The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-09-01

A spectacle illustrative of the Russian and
Turkish war is to be given at Agricultural
Hall, London. One thousand men and horses
are to take part in it, and thirteen elephants
and twelve camels will assist in the represen.
tation. Where is Barnum2
1t is understood that, in view of the unsat.
isfactory relations of the Sixth MARYLAND
Regiment with the state authorities, the
officers have decided to send their designations
to the governor as preliminary step to the
disbanding of the regiment.
W. II. s. Coen, Jr., of the wholesale hard.
ware firm of McNab, Marsh & Coen of To.
ronto, has disappeared and is believed to
have embezzled fifty or sixty thousand dollars
The firm has made an assignment.
With the boom of the shutdown gun in
New York is heard the plunge of hundreds of
boys and men from the docks into the rivers.
10 battle before that moment costs the often.
der two, three and five dollars, according to
his size.
James Carey Williams, who was wounded
IN the riot in Baltimore, on July 10th, died on
Tuesday. His death makes the number of
victims of that riot eleven. Nine were killed
on the spot, and two have died of their
wounds.
Sitting Bull has reappeared on United
States soil with 1900 warriors. This circum
stance suspends action by the government in
reference to the proposed negotiations with
the Sioux chief, and excites considerable
speculation at Washington.
The Philadelphia merchants have, it is said,
decided to bring suit against the Pennsylvania
railroad for loss of goods at the Pittsburg riot
1t Is thought that long legal fight will ensue,
and that the losses will not be recovered for
almost an indefinite period.
The Mechanics Exchange Bank in San
Francisco will go into immediate liquidation
and pay all demands in full. Its liquidation
is caused by plethora of idle capital, stagna.
ton in mercantile and stock circles, and
decreased business under ruinous competi.
ton
A severe rain storm, witha southwest wind,
caused flood in the Saco river, Sunday.
Damagie to the amount of thousands of
dollars was done along the stream, and there
are washouts and slides on the railroad near
Bartlett, Glenn Station, Bems. and other
places in the white Mountain region.
The main building of the hotel at Yellow
sulphur Springs, in Virginia, was DESTROYED
by lire on Friday night, with most of the
furniture, aud some baggage, Loss S23, 900.
A colored boy was killed A covered bridge
across the Tuscarawas river, near New Phil.
adelphla, D., was burned on Saturday. Loss
10000.
AT Nashville, on Saturday, Chancellor
Cooper made an order turning over to the
tennessee policy holders the property of the
Columbia Life Insurance Company and that
oil the other Companies merged into it, valued
at $4,000 also the property of the Life In.
surance Company of America.
Richard P. Els, lately secretary of the
kockland Savings Bank, at Nyack, n. Y,
was arrested on Saturday, and committed in
default of $4,000 bail, to answer the charge
OF having embezzled $4,000 of the banks
funds. Much indignation is felt in Nyack,
because the other officers of the bank cannot
be held criminally for Incorporating
debtors money.
cyclone carried away two spans of the
Missouri-river bridge at Council Bluffs. on
Saturday. The spans were of considerable
length, the two making gap of five hundred
feet, AS far as is known at present there was
no inherent defect in the structure of the
bridge, the disaster being due to the immense
force OF cyclone, such as that which at
Mount Carmel, a short time ago, picked up
churches and tossed them around IKE chips
An accommodation train on the New Lon.
don and Northern Railroad ran into a wash .
out caused by q heavy rain, between New
London and Norwich Conn, on Saturday
night. The engine, tender and baggage ear
were precipitated into the river Thames. and
four OF the train hands were severely injured.
The passenger car, which remained on the
track had tremendous shock, and about
twelve OF the passengers were injured
On Saturday afternoon, two men entered
the store of Bagnall 4 Loud, dealers in block
and tackle fixtures, in Boston, and engaged
the attention Of the junior member of the firm.
Half an hour after they left it was discovered
that the safe in the counting room had been
robbed Of $1,000 in money and notes and
S2s,OOO in mortgages. II is supposed that
their confederate entered the counting room
by side door.
1t is reported from Bozeman,. Montana
that General Sturgis, with six companies of
troops, is on the Yellowstone, to meet Chief
Joseph's band. Captain Bonheim, of The
Seventh Infantry, reports that the Indians
have attacked two parties of whites, killing
seven men OF one and nine Of the other. The
main camp crossed the Yellowstone on the
18th, and the warriors, under Chief JOSEPH.
went back TO fight Howard"
A stage coach going from Deadwood, Da.
kota, to Sidney, Neb., was stopped by Eve
highwaymen on Friday night, who fired into
u without calling a halt. Edward Cook.
DIVISION superintendent Of the stage line was
wounded in the ear. The robbers secured
only twelve dollars out Of about one thousand
in the possession Of the passengers. One
passenger, obeying the order to throw IN
hands, held up five hundred dollars in one
Of them and the darkness prevented the
robbers from seeing the money.
John Wesley Harden, charged with the
commission of twenty-seven murders, and for
whose body the Legislature Of Texas has
offered reward Of $4,000, was captured on a
train leaving Pensacola, Fla, recently. A
Sheriff posse boarded the train to assist the
Texan detectives in making the arrest. but
twenty shots were fired before it was effected,
and a companion of Harden, who had pis.
tol ~ his hand, was killed. Harden's last
murder was the killing Of the Sheriff Of Com.
anche county, In Texas. lie has lived in
Florida for several years under the name of
John Swain. IS
A washed.out bridge on the line Of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
over the four mile creek about seven miles
from Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, threw
On entire train, except the sleeping car, into
the stream, which at that point was twenty
iaet deep. Barnum' show car was involved
~ the wreck, and all OF its eleven occupants
except one were hillad. TWalYe bodies we're
soon recovered, Rnd four others could be
seen, bpt could not be extricated for soma
time, How macy other VICTIMS are hidden
beneath the wreck or have been carried down
the creek tine alone will tell. The three cars
~ NE stream nFe 20 telesaoped together that
y y Impossible 70 get them apart. They
doubtlaas contain 0 large number of persons
VINO were SO injured as TO render escape i'm.
practicable. 20 persons were killed and II
wounded.