The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-15
Maryland Affairs.

Mrs Nancy Z. Hitch, of Somerset county,
died last week, aged 81 years.
John f. BrownelI, well-known citizen of
Frederick county, died January Z, aged rs
years.
Mr. P. c. Outten killed the champion hog
of Worcester county, last week. 1t weighed
TT pounds.
John Neville, bailif of Cambridge, col
lected taxes to the amount of $500 and skip
ped last week.
Capt. VIM. P. Herbert will ship from Balt-
more on Saturday, 23S cattle on the steamship
Thauemore, for Liverpool.
VIM Powell, of Baltimore, committed sui
eide at the residence of his uncle, DIR. Thorn
as p Temple, near Ellicott City, on Monday.
He was % years old
A little boy, son of Mr.. Edwin H. Brown,
of CentreyiIle, was paralyzed with cold, while
playing one day during the late cold snap
Ills life is considered in great danger.
Joshua Joynes, of Somerset county, at one
meal recently ate 10 pounds of pork, 8 links
of sausage, l goose, l chicken, II biscuits
and other things too numerous to mention.
The Mountain City Flour Mill, at Cumber-
land, was burned on Saturday night, with
5000 bushels of wheat. Several small dwell.
ings adjacent were also burned. The loss is
about $40, 000
Seventy six new buildings were erected in
Hagerstown, last year. 1t contains 1859
buildings, exclusive of public buildings.
There are hotels, IS churches, 1873 stores,
l22 manufactures working from one to two
hundred hands.
Near Denton lives Mr.. Curtis Andrews,
who hast had a match in his house for forty
years, When he began housekeeping in
1910 ne built fire in large o'f-fashioned
fireplace, and since then the FIRE has never
been allowed to 60 out.
Charles Rous, member of the Corn and
Flour Exchange of Baltimore, suspended in
1879, with liabilities amounting to about $780,
600, and settled with his creditors for fifty
cents on the dollar. On Saturday he sent
each of his creditors check, paying in full,
with six per cent, interest, the deficit of his
suspension.
The storm of January seriously damaged
hotel property at Ocean City. The Atlantic
was injured by the loosing of piping, etc., and
Mr.. Tracy's bath houses were nearly demol-
ished. He estimates his loss at $500. The
bath houses of the Ssasids were partially pro-
tected by those of the Atlantic and bit slight
" injured. Those of Congress Hall were
swept away completely.
On Tuesday night about II o'clock, the
dwelling of Timothy Cavan, seven miles nor tn
of Rockville, caught fire from, it is sup
posed, the kitchen stove. In the adjoining
room, their two boys, Francis and Dennis, aged
~ and years slept with q deaf man. named
ohm Falby, aged forty-fve years. All were
burned to an unacceptable char. Mrs. Ca
van was awakened by the roar and rushed to
the boys room, but was forced back by her
husbend, who was compelled to throw her
and the three children from the window out
into the snow. Nothing was saved but sheet
and pillow, upon which they carried the
infant in their bare feet and night clothes
fully half a mile, to Mr.. William Kelly's
residence. Mrs. Cavan's limbs we're some
what burned, but not seriously. Mr.. Cavan
is railroad contractor, and had just re-
turned, after having finished part OF the
Somerset and Johnstown, Pa, road.
There are in the town of Cris6eld twenty
oyster houses, and during the past two
months S25, O0O per month have been paid by
aid houses to oyster dredgers. Seventy five
barrels of shucked oysters averaging 80 gal
ons to the barrel, have been shipped daily.
Usually it takes one and a-haH bushels 70
,huck gallon, Thus it will be seen that 1879
bushels of oysters are handled daily ana
lbout 81 600 per month. The captains OF
he boats who sell oysters at Cris6sld pay out |
5000 per month to ere crews; n dss oyster
.ound numbers, one thousand shackers ana
.bout FIVE hundred men employed as dredge
.rs. If we can judge from the amount OF |
business that has been done in November
md December, there will be paid by the end
e i6e season to oyster shuckers alone $780,
no. So far.tlls oyster trade this season has
zen better in this county than for many years,
nd we are highly gratiGed to Announce IT.
me result will be that q great many more
rill 20 in the business next, season; ana the
alue of boat properly will be greatly en-
anced Somerset Herald. II