The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-08-12
Maryland Affairs.

Tax Commissioner Woolford is quite sick at
his home in Somerset county.
/ The deaths in Baltimore last week were
/ Ill and the births reported l24.
| Temperance meetings are being held in
various places in Anne Arundel county.
The sudden death is reported of Col. Matthias
/ Hammond, of Howard county, aged 75years.
| The mother in-law of Senator Steiner of
/ Frederick died at her home in Connecticut
last week.
/ There was a two hours hail storm at
| Glencoe, Baltimore county, on Tuesday
evening last.
/ The Temperance Alliance is making an eff
/ fort to stop Sunday liquor violations in Balti
more county.
Mr. g. Frederick Ruff, merchant tailor, of
/ Baltimore was drowned Sunday while bathing
at Fortress Monroe.
Mr. Charles A. Vogeler, wholesale patent
medicine manufacturer, of Baltimore, died
/ Saturday, aged 81 years
/ Capt. John ]. Daneker, president of the
/ Old Defenders Association of Baltimore, died
on Wednesday, aged So years.
The cornerstone of the new United Breth-
+ rem Church at Middletown, Frederick county,
/ will he laid on the 10Th instant.
Owing to strikes the output of coal in the
& Cumberland region is COS, 5S7 tons less than
last year mp to this time.
/ The foundation of the new custom-house at
I Crisfeld has been laid and the building will
be completed by October.
A gentleman offers prize of SO for the
( best loaf of bread at the next exhibition of the
Cecil County Agricultural Society.
i The burning of felloe factory on Holiday
f n III n,lk.
a loss Of s., 500 Saturday night.
The Baltimore Hebrew Russian aid commit
tee are contemplating the purchase of land in
I Virginia for colonization purposes.
A shark measuring ten feet in length was
( harpooned in Annapolis harbOr ON Wednesday,
and is now on exhibition in that city.
John Mcpherson, aged 65 years, we'll
known resident Of Frederick, died Monday
night, after lingering Illness. of dropsy-
Prof Andrew Schad, oFganist, pianist and
composer. died in Baltimore on Wednesday,
aged 20 years. He was a native of Bavaria.
The Cecil County Agricultural Fair viii be
held at Elkton, ON October Srd, 4th, 9th aud
9Th. Premiums offered amount 20 over -,
eco.
Mediterranean iron ore importatious, grain
receipts and grain shipments are the present
timore.
A eolored woman living on Shor, alley. Bal
timore, on Tuesday gave birth 20 four children
three girls and a boy-Of average sise and
weight
Grand preparations are being made for the
Baltimore Oriole festival. The military parade
is expected TO b. the finest ever witnessed in
that city.
sGA.-a s..ts. - R.l,... III
on "Wednesday in the steamship HiberHia, for
Halifax. accompanied by Reys- 7. Mccoy AMI
l. ). MAlloy.
The death i announced Of ST. Agnes Hos
pisal, near Baltimore, of Sister Agnes Gabert,
. noted vocalist % the Order Of The Visitation,
Ared q years
Judgc CAREY has expounded the wife-bcas.
ing lAw Of Maryland, and SAYS II i Is violated
he will not hesitate 10 order the whipping post
to he erected in Baltimore.
The MArylaad Stock Brcetiers' Association
has asked the Governor 90 enforce the act Of
1850 Tor che extirpation Of plcuro. pneumonia
amoax casils in this State.
Plans arr being prepared for . handsome
depot 81 Union Station. Baitimore, IN keePihg
{ With similar buildings elsewhere belonging to
tbs Pennsylvania Railroad.
The fertilizer and phosphate dealers OF
Haxerstown hare heen notified BY the corpO-
rate authorities 10 remove their merchandise
b~yond the city limits within sTs days.
Rev. Irwin p. McCarsly, lately installed pas
tor q the PRESBYTERIAN church in Frederick
city, has been elected president Of Oxford
College. Oxford. uhso, vice Rev. DR.. X. ID.
