The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-11
Maryland Affairs.

] 10 lIGldllu.
At the Frederick Female Seminary, in
Frederick, the closing exercises will take
/ place on the 18th, 18th and 18th inst.
| Frederick county tax rate for 1881 is 81
cents on the 500, a reduction of three cents
/ less than last year
The next annual exhibition of the Mont
/ gomery Agricultural Society will be held Sep
TENDER I, s and 0.
/ The stockholders of the Hagerstown Steam
] Engine Works have voted to increase their
/ capital stock to $4,000.
/ Wheat harvesting on the Eastern Shore is
/ expected to begin about June 20. Last year
1t commenced ten days earlier than this.
/ The Wesley Grove camp meeting, BalG-
more county, will commence this year on
/ Friday, July 20, aud continues thirteen days.
/ Senator Bayard, of Delaware, made an ad
! dress Monday at the picnic of the German
/ Orphan Asylum in Schuetzen Park, Bgiti-
more.
/ The directors of the Baltimore and Ohio
/ Railroad on Wednesday decided to build an
/ independent line between Baltimore and
/ Philadelphia.
The severest thunder storm of the season
/ in Baltimore, visited that city Wednesday
afternoon. The lightning struck in several
/ places, and trees were damaged by the wind
/ On Tuesday twenty tight cars filed with
+ strawberries, each car containing 1900
quarts, were shipped from points along Del
aware division OF the p, W. 4 b. Railroad.
/ Herman S Myers, charged with forging a
/ check for $500 on the Farmers Bank, Fred
I erick City, has been arrested IN Baltimore
and handed over 10 the authorities OF Freder
/ lex.
I At the meeting of stockholders of the Ches-
I apeake & Ohio Canal on Monday last author
I ity was given the officers to issue repair bonds
to the extent of $3.50, 900, in order to leugthen
! certain locks Of the canal.
+ There are sixly,two stores in Cambridge,
/ the sales of which aggregated last year S6Oi,
+ 500. This does not include many other en-
{ terprisss, which will swell that amount TO
nearly two mtllioa dollars.
Z By The death Of Andrew Humrics. aged -
years, IL Is said that about ) lGO, 900 insurance
money viii be claimed by policy holders in
I the ueighborhoed Of Emmiitsburg, from
aum5sr OF Insurance companies.
". ". Hoffman, OF Hagers,own, the fouu-
der OF the banking house OF Hoffman, Eayey
L Co. aud iauerly engaged IN raisius sheep
aud other stock committed suicide By drown
l1g IN Antictsm creek, on Saturday last.
George ". Gassmsa, a former citizen Of
Cumberland. has been nominated for county
treasurer OF Souyrssi county. Pa, By the
Democrats. Mr.. Gsssnan will make an
honest aud etheicuy officer, Il eieeiet.-Ens.
Advocate
Nessys. Fraak aai William Griffith. c. \.
Higgins aBd A. Il. DAVIS OF Montgomery
county, bad about % sheep killed by dogs
one night last ~sek iuBiltiug a loss greater,
perhaps, thar the real wor;h of AL the dogs
"a Montgomery county.
David Breckeubridss, cel1rci, aged %
years, Was drownci al o siuS4 Nr,js, BAllt-
more county, on Sunday last, Waite bathing
in : pond OF wafer, near the railroad bridge.
lie weni beyosd h,s depth. aaj. being ana
Die 60 SWIM sank. HIS body Sas recovered
~ 'eiocs. r. m-
AdIaiaui Gen Waisias ~j.l Issue 10 a lev
days an order directing Bsi.siicr Geo. Her.
s.egt o. make a personal inspection ct che
militia Of ibe Stale. pgeParaio75 % a1 eEcanp-
alsag at la-kioUu see pgiobsr- Gen. Wat
kjns sill accompany Brs-tiyu. Herbcr1
throughout the STATE where companies h4re
beca organized. and all also iusFrgi ihe DIFF
serczt commands.
Dr.. Sylvester Rankin, son uf Rev. D.
Alexander L. Rankin, a retired Presbyterian
clergyman. 81 Bahimure, uas assas,5uatrd
rear Victoria Cts. Msrieo. May -. whilst
retaruieE from sceiEg a pa'isui. Hls r.5,hiHE
Ms robbed Of all valastl,s. He leaves a
ulie Ard on. eaiid lis assassgus wcre cap
turr,i and tried, suj uesc 20 have beca exc
eatsi on The s5,A. The ,uhs5i,aais demand
"a that gAc prisoners be tanned over 10 thcea,
bar Ihe las was allowed 90 take It's course.
