The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-06-02

Lake Superior is two feet lower than it
has been for years.
Hay in the Black Hills is quoted at two
hundred dollars per ton.
| Work was resumed on full time ut all the
Pennsylvania Coal Company mines on Mon
day.
II is said that English horsewomen are
about to abolish side. saddles and ride in the
masculine way.
Portland, Me-, is literary town. Two
thousand volumes were stolen last year from
her public library.
Within the past two years the valuation of
Boston for purposes of taxation has been re-
duced 100000 900.
Brush Creek, Fayette county, Iowa, is the
scene of the latest gold discovery, and ambi'
tious miners are fastening thither.
The Providence Journal says that over
three hundred stores and more than eighteen
hundred tenements are vacant in that city.
Seals have appeared on the Newfoundland
const this year. One steamer recently carri-
ed away a cargo of a, 600, valued at 5 40, 600.
The dwelling of James Bess, in North Yer
non, Indiana, was burned on Sunday, with
three small children, who were alone in the
house.
Members Of the Stone Cutters Association
in Montreal have just been fined $500 dana.
ges and costs for conspiracy against non
Union workmen.
project has been started in st Louis, and
it is said will soon be put into operation, for
direct shipment Of grain to Liverpool, by
way Of New Orleans.
The State Department has been advised Of
the issue ofa pronunciamento in the Noun.
tains of Guerrero by the friends Of Governor
Alvarez against the Diaz Government,
1t is stated that the monitors Ajax and lie.
high WIN be conveyed by the 0ssipee and ESSEX
from Port Royal to the Norfolk Navy Yard,
where they will be locked and cleaned.
In Stafford county, N. II. the Supreme
Court has just closed session of eleven
weeks, and the fines imposed in liquor cases
have more than paid ali the costs Of the term.
The Grand Jury at Sandusky, Ohio, has
found eleven indictments for ENLIGHTENMENT
against John s. Farlow, of Boston, President
Of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland
Railroad.
There was display of northern lights on
Monday evening". The air was so full of
electricity, that the telegraph wires between
New York. Boston and Montreal were worked
without the use of batteries.
The National Washington Monument Soci-
ETY. met on Monday, and adopted report
taking issue with the staten ent of the Board
of Engineers regarding the stability of the
monuments foundations.
IL was decided at the Cabinet meeting
on Tuesday that the Secretary of the State
should notify the Mexican Government that
it must prevent the raids into Texas, other.
wise our military in Texas will be instructed
to pursue the raiders into Mexico.
Twenty-Five publishers in England are en-.
gagged in printing Mr.. Longfellow's works,
and find it a profitable enterprises but only
one or two, in the absence Of an international
copyright, have any conscience about sending
to the author his royalty.
The little schooner New Bedford, 20 feet
long, and a little over tons burthen, sailed
from New Bedford, Mass, on Monday for
London. II is the smallest vessel which has
ever attempted to cross the Atlantic. The
crew are Captain Grape and his wife.
An illicit distllery in New Brunswick, n.
j., which had been in operation about six
weeks, shipping whisky to New York, was
seized by revenue officers on Monday night.
Archibald Ebbins, Archibald Smith, John
Courtney and Lewis Wright was arrested.
A despatch from Norfolk says This is
the most prolific strawberry season ever known
around Norfolk. Two million quarts were
shipped Wednesday and the season has Just
opened up fully. From twelve to fifteen
thousand dollars day are distributed to berry
pickers, and about fifteen thousand pickers
are employed. Other garden crops are com.
ing on finely.
1t is reported that the Apache Indians have
captured the town Of Double Mountain, in
the Panhandle Of Texas, and carried off all
the stock. No particulars are given. The
Indians have killed many hunters in that
district during the past winter. A fight re.
Gently occurred in the Panhandle between
sixty hunters and a band of Indians. The
latter retreated after several had been killed.
Several Of the hunters were wounded.
Miss Harper, the vice regent from Maryland
OF the Mount Vernon Association, is q strik.
lngy handsome woman. She is grand.
daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and
niece of the three famous American beau
ties who went abroad and married English
noblemen-one the Duke Of Leeds, another
the Marquis Of Wellesley, and third Lord
Stafford. Miss Harper lives in Baltimore,
opposite the Cathedral, and her house is
crowded with everything rare and beautiful;
adorned with bric-a brac Of the choicest kind,
and furnished by articles valuable on account
OF their ssociations-assocation so full of
memories that you can sit and listen by the
hour in any room in her house to the most
delightful histories of this chair, that bed, of
a table, picture, or dressing table.