The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-15
Nov. Of the Wssk.

o., is manufacturing II 200 barrels per diem
at the works in that city.
Joseph Couden, Esq, near Periyvlle, Ce-
Gil county, Md, has horse AZ years old, and
he is still quite active.
The Lakeside Publishing and Printing
| Company Of Chicago is reported TO have gone
into voluntary bankruptcy. Its liabilities,
all unsecured, are stated at $59,800.
At Hagerstown, Nd, on Saturday, the trial
OF James Gardner and Jacob Grove, for the
murder Of Rev. j. NJ. Friday, at Harper's
Ferry, resulted in a verdict Of not guilty.
An active temperance crusade has been
going on in Baltimore for several weeks, and
II IS reported that more than 1900 persons
have signed the total abstinence pledge.
The revenue cutter, Samuel Dexter, is
keeping strict watch upon the steamer Els.
telle, in Providence harbor, believed to be
taking in cargo for the insurgents in Cuba.
DR.. Albert 7. Bledsoe, editor Of the South
ern ReUie,o, and formerly Professor in the
| University of Virginia, died in Alexandria,
Va, on Saturday night, in the Goth year Of
his age.
The next Passenger ship for Liberia, will
sail January 2 The Colonization Society
claims that 250,0 negroes in South Caro-
lima and Florida are preparing to 60 to the
African Republic.
| A valuable deposit Of magnetic iron ore,
said to be equal TO the best ore in the coun-
try, has just been discovered near louisville,
Lehigh county, Pa. The vein has been as.
certained to be eight feet in thickness.
General John NJ. Harlan was qualified
Monday morning as Associate Justice of the
| Supreme Court of the United States, and
took his seat. He first took the "iron clad
oath, and then the oath Of Office.
The barn of Peter r. Ackerman, opposite
Hackensaek, N. j., was destroyed by FIRE on
Saturday night. number Of valuable horses
and cattle persisted, among them the stallion
Hyperion, with record Of 2.27, and valued
at $4,000.
The enormous quantities OF herriugs caught
this year off the Danish coasts, lead the Danes
to believe and hope that these fish, which
left their waters about three hundred years
ago, may now again direct their migrations
thither.
The War Department has received news
| from Lieutenant Bulls and the party that
crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit Of Indian
raiders. They are safe, and have made
several captures Of the Indians they were
| pursuing.
The wife and infant child of William II.
Devlin were found dead in Lowell, Mass, on
Monday morning, and evidence Of violence
was discovered. Devlin, who was heard
beating his wife on Saturday evening, has
been arrested.
| The examiner of the Second National Bank
of Lafayette, Ind, reports its resources at
| S4S9, 499, and its liabilities, exclusive of cap
ital stock, at $3.50, 456. The stealings of its
cashier, Mayo, amounted to $50 1887, but are
covered by his bond.
The postoffice at Berlin, Worcester county,
! Md, was robbed on Monday night, Sd iast
The postmasters loss is quite large, all the
stamps in the office, nearly twelve thousand,
being taken, and nearly $500 in money. No
clue to the robbers.
William Fell, miner was stopped while
going to work, near Minersylle, Pa, on Sun.
day evening, by two men, who held revolyers
to his head. When satisfied of his identity
they told him to move on, as he was not the
man they were looking for.
Pinehback has written letter to Governor
Nichols of Louisiana resigning the U. S.
Senatorship to which, he says, he was elect
ed by the General Assembly of Louisiana on
January IL, 1873, and reelected by the same
body on January 10, 1876.
A letter from Rome, received in Richmond,
Va, on Saturday, states that Rev. John j.
Kean, of Washington, d. c., has been ap.
pointed Bishop Of Richmond, to succeed Most
Rev. DR.. Gibbons, recently elevated 10 the
Archbishopric of Baltimore.
| G. NJ. Runk, ex.Treasurer of the School
Board Of Allentown, Pa, has been lodged in
jail to answer the charge Of ''misappropria-
ting" public money. He had given bail to
appear for trial, but failed to do so, and was
arrested at his house on Saturday night.
The jury in the case of the ticket scalp.
ers," Bloomer and Dorsey, at Baltimore, re-
turned a verdict on Saturday night Of guilty
as TO Bloomer, and reported themselves una.
BILE to agree as to Dorsey They were dis
charged, and Boomer was remsnded for
sentence.
The body of Charles Chapman, paymaster's
| yeoman, was recovered from the wreck of
the Huron, on Saturday and buried at Nays
Head. Thus far the bodies Of eight officers
and sixty-si men, IA in all, have been buried
along the shore and their graves have been
marked.
L. L. Pendleton, prominent commission
merchant Of Baltimore, died suddenly in
that city on Sunday morning, it is supposed
of heart disease. He was President of the
last Common Council of Baltimore, and at
the time of his death, President Of the Virgin.
ia Valley Railroad.
The summer residence Of f. L. Bareda, of
guano, at Drum Point, on Chesapeake Bay,
Calvert county Nd, was robbed on Thursday
week of articles valued at $1,000. Several
oystermen have been arrested for the robbery
and most of the property has been recovered.
The schooner Joshua Grinde from St.
Jago, which arrived at New York on Satur-
day, lost oil but her captain and two others
at st. Jago and on the voyage, of yellow fever.
On the 10th ult. the Grindle spoke the brig
Romance, Captain Craig, from Navassa, for
Baltimore, and the Captain Of the Romance
gave the Grindle four colored seamen to take
her to port.
Lieutenant Colonel Youngs detachment of
the Eighth Cavalry, which recently invaded
Mexico, has returned to the camp at Point
Rock Springs. A telegram to the San Anto-
MO Neies says that an engagement took place
in Mexico between Young's command and
band Of "Mescaleros." Two Of the latter
were killed and three wounded, and their
camp and property captured and destroyed.
The State School Commissioners Of Mary.
land, who held their annual meeting several
days ago, adopted this statement 1.-THE as.
ISOLATION does not believe that any effective
method Of artificial ventilation applicable 10
cheap houses has yet been invented. They
therefore recommend teachers and school
| officers to see that the air Of the school-room
IS changed every hour by opening all the win.
dows and doors for few minutes.
Another act in the drama of the Tweed
ring was performed on Monday morning, in
the Supreme Court, Of New York. Peter b.
Sweeny, through his counsel, turned over
$40O, 600 to the city treasury, in full satisfac-
ton of the claims against him, thus securing
exemption from any and further proceedings
against him as confederate Of Tweed and
Connolly. The real estate in Broadway.
which he sold the other day, is understood 10
have been purchased by Jay Could
A fire in Louisville, KY, on Saturday night,
destroyed, or nearly destroyed, Cochran d
Fulton's whiskey house, and damaged num-
Der Of other buildings. The principal loss il
that of Cochran and Fulton, which Is estima.
ted at $500, 200; the other losses are light.
second fire, which destroyed several cot.
tages, was started in Louisville the same night
by a colored man named Croomes throwing
coal oil lamp at woman named Chinn, who
lived with him. The woman YVES burned to
death.
There is reported to be strong opposition
in the Tennessee Legislature to the accept.
ance Of the proposition Of the holders Of the
State debt to compromise at sixty cents on
the dollar A dietincf r,ronou,t;e,, -. -