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

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Charles Dimmitt was convicted at Batavia.
onloi on SATURDAY, OF having robbed the safe
of the County Treasurer of 81. OO0
n. '. Grow, wholesale liquor dealer Of
Cleveland, Ohio, filed petition in bankrunt.
cy on Saturday. Liabilities $4,000.
The British military authorities have de.
termined to condemn all gray and white
horses, because they are too conspicuous.
The Canadian government has decided to
enact duty of III per cent ad vaIorem upon
all importations of United States silver coin.
VIM. n: Maequeen, pork packer of ST.
LOUIS, filed a petition in bankruptcy on Sat
urday. Liabilities, Sl02, 900; assets Sg5. 600.
The number of stamps at work in the cold
helds OF Georgia, n year ago. was ITO; now
they number 2I3, producing about $50, 900
in gold PEI MONTH
Kate Griffin, being drunk. fractured her
husband skull with a stove litter, in Law
renee, Mass, on Saturday night, and his
recovery is doubtful.
William Orion, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, died in New
1ork on Monday morning of apoplexy. He
was only 81 years of age.
Philip Badger, aged Is, was shot dead by
his brother, aged IL, in New Orleans Mon.
doy. They were playing with shots gun,
and did not know 1t was loaded
A deficiency of between six thousand and
seven thousand dollars has been discovered in
the accounts of the Baltimore Board of
Health, and an investigation is going on.
While four men were digging mari, near
Marlboro, n. J., on Saturday, the bank sud
denly eaved in killing one of them, named
John Coniff, and severely injuring the Others
Twenty-one bankruptcies we're recorded in
Chicago on Saturday. The most important
was that of Thomas S. Dobbins, whose liza
.billties aggregated S2,05O, 900, and whose
assets are nominal
Rufus II. Springs, a deputy L. S. Marshal.
was assassinated by unknown parties near
Greenville. S. c., on Friday. II is believed
that troops will be detailed to assist the reve-
nue. officials in that region.
| An elevator of the Howe sewing machine
company, Chicago, fell from the roof to the
basement Monday, with ten persons, a dis
lance of So feet. Only one escaped unhurt,
but none were dangerously hurt.
The glass manufactures in Baltimore have
suspended operations, and over three hun
bred skilled workmen are thrown out of en-
ploymeut. 1t is expected that the factories
will remain closed until next October.
Large shipments of cattle are taking place
from Toronto to English ports, the British
Government having placed Canada in the
same position as Scotland and Ireland in
regard to the English cattle aud sheep mar
kets.
An open air political meeting was held in
Montreal on Sunday evening and resulted in
general fight. Stones were freely used, and
about thirty persons were so badly injured
that they had to be treated by physicians
The Hartford, Conn, Times estimates that
not less than 1000 persons 90 years old and
upward, have died in Connecticut during the
last dozen years, and reasons that the lon
gevlty of human life in that part of the coun-
try is gradually increasing.
Very Rev. Joseph Paul Dubreul, D. D..
Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Balti-
more, and Rector and Presidentof St. Mary's
theological Seminary of the Society of St
Sulpiee, died in the Seminary at Baltimore.
on Friday Of last week in the Gath year of
his age.
lad aged twelve years met with serious
accident while fishing in a creek near SYRIA
cuse, N. T., several days ago. While throw
ing out his line the hook attached came in
contact with his left eye, which it tore through
violently. His sight will be quite lost, even
If the eye is saved.
That sensational dispatch in the Nelo York
Herald, of Monday, to the effect that .OOO.-
600 of the Church of England were about to
be received into the Church of Rome, is even
less than nine days wonder, and is utterly
discredited by Catholics and Episcopalians
alike.
The business outlook for the canals through
out the State of New York the present season
is excellent, there being 100000 bushels of
wheat for shipment at Buffalo. There was
none at all at this season last year. On the
trst day of navigation over two hundred boats
cleared at Troy.
At Columbus, Ga, on Saturday, Henry
Love, aged 80 years, was murdered and
thrown from a bridge window into the Chat
ahoochee river. Dowdel Adams, arrested
for the murder, confessed his guilt, and
stated that robbery was the motive. Love
claimed to represent Philadelphia firm.
Two small bands of Indians, Utes and
Apaches, including about seventy-five war.
riors, will soon be removed from Colorado to
a reservation in New Mexico. As It's feared
they may resist, four companies OF the TWEEN
ty-third Infantry, under Colonel Dodge. will
be sent to Southern Colorado to asSistin their
removal.
John and Joseph Smith, brothers. fought
in a saloon near the Calverton stock Yards
! about mile from Baltimore, on Saturday
night. Joseph threw spittoon at his BROTH
er which missed him, but struck Mrs. Gerde-
man, wife of the saloon keeper, in the face,
inficting wound of which she died Monday
morning. Smith was arrested.
Colonel W. l.. Salisbury, banker, pro tenn
pore Mayor, and proprietor of the Enquirer.
Sun, of Columbus, Ga, was fatally shot by
DIR. r. NJ. Palmer, az Scale, Alabama, on
Saturday night. Palmer had sued Salisbury
for $3.50, 900 damages for alleged libellous
publications, and recovered verdict for one
cent; hence the murder. A reward of $500
is offered for Palmer arrest.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, states
that o. Q. Zeller, cashier of the National Elk
change Bank at Tiffin, Ohio, absconded last
Saturday with S45,5OO of the funds of the
bank. The loss will be confined exclusively
to the stockholders. The business of the
bank will not be interrupted. A reward of
$4,000 is offered for the arrest of Zeller and
$1,000 for the return of the money.
Advices from Panama to the 9th instant.
report that General Trujillo was installed
President of Colombia on the 5th. The Con
gress had passed bill providing for the
sending, at public expense, of certain num-
Der of workmen to the United States. Swift
erland, Germany or England, to acquire a
knowledge of the mechanical arts, with a view
to their diffusion at home. A large Chinese
immigration to the Isthmus was in prospect
Sixty-four of the first citizens Of Wheeling
have been indicted '.for betting and gaming
in hotels,'' and some of thea have become
excited over the matter. 4 meeting, attend
ed by thirty of the indicted, has been held, a
pool organized TO fight the indictment, the
best legal talent in the State engaged, and.
altogether, there is an enterprising determin.
ation to see if one of the boosted rights of
this way.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean publishes list
Of the first feet OF vessels from that city for
the lower lakes for the season of 1873. The
vessels number seventy three, and have aboard
several million bushels Of grain. Several
steamers and sail vessels are also on the way
down from Milwaukee, Sheboygan and other
points on Lake Michigan, swelling the feet to
one hundred craft. The number of men on
board this feet to navigate it is about one
thousand.
The bark Azor sailed from Charleston. S.
c., Sunday morning, for Africa, with $50
colOred emigrauis, under the auspices of the
"Liberian Exodus Association" The Azor
is a fast clipper, having been built for the
slave trade before the war, and her captain
thinks she can reach Monrovia in twenty
days. Her sailing caused great excitement
among the colored population of Charleston,
large numbers Of whom seem 20 be affected
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