The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-05-12
News Of the Week.

IN the nelghborhood OF Troy, New York, in
vast numbers.
Gen. Bradley T. johnson, who has resided
in Richmond, Va, since the war, will short
ly move to Baltimore, Nd.
On or about May p Professor Bells tele,
phone will furnish music to Philadelphia
and Washington from Baltimore.
Catharine Spunk, OF Baltimore, Nd, used
coal oil in making a fire on Saturday night
last. Funeral services by Rev. DIR. Maier.
Five hundred Duchess county, N. Y,
sheep were the other day shipped 10 England,
the first sheep, it is said, e n,r sent to that
country from this.
A telegram from Port Huron, Michigan,
reports the st. Clair Flats INSTRUCTED by ice
and number of vessels blocked. One
schooner has been sunk.
The last Of the patents on sewing machines
expired on Tuesday, and as q consequence
several companies have reduced the price Of
their machines so per cent.
The Franklin Cotton Mill, near Utica, N.
| Y, erected in 1912, was burned ON Friday
night Loss $1,000. One hundred persons
are thrown out of employment by its destruc.
ton.
Colonel Richard Swami, a prominent cit.
zen Of Annapolis, and for twenty-five years
Commissary at the Naval Academy, died on
Monday Of apoplexy. He was sixty.seyen
years of age.
Mrs John Tyler, wife ofex. President Tyler,
has left Georgetown, ID. c., where she has
been residing for some time, and returns to
her country residence, sherwood" in
Charles City county, Va.
The Centennial Board Of Finance have paid
! into the Treasury of the United States ST.
| 000,000 on account Of the appropriation
made by the Government to the Centennial
| Exhibition. The remaining $500, 900 will be
| paid next week.
The Supreme Court of the United States
| on Monday adorned to the second Monday
| in October, which is the time fixed by law.
/ During the term Just concluded the Court
| disposed of $50 cases. Four only were left
over undecided.
| A fire at Wallacetown, Cearfeld county,
| Pa, on Saturday, destroyed 5000, 600 feet
of lumber and $4,000 shingles. The railroad
/ for about 100 feet was so damaged that trains
were delayed. Loss $4,000.
! An entertainment at the executive mansion,
last Saturday evening, was given by Governor
/ Carroll in honor Of the return of his sister,
Mrs. c. Oliver O'Donnell, from Europe.
/ Twenty.eight guests were present and the
N'""NA was SNfNibty oSA'NN'
| The First Baptist Church in Baltimore, the
/ old round church, which stands on the corner
Of Sharp and Lombard streets, has been sold
and will be vacated to give place to business
1t IS over a hundred years old, having been
| built in l773.
! Two colored men were appointed to posi-
/ tons in the Treasury department on Monday
/ One of them named Howard, was formerly
I a uhariff in Miugtspinnt and u,as ,bI;o.l
leave that State for fear of his life; the other,
Joseph Turner, was Secretary Of the Senate
| of Alabama.
The Indian chief Crazy Horse has come in
and will doubtless be willing, if proper in.
ducemeGis are offered, to remain in until the
weather and government settles, when with
fresh arms, recruited bands and stronger
ponies he will hunt the emigrant and the buff
talo with some profit.
In the Uuited States Court at Trenton
on Tuesday the Judge announced that
the postponement Of the special session of
| Congress, which, it was supposed, would take
! place IN June, would compel the Court to
dispense with that month term, as it could
not be expected to be run at the expense of
| the officers
A negro in Bucklin, Mo-, was "Voudou,n
according to the superstitious belief of his
neighbors. An entire family died in one
week, and he was accused of killing them by
wtchcratt. A mob took him out of his cabin
at night, hanged him, and buried his body
twenty feet deep under huge stones. This
was done to prevent his getting out and harm
| ing his murderers
! The steamer City Of Brussels, which sailed
| from New York, for Queenstown, Ireland,
having on board a large number of Roman
! Catholic pilgrims to Rome from Montreal
and Quebec, has now been out twenty .two
days, and has not been heard from. Great
uneasiness is felt by the friends of parties on
board lest some disaster has beiallen the
steamer and her passengers.
-Four deputy D. S. Marshals attempted to
arrest Thomas and Isaac Reynolds for illicit
distillation, at GLASGOW, KY, on Monday.
The accused resisted and both were shot,
| Thomas being MORALLY wounded. The Dep.
uty marshals at first refused to be arrested"
but finally surrendered and gave up their
arms in Court. What the United States au-
thorities will do in the matter remains to be
seen.
In the case of Major Reno, of the United
States army, found guilty of insulting conduct
to the wife of Captain Bell, the President, in
view Of his previous record ''as brave man
and good officer has modified his sen.
tence to suspension from rank and pay for
two years fron the 18th of May, 1871 Ii
was concluded that his ofienses, grave as
they were, did not warrant his dismissal from
/ the service.
George NJ. Pinney, the defaulting Navy
! Pay Inspectors clerk at San Francisco, who
recently returned to that city from Canada,
gave himself up on Saturday, and was held
at $4,000 bail to answer two charges of
forgery Of Government certificates of indebt.
edness Startling disclosures duplicating
California politicians are said to be probable
when his trial takes place, but all is mere
conjecture ut present.
! A terrible case Of poisoning is reported
from plantation in Princess Anne county.
Va, by which Mrs. Laura McAlpine and
four other ladies and a gentleman narrowly
escaped with their lives. The poison was
eaten with their food during breakfast, and
strychnine was used. There is reason to be
lieve, according 10 the latest accounts, that it
was deliberate attempt to murder the en-.
tire family by the cook.
West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body of timber of any State in the
Union. Prof. tontaine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between O..
100000 and 10000, 900 acres, and that the
| y 80 F'ho u
fully $4,000, 600 as it stands in the forest,
The oak, walnut, cherry, ash, poplar, maple,
elm, sycamore and locust attain a size there
not surpassed on the American continent.
Verdant people on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland have been badly taken in by sharp.
ers travelling with circus companies. At
Princess Anne one man lost 500 at monte,
and citizen of Chestertown was swindled
out Of $500 in the same way, and other PEG.
pie there lost various amounts by investing in
games Of mock auctions AtDenton a sharp.
er went through resident for $500, but the
| crowd gathered around him and forced him
to return the money under threats of a sound
drubbing.
After midnight of Monday the steamship
Nurnberg, from Bremen for Baltimore, col.
lided in the lower Chesapeake with the Nor.
wegian bark Azow, bound to Queenstown
with a cargo of 10000 bushels Of corn. The
Azow was cut to the waters edge, and sank
IN few moments There were eleven per.
sons on board, of whom seven were saved
aud four lost. The bark was riding at an.
Choir, the night WINS very thirk and tha ca,,,,