The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-30
Maryland Affairs.

The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany has opened its line to New York.
The grand jury of Cecil county recon-
mend the prohibition of the sale OF cider.
Indictments have been found against the
proprietors of eleven gambling houses In
Baltimore.
A new postofice has been established at
Manor, Baltimore county, Samuel L. Moore,
postmaster.
Of the four school houses built in Dor
chester county in 1877 at cost OF So,OOO,
all but one have been burned.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany has occupied its new building, cor
ner of Baltimore and Calvert streets, Bal
timore.
The question of lighting the streets OF
Hagerstown with electricity, now agltates
the minds of the citizens of that enterprls-
ing city.
Joseph Turner has purchased property
in Chestertown upon which he will erect a
planning mill for the manufacture of sashes,
doors, &c.
Gov. Hamilton has pardoned w. ID.
Dowdrick sent to the penitentiary for four
teen years for horse stealing from Mont
gomery county. He had served eleven
years.
A few DAYS ago while Gilbert Scott, col
ored, was playfully pointing pistol at
son of Moses Rasin, in Kent county, the
weapon was accidentally discharged and the
boy instantly killed.
The weekly butter yield of Value End,
celebrated Jersey COW owned by Messrs.
Watt & Seth, of Baltimore county, is TWEEN
ty-four pounds and three ounces This ex-
ceeds any yield hitherto reported
The Easton Star says Mr.. Solomon
Pippin threw 500 in bank notes into his
stove through mistake, one day last week,
the money having been folded in an old
letter. He discovered his mistake in time
to recover the notes before they burnt up.
The Marlborough Gazette says an engi-
neer corps is surveying for new railroad
to be called the Washington City and Ches-
apeake, from that town to point on the
Chesapeake near Fair Haven The line
will also be surveyed between Marlborough
and Washington.
Two young men, of Broad Creek Neck,
Talbot county, are reported to have gone
armed on a hunt for ghost one night last
week; they found the goblin, which looked
as big as a cow shot and killed it; and the
next day had to pay SO for killing a
neighbor's hog. So says the St. Michaels
Comet.
The connection of the Cumberland Val
lev Railroad with the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad at Hagerstown is said to have
been very profitable to the former. So
great has the shipment of products, mostly
cotton from the South, by this route be-
come that the Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company has been compelled to borrow 100
cars from the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to accommodate it. The shipments
South of manufactured materials by this
route are very large.
The Crisfeld Leader says Our people
will remember the colored man Atkinson,
who, while sick with the smallpox, evaded
our authorities and passed through town
but afterward was placed in our pest-house
where he died. A woman by the name Of
Becky nursed him, and she, with her child
left town on the train the same day that
Atkinson died. She made her way to 6
tenement house on the lands of John Ste
vens, in this county, near Pocomoke City
There she and the child had the smallpox
and both died. The neighbors around
knew that they were dead, because the
door was open and they went near enough
to see that there was no sign of life il
either. No person could be obtained t.
bury them and fearing that the dogs anc
cats would go there and thus spread the
disease, it was decided to burn the house
the torch was applied on Wednesday o.
last week