The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-05-31

From the Hanover Spectator, Citizen and
Herald, we take the following:
The annual report Of the Hanover junction,
Hanover, aud Gettysburg Railroad, shows the
total receipts for the year ending March 81,
TO have been $Sl ,O2s. 70; expenditures $iS,.
7l9 .35; balance in treasury 81, 1891. The
bonded debt is $3.50, 200; floating debt $40.
900; capital stock $l16,S50 The road has
eight locomotives and thirty miles of main
line. 1t also operates the Bachman Valley
road, IA miles; the Berlin branch, miles;
and the Baltimore and Hanover road, 20
miles, will also be operated by this company
when finished. No dividend has been de-.
clared, in order that the credit Of the conpa
ny as guarantor Of the Baltimore and Hano.
yer company should remain unimpaired.
On Thursday evening, as Mr.. Il. Robert,
who resides about u miles from town, near
the Carlisle Pike, was driving along the pix &,
sear town be was hailed by two traInps, who
demanded his money, with threatening dem.
onstrations with razors. Mr.. Robert came to
town and informed officer Kuhn, who after a
chase arrested one OF the tramps near Hoke
4 Shafer's warehouse. The other was caught
by Mr.. Stevens a short distance down the
Short Line Railroad. They were taken before
Justice Forney, who committed them to jail.
Last week, twelye-year- old son Of Adam
Nunamaker, Of New Freedom, in running
over plank walk, fell and run splinter into
the PALM Of his right hand. II was thought
the splinter was imbedded loo deep TO resort
to cutting; poultiees were applied, but on
Sunday the boy was attacked with lock Jaw
and died on Monday.
The new barn on the Conowago Chapel
farm will probably be raised next week. Ii
viii be bank barn, S0x44 feet Plus s.
Smith, Esq. is the contractor, who also built
the house recently completed. The new
farm Eill contain abont l26 acres, taken from
the other farms, which now yet are among
the largest in the county.
Tho barn Of Jacob Basehore, near Emigs.
vile, was struck by lightning on Sunday after.
noon last, and was consumed with oil its
contents, consisting Of one mare and colt,
wagons and other farming implement, grain,
hay, straw, &c. The building was insured in
the Dover Company 70 the amount Of $500.
charlgs March, residing near Abbottstown,
while haulihg rails was thrown from the
wagon aud sustained fracture Of both bones
of right forearm at wrist
On Wednesday, the 2isl, Mrs. MARI Hantz,
Of Paradise Twp, was buried; she was aged 50
year,. Her funeral was largely attended BY
relatives. Al very sad and fatal accident oc-
Cured after the friends returned 10 the house.
A number ofyoung men, among them Samu.
el Siaiey, were employed 10 attend TO the
horses, &c. Young Slaley was engaged in
cutting with small pea knife, when some
other young men pushed him over, which
cause the knife 70 enter his breast and cut
the main artery leading from the heart. He
died almost instantly, only saying ~ cut
myself
During a thander storm, on Sunday after
noon last, the house Of Solomon Brown, |
short distance from New Oxford, was struck |
BY lightning. The bolt entered the chimney,
passed down the Cue aud entered The room
Ia which . portion Of the family were assem-
bled Of the time. One Of the children, a /
daughter probably l2years Of age, lying on the \
floor within afew feet Of a stove, received q |
severe shock, A portion OF the hair was
singed from the back Of her head. She Law
IN anunconscious condition for seteral hours.
A disease has made It's appearance among
the horses in West Mannheim. The symptoms
are swelling or inflammation 81 lhe tonsIs
aud adjacent parts Of the throat, uniting the
animal for work