The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-04-24
Maryland Affairs.

LARGE ANO VALUABLE IMPORTATION oP
SrocE. The steamship Nova Scotia, which
arrived ut Baltimore wednesday morning
from Liverpool via Halifax, brought as part
of her cargo one Of the largest and most val
liable collections of breeding stock ever i'm.
ported into the United States. Ii consisted
OF iorty,ninc head of short. horn and Ayrshire
cows, heilers, bulls and calves, eight draught
stations, one thoroughbred mare, one don.
key, twenty-six Berkshire pigs, viz; SONS,
boars and shoats; ten dogs, viz. rc,rievers,
foxhounds, beagles, Newfoundland and Shep.
herd dogs; also a number of fowls, pigeons,
English hares, etc, they were imported by
Messrs. Simon Beattie aud W. NJ. Miller, OF
Wbitevale, Ontario; John b. Groome, Esq,
near Lexington, Kentueky Chas. j. Taylor,
ESQ, Of Wenona Stock Farm, Burlington,
New Jersey, and A. X Fenton, Esq. Of Hem
rico county, Virginia
The Marlboro G,lteite says.--Thc prevail.
ing remuneratiye prices which are now offered
for tobacco has induced many of our farmers
to ship the same earlier in the season than
usual, The tri.wceEly freight trains, which
pass over our road, are taxed to their utmost
capacity, and even with an increased number
of ears they are compelled to allow quantities
of freight to remain at the stations. On
InuiNuuN iusl [oU mus. ni AuDNCAO ltdHtu our
station for Baltimore, and about the same
amount on Saturday.
J. L. Mancha, real estate agent, has sold
80 acres of the 1ilghman's Point farm, in
Talbot county, to Colonel Prentiss Ingraham,
for 81 800. IL is the intention OF Colonel
lngraham to Mt once put up fue summer
residence on this tract. He is native of
Mississippi, and son of Rev. DIR. G. IL. In.
.ar.hap, I. IN xuoil tnama antha- &c
"Princc Of the House of DAVID and Israel
in Bondage" two popular works Colonel
lngraham is himself writer of some dis.
tincliOn.
A Hoax The sensational story about
Gyms Slack-who it is alleged murdered
BENJAMIN Rhodes in Dorchester county Nd.
eight or ten years ago-confessing the crime
in Florida on what he believed to be his death.
bed. turns out TO be an unmitigatcd hoax,
GOV. Groomc has communicated with Gov.
Stearns, OF Florida on the subject and is ad-
yertised that the report in entirely groundless.
A hotel keeper living near Bay View Cecil
county, who failed TO get license at the
last sitting Of the Grand Jury, was so angcred
ihercat that he fenced his hotel and stables in
with worm fence SO that the travelling public
would not be induced TO stop there, under the
impression that il was still hotel.
The prospect Of the wheat crop in Queen
Aune's county is said to be very good, and a
correspondent writing TO the Ccntreyile 90.
seruer, says that unless something occurs to
thin the peaches out the trees will be over
burdened with them
George A. Ahrens, junior member Of the
firm Of Stirling, Ahrens d Co. Of Baltimore,
committed suicide on Saturday morning by
shooting himself No cause Is assigned for
the act.
The Deer.Creek Farmers Club, have placed
number of black bass in Deer Creek, Har
ford county, Nd. for the purpose Of stocking it
with these fish.
Captain James 4. Norman has bought the
well-known Jenkins Greek farm, near Cam.
bridge of Hon. Jacob Tome for $4,000.
On the 18th Of May the International SUI.
day-school Convention meets in Baltimore.
The oyster trade in Baltimore employs
about 10000 men.
Thirty cases Of Typhoid are reported at Port
Deposit.