The Democratic advocate., 1881-08-06
MARYLAND Affairs.


The Baltimore postofficc is to be lighted
by electricity.
The annual pony penning at Chincotea
que Island comes off August 10.
Stock for an extensive creamery at Elk
ton, is being rapidly subscribed for.
The county levy in Kent county is a
cents on the 500, against so cts. last year.
The Baltimore County Temperance Al
lance propose agitating the question of
local option in that county.
The tracks of the Baltimore and Cum
berland Valley Railroad will be completed
to Chambersburg, Pa, this week
A movement is on foot to form crack
battalion of citizen soldiers, in Baltimore,
after the model of the Boston Cadets.
The Baltimore county school board
has ordered new school buildings at Gov
anstown and at Providence, ninth district.
Hon. J. F. c. Talbot member of Con
gress, who has been i'll nom bilious re
mittent fever, is improving at his home in
Lutherville.
John R. Embert, of Queen Anne's CO.,
raised, on twenty acres of Fallow, one half
being stubble, 40 bushels of wheat, an
average of 35l bushels to the acre.
Immigrant passenger fares from Balti-
moro to the West, over the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, have been reduced 80 to
35 per cent. The fare to Chicago IS now
81, and to Cincinnati So.
Seveuty-fve steam engines and thresh-
ers were employed in Queen Annes couu-
ty in preparing the wheat crop for market
The capital invested amounts to nearly
100000
Most of the Somerset farmers have fin
ished threshing their wheat, and the re-
suit is a very poor yield Fields that have
heretofore averaged sixteen bushels to the
acre have this year given about five. There
are only few exceptions to this great
falling off.
At FoxyiIle, in the extreme western
section of Frederick county, on Friday
evening of last week, a large barn on a
farm owned By G. C. Fox, and tenanted
by II. \. Wolf, was struck by lightning
during the prevalence Of storm, and, to-
gethcr with a recently-Satherd crop Of
grain aud hay, was entirely consumed,
David Carroll. Superintendent of the
Mount Vernon Cotton Duck Mills, died on
Saturday night at his home in Baltimore
county. aged 20 years He established
the first cotton mill at Woodbury., Balti-
more county, in 1886, and since thcu
built and operated three other mills at
Woodbury. aud Mount Vernon. He was
noted for his liberal charities, but leaves au
estate valued at more than 81 100000
The immigration report for Baltimore
for the quarter ended June 80, 1851, says
the number Of immigrants arriving at
that port were 1880 males, l0,96l f.
males: total. 24,34I or these 1859
we're from Germany. 2,Gjl Austria OF
Norway. 40 Denmark Al England, 32l
Sweden. 235 Ireland 225 Russia, Is
Hungary. p Scotland, p Belgium, %
Switzerland, &c There we're ! ,ls3 farm-
ers. 3,909 laborers, besides merchants,
millers, shoemakers. printers, stonccutiers.
tailors, &c, and lS,2Is with ne regular
occupation, including women.
\ gang Of - young men and boys,
ranging 10 age from p years down 20 10
years, many Of them armed With revoivers,
long knives and various other weapons, IN
vaded the premises Of Mr.. Anton Spaih,
half mile above Mclyale, on the North
ern Central Railway, and having inIimida-
ted him with threats. robbed snd pi.laSed
his garden aud truck patches, stripped bis
orchard Of green apples, broke down and
DESTROYED a quantity of willows, aud tbeu
cleared out Members Of the same gang
have on several occasions before irespass-
ed, but not to the same Cxieni, upon the
place Of Mr.. Spaih, who owns a wcli.im.
proved little farm He has po;ited the
county police, aud says he considers bis
life unsafe
There was 6erce and destructive
storm 10 Frederick city aud neishborhood
Monday afternoon aud cvening, Rain iell
10 a depth Of over two inches. Market
street. in Frederick was completely aooi
ed. Considerable injury Is reported TO
have been done the corn aud vegetable
crops. 10 various localities sheds and
s,ablins were bloza down. The engine
house Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany was entirely wrecked Near Lewis
town, eight miles northwest Of Frederick,
a large newly-buili b9ra belonging to
Jacob Eiehelbcrger was struck BY light
ming, aud together with conieais, consist
ing Of about coo bushels Of whea, and =
quantity Of hay, &c, vas wholly eonsum-
cd. Loss about 2,000 No insurance.