The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-05-18
Ale brewed in Philadelphia is now sold in

Ale brewed in Philadelphia is now sold in
London.
The Schuylkill coal mines will suspend
/ operations for two weeks, commencing from
to-day.
\ complete mint for the Government of
/ Honduras was shipped from New York Sat
urday.
/ Black bass have been taken in the 0ctorara
creek, Cecil county, Md. The Oetorara is a
/ tributary of the Susquehanna-
During the month of April there we're 1888
I post-ofhces established, changed. and discon-
tinued throughout the country.
/ The San Jose, Cal, Herald says not less
than ten thousand orange trees have been
/ planted in that vicinity this spring.
/ A man in Pensacola, Fla, has an orange
tree thirty-four years old, which has bloomed
| the present season for the frsi time.
A dispatah from Harrisonburg, Va, on
/ Wednesday, said that the mountains we're
covered with snow, and the weather very cold.
The Partisan Gas Company made S., sos,
600 last year. After handingSl $40, 600 over
to the city, it declared dividend of 24I per
cent.
There are pa pupils at the Atlanta, Ga,
| University tcolored) of all grades OF the
Africa.
| The town of Qua, in Venezuela. has been
visited by an earthquake, killing six hundred
| persons. The drought in Demerara has
caused loss of three million dollars.
One hundred and twenty seven colored
persons were immersed in the Potomac river
at Washington on Sunday, by Rev. j. H
Brooks, of the Fifth Colored Baptist Church.
At Chambersburg, Pa, on Tuesday an
application for new trial Of the case of Kile
Shater, convicted of the murder of his wife,
was refused, and he was sentenced TO be
hanged.
1t showed vigorously at Frostburg, Nd,
Tuesday morning. but did not remain on the
ground for any length of time Snow was
also reported in the mountains around Deer
Park, Oakland, Cranberrya and other localities
in Garrett county.
The Syndicate on Tuesday took ten mil
lions additional of the U. S. Four and-a- half
per cent bonds. This makes thetotal amount
taken by them since the Ilth of April thirty
i've millions, and leaves only fifteen millions
untaken under their contract.
Norway has some curious exhibits at the
Paris Exhibition, She has fish skins tanned
for gloves; eel skins prepared for harness;
shark skins, 10 feet long and feet wide, for
various purposes ana Wnaie skins, 90 feet
long, for driving bands for machinery
The 18th annual Convention of the Ameri.
can Railway Master Mechanics Association
met in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday
About fifty delegates, from various parts of
the Union, were present, and n. E. Chap
man, of Cleveland, Ohio, the President, oc-
cupied the chair. He made brief address.
in which he condemned the labor riots of last
summer, and attributed them chiefly to the
presence of the tramp element.
In the Criminal Court, Baltimore, on We'd
nesday, VIM. Owens was convicted of an at
tempt to blackmail young lady named
Lizzie Simpson, by writing her a letter threat
ening to ruin her character, for the purpose
of extorting from her SIS. She was directed
TO send reply, with money, to Walter Sayille
Her father placed the letter in the hands of
the police, who detected and arrested Owens,
who was sentenced to confinement for one
year in Jail.
The bark Sonora arrived at San Francisco
on Sunday, with the second mate and six
sailors of the wrecked ship p. r. Hazletine
They were picked up in the Straits of Lee
MARIE on the 4th of March, after having sub
sisted on mussels for fourteen DAYS. In their
wanderings after leaving the wreck, they
discovered cave containing fragments of
boat, oars, some clothing, and skeletons of
boats crew, but nothing by which the re-
mains could be identified.