The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-09

The Frederick c5argy pshGc schools sil
close on the lisa last.
DunHg the last ihgcc moaihs S,o0I snnl-
grants arrived Al baltimore
A proposition hiss bscu made 90 establish
I locomotive works ia kaiuaOye-
The Baltimore eiiy tax rate wjd remain
81 81 Oh the Slo1, as heretofore.
Arrangements have been made for noalh-
IL line 81 steamers between BaluuaoFs ard
Rotterdam.
Mrs. Naucy Linthieam dis1 Ia BAhImoFe
on Sunday, aged SO years. She aas native
Of Dorchester coaaiy.
Mr.. Wm. g. Rabcftsou, Of Montgomery
county, has los, 4s laJnbs, this spring iron
ghe severity Of tbe weather.
The leading farmers Of Quecn AUHe's eoau-
~ think the prospects good Ter . large yirld
OF wheat, despite lha bard ainlsr.
An unknown man, aged about 90 years, was
found frozen 70 death GA "Wednesday morn
ing, 3. Laurel, Prince George eoaaly.
A military organization, 10 be kso~a as the
Potomac Light Artillery, has been formed a.
Wiliiamspsrt, with - aiembers enrolled.
JOAN NJ. Cook, Of Hngersiown, committed
suicide at Peppers Hotel. BALTIMORE, Ga sat
urday last, b. shooting himself through the
head.
During the m0alhs OF February aud March
over SEQ emigfant tickets for the West have
been sold al the Office Of The Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad in HageFsiovn.
Joha +. Moore, Of Hayrc dc Grace, has de
termined 10 start canning establishment al
HaeerstoWn The cltlEeus 81 that place have
subscribed 81, 500 toward his enterprise.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has abau
doued the Bound BroBk route tor through
business from New York, having made salts
factory arrangements with The Pennsylvania
system.
A meeting Of the Maryland and Virginia
members Of the Hedges family is 10 be held
soon IN Frederick, 10 take steps Tor claiming
an estate Of ten millions, supposed 10 be
awaiting claimants in Eagland.
The Maryland State Temperance Alliance
will hold IT, eighth annual meeting IN BIiii-
more on Thursday ami Friday, tie l4th aud
10Th Of April, 1851, ia the hail OF the louag
Mems Christian Association, commencing at
10 clock, a. N.
Samuel b. Wiekard, assistant postmaster
at Cumberland, len that city lass week, VITA
out his family kaowledge, and il was after
wards asceriained thai there is a discrepancy
OF $500 in his accounts. lie has been ar
rested, a, Pittsburg, Pa,
Mr. Lloyd Green, prominent and iutlaeg-
tial citizen Of Montgomery cosHIy, died a.
/ Colesville, Monday, al the advanced age OF
I 70. Mrs. Thomas Z. Simpson, of Washing
ton city, and Mrs. Benjamin Fawcett, Of Ma
ryland, two eStimable ladies, are daughters Of
the deceased.
The North Eas, river fisheries viii be in
/ full operation next week. The business will
be engaged in more actively than usual. The
largest haul made last year took SIX hours TO
land, and 100000 herring, besides the shad
and small fish, we're brought to shore. Many
thousand behring's VS. returned to the water,
it being impossible to land them,
The Frederick correspondent Of the Balti-
more San says :-Adyiees received within the
past few days from persons who have lately
emigrated from this county 10 the far West
are anything but encouraging to those who
still have emigration in contemplation. Some
frankly write that they are filled with disap
pointment and disgust, and they will return
10 this grand old valley, which they were
exceedingly foolish 10 leave, as quickly as
they can, and with the assurance that they
are entirely cured of their fever and will han
ker no more for the flesh pots of the West.
Last Monday John Smith and sister, living
near ChuFehyiile, Hartford county, returned
from Baltimore, where they had spent the
day in shopping. At night the goods were
spread upon the table to be inspected by the
family, and while this was being done some
plastering from the ceiling above fell upon a
coal oil lamp and broke it, the oil being scat
tered over the dry goods, which soon iguited
aud destroyed the whole. Miss Mary Z.
Smith, ono of the sisters, was shockingly
burned about the face and body, and died
from her injuries. The hands Of her brother
we're also badly burned.