The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-21
News Of the Week.

Ihere are rumors of court- martial yet
Ia Bore for General Babcock.
Leander Thompson, of Vermont, recently
attracted from his knee needle swallowed
As Years ago.
The troubles among the coal miners in the
Yonghiogeny district, in Western Pennsylva.
dia. continue. '|f
Only twenty Of the fhy- furnaces in
Northampton, l.ehgh and Carbon counties,
Pa are in blast.
Tic Germanic, of the White Star Line,
made her last passage to New York in seven
days aud eleven hours. a
Tho sparrows are losing friends The Mas,
Aachusetts Legislature has repealed the law
ios their protection.
Mr James Gordon Bennett has purchased
ENC residence in Paris, and will remain
abroad for several years,
The troops are to be withdrawn from Alas.
ka partly because of conflict between the
civil and the military authority.
The population of Maine has decreased
10000 since the census of 1870. The falling
of Is largely due to emigration to the West.
The Hagerstown academy has been pur
chased by the county school commissioners
for s., 900, and is to be used as a high school.
Ifthe reported secret alliance between Rus
sia and Persia be true, Turkey is not only
cut OF from one Of her sources of supply, but
has an enemy in her rear.
The squirrel pest is source of no little
worriment to the California farmers, who
consider the little animals as destructive to
their crops as the grasshoppsrs.
Johu Smith, farmer living near Potts
town, Pa, was found in a field, on Saturday
morning, with his throat cut, He was still
living but not expected to recover.
Elder Samuel Smith, pastor of the Chris
tau church at Beaver creek. Washington
c0unty, Nd, died recently, aged 90 years.
He fell dead while in the act of climbing a
fence.
Tho widow Of General Stonewall jackson
hal agreed to contribute the Philadelphia
Ifsckiy Times n series Of papers on her hus.
hAnd's domestic life, for which she is to re.
ceise 500 per column.
A man named Potter killed his wife and then
c0Mmtted suicide, in Geneva, Ohio, on Fri.
dav evening. The couple had quarrellcd,
and she was packing her trunk for the pur-
pose Of leaving him.
The steamer Leo, from Savannah for Mas.
snn, was burned at sea in heavy gale on the
morning of the 18th. Three passengers and
twenty Of her crew are supposed to be lost;
thirteen Of her crew have arrived at Savannah.
a Tic total number of pupils attending the
Chicago schools is 81 1913. By the last school
sfport the population of the city is given at
fOiG6l. II cost Ss2l ,30s.50 TO run the
Chicago schools for the year ending July 81,
1876.
An English steamer left New York, on
Fflaay for New, Haven, Conn, where she
will load cargo Of munitions of war for the
Turkish Government This will make the
seeenth cargo Of war material taken from
thR country to Turkey.
Tie Saratoga street Methodist Church, in
Boston,, closed its doors on Sunday against
n8y. ". Il. Clark, who was appointed by the
recent Conference. The trustees of the
church wanted Minister from New Hamp.
shire, but were disappointed by the Bishop.
a famous old saying is "Who drives fat
oxen should himselfbe fat Mr.. Buschman,
the leading cattle dealer OF Holland, who has
arrived in this country from Rotterdam to buy
american cattle for shipment, could stand
that test, as he weighs, it is said, about four
hundred.
Steamers which sailed from New York for
Europe ON saturday took extraordinarily
iafge quantities Of provisions. Besides 1885,.
600 pounds aud 1000 quarters fresh beef and
many live sheep, there we're heavy shipments
ofbacon, pork and lard, and loo, 700 bushels
ofgrain.
mail coach was robbed near Baxter
SPRINGS, Kansas. on Friday afternoon. The
robbers presented pistols at the driver and
compeled him 10 throw of the mail bags,
who'll they carried off to the woods There
wcre no passengers in the coach, and there
izno clue to the highwaymen.
Dur exports of fresh beef continue to in.
crease. The quantity shipped from New
Iork and Philadelphia to Great Britain last
month was 6,I01, 500 pounds valued at $500,
085. The total shipment from these two
rcfts during the last nine months was 80, sos.
$40 pounds valued at S2,G77,3S0.
b Boston, Monday morning, Charles Ga.
vtY, having purchased $4,000 worth of L. $.
bends was followed to his store by three
1en, two of whom engaged his attention
nhlc the other stole the bonds from the
pocket of his coat, which was hanging near
BY. The thieves escaped with their booty.
George o. Savage was arrested in BALI.
nlore on Saturday, after presenting at the
Fifst National Bank check 10 which the name
Of s. NJ Shoemaker, resident Manager Of
The Adams Express Company, was forged.
Hfher checks OF a similar kind were found in
AI5 possession. Ii is believed that forged
dlahs have been forwarded to New York
banks.
Seven white citizens of 0glethorpe county,
tas, were arrested on Saturday, by Deputy
u s. Marshals, for alleged violation of the
ka- Klux act. They gave bail in 500 each,
tpnnswer at Court. Luke Johnson, on whose
eonplaint they were arrested, and other col
ufel men who participated in recent riot at
Npwiord are in the Athens Jail.
Major Reno, recently tried by court mar.
tial aud sentenced to dismissal from the
sefyice for the alleged insult to the wife OF
pfother officer, has requested the War De-
Nartment to delay the presentation of his
ttse to the President. He says he has add
fienal evidence which will tend to the mitga
e,pnted his request.
Il is reported from Dcadwood, Dakota
tAAt 100 Of Crazy Horses Indians have again
iaken the field They are supposed to be
tisered by a deception practiced upon them
1f Spotted Tail, who represented that only
Tie arms taken by them in the Custer fight
Annld be demanded upon their surrender at
ted Cloud, when in realty all their arms and
rdhies would be demanded
Tie New York Sun reports the following
4 rs The rents of the leading New York hotels |:
tItth Avenue, 5000, 900; Metropolitan, $780,
coo; Windsor, Sl25, 900; st Nicholas, S120,.
eUD; Delmonico's, 100000; Grand Central
100000; Gilsey, SG00O0i st. James, S4O,
go; Astor, SSs,O0O; Union Square, $50, 900;
tzerett, S25 900; Rossmore, $780, 900; Cole.
nan, S25,OO0i Brandreth, $4,000.
Austin Jennings, colored, made felonious
s4shult on Miss Leothee Lark, of Anne Arun.
4ei county, Md, on Friday of last week.
iier screams brought to her relief white
uAn, who was engaged in chopping wood
~ the place. The negro was arrested and
WI be tried at the present term of Court.
~ young lady's father is one of the most
sRpectable and Intelligent farmers in that
<1lnty.
large quantities of counterfeit silver half
Nplars are being manufactured and put in
f'feulation. The Secret Service officers of
* Treasury Department have now on hand
t9put half bushel Of these counterfeit
tces, which they have recently captured.
1ose officers have received information Of
i' appearance of counterfeit S. gold pieces,
4'ch are being circulated on the frontier on
n' routes leading to the Black Hills country.