The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-24
MARYLAND Affairs.

small pox in Baltimore last week.
Rev. G. Rotz, of Chambersburg Pa, has
| accepted call to the German Lutheran
Church of Ellicott city.
There were thirty-one graduates at the an
nual commencement of the Maryland College
of Pharmacy, last week.
Frederick is to have telephone communi
cation with Woodsboro', Middletown, Liber-
| ty, New Market and Urbana.
Vim. j. Ross, the oldest and leading mem
Der of the Frederick bar, died on Monday,
last, in the nth year of his age.
When the Montgomery county court met on
Monday last, there were but three prisoners
in jail, two for violating the local option
law.
Two cadets have been discharged from the
Annapolis Naval Academy. They were en-
gagged in the trouble there several weeks
ago.
w. W. Russell, of Rockville, has sailed for
Mexico, where he has a lucrative engage
ment with corps of engineers in the survey
and construction of railroad.
William Hicks and Jim Willett, colored,
were drowned Friday last, while attempting
in a small skif' to reach an oyster pungy which
was anchored in Drum Point harbor.
x-Gov. Carroll is foreman of the grand
jury of Howard county. There are three
colored men on the jury. There is a colOred
man on the jury of Montgomery county.
Oysters in Cambridge are bringing from 20
to 80 cents per bushel, according to quality.
The houses are doing quite brisk business,
with orders enough to keep them running.
The home farm of Hon. Samuel Kinks, To-
Gated at Urbana, Frederick county, contain
ing 167 acres was sold on Tuesday to Col.
l.. L. Brien, of Baltimore, for So, 500 cash.
Edward Boardley, colored, of Aberdeen,
Hartford county, was killed there Monday
night by an express freight train on the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road.
At Mr.. Powell's, in Caroline county, some
time ago, four friends were invited to tea.
The invited quartet consisted of Miss Rich
and Mr.. Poore, Miss Day and Mr.
Night.
The 400th anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther, which occurs on November 10th, of
this year, will be generally celebrated by the
Lutheran churches in Baltimore and else
where.
Eli Sachs, a matchmaker from New York.
was shot and killed in his brothers store, on
Harrison street, Baltimore, on Monday night,
by the accidental explosion of pistol in the
hands of Samuel Fleischman.
The deaths ofthe following aged people were
published in the Baltimore San of Monday
Mrs Elizabeth Guyton aged 90; Mrs. Ann
Hewes aged o. Mrs. Henrietta Entz aged
80; Amos Jarves aged 81; Mrs. Mary Sew
ard aged 81.
Among the shipments by canal at the
opening of navigation will be large quantity
of cross-tes from Hancock to Eastern
markets. A dozen or more boat loads of this
class of traffic are ready for transportation
from this point
A. A. Pascault, of Easton, has recently re-
turned from New York, where he went to
obtain laborers. He brought back three
families with him, and has made arrange
ments with the commissioners at Castle Gar
den to obtain others.
The barn and stable on the farm of Shep-
herd L. Cole, who resides near Stony Run
Station, Baltimore and Potomac Railroad,
were destroyed by fire Saturday night. The
live stock were saved, but a wagon, farming
implements and corn were burned.
During the entire winter the measles have
been prevalent in certain sections of Mont
gomery county. Recently the Andrew Small
Academy, situated near Darnstown, has been
compelled to close on account OF this disease,
as also the public school near Potomac.
Eighty-two Guernsey cattle, imported by
Samuel c. Kent, of West Grove, Chester
county, p, were landed in good condition
from the steamship Nessmore, at Baltimore
on Monday, loaded in cars and sent to the
quarantine station for cattle at Rising Sun,
Cecil county.
The proposals for service as mail messeng
or ut Hagerstown, with the Cumberland Val
lev Railroad and the Western Maryland Rail
road are as follows: f. Scott Ieigler, S240;
Lewis Ernde, $40; Harvey McStauffer, $40;
w. c. ShiIneck, $3.50; John c. Brown, S31o,
and W. II. krepps, $40.
MILFORD NJ Stanley, the travelling salesman
who sued the Western Maryland Railroad
Company for damages for injury to his hand
in closing a car door while passing through
tunnel. was allowed 81 900 by the verdict of
the jury in Baltimore last Friday. The ac-
cident occurred while he was on his way to
the races last spring in crowded car.
Hamilton G. Webb, a farmer of the eighth
district of Anne Arundel county, was serious
" stabbed on Thursday night of last week by
a plasterer named VIM. Webster Wilmington,
at Friendship, in the same district, during a
quarrel over game OF cards IN saloon:
Wilmington is in Jail awaiting the results OF
Webbs injuries. Webb was the aggressor.
In pursuance of the notice posted at the
Koontz mine of the New Central Company at
Homecoming, the drivers in that mine began a
strike last Friday, on Il demand for 81 per
day. There were u of the strikers, and the
companv called upon as many miners to take
their places, threatening to discharge them II
thew did not comply. The miners called on
refused to take their places, and the mine re-
manned idle.
Il is understood that the Gaithersburg case,
in which Thos. H. Brookes, of Baltimore,
claims great deal of property in and about
Gaithersburg, Montgomery county, including
some of the finest farms i'll that section, by
virtue of will of Henry Brookes. who died
in 1907, will come up before the Circuit
Court, now in session at Rockville. 1t will
be appealed by the losing side, and will go to
the State Court of Appeals for the final set
Element. The amount involved Is very
large.
The sundry civil appropriation bill OF the
last Congress contains an item OF $500 for the
EXPENSES of two cadets at the royal naval
college at Woolwich, England. These two
students are Lewis Nixon, of Virginia, and
T. A. ". Shock, of Maryland, each of whom
stood No. in his class at the Naval Acade-
nv at Annapolis, and who were selected by
the department in October last to complete at
Woolwich their two years post-academlc
course before being ordered for examination
for graduation.
Catherine Metzger, widow of the late
Charles Metzger, No 28l West Fayette street,
Baltimore. was brutally beaten on Monday
night by an unknown black man on Vine
street, in the rear of her residence. About
nine o'clock Mrs. MetZger, desiring to go on
an errand a short distance from her home,
stepped out of the back gate into Vine street
When few yards from the gate she was
struck powerful blow in the face and felled
to the ground She cried out for help, and
her assailapt grasped her by the throat with
one hand and dealt blow after blow on her
face with the other.
The new All Saints P. E. Chapel, pretty
little Gothic edifce on the suburbs OF REFS
terstown, will be opened Easter Monday with
appropriate services: Rev. DIR. Rich, prlncl-
pal of the Hannah More Academy and rector
of st. Michael's Church, Baltimore county,
will probably conduct the services The
church is built on ten.acre lot, the grounds
around it being neatly laid out in grave aI
walks and divided into burying lots. Inc z
=. :,oJ rIoss in the windows was the gift OF