The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-11-27

heai AaStfstoNn gu SATURDAY.
Cornelius j. Scott, Of Kent county,
from Al acres threshed over 400 bushels
Of wheat this season.
From l6 acres Of land Alday Clements,
Of Kent county, realized 1850 bushels Of
eorn-l03s bushels per acre.
Mrs. Sophia Catherine Read, the only
surviving daughter of Col. John Eager
Howard, died in Baltimore, on Monday, in
the Slst year of her age.
Mr.. Daniel Lewis, residing at VOLTS
vile, Washington county, lately caught
ten opossums in one night, aud boy who
resides at the same place has caught thirty
this fall already.
A thief robbed the poslofiee at Iona
coming, Of S345 recently, but the next
night he slipped $500 of his stealings
under the door of the pOstofice, much to
the delight of the postmaster.
Thomas Hughlett, one Of the State Fish
Commissioners, placed in Big Elk creek,
few miles above Elkton, recently, 10000
California salmon fry. He had previous
ly put the same number in North East
creek.
Mrs. Garfield, wife Of the President
elect, was Rudolph, daughter of Zeb.
Rudolph, Of Elkton, who went West some
years ago. The grandmother Of the late
Gen. Torbert was a Miss Rudolph, who
was an aunt to Mrs. Garfield.
The Princess Anne, Somerset county,
Herald, says We understand that sew.
eral packers 10 different parts of the cOun-
ty ind it almost impossible to get oyster
shuckers sufficient to fill their orders.
Complaint is also made Of the scarcity Of
men for dredging.
Under local law Of the last Legislature
the people Of Wieomico county voted, on
the I'd Of November, on the question wheth.
err cattle or other stock should not run at
large within the limits of the county. A
majority of votes were cas-, against the law,
SO that in future cattle, hogs, &C., may be
turned out to Craze on tho highways of
Wicomieo, at their own sweet will aud
pleasure.
Mrs. Ann NJ Anderson, wife Of Rev.
Geo. W. Anderson, minister Of the Lu-
thenn Church, of Hagerstown, with her
mother, Mrs. Catharine Winter, were ar
rested yesterday by Sheriff Zeigler on
bench warrants, brought before the Court
and held to bail each in $500 to answer
indictments found BY the grand jury for
assault aud battery upon Kate L. Miller,
an orphan child, member of the family.
The case excites greut interest in the com
munity aud is subject Of general COM
ment.
A battalion Of NJ. \. G. has been or
ganized in Western Maryland as follows ::
Voltigeurs, company A; Garrett Guards,
company B; Hamilton Light Infantry,
company c; Frederick Rifles, company b;
Watkins Rifles, Homecoming, company T.
Captain johnson, Of the Voltigeurs, Is Sc
nior officer Of the battalion, aud Second
Lieutenant Hoffman, of the Voltigeurs,
acting adjutant. A meeting for the elee.
ton Of a lieutenant colonel, to take per-
manent command, win be held at Cum
berland, December 2.
Capt, A. l.. jarrett, Clerk Of the Cir.
cult Court, issued at Havrc de Grace,
before the opening Of the dueking season,
IS licenses to kill ducks, the proceeds Of
which were $3.50. OF this amount 5 per
cent, or s37 so is deducted for the State
tax, and $500 appropriated to the salaries
Of the duckins police; total s537 80. The
remainder, s2l2.50, goes into the school
fund. The clerk receives IS cents for
issuing each license. 1t is estimated that
81 tons Of shot we're used By the duckers
every cunning day last week.
The Governor has signed the death war.
rant Of VIM Milburn, eolored, Of Somer-
set county, convicted Of the murder Of
William Powhatan, alias William johnson.
The execution is appointed for Friday, the
18th Of January. The killing was done
July 90. Milburu had been 10 the habit
of treating party of men, and they chaffed
him for a treat. He refused They
pushed off his canoe from the shore in re-
taliation. lie went to the house, said he
would pay them for it, got his gun and
shot into the crowd, killing Powhatan and
wounding others.
The shipment Of peaches over the Del
aware Railroad from the Peninsula during
the season just closed shows an average
above that for the preceding fourteen years
The shipments for the last season from all
stations on the Delaware road aud con
Meeting branches are / 1922 ,239 baskets
The total shipments for fourteen years
past have been %, 3G5, 427 baskets, show.
ing an average Of I,66S,95 baskets per
H. - l. l.
1868, when only 5 ,227 baskets were lef,
BY tho frost, and the biggest year was
1875, when 4,330,036 baskets we're
shipped.
The annual general meeting Of the
tockholdcrs Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was held Monday, November Is
in Baltimore, In the absence Of Mr.. Gar
rett, John King, Jr., President pro TEN.
pore, submitted the 54th annual report Of
the President and Directors for the fiscal
year ending September 30. The report
shows that the earnings Of the main stem
aud branches, 10 comparison with the fiscal
years 1879, increased S2,365,053, and
the working expenses 81 ,534 1913 making
a comparative increase in the net profits
of 1851 ,735. The report was unanimously
accepted aud approved, and the old Board
Of Directors we're unanimously reelected
to serve for the ensuing year.
The burning Of the house Of Joseph
Frisby, colored, near Church Hill, Queen
Anne's county, last week, by which four
children persisted, is supposed to have been
caused BY the use Of coal oil for kindling
purposes. The mother had been in the
habit Of saturating the kindling with coal
oil in the presence Of her Oldest boy, and
it is supposed he undertook to initiate her
example, with terrible fatal results. Not
an article was saved from the house, and
even the dog and a pig were consumed.
A strange fatality seems to follow the un-
fortunate Frisby family. His wife aud
her sisters have lost no less than eight
children within the past eighteen months,
and only few months ago Frisby's broth.
er lost two children BY lightning.
The hands engaged 10 husking corn at
Martinham, near 81. Michaefs, Talbot co.
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