The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-07-30
Maryland Affairs.

Baltimore contemplates grand celebra-
ton in October.
The levy for county purposes in Queen
Anne's county is So cents on the Sloo.
Can't. John Traverse, of Hooper's Island,
Dorchester county, is in his 99th year.
A shark about ten feet long was seen IN
Baltimore harbor, at Canton, on Saturday.
Seven hundred and eleven immigrants
landed at Baltimore on Sunday from Europe
Among the guests at Ocean City Is young
Partisan widow, of great beauty and untold
wealth.
There were 1913 deaths in Baltimore last
week. against 231 for the corresponding week
of last year.
The new Odd Fellows Hall, in course OF
erection by the colored Odd Fellows OF Tow
sontown, is rapidly approaching comp!euon-
A fatal sheep disease called black tongue
which has been prevalent IN Delaware
has made its appearance in Somerset county
Mr.. C. C. Wooley, who has the contract
for the carpenter work in the rePalre oil tne
State House. began work there Tuesday July
10.
The erection of a Catholic church at Tow,
sontown is now considered as assured, ana
subscriptions have reached respectable
amount.
In Prince Georges county, Sunday last,
Mr. Charles Grey accidentally shot h'msen
| in the breast with pistol he was hahdHhs
| and caused a very dangerous wound.
The Grand CouHcil OF the Improved Order
! of Red Men will meet at Annapolls on the
| 18th of September, next. The Order was ia,
| stituted in Annapolis, in III, and Is now Ilu
| years old.
| The Baltimore 4 Potomac railroad compa-
nv began on Monday to complete ITS double
| track between Baltimore and Washington
| Ten miles of the track has already been iaid,
/ leaving thirty-tNo miles to be completed
Red Foxes are said to be numerous IN
/ Anne Arundel county. and are committing
] depredations upon turkeys and chIcNehs.
! Forty turkeys and several hundred chickens
/ we're destroyed in one locality by them iast
week.
/ E B. Emory, Of the Poplar Grove stock
! farm, Queen Anne county, made sale Of some
1 fine Shorthora stock on Thursday last. Inc
4 sale comprised one bull calf and four heller
/ calves, from which he realized $3.50, an AZ
! erage Of $50 head.
The apple crop Of the peninsula Is a large
! one this year, aud will somewhat atone iof
( the scarcity Of the peach. Considerable
1 quan,itics have been shipped al fairy Fema-
lucrative prices. Crates bring from 90 cents
/ 30 81
The board Of officers Of three military con-
NAMES Of Allegauy and Garrett counties met
4 Al Oakland Saturday, and decided to bold an
/ encampmeut there in August, also 10 foTm a
provisional battalion for the encAmpment- 10
( continue until after the fsrktown celebration
Mr.. Harry c. Keefer. one Of the editors
/ and proprieiors OF the Frederick Examiner,
sustained painful If not serious Injuries " ed
/ nesday. by falling from a bicycle upon whieh
/ he was riding. The fracture of some Of TIE
( small bones N the wrist, besides Coacuss1on
I Of the brain are feared
General Bradley T. Johnson on Weiaes-
Z DAY tiled sgmmouses TO the registers ot voters
Tor the Second Fourth. Ninth, Tenth, mr.
/ teenih, Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards Of
7 Baltimore 70 appear before abe GoSeraor 70
/ answer charges 81 official misconduct. The
] TRIAL will begin Aagast id
( The congregation Of the Lutheran Charch
I a. Smithsburg, Washington county. have re
raiyed legacy from the late Hannah ShAuk,
4 deceased. bv which one. half Of Der estate =
devised 10 ne equally divided belEesn the
tga1ess og The above congregation Aad she
I acnlIy Of Pcunsylvauia College, Gettysburg
Willie Couclly. aged iEelrs yeArs, soa Of
james Coueliy, living a. WoodberrY, Bait
mere county, vas i0and IN a starving eaadi.
ton Wednesday. The boy IS bhsd and Of
urak mind, and n1i b,ing abie 90 feed him,
Z self. had been sithnut food tor over a week,
I b.. parcuts having neglected 10 supply ass
wants
WI. :. Clarke, Es4., q PoSonass City,
Worcester soaaiy, has imported tssaty
{ Germans, 90 BE- Distributed 10 bis sarsoas
/ farms near tbAi place, a. "a. r. ,aboSess. NJ.
