The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-29
Maryland Affairs.

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Capt George NJ. Tyler, retired merchant
of Frederick, died on the 21st, aged So years.
Thomes' Point lighthouse, Chesapeake bay,
was nearly capsized last week by floating ice.
Mr.. Philip Hiss, aged So years, we'll
known citizen of Baltimore, died Saturday
night
Thirty-three thousand tons of coal were
shipped to Williamsport by canal during
1880.
During 1880 Mr.. Benjamin Garlinger, of
Hagerstown, shipped 500 head of horses to
New York.
Miss Lizzie Patterson had leg broken in
two places while coasting near Wayerlie, Bal
timore county.
General Isaac R. Trimble, of Dulaney's
Valley, Baltimore county, lost five cattle last
week from pleuro- pneumonia.
A thunderstorm passed over Calvert coun-
| ty on the 21st inst, and and snow cover
ing the ground at the same time.
The schooner Ida Jones, of Baltimore,
which sunk at Point Lookout Friday, is sub
merged in three fathoms of water.
AS far down as Tolson's wharf, which is
fifty miles from Washington, the Potomac
river is bockaded with ice al inches thick.
Last week there were $4,000 bushels of
corn in store at Centreville Landing, Queen
Anne's county, waiting shipment to Balti-
more.
| The iron bridge recently erected at Holli-
| fields, the dividing line between Howard and
Baltimore counties, has been accepted by the
authorizes of both counties.
| Social skating parties, for ladies and gen.
tlemen, are much in vogue on the Miles river
at St. Michaels. Ice.boats are also much in
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Dobler, Nudge & Chapman, of Baltimore,
| band paper and card board for the govern
meht printing Office at Washington.
| 1t is understood that the third annual fair
of Baltimore county, at Timonium, which has
heretofore been held in September, will be
changed to an earlier date this year.
Charles Giles, colored, and John Curran
have each been sentenced to IS months inn
prisonment in the penitentiary for larcency,
| by the circuit court of Baltimore county.
The Governor is preparing his proclamation
arranging the apportionment Of the represen.
tation of the counties in the next House of
Delegates according to the census of 1880.
| 1t is rumored that Mr.. Robert Rennert,
proprietor of the "Rennert House," Balti-
more, is to take charge of Bay Ridge Summer
Resort, Anne Arundel county, next season.
Mr. Gustavus ODER, a wellknown Balti-
more manufacturer, and Mr.. Edward Potts,
private secretary to President John W. Gar
rett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad died
Thursday.
Mrs. Phoebe Metz, aged 81 years. and Will
liam Main, aged "a years, died i'll Frederick
last week. Mrs. Sophia Boileau, aged IS
years, and Mrs. Mary Bast, aged IS years, died
near Fred erick.
The following gentlemen have been elected
TO represent Frederick S interest in the Fred
erick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad as di-
rectors for the ensuing year:-B. +. Stewart,
B. +. Winchester, p. II. Pyfer, NJ. Z. Doll
and W. c. Birely.
The executors of oseph Mailman deceased,
sold at Petersville, Frederick county, last
Saturday the Sycamore farm, containing l54
acres, to c. F. Wenner for S35 per acre, and
the Beaver farm, containing l33 acres, to
same for S2960 per acre.
The Hagerstown Agricultural Implement
Manufacturing Company are now working
their hands four days in the week. The Com
pany purpose adding largely to their works
in the spring, so as to enable them to employ
regularly at least three hundred hands.
The population Of the State of Maryland
according to the schedules returned to the
census office by the enumerators, is as fol-
lows roman, Males, 462 ,004 ; females, 472,
628; native, 85l 1884 foreign, 81, CAB white,
724, 7l8; colored, 209,9l4; total, 934, 632.
Another case of small pox was discovered
in South Spring street, Baltimore, on Mon
day. The subject was a colored man named
John Sullivan, a seaman on the ship tlola a,
Just arrived at New York, from Mexico. He
was at once sent to the Marine Hospital. and
the house dis!nfected.
Three steamers broke through the ice of the
Elk river, and the Chesapeake and Delaware
, canal, on Monday, and proceeded to Phila
delphia. The ice in the canal was from eight
to eleven inches thick. But little can be ac-
complshed by ice boats, in severe weather,
as the track closes up after them as soon as
they have passed.
The sixtieth anniversary ofthe Young Men S
Bible Society of Frederick county was held
in the Evangelical Church, in Frederick, on
Monday night. More than one thousand per-
5 sons were in attendance. The annual ad-
E dress was delivered by Rev. DR.. S. Y. Leech,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr.. S. NJ. Halter, of Cumberland, who
took the mining statistics of Maryland and
Western Pennsylvania for the census, has
been appointed 10 take the mining statistics
on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road in West Virginia for the same purpose.
The Peninsular railroads are doing a rush.
ing business in carrying oysters to Philadel-
S phia. On Saturday a train of thirty four cars
passed through Snow Hill, and on another
day there were nine hundred barrels passed
through going north on a single train. The
, Old Dominion Steamship line is carrying
large cargoes to New York from Lewes.
A skating match recently occurred at Rhode
river, Anne Arundel county, participated i'll
by q dozen young men from Rhode and South
rivers. Two prizes were offered, and the dis
lance was one and a-half miles. Howerton
, Alvey won the first prize, purse. making the
distance in six minutes; VIM. Lee came in
t second, and took the other prize, in 81 min
uteS.
The taking of testimony in the case of the
Cumberland Valley railroad against the West
ern MARYLAND extension has been resumed in
Chambersburg, the scene of the difficulty be-
tween the competing roads. Owing to the
large number of witnesses to be examined, no
predictions have yet been made as 70 the
time when decision in the injunction may
be looked for.
Work commenced on Wednesday upon the
new railroad, WHICH is to run from Washing
ton, d. c., to Point Lookout. The starting
point was made at Brandywine station, on
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, running
began stalking out the grades whilst the snow
was upon the ground, in order to push active
work as soon as the condition of the soil will
permit. The contracts have been awarded for
a portion of the road, and the work will 60 on
rapidly.
5 A correspondent, writing to the San says :
'sThe family of Mr.. Benjamin Fawcett, of
Colesville, Montgomery county, were seized
? with sudden illness on Saturday morning
last, shortly after breakfast Mr. Fawcett
was absent, being at his office in Annapolis.
> DIR. Magruder, the family physician, was
promptly summoned, and he at once pro-
bounced the entire party-seven in number
suffering from arsepiPal poisoning, tracing
it to bucEwheat cakes eaten at breakfast.
For time DR.. Magruder was apprenticeship
that the result would be fatal in the cases of
Mrs. Fawcett and the colored coachman, but
t by the use of proper antidotes they were
finally relieved. No theory is expressed as
to the presence of the poison in the food.
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