The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-01-20
News Of the Wed.

Rev. Il. d. Hopkins, Of st. Johnsbury,
Vt, has been arrested on tho charge Of
forgery.
The government contemplates changing
the style and device Of the postage stamps
again, il is said
Massachusetts, has sixty-six militia COM
panies and her military expenditures last
year were sl6j,7O0.
Martin Meyer, aged GO years, bone
picker, was frozen to death in Easton, Pa.
on Friday night of last week.
A son of Mr.. Sankey, aged thirteen
years, has commenced the work of evan
gclism among youths Of his own age.
Great destitution prevails in New York
and Brooklyn, and deaths from starvation
and exposure are frequently reported.
A stage coach running between Little
Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was
robbed by highwaymen on Friday last,
Gen. Jacob Brown, victor with Scott ut
Lundy's Lane, who died in 1928, left a
widow who is still living at the age of 92
At Watertown, N. Y, on the 18th inst,
the thermometer marked 20 degrees below
zero, change Of 80 degrees in ten hours.
Over 1000 applicants for admission to
the public schools in Jersey City have been
denied on account of the lack Of accom-.
mediation.
Granville Zacharias, formerly of Fred
erick, and son Of Rev. DIR. Zacharias, of
that city, was recently killed in Colorado
by the accidental discharge Of his gun.
A. G. Boone, grandson of Daniel
Boone, over eighty years of age, and now
residing in Washington, is probably the
oldest Indian trapper and fighter living
So many Connecticut farmers have been
swindled into giving notes to travelling
agents on false pretense, that State Con-
yention of victims is to be held.
On Thursday of last week, 10 Frederick,
Nd, son Of Mr. Tabler was burnt to
death by the accidental burning of a Christ
mas tree. Two other children narrowly
escaped 5. H
Beecher's pcws do not let as high this
year as last by over fifteen thousand dol
lars, and they bring in nearly twenty
thousand dollars less than in 1875, before
the great trial.
An advance of five cents on fourth class
freight and grain from Chicago to New
York, Boston, and Philadelphia, and 4!
to Baltimore, went into effect Monday
morning.
Two vessels were towcd up to Baton
Rouge on Sunday for the purpose of ship
ping 1900 tons of military stores recently
ordered away from the Department Of
Louisiana.
Snow fell at Chicago for thirty.six hours
without cessation, on the 18th inst, and
the weather there is cold The snow is
twenty eight inches deep 10 Chicago, and
deeper in the surrounding country,
The slate business In Northampton couu.
ty, Pa, is very prosperous at the present
time, after years of depression. Large
quantities of slate are now being shipped
from Bangor to England.
The house of Samuel Morris, at Gran
berry Park, in Burlington county, N. j.,
was burned on Thursday morning, and
Morris aud his child, II years Of age,
were burned TO death.
1t is said that unless rain falls or thaw
takes place very soon, the mills at Co.
hoes, New York will have to close for lack
Of water, aud ten thousand operatives will
be thrown out Of employment.
While an engine was pushing a repair
train on the New York Central Railroad,
near Batavia, on Sunday, it became de-
tached and crushed through the cars, kill
ing two of the laborers and severely injur-
ing three others.
Workmen, while digging a cut for a
railroad in Rhode Island, the other week
uncovered in the sand, about five feet be-
low the surface Of the ground, bunch of
snakes, embracing fifteen different species,
many Of them veuomous.
A United States mail bag was found in
the express office at Montreal, Monday
morning by the agent and forwarded TO
New York. 1t had been stolen while in
transit from Philadelphia to Boston, and
contained drafts aud checks to the amount
of S44 ,30l.
The ship Commodore, with cargo Of
lumber from Puget Sound, has been totally
wrecked on Cape Flattery. Her crew
were saved. The Commodore was built
in Bath, Me. in 1856, was of 1880 tons
burthen, and was owned by Samuel Blair,
of San Francisco.
Severnl distilleries in Dearborn county,
Indiana, were seized on Friday for defraud-
ing the revenue. One Of the distileries
seized belonged to John c. Singer a man
ofconsderabe wealth and influence. Over
1000 gallons of Illicit brady were found
in the upper story of his house.
Among the houses burned in the recent
fire at Burlington, n J. was the one in
which Captain Lawrence of the Chesapeake
was born. 1t was an old brick building on
the north side of the main street painted
yellow, staid, aud homely. The bricks of
which it was built were imported from
Holland in 1877.
Deputy District Attorney Fisher, who
was lately convicted of the theft of impor.
tant papers in Washington, was on Satur.
day pardOned by the President, and was
taken to the insane Asylum of the Dis
trict, He escaped from the asylum on
Thursday night. There's method in such
madness,
The landlords Of the Parker House,
Boston, have discovered that they have
been furnishing choice meats from their
larder to three restaurants through the dis
honesty Of their servants The thefts
have been going on for three months, as
much as 5000 worth of meat being taken
sometimes in single night.
In the case Of William Henry Brown,
who persisted by the burning Of his dwell.
ing in Middletown, X. l. on the night of
the 10th, inst. the coroner's jury has rem
dered verdict declaring that Charles N.
Brown, a son Of the deceased knew of his
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