The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-08-04
Maryland Affairs.

of Deer Creek. Nearly two thousand per
sons were present.
X. $. Smith, manager OF the Wayside Farrn,
near Darlington, sowed April 4, on 81 acres
land, 20l bushels oats and raised 4GG bushels,
which is yield Of 22l bushels for one The
average was 63l bushels to the acre, weighing
SGl pounds to the bushel
During the freight blockade the owners OF
the Patapsco Mills, at Ellicou City, were
compelled to use wagons for transportation
purposes. Thirty teams were required; and
the sights on the turnpike to Baltimore re-
minded one of the olden times before rail-
road were built. These mills were founded
by the Ellicotts over century ago.
company Of militia, numbering sixty
young men from the neighborhood of Belair,
Hartford county went TO Baltimore last week
and offered its services to the Governor. The
company, which was assigned to Col. Phelps
regiment, is commanded by Edward Cum.
minis. Among the members are sons of Ohio
Scott, Henry W. Archer and Hon. Stevenson
Archer
At 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon last, the
barn Of Capt. Il. W. Gallup, on Dairy farm,
was struck by lightning and set on fire. The
barn and its contents, including |, 200 bushels
OF wheat 800 bushels of oats, and 30 or 40
Neho VI my NtTt hll tnllTtlN uthtTOltus he
total loss will be about 81 ,000-supposedt TO be
insured in the Hartford Mutual for 81, 500.
A son of Mr.. Gallup and son of Mr.. Robert
Morrison, of Baltimore, were in the barn at
the time the building was struck and both
we're slightly stunned by the lightning.
A DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. STORM. On Saturday
afternoon last severe storm, accompanied
by heavy fall of hail, passed around IIa.
gerstown. Whilst no damage was done in
the town, some four miles West in the neigh.
borhood Of the farms Of Messrs. Daniel Hu
yeti, George and Lewis Schindel and others,
the destruction Of the growing corn, timber,
fences, &C., was very heavy. The hail was
unusually large and knocked the corn into
pieces, while the storm was so violent as to
PROSTATE large trees, and broken limbs are
so thickly strewn over the ground, as to rem.
der difficult passage through the tangled
mass. How far the storm extended we could
not definitely ascertain, but between the
Western and Williamsport Pixies it was par.
ticularly severe, and it is reported that it ex.
tended to Sharpsburg Pike, and even rs far
down as keedysville, but what damage it
done, we did not learn.-TOrch.
FGEDERIcE COUNTY-Ezra 4. Barrick, Of
Woodsboros district, while assisting in thresh.
ing grain, got bis right hand caught in the
gearing and had it badly. torn.
VIM. g. Cole, aged G8, died in Frederick,
on the 10Th ultimo. Mrs. Jemima Ham.
mond, of the same city, aged 81, died on the
Goth utimo
Hog cholera is prevailing to an alarming
extent in the vicinity Of Unionyllc. Mr..
Dorsey lost 20 hogs by the disease, and sew
eral others have met with serious losses.
Mr.. Smith, tenant on Eli Burriers farm,
near lsrael's church, from 20 acres cut 7I2
bushels of wheat, or over 81 bushels per acre.
A militia company has been raised in Fred.
erlck city, Col. l.. Victor Baughman is the
captain, and have received 90 muskets.
BALTIMORE County .-Tejo Cooper, one of
the old defenders was buried on Monday near
Parkton, seventh district Deceased was
about ninety years of age.
On Monday morning barn containing
about three hundred bushels of oats and five
tons of hay, on the property of Samuel Pick.
erton, Esq, situated near the Philadelphia
road, in the eleventh district was destroyed
by FIRE. The barn was insured in the Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. in Hartford county for $3.50.
There was no insurance on the contents
The fire is supposed to have been the work
Of tramps.
A cavalry company has been formed at the
Seven Mile House, on the Reisterstowp Pike.
LAwLEssNEss.-Tho Elicott CITY Times
says The residence of Brigadier General
Herbert, near Woodstock in this county, has
been guarded by several of his neighbors,
owing to the fact that gang of tramps were
in the nelghborhood inquiring for its location
and from their manner it was supposed that
they had some predatory design in contem.
plation-in the opinion Of some the burning
of the house. We learn that the store of
Mr.. A. A. Fahey, Railroad agent and mer.
chant at Woodstock, was also threatened n
few nights ago with pillage by gang of
tramps, but that they were driven away.
BALTIMORE, PAST AND PREsrxr.-It is re.
lated by one of the annalists of Baltimore that
in the year 1880 u plan for day police and
nlght'watch to guard the riiidgers while they
slept was adopted. At that time Baltimore
had about 5000 population, who are said to
have been so exemplary in their demeanor,
both in daylight and darkness, that but three
constables were required for hours of business
and but fourteen watchmen for the night.
The historian remarks:-"We have advanced
in civilization and numbers since them We
have now about 500 regular policemen and
approaching $4,000 inhabitants.
The Easton Gazette after publishing the
Westminster AdrOcGte'S defence of the East.
ern Shore against the good. natured criticisms
OF Baltmoreans and unjust structures of
sundry Western Shore papers, disposes of the
questionin the following curt manner: ave
would say to the AdpOcdte that the Eastern
Shoremen laugh at the stupidity of some
Baltmoreans, for while they assume an air
nf RE tuso ala - Al
spoken of cannot tell whether the Eastern
Shore embraces nine counties or is only the
size Of a Baltimore county truckpatch. 4"
TRANPs.--Since the elimination of the
great strike into riot these pests have hoated
more extensi8ly than ever upon the surface
Of events and have become n very dangerous
nuisance. Emboldened by the present dis.
tracted condition of society everywhere, thew
do not hesitate at any excess or crime, and
our house keepers should be on the quf riue
for them. We hear of threats Of arson and
attempts at pillage made by these gentry in
different portions of the county, and no far.
mer should go to the field and leave his house
unprotected. --Ellieoh City Times
OUTRAGEOUS Assaults. -Anna Martin, ten
years old, white, daughter of Andrew Martin,
OF Hampden, Baltimore county, while on an
erranu Tor her mother last Monday week was
assaulted and outraged by colored man
named George Wilson. On the same day
Wilson committed similar outrage on Anna
Donnelly, white, nine years old, in the same
neighborhood.
The 1ost robbery, reported in the Hagers.
town Mail, turns out TO be no robbery at
oil, for the money of which he was supposed
to have been robbed by some PENNSYLVANIA
harvest hands was found in the leg of his
breeches. He had probably been in compa.
ny with John Thompson
The tall man with the long white coat, who
was so prominent urging on the mob at the
9th Regiment armory, and who reappeared at
Holiday and again at Light street, where he
was killed, was Otto Manski, fresco painter.
Disastrous storms prevailed in Prince
Georges county last week, great injury being
done to the corn and tobacco. Mr.. r. III.
Sasscer had ten blooded colts killed by light.
ming.
The Columbia and Port Deposit Rail Road
was opened to the travelling public on Monday
last. Mr.. j. B. Hutchinson has been an.
pointed Superintendent Of the road.
Miss Christiana Hiss died near Baltimore
the other day in the same house in which she
was born ninety-one years ago.