The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-12

the destruction have been received.
/ John B. Cough has returned to London
from the Continent, and begun a series Of
lectures IN Mr.. Surgeons Tabernacle.
/ John Thomas, colored, was Lyncbed n,
/ franklin. Tenn, on Sunday, for a felonious
assault upon little girl. He confessed the
crime.
The Lobster business on the coast of Maine
indicates decided failure this fall. and the
fishermen predict the smallest catch ever
known
Moody, the well-known evangelist. arrived
IN Baltimore on Tuesday. He has taken a
house, and will spend the winter there with
his family.
The Father Ryan who died few DAYS ago
at Chattanooga, was Father p RYAN. of the
Nashville Diocess, not Father a. j. RYAN.
the poet-priest.
Within FIVE months all the -four mills burn.
ed by the great explosion at Minneapolis.
Mimi, have been rebuilt on larger scale
than before.
Charles p. Woods, prominent banker OF
Auburn, n. Y, was found dead in his car
rage on Monday. 1t is supposed he died OF
heart disease.
General Fremont arrived in Prescott, Ari-
iona, on Monday, and has been installed as
Governor of the Territory. He was warmly
received by the people
kindling with coal oil appears to be still in
favor with our feminines. Three of them
this week IN Baltimore selected that route for
journey to unknown realms.
L. S. Grant, Jr., called upon Mayor Ely.
OF New York, on the Sd inst, and presented
him with a check for $500, General Grant ;
contribution for the yellow fever sufferers.
The total coinage of standard silver dollars
at all the minis to October LIST, amounted 20
1929, 900, of which Philadelphia coined s.
oil 500, San Francisco 6,324, 600 and Carson
l 1877 900.
A very extensive collection of spare bed
ding and clothing for the yellow fever suffer
ers is being made in New York. The firm OF
A. I. Stewart & Co. has contributed two
thousand garments.
Theodore Camp, Joel Pitcher, J. ". Good.
John Hevenor aud Albert Wickmore, were
arrested at Towanda, Pa, on Monday, for
counterfeiting. Several sets of moulds and
lot OF bogus coins were captured with them.
It is reported that Kimpton, whose extra
dition has been the Subject of angry letters
between the Governors of South Carolina and
Massachusetts, has determined to 90 to South
Carolina, having been promised kind treat.
ment.
Kansas and California stand side by side
IN grain crops the present year. From the
eighth place as a wheat State in 1876, Kansas
jumps to the first place. Her crop of wheat
will be over 10000, 900 bushels, and of corn
lO0,000,000 bushels.
There was a tragedy enacted near the vii
lage of Franklinville, Baltimore county, Md.
Sunday morning. John Shanahan shot the
alleged seducer of his sister and then surren-
dered himself TO the Sheriff and voluntarily
went to Jail. Miller is supposed to be NOR.
tally wounded.
Governor Wallace, of New Mexico, has no
titled the President of continued lawlessness
in Lincoln county, in that territory, and asked
the aid of the army to procure peace. The
President has issued his proclamation COM
mandingall riotoEs bands to dispense within
FIVE days.
BabcOck, the inventor of the extinguisher
bearing his name, is a drunken outcast in
Oakland, Cal. Holloway, the inventor of a
much better extinguisher, and the Fire In.
spector of Baltimore, Is, on the contrary, a
temperate, yirtuous, reputable, useful and
universally esteemed citizen.
DR.. Lynch, of South Carolina, has present
ed to the Smithsonian Institute, at Washing
ton fossil tooth, brought up from depth OF
one thousand feet below the surface through
an artesian well in Charleston. 1t has the
appearance of a human tooth, but has not
yet been examined by the naturalists of the
institution.
The Department of Agriculture estimates
the wheat crop of 1878 at 400, 000, 600 bush
els; that the corn crop will fully equal that oil
1877, and that the cotton crop may equal, if
not exceed, the great ante-bellum crops.
The oat crop will probably amount to over
400, 100000 bushels, and Irish potatoes, I03,-
100000 bushels.
The commissioner of internal revenue has
ruled that persons who sell the articles known
as Hostetteris Bitters and brakes Plantation
Bitters, either by the drink or in unbrokeu
packages, are liquor dealers, and after No
vember / viii be held liable to special taxes
as such. The manufacturers of these bitters
are declared to be rectifers.
A railroad up Mount Vesuvius is to be
built by Naples banker Of the name OF
Obleight. A double line supported on pill
lars, and nine hundred and nineteen yards
long, will carry the trains, which will be haul.
ed up to the mouth of the crater by wire
ropes connected with stationary engines
Each train will consist of four carriages hold
ing four passengers apiece, and as one such
coming down.
News has been received of the loss Of the
Pacific mail steamship Georgia. As she was
leaving the harbor Of Punta Arenas, forty
eight hours sail from Panama, she grounded
upon a reef She was on the way to San
Francisco with the passengers of the steamer
Colon of the same line, numbering forty-fv
persons, but all the passengers and crew were
saved. The Georgia had a large cargo.
She was an iron screw steamer built few
years ago, and cost 100000.
Minister Noyes writes the State Depart
ment concerning the Exhibition that it has
been IN many respects the greatest ever held.
There Is just reason to feel proud OF the
American Department, though it was not as
large as 1t should have been. As it is, the
United States will bear off more prizes, ac-
cording TO the number of exhibitors, than any
other country. They will take seven OF
eight grand prizes and very large number
! OF gold, silver and bronze medals. The Min
lister pays high compliment to the manage
ment of the Commissioner Mccormick.
\ despatch from General Sheridan to the
I War Department says the fugitive Cheyennes
are closely followed by several detachments
OF troops. He confirms the report that the
1 Spotted Tail Sioux have left their reservation
auu are uepredatng IN Dakota lie hopes
/ the reports of their doings are exaggerated
but fears serious trouble. Unofficial advices
/ from Camp Robinson, Neb., indicate that a
/ portion, at least, of the Cheyennes have cross
/ ed Dead Horse Creek, in the direction oil
/ White Clay, where the Red Cloud Indians
who have left their reservation, are nov
/ camped.
/ y letter received at Baltimore, October
says that last Friday night dozen intoxicat
cd tramps La down TO sleep on one of tbs
coke ovens near Fountain Mills, Fayett'
county, Penn'a. During the night the arch
ed roof broke in with their weight, and the
unfortunate men fell into the raging fires below
and persisted. On Saturday morning theil
charred and unacceptable bones were drawn
from the oven. Strange to say, their sad fate
produced no excitement, and no coroner 5 in
quest was held. Three hours afterwards tbs
remanins were inferred in an old ash heaI
and the oven was reflled with fresh coal.
News was received in Washington on Mon
day OF the arrest of ''seven additional ALLEGED
members of the Crabtree gang of counterfeit
ers in Kentucky and Tennessee" They are
lodged in the Knoxville Jail. Thus far TWEEN
ty-six members of this gang have been captur
ed. Two special Treasury agents, named
Vanhorn and Jones, while in Kentucky track
ing the cOunterfeiters, we're arrested for rob
berry in Whitley county, suspicion being ex