The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-14

Boston has contributed $4,000 to the
Saint Johns relief fund.
Watermelons, peaches, figs and plums
are more abundant this year than ever be-
fore in San Antonio Texas
On Thursday, the experiment of using
steam street cars will be made on the
Third Avenue line in New York.
Somebody has plundered the sweet
singer Sankey's cottage at Cohassett,
Mass, Of 800 worth Of valuables.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks that
California and Oregon will have about
425,0OO tons of wheat to export.
Truman Ives, Of Lansingburg, N. Y,
reports that two thousand tomato plants
set out by him were eaten up by potato
bugs in one night.
Numerous applications for space in the
industrial exhibition to be opened in Sep.
tembcr.at st. Louis, have been received
there from various parts Of the country.
Miss Kate Kelley, of Decatur, H., was
stung in the mouth by bee, on the llth
instant, and so rapidly did the poison take
effect that she was dead in eight minutes.
A Boston man writes from the Black
Hills "There are now at least IL, 900
idle men in this vicinity, and more suffer.
ing, think, than in any place in America.
The Lexington Gazette doubts if in the
history of Kentucky the State has ever
been blessed with more bountiful har-
vest than is now making glad the hearts
of its farmers s+
A New Orleans telegram says that the
Louisiana Levee Company has sued the
State for one million seven hundred aud
eighty thousand dollars alleged to be due
for work done on the levees.
The Manhattan Cab Company of New
York has ordered from England one hun
bred and fifty cabs, to arrive next Septem.
Der, when the cab services in the streets
Of New York will be established.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany on Wednesday ordered reduction
of 10 per cent in the pay Of all the en-.
ployees who now receive more than 81 per
day. The order will go into effect July
10th.
The American Pathological Society is
to meet in Baltimore in September. The
armory of the fifth Regiment and two
annexes yet to be built will give total
floor space of 10000 square feet for the
display of fruit on the occasion.
In the u s. District Court at Chicago
on Tuesday, verdict for $4,000 dam
ages was awarded to Rev. J. A. Ray, of
Buffalo, against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, for injuries sustained about
year ago in a sleeping car on the Pittsburg
and Fort Wayne road.
The Orangemen at Montreal resolved
TO give up their parade on Thursday to
prevent an outbreak which was seriously
threatened. Thos. L. Hacket, an Orange
man, was killed by pistol shot, and three
other men we're wounded 10 q scuffle be- |
tween two women about an orange bud.
The confession of Edison, the lock ex-
pert, puts u new agony into the cup of
the capitalists If the makers of the bank
locks themselves are the accomplices of
the burglars and teach them how they
may be picked, who is safe2 What is
the use of vaults and safes when the
burglars have the secret of the combina-
tion2
According to the Carlisle, (Ky.,) Mer-
curry, there resides in that place living
curiosity in the person Of thirteen year
old boy, who was born without arms, aud |
who, instead of legs, has a single foot
with but two toes. In the place of arms
he has rudimentary flaps He is sprightly |
aud "can hop about as fast as an ordinary |
person can walk He eau handle knife |
and fork dexterously with his flaps, and
writes good heud.
The Secretary of the Navy celebrated
the Fourth by libcrating some thirty
prisoners belonging to the naval service who |
were confined at different points for vari.
Gus offences, some Of whom had served out |
the greater part of their sentence. He is
disposed to think that the sentences of
naval courts martial are often uunecessa-
rily severe and has appointed board to
devise system Of appropriate and uniform
punishments,
On the afternoon Of the 4th a yacht, |
with party Of sixteen, all but three of
whom were ladies', capsized near Port
Jefferson, l.. l. All on board were thrown
overheard excepting one young lady, Miss
Caroline Jones, who was caught in the
cabin, where she remained with only
enough space to permit her to breathe
until assistance arrived. Fortunately there
were many boats sailing about in the
neighborhood at the time, and no lives
were lost
Mrs. John Green, living near Roanoke,
Mo, was shot and MORALLY wounded by
her husband on Friday last He said the
shooting was accidental, she said it was
not. Her father procured Green's arrest,
and he was taken to Huntsville for exami-
nation. On Monday night mob eff fifty
men took Green from the Sheriff custody
and hanged him from neighboring tree.
He was suspected of infdelity to his wife
and of shooting her to make place for
another woman The Greens leave seven
children.
The Inter Ocean, of Chicago, publishes
report that during the last fortnight,
secret agents Of the French Government
have arrived in that city, and secretly
contracted" with few large firms for i'm
mense quantities of army supplies. Sim
liar agents, says the litter Ocean, have
been in few other large cities in this
country and in Canada, and "enough food
has been ordered to sustain large army
during long campaign" The presence
Of these agents in this country which is
"known to but few in France and to
fewer here is considered significant, in
view Of the condition Of affairs in Western
Europe"
On Monday night, while DR.. 4. II.
Reed, Ii. G. Paxson and two ladies' were
returning to Trenton, N. j., from drive
up the Delaware, they were caught in a
storm. When near Scudders Falls, six
miles from Trenton, the wagon upset in
the darkness, aud the whole party driver