The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-08-02
Maryland Affairs.

Mr.. ID. s. Waldron, Fesiding near Preston,
caroline county, has sold his troiter "Juny,"
TO Philadelphia gentleman for 81, 500.
ratilesnake measuring ak feet ia length
and containing -four nttles was killed recently
on The farm of Mr.. Joshua Hawkins, inAnne
Arundel county.
Gov. Bowie's horse, Skylark, won the race
between the three year Odds at Saratoga, on
Monday, one mile dash, purse $500, time
l;1Bi, nine entries.
The Catholic church and parsonage 1T Han.
cock were burglarized few days since By, Il
Is thought, the same thieves that robbed the
Methodist parsonage.
The receipts of wheat in baltimore on July
30 were the largest ever known in one day,
amounting to about 100000 bushels, the arr.
rivals by rail being 9ss cars.
:, September 0 and union convention Of
Howard county Sunday schools will be held
at Ellicott City, under the auspices Of the
Maryland Sunday School Union.
Mr.. c. BOhn SlingufE, member Of the
baltimore county bar at TowsoDtown, has one
OF the largest individual librariesin Maryland,
Numbering over six thousand volumes.
Deer Park lumber firm have received an
order from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Tor 32I 200 feet Of white pine lumber, TO be
USED IN rebuilding tres,hng on the Metro
politan Branch
A new railroad is to be built from Annap-
oils 10 Baltimore. The charter has been
prepared, and the company has a capital
stock of 100000. 1t shortens the distance
between the two cities ten miles.
Miss Laura NJ. Raymond, Of Baltimore,
aged "a years, while suffering from severe
attack Of neuralgia, jumped from the third
story window about O'Clock on Wednesday
morning and was instantly killed.
steam power for thrashing has almost su.
perceded horse power in Washington county;
notwithstanding horse power machines charge
third less, the charges for steam being three
bushels II the hundred and for horse power
two bushels.
AT Salisbury, a coiored girl clothing caught
fire from the explosion OF n coal oil lamp, and
she ran nimbly to the river, plunged IN and
extinguished the flames. But she made a
narrow escape from drowning, and was also
severely burned.
= spark from a steam thrasher last week
ignited some loose straw on the farm OF Mr..
Robt. Diffenderfer, on the Trappe road Tai
bot county, and both the thrasher and I2d
bushels OF wheat were consumed before the
flames were extinguished
Daniel c. Hopper, of Queen Anne's coun.
~ sowed 81 bushels of wheat, and last week
he threshed his crop which realized 104l
bushels, or over 20 for one seeded. William
Carmichael got S0l and Thomas II. Dodd &c
for one seeded.
Mrs. Louisa Jones, ofAnnopolis, was terribl,
burned by the explosion Of coal oil lamp OF
Monday morning She had been up with &
sick child all night, and about daylight blew
down the chimney to extinguish the fam,
when the lamp exploded. Mr.. Jones wa
Iu NH Ia -. . r.
There were $50 prisoners in the House o
Correction on Saturday, so of whom will b,
discharged this month. Fifty males and fe
males are now employed running sewing ma
chimes on oyeralls for Stiefel & Juhn, Of Bal
timore. As soon as the necessary shaftin
can be put in the machines will be run B.
steam.
1t is stated that Rev. John Dooley, of tn
Young Mems Christian Association Of New
York, Bowery branch, has purchased severa
thousand acres Of land in Worcester county
near Snow Hill, which he proposes to colon
ize with families from New York. They ar
to engage in agriculture, and particularly il
truck farming for the Northern markets.
The Delaware Conference of the Coloret
NJ. E. Church, including the Eastern Shor
Of Maryland and Virginia and the State O
Delaware, was in session ct Cambridge, las
week. The attendance on Sunday was owe
10000, about 1000 of whom went from Bal
timore by steamer. Notwithstanding III,
great crowd there was no difficulty in feedinl
il.
Thomas II. Benner, living in the lodg,
house at Antietam National Cemetery, Sharps
burg, Washington county, was sho. Sunda,
morning about eight O'Clock by his wife
They were married about eight months ago
and had with them as a boarder Mr.. Haver
field, superintendent Of the cemetery. Ben
ner accused his wife of criminal intimacy wit
Hayerield and attacked her with mnrderou
intent, when she seized loaded carbine an,
shot him through the heart, causing instan
death. Mrs. Benner was arrested by con
stable and LODGED in jail at Hagersiown Mon
day morning,