The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-23

Hiram Keefer and Charles f. Halter, o
Frederick, while at the Oriole, last week
each had their pockets picked of golc
watch.
"Holly Park" the suburban residence
of Major Samuel H. Brown, of Frederick
has been sold to George L. Cramer TO
$4,000
The wholesale drug store of Gilber
Bros, corner of German and Howard
streets, Baltimore, was burned early Thurs
day morning.
Oysters, plump, fat and fresh, are SOLE
on the streets of fredericksburg for 20 cent
a bushel. In Cambridge they sell at II
cents bushel. ....
Rev. A ID. Rowe, Lutheran mission
airy, 30 years of age, who was maintained
in India by Maryland contributions, has
died at his post.
At Berlin, Worcester county, pigs ant
meat are quite scarce and expensive, pig
selling at cents per pound, and meat a
Is and 20 cents.
Mr.. A. Pope has been appointed genera
passenger and ticket agent of the Shenan
doah Valley Railroad Company, to taxi
effect October 1.
Vivian Brent, editor of the Maryland
Independent, published at Port Tobacco
has been appointed auditor in the pension
Office in Washington.
The registration of voters in Baltimore
was closed on Wednesday, for the Septem
Der sitting, and the total to date is 60,982
of whom 1854 are colored.
Mrs. fedora Kunkle, aged about &C
years, wife of Colonel J. Baker Kunkle, Of
Catoctin Furnaces, died suddenly at hel
residence at o'clock Thursday afternoon.
E. NJ Thomas, of Frederick, has COW
that produces sixteen pounds of butter pei
week, five months after calving, and feed
ing on pasture, Mr.. Thomas values hel
at $500.
D. E. Wiley, of Hartford county, and
P. A. Scaggs, of Prince Georges county
will ride this month near Baltimore for the
tournament championship of the State and
purse of 500. -
Among the l large yields eff wheat in
Washington county this season the most
extraordinary is that reported by Mr.. John
Wolff, of the Beaver creek district, ii
being &c bushels per acre.
Last week as Thomas Doyle was per-
forming the gymnastic feat called "skin-
ming the cat" on beam over a scalding
kettle in canning factory at Chestnut
Hill, Hartford county, he lost his hold and
fell into the kettle, scalding himself dan
gerously. ~
The dwelling of E. G. Ostercamp, near
Belair, Hartford county, was destroyed by
fire at an early hour Monday morning, and
a ten-year-old son of Ostercamp, who was
asleep in wing of the building, was
burned to death Mr.. Ostercamp is a
tailor, and works in Baltimore.
A man named VIM. Minister, formerly
of Keyser, W. Va, and brakeman on the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad, was Monday
morning, whilst engaged in making up a
freight train at Hagerstown, caught be-
tween the bumpers of the cars and crushed
so badly as to cause his death before
medical aid could reach him.
The Western Maryland reports almost a
blockade of general merchandise at Hillen
Station since the Oriole festival for ship
ment to Virginia, Pennsylvania and upper
Maryland. These goods were bought by
the visiting merchants, and the rush of
freight for railroad transportation set in as
soon as the show was over and still keeps
up.
Robert Thompson and VIM. Harper,
two white men, formerly from Frederick,
were arrested at Frederick, on Tuesday,
by officers Staup, Waters and Harding for
breaking into the hardware store of w. w.
Crump, at Martinsburg, w. Va, on the
night of the 10th and stealing twenty-five
reyolvers and three shotguns They were
taken to Martinsburg for trial.
The large canning house of Benjamin
Silver, jr., at Chenille, Hartford county,
was struck by lightning at o'clock Thurs
day morning, set on fire and entirely des-
troyed, with its contents, consisting of
5000 cases of fruit, 5000 cases empty
cans, steam engine and other machinery
Loss $25, 700; insured for $4,000, Of
which $4,000 Is in the Hartford Mutual
and the remainder in Baltimore and other
companies.
A barn on the farm of Mrs DIR. Pitten-
ger, located in the Conococheague district
about two miles west of Broad Fording
Mills, was about 2 o'clock last Monday
morning destroyed by fire. The farm was
tenanted by young man named Ditts,
who loses his summer crop of hay, one
hundred bushels of wheat and few farm
There was but slight insur-
ance and the fire is supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows was in session in Baltimore this
week. The following officers for the ensu-
ing year were elected Grand sire, Erie
J. Leach, Of Iowa deputy grand sire,
Henry F. Carey, of Maryland; grand
secretary, Theo. A. Ross, of Trenton, N.
j.; grand treasurer, Joshua Vansant, of
Maryland. On motion of Representative
Elliot, of Connecticut, Rev. J. w. Vena-
bic, of Versailles, KY, was reappointed
chaplain.
Mr.. James L. Randolph, chief civil
engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio, on
Monday met committee of citizens of
Middletown, Frederick county, and went
over the proposed route of a railroad from
Frederick to Middletown. Mr.. Randolph
estimated the distance Of line to be ten
miles, and the grade los feet to the mile
over the mountain both ways. A narrow
gauge road and equipment he thought
would cost $4,000. The Middletown
Valley people want a road over the noun
tain, and prefer to have railroad connec-
ton by that route. The question of
raising the necessary capital is being dis