The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-07-19
MARYLAND Affairs.

The whooping cough is raging ~ l"'oo'
Tbe Rehnblicans elected their entlre cor
nora,;on ticket nj Annapolis on Monday.
The dors Ia Cecil county annually destroy
about 6fteen hundred dollars worth OF sheep'
Gen. Bradley T. johnson and John I, roe
have formed a law partnership IN Baltimore.
There are now lhrlyGye steam engines IN
Queen Annes county all busy thresh'ng
wheat. ,.La.,
saws The Ga,eite, that averages nearly million
bushels per dry.
The Belair 4Egis learns that geIher The
quality or quantity Of the wheat crop IN liar'
| ford county is as good as last year.
/ The Oakland Herald says man naheu
/ Sines recently killed sixty rattlesnakes ~
den near Deep Creek, Garrett county
! Salisbury has rooster that has gone to
/ LAYING eggs, and at last accounts had produc'
ed four on as many successive mornings,
/ Thos. j. War6eid, Of BrethedsVil.e, WASH
ngton county, reports yield OF Ssi bushels
Of wheat TO the acre.
Mr.. B. +. MAY, of Elkion, has caught cur
culio, after having tried for several years. II
/ has six legs, and cutting apparatus thal
would do credit TO steam saw mill.
| Mr.. Stephen Woolford, a Dorchester iarm
er raised 20 bushels Of wheat for one, without
fertilizer, and another farmer in the saine
county seeded 10 bushels and raised 10.
Gov. Carroll has committed the sentence
of death TO imprisonment for life IN the case
of John Heath who was convicted oil killing
Louis Schmidt, in Baltimore, recently.
The champion "bindern Of the peninsula
is James +. Haiues Of Port Deposit. lie
bound i25 large sheaves Of wheat IN hive
hours, when the thermometer stood 10 de
grees in the shade.
A steam pump at Patterson's Creek, near
Cumberland, is now working day and night,
discharging into the canal 1900 gallons OF
water per minute. This is said to be the
largest pump in the world.
Last Fridays storm did considerable dam
age in Frederick county. IL is thought the
apple crop near Middletown was destroyed.
A great deal Of fencing and many trees were
blown down near Ellicott City, Howard county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Upperco, wife Of John 4.
Upperco, Of the fourth district, Baltimore
county, broke one OF her legs in two places in
driving accident last week, the horse run
ming away with her carriage and throwing her
out.
The boiler in the box factory of adams &
Setter, Low Street, Baltimore, exploded on
Friday morning OF last week. Two men were
instantly killed, and twelve others severely
wrecked.
The Cecn Wig charges upon the odor Of
the Ailanthus blossom, consumption, caiarrh,
/ feyers and many other diseases that spring
I from poison breAthed into the lungs. IL also
| mentions that "a young ducks were poisoned
recently by eating the blossoms Of the tree.
! George Merryman, well.known farmer
aud hotel keeper near Black Rock, died sud
denly on Sunday morning of heart disease
I Mr. Merryman had gone TO his stable, and on
returning to the house sat down on a chair
and died in half an hour. He was in his ODD
/ year, and leaves wife and several children
On Tuesday night, between II and II
O'Clock the Indian Spring Hotel, four miles
west Of Clearspring, Washington county, was
burned to the ground, the Gre originating IN
the kitchen. Two small children we're with
difficulty rescued from the flames There was
| $1,000 insurance on the building and $685.
on the furniture.
/ Mayor lairobe Of Baltimore aud the city
Law officers have held several consultations
for the purpose Of framing a bill to be pre-.
scented TO the mex, Legislature looking to the
annexation Of the "belt.h The course to be
pursued is for the Legislature to change the
constitution relative TO the limits of the city
aud Baltimore county and submit i TO the
! people Of the state for ratification.
Mr.. Robert Hull, state wegher Of live
stock, has complained to State Treasurer
Barnes Compton that the law Of 1874, re-
quiring that all imported beef cattle and hogs
sold in Baltimore city or within Eve miles OF
the corporate limits for slaughter has been
violated frequently Of late. The treasurer
called the attention Of the States Attorney
A. Leo Knott to the fact, who obtained
warrant from Justice Peters for the arrest Of
Jacob c. Schaeicr, butcher and packer, for
violating the law. The case was assigned for
hearing on the 18th instant
William Wilkens, senior member Of the
firm of William Wilkens h Co., Of Baltimore,
died on Saturday, aged sxty.two years of
/ Brights disease. Mr.. Wilkens was one the
best known business men of that city and was
J proprietor OF the extensive curled hair factory
on the Frederick road, employing about four
hundred hands. He was native Of Oster.
tindc, Brunswick, Germany, aud coming to
the United State in 1886 began business in
Philadelphia, 1t is said, on a capital Of Is
cents. lie leaves an estate valued at several
millions Of dollars.