The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-26

city, has been appointed Surveyor of the
Port of Baltimore, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the expiration of Col. Gilpins
commission.
At meeting of prominent tobacco dealers
in Baltimore, on Tuesday, resolutions were
adopted opposing any change in the tobacco
tax or agitation of the question as injurious
70 trade.
At Newmarket, n. H., on Friday last,
John II. Robinson, being on his death bed,
confessed that he murdered a young man
named Jewell, in Gambia, n. H., about TWEEN
| ty years ago.
Ex-Governor Washburne has given his
residence and grounds, situated at Madison,
Wis valued at $4,000 to the State, for the
establishment Of an industrial reformatory
school for girls.
A telegram from Puebla, Col, reports the
discovery, near that city, on the 18th, of
mining lode, ''the ore from which assays the
enormous sum of Sl2, 600 in gold and S1l00
in silver per ton"
John w. Stout, one Of the largest dealers
in canned goods in New York, has gone into
voluntary bankruptcy. He has two factories,
and employed 400 hands in the busy season.
Liabilities $50, 00O
Two English steamships, the Antonio, Cap
tain Anderson, from Bristol, and the Poly
nesian, Captain Brown, from Liverpool, have
arrived in Baltimore, to load with grain for
the European market.
| Captain Thomas Grape and his wife, who
made the trip across the Atlantic from New
Bedford, last summer, in the open sailboat
Red, White and Blue, arrived in New York
from Europe on Saturday.
! Tabitha Anna Holton, of jamestown, has
been admitted to the bar of North Carolina
after very successful examination. She is
the FIRST woman lawyer of that State, and is
the daughter of a clergyman.
A rumor has reached Portland, Oregon,
that the Indians under Chief Moses have
gone upon the war path, and murdered sever
al families. General Howard has been una
bic to obtain any confirmation of the report.
About 500 Union taiors struck Monday in
Chicago for an increase of % to 40 per cent.
in their wages. Most of them are employed
by wholesale stores. Their employers say
the strike is not likely to be serious sin ex-
tent or effect"
At an early hour on Sunday morning, the
watch and iewelry establishment of Mr.. S. |.
Rodberg, No. 100 West Baltimore street,
Baltimore, was entered by burglars, and an
iron safe broken open and robbed of jewelry
and watches estimated to be worth from
$4,000 TO $50, 900.
Four thousand unemployed workingmen
were addressed on Boston Common Saturday
by Messrs. Chamberlain and Abbott, and an
appeal to the mayor adopted. The mayor
replied that he had no authority to offer them
work, but the city council would do what it
could for them.
The oystermen of Baltimore city have held
two indignation meetings to denounce the
shooting of Capt. Andrew Conroy, one of
their number, by Capt. Lemuel Mitchell of
the oyster pol ice force, and to raise funds to
prosecute Mi tchell in case of Conroy death.
At Reading, Pa, Tuesday, Jacob and John
HGntzinger, lately President and Cashier of
the defunct Miners Trust Company of Potts
vile, were sentenced each to two years soil
tary confinement and the payment of a fine of
$500; also to refund to Thomas Kerns, the
prosecutor, 81, 1000, with costs.
Jacob Brown, an old man 73 years of age,
resident of Martinsville, n. j., attended
service at the Methodist church in that place
last Sunday morning. After the sermon Mr.
Brown was requested to lead in prayer He
made an earnest prayer, and as he uttered The
word "Amen ~ he fell dead of heart disease.
Capt. John Fl. Barrett, of the oyster
schooner Sallie Solomon, was arrested in Bal
timore on Sunday by Detective Hagan, on the
oath of Capt. r. B. Clemens, commander of
the State oyster police sloop in Kent county
waters, charged with firing into the police
sloOp and dredging for oysters in forbidden
waters and having false numbers on his vessel.
Argument was heard by the House Com
mittee on Territories Tuesday in support of
the Utah Election bill, which provides for
secret ballot in Utah. Under the present law
in that Territory marked ballot is prescrib-
| ed, and this renders easy system of espion-
I hv svhfn he sc IL
held in complete subjugation to the Mormon
priesthood.
Notice having been published in San Fran
cisco that unemployed workingmen would be
given work on the Central Pacific Railroad
Company's property at Mission Bay, at 81
per day, several hundred men assembled
there early Monday morning. Three hundred
and thirty OF them were set to work, and it is
expected to increase the number employed to
one thousand in few days.
On Saturday last little SON of Martin
Hoke, living near Mt. Pleasant Frederick
county, lost his life in horrible and sudden
manner. lie had gotten upon a wagon, had
taken seat aud firm hold, but by sudden
jolt was thrown off, falling under the wheels.
One of the wheels of the cumbersome wagon
passed over his head, crushing his skull in
horrible manner, and killing him instantly.
The requiem mass for the repose of King
Victor Emmanuel, celebrated in the Jesuit
Church of St. Aloysius in Washington, on
Tuesday morning, was attended by a distin-
guished congregation, Among those present
were President Hayes and members of the
Cabinet members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Justices of the L. S. Courts, Senators and
Representatives in Congress, and the Gener.
al Of the Army.
Captain A. h. Long Commissioner of Sub
sistence at Washington, committed suicide
Tuesday afternoon, shooting himself through
the heart. No cause for the tragedy is as
signed, except that he had been drinking
heavily for two or three days. His accounts
with the Government have been correct up to
the LIST inst. Captain Long was Pardon Clerk
at the Executive Mansion during the admin
istration of President johnson.
Trout fishing through holes in the ice is
lucrative employment in several parts of New
foundland. Each mole is about foot in di
ameter. The lines are attached to sticks two
feet in length which cross the holes, and five
or six of which can be attended to by one
person. In propitious weather this is excit-
ing sport, as there is generally fish on each
hook as fast as the angler makes his rounds
Of the holes. As sport, however, this mode
of trouting in winter is rarely employed.
The estimated weight of California miner.
ais to be sent to the Paris Exposition is FIVE
hundred tons. There is to be a pyramid TWEEN
ty feet square and nearly seventy feet high,
representing the seventy million of cubic
inches of gold which have been produced on
the Pacific coast. Its equivalent would be
solid piece of gold of a cube of sixteen feet.
Surrounding the pyramid will be fifty cases
for the exhibition Of the other minerals of
the country.
Sabbath-keeping crusaders were in the field
in Brooklyn last Sunday. The objective
points were the barber shops, which were as
sailed only in the gentlest crusading fashion.
A lady of elegant appearance woald knock at
the door, and, on its being opened, bow grace
fully to the astonished proprietor, and repeat
the words ofthe Commandment Six days shalt
thou labor and do all that thou hast to do"
etc, and bowling again, withdraw without
further remark.