The Democratic advocate., 1879-06-07
Maryland Affairs.

/ There were 5000 persons at Confedcrai,
Memorial ceremonies at Frederick on Thurs
day.
In Talbot county the wheat has headed
with the promise OF fine yield, ifno disaster
occurs. The peaches are nninjnred and indi.
cate an extra full crop.
Mr.. VIM. G. T. Walter during the week
ending on Saturday shipped 500 quarts OF
Strawberries from Princess Anne, the produce
of one acre and a.half. In ono day ,232
quarts were picked.
Somerset county carries or the palm for the
most prolific SOW. Lewis McGntb, the own.
er, claims that in ten months she had three
litters, one Of twelve and two Of thirteen each,
making total Of thirty. pigs.
A SOW belonging to Danied Hartman, in
Emmittsburg, on the 18th iarrowed y pigs
The SOW has only II tea,s, and 6 of the pigs
died; but at last accounts the lG were getting
along finely.
Two mortgages, amounting to $4,000, 900,
hG % been iiled for record in the Cicuit Court
Of Prince Georges county from the Southern
Maryland Railroad in favor of the Guarantee
Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Phladel-
phia.
Part of the engineering corps connected
with the proposed Delaware aud Maryland
ship canal are now at Pennington, where il
will continue the borings commenced last
winter, with view to ascertain the nature of
the strata in that part of the peninsula.
On Wednesday night the stable, green
house and gas house, at the country residence
Of Augustus j. Albert. near Goyanstown,
Baltimore county, were burned. Loss $1,000,
partially insured.
A vessel load of brick sand was, last week,
shipped from Hayre de Grace TO New York,
by K. Il. Vandiver, Esq.
John G. kipp, the letter-earrier arrested in
Baltimore for stealing money from letters,
had hearing before the U, $. Commissioner
on Saturday, and was held in $1,000 bail for
the action ofihe Grand Jury.
Gen. Bradley I. johnson, of Richn:Jsd, for.
merly Of Frederick, is about to become Ares.
dent Of Baltimore city. He sod his house in
Richmond, last week, for $4,000, and has
resigned his position as State Senator.
The annual election for President and Di-
rectOrs of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
was held at Annapolis, on Monday, aud the
old officers were reelected. A protestagainSt
the election was filed by Mr.. Francis Miller,
of Montgomery county.
The body Of an old man, decomposed be-
yond Identification, was found in the woods
near Baltimore on Friday afternoon. An
empty laudanum vial lay beside the body.
From articles found in the pocket the dead
man was recognized as Captain W. W, lluf
fiugtou, who disappeared from Baltimore on
the 18th of May.
Messrs. Thos. ]. & y. Palmer Heating,
trustees, sold last Tuesday in Chesterlown,
the farm on Eastern Neck Island, near the
month Of the Chester river, belonging to c.
]. b. Mitchell Esq, and containing COO acres,
to Capt. w. II. Bians of Baltimore for Sl5
per acre. This is considered low when the
quality of the land and the delightful situation
Of the estate is taken into consideration.
The Druid Duck Mills, at Woodberry, Bal
timore Co., suspended operations on the
18th. The reason assigned for the suspen.
sion is the rise in price of cotton and the ap.
preaching end Of the cotton year. Messrs.
Gambrill say tha; they have filled all their
orders. Part of the machinery was stopped
on Monday, and an ineonsiderable portion
was running on Wednesday From three to
four hundred hands will ia consequence be
thrown oat OF employment.
Mrs. Bridget Fleming, an old, gray.haired
woman living in the house Of Alexander
Wright, No. 81 Monroe street, Baltimore,
upset coal oil lamp on her clothing Wednes.
day night, aud died from the effects of fire,
which consumed her flesh and burned her
entralls. The exact circumstances Of the
case are not known, but Il is though that the
old woman was about TO retire when the ae.
cideut happened that robbed her Of life.
The wheat acreage Of this State last year was
49l 900, and the product G,7S0,0O0 bushels.
This year from the most accurate reports OBJ
tainabe, the acreage is increased 10 per cent.
and will amount To 62j, ,OoD ncres, which, at
the same average win make the yield nearly
100000 bushels. 1t is generally believed,
however, that there will be an average increase
per acre. The acreage of rye last year was
%, 400, aud the product 10000. The acre.
age this year is no less than last and crops
will probably be about the same. The oa,
crop, dwaried by want of rain, isconsiderably
below the average and is not likely to recover
The corn acreage is increased from Az, 900
last year TO over 500,OO0, and the prospects
for a crop above the average are good.