Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1875-08-28
Maryland.
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The peach glut in Baltimore is over.
The Catholic clergy of the diocese retreat
ed at Baltimore this week.
The barn of Moses BauDgardner near Keys
vile is burned with its contents.
\ son Of Lewis Ahalt Of Frederick viciuago
was severely bitten by a vicious dog.
Samuel A. Traso, clever citizen Of Fred
erick; died last week aged "A years.
Mrs. Anna Perkins, half-wittcd old lady
of Baltimore, leaped from her second story
window.
Mr. J. Oliver Myers of Frederick lost val
ia Die horse at HarpeF's Ferry, where it drop
ped dead.
Graham, Brother and Company, of Balti-
more have gone under. assets, $ll9.0OO-
Liabilities 100000.
The upper rooms of Mr. SAINT McCoy's
house in Baltimore-the family are away
were cleaned out by thieves.
Henry Cole, Esq, of Baltimore, and Miss
Ida &. Frazier Of Annapolis were married IN
Washington last week.
Also, in the same city, Miss Jane r. Moore,
Of ST. Mary's county was married to Mr.. Ed
Lacy, of Washington.
Mr.. James Monks, a quiet citizen Of Har-
ford was shot and fatally wounded by Thos
Archer, Jr, young man of Bel Air, at that
place on the Dist. Cause, trivial.
Mr.. SamI Martz, Of BIT. Pleasant, near
Hagerstown while cleaning out a well was
struck on the head BY arock falling from above,
and his skull crushed.
Two frame buildings belonging to Mrs.
Keller, at Frostburg Md, were destroyed by
fire on Tuesday Of last week. The loss is
about $4,000 insured for 300.
The absconding Baltimore baukrupts, Gut
tie and Bordley, were arrested in Canada on
Friday week. the former just as be was board
ing steamer of the Royal mail line, and the
latter after chase Of twenty miles. Both are
held under an old English statute concerning
foreign debtors.
Dr. VIM. Booth of Willamsport has given
the Ilagerstown hail collection Of letters
written his great-great- grandfather, Rev. DR..
Booth, by Gen. Custis Lee, Mrs. Hannah
Washington. Benedict Arnold and other celeb
rites Of by-gone days. The letters cover
period Of ten years, from iii to 1871.
The Baltimore Gazette Of the 18th says
O." The steamship Calvert, Capt. Foley, which
arrived at this port yesterday from Charleston,
S. c.. brought three hundred barrels of lour
freshly ground from new wheat at the Il" Camp
sen Mills. Charleston. The brand is called
the =" Belle of Charleston" and the -four was
shipped upon the steamship George Appold,
Capt. Loyelaud, which sailed Yesterday for
Boston Five hundred more barrels Of the
SINE brand of -four viii he shipped upon tie
Calvert on her return 80 Charleston. This is
the opening up of a new enterprise in Charles
ton"
Mrs. Charlotte Wood, aged 50 years. widow
Of John Wood, Of Baltimore, died on the Sd
instant at Terra Haute, Indiana, of which she
had been a resident forty years. She was the
mother of Surgeon General Wood L. s. D.,
now retired and living in the vicinity of Balti-
more, of which be is native. Mrs Wood
leaves two sons, four daughters, thirty-one
grandchildren and five great-grand-children
She was a pensioner Of the war Of lSl2.-
When she removed from Baltimore to Terre
Haute that part Of the west was wilderness,
and she, With her children, were pioneer set
tiers