The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-05
Maryland Affairs.

of in Frederick.
Smallpox has appeared in colored family
n Annapolis.
Lemuel Amos. of Hartford county, died last
week aged 81 years
Local option went into effect on Tuesday in
Anne Arundel, Hartford and Howard counties.
Horse stealing is quite common in Wash
ington county. Even the preachers horses
are not exempt.
Persons from New York, Ohio, Michigan,
Minnesota and Canada are buying land in
Talbot county.
Mrs. Mary R. Owen of New York was the
only graduate of the women's Medical Col
lege of Baltimore.
James Devlin, of Bridgeport, Frederick
county, recently buried a child that died from
diphtheria 1t was the tenth he had followed
to the tomb.
Mrs. Nancy Tracey, mother of eX-Sherlf
John S. Tracey, died Wednesday at her home
near Poplar Springs, Howard county, in the
SD year of her age.
Baltimores musical festival last week was
a great success, especially in attendance, only
about half of those who applied for tickets
being able to obtain them.
George Lake, colored, was convicted at
Cambridge, last Friday, of an assault upon
Mrs. Clara j. Simmons, of Hoopers Island,
and sentenced to be hanged.
Robert Keys, colored, aged 80 years, died
of old age Sunday at his residence in BaIt-
more Robert was for sixty years Il faithful
servant in Mr.. Papplers family.
1t is estimated that about eighty per cent.
of the peach crop on the lower part OF the
MARYLAND and Delaware peninsula was de-
stroyed by the cold weather of last week.
A. NJ. Fulford, of Hartford county, lately
sold three of his celebrated breed of Berk-
shire hogs to Mr.. Samuel Shoemaker, OF Bal
tmore county, for $500.
In Baltimore county the rate of taxation is
60 cents, an increase Of six cents over last
year. caused by the building of a school house,
fire proof vault and repairs to the court house.
Two colored and one white man, arrested
on Monday evening for robbing the Bayvlew
ASYLUM cemetery, in Baltimore county, have
been committed to Jail for the action of the
grand jury.
Nathan Mills, colored, who lives in Oxford
Neck. is doubtless the oldest person living IN
Talbot county His age is l05 years, accord
ing to record evidence. substantlated by col
lateral testimony.
During the months of February, March and
April 1876 permits for the erection OF new
buildings and additions were granted IN Bal
timorc, which is about two-thlrds OF the num-
Der issued during the year 1882.
The steam yacht Gov. Vim. I. Hamilton,
for the state oyster police service. was ac-
cepted and paid for by the Board of Public
Works last week. Another steam yacht is
being built for the same service.
Miss Annie Travers, OF Baltimore, was
beaten by some unknown person while re-
/, $50, SIna
went across a vacant lot and about midway
she was knocked down, beaten about the head
and person and robbed.
Mrs. Beachamp, of Caroline county, accused
of poisoning her husband was tried last week,
and the case given to the Jury on Wednesday,
who in three hours returned with verdict OF
not guilty. The cost Of the case will amount
to about SS, 600.
John Porter, the engine cleaner employed
bv the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at River
side round house. Baltimore, who was driven
through Il l4-inch brick wall by a locomotive
on Monday, died Wednesday ut the Maryland
University Hospital.
The dwelling house Of VIM. T. Combs, ESD,
on the Patuxent river, i'll st. Mary county,
was accidentally destroyed by fire Sunday
morning at clock. The house was built
in 1870, and was in good condition. 1t was
insured in the Montgomery Company for ST.
800 Most of the furniture was saved.
Mrs. higgins, wife of Mr. Higgins, living
short distance from Cambridge, died few
days ago and was laid out for burial. In the
evening, a short while before night, she was
observed to move, and she actually got up and
talked with those around. 1t was not long
however, before she a second time became
unconscious and shortly after died.
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sold Yough Manor. a tract of land in Garrett
county, comprising 5000 acres, for SAG, 600 to
Pennsylvanians. This strengthens the opinion
that it will not be long until railroad will be
constructed running through that section to
connect with the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads.
The Centreville Observer says: ''NelsOn
Gardner. Of Kent Island, bought two shoats
from a neighbor that weighed when put in the
pen 20 pounds each. He kept them up over
II months, and fed away barrels of corn
and all the husk and Stops from the house
they could eat He killed them, and when
dressed he weighed the largest and it Melted
him 26B pounds. He would not weigh the
other
During the four months the Baltimore Eye,
Ear and Throat Charity Hospital has been
opened, hospital accommodations, including
for 374 days; 1,Gl4 visits have been made by
the physicians to the eye and ear department,
and GIG to the throat department, making
total of 2,23O. The number of persons treated
was 491. The hospital has been great ben
eft to the working classes. The great amount
of good thus far accomplished demonstrates
the practical beneGcence of the charity. The
total receipts were So, 1880: expenditures,
81, 1886. The hospital is supported entirely
by voluntary contributions. and is located at
lS6 Franklin street.
The steamship Mentmore arrived at Balti-
more on Saturday from Liverpool with POP
Hereford bulls and cows and Of the Poll
Angus breed. Among the former were the
bull Victor, years old, who has carried off
five first prizes at English exhibitions and
the second Lord Wilton. three year-old.
They were so large that it was with difficulty
they passed through the cattle gangways used
in the dsembarking of animals from steamers
to the pier Seven COWS died and seven
calves were born. The deaths were caused
by the violent pitching and rolling of the YES
sci during the first part of the passage, wien
very stormy weather prevailed. They were
sent to the quarantine station, near the Relay
House, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. On
the 22d ult. the Mentmorc met large num-
Der of icebergs.
The decapitation of Conrad in Berlin is the
tenth execution of the kind since 1873. when
H0del was beheaded. under the Regency of
the Crown Prince. The Emperor has always
been averse to capital punishment, and be-
tween 1868 and 1873 no murdererS suffered
the extreme penalty of the law From 1869
to 1877 inclusive, 428 criminals in Prussia
were condemned to death, and of these not
one was led to the scaf1iold. The case of the /
u;;Jo1 ,l-o he Al
humane administration of the law; but in the /
same year, 1873, there were ffty-three cases
of Communication. During the year 1879 and /
1880 only one capital sentence ont of eighteen /
was executed, while there were four execu-
tons in each of the years 1881 and 1882.
Mrs. Julia Wickham, who died in New
York few days ago, was once a notable wo-
man. She was the widow of Benjamin Wat
kins Leigh, who was United States senator
from Virginia from 1885 to 1871, and who
died in 1919. She was also the daughter of