The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-05-13
MARYLAND Affairs.

Over 1900 immigrants arrived at Baltimore
on Monday.
There were l43 deaths in Baltimore last
week and 229 births.
Upper Marlborough is without good water,
and many of its wells are dry.
The tax rate in Baltimore county in 1880
was SO cents, in 1881 55 cents, and now it is
/ 81 cents.
Diphtheria has again appeared in Frederick.
1t is to be hoped that it will not be so fatal as
formerly.
Bishop Pinkney confirmed class of twelve
at All Saints Episcopal Church, Frederick,
Sunday evening.
The stockholders meeting of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal will be held in Anna
polls in June.
Samuel T. Bayne has been appointed post
master at Baynesville, Baltimore county. 1t
is new office.
The postofice at Clifton, Baltimore county,
is discontinued, and the mail messengership
attached abolished.
Mrs Mary Windsor, widow of the late Col.
Zachariah Windsor, of Frederick county, died
last Friday, aged 30 years.
Vim. H. Harper's drug store at Upper
Marlboro, was burned Monday morning, to-
gether with the entire stock.
An e,z- Confederate Maryland Line Benefi-
+ cial Association has been formed, Gen. Brad
! ley 7. Johnson, president.
( Ii is thought there will be fifty more fruit
/ and vegetable packing establishments in Har-
+ ford county this year than in 1881.
The local option campaign has already begun
I in Anne Arundel county, though the vote will
not be taken until December next
/ The Farmers National Bank Of Annapolis,
Z has asked TO be discontinued as a United
! States depository on the LIST proximO.
/ President Kimball, of the Shenandoah Val
I ley Railroad, IN his annual report, urges the
/ building of union depot at HsgerstOwn.
! Capitalists from York, Pa, have purchased
( $50 acres of woodland, near Emory Grove,
/ from Edward Worthington, at $50 an acre.
( The Baltimore leaf tobacco dealers aud
Z Maryland growers have formed q protective
/ association, Gen. James II. Herbert. presi-
7 dent.
/ Miss Elizabeth Jones died at the Aged
/ Peoples Home. Baltimore. last week. aged -
I years She was a native of Prince George :
county.
The Stock Breeders Association has peti-
I toned the Governor to approve the milk bill
/ passed at the late session Of the Maryland
/ Legislature
( Gov Hamilton has appointed Philip l..
/ Moore Justice Of the peace for the ninth dis
/ trict of Baltimore county, under the act Of
/ lss2. cheating this additional Office.
( The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
( planted 500 shade trees at Oxford, as the
Z beginning 81 park at that place. They
are chiefly Carolina Poplays and naples.
F Col. Thomas A. Miller. a prominent citizen
{ Of Charles county. died on Sunday last OF APP
q II +. i 4
f provost marshal in Charles county, with the
rank Of colonel.
Circuit Court began At HsgeFstown en Mon.
iay last. Both the civil aud criminal dockeis
are small. There are three removed cases
/ from Frederick county aud the Hoppe will
+ case troEn tins city.
7 The Executive Committee OF the knights
+ OF Labor IN secret session at Frustbarg. on
/ Saturday. unanimously agreed to eenunUe
( the strike OF the miners Of the Cumberland
reEiOa for DC. per tou for mining coal.
II Is stated tina, Rev. DR.. John J. Murray,
81 the Maryland Annual Conference, nov IN
Pitssbarg. Pa, by special arrangement has
received a call 10 II. Johns Methodist Pro
tessant Church. on Liberty street, RaitImore.
The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Cornpa,
+ Nv j. having another iiue surveyed for the ex-
tension between Baltimore and Philadelphia
, This line rams near 10 the Philadelphia, VII
miuEton and Baltimore Rosd part Of the way.
( Montgomery county bonds sold last Thurs
day AZ a pren1iasa ii Z, u. ! and II cents
on the dollar. An the bonds Wcr, taken in
thr caaniy. The amount II the bids reserved
sppraNimAtsd 5000. while only slS. eco vas
wasted.
