Lott Hartsock, resigned.
Messrs. Hammond and Bentley, the re.
vivalists, opened their religious exercises
in Baltimore on Sunday.
On the LIST of May Charleston, S. G.,
will begin shipping from 10000 to 40 900
quarts Of strawberries daily
Reports from nearly all the agricultural
counties Of California indicate the largest
grain crop ever known in that State.
President and Mrs. Grant were in Phil
adelphia Saturday, and paid visit to the
Centennial grounds and buildings.
Belgium iron is being quite freely sold
in England, and a Belgian nail factory has
an order for nails from the British Admi-
rally
Isaac II. rockingham, ex.chief clerk in
the stamp department of the Post-office at
Boston, has been convicted of stealing
$4,000.
A silver service valued at $4,000 ele-
gantly chased and embossed, is to be pre-.
scented by the $50 employees of the City
Hall, Baltimore, to Hon. Joshua Vansant.
Six murderers were hanged at Fort
Smith in the Indian Territory on Friday,
2lst -Four were Indians, ono negro;
and the other white man.
The rate of taxation established in Bal
timOre city, is the same as in 1875, viz. :;
One dollar and eighty cents on the hun
dred dollars, on basis of 1921 ,503, 129.
A. T. Stewards life is to be written by
General james Grant Wilson, author of a
life Of Fitz Greene Halleck, and well known
to the reading public as literary man.
Longiellow is to have a chair made from
part of the wood Of the chestnut tree eel
ebrated in his "Village Blacksmith, which
has just been cut down in Cambridge
Mass,
IL is estimated that three-fourths ofthe
exhibits are now in the centennial build.
ings, and there will be no difficulty nor
delay in taking care of the remainder as
fast as they arrive.
The collector of the port of Wilmington,
Del, Dr. VIM. d. holland, has been caught
delrauding the government of S. 900.
He will restore the money aud try to re-
tain his place.
1t is now proposed to re-establish the
whipping post in North Carolina, for the
purpose relieving the penitentiary, which
is now becoming so full as to make its sup
port a burden to the State.
Extensive prairie fires are reported to
be raging in various sections of Iowa, Ne
braska aud Southern Dakota, involving
great destruction of property, but fortu-
nately no lives have been lost.
Thirty-one pinnated grouse received
from Iowa recently by the agent Of the
West Jersy Game Protective Society, have
been distributed through the counties over
which the society has jurisdiction.
The School Committee of Lawrence,
Mass, has refused request of the agent
of the Massachusetts, Total Abstinence So
ciety to be permitted to visit the public
schools and obtain pledges from the pupils
Schroeder, Lindblow & Co., ofMilwau-
kee, who "ran the big wheat corner" in
that city last fall, failed on Monday. They
were carrying wheat through the winter,
and lost heavily by its recent decline.
The wife of Hon. Thomas Swami died
10 Baltimore, on Tuesday morning, after
an illness of three weeks, from bronchitis
and typhoid fever. She was in the 9th
year of her age.
On Monday next congressional COM
mittee will begin in New York an inves.
tigation into the management ofthe Brook
lyn navy yard, and generally of expendi-
lures and contracts in and about New York
city for naval purposes.
Sir Edward Thornton, the Special Com
missioner from Great Britain to the Cen.
tennial Exhibition, will give a dinner at
St. Georges Hall, Philadelphia, on the
18th of May, to the Commissioners from
other countries
The 9th anniversary Of the introduce
ton of Odd Fellowship into this country
was celebrated in Baltimore on Wednes-
day, by a grand procession through the
city and several orations at Ford's Opera
House.
Dummitt's great orange grove, between
Mosquito Lagoon aud Indian River, Flor
ida, produced nearly 100000 oranges
last year. More than half of them rotted
on the ground, and were used in fattening
hogs. This grove was formerly owned by
General Hardce.
A wrestling match at Hartford, Connec-
ticut, on Tuesday night at the Opera
House between Professor Cam, champion
of England, and John Melrose, of that city,
was won by Melrose, who threw Cam three
times getting only one fall himself. The
match lasted two and half hours, and
the last round occupied fifty-one minutes.
The stakes were $500 side.
| Professor Evans, formerly of Detroit,
now of London, Eng, has recently obtain :
ed for the new Johns Hopkins College in
Baltimore valuable Oriental library, in
GLIDING complete set of the Rig eda in
| the original. For these books the ENGLISH