The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-14
Maryland AFalr..

voar Is G5 cents on the s10O--a reduction
or 5 cents from last years levy
James A. Trumbull, Of Baltimore city,
has purchased Mrs. Martha Tubman'
farm in Howard county for 81 800.
The levy for county purposes, in
Charles.county, is sl.10 on the 500, u
reduction Of four cents from last year.
There were 259 deaths 10 Baltimore,
during the week ending July Z, Of
which 100 were from cholera infantum.
The De Coursey farm, 1905 acres, at
Town Point, Cecil county, has been sold
to Mr.. Abbott, of Philadelphia, for $4,000.
Marx Erlanger, convicted of forgery, in
Baltimore, was sentenced on Saturday to
Eve years imprisonment ia the penitenti-
airy.
Baltimore county is afflicted with
snakes. A huge rattlesnake, with TWEEN
ty.onc rattles, was killed last week on
3 Georges Run, near Gunpowder Falls.
The first Maryland peaches of the
season were received in Baltimore on
Saturday, 9TH July, Ia crates of the Bca-
trice variety from the Riverside farm Of
Col. wilkins.
Three stacks Of wheat, belonging to Mr..
John 4. Bounds, of Quantico, Wicomico
county, was set on FIRE bylightniug during
the storm on Tuesday night last and to-
tally destroyed.
Fannie Banks, colored, with an infant
in her arms, was last week knocked over.
board from a slOop in the Choptank river,
BY iibbing of a sail. The child was res.
cued aud the woman drowned.
The foreign trade Of Baltimore city
for tue fiscal year ended June 30, 1877,
was Sol ,534, 672, against s53, 557 1876 for
1876, an Increase Of s7,977 ,236 for the
year This increase was altogether in
exports, the imports having been sl2,23l
less than they were last year.
Some old coins have recently been
found on James Presh's farm, on the old
Bnddock road, hear Keyser's, in Ale
gany county. The coins weigh one ounce
each, and are Of pure silver. They we're
evidently very old, but no date appears on
any Of them, and are very roughly exc
cuted.
On the 22d Of last month some boys in
Baltimore INDUCED in a stone fight, aud
one of them, Jacob Samuel, aged ~, was
wounded in the head by stone thrown
by another l2-year-old boy, named james
DObbin Samuel died on Sunday of his
injuries, and Dobbin was arrested and
committed for trial.
On Saturday night last, between eleven
and twelve o'clock, Mr. Hobert Lewis,
living about four miles south of Frederick,
lost about six hundred bushels Of wheat in
the stack by FIRE. The wheat was set on
fire with coal oil Mr. Lewis saw the par.
ties and thinks he would be able to iden-
tily them should he see them again.
A famous old horse, owned by gentle
man in the northwestern section Of Balti-
more, kills from three to half.doEen rats
every night. When the rodents come
into his trough 10 cat the feed, the old
equine just seiEes them by the back, gives
q grip with his teeth, opens his mouth,
and they fall dead at his hooGs. He is
worth a halEdozen eats.
The expenses of Baltimore county for
the fiscal year ending May, 1877 amounted
10 s2GG, III. l6, besides the public schools
expense, which is about sl35,000, the
State paying nearly $4,000 and the rest
raised by levy Of tax The county roads
and bridges cost sl05,3l9, the Circuit
Court s26, l24.54, almshouse sll ,320.47,
Jail sl0,63G.33, assessment Sls,692.50,
county police sl2,949.9S
Que Of the old landmarks of Baltimore,
the City Hall, ON Holiday street, is soon to
be torn down. II was builtby Rembrandt
Peae, in 1913, as IA museum, and was a
popular place of resort for nearly seventeen
years, when it was purchased by the Com.
mon Council. 1t was the first building in
the city that was lighted with gas-Mr.
Pcale charging small fee in 1916 for
the exhibition Of carburetted hydrogen
gas.
The eleventh annual session Of the Ma
Tlaud State Teachers Association con-
'Cned on Tuesday at Easton, Talbot
county, A large number of members
went down by the steamer Pentz, which
len Baltimore early in the morning. DIR.
Nlnlan Pinkney, Of the United States
navy, delivered an address Of welcome,
which was responded to by Mr. 7. A. So.
per-, principal Of male grammar school No.
L, Baltimore city.
The Cumberland AUegaHidR has advices
that the boatnen on the Chesapeake and
Oho canal are holding well togther in their
4 I strike, and that they have perpetrated but
one act Of violence rs yet, The boats are
closing up together at Maids lock, and
seem determined TO remain there until
some action be taken by the canal board.
An ample supply Of provisions has been
sent them, and they have secured seventy
acres of pasturage for their teams.
BARN BURNED.-We learn from the
\ WayEesboro Record that the barn belong.
rng to Benz. Stoner, near Smithsburg, was
struck by lightning on the 9th Of June
and entirely consumed with its contents
upwards Of twenty loads Of hay, farm i'm.
dement's, gears, etc. One Of the tenants
whose name we have not learned, was in
que barn at the time and was knocked in
sensible byahe shock, as was also one oil
Tue horses. The man was rescued and
remained nseusible until noon Of the next
uay The horse was consumed in the
burning building.
The Frederick city Times says; We
arc pleased to observe that practical meas
ufes are being taken at last, looking to the
erection Of suitable monument over the
grave of Francis Scott Key, the author Of
n tSe Star Spangled Banner" in Mount
oavet Cemetery, in this city, The ener.
se'lc steps taken by Mr.. Nathan Appleton
patriotic aud public spirited citizen, o
boston, Mass, 10 secure sufficient fund
OF this purpose by delivering course o.
sc'Grcs throughout the principal cities o.
lae Union give every assurance that the
mort will be successful