The strawberry seas9u o. The Maryland
ard balaaare ggai1s1a has been Oi short
aaratsan lhis yea- !; commenced abJs!
Mau3av Mas - aad sill close thss seek
Lass ycas season began IN lhr middle q
Nav and concluded about lhe middle % Jane.
The hrfgira have been OF q better quality this
seasoa ,han tbsr have been i1s many years
past Ihry have also been more p!eatfgi,
Aaa dealers rrzpsl larger prgais- The ship
aaeats 81 berries over the Delaware Railroad
up To Ss'aFiay last aggregated ae5 ear.oats- .
NJ. Iry;ns Spencer iaforrnS ihe SnoE ilil
MssssassF that Ia one pofti8u o; bis potato
patch a nunbgF Of Esuri v5s-s came up utth f
the potatoes, aud in that Payt % the patch
there are no potato buss. vh'le IN ihu rest Of
ghs patch the bugs are nEmeros& it might
be . good plan ior some 81 our potato gros-
ers 90 plaal a qzsn,i;y ul goari seed ainHE
sta Ibrir second erop. as an experiment .
Snakes, IL Il sell kaoaa, vii NOS venture
among -ogrd vines, an1 anything Shieh Will
sicken a snake, :; seems 20 las, oaght 20 dis
gust a Pesaio ous.
The Hagerstoan correspondent Of the Bal
timorc Sna, says - fhe srasshoFpcr plasae .
is besinuiag 90 De a sabjeci of aer,9as con.
SHERATON 90 Tbs farmers Of tats county. In 4
myriais they are appearing along .he base oi
the slate hilis east of the GuAneocheaEge, /.
wherc 'hey are drsoarius they 50, and
travelling eastward and westward tFoll thls 4
p1isg. A agm1cy ~ hrmrrs 10 th.s region
haze had no, Only their crops OF wheat Do Z
sirogcd, bat thsir clover pas;1Fr q lids have
SD a ras faa4rt.a.s
posing Of all s:8ck nss actually needed The
wheat or prime laads Is ih0ugat "a be TOO FAR
advanced 10 be the subject Of senoas dePre- I.
daiioas froai. IN this region, this new eHemy
Of the agTirultarist.
Rev. William Bysue, president OF Noani
81. Narys College. Emmitisburg. has issued (
= circular explaining the needs Of that ias;i- (
taiion. The alumni, under the lead OlCardiRal .
McClosksy and Archbishop Gibbons have {
already raised by Subscription, chiefly In Bal {
timOrs and New York, the sum OF $4,000 As
basis Of relief fnad. Il IS believed that
So, COO wiu settle all active claims against .
the college aud leave it free irom interest
bearing debt, eXeep, a comparatively small I
mortgage. the Interest on which can be reaai-
IL paid from the income Of the Institution.
To effect this II may, however. be necessary T.
to sell such portions Of the college lands as
canBo. be properly cultivated or reclaimed,
say 100 Of the 500 acres belonging to the .
estate.
During a thunder storm on Thursday after 4
noon, man named Harmon, aged 81, aud
bis son, aged years, we're killed by light.
ming on the farm Of Mr.. Basil Z. Benson, IN
Anne Arundel caunty, about seven miles from .
Baltimore, whilst engaged with number OF .
others, picking strawberries. When the storm .
was at It's height he quit work, aud with his .
son and vo fellow-w0rkmen TOOK refuge in a .
barn near the scene Of their labors. They .
we're repeatedly alarmed by the incessaut .
flashing Of the lightning, which several times .
appeared to hll the building. Finally, after .
a tremendous peal Of thunder, The barn was .
apparently enyeleped ia fire, and the next in .
slant a terrific shock was felt, as a bolt tore .
through the root, filling the barn with dense .
cloud Of sulphurcus smoke. Every one IN .
the building was rendered more or less up-
conscious. When a search was made 1t was .
found that Harmon and his son had been .
killed outright, while one Of their comPan
ions had his leg broken, aud another was .
stripped Of his clothing. and badly burned /
The barn was not damaged to any great ex
tent, the heavy rain extinguishing the flames .
almost as soon rs gnited.
The tcmperature fell very perceptibly In