The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-17


There is man named Seally in India.
ma, who is one hundred aud five years old.
A Frcnchman named Lalumler, died at
Plaesburg, New York, March %, f8G9,
aged one hundred and six years.
At Roxburgshire, Scotland, Oh the 10Th
OF March, 1869, Caroline Wilson died,
aged one hundred and four years. 81. T
Aaron Quackenbush, colored man
died in the Almshouse at Sharon, on the
18th of March, 1860, aged one hundred
and six years. He was raised at Fishkill,
New York, and during the Revolutionary
war was a servant of Colonel, afterwards
General Dubois.
Fletcher Miriam died at West6eld, Mas
sachusetts, on the Sth of March, 1869. at
the age one hundred and three years.
A woman aged one hundred and two
years was converted at revival meet
ing in Iowa, March 20, 1869.
"The oldest man in the world died in
Poland, March 80, 1869. lie had lust
entered his one hundred and thirty.ninth
year. lie Steele says that at eighty his
hair was quito white, and afterwards be-
came Of brown shade. .....
A woman named Bessy Robertson died
at kennothrnont, Scotland, AprilS, 1863,
aged one hundred years. ~ ri
A woman named Bessy Robertson died
at Cumberuauld, Scotland, April 2, 1869,
at the age of one hundred Que and years
Daniel Frederick Bcakman, @the last
Survivor of the Revolution" (?) died at
Sandusky, Cattaraugus county, New York
April 8, 1869, at the green old age of one
hundred aud eight years,
\ widow named Rachel Jones, aged one
hundred and eight years, died on Sunday,
June %, 1869, at the Bristol InRmary,
Somersetshire, England. -
Ga Friday, May 10Th, 1860, Mrs. Char
lotto Guthrie died at the East Mains of
Nannadiee, Fariarshire, Scotland aged
one hundred and five years.
Count de Waldcck, Of Paris although
one hundred and three years Of age, has
sent to the Paris fine arts exhibition.
which will soon be open, picture repre-
senting not fewer than two hundred and
dfty-fve persons The veteran artist en-.
joys excellent health, and takes strong
walking exercises every day. lie is mar
ricd to an English lady of forty, and has
a son aged eighteen.
A Tennessee widow of one hundred and
fourteen years boasts of four hundred de-
scendants, aud rides on horseback.
One Of the monks at the celebrated
Convent Of Einsiedein is one hundred years
old. He is in full possession of his men
tai faculties, and retains a wonderful
memory for which he has always been
noted.
The family of Joel Parker, of North
field, Vermont, is remarkable for longevi.
ty. He was born April %, 1880, and his
wife January s, l770 They have five
children, whose ages are sixty eight, sixty
six, sixty-threc, sixty-two and fihy.six,
respectively. The aggregate age of all the
family living is more than five hundred
years. 1t will be seen that the father is
in his ninetieth and the mother in her one
hundredth year.
A Mrs. Park celebrated her one hun.
dred and filtieth birthday, few weeks
ago, in Cleveland, Ohio. She has raised
seventeen children. The last was born
when she was sixty five years old, aud she
now enjoys good health, has good teeth
aud improved sight, and her hair is turn
ing black. And what is remarkable, she
has au internal cancer of fifty years stand
ing. But this does not prove that cancers
are favorable to longevity.
Fourteen "old girls" assembled at
party at Saxtons river, Massachusetts,, re.
Gently found that their united ages was
one thousand and forty three years. The
Oldest, who was ninety-one, on being in.
vited to ride home in the evening after the
party, resented the irnputation, and an
swered testify that "she'd rather walk"
Harvard, Massachusetts, wants to rival
Barnard, Vermont, town where nobody
dies. 1t reports twelve smart, healthy
widows, whose ages sum up ten hundred
and thirty-two years old, and they are but
small section Of the fourteen hundred
inhabitants. ... ..a ..g
There is an old couple living at liver
ton, II. l., Mr. and Mrs, Richard Smith,
aged each ninety-three years-who were
married at the age of eighteen, and conse-
quently have lived in the bonds of matri.
mony for the long period of seventy.6ve
years, and during that time have enjoyed
life amicably AN instance Of very rare
occurrence, They are both in the enjoy.
ment of excellent health, and able to at.
tend to their respective duties IN gaining
a livelihood. They are longliSed race
Mrs. Smith having three sisters still living
quite aged, one Of whom is within two
years ofibeing aceuteuariau, being ninety.
eight years old She has another eighty
four and one eighty years old. i
.a A native OF the Emerald Isle, named
Patrick Shannon, who was born in the
year l740, is now living in Texas, making
him at the present time one hundred and
twenty-six years old. His hair aud beard are
as white as cotton, both of which he wears
very long, which gives him grave APP
pearance. Colonel Mosely says ole is
q man Of fine appearance, intelligent, and
very courteous indeed fine old Irish
gentleman. ID. .Naa st.l. s0sa
A cold climate seems to be favorable to
long life. According to late Russian
Journal, the deaths during 1868 at Irk-
ootsk, Siberia, included six persons over
one hundred and'ten slof age Two
had reached their one hundred and twenty
sixth year, and one died at the age of one
hundred and thirty-one, Three others
were more than q century old. i' ''sa
A certain house. breaker was eoudem6ed
in the latter part Of the lass oentnryyi u
France, and under peculiar circumstance,
to a hundred years in the galley; aud,
strange to relate, this man recently made
his appearance in his own native province
at the advanced age Of one hundred and
twenty years, he being about twenty years
Of age when the sentence which condemn
ed him to such a neutrality-suspicious. was
passed 1t is difficulty to conceive what
the feeling must have been with which he
returned, as soon as emancipated from the
honl ioc ,ykt.b bal l..