The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15

ed, abolishes the Indian commission.
Secretary Schurz is said to be engaged
uponka} novel ,)after the style ofEndymion.
L is announced thai. Senator Blaine is
to be member Of Garfield cabinet. We
do not credit the statement.
Judge Yellott, if he keeps on, will be
knownas the great Tramp Liberator. Up
to Wednesday he had released sixty per-
sons from the House of Correction.
4 mistake occurred in our last issue
which the, intelligent reader would readily
detect. In speaking of the battle of New
Orleans, we gave the date of January 8,
1914, instead of 1915.
Ex-Gov. Thos Watkins Lyon died on
Wednesday morning at his home in How
ard county, aged 20 years. He was cleo
ted Governor in 1854, and was a member
of Congress in 1876.
Charles Bradlaugh, the English agita-
tor, is not having happy time. He has
been challenged to fight duel by NJ. Lai-
SAINT, of Paris, and on Tuesday was in
formed of a plot to assassinate him.
1t is stated in Washington that Senator
Conkling has engaged the services of Sen
ators Voorhees, and Carpenter as his coun-
sell in case they are needed in the forth
coming divorce suit of Sprague VS.. Sprague.
Another cold wave is advancing from
the West, as the weather bureau assures
us. A severe snow storm and extremely
cold weather prevailed throughout that
region on Thursday. We may expect it
here to-day.
The Democrats Of the Delaware Lesis-
lature, on Wednesday night, unanimously
nominated Hon. Thos +. Bayard for U.
S. Senator. The Legislature is largely
Democratic and Mr.. Bayard will be elect
ed On the first ballot 1t will be his third
term.
The Democracy of the Ohio Legislature
have attcsted their confidence in, and ap-
probation of, their honored leader, Hon.
Allen G. Thurman, by unauimously Sc
Letting him as their candidate for U. s.
Senator The Legislature, however, is
Republican, and Mr.. Humans vote will
only be complimentary.
Gen. J. r. ITawley, OF Connecticut;
Secretary of the Treasury Sherman, Of
Ohio; JAS. q. Fair, of Nevada; General
Miller, Of California; and Benjamin Har-
rison, of Indiana, have been elected United
States Senators this week Their terms
will begin 4th of March next.
The hills and resolutions already intro
duced into the forty -sixth Congress num-
Der nearly ten thousand. AS only forty
working days Of the session remain, and
the counting of the electoral vote has to
be made, it is probable that threc-fourths
or more of them will remain Enacted upon
when the session expires.
The question is iterated and reiterated
daily, in Congress and through the medium
of the press-"What shall be done for
Gen. Grants dignity ~ We answcr-let
him be careful to preserve it, and at once
stop his friends from passing around their
charity boxes. In the first place, he is
in no need of it. Secondly, it is abso
lutcy disgusting.
A company known as the Oregon, Will
lamette Valley and Cascade Mountain
Wagon Road Company have secured
grants to 1O7 1913 acres of government lands
and selections to 44G, 500 acres more are
pending, for road AS miles which they
never built. The fraud has been dis
covered, and Secretary Schurz has called
the attention of Congress to the matter.
The committee on the gubernatorial
votes of the Maine Legislature on We'd
nesday reported that the whole vote cast
fin September last, 147,8O2, of which
Plaisted, Democrat, received 1918; Da-
Wis, Republican, 73,544; Nye 300; Joy
124: Harrison NJ. Piaisted 50; scattering
So. and declared Harris Nj. Plaisted duly
elected governor, he having received
plurality Of the votes cast. Mr.. Plalsted
was inaugurated on Thursday.
Gov. Mcclellan, of New Jersey, in his
message to the Legislature this week, says
the financial condition of the State is ex-
ceRent. There was no State tax leyled
last year, and the decrease in the expep-
.1itures and the increase Of revenue from
the regular sources, together with the
balance on hand, will carry the State
through the coming year without State
lew. The Governor says that more prison
room is needed, which does not speak we'll
for the morality of the people of that
State
Some of the sensational papers on Sat
nrday and Monday contained an account
the complete burial of Paris, Fauquler
county, Va, in snow, and that out or g
population of 200 some Is were sick and
starving. and that relief party from Ber-
rvvilIe, in Clarke county, after several days
trial. reached the village and relieved them.
Rerorts since then state that there is
much suffering in that section from snow
drifts, but nothing ia comparison with the
exaggerated stories of the romantic cor
respondents. aasa -'
If the arrangements for Mr.. Garfeld's
Inauguration are fully carried ont, and the
immense numbers expected should be in
attendance, there will hardly be found