The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-10-27
Porelrn Attain.

The Department of State, Washington, has
received a report from our minister at The
Hague, in which Il is shown, as an illustration
ofthe carefulness and sieadiaess Of the Dutch,
that there has not been a bank failure in
Holland in forty years, aud that the paper
money in the banks during that time has been
equal TO gold. There is no such thing as the
failure of a fire insurance company in Hol'
land, and, while the rate of insurance does
not exceed one.half of one per cent, the
companies are aoutishing. Firstcass rail.
road fare is only one cent per mile, and yet
the roads pay good dividends. Piliering
officials are rarely heard Of No free passes
are granted. Dishonesty of any kind or fail.
ure in business means public dishonor. Four
millions Of people live within 100000 square
miles, and all appear happy and coutented.
The secret Of their prosperity is that all live
within their income and stick 10 industry and
honesty.
An awful destruction to human life occurred
Monday through an explosion of fre.damp
in the colliery at High Blautyre, near Glas.
gov, Scotland. 0f232 men who descended
the pit in the morning, only one, who was
near the shaft, succeeded in escaping. All
the rest are supposed to have persisted. There
is a chance that few may be shut up in some
distant gallery by the falling of the roof caused
by the explosion. A faint knocking is re-
ported to have been heard, but the air in the
pit was so poisonous that the rescuing parties
could not continue the search. Work was
resumed in the evening from the other pit,
and the rescuing party had gone half mile
towards the point where the knocking could
be heard. They had still 100 iathoms to pen.
citrate before reaching the spot.
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ago for the purpose of surveying for canal
to unite the Atlantic and Pacific by the Da.
rien route is making progress in It's operations.
Its explorers are busily at work in the United
States Of Colombia, under the direction Of
Lieutenant Wyse, who reports his confidence
that an interoceanic canal by way of Colon.
bia will soon be an accomplished fact. He
specially favors the Colombian route, because
it will not require such expensive locks as
the Nicaragua route, while the lowest gra-
dients and the narrowest isthmuses are also
found in Colombia.
The Teviotdale, an iron ship bound from
Cardiff to India with cargo Of Goals, was
abandoned on fire on the LIST of November,
1876, in latitude IL deg south, longitude 10
deg. east, near the Mauritius, the crew having
been picked up soon after leaving the vessel,
On the night Of the 18th September, 1877, the
mail steamer Hindostan, on her way from
China TO Suez, came across the abandoned
Teyiotdale two days before reaching Alden,
and found the coal still smoulderng in her
hold. The fire had thus lasted ten months,
and she had drifted about two thousand miles
in that time.
Russia, it is now apparent proposes to
winter in Turkey-that is her armies will re.
main there, despite the Mussuman, and con.
tlnue the campaign in prescribed manner,
that she may be the better able to resume
operations in the spring, Russia means bu.
siness; there is no surrender in her; the fight
now begun, will be continued until she wins
or has unpeopled part of her empire.
report from the Consulate at Lyons,
France, reports decline of fifteen per cent.
IN American imports from France; in silks
alone the decrease was over seventeen hun.
dred thousand dollars, while there was an in.
crease OF over half million in the importa.
ton Of raw silk, showing that the increase in
home manufacture of silk had caused the de.
crease in imported silks
Among the novelties Of the coming Paris
exhibition will be youth of fourteen, with
feet shaped precisely like his hands lie can
use them for the same purposes, and PLAYS
upon the piano with both hands and feet,
having peculiar chair which enables him to
curl his body into the necessary position.
He is a very good performer, and speaks both
English and German.
After three hundred years of absence, shoals
of herring appeared this year on the coast of
Denmark. The fish was for many centuries
the chief source Of revenue of the country,
and the Danes naturally hope that it may not
soon again disappear, as it did suddenly one
autumn over 300 years ago.
malignant epizooty in Southern Russia
has destroyed hundreds of thousands of cat.
tie, and is still raging. In many villages, nc.
cording to a report Of our Consul ut Odessa,
scarcely cow or an OK is left to the i'm.
poverished inhabitants"
The health of the Pope continues without
change except habitual sleepiness, which dis.
quiets his physicians.
A Lyons house has been fined lOOf. for is.
suing handkerchiefs bearing the portraits of
NJ. Theirs and NJ. Gambetta
The astronomer.royal for Scotland predicts
severe winter in Great Britain.
Great preparations are making in France
for the reception of Gen. Grant.