The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-02-02
Items Of News.


sion OF our territory by Sitting Bull, between
this country and Canada. Sitting Bull went
TO British soil as 4 refuge from our arms.
The friendly relations between the two coun-
tries forbade our troops to cross the border in
pursuit Sitting Bull receives a tract ofland
from Canada, and settles there under protec-
ton OF Canadian laws, and becomes what he
was not on this side of the border citizen.
NOW II Canadian citizen, at the head of a
large army, invades the United States, we
have just cause of grievance If he can go
there after defeat, and recruit and reeonin
and return to fight he makes Canada respon-
sIble. Canada should either keen him out of
Its territory or else keep him out of ours.
A report is published by the Galveston
Neics that nifty Mexicans, under Salinas. n
Lerdist partisan, made a raid into the State
OF Iamanlipas, from Texas, on the 23d ult..
attacked three towns, and made the principal
inhabitants pay $4,000 for their release. Cav
airy was sent IN pursuit of the raiders, when
they scattered, and twenty of them re-entered
Texas, near Laredo, on Monday night.
Frank Lynch was arrested while about to
commit suicide, on the Fort Wayne Railroad
bridge over the Allegheny river at Pittsburp,
on Monday night. When taken to the station
he confessed that he murdered his little son,
two and half years old, BY throwing him
into the river on the night of December 10Th.
The New York Sun of Wednesday saws:
There was substantial agreement on the
part OF the four railroad magnates-Vander-
bilt, Scott, Garrett and jew ett-yesterday IN
raise the freight rate between Boston and the
West, while leaving that between New York
and the West undisturbed''
A Deputy Z. S. Marshal, and posse. ar
rested three men near Atlanta, Ga. on Sun
day morning. Soon after they were attacked
by four unknown men, and two volleys were
fired. After wounding a colored member Of
the posse and shooting down two horses. the
ruiiians fed.
New York city with her mountain Of debt.
and with the legal rate of interest at seven
per cent, asked for loan of Sl43, 900 a few
days ago at five per cent, aud had offers TO
nearly twice the amount. Thus that CITY
carries her new debt at two per cent below
the legal rate.
The winter of 1s29-30 surpassed the pres
ent onein mildness. Farmers ploughed every
month OF the season, and snow did not fall
until February =. 1t was followed, how
ever, by cold, backward spring, with snow
storm in May which killed the returning swal-
lows.
A four-year-old son of Frederick Grotz. of
York, Pa, got up in his sleep in second /
story room, knocked out an s by 10 pane of 4
glass, crept through the aperture and fell to 4
the yard below. He was there picked IN, /
and, save few bruises, was unhurt.
The United States vessels Wyoming, SUP. 4
ply and Constitution, that are to carry the 4
American contributions to the Paris Expo.
sition, are to be supplied with the ''Protec.
tive FIRE Annihilator, in order to protect
their eargoes from fire during the voyage.
A company has been formed for the con.
struetiOn of a tunnel under Detroit river for
the purpose of connecting the Canadian and 1
American shores to Detroit. Il is intended
to commence operations as soon as Congress
giants the requisite permission.
Jefferson's great granddaughter, Miss Es-
Their Alice Merkleham, is a $1,000 clerk in
the Interior Department. She writes occa.
sionally for the papers and is the author of /
the little Sunday-schoo book entitled Lost
Pearls
A new industry is said to be extending in /
Paris II consists in the manufacture of a
cloth, much lighter and warmer than wool, +
from the feathers of domestic and other birds. /
The material is waterproof and takes dye
readily.
There are thirteen people over eighty-fve
years of age living in Carroll county, Ky.
Among them is William Dement,, aged ninety
two years, who was the first child born where
the city of Louisville now stands.
A Committee Of the Women's National
Christian Temperance Union arrived in Wash
ington on Tuesday with prohibitory petition
signed by more than 10000 persons residing
in % States.
The works OF Professor Mowbray, at North
Adams, Mass, we're shattered by an explo-
sion of nitro-glycerine Tuesday morning,
and an employee, named Wilson, was blown
to atoms.
Nearly six million cigars we're made at
Wrightsville, York county, Pa, last wear.
The amount paid by the manufacturers of
these cigars for stamps alone was S35, 1856. 60.
A reduction Of the force in the Philadelphia
Custom House took effect on the first OF Feb
ruary. Ten officers were dismissed, and the
reduction in saiar les will be Sl3,197.
A telegram from Boston says the shoe
manufacturers Of Lynn are filling up their
shops with new men, and many of the
Crispins are going back to work.
A boy of fifteen and girl fourteen were
married, with the approval Of their parents,
in Russeilville, Ky. Then they were sent of
to separate schools for three years.
A Boston shoe firm is negotiating for a
number of the prisoners at Jacksonville,
Indiana, penitentiary, with a view of estab-
fishing shoe factory in the prison.
The gold yield OF Georgia is now half a
million dollars year, and the Atlanta Con-
sfitUtioH thinks it may be carried to that
amount for a month.
The cartridge company at Bridgeport,
Conn, is at work on its Turkish order with
nearly or quite full force.
Seth Green has shipped from Rochester,
y. Y. 5000 California salmon to stock the
inlet at Ithaca.
Fifteen per cent. Of the pupils in the Hart
ford, Conn, schools are near sighted.