The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-01-06


346 pieces last year, representing s22,
1SG,S35,
The Rogues' Gallery 10 New York con.
tains at the present time 1929 photographs,
which cost the city s7l45.
Over hundred employees in the Penna
Railroad shops, in Altoona, were arrested
the other day for working on Sunday.
The rails of the Columbia and Port
Deposit railroad are laid, and the road is
expected to be in running order by spring.
/ A huge fiery meteor fell into che Pa
cifc not far from San francisco, on Fri.
day night of last week, with loud kissing
noise.
Owing to recent discoveries of valuable
guano deposits along the Peruvian coasts,
the securities of Peru have taken an up
ward turn.
The pottery works Of Krischer & Sons,
on Staten Island, were burned on Sunday
night. Loss. 100000. Over fifty men
are thrown out of employment by this fire,
The Young Mems Christian Association
will hold general conference in Freder-
lex, commencing on the 18th instant A
number Of prominent men will be present.
1t is stated that another English steam
ship will soon sail from New Haven,
Conn, with a cargo of munitions of war,
valued at S2,00O,OO0, for the Turkish
Government.
The New York Times says that L. A.
Woodward, of the Tweed ring, has been
released on his recognizance. He has
surrendered Sl50,000, and win be wit.
ness in the ring suit,
There are at present nine hundred and
fifty inmates in Bayview Asylum, and its
condition is oyercrowdcd. About one half
Of the inmates are tramps from other local.
tiles than Baltimore.
Wade Hampton has issued an address
TO the people of South Carolina, calling
upon them to make prompt payment to
his agents of ten per cent. of the amount
of taxes paid by them last year.
A miners boarding house, near Alta,
Utah, was overwhelmed by a snow slide
on the 2sth ult Tuesday two men were
taken from the wreck alive. -Four Others
are buried there still, and supposed to be
dead,
On Christmas day the Baltimore police
made one hundred and fifty-two arrests for
drunkenness These were all that were
reported and it is safe to say that there
were more than FIVE thousand headaches
in the city on Tuesday morning.
j. J. Valentine, Superintendent of the
Bullion Department Of Wells, Fargo &
Co., reports the treasure product of the
States and Territories west of the Missouri
river for the past year at Si4,328,00O in
gold, and Sal ,537 800 in silver.
The steamship Emile sank in six
fathoms of water near Key West on Mon
day night. Only one man and an infant
are known to be lost in her, but boat
full Of passengers is missing, and steamers
have gone in search of it. The captains
and another boat have arrived at Key
West.
The falling off of the receipts from
customs aud internal revenue is felt in the
increase of the public debt during Decem-
Der to the extent Of over three and half
millions of dollars. Expenses of the Gov
larnmeut and payment Of interest have ex-
,eeded the income.
Princeton, Ky, numbers among her
ciizens a colored woman, aged l20 years,
whom it claims is the oldest person now
living in the United States This cente-
naran is perfectly helpless, her flesh is all
shrplkcn to her bones, her skin is all
wrin-led and shriyeled and though her
mind is still fair, she can hardly manage to
talk ttelligibly owing to her lack of teeth
and PECULIAR formation of mouth. She
lives With her youngest son, a youth of
ninety,who still works for his living.
Dispatches from Pottsvillc, Pa. tell of a
very DISASTROUS fire which has broken out
in the colieries operated by the Lykcns'
Valley Company under the general control
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Nearly
hundred miles have been sufocated, a
large amour of property consumed, eight
hundred met thrown out of employment,
and the fire 4 last accounts was still burn
ing. No estitate of the amount of the
loss has yet leen made. The damage
cannot be renired in less time than
year.
\ stockholders suit has been brought
in the Maryland courts to prohibit the
proposed reorganization of the Western
Telegraph Co. Ne first charter of
magnetic telegraph company was granted
by the Legislature q Maryland in 1s47,
aud was for thirty yers. 1t was entitled
"The Magnetic Telegraph Company"
This charter is the lawnn which the lead
ing telegraph companiesn this country are
based, that first compan having steadily
from time to time absortd and combined
with almost every other + whatever pat
ent or manner of working that has since
come before the public. Ets renewal or