The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-12

Mary Gallagher died in Philadelphia, last
week, aged 100 years.
The Legislature hasre elected Hon. Barnes
Compton, State Treasurer.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in York county,
Pa, of a very violent type.
General Mcclellan will be inaugurated
governor Of New Jersey on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Ann Denny, living near Smyrna, Del.
entered upon her l0l year on the lst of Jan
nary.
The Soldiers Orphan Home, Gettysburg,
will soon wind up. There are now but nine
inmates.
Henry NJ Stanly, the African explorer, and
Gen. Grant, we're both in Alexandria, Egypt,
on Monday last.
Lewis Z. Dorion City Treasurer Of Quebec,
is reported to be a defaulter, and the amount
is stated at $780, 700.
According to vital statistics for the year
1877, 26,l94 persons died in the city of New
York. %, l52 died during 1876.
Mark Twain has succeeded General Haw-
ley as editor of the Hartford CourdHt. Mr..
Clemens can now be as funny as he pleases.
A cab broke through the ice in suburb of
Halifax, n. s., on Saturday night, and the
1t is believed the Treasury Department will
soon issue an order for the uniforming of all
the Custom House employees in the country.
The Oakland, Garrett county, Nd. Herald
states that the Thermometer stood at % de-
grees below zero on Wednesday night, Janu-
ary2.
The Denton Caroline county, Nd, Jail is
now without an occupant, except the new
abarsH L. l,-e
October.
Geo. Mcdonald, charged with horse steal
ing, has been brought on a requisition from
Governor Carroll, from Harrisburg, Pa, to
Hagerstown.
George Lewis, colored, escaped from st.
Mary's county Jail on the LIST instant, and has
not been recaptured. He was in prison on a
charge of larceny.
A severe snow storm prevailed in the Can
adas on Saturday. Il lasted fifteen hours
at Montreal, aud the snow was q foot deep
on the level.
Lieutenant Alexander Rogers of the Fourth
Cavalry, has been detailed by order of the
President, to represent the Army of the Uni
ted States at the Paris Exposition
Mr.. Jennings, the London correspondent
OF the New York World, mentions the rumor
that James Gordon Bennett intends to estab-
lish paper in London to be call the London
Herald
Out Of twenty-four blast furnaces on the
banks of the Susquehanna, between Harris
burg aud Columbia, seven are in blast, three
are getting ready to blow in, and fourteen are
idle, with no immediateassuran of resuming
work.
Henry Ward Beecher has followed the lead
of Canon Farrar in denouncing the doctrine
of eternal punishment. In the estimation Of
these new lights, "hell'' wherever the word
occurs in scriptures is only s'hades," the
grave.
Kiron Carroll, lawyer of Rome, N Y,
aged so, fell dead Saturday, while attending
the funeral of his brother, Hon. George X.
Carroll, who fell dead on Wednesday. Their
father and brother both died suddenly also
One of the largest shoe firms in Boston has
just concluded an arrangement with the Per
uvian Government to furnish So, 900 pairs of
mems shoes. They had previously filed an
order for the same Government for 10000
pairs.
The expenses of the July riots in Pennsyl-
vania are estimated at 500, 600. The pay
of the troops will amount to $4,000 their
subsistence S1lO,0O0,, while the balance will
- III aAEdiCal 5lUECS anu OtuGI
expenses.
Guilford White, lawyer of Suffolk, Mass.
convicted OF receiving two ten thousand dol
lar registered United States bonds, knowing
they had been stolen, was sentenced, on Sat
urday, to Imprisonment in the House of Cor
rection for two years, and the payment of n
fine of $1,000.
A report has reached ST. Louis of n sharn
nnuHsof l..
tween the hunting parties of Cheyenne, Paw
nee and Arapahoe Indians. The cause an
pears to have been trespassing by the Paw
nees on the hunting ground of the Cheyennes
Thirty Cheyennes and twelve Pawnees are
reported killed, but the loss of the Arapahoes
is not stated.
Among the ladies' who received in Washing.
ton on New Years day, was the venerable
widow of Jackson's Secretary of War, Gener
al John Eaton. She wore a miniature in
gold of ''Old Hickory" Mrs. Eaton, whose
name has been identified with much political
history, is still hale, jovial, and bears many
distinct traces of that great beauty for which
she was so much celebrrted.
The number of immigrants who arrived at
New York during December was 3O67, of
whom 1925 were females. Germany sent
9I4, England, 500, ireland 396 and Italy 247.
The total number ofimmigrants arriving dur
ing the three months ending December 81
was 5000, of whom 1854 were females
During the corresponding quarter of 1876,
the total arrivals were Is, 903.
The firm of Hof & Co., whisky dealers, was
established in Cincinnati n short time ago.
They bought about $4,000 worth of whisky
from different distillers, on 30 and 60 DAYS
time, and shipped it to the Southern markets.
On Saturday, Anthony Trampe, a member
OF the firm, was arrested on charge of oh
tanning goods on false pretences. Hot, the
other member, has disappeared.
In the New York board of aldermen res
CLINTON was adopted declaring that greater
benefit could be gained for the city by the
discharge of Vim. NJ. Tweed from imprison-
ment than by his longer detention, and
recommending the attorney general and cor
poration counsel to release him from impris
onment after securing for the city such prop
erty as he now possessed, and after taking
means to secure his testimony as might be
deemed necessary in any suit that might
hereafter be brought by the city.
Commodore Rodgers, of the United Stat es
steamer Adams, furnishes an interesting re-
port from Sandy Point. Straits of Magellan,
of a dreadful mutiny that occurred there on
the 18th of November. 1t commenced at
midnight by the murder of captain of a com.
pany of soldiers by his own men. They lib.
Grated the convicts, opened fire with artillery
on the Governors house and burned it and
about half of the buildings in the settlement.
The Governor was knocked down and left in
sensible, but managed to escape to the woods
with his family. About fifty persons were
murdered, and the mu;ineers left the ruined
settlement with all the plumber they could
carry. Commodore Rodgers arrived at San
dy Point on the 18th ult., and proposed to
remain there until the arrival of reinforce
ments from Valparaiso, when the mutineers
were to be hunted up and brought to Justice.