The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-16
The Col OradO beetle has registered in prus.

The Col orado beetle has registered in Prus.
Prohibition was carried in kent county.
ND, at the late election, by a majority of
There has been great aad rand revival
OF business In Memphis ince the cessation
Of the epidemic.
NJ. Lesseps, of Suez Canal celebrity. est.
mates that the mercantile marine of the en-.
tire world consists of 81 200 vessels.
Ex-Governor Hiland Hall, of Vermont and
his wife celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
their marriage on the 9th ult., at their home
in Bennington.
A London firm has undertaken a contract
with the German Government to raise the
Grosser kurfursi, sunk in the British Chan
mel by her consort, the Kenig Wilhelm, for
the sum of $3.50, 600
George tessler, the embezzling treasurer
OF Starke county, Ohio, was sentenced at
Canton Tuesday, to u years Imprisonment
at hard labor In the Penitentiary, and to pay
fine of $50, 900 and costs
The Washington correspon dent of the
american mentions 4 rumor to the effect that
A. B. Hagner, Esq, of Annapolis is to be
appointed one Of the Justices Of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, in place of
Judge DIN, who has arrived at the age which
allows him to retire.
AT West Chenango, n. Y, on Sunday,
James and David Taber, Brothers, quarrelled
about division of property on a farm which
they jointly occupied and managed with a
third brother. David seized q pitchfork and
stabbed James fifteen or twenty times in the
breast causing death in few minutes The
fratrieide then went into the woods and blew
ont his brains. He leaves a wife and four
children.
On Monday evening last the first train of
the daily fast Oyster Express left Calvert Sta
ton, Baltimore, Nd, for the West, with I3
cars, for Buffalo, Erie, Detroit, Chicago.
Clean, Oil City, Cory, Cleveland, Toledo and
Pittsburg. Allowing 10000 pounds for each
carload, which is fair average, the train
carried away 260, 200 pounds of shueked oys-
tiers. The shocking was principally done at
Annapolis and other places down the Chesa-
peake.
The body of John Peyton, wealthy citizen
OF Roanoke, Ind, who died on the ID inst
was found on Thursday night, by the Chief
OF Police, in the disseciing room of the med
ical college at Fort Wayne. The college fac
ulty said the body was brought there on Mon
day by an unknown man. They refused to
work on subject received in such way, and
notified the Coroner, but he refused 10 act
The body was taken back to Roanoke and re-
inferred on Friday.
Darke county, Ohio, has for several months
been infested with gang of regulators, who
have forced at least ten prominent citizens to
leave for fear of outrage. A young colored
man named White was kidnapped, and his
father was killed because he refused to leave
the country when ordered to do So Seven
OF the regulators who were indicted by the
Grand Jury have been arrested by Marshal
Shater, and there is now prospect Of putting
an end to the reign of outlawry.
An investigation of alleged cruelty to fe-
male inmates of the Central Ohio Lunatic
Asylum is progressing at Columbus. Il is
charged that for several months past, certain
attendants have been in the habit of ''duck-
ing the unfortunate patients under their
care. Ten of the female attendants convict.
ed OF cruelty have been dismissed, and the
Superintendent, who says he has only known
of the cruelties for few days, promises to
dismiss all attendants proved to be guilty of
them.