The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-09
Maryland Affairs.

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The penitentiary has a surplus of 81 1913
this year.
| Frederick city has paid other floating debt
of $50, 900.
Two cases of small pox were discovered
Saturday in Cumberland
In Frederick city on Monday last, Jacob
Aubert died in his 91st year.
Local option leaders are now planning for
"a State prohibitory campaign.
Mrs. Mary Larkin died in, Baltimore on
Wednesday, aged 103 years.
Hon. T. f. Carey, of Caroline county, rails
ed this year IA 900 bushels of corn.
Active operations at the Antietam Iron
Works, near Sharpsburg, are to begin shortly.
| The centenary of the P. E. Church in
Maryland will be celebrated in Baltimore in
May next. @a't
Howard and Anne Arundel counties each
gave good majorities for local option on Tues
day last.
| 1t is proposed to increase Patterson Park,
Baltimore, by the addition of 60 acres, at a
cost of 100000.
A consignment of 900 live turkeys passed
through Hagerstown Monday from the Shen-
andoah valley, bound north.
One thousand young carp were placed in
the river at fredericksburg, last week by Fish
Commissioner Hughlett.
The steamer Excelsior of the Washington
and Norfolk line, was run into and sunk by a
powerful tug in Hampton Roads on Monday.
No lives were lost. III. .
On November 80, Mrs Mary Lease died at
the residence of her sonin-law, A. L. ia
cobs, in Mt. Pleasant district, Frederick
county, in her goth year.
Gov. Hamilton has appointed Gen. John
W. Horn one of the managers of the House
of Reformation for Colored Children, in Prince
Georges county, vice Judge Chas. 4. Phelps,
resigned.
The total number of tons of coal shipped by
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
during the month of November amounted TO
SO, $50. There were 636 boats employed dur
ing the month.
Joseph Everest, aged 90 years, died on Mon
day at the residence of his daughter, in Balti-
more. Mr.. Everest was born in Hartford
county, and in the war of 1872 IA was volun-
teer soldier in the defense of Maryland.
The New Methodist Church, at Liberty,
Frederick county, will be dedicated tomorrow,
December 10th. The dedicatory sermon will
be preached by Rev. DR.. H. r. Naylor, of
assist.
Bill Simmons, alias "Hot Cakes, colored
man, was captured at Cambridge a few nights
ago with fifteen bottles of liquor in his pos
session. Any one wishing to purchase drink
had only to call for ''Hot Dakes'' to have his
wants supplied.
The annual meeting of the Maryland State
Grange will be held in Baltimore, next Tues
day, the 18th instant. The session will be
held in the rooms of the Young Mems Christ
ian Association, and will continue for several
days. L rFf
Miss Caziah Cross, in the 90th year of her
age, died at the residence of her sister in Bal
timore, on Sunday Miss Cross was born in
Baltimore county, and at the time of her death
was the oldest member of Monument Street
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. H. S. Hartogensis, of Baltimore, is
owner of Hebrew prayer and psalm-b book
that was printed in Venice in 1898. 1t is
about two inches in length, an inch and a.
half in breadth and an inch deep. He found
the little book in his fathers library at Bots
lie Due, Holland, when he paid his parents a
visit years ago. During the Jones falls flood
the book was washed away. but afterwards
recovered f..., .....
There were two suicides in Baltimore on
Monday morning. JOnn w OrtnlngtOn dorsey
aged about "a years, son of Judge Reuben
Dorsey, of Howard county, shot himself
through the head at his boarding house, 156
West Biddle street. Warrick HI. Butler, aged
about p years, son of Rev. William Butler, of
Prince Georges county, shot himself through
the heart at 7G North street John McGarigle
and Lazarus Hughes, also of Baltimore, COM
mitted suicide on Wednesday. The latter was
nearly 81 years DID, ...r .. .....- .
The board of public works of Maryland is
in deadlock condition on the election of
two State directors in the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad in the places of Mr.. George Cotton,
of Baltimore, and Hon. j. Carroll Walsh, of
Hartford. The board of public works consists
of three persons-Gov. Hamilton, Comptrol
Ter Heating and Treasurer Campton. 1t re-
quires two voters to elect. For the two State
directors there are three candidates, viz: Mr..
Walsh, John F. Ehlen, of Baltimore, and
Richard Hynson, of Kent county. Each can
didate received two votes, but as there were
three candidates, none were elected, and the
board has stood that way for some time. The
vote was For Walsh, the Governor and treas
urer for Ehlen, the Governor and comptrol-
Ter; for Hynson, the comptroller and treas
urer In the meanwhile Mr.. Cotton and Mr..
Walsh remain in Office, pending the deadlock.