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

Nebraska set out twelve million trees
last year.
Over 100000 cigars arc daily burned
in this country no insurance.
"a company to insure the insurance
companies" is now loudly called for.
Dan Rice, the circus manager, has been
"sold out again by Sheriff in Kentucky
Some Now York merchants are about
to start a steamship line between that city
aud Brazil.
Only four out Of the eighteen iron fur
naces Of the Susquehanna, south of Har-
risburg, are in blast.
There are fourteen fint-glass factories
on the Southside, Pittsburg, but only five
of them are in operation.
A Troy man has just had needle ex-
tracted from his body, where il had re-
manned for seventeen years.
A horse, belonging to James @. Wal.
lace, Of Hopewell township, York county,
Pa, is SO years old and is still working.
King, the aeronant, who made balloon
ascension from Memphis on Monday after
noon, came down safe twelve miles from
that city.
Crusaders have appeared at North East,
Cecil county, Nd, a few evenings ago,
group of ladies visited the bar-rooms of
that borough, and INDUCED in prayer, &c.
The schooner James A. Croker, from
Hoboken for Providence, with cargo of
coal, is supposed to be lost with all on
board. She left Hoboken on December
9Th.
Bad luck attended Robert Hayden, of
Pulaski, Ky. In one week his house was
burned, his wife eloped, his son died, and,
finally, he got under an overhanging rock
just in time to be crushed to death by its
fall
The railroad business seems to be fin
ished in Massachusetts,. There have been
no roads built in that State during the
past year, and Of the thirty now in opera
ton only thirteen paid dividends in the
year 1876.
The Treasury Department has issued
another call for the redemption of ten mil
lions of fYe-twenty bonds Of 1865, May
and November, on which interest will
cease on the 18th of May. This is the
thirty-ninth call for bonds.
The President of the Chamber of Com.
merce of Manchester, England, stated at
its meeting on Monday that the market
for goods in the United States, which was
formerly excellent, had now come to be
valRelcss, and what is worse, considerable
trade had sprung up in Manchester in cot
ton fabrics manufactured in America.
The schooners Delmay and ]. II. G.
Colbourn were capsized in Tangier Sound,
Md, during Mondays gale, and all on
board the Colbourn persisted The crew
of the other vessel were saved. 1t is also
reported that three oyster PUNCHES capsized
and that their crews 80 in number were
lost.
The London Times correspondent at
Pera writes, under date of February 8,
that the onl business Of the Turkish Gov
- oNtiho W bC w Stnu anu
yet more soldiers, to the Danube frontier.
Every nerve is strained and every farthing
lavished to prepare as if for an inevitable
contest. Muskets arrive from America
by hundreds Of thousands aud cartridges
by millions.
The horse plague in Egypt has been
very fatal, The death Of 1900 army
horses, and POO belonging to private
persons, were reported up to the lst of
October The disease is kind of typhus
fever, and death cnsues in a few hours
after the first attack. Stringent regula.
tons have been issued by the government
in regard to the isolation Of the infected
animals, and their burial.
An extraordinary occurrence took place
recently at Crowle, Lincolnshire, England,
William Liggott, a pork butcher, sold his
wife for $500 to Chapman Pidd, landlord
of the Flshmongers Arms. The articles
of sale were drawn up at a solicitors office,
the money paid and the wife handed over
Both parties appeared satisfied with their
bargain. Pidd has been a widower only
few months,
Later advices from Panama confirm the
report of the sacking of Cali in the State
of Cauca by the Liberal forces under
General Pena. The number mastered is
still placed at three hundred, but it APP
pears the foreigners escaped The value
of the property taken is estimated at
100000. The Government disapproved
of the atrOcity, but Pena was too strong
to be removed from his command.
Before the body of Lieutenant McIn-
tyre, who was killed in the recent raid
against illicit distillers 10 Northern Geor-
gia could be recovered, fight took place,
in which three distillers were killed. The
body, when found, was robbed of watch,
money and everything valuable. The
troops in those districts of the South where
illicit distillation is carried on will be in
creased, and so concentrated as to sweep
the offenders from their mountain fast
nesses.