Morris, resigned
The Perryyille Branch was on Tuesday last
added 20 the Frederick Division, Pennsylvania
Railroad. Il consists Of aad 10 miles u
road from Pors Deposit, Nd, 10 Perryvisle.
Nd, oppoas Havre De Grece.
Mr.. Cliuton Ross, OfIndiAn Greek, Dorches-
ter county, skipped tS Ncu York city on Tues
day morning By vessel, 200 wssoTine!ons, OF
large ssae. This Is the largest individual
shipalsnt ever made from the ChopkaRk FiveE.
A fsse broke oui last Friday in the wood
ualp sseparsnaSas % the Providence paper mill,
ousea BY the PhiladeIphis Record. seven
ss;les fron E,lkion, and destroyed The main
baisaiaz. The nschiRe shop Vas saved.
Iyoss $4,000
Two hslfhrothers. Peter Williams and
fseorse lean. e0ioTed, qnArrcled over game
Of cards ia Baltimore, and the latter struck
The former in the face With brick, causing
lockisu. uhieh resulted IN death. Jean j. in
jAil 10 await the action of the grand jaTy.
Gov. Hamilton has appointed a. the new
. board 81 commissioners for Anne Arundel
eoaasr Charles G. Stewart, Oliver II. vii.
IiAns. DR.. G. r. wiuierxon. ladge Vim. II.
Tack and Thosaas II. PhippS- Winscrsoa
and Phipps we're %, /. d. candidates last tail.
Mr.. Rober4 Cross. aged eighty three years,
died u his residence opposite the Fourteen
Nile House, ON the ReisserstowR turnpike,
last week HIS death had been looked for
long time, be being great sufferer from
cancer in the face; which, before death came
to his relief. had eaten away has entire lower
Jaws.
One night last week the residence % Oliver
Sweadner, Al Iibcrtyi0wn, Frederick eoaEty,
was entered by burglars and robbed OF y small
sum Of money and some eaiAbles. The rob.
hers entered Mr. Sweadner's bid ehaHber,
bus being called 10 by Mr.. Sweadesr. they
fired at him but missed himj aud made their
escape
Nine Inspector Thomas Brown went TO
Oakland on Tuesday, Al the request Of judge
Richie, 20 examine into the supposed deposit
Of coal on a tract Of land between four and Eve
hundred acres belonging To the Judge, and
located six miles above Oakland. Mr.. Brown
vas satisfied there was coal there, bat Ia what
quantities be does not know. Tie went bach
on Thursday TO investigate further.
J. z. Feiroe, ofCireensboro', Caroline coua.
~. WAS drowned from the steamer IDA ON hei
trip TO the ChoptaRk, on Tuesday night last.
He occupied siateroom With M. I. Hor'
sey, and leil the gTealrr Rari Of his elpthlpe
and a satehel In the room. He was missed
at o clock a. m, aud the superstition is that
be accidentally fell from the steamer and was
drowned before any one knew Of the accident.
The Frederick TYmes says "A few day:
since the wife Of Mr.. Augustus Fraley, resid-
ing on West Patrick street, gave birth 10 son,
the weight OF which was one pound and 4
, quarter. The lilliputian is perfectly formed
and when il cries il gives evidence Of having
pair of lungs that viii inhale and axhale suf'
fcient breath 10 mature q robust existence.
IL is said that the child can be put into quart
cup and a book laid ON the top with ease.
Barton Cochran, aged IL, last Sunday at
tempted to commit suicide at the residence oi
VIM. G. Sheridan. near Belair. The boy was
employed in the neighbOrhood. On Sunday
morning he went TO Mr.. Sheridan where he
picked no a bottle Of laudanum and drank
nearly an ounce 1t did not have the desired
effect and he went away. Alright he returned
and when near the house shot himselfwith pls-
! tol in the left side, an inch below the heart.
The wound is serious but not necessarily fatal.
On Tuesday States Attorney Maynadier or
dered an inquisition into his sanity, and the
jury finding the boy affected with suicidal
mania recommended his confinement at an
insane asylum Judge Waters therenpon or
derad his commitment To the MARYLAND Hos