The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-12-17
MARYLAND Affairs.

A new natlOnai DankNlS 10 pe startcu III b''i-
/ timore shortly.
/ Gen. Edwin H. Shriver has been elected
! water registrar of Baltimore.
New cases of smallpox are discovered IN
! Baltimore nearly every day.
/ John W. Garrett has been reelected presi-
| dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| John Day was elected mayor of Elicott
! CITY on Monday last, receiving 116 votes to
| 10 for W. w. johnson.
ENGINEERS are at work locating the Drum
| Point Railroad between Camp Parole and Bay
Ridge, Anne Arundel county.
! The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Relief
! Association has taken steps for general vac
cination of its $4,000 members.
| Mr. Charles NJ. Dougherty, formerly we'll
. known merchant of Baltimore, died Wednes-
/ day on his plantation in Louisiana.
| Three delegations of colored men, from Bal
! timore, waited on the President on Monday III
! the interest of Federal appointments.
Mr.. Urner has introduced bill in the House
! of REPRESENTATIVES for the erection OF monu-
ment at Frederick to Francis S. Key.
! Charles O. Kemp deputy sheriff of Balti-
more county, has sold his farm i'll the sixth
district of that county to John Kidd, for s.
800
Judge Pearre. of Cumberland, is not i'll an
/ ;mproved condition, and fears are entertained
by his friends of that place that he will not
! recover from his illness.
The Baltimore county Temperance Alliance
| on Tuesday instructed committee TO prepare
a local option law for that county for suhmls-
sion to the Legislature.
A meeting of the ex-Confederate soldiers
| living in ST. Mary's county is to be held at
| Leonardtown, December q, for the purpose
of forming an association.
A new military company has been Organl-
zed at Rockville, with Philip d. Land as cap
| tain. W. b. Green, first lieutenant, and ri. A.
Dawson, second lieutenant.
- The Governor issued commissions on FRIDAY
fast to all of the candidates returned elected
! in Anne Arundel county except ii. Sellman
Anderson, candidate for sheriff.
A large frame canning-house in Anne Arnf-
i del county, near Jessups Cut, belonging. to
Gen. Frank A. Bond was destroyed by a sup
posed incendiary fire Sunday morning.
Gov Hamilton has issued the commission
of Judge John B. Brooke, associate Judge OF
the seventh circuit, whose right to the com
mission was contested before the Governor.
The town of Woodberry, great cotton and
machinery manufacturing spot few miles
from Baltimore, has doubled III extent OF man
ufactures and population III the last hVe years.
The postoffice at Gainesville was entered by
BURGLARS Sunday, between midnight and day
break. but only few dollars, with supply
of tobacco and cigars, were secured by the
cracksmen.
Mr.. John Brady, of Montgomery county,
has lost three sons recently from dlphtherla.
One was over thirty years of age and another
i Il. ,Ip raI
critically i'll.
John Barnard, former agent OF the Phlia,
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad
at Havre de Grace, was run over and Killed
by train at that place at an early hour Thurs
day morning.
Dr. George W. Bishop, of Worcester coun-
ty, has declined to permit the use OF his name
for the presidency of the Maryland Senate,
though earnestly solicited to do so by friends
in various sections Of the state.
A fire occurred on Sunday in Becker Bro
& Sons box factory, on Frederick street, near
Cav. Baltimore, doing considerable damage,
and another fire in a filtering room IN the rear
of the Canton Sugar Refinery, damaging the
property about So, 600.
The grand jury of Baltimore county this
term have found Is indictments against Eman-
uel Mack, II indictments against Sheer John
son. & indictments against Elizabeth johnson
and l against Joseph Beard, all colored,
charged with the larceny of chickens, butter,
&c.
Charles johnson, colored youth, lG years
of age, was convicted on Wednesday IN the
Circuit Court of Cecil county OF an outrage on
the person of Cora Sartain, white girl, aged
II wears. The offence was committed III Sep
TENDER last johnson was sentenced to SIX
years in the penitentiary.
The members of the Sixth Maryland Regi-
ment. second brigade, third division, United
States army, have prepared for presentation to
Gen. }. Warren Keifer, who commanded the
brigade during the war, framed set OF reso-
lutions complimenting him on his election as
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The county commissioners of Talbot county
have sold the Baltimore and OHIO Railroad
bonds held to the credit of the county sinking
fund These bonds were bought Ill 1876 at
81, and are now sold at ~. S3,ooo was III
vested i'll these bonds, and the gain to the
county by the transaction was 81, 1920. The
commissioners will invest the proceeds OF the
sale in the county Jail bonds.
Two weeks ago the wife Of Judge Carmi-
chael, of Queen Anne'S, who is sister OF
Hon. Il. C. Hollyday, of Talbot, fell and broke
the bone of hip joint. A door that Mrs.
Carmichael was trying to open resisted her
efforts she pressed against it, and when 1t
opened she fell and sustained the injury men
toned The accident is severe one to be
fall lady of Mrs. CarmichaeGs advanced
years.
In the habeas corpus case of sixteen oyster
dredgers at TOwsontown on Monday, Judge
Yellott decided the oyster-dredging law I'M
constitutional, on the ground that the Legls-
lature cannot empower justice OF the peace
to assume jurisdiction in criminal cases. The
counsel for the owners of the oyster schoon-
ers whose crews were discharged by Judge
Yellott, demanded the release of the schOOn-
ers from custody at Annapolis the same day,
but Justice Gassaway refused to release them,
under instructions of the States attorney,
holding Judge Yellott' action unlawful.
The entire day on Thursday was occupied
by the court at Harrisburg, Pa, in hearing
argument on the motion of the defence to
quash the writs of quo waTranto asked by the
commonwealth against a number of mutual
insurance companies. Before the close Ofthe
close of the session the motion to dissolve the
State Capital Company, of Harrisburg, was
brought up, and after some little discussion
the company presented a paper denying the
truth of the allegations of the commonwealth.
They teen asked decree of dissolution on
the same ground as that advanced by the
Southern Pennsylvania: ''rhat its business
could not be carried on in accordance with its
charter, and that therefore the public good
demanded that the company dissolve" The
commonwealth accepted the paper, and the
court issued the decree of dissolution, and
receiver was appointed.
The upper part of the county has been in
suppressed state of excitement for some days
over the alleged elopement of }. n. Geisbert
and Mrs DIR. Devilbiss, of Creagerstown, the
former leaving wife and three children and
the latter a husband and two children. The
elopement occurred on the I'd of this month,
having been planned and executed during the
absence of DIR. Devilbiss in Cincinnati. Mr..
Geisbert is about 30 years old and a school
teacher. Mrs. Devilbiss is about 81 years old
and quite attractive in appearance. The pair
took with them considerable money, Mrs. Dew