The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-06-29


Eastern Shore.
The Schuylkill and Delaware catfish have
heads.
By the recent strike the Lancashire mIil'
owners saved over SIS, 900, 900 in wages.
Co-education of the sexes holds sway in 81
colleges and universities in the United States.
Four young men were drowned by the cap
sizing of boat in Chester Basin, n. D, on
Sunday evening.
Col. Edwin II. Webster, of Bel Air, has
pure bred Jersey COW that yields fourteen
pounds of butter week.
Clearspring, Smithsburg and Spencer Post
Offices in Maryland ON Monday next will be
added to the money order offices.
Levin Hardy, very respectable citizen OF
South River, Anne Arundel county, died re-
Gently from eating diseased lamb.
Blue fish are now very plentiful off the
coast, and parties are making good catches
They run from five to ten pounds.
The gold premium is still quoted at 1909,
but the tendency is to lower rate. Govern
ment bonds continue strong and active.
A couple of young gentlemen secured nine
fine bass in Lake Roland on Thursday. The
aggregate weight of the fishes was 81 pounds
Letters received in New York state chat
General Grant will spend next winter in Eu-
rope, and in the spring return home by way
of India.
John Finn, James Shea, Hattie Sands and
Mary WEIGH, of Oswego, N. Y, were drown
ed at Pleasant Point, Lake Ontario, Tuesday.
They were on church excursion.
The peaches are still falling from the trees
on the peninsula, and instead of four millions
of baskets, as the aggregate of the crop, it is
II fhara xxiIl nf ho ON million
A sturgeon, weighing 100 pounds, was
killed one day last week by the propelllng
wheel of the steamer W. d. Morton, running
between Vienna and Seaford on the Nanti-
coke.
The Journal expresses the fear that the
peach growers of Calvert county will have
but few if any peaches to ship to Baltimore,
except a light supply from the earliest
varieties.
The wheat crop in Kentucky is being har-
vested very rapidly The farmers report the
grain as very fine, and the yield as fifty per
cent. over ordinary years, is from 30 to 40
bushels per acre.
The Pomeroy Iron Company, V. B. Horn
ton, President, of Pomeroy, Ohio, have made
an assignment. Liabilities estimated at $780,
900; assets, the rolling mill, real estate and
outstanding accounts.
The shipment of hay from Hartford county
to Southern ports continues. Since the first
of last May Messrs. Barnes & Archer, of
Lapidum, on the Susquehanna, have shipped
500 tons, principally to Richmond.
The Shenandoah Valley Bank, at Shenan-
doah, Pa, has suspended business in conse-
quence of the withdrawal of deposits and diff
Gculty of collecting assets, but it is believed
to be entirely solvent, or at least the direc-
tors say so.
Nearly all the business portion of London,
in Cedar county, Iowa, was destroyed by fire
on Monday. Loss, about $4,000. The
principal business portion of Fairbault, MINI.
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning.
Loss 100000.
Daniel Wright, the largest landowner in
the Lower Shenandoah valley, died at his
residence, in Berkeley county, West Virginia,
on Monday, in his seventy-eighth year. He
owned fifteen valuable farms, and his estate
is valued at over 100000.
Frank Perrine, colored, was hung near Sa-
vanah, Ca, on Wednesday, for the murder
of. F. Lee, a white farmer, in April last
The execution took place near the spot where
the murder was perpetrated. Five thousand
persons were present. The murderer con-
fessed the deed.
Mrs. E. E. Wood, while insane from the
effect of measles, on Tuesday, at Masthope,
Wayne county, Pa, threw powder can into
the stove, causing an explosion, which burned
her terribly, and damaged the house. In her
frenzy she tore the burnt flesh from her arms
and body, and death ended all in few hours.
Patrick Collins, Commissioner of Schuyl-
kill county, Pa, recently convicted of forging
names of sureties to his bond, when appoin-
H-l1 e.. DoI
ced at Pottsville Tuesday to pay fine of one
dergo six months Imprisonment in the county
Jail.
Far removed as she is, by her royal sta
ton and her distant home, from the women
of this country, their hearts will go out in
sympathy to the young Queer, of Spain, Mer-
cedes, who is brought to her death bed, while
yet but eighteen years old and the bride of
but FIVE months, The Queen died at Madrid
on Wednesday morning.
The health of Prince Gortschakoff is so ut
terly broken that his functions as Prime
Minister will probably cease after the Berlin
Conference. It will be an easy matter to
name his successor but no man in Russia will
fill his place. He has long been the brains
of the Empire. Count Schovaloff is the only
diplomat in the realm worthy to succeed him
and upon him the robes will probably descend.
Seabirds on the British coast do great
damage to the rabbit warrens, as they kill off
hundreds of the rabbits. On Skerner Island
it is estimated 1000 rabbits a year are de-
stroyed by the birds, since the Seabirds' Pro-
teetive Act was passed in 1870. As rabbit
is worth at least 25 cents, the cost to the
owner of the island is 81 900 per annum,
while the public, to whom the rabbits are
sold, lose 81 tons Of meat.
A grand festival will take place at Paris on
Sunday in honor of the Exposition. The
main feature is to be monster orchestral
and choral fete in the gardens of the Tuileries,
special fireworks, grand torchlight process
sion, with electric lights and fambeaus and
fireworks throughout the Bots de Boulogne
and Champs Elysees to the Tuilsries. On
the lakes in the Bots de Boulogne there will
be one hundred illuminated boats, with bands
playing at different points and displays of
pyrotechnics.
Bishop, the Englishman, who has been sem
tenoed to Imprisonment for bribing officials
in Germany to obtain plans of the fortresses,
proves to be an old offender. In 1864 he was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment for TAX
ing part in a conspiracy IN favor OF the ex-
King of Naples, and in 1877 he corrupted a
Prussian Sergeant at Metz in order to obtain
information relative to the mobilization of
the Royal Engineers. He is staunch u
tramontane, and an enemy of Prince Bis
marck, of Prussia and Germany.
The various steamboats, whose routes take
them to landings in Lower Maryland and
Virginia are now bringing to Baltimore large
numbers of blackberries and whortleberries.
The Helen of the Eastern Shore line brought
on Wednesday 400 packages from Accomac
and Northampton counties, Va; the Havana
1000 packages from along the York and
James rivers; the Kent, of the Maryland
Steamboat Company, 1920 packages from
the Choptank river, and the Mary Washington
800 packages from the Rappahannock river.
Rnsinass Locals.