The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-05

RED.
. Nine tons of silver and one ton of gold
we're shipped from the New York assay
Office on Monday to the Philadelphia mint for
coinage.
The Nimbus, with cargo of wheat from
Portland, Oregon, for Cork, was lost off CO.
lumbia river bar on the 18th inst Her
crew are reported safe.
The gold-mining excitement which pre-
vailed at Worcester, VT, last year has about
died out. There wasn't gold enough in the
ground to pay for digging.
The harbor of Bangor, Me-, was closed by
ice Sunday, after having been open since
March 10Th. This is the longest period it has
been open in any one year since 1918.
A ive-year old daughter of Mr. Samuel
Skinner, of Stevensyille, Kent Island, fell
into well fifteen feet deep on Wednesday
week, and was nearly dead when rescued.
The Republican Legislature of Ohio ex-
cluded negroes from the state militia, so that
only white American citizens can become
brigadier generals, and colonies and things
James d. Burke, q messenger in the Office
Of the Comptroller of the Currency, was ar
rested on Thursday week for robbing letters.
Money which had been marked was found
upon him.
The War Department is advised that one
hundred Nez Perces, who have Joined Sitting
Bull, are anxious to return to the United
States They say they are not well treated
by the Sioux.
New York city has only two lime makers
Their material is oyster and clam shells,
which, instead of paying for, they have to be
paid forty cents per load to remove from
markets and restaurants.
Joseph Nevius, Gardener of the Grand
Duke Ernest of Sake Coburg Gotha, and a
companion of his son Prince Albert-who
subsequently married Queen Yictoria-is now
the city gardener of Hoboken.
Thomas Durkin was arrested in Wilkes
barre, Pa, on Saturday evening, on the
charge of having been one of the gang of
Molly Maguires who murdered Superintend-
ent Smith at GAINESVILLE, in 1868.
A fire IN St. John, N B., on Saturday
morning destroyed Valpley's shoe factory and
eleven frame buildings. Loss 100000. Two
hundred men are thrown out of employment
by the burning of the factory.
In the District Court at Washington, on
Saturday, Mrs. Belva Lockwood applied for
the appointment of Lavinia G. Dundore as
constable. The Court held the petition un-
der consideration. What next?
The house of Carl Mas, in Crawford
county, Iowa, was burned on Christmas Day,
and his three children, the eldest being four
years of age, persisted. The children we're
locked in the house while Mas and his wife
went to husk corn.
In Washington on Friday, a youth of l6
put pistol TO his head, supposing it to be
unloaded, and pulled the trigger, saying he
wondered how it would feel" He pulled
49,. ell
bullet in his brain.
On the Western rivers, during the year
now closed, 20 lives were lost, more than two
thirds of them by boiler explosions and
burning of steamers. The loss Of property is
estimated at 81, $3.50, 900, including 81, 900, 900
by disasters, by ice gorges, etc., on the Ohio
river.
The railroad bridge across Ashley river,
near Charleston, S. c. being completed, ar
rangements will soon be made by the Post
Office Department for a fast mail service of
ninety-six hours between New York and Ha-
vana, via Cedar Keys and Key West, Florida.
The Somerset, N ]. Unionist of the 9th
ult says: 'Farmers have been enabled to
keep their plows running through December,
preparatory to spring planting, and Mr.. c..
p. Peterson, near South Branch, has an
apple tree which shows green apples the size
Of walnuts.n
1t is understood that the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has written letter to the
Ways and Means Committee recommending
that all savings banks be relieved of taxation,
but favoring the retention, for the present, OF
the tax on banks and bankers. He opposes
any change in the existing rate of taxation on
whisky and tobacco.
A supply of fresh strawberries, grown in
the open air at Boothby Hill Hartford county,
Nd, were served at Rennert's hotel, Balti-
more, on Friday Dec. %. The berries, it is
said, were of good size and flavor, and made
their appearance on the vines without forcing,
at this unusual time of the year, in obedience
to the general warmth of the sun.
Curtis, alias Ray, charged with enticing a
young lady from Baltimore and feloniouslya as.
saulhng her, was arraigned in New Orleans
on Saturday, and remanded to await the arri-
val of an officer from Washington. He has
been identified as John I. Claxton, who
swindled many people in Cincinnati, by pre-
tending to be conductor and passenger
agent for the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy Railroad.
Philip Martz, of Monroeville, Indiana. hav.
ing been married on Thursday week, gave a
wedding reception on Friday night. The
festivities were married by q number of unin-
vited guests, who gave the newly welded
pair what is termed "belling." The friends
of Martz fred in the noisy crowd and wound
ed nine of them, three severely. Two of the
firing party, ramed Moses and Krause, were
arrested.
The crop reports thus far received at the
Department of Agriculture in Washington,
and which will be compiled and published,
indicate that the wheat crop of this country
for 1877 was about $3.50, 000,O0 bushels, or
about 80, zoo, 900 bushels greater than for any
previous year. The corn crop is estimated,
from the same reports, at 800, 600, 900 bush
els. The crops of oats and potatoes were
correspondingly large. OF the wheat, it is
estimated that 100000 bushels can be
spared for export.
The whole yield OF the precious metals
during the year 1877 in the country west of
the Missouri river, including British Column
bia and Mexico, foot up ninety-eight and a.
half millions, being an increase of seven and
a. half millions over 1876. Nevada contribu-
ted over forty-f four millions of silver but this
bullion is % per cent. gold. Nineteen mil
lions of silver have been exported from San
Francisco during the year TO India China and
the Straits. Heavy rains have fallen in Cali
fornia, and the cropprospects are encouraging.
An lnteillSeht young iau9 OF nineteen SUM-
mers arrived in Washington, d. c., on Fri
day night from Trenton, n. j., having walked
the entire distance. She left Trenton on
Saturday, the 22d ult., her object being to
reach Columbia, S. c., where she has an
uncle living. She is thedaughter of former
| State Senator of South Carolina. Three
years ago she and her mother, having become
very poor, left their native State for the
| North, in search of employment. Her moth
er died in Trenton about four months ago.
Transportation to Fredericksburg, Va, has
! been secured for her.