The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-08
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rive hundred Thousand grape vines are
to be planted in one single county Of Cal
ifornia this spring.
Seventy women are now. pursuing their
medical studies in the Womau's Medical
College in Philadelphia.
The fruit in East Tennessee has been
nearly all killed, the trees even being
badly injured by the cold weather.
Brevet Major-General WIN. II. Emory,
of Maryland, is to be allowed to retire on
the rank and pay Of Brigadier General.
Mr. Moody has expressed the opinion
that there is less danger to be apprehended
to the church from politics than from fairs
and bazars.
Richard Wagner gets $4,000 for writing
u Centennial ode, and 0fenbach receives
100000 for one months performances
next June.
Forty-two Japanese youths passed over
the Fort Wayne railroad Monday night
en- route to Philadelphia, where they are
to attend school.
The United States Grand Jury at Chi
cago has indicted j. d. Ward, Exon:
gressmen and ex- District Attorney, for
completely in revenue frauds.
The Methodists throughout the country
will set apart Friday, the 9th instant, as
day of fasting and special prayer for the
divine blessing on the coming General
Conference.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis will sail for Europe
May |, where he will remain for six or
eight months to promote the establishment
of direct trade with the cities Of the
Mississippi Valley.
In the Philadelphia NJ. 4! Conference,
Wednesday, in the case of Rev. J. Fl.
Britain, the committee reported that the
charges of immortality against him were
sustained aud he was expelled.
The Centennial Commissioners of this
State have in process of erection "Mary-
land Hall on the grounds at Philadelphia.
Il is beautifully located and neat in de-
sign, and tastefully ornamented.
A schoolmaster has lately been senteuc-
cd in England to penal servitude for five
years for having inflicted severe corporal
punishment on boy eleven years Of age,
who had been intrusted to his care.
The masons and laborers, 235 in num-
Der, employed by A. 7. Stewart on the
extension Of the Grand Union Hotel at
Saratoga. struck Monday for an advance
in their wages of fifty cents per day.
President Grant, although not confined
to the bed, keeps his room and receives no
visitors. Some of his intimate friends say
his sickness is owing to return Of peri
odical neuralgia. The Rev. Doctor New
man on Sunday prayed for his recovery.
Daniel O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian
who defeated Weston in six days walk,
is walking at Agricultural Hall, San Fran
cisco, where, ut q. a. m, on Monday, he
began 500 mile walk which he promises
to accomplish in less than Ave days and
twenty hours.
A barge laden with 10000 bushels of
corn in attempting to pass through the
draw of the bridge at Brownsville, Mo-,
Monday night, was carried by the current
against the bridge aud broken in two. OF
ten persons on board six were drowned
all negroes.
Thaxton 7. Robinson, Lieutenant in
the U. S. Army, and Jesse Mitchell, a
gauger, fought duel near Rustburg, in
Campbell county, Va Both were NOR
tally wounded, and Robinson died soon
after, They were young men, and the
cause Of their nemity was woman.
The arrivals from China this year in
San Francisco are expected to reach 20
900. Up to March 1880 had arrived,
against less than 400 departures. During
the years 1873, 1874 and 1875 the ag-
gregate of arrivals was 53,346, and Of
departures 2l,0sS, leaving a net gain Of
32,25S.
The number of cases of snake bite re-
ported in the lower provinces of India and
in Assam during the years lS73-T4 was
4,202, Of which 1865 were fatal Nearly
one-half of the cases occurred during
sleep, and the proportion of women bitten
was greater than men.
Mrs. Betsey Straw, l0ll years old, and
probably the most aged person In New
Hampshire, died at Warner on Sunday of
lung fever. She was relative of ex-Gov.
Straw, and made her last public appear
ance in connection with pair of worsted
socks that she knitted for Mr.. A. r.
Stewart.
A special despatch from Tallahassee,
Florida, reports that on the 18th ult., the
Grand Jury Of the State Circuit indicted
S. B. Conover, U. s. Senator, for the en-
bezzlement of over $40, 900 in greenbacks
and "blue" scrip. He was arrested and
held in $4,000 bail to appear in Court.
There was great excitement in consequence
of the event.
At an anti-Chinese meeting, held in
San Francisco Monday night, it was stated
that an organization Of twenty thousand
persons existed in that city pledged to
take the law iI their own hands in case
the present attempt to remedy the Chinese
evil should fail. The Chinese companies
of San Francisco who import Coolies have
called on the authorities for protection.
A terrific explosion occurred at Salt
Lake City Wednesday. Four magazines
on Arsenal Hill, north Of the City, in
which were stored large quantity Of pow.
der, were blown to atoms, the debris being
thrown to the distance Of mile, and
causing great destruction of property.
Several persons are reported killed. The
full extent Of the damage is not yet ascer-
tanned.
Patrick Pickering shot and killed his
son, aged IL, in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday
morning. The boy had been associating
with an Objectionable companion, and his
father made him get upon his knees and
promise never to keep the evil company
again. While the youth was kneeling,
with head bowed, the father seized load
ed gun aud discharged the contents into
his side, killing him on the spot.
A tank filed with anthraciae in the
works Of Warren, Kirk & Co., adjoining
Point Breeze gas works, PHILADELPHIA. ex !