The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-21
Maryland Affairs.

oomerv county never promised better at this
season of the year.
The net receipts of the bazaar held by the
ladies of Trinity P. Z. Church, Towsontown,
will reach nearly $4,000
An Annapolis oyster packer has contracted
for the building of three vessels, to be used
in the oyster trade next season.
Rev. DR.. Richard McIlwaine, of Baltimore,
has been elected president of the Hampden-
Sidney College, located near Farmville, Va.
Timothy Clare, convicted of assault on a
lady on Wilkens avenue, has been sentenced
at Towsontown to five years in the penitcn
tiary
Fish Commissioner Delawder was in Ha-
gerstown Monday distributing carp and other
fish. but he did not have half enough to sup
ply the demand.
John S. Parran, of Calvert county, recently
killed a perfectly white mouse in his barn.
He will send the skin to the National Museum
at Washington.
NJ. w. Queen, colored, of Marlboro, Sun
day night assaulted colOred girl 13 years of
age, the daughter of Matthew Deville. Queen
is said to have gone to Washington.
A fire, originating by carelessness in tene-
ment house occupied by colored people, de-
stroyed sixteen houses in Crisfield last Satur
day morning. Loss 100000.
The Martinsburg CIV. Va Light Artillery,
four guns, and the Wrightsville Grays, one of
the crack companies Of Pennsylvania, will
take part in the Frederick encampment.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa-
nv, it is understood, has contracted with the
Hampshire and Baltimore Company of the
Cumberland region for 100000 tons of coal
The directors of the Hartford County Agri-
cultural Society decided on Monday not to have
a spring fair. Arrangements were begun for
the exhibition on the 9th; 10th, 18th and 18th
of next October.
The Centreville Observer says ga gentle
man, whose name we are unable to get, has
shipped since March l, 1888, 10000 bushels
of oysters from Chester river, for planting
purposes in northern waters
During an alteration with Il colored man
named Levi Wright, last week, Charles Com
eggs, of Queen Anne's county, was knocked
down by Wright with horse yoke and badly
cut about the head. Wright was committed
to jail.
Robert Lewis, of Hagerstown, who is in
his 95th year, has just completed a job in ma
sonry with skill and thoroughness that
younger men might envy. He is still very
vigorous, and is probably the oldest working
man in the State.
State Veterinary Surgeon Lemay has made
a report to Governor Hamilton relative to
pleuro- pneumonia among cattle. The report
states that the disease is confined to Bati
more county, and that there is less of it now
than there was last year.
Mrs Mcdonald. wife of Captain John Me
Donald, a member of the last House Of Dele
gates from Montgomery county, and promi-
nently connected with the State and County
Grange, died suddenly on Friday last at her
late residence near Potomac.
Three prisoners escaped from the Centre
vile Jail last Friday night by cutting their way
through the wall with tools conveyed to them
on Thursday, and have not yet been appre
hended. One was in for rape and two for
larceny. The Sheriff offers a reward of 500
for the former and $50 each for the two lat
ter.
The Denton Journal says that fishermen on
the Choptank, in the vicinity Of Denton, no.
tice every year falling off in the catch of
herring, while shad fishing is improving. The
run of shad is better this spring than for
number of years, and the J0nIm0i thinks the
work of the Maryland fish commission is hav-
ing its effect.
More acres will be worked for canning pur-
poses in this section, says the Rising Sun
Journal, this season than ever before. Nc
Coy q Son will have planted about 200 acres.
Brown, Mccoy 4 Son; last season employed
only about $50 acres Brown & Hunt will
work about 175 acres. Stephens & Carter
from 40 to so acres. Buckley& Son about
so to 40 acres.
A meeting of colored voters of the fifth
congressional district Wednesday night indoors
ed the efforts of Congressman Holton to have
Collector Dirty removed, and passed reso-
luton that Mr.. Holton was better friend Of
the cOlored man than Mr. Ditty. One of the
speakers said it ought to be made a peniten-
tiary ofense to refuse support to the regular
nominees of the party.
The Grand Lodge of Maryland, |. o. o. F.,
elected the following officers Tuesday night:
Grand master, George W. Lee; deputy grand
master, j. +. Plummer. Jr.; grand warden,
Louis Grauer; grand secretary, John NJ. Jones:
grand treasurer, Alexander l.. Spear. Mr..
Geo. A. Reed was chosen representative to
the Sovereign Grand Lodge, which meets in
Providence, R. l., next September
Mr.. William Waller, well-known and
highly esteemed citizen Of Salisbury, was
killed at s clock Monday morning near his
trucking lot, about half mile from town, by
train on the Eastern Shore Railroad. He
stepped on the track, miscalculating the dis
lance and the rate of speed of an approaching
away. Death was instantaneous.
Hon. William Z. Salmon died at his resi-
dence, near New Market, at 9 clock Mon
day morning. He was one of the most prom
inent men Of Frederick county. He repre-
scented the county several times in the Legis-
lature; was member of the Legislature that
met in Frederick at the beginning of the civil
war, and was arrested with other members
and imprisoned in Forts Lafayette and War
rem.
= In the suit of John T. Ensor VS.. the Trus-
tees of the Towsontown NJ. +. Church known
as the Brick Church, to recover money loaned
in the erection of the ediiice, Mr.. Ensor has
made proposition to the trustees to refer the
case to Revs. John Lanahan, VIM. HI. Chap
man, John W. Cornelius. Joseph B. Stitt, &.
Herbert Richardson and NJ. +. b. Rice as az
bitrators, or to any bishop of the NJ. E. Church
whom the trustees name. No action will be
taken until meeting of the trustees in a few
days.
The Hartford Democrat says :-Miter Hop
kins, of the big Woods" joined a temper
ance society for period of twelve years, and
report says during that time strictly kept the
pledge. His term expired a few days ago,
and Saturday last he visited Bel Air. While
here he learned that after the first of May the
bar-rooms would be closed The prospect of
another long fast with nothing between, was
too much for the old man, and he cordially
embraced a last opportunity"
Last week Miss Margaret Fisher, of Cecil
county. celebrated her eightieth birthday in
company with her five sisters and one brother,
who are the survivors of family of eleven
children. Their ages are as follows: Mrs.
Mary Rutter, 80 years: Samuel j. Fisher, SO
years; Jane Fisher, 76y years; Mrs Sarah Scott,
"a years; Mrs. Rebecca Murphy, y years;
Martha L. Fisher, 81 years. The three maid
en- sisters live at the old homestead, and at
tend to their domestic affairs generally them
selves.
The directors of the Southern Maryland
Railroad concluded contract on Monday with
Charles II. Middleton, of Philadelphia, for
completing and equipping the road to Point
Lookout, on the Potomac, and.. Drum Point, on
the Chesapeake. The main line of the road
runs from the District of Columbia through
Prince Georges, Charles and St. Mary's coun-
ties to Point Lookout. From Mechanicsville,
in St. Mary's county, branch road will be