The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-03
Maryland Affairs.

more.
The smallpox is spreading among the color
ed people below st Leonards, Calvert county.
Rev. J. Hannaberry, pastor of the Reform
ed Church at Ridgely, Caroline county, died
Tuesday.
A coIored barber in Baltimore left an es-
tate of S22, 900 and c0lored hay dealer one
valued at $4,000
Eddie, eldest son of Maj. John |. Yellott,
of Towsontown, died from rheumatism of the
heart on Wednesday.
Tie Maryland oyster commission will begin
another examination of the oyster beds ofthe
State the first part of April.
Henry r. Torbert, editor of the Elkton
Whig has been appointed Deputy Collector
in the place of Maj. Dallam, deceased.
Foreign and home fire and marine insur
ance companies paid losses in Maryland
during 1882 amounting to S495, 014.59.
NJ A. Newell, of Maryland, addressed
the superintendent of the Virginia schools in
conference at Richmond, on Wednesday.
The fair for the benefit of the First Hose
Company of Hagerstown closed on Saturday
night. The company realized about 81, 600.
Capt. Hance Lawson has been appointed
collector of customs for the eastern district
70 Maryland, with headquarters at Crisfield
The cornerstone of another Protestant
Episcopal Church was laid in Baltimore on
Wednesday, at the corner of Preston and
Chester streets.
The schooners W. 7. Carroll and J. c.
Mahoney were in collision Sunday night at
the mouth of PatuXent river, and the former
damaged S75.
The Washington County Agricultural Soci-
ETY. has purchased new grounds on which to
| hold their new exhibition, %, 26, q and 28th
of September next.
! A correspondent of the Centervile Record
makes prediction that the peach crop on the
peninsula will equal that of last year, although
two fruitful years rarely come together.
The colored people of Baltimore held a
mass meeting Thursday night and speeches
were made advocating the retention of Col.
| Dity as collector of internal revenue.
| Col. Harry Gilmor was still living Thursday
night, but no hopes of his recovering were
entertained. Gen. Jubal A. Earlpand Gov.
/ Hamilton called on him this week.
| The contract for supplying beef to the
! Maryland penitentiary has been awarded to
! T. J. Rusk for $4.48 per 100 pounds. He
has supplied the institution for several years.
Mr. James II. Gambril, prominent citi-
zen and we'll known -four and grain dealer OF
Frederick, was kicked by horse Wednesday
afternoon and painfully if not seriously in
jured.
The dwelling of Thomas J. Cannon, on
the old Frederick road, Baltimore county,
opposite Mount de Sales Academy, was burn
| ed on the 22d of February, causing loss OF
$4,000.
| Mrs. Mary Norris, tried for poisoning her
! NJ bt ted
at Belaire last Saturday. 1t cost Hartford
county about 81, 500 to find out that she was
innocent.
! In the class for confirmation, at Trinity, p.
( f. Church, Baltimore, on Wednesday ev;n-
| ing last. was Mr.. W. Bachelor, "a years Of
age and one of the Old Defenders of Balti-
more.
VIM. H. Stabler, much respected citizen
of Montgomery county, died at his residence
near Sandy Spring, on Thursday of last week,
aged 81 years. Two brothers survive him,
one aged 83 and the other 80.
Solomon Steinmetz, postmaster at Clear
spring, Washington county, died Saturday in
his eighty-eighth year. He had been post
master at Clearspring for the past II years
! He was a soldier in the war of 1872
Allen Jones was killed and a man named
/ Cullen was severely injured by the upsettiug
of wagon near Lapidum, Hartford county,
! last Saturday The men had been to Havre
de Grace, where they got drunk.
The roads in Cecil county are let in sections
! to the lowest bidders, who do as little work as
/ possible for the money. The system is pro-
! nounced failure, and the bad condition of
the roads is subject of complaint
Trueman Duvall, native of Prince
! Georges county, but who has been living in
/ Baltimore some years, attempted to commit
suicide on Monday morning by shooting HIM
self in the head with pistol. He was out of
! employment.
Eleven colored women have been sitting in
Il row at Douglass Institute, Baltimore, this
week, contesting for prize as the champion
beauty of America. The contest is to be de-
cided by the ballots of visitors, the ballots
costing % cents each.
At meeting Of the executive committee of
The Maryland State Temperance Alliance held
last week in Baltimore it was proposed to
follow persons seen leaving restaurants on
Sunday until their names were learned, and
then send them to the grand jury as wit
neSSeS.
The AmeIfcan says the Union Oyster Com
pany of Baltimore is about to close business
and dissolve. The reasons assigned are-the
shipment of inferior oysters by other houses,
and the cutting of rates below living profits.
The effect upon the oyster trade of the city
will be seriously felt.
Marshal John T. Gray suffered very painful
injury Tuesday night, and has since been
confined to his house. He was walking fast
on baltimore street, near Holiday, endeav-
oring to overtake car, and catching his foot
fell heavily, breaking one of the small bones
near his left shoulder.
The canal basin at Cumberland is being
cleaned out preparatory to the opening of bust
ness To-day the water will be turned off
from the Georgetown level to repair the locks,
which will take ten days. The repair at the
-Four Locks are progressing finely, and there
will be no delay of the opening of navigation
on account of the repairs there.
In the Washington County Circuit Court,
on Wednesday, the case of Catharine Fechtig
against the administrators of Frederick
Fechtig was concluded by the jury rendering
a verdict for the plaintiff for So, 405. The
claim was for services rendered by the plain
tiff in housekeeping for and the nursing of
Frederick Feehtig during years ofhis helpless
old age, he being upwards of so years old at
the time of his death.
Farm hands in some of the counties are
said to be scarce and higher IN their demands
for wages than for several years. Men are
asking from $12 to SIS per month. On
basis of wheat and corn, farmers do not find
that they can proftably pay the latter figure,
and are discussing the practicability of get
ting foreign labor. Some farmers who have
large tracts of land are dividing their farms
and renting out the same to good tenants.
On last Monday night week, Miss Maria
Humphreys, the only daughter of Egg Senator
diphtheria. She was buried ON the following
Wednesday. The same day Mrs. Virginia
Humphreys, the mother and wife, was taken
ill, and on Thursday morning diphtheria de-
veloped itself, making very rapid advances.
The night of that same day, at II o'clock,
she also died. Mr.. Humphreys and one little
boy are all that remain now of that once
happy family.
II is understood that Col. Frederick Skinner
will likely be a candidate for the position of
president of the Maryland Agricultural Col.
lege. Col. Skinner is a native Marylander,