Gloucester County Democrat., 1879-01-21
Eariefcs.

Every prisoner in the Covington
Ky. jail got Christmas present.
The Montreal Police Magistrates
want the Dominion Parliament to pass
an act prohibiting detectives and
other officials from imparting informa-
ton, or reporters from publishing the
same, unless the documents are ac-
companied with the written consent Of
the magistrate presiding over the
case.
n. j., has been postmaster of the Sad
die River Post-offiee for twenty-five
years. He was appointed at the time
the p0st-office was established, during
the administration of Franklin Pierce,
and through all the changes of the
Government has retained his position
down to the present time.
The Poor Directors of Erie county,
Pa, have applied to the County Com
missiOners for the sum of S25, 600, to
improve the almshouse by the addition
of department for the insane. The
Commissioners have refused to comply,
and the Directors ask the Court to
issue a mandamus compelling the
former officers to grant the money.
The Buffalo Commercial prints its
annual statement Of the lake trade of
that city, showing that the receipts of
flour have been heavy, reaching nearly
100000 barrels, but they were not 50
large as in several preceding seasons.
The arrivals Of gram, however, were
far ahead of anything on record. This
years totals reach So, 547 ,233 bushels,
or nearly 1000, 900 bushels in excess
of the best previous year. The lumber
trade also shows marked improve
ment over the two previous years, the
aggregate receipts beng 175,820, 699
feet, to 139, 731, 900 in 1877, and 114,-
So, 600 in 1876. But, outside of grain
and lumber, the down lake movement
shows a general decline, which ac-
counts for the low rates of freightS that
prevailed last season.
Mrs. Mary Pardosanchez, Of M IL
aga, Spain, died on Wednesday morn
ing at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Mesea, No. SO Middagh street,
Brooklyn, at the remarkable age Of one
hundred and ten years, five months and
sixteen days. She was the thirtieth
daughter, her mother having had six
teen boys and fourteen girls. She came
from Spain fourteen years ago, and
was married seventy-three years ago.
Both her husband and father were
architects. When she was ninety years
Of age she lost her sight, and was totally
blind. AT ninety-seven she recovered
her second sight, and could see much
better than her daughter. She was
smart, and did the housework until
after she was one hundred years old.
She was up and about the house until
within few days of her death.
The House Of Priam might, in the
opinion of DIR. Schliemann, have had
more than one hundred rooms, and he
thinks it was originally five. or seven
stories high. One of the rooms now
contains jar so large that it is nearly
filled by it. Four of such jars have
been found by him, each measuring
five and a half feet high and four feet
seven inches broad. The large number
of jars found on the ground floor in
duces the belief that it was used for
store-rocms. The four huge jars con-
tain number of beautiful terra-cotta
vases, of which also many fine specl-
mems were found in the brick-colored
ashes with which the rooms are filled.
DR.. Schliemann thinks the most re-
markable thing in the ancient mansion
is that here and there beneath it the
walls of still more ancient building
are found; he ascribes them to the first
city erected on the site Of the famous
city. All the fragments of pottery
which he has seen in the rooms of the
mansion Immediately below the Trojan
stratum have, he says, on both sides a
beautiful lustrous red, black or brown
color which he has never found any
where except in the strata Of the first
city. He is further of opinion that the
great circuit wall was not built by the
people which inhabited Troy at the
time Of the catastrophe, but by their
! predecessors,