The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-26

Captain Brannoek's big hog from Dorches.
Ter county, weighs nearly 1900 pounds. It
Will be exhibited in Baltimore shortly.
The GLOBE Democrat, of ST. Louis, announ-
ees mat Samuel J. Iilden is engaged 10 a ST
Louis Delie' and that they viii be married
within three months. Nonsense.
=, Charles Potter, formerly of Ellicott CITY.
MO- Is numbered among the victims of the
yeilo" fever at Memphis. His wife Is at
present in Baltimore.
stage coach was stopped by two bigb,vav.
men near Fort Worth, Texas. tuesday morn.
ing The mail bags we're rifed and three mas.
sengers stripped Of their valuables.
The business of the U. S. Supreme Corr,
IS three years behind and Senator Davis's
DIE Tor an intermediate court, or Court of An.
peals, will perhaps at the next session of Con
gress become a law.
Mrs. DIR. n. Pinkney has sold ssI.ondon.
derry, her beautiful residence near Easlop.
Nd, to Commodore Febiger, the present
eommandant of the Washington Navy-yard.
ID. c., for $4,000
George h Richardson, cOlored and a man
named Mcdonald, driver of n mail wagon for
the u states House of Representatives were
cent robbery of the mails in the House most
Office P'0'
destructive prairie fires are reported in
rolk county, and other parts of Nebraska.
Ihey are particularly severe in the northeast
ern portion of the State. Seven persons have
been burned TO death and many injured Inv
the flames.
Stagle Brothers, of Greenfield Ohio. have
Jailed for over $4,000. Their assets are
stated at about ten per centum of their liabiIi-
nes; The firm owned q farm OF 300 acres
III fayette county, and seemed 10 be DOING n
lucrative business.
The New Russian steam cruiser bB;i, a.
tramp shipyard, Philadelphia, was launch
ed tuesday morning. The vessel, which will
probably be named the America, is of 1000
Tons bnrthen, and Is expected 10 make n
speed OF lI4 knots per hour at sea.
The Commissioners ofthe District OF Column
bia have ordered the levy Of a tax of one dol
TAR and atty cents per hundred on real estate.
except farm land, on which rate is to be one
dollar; also a tax of one dollar and fiftv cents
per hundred on all personal property not tax
able elsewhere.
On Sunday little girl. the daughter of
Mr.. Samuel Wise, while PLAYING IN tbe woods
near Bartonsviille, Frederick county was AZ
lacked by a huge black snake, enveloping her
IN It's folds and causing her to fall down.
orother, aged eight years, succeeded in kill
ing the snake and rescuing his sister unburt
though terribly frightened.
Apples are so plenty in New Hampshire
and prices 50 low that the farmers cannot az.
lord to pay for picking them. Barrels. on
the contrary, are in such demand that when
some thieves entered barn in South Sea
brook the other night they emptied the an
pies upon the barn floor and carried of only
the barrels.
man while walking in the woods near
Lynn, Massachusetts, recently slipped into
hole from which he took out, after consider
able hard work, a tin box containing about
one hundred Portuguese silver coins. Some
OF the dates were very old. Ii is supposed
that they were buried in early times by PORT.
uguese pirates.
John hiIneki messenger in the Office of
the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representa
tives, has been arrested and held an the
charge OF stealing letters addressed to Clerk
Adams, journal Clerk Smith and others.
The letters were fonnd at his residence; also
blank checks on the U. S. Treasury. one of
which, for S400' had been filed up, the name
OF George f. Adams, Chief Clerk, forged
thereto.
Father Wilbur, agent for twelve years with
the 4akahama Indians Washington Territory,
reports that this tribe, taken from the war
path in 1856, and gathered into the reserva-
ton IN 1860, are now quite numerous. They
number 3,640, have !, 900 head of cattle, l.
200 horses, 5000 acres of land under eultiva-
ton, with 10000 acres in addition fenced in.
Their property is valued at 1888, 900, equal to
$500 for each family.
Semi-ofiicial aGvices from Mexico, receiv-
ed in Washington on Tuesday, report numer-
GUS assertions into Texas from the army of
ihe northern border, no pay having been re-
eeived by the soldiers since last July. Many
OF the troops in Morelia have disbanded
for want of subsistence Gen. Escobedo is
very sick in prison, and may have to under
go surgical operation. His friends COM
plain that he is severely treated by his iailors.
The Diaz Government is said to have reeoa-
nized the national liability for the Carvaial
loan, negotiated in New York for the Repub-
lie when MAMMALIAN held the capital and
Juarez was on the Rio Grande, and will nav
the interest on the coupons SIS the exingencies
OF the treasury will permit