The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-03-23

A bill has been introduced in the Pennsvl.
Vania House making cremation crime.
Tennessee's illicit distillers are reported n
be preparing for a battle with the revenue
officials.
Henry Disston, the great saw manufacture,
OF Philadelphia, died of paralysis OH SATURDAY.
evening last
Captain Grape will shorten his dorv sig
feet and cross the Atlantic again if somebody
will guarantee him 5000.
Mr.. Samuel W. Small (soId Sly Of the
atlanta Constitution, will go to- Paris as J
member of Commissioner McCOrmick's staff.
DR.. Edward Tallman, convicted of malprae-
tlee, was sentenced at Poughkee psie, on Sat
urday, to four years Imprisonment at Sing
Sing.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor, the new minister TO
Germany, his daughter and ssMark Twain
and family will sail for Europe on the 18th
prox.
Mining has been resumed by the principal
companies in the coal regions. Ifthey conld
only resume the old prices they would be
happy.
Lynchburg, Va, has nearly one hundred
tobacco factories IN operation, giving not less
than 5000 persons constant and lucrative
employment
A eolored man, AIMED Taylor, detected in
attempting to commit felonious assault upon
a little girl, at Pilot Grove, Mo-, on Sunday.
was shot dead.
The manufacturers of Fall River. Mass.
voted on Saturday 10 reduce the wages Of
their operatives Is per cent, commencing on
the LIST of April.
Michael La Rose, "a notorious burglar. -
was shot and seriously wounded while trying
70 break into house at Charlesburg, near
quebec, early on Saturday morning
The wool hat mandatory of Bollman.
Hendei Z Co., at Adamstown, Pa, was burn
ed on Saturday. Loss $4,000 Over 100
men are thrown out of employment by this
fire.
Our exports of animal products during
kebruary-baeon and hams, pork, picked
and fresh beef, lard, tallow, butter and
cheese-were valned in the aggregate, at
1866, 2ls.
The announcement is made that Mr. Charles
Stowe, son OF Harriet Beecher Stowe, is to
marry next May Miss Laura Pratt, daugh.
ter of the Collector of Newport, r. !.
The Secretary of the Treasury last week
purchased enough silver bullion to run the
mlnts about FIVE weeks. 1t is said the price
paid for the bullion is less than was expected
by the sellers.
Ihlrty-three fremen were discharged from
the Chicago fire department, recently, and
elghty-tive policemen. Reductions in other
departments will continue until the expendi-
lures come within the resources.
There are now seventy-two postmistresses
IN the United States, one of whom, Miss
Nina Hodges, in the Des MONIES postofice.
IS said to have handled and paid out four
million dollars and not a cent has fallen short
The run on the Savings Banks in Boston
continued on Saturday. During FRIDAY and
Saturday the Five Cent Savings Bank paid
out $3.50, 900, the Provident Savings Institu-
about Sl60, 200, and the Suffolk Bank ST.
600. The Franklin Bank enforced the sixty
days rule.
Hayt manages to keep pace with st. Do
mingo in the revolution business. The arse
nal and fort in Port au Prince are now in the
hands OF the insurgents, and are being bonn
barded by the navy, which remains loyal
to the government, if there is anything there
worth the name.
Dates from Rio Janiero to the odd of Feb
ruary state that the yellow fever was duIte
severe there, fatalities among the shipping
reaching twenty-five to thirty daily. Sirin-
gent quarantine regulations are being enfor-
ced. Other fevers prevail in the city, where
the mortality averages fifty daily.
Major Robert P. Archer, an Honorary
Commissioner from Virginia to the Paris
Exposition, died suddenly in Richmond, on
Monday, at the age of so. He exhibited a
process of manufacturing tobacco at the
Centennial Exhibition, and was perfecting
arrangements to exhibit the same process in
Paris.
A Connecticut Yankee named Ritchel, is
81 Il L..
comotion. he uses a cylindrical balloon that
is propelled by fans that make $500 revolu-
tons a minute, and in a closed room the
machine seems to work. How il would an
swer in an adverse gale, is a very different
matter.
st. Patrick's Day parades took place on
Monday in Philadelphia, New York, Wash
ington, San Francisco, Richmond, Va, Al
bany, Quebec, and various other cities. In
Washington, the parade was unusually fine,
and included two societies from Baltimore
In passing the White House the procession
was reviewed by the President and Secretary
Schurz.
On Saturday, City Treasurer Kilgore, of
Pittsburg, secured brass band, seated the
members in huge wagon, and had the We
hicle conveyed through the streets by a team
of six horses. The wagon was decorated
with flags and banners, and on the sides was
printed the announcement, "Pay your taxes
before the LIST of April if you desire to save
10 per cent"
A meeting of Cubans opposed to surrender
to the Spanish Government was held in New
York on Saturday. President Juan Arnao
presided, and General Cespedes, Senior Aguil-
era and others made addresses urging the
continuance of the struggle in Cuba, and sug-
costing the fitting out of an expedition for
that island. A committee Of fifteen was ap-
pointed TO select a revolutionary committee
Of FIVE to look after the Cuban interest.
The Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday
rendered decision in the appeal case of
| Thomas G. Anderson for new trial, setting
aside the verdict of the inferior court on the
ground that the returns of Vernon parish
were not susceptible of forgery, and ordering
his discharge. This ends the prosecution Of
members Of the Returning Board. The Su.
preme Court ordered the release of Ander.
son, but this has not been obeyed, the State
having FIVE days to ask for a rehearing.
Joseph Lapage, the murderer of Josie
Langmaid, young school girl, was hanged
at Concord, n. H., on the 18th. He con
fessed the deed, and also to the murder of
Miss Ball, q school teacher. Gus johnson,
the murderer of colored ferryman, was
cution was public, and a large crowd was
present. Johnson showed no sign of fear,
and assembled the scaffold with a cigar in his
mouth. He confessed to four murders He
died in seventeen minutes of strangulation.
A singular affair recently occurred at Mad.
ison, Ind. A lot of little colored boys were
playing court, and sentenced one of their
number to be hung. He was accordingly
strung up by his heels to door knob and
left there, while one of the executioners went
down stairs and told his mother of the affair.
She went up stairs and found the boy in
terrible condition, with blood gushing from
his nose and mouth. He had lost his eve
sight, and on the next day he died.
William Hayward and Daniel DIVER. con-
victs in the Massachusetts Penitentiary, at
Boston, broke from the guards Sunday morn
ing, while passing through the yard ran to
the third story of the workshop, and fastened
the door behind them. They then ran along
a plank projecting from a window The
inner end Of this plank being fastened under
steam pipe it formed a spring board. From
this Hayward lsaped up over the wall and
aEighted safely on tha ground outside. Dwy-
er missed his footing and fell to the ground,
breaking leg and receiving other injuries.
Hayward was subsequently recaptured in
Somerville.
The steamers for Europe from New York,
on Saturday last, were six in number, all
with full cargoes. In some instances the