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

A Gamers association is to be organized
in Hartford and Cecil counties.
Abner Webb, the oldest citizen of Balti-
more, died on Wednesday, in his Tooth year.
There were eighty arrests in the eastern
police district of Baltimore on Christmas day.
Two prisoners, Timothy Clare and John
McCann, broke out of the Towsontown Jail
on Saturday.
Major F. Dorsey Herbert, a prominent
merchant and citizen of Hagerstown, died on
Wednesday, aged 81 years.
William Densy was fatally stabbed by Jason
Williams, parties colored, Christmas evening
at Simpsonville, Howard county.
Louis E. McComas, Esq, of Hagerstown,
has been appointed counsel to the Western
Maryland Railroad Company, in place of
Hon. A. K. Syester, elected to the bench.
There are upwards of twenty ight thousand
men upon the pay roll of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The Mount Clare shops alone
give employment to between three and four
thousand.
Mr.. Frederick Culp, an aged resident of
Frederick city, was found dead on bridge on
West Patrick street Christmas morning. He
is supposed to have been on his way to early
mass and died suddenly from the effects of
ncurC ulS6dSC.
A man in the employ of John W. Brown
ing, shoemaker, at Laurel, Prince George
county, was found dead in the store by his
employer Christmas morning. The man had
been employed by Mr.. Browning about six
weeks, and was an Englishman by birth:
For the week ended Saturday 226 deaths
were reported in Baltimore, 70 more than the
corresponding week of 1881. Births reported
III. Smallpox seems to be rapidly increas-
ing, 81 deaths having occurred from that d.
sease during the week, 40 of them children.
This is an increase of Is over last week, and
"a more than during the first week of the
month. Altogether there has been 121 deaths
from smallpox in Baltimore during the first
three weeks in December, and this does not
include those who die at the Quarantine Hos
pital, which will increase the number to about
$50 in three weeks.
The Baltimore American of Monday last
says:-Samuel E. Fair, George P. Smith and
Henry Matthias, all of Baltimore county, were
arrested Saturday night and committed for
the action of the United States authorities,
charged with passing counterfeit money.
Jacob Castleberg keeps jewellery store on
Baltimore street near Calvert, and late Satur-
day night waited on three young men, one of
whom desired to purchase gold watch. A
bargain was made, and Fair, one of the ac-
cused, presented $50 note in payment and
desired the change. Castleberg suspected
something was wrong about the note, and de-
layed the men while he went outside to find
out whether it was good or bad. He discover
ed it to be counterfeit, and sent his SON to the
detectives office. Detective Mitchell went
to the store, and took Fair into custody. Cap
tain Cadwallader and Detective Droste were
in the neighborhood of the store, and CHANGED
along in time to take Smith and Matthias to
the Keep. It was learned soon after their ar
rest that they had passed similar note on
August Ehenleng, at Fred Otto's restaurant,
Gay and Fayette streets. They went into the
saloon, bought thirty cents worth Of drinks,
Ehenleng changed. Fair claimed to have
found the counterfeits among the waste paper
az the Beckleysville Paper Mill, of which his
father is part owner. The other two men hail
from Woodbury..