The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-02-15

was LOGGED IN the New Castle jail on Saturday
in default of $40, 900 bail
The surviving soldiers of the Mexican War
will meet in national convention in Baltimore
on Washington's birthday. Hon. Richard T.
Merrick will deliver the Grafton.
A telegram from Ottawa says sit is expect
ed that while the prohibition against Ameri-
can cattle will continue in force in England
Canadian cattle will be exempted
Hon. Joseph Casey, ex.member of Con-
gress and exChief Justice of the Court Of
Claims, Aed on Monday in Washington, aged
Ga years. He was native of Maryland.
An ice gorge in the Missouri river at elias.
gov has destroyed span of a new bridge in
course Of construction for the Chicago and
Alton railroad. The loss is over $50, 900.
Six men were buried alive at Kansas City
on Tuesday while excavating deep railway
cut by the banks, ninety feet high, caying in
upon them. -Four teams were also buried.
George W. Seiber, Treasurer of St. Clair
county ILL.,, is reported to be defaulter for
$780, 900 He has about s Is 900 in property,
and his bondsmen, it is said, will pay the bal
ance.
At recent reception at her house on the
Champs Elysees, in Paris, the Countess dc
Trobriand served a supper composed entire
ly OF American meats, fruits and other pro
ducts.
An embankment at Zegler's ore beds, if.
teen miles from Allentown, Pa. cayed in
Tuesday morning, burying fifteen persons.
One man was killed and four others were
seriously injured.
Samuel Lee colored, Postmaster a, Sum.
ter, S. c., was convicted on Monday of NAL.
feasance in Office while Judge of Probate.
Lee could not be found, but was represented
by counsel in Court.
Mrs. Ursula Humphreyvlle, Of Mortified,
Conn, is in her one hundred and first year,
and is still able to be about Two years ago
she rode on a moving machine, driving the
horses through the field.
Correspondents of the Louisville Courier
Journal report that 'there is no yellow fever
| in the South although some sort Of sickness
seems to have been caused by disinterment
of bodies ofpersons who died Of yellow fever
William Aston, of New York, returned
from Europe with his family, and duties to
the amount Of 81 $50 were assessed against
his baggage, which he paid under protest.
He now sues Collector Merritt for the whole
amount.
Six burglars, lodged in Jail at Seymour,
Indiana, for entering houses and stealing
clothing, were taken out on Friday morning
by a mob, severely logged, and then dismiss
ed, with a warning not to come into that
neighborhood again.
The Governor Of Louisiana has signed the
bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
II is hoped this law will have the effect of
preventing the grand national dog fight"
which are announced to take place in New
Orleans two weeks hence.
The house Of Daniel Franz, farmer, near
Dayton, Ohio, was entered by masked bur.
glars on Friday night. The robbers bound
the family, aud forced Mrs Franz to give up
$500 in cash and $25, 900 in notes and bonds.
which we're c. ncealed in the house.
The citizens of Omaha and its vicinity have
shipped a car load of -four to Scotland for the
relief of the destitute people of Glasgow.
Free transportation has been furnished to
New York by the railroad companies and to
Glasgow by the Anchor .lne Steamship Com,
pany.
American coal is sold in Switzerland, COM
ing from Philadelphia by sailing ships to Mar.
settles and thence by rail to Geneva, where il
costs about $40 ton. The price is little
under that of German and French coal at the
same point, and the quality is pronounced
much better.
The President on the 9TH inst, sent to the
Senate the following nominations for Phiadel.
phia Offices Postmaster, John 7. Hartranit;
Naval Officer, james Pollock; Superinten-
President also nominated Martin Perry Kerr
nard for Assistant Treasurer at Boston.
Mrs. Margaret McEllier native Of Ire
land, died in Montreal on Monday at the alleg.
ed age of 108 years and 10 months. Ii Is
said that she leaves two daughters, aged re
spectively rs and SO years, four grandchil-
dren, twenty-three great.grandchildren, and
one great eat.grandchild, aged 10 years.
At Kittaning, Pa, Sheriff Williams, con
victed at the December term Of Court of per-
jury and the use of money for election pur.
poses, was sentenced on Monday by Judge
Boggs to twenty-five months imprisonment in
the Penitentiary and the payment of 6ne Of
$500. Williams has held office since 1877.
The police raided Enoch's Variety Theatre,
in Philadelphia, Saturday night, capturing in |
all 1866 persons, amongst them the proprietor |
and his wife-4l females and 1lS boys. |
Enoch was held in 81 800 bail for keeping a
disorderly house and selling liquor to minors, /
the remainder of the prisoners we're held in
smaller sums.
Seven persons we're poisoned by eating
buekwheat cakes, at Queensvlle, Ind, on /
Saturday, but all except one are expected to
recover. Ii appears that farmer placed
arsenic in the barn to kill rats, and that part
Of the arsenic became mixed with the buck.
wheat WHICH was afterward sold to the per,
sons poisoned
II Is estimated that the claims for rebate on
tobacco and snuff, should the reduction Of
the tax on those articles pass, will aggregate
nearly $4,000, 900, and this Notwithstanding
the fact that in view of the agitation of the
question, the stocks in the hands Of the deal.
ers have been kept at the lowest practical
limit.
Peter Mulligan, of Washington, DC, was
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of stealing q registered letter containing $1,000
the United States. After hearing he was
held for trial on the charge of violating the
Canadian statutes by bringing stolen properly
into the Dominion.
Charles Il. Taylor, aged % years, was "a
tally injured while cohsting, at Ithaca, n Y,
on Friday night, and died Of his injuries on
Saturday morning. He was on the sleigh /
with twelve others, which ran off the centre
Of the street int gutter and dashed Taylor
into a projecting plank The others were
also injured, but not seriously.
The three last United States censuses show
that the valuations Of real and personal estate
in all the States and Territories, exclusive az
Government property, increased fom 81, 1885,
7so, 22s IN lsAQs "a $40, i5aele,0es in 1850,
and to SS0,05S, Sis, 607 in 1870. II Is thus
BatIie Ahat tfto ttNHty Htt1 iuft Wv Aluil1
years to become the richest country In me
world.
halllmorp lpdplged In prlze eight last
Sunday, The principals were j, Cunning, a
mechanic, and Michael Cayanaugh, teams.
tor. Tho contest took place two miles be.
youd the city limits, at o'clock in the after
noon, and was witnessed by about seventy.sve
spectators. Ginning won the battle IN two
rounds, lasting hfteen minutes, and came out
without scratch, whilst Cavanaugh, the chals
lenger, received severe pnmmeline.
The Journal gf Commerce, of 81. Louis.
rpblishes interviews wjtli'hBout one hundred
leading 4usiksss men Of that city regarding
ihe Rendition ol trade. Mosl Of lhasss con- CON-
shl!ea, especially RAaElaviaFen, report a ma.
leFial increase q business, IN sctne cases Inc
saiee showing an increase Of rs per cent. A
lew jobbers did smaller business than last
year owing to the severity Of the winter, but
ine,tenths Of the others expressed the belief
mat business this year would be better than
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