The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-20

Thomas Mast, the artist, has gone 10 Eu-
rope.
Speaker Randall owns 300. 600 0acres Of
land in West Virginia.
Baltimore city consumes three hundred
thousand tons of ice annually.
Mr.. Henry, Of Lancaster. Pa. has had
his leg broken seventeen times.
President Hayes has engaged anartments
at Cape May for brief stay early in August.
+. W: Bruno, prominent LAWYER of Balti-
more, died on Wednesday morning. in the
seth year of his age -
The coin balance in the Treasury is stead
lily increasing, and at the close OF business
Tuesday was S2O6, SAC, 600.
Secretary Schurz has DISCHARGED the widow
Oliver OF Cameronian notoriety from a clerk
ship in the Interior Department.
The Robinson Wagon Company of Cincin-
natl mas made an assignment. Its assets are
estimated at S6I 200; liabilities not stated.
John Gibson tramp, has been arrested in
New Market district, Fredriek county. Md. for
an outrageous assault on little girl, only ten
years old named Nettie Repper.
The levy for county purposes this year. in
Kent county, Nd, is eighty cents against
ninety-eight cents last year. The total tax
for State and county is 9S5 cents.
Five tons Of fish we're shipped from Crisfield.
Nd, on Thursday morning of last week.
They were caught in pounds, and were com
posed of taylors, sheep-heads, mackerel, &c.
During June there arrived at New York
9506 immigrants, of whom 4l57 were females.
The total immigration to New York for the
three months ending June 80, was go. .24S.
against 1908 during the corresponding pc
riod of 1877.
Robert Donovan, aged u, an excursionist
| from Lnwood, Pa, was killed Tuesday morn.
ing by being knocked off the platform of a
Philadelphia, Wilmington and baltimore Rail-
road car at the Gunpowder River Bridge.
He was .'skylarkingi with other youths when
the accident occurred.
The dead body of an unknown man was
found Heating IN the water outside the bath
house at Ferry Bar Baltimore, Tuesday morn
ing. 1t is supposed, from papers found
among his Effects, that he was c. Rinehart,
agent for the German Catholic paper, Wahr-
heitsfre'usd, published in Cincinnati
| One farmer in Washington county, Md.
lost fifty-two hogs last week from new dis
ease. The hogs would be attacked almost
instantly, in some instances with food in their
mouths and after running around a few times
in circle weuld fall dead, while the blood
run from their mouths in copious streams.
In the U. S. District Court, at Trenton. N.
j., Tuesday, Charles f. Fredricks, indicted
for robbing the mail at Newark, was held in
$1,000 bail for trial in September next Mrs.
Clara w. Warner, indicted with Lewis C..
New, post Office clerk, at Elizabeth, for con
spiracy to rob the mail and stealing letters,
gave bail in $500 for their appearance in
September.
A majority of the lawyers OF Salt Lake City
have signed a petition to the President for the
removal of Chief Justice Shaeffer, Of Utah.
/ They charge him with ignorance and disre-
gard of law and precedent-even of his own
previous rulings; aud allege also that the
/ Clerk Of the Court, his brother-in- law and his
son are managing the Clerks Office in such a
way as to bring the court into contempt.
/ During the past few days tramps driven
out of Iowa have caused much trouble in
/ BelOit, Wis, Ont the 18th instant twenty
I five Of them were arrested and lodged in Jail,
but Immediately escaped and crossed the line
into Illinois to spot where nearly 200 other
tramps were congregated. They swore ven
geanee on the people Of Beloit, and threat
ened to burn the city.