The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-06-26
Maryland Affairs.

I a hRtNoNAUt IluftU Is 10 De
erected at Cambridge.
Five persons were drowned in or near
Baltimore ON Wednesday.
The tax in Wicomico county il 93 cents
on the 500 for county purposes.
Hagerstown, according 10 the new cen
sns, has population of about I 900,
From half to three -tourths of a crop of
peaches is anticipated in Cecil county.
Contracts for half-dozen handsome new
dwellings at CentreTille have Just been
given out.
DR.. George r. Dennis has been re.elec-
ted president Of the Eastern Shore Rail
road Company.
The establishment of agricultural works
on an extensive scale ut Cumberland, is
being agitated
kosedale K Co.'S furniture factory, 10
Baltimore, was burned on Saturday even
ing. Loss $4,000.
Five thousa nd bushels of new wheat
were received in Baltimore on Tuesday.
1t sold from SLIP to S1.20.
Thomas Carmine, twelve years Of age,
was drowned at Easton Point, Talbot CO.,
Saturday afternoon, while bathing.
The peach crop on Kent Island is very
fine and the apple crop promises to be uu-
precedented both in yield and quality.
The Presbyterian Church at Hagers-
town, has been relieved from debt, the
amount, $4,000, having been contributed
last Sunday.
Wheat thrashing has commenced in
Queen Anne's county, aud the crop is
turning out very well, both as to quality
and quantity.
The Agricultural Society of Caroline
county will hold their annual fair at Bethle
hem on the lith, 18th and 10th of Sep,
TENDER next.
John A. Griffith, of John A. Griffith &
Co, Baltimore, died at Cape May, on
Monday. lie had been in delicate health
for some years.
w. II Todd 4 Son have struck miner
al lead on the mountain lot near Lewis
town, Frederick county, after sinking a
shaft 20 feet deep.
John Aloysius Gillespie, professor of
languages and mathematics at Loyola Col
lege, Baltimore, was drowned near Canton,
on Monday morning last,
Talbot county farmers are not at all
sanguine Of good wheat yield when the
thrashing test comes. The best estimates
are two-thirds of crop.
MIR. Ruth, carpenter Of Centreylle,
has fallen heir to an estate in Wilmington,
which will yield him SIT 600 He is one
of nine heirs, dividing property valued at
100000.
The centennial Of Methodism 10 Dor.
chester county is to be celebrated at Cam
bridge, August Is, on which occasion
some ofthe leading ministers of the church
will be present.
The Garrett county commissioners have
fixed the levy for 1880 at 80 cents gu
every 500 of assessable property, re-
duction of q cents from the levy Of last
year. The State tax is 49, cents, making
n total of l.07i.
The Cecil County Agricultural Society
has been organized, with Adam L. Magraw
as president. A committee has been APP
pointed TO examine grounds near Ekton
for the purpose Of purchasing them for
exhibition purposes.
Mr.. David Spessard, Of Cavetown, Wash
ington county, Graded his own wheat this
year, about five acres in all. Mr. Spessard
is 7G years of age, but has not yet lost any
of his skill 10 handling the cradle or grown
less useful in the harvest field.
A boy named Fisher, on Friday of last
week, threw from the high wall at the
Western Maryland railroad crossing over
Green lane, Hagerstown, little son of
Mr.. G, NJ. Metzcr. The lad is now lying
in critical condition Fisher is said to
be desperate character
On Juue 81, Mr.. Martin Masters, about
sixty-fye years of age, dropped dead while
working in field for Mr.. John Rohrer, n
short distance above Smithsburg, Wash
ington county. lie was engaged in bind
ing after a reaper. The heat and labor
oyercame him aud sank to the ground dead.
A eolored man, dressed in woman cloth
ing, was arrested on Il train ut Havre de
Grace, last Saturday. On Monday he was
identified by w. W. Selby, mate of the
schooner Mignonette, as George Thompson,
who on the night of the 3lst ult., while the
schooner was in the james River, killed its
captain aud cook. Thompson was com
mitted to the Hatford county jail to await
a requisition from Virginia.
Mr.. Francis Barnes, of Green Hill, is
one of the most successful strawberry grow
ers in Somerset county. lie shipped 40, :
600 quarts the past season, for which he
received $4,000. The amount paid for
picking reached the neat little sum Of
$500. Although he has nearly fifty acres
ia cultivation, he picked the most of his
berries from new patch of twenty acres.
He is of the opinion that ifthe season had
beer favorable he would have gathered
100000 quarts.
Mr.. VIM. Herman Stump, a well-known
citizen of Hartford county, died on Mon.
day evening Of paralysis, at his home, in
Belair, 10 the eighty-second year of his
age. lie was a half.brother of Mr.. A..
Lingen Jarrett, clerk of the Circuit Court
Of Hartford County, and was also rela.
tive Of State Senator Stump, and of Judge
Frederick Stump, of Cecil county. lie
was related to the Dallams, well known
family in Hartford county, and to II. Clay
Dallam, of Baltimore.
A peculiarly dangerous counterleit on
the Exchange National Bank of Baltimore
is announced by the United States Secret
Department to have made its appearance.
IL is 500 note and is said TO be a mar
vel Of mechanical execution Its danger
Gus character is increased by the fact that
it first made its appearance on the Pacific
coast and will work eastward, so that when
it arrives in our large cities il will be so
soiled and worn that it will be very bard
To detect it from honest money.
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