The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-02-08
News Of the Wssk.


Turkey are up in arms to protect their from
tiers.
The farmers Of Montgomery county, Nd.
have in contemplation plan for starting
cheese factory, to be located in the neghbor-
hood Of Lansdale.
Newport, Rhode Island, has custom
house and collector. The receipts last year
at the custom house were S2l0, while the ex.
pense Of collecting it was 81, 1873.
The New Orleans Mint resumed operations
on Saturday, except in the coinage depart
ment which was started on Wednesday
This mint was idle for nineteen years.
The total revenue from taxes on gross re-
ceipts Of railroads paid into the Maryland
treasury in 1873 was $3.50, s45.6s. Previous
to 1872 the state received no revenue Mt all
from this source.
Col. Percy Wyndham, who served in the
American army Ms colonel Of q New Jersey
regiment Of cavalry, has been killed while
attempting balloon ascension at Rangoon
India.
On Saturday evening las, party Of trainps
entered the house of Peter Lint, three miles
from York, Pa, bound and gagged him, and
robbed him of gold watch and 1925. No
arrests have been made.
By the election of Governor Vance to the
United States Senate, Lieutenant Governor
Thos. j. Jarvis will shortly become Governor
Of North Carolina He is a. years Of age,
and has served in both branches of the leg.
islsture.
Ostrich feathers are down. At Grayhams-
town, in South Africa, perfect white feathers
can be had for S725 pound, fine white
plumes for 5000, black ones for about $40,
and drab and fancy colors for so.
> I
Monday at the Cumberland rolling mill, re-
quiring the employment of thirty hands. The
price of iron is advancing which is encour-
aging for further increase Of the force en-
ployed.
Hannah Green, aged ZIG years, died last
week in Philadelphia. The ages of five other
persons, two men and three women, aged re-
| spectiyely 80, 92, o., 81, 90, added TO the
age of the first named, Mrs. Green, make the
aggregate age Of the six pewons ga years.
! Madden, the lunaiic who threatened Queen |
| Nictoria's life, had been imprisoned in Bel |
| GUM, Austria, France and the United States, |
i is said, for threatening the lives of rulers.
President Johnson is said to have been the |
American he desired to put out of the way. |
Trouble is brewing between Chill and Boil |
! iva on account Of taxes imposed by the lat. |
ter upon the nitrate industries of the former. |
| The Argentine republic has offended Chill by |
sending her iron-clads into Gillian waters at. |
ter agreeing not to do SO, which promises |
TO lead to a naval battle.
! William Barnes, a notorious ruilian, was |
convicted of the murder OF Thomas Stephens,
at Frenchburg, Ky, on Friday, and sentenc |
ed TO 90 years imprisonment Barnes
friends threaten to rescue him and kill all |
engaged in the prosecution; consequently, the |
I ShnriH with a IF mar - rftr,ff ]
the jail
The Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbytery Monday
appointed a committee, consisting of three /
ministers and two elders, to investigate the |
conduct Of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, il being
common report that he is guilty OF falsehood
and deceit, and Of using improper methods in
preaching, tending to bring religion into con
tempt, &c.
Stockholders representing over eighty per
cent. Of the capital Of the First Natioual
Bank Of Saratoga met on Saturday and unan.
imously agreed TO the assessment Of % per
cent. on each share, payable in three install.
ments within thirty days. New officers will
be elected and the bank probably resume in
short time.
A lock of President Washington's hair
has just been presented to Lodge No. 4, A.
+. A. NJ, of Richmond-the lodge in which
the great Virginian was initiated, passed. and
raised. Only enc other lock of his hair is
known to exist-this, it is said is owned and
kept in golden urn by the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts,.
The venerable poet and essayist, Richard
Henry Dana, died at his residence in Boston.
Sunday, aged 92 years. Mr.. Dana had heeu
i'll some weeks, but his condition was not con.
sidered serious until Thursday. Up to Fri.
day his mind was unimpaired, but during the
day he began to sink rapidly, aud passed away
peacefully at 10 O'Clock Sunday morning.
An examination of 5000 school children
in Boston reveals the fact that while eight
per cent. of the boys are color blind only one
per cent. Of the girls are thus afflicted Any.
body who has ever heard an average woman
describe a neighbours new spring bonnet
knows we'll enough that color blindness is
not one Of the pecularites Of the gentle sex.
Michael Sullivant, who died penniess on
an Ohio River steamboat the other day, once
owned 50, 900 acres of land in Ford county.
I'll. In 1872 he had under cultivation 1900
acres Of corn, with proportionate acreage
OF oats and hay. To form general idea Of
the extent Of this great farm il may be stated
that $1,000 acres in q strip Que mile wide
would reach l24 miles, or in the form Of a
square would measure IL miles on each of
the four sides.
The city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is re
ported bankrupt, having only five thousand
dollars cash in the treasury, and having fail.
cd on Saturday to pay the interest on its
bonded debt, and for the part Of the principal
then due. 1t is also in arrears in the pay.
ment Of employees, and there seems to be
danger that its schools will have to be closed.
The bankruptcy is due to q mania for i'm.
proyements which made Elizabeth one of the
haadsomest cities on the road between New
York and Philadelphia.
A curious feature Of the operations of the
no-license law at Norwich, Conn, is the sub
stitution by drinkers OF other stimulants in
the place of liquors, and in the absence of
whlskey gin, beer, &c. Jamaica ginger is
taking the popular lead as n substitute for
something stronger. This extract has double
the alchoholip strength of whiskey, and, MS il
is medicine in CONSTANT demand and kept
BY oil druggists, il makes a very satisfactory
substitute for the habitual old topper who is
bound to get drunk on something,
telegram from Troy, N. Y, SAYS the
Furniture Manufacturing Com pany at CohOes
resumed work Monday morning, giving EN-.
ployment to fifty men; Fuller, Warren & Com
pany stove works also resumed employ
ing two hundred men, and Burdens water
niii suaIteuf ultefA suspension OF three years.
Busy, Mcleod Company's stove works
resumed on Thursday, giving work to 200
men. A Holly Steam Heating Company has
hPen formed in Troy, with Si50,O06 capital,
to begin work early 10 the spring. Altogelh
ar in that section business prospects arc yiry
encouraging.
The New Haven Register gives the follow.
ing record OF heavy snow storms in Connec.
icut;-Ou December %, 1873, the snow fell
twenty-five inches deep on a level; also Jan.
vary -, 1851, twenty-four inches deep.
january Is, 10, and II, 1910, terrible
storm occurred, the snow falling four feet
deep on level. The winter of i7lll2 was
famous throughout New England for deem
snow and intense cold weather, the first deco
snow falling on the 18th Of November, giving
sleighing which lasted until the 10Th Of April,
In February, III, occurred the greatest
snow storm ever known, the snow falling ten
feet deep on leYsl.
While experts are quarrelling over the
question of how fast man can skate, the lee
boat shippers Of the Hudson are showing by