The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-10-14
Morv,and Affairs.

Pimlico races begin on TUESDAY neA' any
close on Friday. ~. cor
Corn shucks for mattresses Drlng HUN w
to $50 per ton in Baltimore.
President Parker, of the Maryland Agrlcui-
tural College, has resigned.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has declar-
cd a semi annual dividend of five per cent.
II = nronosed to increase the Baltimore
Corn and Flour Exchange initiation Zee rom
81, 900 to $500.
Molv;lla Cromwell. living on the Monocacyi
in Frederick county, had twenty sheeP hlileu
by dogs on Thursday morning last.
The colored registered vote in Calvert
county exceeds the white vote by 20. Inc
total registration of Allegany county toots up
6, 464.
A new postoffce has been esta6lishe Ed at
McDonogh, Baltimore county, and Col. WIN.
Allan. principal of the McDonogh School, mas
been appointed postmaster.
In attempting to cross Patrick street IN
frederick, ON Tuesday, Miss Julia bennetG'
an elderly lady, was run over by horse anu
vehicle and badly injured.
John Graham was knocked in the head
with a brick in political row IN the elgnth
ward of Baltimore last Tuesday and his IN
juries are pronounced fatal
VIM. Wenk. of Frostburg, was to have been
married on Sunday, the first of October, but
was taken suddenly ill and died on the morn
ing of the day set for his wedding.
Mayor Whyte on Monday signed the ordl-
| nance providing for the issue and sale OF city
stock to the amount of 1854, 900 which is to
be loaned to the Western Maryland Railroad.
The ordinance will have to be submitted to
the popular vote for ratification
! There are some serious charges against Mr.
Wilkinson, late warden of the penitentlary,
which Mr. Wilkinson should clear up II he
can. He is out of the Office now, but he owes
it to himself and his party to successfully re-
flute the charges if he can.
| A number of burglaries have recently been
committed in Waverly, Baltimore county, and
on Tuesday August Rapp was arrested in
house, where he lay with fractured leg,
caused by jumping from a window in the sec
ond story of dwelling which he had robbed.
The son of John L. Harp, of Washington
county, who is one of the contestants for the
prize offered by Mr.. Benz. F. Newcomer, of
Baltimore, to the lad obtaining the largest
yield of corn from one quarter acre of ground,
has raised on the specified space As bushels
and IS pounds, making an average of $50
bushels and 81 pounds to the acre.
Jack Weddle, young man resident of Ca
toctin Furnace, was tried and convicted in
the Frederick Circuit Court last week on the
charge of raising and passing a check given
him by Col. j. Baker Kunkel from $9.4O to
5000. He purchased a suit of clothing from
B. Rosenour, in Frederick, for SIPS, re-
ceived the change and then fled to Carlisle,
Pa. where he was captured. The penalty
for his crime is from five to ten years in the
penitentiary. John Esterly, young German
citizen, was also convicted for forgery of sew
eral notes for small sums.
Among the passengers who arrived in Ha-
gerstown, upon the early train of the Western
Maryland Railroad from Waynesboro' on
Tuesday morning were two Mormon mission
aries who have been operating among the
citizens of Thomastown, Franklin county, Pa.
They were accompanied from that place to
Waynesboro' by number of the male con-
verts, who promised that they would move
with their wives to Utah at an early date.
The object of the visit of these missionaries
to Hagerstown is not known, but it is suppos-
ed to be in the interest of their cause.