The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-10-06
Maryland Affairs.


the first German settlers at Germantown, Pa,
will be celebrated in Baltimore next Monday.
Mrs. Conrad, who shot and killed her hus-
band, Lewis Lawrence Conrad, near Refs
terstown, in August last, has been declared
insane.
William Downs, aged 90, died on Sunday
at his farm, near Patuxent, Anne Arundel
county. He was born in Montgomery county,
but had been living on the farm of 300 acres
where he died for sixty odd years.
The fall races at Pimlico will be undoubt-
eddy the most attractive that have been run
there for some years. The club is very mu-
nihcent in the way of stakes and purses, and
gives away an aggregate of $4,000.
York farm, on Chester river, Kent county,
owned by S. Merritt Wilkins and containing
400 acres, has peach orchard OF IS, 600 trees,
which from 1875 have produced 81 800 bas-
kets of fruit, bringing in SOB, 200. In 1879
the sales netted $685. 900.
A suit was brought in the Superior Court of
Baltimore on Saturday by Hattie Dorsey,
widow of Owen Dorsey, and the three chill
dren, against the Western Maryland Railroad
Company for $50, 900 damages for the death
of Owen Dorsey, traveller on the railroad,
by a collision at Highland Park Station Sep
TENDER 2, 1883.
The subcommittee of the Democratic and
Republican executive committees of Balti-
more county met on Tuesday to consider the
request of the temperance alliance in regard
to putting for and against local option upon
tickets this fall. The committees could not
agree, and the Republican executive commit
tee met afterward and indefinitely postponed
the matter, so there will be no vote in Baltl-
more county on the local option question this
fall.
Lord Chief Justice Coloredge, of England,
is expected to arrive in Baltimore Saturday
to-day as the guest of the Baltimore Bar
Association, who will entertain him and his
party at dinner, to which the judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States, the At
torneys- General of the United States and OF
Maryland, the judges of the Maryland Court
of Appeals, of the Supreme Bench and the
United States judges of Maryland will be In
vited.
Mrs. Martha Myers, aged SO years, widow
of the late Daniel Myers, was found dead in
her room Monday morning at her residence,
Baltimore. On Saturday she returned home
from visit to her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Hoffman, near Owings' Mills, Baltimore
county. She retired about 81 p. m. When
she was called between and O. clock Mon
day morning no answer was received, and she
was found lying dead near the door. The
body was cold and bed undisturbed. From
the position of the body it is thought the fatal
attack came while Mrs. Myers was at prayer.
In the interest of prohibition several cler-
gymen in Frederick county have been deliv-
ering sermons and urging their congregations
recently not to attend the county fair to be
held at Frederick next week, or to encourage
it il any way, because of the privileges grant
Ell by the managers allowing gaming devices
aud the sale of Intoxicating liquors on the
ground which they claim to be disgrace and
an injury to the community. In referring to
this, the officials ofthe society state that while
the sale of liquors in moderation will be per
mitted as in the past, it has been determined tC
allow no gaming privileges this year. Al
Middletown on Monday the Good Templar
organization passed resolution requesting
members not to countenance the fair by eX-
hibits or their presence.
Rev. Ernest McGill, the officiating deacon
of Catoctin P. E. parish, in Frederick county
for some time past, was on Monday ordained
a priest by Right Rev. Bishops Garrison, OF
Nebraska, and Lyman, of North Carolina
assisted by Revs. Ingle, Stephenson, Mitchell
and Others On Tuesday the newly ordained
minister was united in marriage to Miss Mamie
Mcpherson, daughter of DIR. VIM. 5. McPher'
son, at Auburn, the country residence OF the
brides father, near Catoctin Furnaces. The
ceremony, which was performed by the bish-
ops, was witnessed by large company OF
guests from Baltimore, Frederick, Hagers
| town and the surrounding country. Bishop
Clarkson is brother-in-law of Mrs. Dr. Nc
Pherson. The bridal couple were preceded
to the altar by ten young ladies dressed in
white. Many beautiful presents were given
About 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the
| lower counties of Maryland, including Prince
| Georges, Charles and ST. Mary's, were visited
by violent and destructive storm. The to-
bacco crop in st. Mary's county, or in the
southern section of it, was practically de-
stroyed by hail. Much of the tobacco in that
section was late, and the farmers had left ii
1 in the fields longer than usual. Whole fields
were entirely destroyed by the hail, which cut
| the plants almost literally to pieces. On the
place of the late DR.. VIM. G. Edelen, in St
! Marys county, 81, 600 field of tobacco was
totally ruined. Fences were leveled for miles,
trees blown down, and other damage done in
| Prince Georges as well asst Mary's county.
| A terrible storm last Tuesday blew down
several houses in Worcester county and played
| sad havoc with fodder stacks and corn which
\ had not been harvested.
The eleventh exhibition of the Maryland
! state Agricultural anu -heCudlilCdI cOCietS
! will commence October 30, at Pimlico, near
Baltimore, to last four days. An unusually
fine display is expected, particularly of cat
tle The exhibit of Jerseys will be the finest
collection that has ever been brought together
in this country. The entries are large in
other classes of cattle. A purse has been
offered for the best thoroughbred stallion who
has made the season of 1888, which is ex-
pected to bring together the finest through,
bred stations in the country, and is regarded
as one of the features of the fair. The ex-
hibit of horses will be fine, Judging from the
entries so early in the season. The society
has made great many improvements on the
grounds. The amusements will embrace run
ming races, in which many entries are expect
ed from horses that have appeared the pre-
ceding week in the regular Pimhco races.
Two days racing at the fair by these horses
will have large purses to stimulate them. Two
days trotting races succeed the former. BIZ
/ o,,cla racing will form mart of the diversions