The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-05
MARYLAND Affairs.

The bonded debt of Frederick city is $685.
coo.
There are only FIVE prisoners in the Howard
county Jail.
The police of Baltimore made l ,289 arrests
last month
Efforts are being made to erect Presbyte-
rian church in Towsontown.
y white child born in Baltimore this week
has seven toes on each foot.
Mrs. Elizabeth Magargel of Cecil county,
/ died last week. aged % years.
SalIie Curry died near Monkton, Baltimore
/ county, January 20, in her Slst year.
/ Mrs. Rachel Yinging died suddenly at
/ Reisterstown on Jan. 23, aged IS years.
Gov. Hamilton has been elected an honor
airy member of the Hagerstown Light lntan-
| try.
| Cambridge, without any bank at all, until
within a few weeks past, now proposes TO
start another.
The value of foreign exports shipped from
| the port of Baltimore during the month OF
January, was S3,59d,519.
! Henry Gore has bought for SIS, 265, 1876
acres of the Walter j. Ford estate near Rels-
/ terstown, Baltimore county.
| An iceboat II by 20, has been built at
| Queenstown. She is called the Alpha, and
/ makes eight miles in six minutes.
! The Ladies Underwear Mandatory at
/ Elhcott City, is now in successful operation.
| Its hot air engine drives eighty sewing ma
| chimes.
/ There we're l,2l7,479 bushels of wheat,
652 ,450 of corn, 50 ,O57 of oats, 1875 of bar
/ ley, l., 095 Of rye received at Baltimore dur
| ing January.
/ The Royal Society, England, has this year
awarded the Copley medal to Prof. }. }. Syl-
vester. professor of mathematics in Johns
/ Hopkins University.
The coopers in the shops of d. J. McCau-
I leg and A. j. Isaacs Son, Ellicott Ctty, who
struck last week, on account OF a reduction OF
wages, went to work on Tuesday.
/ Charles Martin, James Irwin aud Caleb
I Hissey have each been sentenced TO the pen
I tentiary for tour years and SIX months, Tor
! robbiug the premises Of j. d. Mallory, at Wa
I very, Baltimore County.
The First Hagerstown Hose Company has
purchased for =, 800 the Stouffer marble-yard
4 property on South Potomac street. IL IS the
intention of the company 10 erect hand
some engine house aud large hall.
Z The annual official report of the output OF
/ the Cumberland coal region, just issued, shows
I that the total output daring 1850 was 2,l5t,
7 loo tons. al increase of 405, 449 tons over
/ the previous year, aud the output since 1870.
/ 4 live seal was captured by Mr.. Jno. Col
I bourne, who is connected with the Life Saw
I ing Station at Ocean City, on the beach oP-
/ posite that place, on Friday Of last week.
( The animal was subsequently, killed by Mr.. I.
( Two boys, John Cannon and VIM. Camp
/ bell, made a wager as to who could drink the
I most water. Cannon drank the contents OF a
glass jar measuring nearly gallon aud won
+ the bet Campbell was taken Ill before he
+ had empsied one half the jar and Was taken
hume IN an unconscious condition.
The MARYLAND Annual Conference of the
I Methodist Protestant Church will be held at
Cambridge on Wednesday, the 9ih of March
] The president Of the conference, Rev. L. ID.
{ Valiant, will preside. The conference EN-
\ braces Maryland and the District of Colum-
4 bia, and numbers ITO ministers and about
I loo lay delegates.
The large frame barn Of Peter Raker, stu
ased near New Freedom, Baltimore county,
was DESTROYED By IRE on Thursday OF last
/ week Loss $4,000, partially covered by in
I sarance in the Hartford County Insurance
. Company. No stock was destroyed, bat all
/ the hay, corn. Sc. were burned. The IRE IS
supposed to have been an iueendiaTy one.
State Superintendent " A. Nesell, OF the
I Maryland pablic schools, has made bis fifteenth
asaaAl report The report shows the total
number OF schools in the State 10 be 2,0ii, of
( wkich number i25 are in Baltimore aad 1919
I in the counties, being az Increase OF 50 over
last year; number OF pupils IN the counties
/ ia, sos, in Baltimore city 1905, total l62,
4sl. an increase over isso Of l,349. The
highest number earOlied IN the schools daring
the yesr were ls2, s72, Of which IS, 2s5 we're
in Raltih. ore and 81, $40 in the coanties, being
al increase over 1850 Of 4.7sl. The average
number in daily attendance in Baltimore were
2a,4l7, 10 the couniies 50, SCI; total S. TIs, an
4 increase Of | SIS. The number OF teachers
employrd throughout the State are SIS, OF
Which 100 are ia Baltimore and 8 10 Ia the
eoga;iss, an incresse OF 81 over last year.
( The total amount paid TO teachers during the
rear Was slim, 753 So, beiag decrease OF
I -. 81 over last year. Ia Baltimore the
I schools were open ten rDoaths durlng the year
and 10 The counties 81 months. The Garrett
E expenses Of white schools were $500, ~,
I eolored SB2. 03s So.