The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-14
News Of the Week.

WINE Is made IRON oranges III o. Au
gustine, Fla.
Elihu Burritt says :-"Send back tha
money meaning the undistributed par
of the Geneva award
A temperance camp-meeting has bee
announced at Sea Cliff, l.. |. Murphy
Neal dow aud others arc expected to ut
tend.
A farmer at Mount Sterling Ky, ha
obtained fine sample Of sugar from tn,
blossom of a common poplar tree.
The Medical Council Of Ontario, il
session at Toronto, has adopted resolution
pledging itself to endeavOr to suppress tn,
liquor traffic.
The customs officers at Boston have JUS
seized ten thousand dollars worth of dia
mond rings, bracelets, brooches, etc., which
were struggled into that city two years ago
Last week train of twenty-four cars
loaded with tropical fruits aud vegetables
passed up the Jackson Railroad, in Mis-
sissippi, destined for st. Louis and Chica.
60 markets.
The steamboat j. N. Camden, from
Parkersburg for Pittsburg, burst her boil
ers and sank, on Tuesday afternoon. Her
pilot and three colored hands were killed
four Others were injured.
Over 1000 applications for consulships
are now on file in the State Department.
Only one salaried consulship-at the I'M
healthy port Of St. Paul dc Loando, on the
west coast Of Africa is vacant at this time.
The recent hail storm at Watertown, n.
Y. did damage in that town to the extent
Of $50, 600, Some Of the hail stones were
nine inches in circumference. Cattle ex.
posed to the storm were afterward found
bleeding.
The centennial anniversary of the battle
Of Hubbardston, the only Revolutionary
engagement fought in Vermont, was cele-
brated in Hubbardston on Saturday.
There was military parade, and several
orators discoursed to four thousand people
A fight occurred between a sheriff $
posse and gang of horse thieves near
Prescott, Ark, on the 9th inst, in which
one of the posse, ia Cumberland Presby-
terrain minister" was killed. The ruffian
who killed him was "riddled with buck
shot"
1t was decided at a meeting of the
National Rife Association lately, to hold
its fall meeting on Monday September
10th, and the three following days. the
matches for the Centennial trophy to take
place on the l4th and 10Th of September
at Creedmoor.
The first shipment Of peaches and apri.
cots from San Francisco to New York was
made June 10, and resulted so badly for
the shipper, says the San Francisco BuiIe-
tin, that "all other California fruit ship
pers, decline to send forward any apricots
or peaches this season"
A telegram from Boston reports the dis
covery, in Milan, n H., of ian enormous
lode Of copper, lead gold, and silver,
twenty feet in width, aud extending for
miles" This wonderful lode crosses the
Grand Trunk Railway one hundred miles
west Of Portland
Seven hundred and sixty.two dogs, cap
tured by the dog catchers and unredeem-
ed, were drowned in the pound in New
York on Friday of last week. Forty six
of the dog-catchers were bitten; they re-
ceived two hundred aud fifty bites, an
average Of five bites and fraction to each
catcher.
\ reservoir near the village Of Athol,
Mass, burst on Sunday afternoon, the
food carrying away several mill dams and
causing much damagelto milling and other
property in its course. The reservoir was
a contract job, aud had been accepted by
the town authorities on Saturday last.
The diplomatic difficulty between the
United States aud Venezuela has been
amicably settled. The Venezuelan Gov
eminent has formally withdrawn its note
of January 2Sth, which caused the depart
ure Of Minister Russell from Caracas, and
such questions as remain will be discussed
in friendly manner
In Washington on Sunday morning a
sou Of S, II. Kaufman, of the Epeaiag
Star, while playing with revolver, acct
dentally shot himself in the breast and
died almost Immediately. The revolver
was kept loaded in the house as protec.
ton against burglars Deceased was a
bright and promising youth of II years,
The First National Bank of Keeseville,
N. Y, was robbed by seven or eight mask.
ed burglars on Friday night. The watch
men were bound and gagged, and the
vault and spherical safe blown open and
riAed of their contents. The bank loses
$4,000, including $1,000 in currency;
depositors who left packages in the vault
for safe keeping lose over $4,000.
The colored people of Charleston, South
Carolina, held 4 meeting on Wednesday
with view to the consideration of plan
for the wholesale emigration of their race
to Liberia, Letters were read and speak
ers were present from different parts Of the
State and country, which represented that
many Of the colored people are ready and
anxious to go.
The st. Louis Globe attributes the out
break of Indians in Idaho to the misman.
agement of the agency. 1t asserts that
the Indians we're disguised with the
"rotten blankets, sinking meat, sugar half
sand, -four half tiff, knives like hoops, and
axes that Clipped" that were dealt out to
them and which were the main cause of
discomfort. Is not that eminent soldier
and statesman, General Howard, once
head of the Freedman's Bureau, in charge
now Of the Government service in Idaho /?
A number of young men and boys found
half key of blasting powder in quarry
in the western suburbs of St. Louis on the
Fourth, and resolved to have some fun
with it. They took it TO a neighboring
lot, put part of the powder in tight box,
covered it with hay, set fire to it, withdrew
a short distance TO watch the result. The
explosion was tremendous, and two of the
youths, john Ryan, aged 10, and James
Gallagher, aged 10, received mortal iniu-
ries. Ryan died on Thursday night.
Several others were injured, but not
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