The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-08-30
Maryland Affairs.

The fall meeting Of the Maryland Jockey
| Club commences at HmlieO, October 2lst.
Rev Jacob Gels, Of the sth district Of Bal.
iimore county, died on the 22d instant, aged
- years.
One hundred thousand dollars Is the osti.
mated value Of Wcomico county's fruit crop
the present year.
Enoch g. Thompson, near Harrisonylle,
Baltimore county, died from paralysis on
Sunday morning. He was well known.
On Saturday a stack of wheat, containing
800 bushels, belonging 10 John W. Burton,
near TOwsont0Sn, was destroyed by an iucen'
diary fire.
On Hongar river, Somerset county, Eve
cattle were bitten to death by mosquitoes aud
on Ascomb's Island one horse and seven cat.
tie we're killed.
At the last meeting Of the Aune Arundel
tax payers convention Me-. Anderson wanted
to have the office Of examiner of the public
schools abolished
The farm of the late Ann Paine, in the
fifth district, Howard county, containing ll9
acres, improved BY dwelling, has been sold
to rerlais Penn for $4,000.
The congregations Of "old Monroe Church,
in Somerset county, are raising money to re-
place the structure destroyed by the cyclone
Of July 81 The old church was built in ITO
and had braved the fury of the elements
for 100 years.
Hon. Barnes Compton has bought the prop.
erty Of Capt. WIN. ii. Bians located between
the railroad and pike, in East Laurel, Prince
Georges county. Mr.. q. intends erecting
the outbuildings upon it this fall, and dwell.
ing ia the spring.
A valuable COW belonging to Gotlieb Field
meyer, Anne Arundel county, was drowned
recently by getting her horns hooked in a
barrel spring. The water was low and the
cowreached dowa and entangled her horns in
the barrel. Her nostrils were barely covered.
The Eastern Shore papers continue their
complaints of the mosquito plague. The SUI
perintendent and train hands of the railroad
near Cambridge declare that the mosquitoes
have been so thick as to obscure the light of
the sun and that lighted lamps have been ne
cessary at mid. day in the stores and count.
ing rooms.
Last Tuesday morning fire was discov-
cred in the organ loft OF Christ Church, ut
Easton, which was soon extinguished. The
FIRE had originated from leak in a gas pipe,
which must have been lit by stroke of light
ming the previous evening. The gas had been
burning all night, heating the pipe and the
wall until the woodwork was ignited.
On Friday last while Mrs. Eliza Carr, wife
of Peter Carr, who resides near Hofman's
paper mills, in the sixth district of Baltimore
county, was driving in a buggy near Clipper
Mills, the horse suddenly became unmanage-
able, throwing Mrs. Carr out of the buggy,
breaking her arm and inAicting other severe
and perhaps fatal injuries. She is now in a
precarious condition.
The Towsontown Journal says Captain
Peter Fowble, Of the 9th district Of this coun-
". informs US that about the year 1891 when
he was small boy he held Young sycamore
tree for his father, who planted it ia front of
Fowble's) brother in the 9th district. The
tree is now thrifty, as it has been for many
years past, and in circumference is Is feet
The Western and Middle conferences of
Maryland Synod will hold a Sabbath school
convention in the Lutheran church at Me.
ehanicstown, Frederick county, on the Sd,
4th aud 9th of September. The convention
will consist of all the ministers Of the respec.
tive conferences, aud one delegate from each
Sabbath school within the bounds Of said
conferences. Union schools in which Luz
therans have an interest are also ineladed.
The large grist mill Of Edward Scott, on the
Western Run turnpike, and about i've miles
west of Cockeysville, Baltimore county, was
totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night
about 10 O'Clock. Besides the valuable ma
chinery used in the mill there was stored
therein about 300 bushels wheat, 800 bushels
corn, $50 bushels rye, 40 barrels of flour, corn
chop, &c, and also corn, wheat, &c, belong.
ing to the customers Of the mill. The loss
will aggregate about So, 500; insured in the
Hartford County Company. The mill was
built in 1901.
Mrs. Susan Martien, aged 1903 years, save
one month and 10 days, died on Saturday at.
ternoon, at the residence of her son, William
Martien, corner Of Mount Royal avenue and
Wilson street, Baltimore. She was born Dc
tober g, 1875, in Hanover, Pa, her family
name being Euler, aud resided in Baltimore
for 80 years, her husband, VIM. Martien, dy.
ing 50 years ago in that city. Mrs. Martien
was an unusually bright and cheerful old lady,
having always enjoyed the best of health, and
retaining her faculties almost unimpaired to
ihe last. when she quietly and gradually vast,
cd away. Only two sons OF ten children sur.
Yive her, namely, Jacob Martien, Of Louisi.
ena, and VIM. Martien, of Baltimore
The Maryland Packing Company at Oxford,
Talbot county, have an average OF forty men
and boys at work ia catching crabs, and the
number caught ranges from 800 to 1000 by
each, and as they are paid Is cents per hun
dred, the employment is profitable. The crabs
are boiled Immediately upon being landed.
All dead or even weak crabs are rejected
After being boiled they are prepared and
packed Immediately, which insures their
being fresh. A few hours only elapse from
the time the crab is swimming nimbly in the
water until it is slowed away in air tight cans
with fifteen or twenty Of its kind for company.
Three cans hold about one and one-half
pounds of meat, 1t takes from ten to twelve
crabs to make pound