The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-02-19
Maryland Affair.

The Peabody Institute Library is de-
cidedly the most complete 10 Baltimore.
/ Peach growers In the vicinity Of Elktoh
say the peach prospect was never worse
than now.
o. p Clemson, Of Elkton, has sold his
trotter Beudigo for 80, 1850 to a gentleman
in Baltimore,
Several Elktonians have migrated 10
Virginia, where land is cheap, and the
people social and intelligent. p i''t
1t is rumored that Colonel B. F. CarIin,
of the City Hotel, Frederick City, is in
treaty for lease of Berkeley Springs Va.
w. T. Master, Of Baltimore, has been
awarded the. contract for building new
harbor boat at Philadelphia, at $4,000,
he being the lowest bidder.
Federal Hill, Baltimore, is to be remoy-
ed, for the alleged reason that It confines
the unbearablc odors Of the Basin too
much to the city 10 warm weather
An aged farmer named Thomas Street,
committed suicide on Sunday last, by
drowning himself in Rogers mill pond
Deer Creek, Hartford county. His mind
was impaired. rvt
The Cecil county school board propose
to create bonded debt for the purpose Of
supplying a deficiency in the school fund,
and will memorable the Legislature for
power to that end.
Mr.. Abraham Cole, superintendent of
the Baltimore county almshouse, states
that the past winter he has entertained
each week, upon an average, from ninety
to one hundred tramps
The State Normal School Building,
corner Of Lafayette avenue and Republi-
can street, Baltimore, will be soon adorned
by handsome spire, which is already de-
veloping fair proportions.
At meeting of the Gunpowder Agri-
cultural Club last week memorial was
prepared for presentation to the Legisla-
ture, requesting that the management of
the State Agricultural College be placed
under the control of commission Of in
telligent and educated farmers. tl'jllHiJ
Rev. Alfred b. Leeson, deacon, lately
an assistant of Mt. Calvary p Il. Church,
Of Baltimore city, against whom the SEN
tencc Of deposition was read by Bishop
Whittingham last Sunday in the chapel
Of st. Mary the Virgin, sailed for England
last June. The announcement of his in
tention to join the Roman Catholic church
occasioned his deposition.
LIBEL SUITs.-There is prospect that
the suits of Ex-Gov. Groome, Comptroller
Woolford and Treasurer Compton against
the Baltimore american will be compro-
missed. The american of Thursday says
''We know of nothing which justiies sus-
picion of wilful violation or neglect of duty
by Ex-Governor Groome, Treasurer Compton
or Comptroller Woolford in reference to the
purchase Of site for the House OF Correc.
ton, or the awarding Of contracts for the
erection Of buildings thereon, nor do we ad.
nit that we have ever made such n charge
against either Of these gentlemen.
An inquest was held "Wednesday, near
Wigan, Somerset county, over the body
of a little girl named Mary Evans, aged
six years, the daughter Of Samuel Evans
About one pound Of gunpowder was Dor
rowed from Evans by neighbor, and re-
turned on the following evening. Mrs.
Evans received the powder, and left ba-
sin containing it at the bottom of the
stairs. The child being shortly afterward
sent up stairs on an errand with a, candle,
stumbled against the basin and dropped
the candle into it. The powder exploded
and the child was SO injured that she died.
OPPOSED TO A NEW CoDE.-A memo
rial is being circulated in Baltimore legal
and business circles in opposition to legal
izing new form Of code for Maryland,
and asking the Legislature ''to pause and
consider well before adopting SO novel
procedure" The memorial says that the
present Maryland code and supplements,
which codify tho laws up to 1870, are dis
tributed throughout the State and were
obtained by their owners at considerable
expense. 1t is claimed that new form
of code would "disarrange the established
order of the statue Jurisprudence of the
State"