The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-09
Maryland Affairs.

III deaths from Smdl-PoA III Doi'iAN - -
4S4 cases.
There will be three days races over the
Leonardtown race course, beginning on the
23d of October. ae
There are five murder cases to come before
the Baltimore county circuit court at the oep-
TENDER term. s
The National Fire Insurance Company OF
Baltimore contemplates dissolution, AFTER
career of SO years.
The sudden death on Tuesday OF MIR.
Lloyd d. Whitaker, of Hartford county, Is
announced, aged II years. Bow
Shipbuilding is brisk in st. Michaels.
There are four ship yards and one marine
railway, all in full operation.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal business pros
poets are looming up since the END OF the
Cumberland coal miners strike.
The Brush Company now furnishes 800 cleo,
trio lights every night in Baltimore and Will
introduce machinery for l 900 lamps.
The managers of the Industrial Home for
Colored Girls desire the Pikesville Arsenal
property for the purposes OF the institution.
Two valuable steers were killed by light
ming on the farm of Judge Giles, near llches-
ter, Howard county, during the storm OF Sun
day night.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has dis
CHARGED the union men at its rolling mill at
Cumberland. 1t will employ none but non
union men there. IlG t5 ~ lsa-t
The farm of the late Larkin Dorsey, in the
sixth district of Howard county, 276 acres and
improvements, has been sold to ID. Seeing
for S11 500 cash.
The Union Bee Keepers Association OF
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia VIII
meet in Hagerstown, Md, on Wednesday,
Oct. IS, session to last two days.
The Towsontown courthouse has been re-
painted inside. The contract for the fire proof
addition has been awarded to Edward D..
McMullin,- of Baltimore, for S9,245. d.
The Governor has pardoned VIM: Haw,
thorn, of Washington county, convicted OF
forgery in 1880. The pardon is granted on
condition that he leave the State, B
Miss Ella G. Martin, aged 26 years, daugh-
ter of David A. Martin, Baltimore fell from
the deck of the steamer Excelsior, and was
drowned, at Bay Ridge, Tuesday night.
A heavy rainstorm, accompanied by vivid
lightning and pealing thunder, prevailed in
Baltimore Sunday night. Severalplaces were
struck by lightning, and many of the streets
were overhowed -...- rH "..
Prof. Jas. NJ. Garnet has been elected to
the newly established chair of English language
and literature in the University of Virginia.
DR.. Garnett is now principal of the University
School, at Ellicott City. &c.. ......rr
The colored people of Frederick, Md, have
organized a branch lodge of the "Grand Uni
ted Executive Branches of the Sons and
Daughters of the Vine of Joseph's Habita-
tom This is regular Jumbo title. 3d..
Agricultural fairs will be held in the follow
counties this fall:-Baltimore October SO;
Cecil. October SO: Frederick, October 10
10: Hartford, October lob; Montgomery
October 1870; Washington, October l7-2O
Early Wednesday morning the body of Mr..
VIM B. Seymour was found hanging from a
tree on his place near St. Michaels, Talbot
county. He was about 60, was well-to-do,
and the suicide is ascribed to temporary IN
sanity.
The monthly meeting of the McDonough
Board was held Monday night. The fnancia
report showed receipts for the month SIS, $50.
As, disbursements S18, 231.86, leaving bal
ance ofS2, 548 3d. The new building is al
paid for, and the crops and farm are in ex'
cellent condition.
Greensborough, Caroline county, has two
large canning establishments, each with 8
capacity of ], 900 baskets daily, and together
giving employment to 600 persons. 1t has
six evaporatols with daily combined capac
ity OF $50 baskets 1t boasts also a saw mil
and basket factory.
Mr.. John Robinson, ofMill Green, Harfort
county, died very suddenly last Saturday while
going to the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Street
He was taken sick in a carriage, and was re
moved to a house on the roadside, where h
died in few minutes of heart disease. He wa
about 60 years of age and worthy citizen.
Isaiah Wolfersberger, editor of the Ameri
can Progress Ellicott City, has just obtained
a Judgment for. $234.65 against Orson Adams
The amount is principal and interest due OF
contract for political printing during tn
campaign. of 1879, when Senator Warhel
beat Adams for the senate.
Judge Oliver Miller, in answer to an in
uuiry from Register Bryan, of Annapolis
held that marine or sailor at the Nava
Academy has no right to vote unless he ha
acquired a residence by living in. the Stat
one year prior to his enlistment. In conse
ouence of this decision about dozen names
will have to be stricken from the registration
list .f "..'" 20.
Three distinct corporations are seeking t.
build a railroad across the Pennsylvani
mountains to connect Pittsburg with the Read
ing or other road at Harrisburg. With eithe
one that may succeed in getting the line, Ba
timore will secure another Pittsburg conneo
ton through the Western Maryland via tn
Cumberland Valley. .-naTa . ,air-
Theresa, twelve years ofage, adopted daugt
ter of Frank Rodenborcher, living on Ches
nut avenue, Hampden Village, Baltimor
county, was so severely burned at noon Sat
urday by the explosion of a coal-oil can, sea
tering the blazing fluid overher clothing, thu
she died Sunday afternoon at o'clock, afte
the most intense suffering, She was trying
| start fire with the coal oil.
Annie Ireland, colored, aged 10 years, die
| August 3d. on the place of Mr.. James Tyson
near Melvale, on the Northern Central Rail
way, and was buried on Saturday at Pikesvill.
Baltimore county. She was born at Carroll
Manor, Howard county, and was slave
Capt. Vachel Harding. In 1876 she con
pletely lost her eyesight, and in 1879 it r.
turned with the freshness of youth.
/ The suit brought by the children of the la
John Dennis, of Princess Anne, Somers'
/ county. to set aside the sale of some % 10
sold by their mother, and to prevent the for
closure of a mortgage which she placed upo
the estate, was decided last week in favor
| the compliments. . by THIS decision TWO uoZe
lot owners in, Princess, Annerlo lose their lot
many of which have been improved by dwell
ings. The heaviest losers are Benjami
4 Landlord and Hon. l.. L.. Waters.
Andrew Miser, 20 years of age, met with
4 frightful accident in the Meadow mill of v
/ e. Hooper & Sons at Woodberry, Baltimol
county, on "Wednesday afternoon. He WI
trying to draw a belt over a pully-wheel whe
the belt caught him, jerked him up to the Gel
| ing and whirled him around a swiftly revolt
ing shaft, his feet striking the ceiling at evel
turn Before the main driving wheel CON
be stopped the young man S arm was torn o.
and he fell mangled and bleeding to the foo
1t is estimated that he was whirled around r
less than $50 times. His legs were broker
1 his remaining hand and arm fractured, h
ribs crushed, his body generally mangled, an
yet he lived for an hour. ~ ~
Jacob zimmerman, alias Shay, of Ham,
den, Baltimore county, a bricklayer, age
twenty eight years, who was found in stup
fed condition on Monday evening by polio
man McFredericks on the Northern Centr
Railway tracks, near the Baltimore city limit
died on Tuesday morning at the Marylan
UNNECESSARY Hospital, of wound upon Il
head which Vim w Mc(,omas q nainte