The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-01-31
Maryland Affairs.

The scarlet feyee Is raging IN the lower anu
upper sections of Montgomery county,
Peier Tar, formerly Of Eastop, died at
Salisbury. Meeday, aged "a years.
Wm. l.. Haines has purchased the Fa''er'
sottk,ru,, 6OOor COO acres, Somerset county
q cSas. C. swillson, 81 Kent, county, had
lhirtsen fine Cotswold sheep killed by dogs
las, week.
Quite a number Of mad dogs have been
/ killed ia Baltimore county within the past
seek ia tho eighth and ieuth districts.
Diphtheria is prevalent in the upper us
tricts Of Baltimore county aud several cases
OF scarlet fever have also been reported.
DIR. A. Annan, OF Bmmiusburg, frederck
county, sold his farm, situate on the Bruce
vile road 10 Mr.. Willis Fisher for $500,
The farm Of John Whtmore, y miles north
of Frederick, containing 50 acres, has been
bought by WIN. ]. Neighbors for 81, 800.
A number Of Washington county farmers
have gone into the poultry fattening business,
and lind that il pays much better than iatlen'
the neishborhood Of Still Pond, Kent
c-miy, is infested with n isAnd OF thieves:
Hen roosts, corn cribs, meat houses aud
stores-all suffer
fredericksburg, Dorchester county, is likely
to have soap factory. proposed to turn
out soap from vegetable oils al the rate OF
900 pounds day.
Samuel Emmeri, one OF the oldest anu
most respected citizens of Washington conn'
iy, had his golden wedding on Wednesday
last. Seventy children aud grand children
were present.
Three thousand razor sirops is said to be
the average shipment per week from the man
ulactoFy OF j. II. White 4 Co., at North
East, Cecil county. The factory has been IN
operation three years
Fruit growers on the Peninsula are wearing
long faces. owing TO the continued warm
weather The peach buds have already
swelled considerably, aud few more weeks
of such weather would bring out the blossoms
The total number Of cigars manufactured
and sold in the fourth internal revenue dis
lrict Of MARYLAND, Col. ID. &. Bruce collector,
during the year 1879 was O 400, $50, the rcve-
nue. collected on them amounting to S3s, I0i.-
%.
The Battle Monument in the National Gem
etery at Autetam, was completed last Satur'
day. The monument Is IS feet inches in
height, the statue weighs 80 tons, and the en-.
tire structure $50 tons The monument is
constructed Of Connecticut granite.
The Frederick Times says The scarlet
fever which has been raging TO frighttul ex'
tent ia many parts OF the county has reached
Ladicsburg, and is playing havoc generally.
The attendance at the public school at that
place has been reduced by the mRlady from
50 to -.
In Prince Georges county three " ork oxen
and an Alderncy mich COW were stolen few
days ago from the pasture Of Mr.. b, +. Du.
/ vail, who has recently suffered from thetts Of
of tobacco. Mr.. II. ". Clagett had his horses
aud buggy stolen from in front OF the court
house, butthry were recovered in Washington.
] Miss Fanny Chase, grand niece Of Samuel
I Chase, Of Maryland, one Of the signers OF the
1 Declaration OF Independence, and also of the
/ late Jeremiah Chase, distinguished judge
/ and iurist, died at Annapolis, Wednesday
| She was tho possessor of considerable wealth
which she came into possession of through
{ wealthy relatives IN Eudland.
/ Samuel l.. Rawlegh, of Chesieriown, Kent
+ county, appointed as police officer in Balt
moro city, resigned his position, after serving
I on the force four days. kawleigh became
/ disguised with the hardshps he was forced To
/ undergo. The second night he lost his way
and bad to pay a boy five cents to lead him
/ back TO his beat. The third night he went %
sleep aud fell of pile of stones, bruisiug
himself considerably, which completed hi'
/ disgust at his duties
/ A couple Of photographs sent by Adam,
/ Express from Memphis, Tennessee on the lIll
/ Of June 1862, to Miss Helen Davis, ofDenton
were received on Saturday last. They hay,
been nearly Is years on the route, bot where
they have been, or in whose possession al
these years, is not known. They are in q
| good state of preservation, The party send
ing them was a cousin TO Miss Davis, and Al
the time OF forwarding these pictures, was in
the United States service and was stationed
at Memphis lie has been dead for NOR,
than year past These pictures last week
were forwarded FROM Baltimore to Denton b,
Adams Express Company.
John Hojda, Bohemian Catholic priest
thirty-two years of age, who had been Pastor
OF Saint Wcnceslaus Church, on Central av
enue, near fayete street, Baltimore, since
last June, renounced the Catholic faith an,
formally united himself with Trinity German
Evangelical Lutheran Church on Thursda,
of last week. He was received into the In
theran Church by the pastor, Rev. J. Pslsr
as layman, according to Lutheran forms
HoJda on Friday wrote a letter Of Withdrawal
TO Archbishop Gibbons. lie was suspende,
from his pastoral functions few weeks ag,
by the proper authority of the Catholi
Church, on charges affecting his conduct bot,
in Europe and this country.
The alarming epidemic prevailing ia How
ard county among the horses, aud especial
in the first aud sixth districts, has been YER
fatal SO FAR. II first developed itself tw,
weeks ago among the horses OF Mr.. HEX
Morris, near Jessup's Cut, and four Of then
died from it. i was FIRST supposed to be th'
BLACK tongue but the symptoms are en-
tirely different from that disease. Mr.. Law
renee, also living in the same neighborhood
has lost ive-all that he had; and Mr.. WIN
Smailwood has three sick, aud other farmer
in the same vicinity have the disease anon
their horses. The epizootic which broke GU
among the horses in the vicinity of DAYTON
Fifth district, some weeks ago, has no
abated, but is rather on the increase, and IA
farmers are greatly Inconvenience by it.