National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-07-30
MARYLAND NEWS.

| Mr.. B. J. DoLashmutt, woll-known farmer
of Frederick county. died last Sunday.
Eastern Shore farmers are already busy
blowing for wheat and it is expected large
crop will be seeded.
Harry Alfred, the six.year-old son Of r. A..
Goodwin OF South Cumberland, was drowned
in the canal last Tuesday
Mr. William Cumming state missionary of
the Maryland sunday-school union, has
organized two schools in Montgomery county.
A shark, seven feet three inches long, was
captured near the mouth of the Susquehanna
river on Tuesday night He weighed $50
pounds.
Last week three citizens of Somerset county,
who came from Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
died.. Newell Reid, Joseph Reading and Mr..
Cooper
| Eli Bidwell, a colored lad who maliciously
cut TO pieces some harness belonging to Mr..
| Aldridge of Montgomery county, has been
sent to the house of correction for six months.
Montevue hospital, near Frederick, has now
100 inmates 103 being males and iifty.seven
| females. The wheat fields attached to this
institution produced Cos bushels, or moro than
twenty-f We bushels per acre
Thepuddling department the Cumberland
rolling-mlll is TO DO run night and day. Six
furnaces will be run on double turn, and nine
others will be run night and day as soon AS
an additional force of men can be obtained.
George Callahan, ago fifteen years, was
caught In the cogs ofs grist'mill, near Queens
town, Nd last Thursday, aud almost instantly
killed, his skull being crushed and his brains
scattered around. He was son of G.. w. Cal
lahan.
A girl six years old. the daughter of Mr.
John Ream, while playing in Hager's mills
near Hagerstown, slipped and fell through the
hatchway, three stories, to the ground. She
came down on her fcot, aud escaped serious
injury
The shipments from the mines of the Cum
berlaud coal region for the week ending Satur-
day, July q, were 3976s tons, and for the
year to that date l,14i, s65 tons, an increase
of 27l 1903 tons as compared with the CORE
spending period of 1879.
An orphan hoy, five years old, living with
the family ofJames e. Sanders. near Newport,
was killed during the absence of the family
by a window sash falling on his neck while
looking out. When the family returned he
was suspended from the window, quite dead
The census of the first aud second election
districts of Kent county is giving most gen
eral dissatisfaction. Mon who have looked
into the matter say that many families have
been left entirely out, and that hundreds II
what is known as Kent Forest" have beer
missed.
The Cambridge Ncrs says As Judge Levi u
Tavers Of Taylors island, was on his way Il
Cambridge last Monday morning, and When
about a mile beyond 1'obaccosticlS several pis
toll shots We're fired at his carriage from thC
rear by some unknown party or parties The
judge escaped injury.
The Montgomery county gold minos are
making every preparation for their new pro-
cess, Many tons Of rich ore are now ready
A railroad track is also being laid ThS
reason they changed the process Of obtaining
gold was that there being so much sulphur
aud iron much gold was wasted.
Large numbers Of drum fish are caught in
seine near Sandy Point, Calvert county somt
of which weigh fifty pounds. For want o
railroad communication with Baltimore they
are sold on tho spot for twenty-five cents
The drum fish are very destructive to oysters
and are destroying the plants" near Sandy
Point.
A son OF Mr.. Harry Welsh Of Montgomery
county started from homo on the 10th ipstan
in company with Beverly Reynolds n coloret
boy, to hunt the cows. Thoy carried q gun
aud were shooting at mark by turns. Nounl
Welsh was about TO shoot, when Reynolds
attempted to take the gun away In the struggle
tho load was discharged intothe colorcd boyi
arm, which has since been amputated.