The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-05-29
Maryland Affairs.

gone to California aud will prohsbly remain
away year.
Owing to the drouih, the strawberry CROP
ON the Peninsula will scarcely exceed the
fourth Of a crop.
-Four Cotswold sheep were recently shsared
on Kent Island, aud the yield was seventy
one pounds Of wool
Bishop Pinkney reports $1,000 communi
Giants in the dioceseoi Maryland Heeouhrm'
cd lTG0 within the past year
Ii is said that vein OF arsenic has oetn
struck in the LIST district gold mine, near
Union factory, Baltimore county.
On Whitsunday 1000 pedestrians, l,OO0
double and single teams, and hundreds oil
horsemen visited Druid Hill Park, Baltimore,
The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company
on Monday rendered the Baltimore Finance
Board payment Of the balance Of It's five mil
lion loan. but the board declined TO receive Il
before It's maturity.
The sentence Of Frank Brogden, colored,
convicted in Baltimore Of the murder OF a
woman who lived with him, aud sentenced to
be hanged, has been COMMITTED by the Cover,
nor to Imprisonment for life.
Mr. n. $. Frost, Of Frostburg, has little
Alderrey COW "Lily, which recently gave
isl gallons Of milk in seven days, which
weighed 3g0l pounds. From this milk was
NlhAN ~ +tN HtAtAAH ~ lAAitAN NNNhNs'
COW was ia fair pasture but II well fed would
perhaps have made better yield. Allegany
mountain sheep have been famed for making
good mutton, but hereafter Allegany milk
will have a reputation almost equal TO that OF
Orange county, New York.
h IS proposed at an early day 10 test the
consttaiioualily of the law for compulsory
inspections Of tobacco. Ii is conieuded that
the present law is unconstitutional u was
intended at first By some Of the parties inter
ested 10 take a case up to the Couri ot Appeals
on an agreed statement OF facts, but tins pro-
rramme has been changed, and the arrange
meat now made is that Que Of the planters IS
to take test case 10 court aud have It de-
oded. The matter wilt be taken up 10 the
highest courts before a conclusion is reached.
Baltimore has had lots OF fun the past week.
A cock fight took place on Sunday afternoon
in the eastern part Of the city IN which one
cock killed "a aud ran two others out Of the
ring, and glove fight took place at the Cen
lual garden ON Monday night, between Nor.
ton and Heath, the former Of England aud
the latter Of Providence, Rhode Island,
Norton whipped Heath in six rounds. The
Athlete Club had a mttling afternoons spor,
on Monday, running, jumping, dc. The
Pimlico races began on Tuesday aud closed
yesterday.
The stock business from the West will be
fairly iuaugurated ia about q month. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is having the
new stock yards recently purchased by the
company oggauiLcd for the purpose, fitted up
for the occupation Of stock IL u said that
there are one hundred car loads along the
line OF the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
awaiting market Failing TO get market
for the cattle in this country, the owners are
about To ship them TO Baltimore via the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, whence ihey will
be sent to Europe.
Agents OF reaping machine al Eastou,
have sold fifty machines this season. Ga
Monday, the 18th inst, Whitsun,ide, the
Court being ia session, the agents determined
TO have their implements on exhibition. \
grand banquet was given and all we're invited
who had purchased machine. lhlrty.six
OF the machines were then loaded upon thir.
", six wagons Of the farmers who had come
in by appointment for the purpose, aud
grand procession moved through the streets
Of the town. The procession was headed
with a hack containing the newspaper editors,
and band Of music.
The failure Of Congress to make the neces-
sary appropriation Tor the distribution Of the
ish ariidcially patched under the direction Of
Commissioner Baird has Unexpectedly re.
suited in q decided gain to fishing interests Of
Maryland aud Delaware. Through the I'D.
crafty OF President HincklCy, Of the Phila'
delphih, Wilmington aud Baltimore Railroad
Company, "a special car will be furnished du,
ring the ensuing week for the distribution Of
Of the young shad ia the Susquehanna aud
streams on the peninsula. jetwecn two and
three millions Of fish have been propaenlcd
and the distribution will be the largest ever
made since the artificial Matching process was
introduced,
Mr. Otto J, Shiifler has shearel ] I sheen
this spring averaging over 10 pounds TO the
fleece, the heayies, fleece being a pounds
from one imported l.cioaSter ram. The whole
clip was sold ct rs cents amounting to $50.
These fourteen sheep also produced ten lambs
worth from Sjto slOapjece. Mr. Shifiier pays
great attention to sheep, aud this statement
shows what very paying business sheep
raising eau be made. The Leicester ram
was imported from Canada by Mr.. W.
W. Hoffman. Mr.. George W. Bowers bought
two ewes years old and they sheArcd this
spring twenty pounds Of wool each. Il is
with great pleasure We note these improve.
menis in the live stock OF the county, aud we
think that the time Is not TAR distant when
bl0oded stock will be the rule in this county.
-HageystorR Nail
Gath, in recent letter 10 the n. Y.
Graphic, speaks thus pleasantly Of the charm
ing scenery aud surroundings Of Hayre de
Groee The thousand or two New Workers
who 60 through Hayre de Grace, every week,
do not know that they are close BY scenery
as picturesque rs the Thousand Islands and
as high aad bold as the Palisades A buggy
or saddle horse will take you from Hayre de
Grace 10 half an hour to zion Hill-mansion
Of Colonel Rogers, brother-in.law Of August
Belmont aud the Perry family-whenee the
Chesapeake Is like lake submerged ia
islands and blue bars Of mountain. Passing
over and down this hill to the north side, you
see Port Deposit, anchored under the perpen.
dieular granite hills where Postmaster. Ger
eral Cresweli was born. Continuing up the
Susquehanua side, you reach broad, beau.
utul mill creek, ono OF the larges: streams Of
Maryland, on which are several old stone
mills, grinding wheat, Hint aud plaster Al
one Of these, now in ruins, William Pinkuey.
our first international lawyer, was married
in a borrowed suit Of olntheg. A little farther
up this Deer Creek, near the ham.e, OF Glen
vile, Hugh J. Jeweit, the respected Prcsi
dent OF the Erie Railroad, was born, three
miles from the Quaker town Of Darlington,
where his parents are buried, and ten miles
from Bel Air, the county seat. Mr. Jewett
was probably born about 1918. ile Is said
to have left this region at the age of twenty
and some say II was in the year 1856 lathe
same county were born Ohio Scott, great
lawyer OF Baltimore, originally a common
sweatcloth gambler; Edwin Booth, Chapman.
the artists Governor, now Senator Kirkwood,
Of Iowa; A. Y. Bradford, Governor Of Mary.
land; John Stump, the creates, miller IN the
States during Napoleou's wars, and John
Archer, the hrst American graduated physi.
clan. Hartford is not very old county or
Maryland, having been organized just before
the Revolutionary war"
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