The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-03

There is q COW in Georgia that gives
forty quarts of milk day.
The Widow Van Colt Is stirring up the
Wall street money-changers.
An Agricultural Society in Berks coun-
ty Pa, has a membership of 1920 farmers.
The Louisiana orange growers have not
been materially injured by the cold wealth
err.
Patti got over $50, 900 worth of da.
monds at her benefit in Moscow, and over
300 baskets of flowers.
DR.. j. c. Aver, the pill prince, has
been declared hopelessly insane by his
physicians.
On Thursday the rate for gold declin,
ed to II the lowest point touched for
nearly fifteen years, or since June, 1862.
The late John Price, of Baltimore
county, died on the farm where his father
located in 1850. He was ninety eight
years of age.
General John Mcdonald. of whisky
fraud notoriety, received an unconditional
pardon and was released from the Missouri
Pcnitentiary on Monday.
The Countess Howe committed suicide
in London Tuesday by throwing herself
from a window. Grief at the death of
her husband caused the act.
David Roggio, a notorious burglar, died
in Chicago Monday from the effects of
pistol shot wound received on Saturday
night. He said woman fred the shot.
Lieut.. John H. Weeden, of the United
States engineer corps, at San Francisco,
was found dead in his room Monday night.
Near the body were two empty bottles of
poison.
At Pottsville, Tuesday Jos. +. Dengler,
ex-Cashier Of the Pennsylvania National
Bank Of that place, was convicted of en-
bezzliug $4,000. Dengler's attorney has
paid $4,000 to the bank.
The Rev Stuart Robinson, of LOUISVILLE,
Ky. who recently obtained judgment of
100000 against The Missouri Democrat
for libel, has declined to receive more
than S2,70S of that sum.
A difference of opinion exists among
New York clcrgymen as to the need Of
evangelists like Moody. Some of the
prominent ministers think the idea of
sudden specification absurd
The Christian Register chronicles the
fact that Methodist conference recently
met in Peoria, lll.-the residence of Bob
Ingersoil-and engaged in united and
protracted prayer for Bobs conversion.
A pedler was given lodging at house
near Thornville, Ohio, Friday evening,
aud during the night chloroformed the
whole family, ransacked the whole house,
and carried off 5000 in money and $685.
900 in drafts.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday, after announcing several opin-
IONS adjourned until February 10Th, on
account of the impending withdrawal of
five Of its members to form part of the
Electoral Commission.
Four batteries of artillery, whose proper
station is Fortress Monroe, have been or
dercd back from Washington to that post,
and will go there by boat in a few days.
Other troops will probably be ordered
from Washington to the West.
Henrietta Grinnell, a domestic in the
family of John o. Magic, in Elizabeth,
n. j., attempted to poison the family, on
Monday by putting arsenic in their milk.
Five persons were made sick, one of whom
is in a critical condition. Henrietta is in
custody.
Two men, named Prince and Palmer,
were detected in attempting to commit a
theft on Boston and Albany railroad
train on Monday, and both jumped of
while the train was IN motion. Palmer
was fatally injured and Prince had an arm
broken.
Two masked burglars attempted to rob
the house Of Mr.. Danforth, near Troy, n.
Y, on Saturday evening. Being resisted,
they tried to murder Danforth, but they
were overpowered and arrested by the
neighbors.
On Tuesday the lower house of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, by the strong
vote of l2S to 81, indefinitely postponed
the bill authorizing the people Of that
State to vote next November on the pro.
position to remove the State capital to
Philadelphia.
Fifty thousand Russian Meunonites have
determined to immigrate to the United
States They have the alternative of tax.
ing up arms or leaving the Empire, and
prefer to cross the sea. Fourteen thou.
sand of them will settle in Kansas early
in the Spring.
The British steamer Nankin, from Car
diff, has brought to Baltimore the captain
and crew Of the Portuguese bark Amizade,
encountered in sinking condition, with
masts gone, in latitude $3.50 north, longi.
tude 1873 west. The rescued men mum
bered fourteen.
The steamer Belle of st. Louis was cut
through by running ice at st. Geuevieve,
some sixty miles from ST. Louis, on We'd
nesday, and will probably be a total loss.
She was valued at $4,000. She had five
hundred tons of freight aboard, which
will increase the loss to s75, 900
The city of Fall River, Mass, the larg-
est cotton manufacturing centre in the
country, has every one of its mills running
on full time. The aggregate weekly pro-
duction is $4,000 pieces of print cloths
and about $4,000 pieces of wide goods, and
the weekly pay exceeds 100000.
The steamer Celtic, at New York from
Liverpool, brought the captain and three
of the crew of the schooner Island Bell,
from St. John, n. f., for Boston, aban-
doned January a. The captain of the
schooner reports that four of his crew had
died from cold and exposure.
Kemper county, Miss, raises all other
centeuarans out of their boots with an
Indian, John Won, otherwise Istamola,
who has just died at the age of one hun
bred and thirty-three. He was not Wash
ingtOn's bOdy-seryant but body.servant of
Washington father. which Is n refresh-