The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-06-12

Washington county tax Is 81 cents on
the slO0, z ceuis less than last year
Upto and ineluding Tuesday Gil gar
loads Of strawberries have been shipped
over The Delaware railroad this season,
according to the census Denton, county
town Of Caroline, has 40 inhabitants, and
Greensboro $50 Neither has increased
since the last census
WIN. Mekcunoy, Of Qhoeu .Anoc'
county, will raise this year, It IS estimated,
between 10000 aud $4,000 bushels of
wheat.
wecms Rilout, Of White Hal, Anne
Arundel county, committed suicide, on the
lth instant, BY shooting himself with a
gun, He had been 10 failing health for
sometime.
q. s. Griffith, President Of the Mary
land Sunday School Union, win sail from
New York to-day for London, England,
to attend the Robert Raikes Centennial,
which meets on the 2Sth instant.
Judge Yellott, on Thursday, discharged
two more prisoners from the House of
Correction on writ Of habeas corpus.
Judge Yellott says Magistrates have no
jurisdiction In criminal eases, and the leg
stature has no power TO give them juris-
diction while the Constitution Of Maryland
remains as it is.
On the 23d of june last year, Mr..
Garrett Foxwell, of Kent county, had
young COW which gave birth to twin calves.
These calves were both large aud healthy
and turned out we'll On May 2sth last,
the same COW brought forth twins, both Of
which are doing well and are Of good size;
giving her an offspring to the extraordi-
nary number Of four healthy, vigorous
calves within twelve months.
Ga Tuesday evening last six Yeas old
son Of Col. Thomas Hayward, Of Easton,
Talbot county, was gored TO death by a
bull. The vicious animal was being driven
along q road oa the way to the steamboat
wharf, when becoming suddenly enraged,
he broke away aud gorcd the child terribly
about the body The Injured boy was
taken home, aud died that same night
from the effect of his wounds.
Mis-. Elizabeth Thompson, a very old
lady living near Cayots Corner, Cecil
county, is enjoying good health, notwith-
standing she is 93 years Of age and is the
mother Of eleven children, seven of whom
are grown men. She has twenty.seven
grand children aud four great grand chill
dren Two years ago she was entirely
blind, but Is now restored to perfect sight.
Hon. Arthur z, German was on Mon
day elected president Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, with Col James G..
Berret, NJ Blnnon, Joha Humbird, p
Hammill, II. u. Farnaudis and Thomas
z. Morgan as directors, the only change
in the board being that Mr. Morgan takes
the place of Mr., Crawford The annual
report was presented, showing receipts
from all sources in 1879 TO have been
S233, 1851, and expenditures 1922 ILL.,
9G. The pay Of the directors was fixed at
$500 per annum.
Great excitement exists in Hartford
county over the appearance Of the army
worm. Wheat and corn fields have been
eaten up by them. A letter describing
the mode Of killing them says;--Coneave
bitches were at once dug through the
fields, aud a panel of fence taken down,
which stopped their further progress in
that direction. The farmers are now dig
ging bitches around their corn fields
Every few yards ia these bitches pits are
sunk, into which the worms fall in their
efforts to cross 10 these pits eau DO seen
great m. sses Of the worms, aud as the pits
fill up the worms are burnt and thrown
out to make room for others They begin
to march about noon, aud during the af
tcrnoon the roads adjacent to the fields
where they are is covered with the moving
army. Many persons from a distance are
coming to witness the extraordinary sight
A dispatch from Frederick, June 10,
says-The army warm has appeared in
this county on the farms north OF this city
on the Possumtown road. The worm is
about one inch 10 length, in circumference
the size of an ordinary straw, aud is of a
dark gray color with horizontal yellow
ish stripe on each side Of the body. They
were SO numerous in some parts of the
lnAA iAae SNSi1 Ahth VI SaSh VI tue DuHGy
wheels and every step of the horse would
crush dozens Of them. The banks of the
road, at the places where the worms ap-
peared to be moving in columns, present.
ed queer sight, covered as they were with
mass of Wrigshng life, and the dust Of
those portions Of the road over which the
worms bed passed in crossing from field to
field was literally Sled with little tracks,
showing plainly the course Of the army.
Wherever the worms go grass and timo-
thy are stripped, though clover is rarely
touched. Wheat suffers the loss Of all
blades aud beard and where the grain is
not well advanced toward maturity it is
sucked. Corn is eaten bodily, the insect
first crashing to the summit Of the young
stalk aud eOmmsscing work at that point.
The spreading, fresh aud JUICY blades are
eaten first, and then the soft stalk foioSs
the same route until the traveller reaches
the ground Yesterday large portion Of
one Of George GittiGgsFs fields of corn
was noticed to have been totally destroyed.
The field was gone over and found to be
covered so thick with the worms that to
walk without extraordinary care was to
\ crush many Of them under foot