The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
News Of the Week.

Canada has $50 oil wells, Of which 200
are being operated.
Little girls are employed as pages in the
Kansas Legislature.
Numbers Of persons are immigrating to
Texas from Kentucky,
A second party of Bostonians have left
for FLORIDA to seek homes,
Diphtheria prevails as an epidemic in
every town of California 1t is very de-
structive.
Moro than 100000 pounds of guupow-
der, destined for Russia, passed over the
Erie railway last week.
The Wilmington Conference, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, meets at
Milford, Del, March 18th.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
decided that railroad property is subject
to State, county and municipal taxation.
The New York World says that the
boarding houses in that city have reduced
their prices about one.third us compared
with last year.
Ninety-nine emigrants sailed from New
York on Saturday for Australia They
included ten married couples aud three
single women.
The widow Van Colt closed her reli
gous meetings in New York, on Sunday
night last. The number of conversions
were stated at 600.
The population Of California increased
by immigration last year $4,000. The
class Of immigrants most needed is farm
ers and stock raisers.
Guilford White, aiawyer, was convicted
in Boston, on Saturday evening, of re-
ceiying two stolen U. S. bonds Of ten
thousand dollars each
A gas well, about two miles from Brad
ford, Pa, is to be utilized, A pipe is to
be laid to the village, and the gas will be
used to light up the town at night.
Minnie and Annie Stuley and Nellie
Voorhuse, aged five, eight and ten years,
were drowned at Salem Mass, Saturday
evening, by breaking through the ice.
OF the 81 companies of U. S. troops
sent to South Carolina before the Presi.
dental Election, only ~ remain, and 2 of
those will probably soon be ordered away.
The Oregon farmers are very busy pre-
pairing their ground for a large crop of
wheat, and twice the amount will be put
in this year over that of any former
season.
The locomotive housing on the Penn
sylvanil railroad mt Trenton, n. j., was
burned ON Sunday, and eight iirst-class
locomotives were damaged to the extent
of $4,000
The Louisiana orange crop of last year
is estimated TO have been 10000 900
oranges, which would represent about
10000 trees, and worth about 100000
on the trees.
Five skeletons, presumably of mound
builders, have been lately unearthed at
Lorain, Ohio, in quite good preservation.
The jawbones and teeth are noted as un.
usually large.
A man named Bennett employed in a
silver plating factory, in Washington,
killed himself Sunday by drinking an
acid used ia the business, which he mis-.
took for water.
Henry d. Boas, Secretary of the Cit.
zens' Building aud Loan Association of
Shenandoah, in Schuylkill county, Pa.
was convicted on Saturday of having EN-.
bezzled nearly $1,000.
The Fresno California; Erpositor, Of
the 18th ult,, says that flock of wild
geese, forming solid column of birds
seven miles in length, passed over that
town the day before.
BY the suspension of congressional work
at the Office of the public printer in Wash
ington, Saturday, caused by exhaustion of
the appropriation, about six hundred per-
sons are thrown out of employment.
In the Rhode Island House of Repre-.
sentatives on Thursday, bill lcgaliziug
marriages between whites and blacks,
which had passed the day before, was re.
considered by vote of 81 to % The
bill passed finally on Wednesday.
The Governor of Kentucky has recog.
nized Nichols as governor of Louisiana BY
issuing a requisition upon him for the
surrender of Maurice A. Schwab, arrested
in New Orleans for an alleged fraud in
Louisville.
The Grand Duke Alexis is to arrive at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on orabout the 18th
His object is to personally inspect ice
yachting in all its bearings, and with a
view of introducing patterns Of American
ice-yachts in Russian rivers.
The Susquehanna river was clear of ice
from Columbia to Chickees, Sunday, and
the fears Of a gorge at Columbia were de-
creasing. The ice was breaking at Port
Deposit but had not yet moved at Havre
de Grace. No damage was apprehended.
The United States frigate Delaware is
sunk in Brooklyn navy-yard, aad lies i'm.
beded in about ten feet of mud For
some weeks workmeu have been engaged
removing her machinery, and it is stated
that it was all out of her when she filled
At mass meeting of unemployed men
in New York on Saturday night, a memo
rial to the Legislature was adopted, asking
that s2,OOO,OOO be appropriated for pub
lie works, to give employment to the
$4,000 unemployed working men of that
city.
Over $4,000 worth of goods in the
store of Butzell Sons, at Saugerties, N.
Y, have been seized by the Sheriff, as
belonging to hamburger L GAM, of New
York city, who are their creditors. 1t is
believed more goods are sccreted.
The steamer George Washington, from
New York for st. Johns, N. F., has been
totally wrecked at Cape Race. All on
board, twenty-five in number, were drown
ed Fourteen of the bodies have been re.
covered. The steamer Cromwell, also
from New York for St. Johns, is missing.
Birds are reported dying by the thous.
and in New England, where the great
depth and long continuance Of snow pre-.
won't their rettinU nj tho saada aud orubo