The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-13

Corn husks are worth SIG per ton in the
Baltimore market
Snow Hill is to have fruit evaporatine
establishment during the summer season.
Inc renting of stalls in the Hagerstown
/ Sl,13S.
i IS reported that Theodore Tilton and his
vile have been reconciled and reunited, but
reports are conflicting.
-. a petrihed Virginia-baeon ham has been
discovered IN frlnee Edward, and forwarded
to the University museum.
Over 100000 American stoves are now dis
tributed over Great Britain and Ireland
They are considered excellent in every respect.
Ex-Congressman Vance, of Ohio, who dis
appeared from Cincinnati a short time ago,
was at the Lick House in San Francisco,
Tuesday, insane.
Dr. Francis Quincy Smith. Emeritus Pro-
fessor of the Institutes of Medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania. died on Satur-
day, aged sixty-one.
Hon. James n. Tyner will sail on Satur-
day. 10Th instant, for Paris, to attend the
International Postal Congress. which is to
meet IN that city on the LIST of May.
On the main street in Duxburv, Mass,
four persons over so years of age, the oldest
being Mrs. Judith Hathaway, aged 90.
Bishop Lay administered the rite of CON
hrmation to class at Wye Mills, Talbot
county, recently, and among the confirmed
was the venerable Judge Carmichael, of
Queen Annes.
The Motif Bell Punch system is not work.
ing well in Virginia. There is a tremendous
falling off IN the revenues for the past month,
and 1t is believed the State is being defrauded
by the liquor dealers.
The General Assembly of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church in the United States will meet in
Pittsburg, Pa, on May 10th. The opening
sermon will be delivered by the Moderator of
last year, the Rev. DIR. James Eells.
Thirty frame houses in the lower section of
Harrisburg, owned by the Lochiel Iron Com
pany, were burned on Saturday evening.
About half of them were unoecupied, and the
loss is not heavy. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
A little girl named Nettie Williams died on
Friday night of last week at her home, on l.
street, near Twentieth street, Washington, D.
c., from the effect of excessive jumping of
the rope in the afternoon. She had ''kept
up eighty times.
L. +. Billiard, late Representative of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, who escaped from
the custody of the sergeant-at- arms at Har-
risburg, while under charges of embezzle-
ment has been arrested at Wyalusing, Brad
ford county, Pa.
The Ohio State Fair will be held at Colum-
bus again this year. Among the prizes offer
ed is one of SIS for the greatest number of
rats killed during 1873, the minimum to be
not less than 10000, and the tails to be on
exhibition at the fair.
The Secretary of War has announced the
release of the Cheyenne and other Indians
imprisoned at st. Augustine, Fla, for several
years past. They will be sent to Fort Sill, in
the Indian Territory. During their impris-
onment three of them-chiefs-ha died.
The Easton, Nd, Star, says Oxford is
growing so fast, its shipyard and marine rail
way are so prosperous, its commerce is so
rapidly extending, and its two hotels are at
! tracing so many visitors from abroad, we
think it about time for the Government to
re-establish the custom house there.
| During the last four months Ceylon has
been visited by succession of floods, which
have caused great destruction of property and
seriously impaired the prospect of the coming
coffee crop. In some districts as much as
80 inches of rain have been registered in 20
days; and from the LIST of November to the
10th of january last, 1870 inches of rain we're
gagged at Laggala.
A large meeting of unemployed working
men was held in Baltimore on the 4th of
April. Addresses were made by State Sena-
tor Joyce, Joseph Thompson, late working
mems candidate for Mayor, and others, advo-
eating municipal improvements in order to
give employment to the unemployed. Reso-
lutions were also adopted asking speedy ac-
| ton by the City Council to this end.
Thirteen frame dwellings in Galveston.
Texas, we're destroyed by fire Tuesday morn
ing. Loss $4,000. A fire at Rockford,
Mich, Tuesday morning, destroyed the rail-
road depot, two hotels, and about twenty
other frame buildings. Loss, $4,000. Eight
stores and dwellings and the office of the
Coos Republican, in Lancaster, n. H., we're
burned Tuesday evening. Loss $4,000.