The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-11

The Augustan Age of Murder Is wha
the New York Herald calls Il, and proceed
10 foot up the murders in that city in th,
last three years Forty murders in 1870
iorty-fye murders in 1871, ifty.six muir
ders in 1872. Five more murders in 1871
than in 1870, eleven more murders in. lS
az than in lS7l--an increase of sixteen
murders in two years. The Herad seems
to seriously incline to the opinion that il
may be necessary ito tear leaf out Of Cal.
liornias History, initiating in the civilized
Fast the vigilance committee of the barbar.
ie West.
Telegraphic communication with New
York, interrupted by the great sleet storm
Of Sunday, wasresumed Monday afternoon.
The storm began on Sunday morning, and
the rain and sleet soon covered trees, tele.
graph wires, houses and pavements with a
thick coating of ice. The telegraph wires
and poles throughout the city gave way
under the weight, and many of them fell
upon the streets. All the streets in the
lower portions Of New York, BROOKLYN.
Jersey City and other places were flooded,
and much property was damaged or de-
stroyed.
In Peru Mr.. James Wilson found, at
various points on the coast near Quito,
ancient pottery and other manufactured
articles finely wrought, and some of them
OF gold, beneath marine deposit of 6 feet,
having trees growing on the surface which
were older than the Spanish invasion /;
which proves that this land must have
been submerged beneath the ocean, and
again elevated to its former position, since
these relics were deposited.
Indian corn, or maize, was the most
valuable crop grown in the United States
last year, the yield being worth S479. 275,-
9OO hay comes next, the money value being
s35l III ,O35 wheat third, 1920, All 800 |:
oats fourth, slO2,570, 030; potatoes fifth.
s1l ,s36,67l; cotton sixth, s62, 2s2, 1863 I;
and tobacco seventh, s25,001 All.
a Prominent member of the Virginia
Legislature has offered the sum of 800 600
annually for the exclusive privilege of ga
thering oysters in Virginia waters. The re-
venue heretofore derived from this source
Is only 10000 annually, while the cost
ofcolleetion is $50, 900 leaving the net reye
nue. only 10000.
The burning of corn for fuel is quite
extensive in Iowa, where, at II cents a
bushel, it costs only $500 per ton. A ton
of corn is found to be equal to cord of
hard wood, which would cost 81, and
Sl.5O more for saving and splitting.
Corn is cheaper, therefore, by about SO.
Edwin Forests divorced wife was a
mourner at his funeral. She approached
the coffin in which the deceased lay, put her
hand upon his head and took one of his
cold hands in hers, and held il a moment.
then retired to another part of the room
and sat there until his body left the house.
Lazarus Tillman, of Atlanta, laid his
coat and 5000 ona stump while he showed
''the boys how to split rails While thus
occupied the stump burned up, and his
raiment and grcenbacks helped to feed
the flames
Missouri and Kansas were visited ON
Friday and Saturday by the "severest snow
storm known for twenty years" All the
trains have been delayed, and some Of
them, according to st. Louis despatch,
are still stuck fast in the snow drifts.
The trial of Mrs Wharton for the attemp-
ted poisoning of Eugene Van Ness, COM
menccd at Annapolis on Monday, in the
Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county.
The defence moved to quash the indictment,
which was overruled
The gamblers of Philadelphia have
formed a league, and their "protection
money according to Mayor Stokely, is
the only obstacle to the suppression of
gambling in that city.
The Old Testament (English) revisers
have just brought their 18th session to an
end. The revision has been continued
to the end of Deuteronomy, leaving chapter
30 and 80 for the next meeting.
1t is rumored that Rosa Bonheur the
celebrated painter of animals is coming to
America to make original sketches of the
buffalo, the mustang and the coyote.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will
be completed next month from Richmond
to the Ohio river distance of 427 miles,
49, miles of which is now in operation.
Miss Clara Remington, of st. Louis,
has Inherited $500, 900 by the death of a
Cuban lover.
There are twenty weekly papers printed
in Lancaster county, Pa.