Faar.c~n thousand buuchcs Of bananas. 100
barrels Of oranges and = small 10; Of p5peap-
Piles, hy steamship Americas, and 2, TOO
buuches bananas and 4.doo eoeoanuts, BY
schCs.s.r Eta A. Naf,, arrived ~ Baltimore
Sztar,lAy frum Jamaica
AZ she third annual special combination
sale VI Jersssy cattle in New York, Tuesday,
MahaiA ID. three years old was purchased b
= NJ Shoemaker. Of Baltimore. har ssT5
TN "Wednesday Mr.. Shoemaker purchased the
The cos PFinecss for St.Sto.
AZ Ccaireville, on Tasssiay, PEN Robinson,
voloFed, vas acquitted of the murder Of John
Wright, eolofcd. The crime vas committed
on Kent Island IN November, 1881. The col
ord ,=sSpae Of keni Island threaten violence
20 Rnbiusoa Il he shoald Fesars to tha, place.
Gen. Thomas ] aeKaig died on FRIDAY OF
last week, SIX miles from HaEerssown, n the
7s,h year 81 his sgr. In lSts he Was sa uh-
snccrssfai Wing candidate for Congress. In
1854 be Was elected = nscRihcr " the House
81 Delegates from AllegaHy eonnty . Dem
ocrns and was a member uf che constitutional
convention uf ISL.
Stephen Tsgz died At bis residence, Little
Valley, thgre niles eaet Of Towsonsovu. on
Wednesday u last week. in thr seth year u
his agc. tie spent the whole Of biz life upon
;bs place where be died, ssyer uas twenty
miles from home. nnd never was on a railroad.
He enjoyed remarkably good health aud up 90
within a year before his death c0ald easily
cut and pat up cord Of wood per day.
The Order II the Oriole decided al meet.
ing "Wednesday night Ia have a celebration
this wear on Sep. u, IL aud ~ The pro-
gramme has not been made cat yet, bet ale
EoFical displays and the ceremony Of laying
the corner stone OF the AFunisiead monument
by the city authorities sill he promincni fea-
tares. Committees have been appointed To
solicit subscriptions from merchants
John Moore, aged Is years, who had been
reconmtied 90 the HoRse of Correction from
Micomieo eoeaiy, while being bFpaght "a
Baltimore on Friday, On the steamer Kent.
Capt. Neaxey. jumped overheard ia Wiconi-
90 river. near Fruitland, formerly called Shad
Point. and swan ashore, notwithstanding he
Was handcufed. He was Fecaptared, how
ever, aud brought up SATURDAY, morning, and
taken to the House Of Correction.
Mr.. wm. Dean, Of Baltimore, has purchas-
ed Candy Island, Virginia, situated at the
confluence of the Clinckarnck with the James
river, ia full view Of Newport News. Il con
tains forty acres and cost Sl,l7S. IL Is re
ear,led as one Of the most fertile spots IN that
section, especially adapted for tracking and
fruit, aud Is known to have yielded one hun
dred bushels Of peanuts To the acre. Mr..
Dean intends erecting a new store upon the
island.
Mr. r. Everett Smith, editor and senior
proprietor Of the Worcester County SAield,
died suddenly "Wednesday evening at the
Clarendon Hotel, Baltimore, of heart disease.
Mr.. Smith had been Ill two weeks of pneumo-
MIA, but was pronounced eonyalescent by his
physician, DIR. Richard Sappington. At the
time of bis death he was seated in chair Ia
his room AT the hotel. Mr.. Smith was in the
sixtieth year Of his age, and was born in Wor
eester county.
Peter Shaefer, an eX-tax collector of state
and county taxes for Frederick county, on
Tuesday applied to the Circuit Court for an
order confirming the sales OF certain pieces of
property sold by him. The court refused and
ordered all the propeHy to be resold. II APP
pears that none Of the property had been pro-
perry described in advertising, the law relating
TO cunning being quoted in the advertisements
instead of that referring to delinquent taxes.
II is believed that Mr.. Shaefer's predecessors
for ten years past have fallen into the same