The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-04-27

Bayard iaylor, our Minister to GERMANY.
and family, landed at Plymouth, England, on (
Monday
Capt Harry Warner, Of Sac1etts Hazber. .
New York, aged l0l years, made an anplica
ton for pension last week.
Colored impositors are abroad in Pennsyl
vania collecting money ostensibly in aid of
the Llberian emigration movement.
Owing to the frequency Of mail robberies
IN Texas the War Department will be re-
quested TO issue arms to the postal employees
in that State.
Last Thursday night week several men en-
gagged IN cutting back levee near the
lower end of Lake Bolivar, Miss, were caught
IN sluice, and four Of them were drowned.
About one hundred employees of the Pha-
nix Iron Works, Phenixville, Pa, have been
discharged, owing to the completion of the
contract from the New York Elevated Rail-
road.
Samuel Steenburg, negro, was hung at
Fonda, y. Y, recently, for the murder of
Jacob S. Parker. He had murdered eleven
victims in all. Fifty women procured tickets
of admission to the execution.
The Cambridge, Nd. Chronicle saws Mr..
BrannOck, of Tobaccostick, who owns the
1900 pound hog, has concluded not to kill
him until next winter, when it is expected TO
weigh 1000 pounds.
Mrs. Jemima jackson, colored. died in
York, Pa, on Friday, leaving official papers
showing her age to have been ia years. She
was born IN Baltimore county, Nd, and man
united by Mr.. Nathaniel Watts, on the 9Th
of July, 1916.
A New York gentleman, it is said, is now
in Delaware prospecting for suitable farm
on which he proposes to raise tea. 1t has
been stated that number of years ago GEM.
inc tea grew wild upon the banks Of the
BrandYwine.
Nine cars of a freight train on the Iron
Mountain Railroad were thrown down an
embankment near Hermatite Station. in Mis-
souri,, Monday. Seven tramps were stealing
ride; four went down with the cars, two
were killed and the others badly bruised.
The London Times says, with reference to
the dealings in American bonds on the Lon
don market, that the selling by English hol-
ders has died away, and, as the Americans
still bid for them, the result is frmer prices.
less actual business and a scarcity of bonds.
Six steamers left New York for Europe on
Saturday, carrying unusually heavy eargoes
OF grain and live stock, includingmany Amer
lean horses. This would seem to indicate
that somebody on the other side is bold
enough to take war risks in advance of any
formal declaration of hostilities between Eu-
ropean powers.
Bishop McCoskrey, of Michigan, against
whom certain seandalous charges have been
made by some of the Western papers. and
who is now in New York, sends to the Asso-
ciated Press the following :-'sI give my un-
qualified denial to the articles which have
appeared in different papers against me.
There lives six miles from Richmond. Va.
Mrs. Martha I. Hopkins, who is only 80
years old, and has just been married to her
sixth husband. She was first married ut 20
years of age; took her second husband when
"A years old; her third husband when % years
old; her fourth husband when 80 years old;
and her fifth husband when 81 years old.
fire in Calais, Me-, Monday morning,
destroyed the International Hotel, two dwell
hngs, and a stable. Loss nearly $40. 900.
The shoe factory of John Carroll, at East
Weymouth, Mass, was DESTROYED bv an in
cendiary fire on Sunday. II is supposed to
have been robbed and then set on FIRE. Loss
$4,000. Its destruction throws ninety per-
sons out Of work.
Two tramps, aged respectivelyabou 20 and
40 years, were killed at Remove, Pa, on
Tuesday night, by the shifting of lumber ON a
freight car on which they were taking a ride.
The elder had said he was bricklsyer from
Philadelphia. In memorandum book found
on the young man were the names Of Erred.
1Onger" and &c. Yonger, Lowell, n. -
written in several places.
Controller, a trotting horse, made in San
Francisco the remarkable speed of twenty
Giiles in IS m. 81 Sec, and came in so fresh.
that officers of the society for preventing
cruelty to animals who were present found
no cause to Interfere. 1t is fair to presume
therefore that he was not Over-driyen The
improvement and development of the Ameri.
can trotting horse goes steadily on, and his
full capacity has not yet been reached.
The leading financial men of New York are
OF opinion that the banks could resume with
entire safety on the LIST day Of May, Just as
well as on the lst of January next, and il Is
by no means certain that they viii not do SO.
In that case, it IS thought the effect upon all
the material interests of the country could
hardly fail to be highly favorable. Nothing
would so directly tend to the restoration OF
confidence, the only thing that is really need.
ed to put the country once more ION its legs
The Chinese government is maintaining in
the city of Hartford, Conn.,, at an annual ex.
pense of 100000, school where more than
a hundred Chinese boys are going through an
educational course that is TO last fifteen wears.
The school was founded by Yung Wing. who
had the good fortune to be brought to this
country to get an education, and who con.
celved, at seventeen, the plan of the school.
which It took him twenty years to carry into
effect; 1ung Wing is now a mandarin of
high degree, and the school he has founded
VIII, IN lew years, send back across the
Pacific hundred young men who, in China.
will be statesmen and philosophers.
Reliable information has been received in
San Antonio, Texas, from the Mexican Dor.
der States to the effect that ian instruction
against the Diaz Government is steadily but
surely ripening." The Leriists are again
active, and are urging the Mexican Indians
to renew their raids into Texas, so as TO bring
6acA the unsettled condition of things on the
Rio Grande. In this connection Il is stated
that large body of Indians from Mexico are
raiding on the Fort Ewel settlements. that
they have plundered many ranches, and killed !
several persons. Troops and citizens are in
pursuit OF the invading savages, but they are
likely TO escape across the Rio Grande. which
is fordable at all points near Laredo.