The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-14
Maryland Affair.

The average number of coal cars that pass
over the BALTIMORE and Ohio railroad daily
is two hundred and seventy.
Mr. Henry Carroll, Of Baltimore county,
died Saturday last, at the advanced aged Of
| s0years.
! Mr. John l,oats sold his extensive tannePies
| in friedrich City to Messrs. Daniel Baker 4
Sons for the sum of $4,000.
The physicians of Robert j. Slater, recent.
/ ly convicted in Baltimore of gambling, and
now confined in the city Jail, have signed a
| petition asking Gov. Carroll to pardon him
on account of faling health. The Governor
will take up the case on the 18th instant.
On Tuesday afternoon Rev. Samuel Math.
cws, minister in charge of the Christians or
| Disciples Church. at Beaver Creek, in Wash
ingtOn county fell dead while crossing fence
near his residence. He was fiity.hve years
old, and leaves a widow and nine children.
Great excitement prevailed in the Corn
Exchange, Baltimore, on Wednesday. About
| 100000 bushels of corn was sold at 5s4G160
cents per bushel. Ii was the largest sale ever
made in that city. The advance is attributed
to the warlike news from Europe, small stock
in the elevators aud the advance Of prices in
the west
| The residence Of Mr.. j. 0rson Adams, at
Jessup's Cut, Howard county, was burned to
the ground at o'clock Monday morning.
| The building had recently been reftted at
considerable expense. high wind prevail
ing at the time rendered all efforts TO extin.
gush the fire unavailable, Mr.. Adams IS
bank examiner.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal directors
have passed resolutions reducing coal tolls
eight cents per ton, with terminal facilities
between Cumberland and Georgetown, and
authorizing President German 10 make any
further reductions necessary to meet alleged
cutting rates on coal by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company.
On Saturday last, Matthew Doane, lad
about fourteen years of age was lodged in
| Jowsontown Jail by Constable Robert j.
White for setting fire TO and burning the barn
Of Levi Furguson, of the eleventh district,
on the Monday evening previous. Doane
was in the employ of Furguson. He admitted
that he had had set fire TO the building
At the corporation election, on Monday, at
Hagerstown, the Democrats elected four out
Of the five city councilmen. There was also
an election held for postmaster, the Repub
lican candidate, present incumbent, received
j32 votes, There we're several Independent
| Republican and two Democratic candidates
The vote for Lighting the streets with gas
was W, against it jG7.
| There are now over one hundred eases of
malignant measles in Hampdeu and Wood.
berry, Baltimore County. Already several
deaths have occurred. Scarlet fever is pre-.
yaiing at Mount Washington. Scarletina is
so bad in Annapolis that the medical officers
of the Naval Academy have recommended
the suspension Of visiting among families af-
fected.
The citizens of the Maryland Peninsular
urge Ocean City as the proper terminus for
the proposed ocean cable They claim that
it will be better place than Lewes, as the
cable will not be in danger of being dragged
and broken by vessels, and there is a railroad
which runs nearly to the beach. AZ it seems
to be Maryland enterprise they also urge it
should have a Maryland terminus,
Ross Winans died at his residence in Bal
timore, on Wednesday morning last, in his
Slst year. Mr.. Winans was perhaps, one of
the best known Americans of his age, having
been extensively engaged in railroad affairs
in this country and Europe, and was the in.
ventor OF many Of the most important patents
pertaining to railroad machinery. He was
born in Sussex county, n. j.
In the Supreme Court on Tuesday the case
of W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, against
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
was decided against him, thus affirming the
decree of the Maryland Court of Appeals
The question involved and decided is whether
the coupons of the preferred bonds of the
Company bear interest from the time they
become overdue as against the mortgages of
the State of Maryland. The decision is that
they do not thus bear interest as against said
mortgages. If the Supreme Court had deci
ded to the contrary half million dollars of
Indebtedness would have been saddled on
Maryland.
Judge Stump, Of the Circuit Court Of Caro-
line county, has instructed the grand jury
to investigate the famous May and Ben.
nett duel, and If they find that there was
duel, and that it occurred in that county, to
lndict the principals and accessories Some
Of the New York and Philadelphia journals
are iacetious over the supposed tardings Of
the Court in this case, but they should under.
stand that the Court holds but TWO Jury terms
in year. that the Circuit is composed of four
counties, and that Judge Stump resides in the
opposite end of his Circuit, in Cecil, and not
in Caroline county. Besides, if an indict.
ment be found it may be effective in bringing
the parties to justice yet, though years inter
yene. The grand jury failed to make q pre-.
sentiment owing to insufficient testimony.
| The annual meeting OF the stockholders of
the Maryland Agricultural College was held
in Baltimore, on Wednesday Ohio II. vii.
liams was called to the chair, with Gilmore
| Hoffman as Secretary. The annual election
for officers then took place. There was some
opposition manifested to the present manage.
ment on the ground Of not paying enough
attention to agricultural matters, but all the
present board were reelected except Charles
b. Calvert, who was defeated by VIM. b.
Sands. Ezra Whitman, Baltimore Allen
Dodge, Washington, D. c.; Major John +.
Lee, Prince Georges General L. L. +. Hard.
castle, Talbot; Hon. James T. Earle, Queen
Annesi Judge W. II. Tuck, of Annapolis,
| VIM. b. Sands, are the trustees. A resolu.
ton offered by Mr.. McHenry was adopted
requesting the board of trustees to make in.
struction in practical and experimental agri.
culture the leading feature in the educational
system of the college at the earliest possible
moment.