The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-23
MARYLAND Affairs.

Assistant Postmaster Cassard, of Baltimore
city, has resigned.
Capt. Martin I. Murphy, of Hartford coan-
| ty, has been appointed to a position at the
| State cattle scales.
| J.B. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, has pur-
chased an eligible site in Rockville, Md, on
which he will erect fine hotel
The Murray Tyler suit will be taken by the
plaintiff, Gen. Z. B. Tyler, postmaster of
Baltimore, to the Court of Appeals.
The jail expenses of Dorchester county for
| the three months ended March 81, were only
| S91, against S460.76 for the same months IN
1880.
| On Wednesday last Frank Haines, of Fred
erick, left his wife and family and ran off with
his wife's sister, who is only sixteen years old.
| Mrs. Sophia Van Lear Findlay, mother of
John V. L. Findlay, Esq, of Baltimore died
on Thursday near Williamsport, in her 18th
! year.
Rev. J. II. c. Dosh, well-known minister
of the NJ. E. Church, died at his residence,
/ Arlington, Baltimore county, on Saturday
morning last.
/ Vim. S. P Shields has sold his farm in
/ Howard county, known as "GleAelg," con-
tanning 7S4 acres, to George NJ. 1atum, of
/ New Jersey, for $1,000
John W. Z. Sudler, twice a member of the
+ Legislature from Queen Anne's county, and
/ for four years a judge Of the Orphans Court,
( died last Sunday at his residence in that co.
/ Charles F. Duffy, travelling salesman for
/ a New York iewelry firm, was robbed at the
/ Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, Thursday night
/ of tray OF gold watchchains, valued at from
( $4,000 to $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Cockey, member of the Mary
( land family of that name, who died in New
! York on Monday last, aged s3 years, was
buried on Wednesday in Greenmount Gene
I try, Baltimore.
VIM. II. Roller, register Of wills for Baltl-
more county, died on Thursday Of last week,
and the Orphans Court have appointed
t Thomas Philpot to Fill the vacancy until the
/ election next fall.
Thomas s. Baer, as trustee, sold on Tlesf
day, - acres Of land, about one and a'hal'
miles from Reisterstown and near Timber
/ Grove Station, on the Western Md. Railroad,
improved by large frame house and out
buildings, to MiltoR Albright for $3.50.
( Mr.. Alphonsus T. Hoack, of Baltimore, was
presented BY Mr. James A. Bailey, one of the
Z proprietors of Barnum's great show, with a
/ pair Of elks, worth between 81 900 and 81,
/ 600. They have been broken to harness, are
seven years old, and have been for the past
/ three years with the show. They drive well
f to phaetou, and viii present pretty ap-
pearaHee in the Park, with Mr. Hoack hand
I ling the ribbons.
The stables, grauary and sheds on the farm
of Capt John II. Strain, near Drookville,
Montgomery county, were destroyed by FIVE
+ Saturday night about $50 O'Clock. Nine
I head Of cattle and four horses we're burned to
death. The contents of all the buildings.
with tritling exceptions, were destroyed.
I They comprised $50 barrels Of cora in the ca /,
quantity Of hay, reaper and mover, car
I mage, sleigh, cutting box, wheat fan, etc. Ii
vas only by the most Strenuous exertloLs that
the dwelling house was saved. The loss Is
rather more than half covered by insurance
+ ON buildings and horses in the Mutual, Of
I Montgomery county, and Baltimore county
company