The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-12-16
- 771-77
Maryland Affairs.

a membership of 2, 700 @
There has not been prisoner in the Somer-
set county Jail since October 80.
A military company has been organized at
Mount Washington, Baltimore county.
Daniel Ratclif, prominent lawyer and
citizen of Baltimore, died on Wednesday,
Alexander Jones, living near Belair, lost
three children in ten days from diphtheria. -
Mrs Catharine Murray died in Baltimore
last Saturday, aged SO years and two. months,
The hog cholera is proving quite fatal among
the hogs of Pisgah neighborhood, Charles
county. i5 i"f 15e 7if.4 s5.t 't'
It is estimated that II 900 tons of fertilizers
were sold in Kent county this fall, worth about
100000. 4a HI te seni ~
! Christ P. E. Church, at Cambridge, recent
| ly destroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt at cost
of $4,000.
| The annual banquet of the Hebrew Benevo-
lent Society in Baltimore ON Monday night
Melted Sc, 934.35.
Mrs. Corinne Bartol, wife of Chief Judge
Bartol of the Court of Appeals, died in Balti-
more last Saturday. .,.a. % ga. 81
A $500 five per cent. bond of the Washing
ton county Water Company, Hagerstown,
sold at $3.50 few days ago. . ....f.i
The steam engine and machine company,
of Hagerstown, has closed its shops, throwing
about 125 employees out of work.
The School Board of Baltimore City is dis
cussing the ACCESSIBILITY of having but one ses-
sion day in the public schools. ~ :u.'f
The water in the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries was reported lower on Friday and
Saturday than for forty years past. -4l Il.
Charles Derr, colored, fell from wagon
near Baltimore last week, and had his head
crushed by a wheel running over it.
The initiation fee to the Corn and Flour
Exchange has been increased from 81 900 to-
So, 500, to take effect March 1, 1888. "-77n
Miss Mary M. Taylor, of Lombard street,
Baltimore, was burned to death few days
ago by her dress taking fire from stove:
The tobacco crop of Maryland for the year
1882 is 1852, 147, grown upon SO, TIA acres.
The average number of pounds was 6o3 per.
acre.
Surveys of the proposed routes for rail-
road from Frederick to Middletown are now
being made by Civil Engineer JOS 5. Git, OF
Pennsylvania. -. .-tr- ..7
1t is stated that movement is spoken OF.
among liquor dealers of Annapolis to contest
the validity of the late local option election on
constitutional grounds. ..,,; ~
Meetings preliminary to starting campaign
for prohibitory amendment to the State con-
stitution were held at st. Johns Church,
Baltimore, ON Tuesday. rag r,5'Eglut
The Governor has appointed Rignal W.
Baldwin one of the managers of the House OF
Reformation for Colored Children, Prince
Georges county, vice Gen. Jno W. Horn
| resigned. t- .,a.- ... -.....,r, o..
Mr.. John w. Garrett was on Wednesday
elected to the presidency of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for the twenty-ffth time
Mr.. Spencer was elected second vice presi-
dent, and Orland Smith third vice-president.
Judges Pearre and Syester have asked for
the designations of the school board OF Allie
gany county. 1t is said that no changes are
made against the board, but that change in
the superintendent of public schools is deslr-
! ed.
Gen. Jubal A. Early has consented to de-
/! liver an address before the Association OF the
MARYLAND Line, in Baltimore, on the I'D of
February next. His subject will be 'Jack-
sons Campaign Against Pope in August,
| 1862" iI 80 -a .,t -r 70 ii,
The Wednesday Club of Baltimore have
volunteered a benefit to the Thursday Club OF
Hagerstown on the Both inst. The proceeds
of the entertainment will be devoted to the
public library The ''Snow Ball." will be
presented ia 81 i'@ .a..-aE@!iE lHa
The investigations before Gov Hamilton at
| Annapolis into the charges against Mr.. Alex
| ander Somervell, inspector of State tobacco
warehouse No. 2, terminated on Thursday,
| in the withdrawal of the charges and the res
ignation of NJ. Somerville.
| Governor Hamilton has made the following
appointments VIM. H. Shipley, Francis l,
Rhodes, John A. Simpson, Nicholas Blume-
nauer and O. S. J. Beckley, registers respec.
lively for the first, second, third, fourth and
fifth aldermanic districts of Frederick city. :.
Judges Yelott and Fowler, of the Baltimore
and Hartford circuit in order to economize
time, have passed an order that in the trial OF
! law, appeal and criminal cases argument of
counsel as to the admissbility of testimony
will not be heard except the court indicate
! desire to that effect. 'i -'- ~
Contests for the positions of postmaster at
Cambridge and Hagerstown are lively yin those
places, whilst the President and the Postofice
| Department at Washington are besieged daily
with delegations" The chief objection to
the Cambridge postmaster is, that he has held
the place for fifteen years. s.,
A dispatch from Cumberland on Monday
saws: The body of Matthias Gruber, aged 63
wears. was found in Wills creek this morning.
| Last Thursday he left saloon near where the
body was found. to go to his home and since
then has not been seen alive. jury OF IN
quest returned verdict of accidental drown
| ing. "a
The reward offered for the capture of the
murderer of VIM. A. Russell, Of Reistersto#n,
on the Dist of November, now amounts to
So 100, as follows: County commissioners OF
Baltimore county, $500; Henry Clay Lodge.
! Odd Fellows, Reisterstown, 500: Hon Geo.
Hawkins Williams, 5000, and the State of
Maryland, 81 900. ~. ..r rl. -,
A corps of engineers is now engaged on
what is known as the high line route of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in perfecting that
survey preparatory to the construction OF their
| New York extension. The engineers were
last week in camp about IA miles from Balti-
more, at the crossing of the Big Gunpowder,
and they on Monday moved on this line east
ward. '''- '--'- .''-'
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
has let the contract for the construction OF
iron bridges over the Monocacy and Antietam
to Cofrode & Saylor, of the Philadelphia
Bridge Works, the lowest bidders. The Mo-
nocacy bridge, three spans, is to cost SIG, 900,
and lOng-span bridge across the Antletam
| SIS, 213 SO, the work to be finished by March
I, 1888. s'.'~A +3 ..t~@l '"il'
The Maryland Poultry and Pigeon Club viii
hold their Second Annual Exhibition in Ball
timore, December 21st to 18th, at Raine's
Hall. corner Of Baltimore street and Post office
avenue. The exhibition promises to be one
of the finest ever held in the city, and fanciers
from all over the country have promised to
exhibit some ofthe finest specimens of poultry
and pigeons. 3sa'a'l #' -' ;+Ha2o l'bt
Mr. Michael Bannon, one of the best known
of Anne Arundel politicians, has in contem-
plation book on Anne Arundel politics,
which promises wholesome reading to. poll
ticians generally. 1t will be entitled .'The
Maryland Farmer at Home and will treat on
State matters generally, but Anne Arundel
politics in particular and is promised to be
ready in the near future. 5l.alsG - .tu
A disease is prevailing in Frederick county
among the horses, which has resulted fatally
in several cases. The horse is first taken
with cough, refusing his feed, the throat
swells, then there is frothy discharge from