The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-17

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There is a man named Seally in India.
ma, who is one hundred nnd five years old
A Frenchman named Lalumler, died at
Plattsburg, New York, March %, 1868,
aged one hundred aud six years.
At Roxburgshire, Scotland, on the 10th
OF March, 1869, Caroline Wilson died,
aged one hundred and four years.
Aaron Quaekenbush, u colored man,
died in the Almshouso at Sharon, on the
18th of March, 1869, aged Que hundred
and six years. He was raised at Fishkill,
New York, and during the Revolutionary
war was servant Of Colonel, afterwards
General Dubois
Fletcher Miriam died at v Wcstfeld, Mas
sachu5etts, on the Sth of March, 1863, at
the age one hundred aud three years.
A woman aged one hundred and two
years was converted at revival meet
ing in Iowa, March 20, 1869.
"The oldest mau in the world" died in
Poland, March 30, 1863 He had Just
entered his one hundred and thirty.ninth
year he Steele says that at eighty his
hair was quite white, and afterwards be-
came Of brown shade.
A woman named Bessy Robertson died
at kennothmont, Scotland, April s, 1863,
aged one hundred years. u.
A woman named Bessy Robertson died
at Cumbcrnould, Scotland, April =, 1869
at the age Of one hundred one and years.
Daniel Frederick Beakmau, "the last
Survivor Of the Revolution CD died at
Sandusky, Cattaraugus county, New York
April >, 1869, at the green old age Of one
hundred aud eight years.
\ widow named Rachel Jones, aged one
hundred and eight years, died on Sunday,
June %, 1869, at the Bristol Infmary,
Somersetshire, England.
Ga Friday May 10Th, 1860, Mrs. Char
lotto Guthrie died at the East Mains of
Nannadice, Farfarshire, Scotland, aged
one hundred and five years.
Count de Waldeck, Of Paris, although
one hundred aud three years of age, has
sent to the Paris fine arts exhibition.
which will soon be open, picture repre-.
senting not fewer than two hundred and
fifty-fve persons The veteran artist en-.
joys excellent health, and takes strong
walking exercises every day. He is mar.
ricd to an English lady of forty, and has
son aged eighteen.
4 Tennessee widow of ono hundred and
fourteen years boasts of four hundred dc.
scendants, and rides on horseback.
One Of the monks at the celebrated
Convent of Einsielein is one hundred years
old. He is in full possession of his men
tai faculties, and retains a wonderful
memory for which he has always been
noted
The family of Joel Parker, of North.
field, Vermont, is remarkable for longeyi.
ty. He was born April y, 1880, aud his
wife January s, 100 They have five
children, whose ages are sixty eight, sixty.
six, sixty-three, sixty-two and ffy.six,
respectively. The aggregate age of all the
family living is more than five hundred
years 1t will be seen that the father is
in his ninetieth and the mother in her one
hundredth year,
A Mrs Park celebrated her one hun.
dred and fitieth birthday, a few weeks
ago, in Cleveland, Ohio. She has raised
seventeen children. The last was born
when she was sixty five years old, aud she
now enjoys good health, has good teeth
aud improved sight, and her hair is turn
ing black And what is remarkable, she
has an internal cancer of fifty years stand
ing. But this does not prove that cancers
are favorable to longevity.
Fourteen "old girls" assembled at
party at Saxtons river, Massachusetts, re.
Gently found that their united ages was
one thousand aud forty three years. The
oldest, who was ninety-oue, on being in
vited to ride home in the evening after the
party, resented the irnputation, and an-
swered testify that "she'd rather walk
Harvard, Massachusetts, wants to rival
Barnard Vermont, town where nobody
dies. 1t reports twelve smart, healthy
widows, whose ages sum up ten hundred
aud thirty-two years old, and they are but
small section of the fourteen hundred
inhabitants. . ..
There is an old couple living at liver
ton, Il. l., Mr.. and Mrs, Richard Smith,
aged each niuety-three ycars-who were
married at the age of eighteen, and conse-
quently havo lived in the bonds of matri-
mony for the long period of scventy.fye
years, and during that time have enjoyed
life amicably IAN instance of very rare
occurrence. They are both in the enjoy.
ment of excellent health, and able to at
tend to their respective duties ip gaining
a livelihood. They are long lived race,
Mrs. Smith having three sisters still living,
quite aged, one Of whom is within two
years of,being centenarian, being ninety
eight years old. She has another eighty
four and one eighty years old. ~
. A native of the Emerald Isle, named
Patrick Shannon, who was born in the
year l7i0, is now living in Texas, making
him at the present time one hundred aud
twonty-six years old. His hair and beard are
as white as cotton, both of which he wears
very long, which gives him grave ap-
pearance. Colonel Mosely says ole is
a man Of fine appearance, intelligent, and
very courteous indeed fine old Irish
gentleman. a. u, g. nul..
A cold climate seems to be favorable to
long life. According to late Russian
journal, the deaths during 1868 at Irk-
ootsk, Siberia, included six persons over
one hundred and ten years of age. Two
had reached their one hundred and twenty
sixth year, and one died at the age Of one
hundred and thirty-one Three others
were more than a century old
A certain house. breaker was eondemned
10 the latter part Of the last eentnry,.in
France, and under peculiar circumstances,
to hundred years in the galley; and,
strange to relate, this man recently made
his appearance in his own native province
at the advanced age of one hundred and
twenty years, he being about twenty years
of age when the sentence which condemn
ed him to such a dreadful punishment was
passed. 1t is difficulty to conceive what
the feeling must have been with which he
returned, as soon as emancipated from the