The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-06

Dinah Lee, near Elkton, Nd, died on
Saturday last aged 102 years.
DIR. Schlemm, of Reading, has an Easter
egg dyed by his mother 80 years ago.
A Morristown, n. J., hen has achieved
fame by Matching three headed chicken.
The farmers of Salem county, n. ]. have
! this season been pasturing off their wheat.
/ The Erie and Oswego Canals, in New York,
1 viii be opened for navigation on the 18th
instant.
An artificial ice factory is about to be start
ed at Richmond, Va. by party of New York
gentlemen.
Lancaster and York counties, Pa, are suf-
ering from incendiaries, who are destroying
/ the barns of the farmers.
/ At Dauphin, Pa, a six-year-old boy was
killed by being struck on the temple by a
base ball during game.
Fifty eolored recruits have been ordered to
San Antonio, Texas, for assignment TO the
Twenty -fourth Infantry.
! Brick Pomeroy announces that he has cut
loose from the National party, but the Nation
al party doesn't seem to mind it at all.
A poor woman in Danville, ILL.,. while
splitting kindling wood, killed her little three
year-old child by an accidental blow of the axe
Sunday is .be busiest day of the week with
New York photographers. A photographer
IN Eighth avenue took 476 pictures last Sun
day.
Mrs. Woodruff and her sister, Tennie C.
Clafin, will reside permanently Ia England.
They leave their country for their country's
good.
Maine is getting up a reputation for easy
divorces which will soon put it ahead of Indi-
ana There were 400 in 1874 and 500 in
1877.
The annual convention of the delegates
from the Sunday Schools of the United States
and Canada, will be held at Atlanta, Georgia.
on the 18th of April
One hundred dozen chickens, consigned
to +. VI. Savage & CO., were drowned at
Cattlesburg, Ky, on Monday, by the sinking
of a push-boat. Loss about $3.50.
Arrangementshave been perfected by which
Ten Brock and the California mare Mollie
Mccarthy, are to run four-mile heats at Louis
vile July 4th next, for the sum of $4,000.
Seven steamers from the seal fishery arri-
we'd at st. John, n. F., on Sunday, with 81
600 seals. The sailing vessels engaged in
the fishery have not arrived, and the pros
poets are considered ''middling."
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, which
extends from Richmond, Va, to Huntington,
West Virginia, was sold on Tuesday by auc-
ton at Richmond for S2,T5O,OOO. The pur-
chase was made by. parties representing the
stockholders.
The Stewart Hotel for women, on Fourth
avenue, New York, founded by the late A.
/. Stewart, was formally opened on Tuesday
night. 1t was inspected by about 10000 Wis
itors, including prominent citizens of New
York and other places.
A great deal of land is row changing hands
in Chesterfield county, Va. Many Northern
men with their families have recently taken
up their abode in the neighborhood of the
Courthouse, and the population of the coun-
try is rapidly increasing.
The Williams & Guion Steamship Line has
constructing on the Clyde steamship to run
between New York aud Liverpool which will
be the largest steamer, with the exception of
the Great Eastern, in the world. She will
be completed in about year.
Two hundred weavers working on fancy
goods, in the Chase Mill, at Fall River, Mass.
quilted work Monday, saying that the reduc-
ton, which took place then, should apply
only to print cloths, not fancy goods. The
rest of the operatives continued to work
mond and Danville Railroad has brought suit
at Charlotte, n. c., for $4,000 damages for
the loss of his voice on account of exposure
to cold, through negligence of the railroad
company tokeep his mail carproperly heated.
Richard White, aged years, while spread
ing manure from horse cart on the farm of
Artemus Donaldson, Howard county, Nd,
on Tuesday last, was impaled on the pitch
fork by the horse suddenly starting and throw
ing him from the cart. His death is certain
The Navy Department has been informed
by the commanding officer of the South Paci-
nc Station, that American merchantmen are
engaged IN the transportation of coolies from
China. 1t is probable that instructions will
soon be issued for the seizure of such vessels.
in accordance with the laws.
telegram from Montreal reports the de-
mand for horses for the English Government
to he-eH the increase. Several car loads OF
horses pass daily over the Grand Trunk Rail-
way, destined for Europe. Large shipments
of cattle for the British Government are also
being made from the lower provinces.
An Ohio court has granted a man s petition
Tor divorce from his wife on the ground of
OF her habitual drunkenness, the intoxication
arising from the excessive use of morphine
The court held that it makes no difference in
law whether the intoxication proceeds from
the use of strong drink or from narcotics.
At Mier, on the Rio Grande, the Mexican
authorities, on requisition, recently return
ed herd of stolen cattle to the Texan own
ers, and took steps to punish the thieves
As this Is the first instance of the kind report
ed, our State Department regards it as an
evidence of an improved condition of affairs
on the Rio Grande.
Gen. b. f. Butler addresses letter to the
Boston Herald, stating that he favors the
stopping of the funding of the public debt in
order to meet the expected defcitof $50. 0O0,-
600 IN government revenues, and he is sur
prised that New England and New York
Congressman, by opposing this proposition,
apparently invite the imposition Of the in
come tax.
Land in the heart of the city of London
sells at high prices. The London Times SAYS
that the corner plot of freehold land situate
IN Waiting street and Bread street, being
part of the site of the late Church of Ali.
hallows, and containing a ground area of
S,2IO superficial feet, was recently sold at
auction, after spirited bidding, for Sl63, 500
or at the rate of $50 per square foot.
Two rattlesnakes over six feet in length
were taken to the New American museum.
New York, recently. One of them has ant
lers or horns growing from the head. The
snakes were captured by a mountaineer in
Mcdowell county, n c. He saws that the
horned snake made its home in den of over
800 snakes. II was seen for years before it
was shared. 1t is very active, and has nine
perfect rattles. Its mate has ten.