The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-05-10

'oi'J ieet hlgher than w ashlngtOn monu
ment The balustrade over the portico I,
the main entrance is to be adorned witt
statues of franklin and Morse. Tn,
building will cost about 81 100000.
The trial of Hollohau and Nicholson for
the murder of Mrs. Lampley, in Balti
more, commenced at Annapolis ON Wed
nesday A jury was obtained, and III,
evidence was mainly directed towards tn,
finding of the body and the tracing I,
Hollohan's possession chisel which had
been found upon the premises after having
been used to secure the money which wa.
the object of the murder A novel feature
was the introduction Of a deaf mute as ;
witness. The testimony closed on Thurs
day, and conviction is inevitable.
The proposed Convention of Governor,
in Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth May, is likely
to be success. The following Governor.
have siguifed their intention of being
present Hendricks, of Indiana; Wood
son, Missouri; Walker, Virginia Jacobs
West Virginia Brown, Tennessee Harris
Alabama Moses, South Carolina Moves
Ohio Carpenter, Iowa; Washburne, Wis.
cousin Beveridgc, Illinois Cook. Distri II
OF Columbia, and others. All the mayors
in the State will also be there.
A new Credit Mobilier has been dis.
covered in the Vermont Central Railroad
The eorruptions of this corporation have
only been equalled by the Mobilier opera
tions at Washington. The managers of
the company kept a list Of the members OF
the Legislature and other leading Radicals
who had been bribed to favor their plans.
The company is bankrupt, and the legis,
lature is investigating its affairs.
The Farmers Convention reassembled
in New York on Wednesday, and affected
national organization. Hon. Josiah
Quincy, of Massachusetts,, was elected
President. The platform of principles
adopted declares war upon the railroads
until they reduce their freight charges
The Convention was respectable in mum.
bers and character and will have impor.
tant results in politics.
A large leak has just been discovered
in the financial affairs of Ohio. A mil.
lion and half of dollars that should have
been paid in the State treasury, to meet
that amount of the debt, about TO fall due,
is found to be missing, with deficit Of
$4,000 last year on top of it. An hon.
est Republican Senator is exposing the
rascalities of his party friends in the
Buckeye State.
The Supreme Court of New York on
Wednesday, rendered its decision in the
case of Stokes, convicted of the willfu
murder of james Fisk, Jr., denying hi.
application for new trial. He appears
to have received the news of the refusal
with cool Indifference, simply remarkiug
that his case would 20 now to the Court
of Appeals.
The people of Newburg, New York are
much exercised now over the adoption OF
a report by the School Board recommend
ing the closing ofthe colored public schools
and the assignment Of pupils among the
schools now used exclusively for white
children. There are apprehensions of a
general withdrawal of white children from
the schools.
The investigation into the mental eondi.
ton of George Francis Train, in New
York, resulted in verdict that he has
been and is sane. Being thus declared
responsible for his acts, he will now be
prosecuted for publishing an immoral paper
in connection with the Woodruff and
Clahin matter.
Twelve years ago farmer in Connect
cut committed suicide by placing the muz.
zle of gun to his breast and discharging
the weapon with poker. Last week his
son, also farmer, killed himself precisely
in the same manner, with the same gun,
and in the same room.
A Mississippi sheriff makes an uncom-
mon demand upon public credulity, assert
ing that both he and his wife were
chloroformed by burglars, and $1,000
carried of from his house The money
was public funds, of course.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York
Tribune, gets salary of 10000 a year.
Jennings has 80, 1000 on the Times; Croly
had $4,000 on the World; Hudson had
$4,000 on the Herald, and was retired on
q pension of $4,000.
Cakes Ames was struck with paralysis
at his residence in North Easton, Massa-
chusetts, on Monday evening, and remain
ed unconscious with little or no prospect
of his recovery. He died on Thursday
afternoon, aged SO years
The case of Cole and Carter, two ne.
groes, on trial at Annapolis for the murder
of Waters, was terminated on Wednesday
by verdict of murder in the second de-
gree, with recommendation to the mercy
of the Court.
The rain fall for twelve hours, at New
Orleans, ending at 6 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 9Th instant, according to the
account of l.. Frigerio, was eight inches
and a-sixteenth.
Judge W Z. Leffingwell, of Lyons,
Iowa, the famous Western criminal lawyer,
though he has not slain his thousands, has
saved sixty-fiye murderers with his jaw
bone.
George B. Taliaferro, aged G5, COM
mission merchant of Baltimore, was run
over by an express car in that city on
Tuesday morning, and so badly injured
that he died the same day,
A caustic correspondent of the London
Neps ridicules the American Department
of the Vienna Exposition by giving a list
of the remarkable articles now in it.
The Bank of England has advancedthe
rate of discount one-half per cent, and the
rate now stands at a. The Bank of
Berlin has done the same thing
We learn from the Cumberland Ners
that on Saturday last heavy snow storm
occurred in the neighborhood of Frostburg,
in Allegany county.
Ex-Representative John A. Bingham,
of Ohio, is being already urged by his
friends as Mr.. 0rr's successor at st. Pc
tersburg.