T Clarke expects 70 introduce q large nsal5er
T o. German cnizrapis into thAt eoaBsy. and
{ i Is expected that bis example SAB Be iollow'
( ed by ether Psb.ic spirited cltEess-
Democrats nominations ia PFiacc Gearxr's
county are For Stale Senate, e. Z. Assra-
I der; House Of Delegates, Wa. II, Gwyaa Of
Z Thamas. Chas II. stanley and loha uoar.
Z lsy; sheriff. theodore j Hsuli S5puiy eoa.
missioner. EiEa-d J, Masradvg Joshua !.
CLARK. ; J. Jarboe, wm. =. McChesney,
Walter r. Grlsui Surveyor, lheHAs :. bt-
lePp.
The BALTIMORE district camp meeting q the
African ~ +. ChaFrh. a. Asbary Grove, SIii
oueu August L and eoasipae $50 sesks-
I'his canp Is on sae Western Maryland rasl-
rad. Dot fzF fsom Eaory Grove Rev. ,.
~. ;. Peek. prrsilius elder Of the Baltimore
cifras, piii have charge Of the asrFlers, IS
sisted b Other roiored Methodist ministers
from the city.
The democratic conservative central eosa
yuitgse 81 Frederick coaa1y has deiermtaed
10 hold the primary meetings "a she vafloas
sierti5n DISTRICTS on SaiardAy, Angess ID, snd
M. r5anty convention on Iucsday, Auguss
la. 90 appoint delegates to represent thai
county ia the Judicial convention which neess
IN Rockville, Montgomery county, on the 2ilh
dav % the same moath. 10 aomiaalc a raads-
date fsy ehiei judge Of The sixth Judicial cir
cuiL
narar The last tEo years Mr.. Wm. Cooke,
iiving near 0AiShfubarg, Montgomery coss-
Is. has ga,ies from The tsh hcuss IA hal!i-
more some forty-ssvca carp, aboat half en-
inch lonr. and Dat thea Ia his ice poad 70
raise. one day las, week be seat 20 look
Tor then and found that they bad increased
to hundreds, some Of them weighing lhFcs or
four pounds. This Ough; 10 be hint 10 all
our farmers.
The Marlborough Gazette Of Wednesday
saws .-"Work on the Southern Maryland
railroad Is booming. Carloads Of rails are
daily passing over oar railroad for this road.
They are being skipped from Nes York,
AEere they were landed iron number Of
ship. from AH,~eEp BALLS haze been laid
from Brandyxlu8 % Gallant HsesRi Dis
tance OF over sixteen miies, bat ties have been
tRtd As tar Na NHAEtsstu EIAtip IN ~ MARY .
eouuty. There appears nothing nos TO pre-
vent the early completion Of the road. Tae
Point Lookout road has begun 10 grade be-
tween Brandywine and Nashingtoa.
The Cheslertown Transcript says that
Capt. Rockwell saw a whale in Chester river
one day last week The whale seen last week
was on the cliffs, nearly opposite the mouth
Of Corsica creek. it vas among a school OF
porpoises, ShjcE seemed 70 be making ~aF-
fare against i. This does LOT appear % BE-
the lrst whale lhst hgs visited the bay, FOR j.
is known that twenty-five OF thirty yeas ago
a small whale was grounded and killed il
Corsica ereak, and vas cut up and manuiac
turSd into oil. 4 whale was anoa saeR at
Gloucester, within few miles Of Philgdel-
phis.
Lieut.. Gov. Tabor of Colorado owns from
four to eight millions, all acquired within four
years. But his sudden wealth was preceded
by eighteen years Of poverty, deprivation, and
struggle for himself and his wife They went
West from Maine during the Pixies Peak ex-
citemeut, spent gil their money, found no
gold, and thereafter roughed i, in border set
Elements, working fer small wages al first,
and siierRari Keeping small stores in Mining
camps In 1877 he bought in Denver So, 500
worth Of goods for q I.eadYille store and