The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-09
News Of tho Week.

The annual pension bill IN Congress
calls for s2s.53l 900.
The gold yield Of California this gear -
estimated at s2O,O00,00O.
The public debt statement, issued Fri
day, shows an increase of si57 ,6G2.
The father of Charlie Ross has spent
500, 900 in hunting his son.
Northumberland county, Pa, has thirty
anthracite collierics within its borders.
There are 763 conyicts in the Maryland
penitentiary, a larger number perhaps than
ever before at one time in the history OF
the institution.
Over three thousand horses lately used
by the railway companies are now in the
Philadelphia market A good opportunity
to buy cheap animal.
A negro, named Cruteher, was lynched
near Nicholsville, KY, on Thursday night,
for attempting to commit felonlous as
sault upon white woman.
The Cabinet at Berlin, with the approx
al of the Emperor, has adopted resolu-
ton agaist the participation Of Germany
in the French Exposition of 1878.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trade
has been seriously interfered with by ice
during several days past, the ice breakers
not being able to keep open channel.
The steamship City of Richmond, which
arrived at New York on Sunday from
Liverpool, brought one hundred and for
ty-nine thousand pounds sterling in gold
coin.
Fifty-fve boys were transferred from
the schoolship MonOngahela, at Baltimore,
last week, as second class seamen to the
U. S. frigate Minnesota, at New York,
shortly to sail for the Mediterranean.
The report of the Directors and Warden
of the MarylaHd Penitentiary represent
that institution to be self-sustaining from
the convict labor, and that not cent has
been drawn from the State treasury during
the past year.
The private deposits in the Bank of
England in October aggregated more than
G30, 900 900, the largest sum ever deposi,
ted with the bank. The largest sum ever
deposited previously was duringthe Fran
co-German war, and amounted to G27,-
$50 900.
The Wilmington aud Reading Railroad
was sold at public sale at the Philadelphia
Exchange Monday and was purchased by
Matthew Baird, Edward s. Buckley,
Lewis W. Smith, and Charles Baker for
one hundred thousand dollars.
Twenty-our of the centennial exhibition
buildings, including the Main building,
costing in the aggregate 81 800, 900, were
sold at auction on Friday of last week for
s296, l6O. The Main building was pur-
chased by the Permanent Exhibition COM
pany for s25O, 900, its cost being 81 ,GOO,-
900.
The amount Of the estimated liabilities
Of Philadelphia city for the year 1877
exceeds s29, 600, 600, to meet which would
require tax rate of $3.50 on the 800
assessed valuation of property, allowing
that the taxes should all be paid. They
are not, however, for it is officially an
nounced that 81 per cent. of the taxes are
not collected at ALL
The remains of Baron de Palm were
successfully cremated in DR.. Lemoyues
crcmatory at Washington, Pa, Wednes-
day morning. The body, weighing only
% pounds, was sprinkled with myrrh,
frankincense and cinnamon and envel-
Oped in a winding sheet saturated with a
solution Of alum. The viseera had been
removed and the cavities filed with mix,
turo of crystaiaed carbolic acid aud pot
ter's clay, When all was ready, roses,
immortelles and evergreens were strewu
upon the corpse, which was laid upon
wire cradle, and placed in the retort. In
two hours and twenty minutes the body
was reduced to ashes, which will be col.
lected and deposited in an urn provided
for that purpose. IL is stated that little
local interest was manifested in tho pro-
cess. The process was conducted by his
executors in accordance with his viii,