The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-15
MARYLAND Affairs.

A socialistic convention will be held in
Baltimore Dec 26.
Rev. Father Gandolfo, of Emmittsburg,
died Monday morning. He was 20 years old
and much beloved.
George r. Webster, aged 65, well-known
citizen Of Frederick, died at his home there
on Saturday last.
The Temperance Alliance of Allegany
comfy at a M Getting held on Saturday decided
to at once circulate local option petitions.
The Baltimore oyster packers propose to
nut up the price of canned oysters, because
the dredgers have put up the price to them.
The first Lutheran Church built in Mary
land. SAYS Rev. DIR. Diehl OF Frederick, was
built at Creagerstown, Frederick county, in
1743.
A case for violation of the prohibition law
of Hartford county is to be taken to the Court
of Appeals, where the validity of the law will
be decided.
Mr.John W. Garrett was elected president
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
for the twenty-sixth consecutive term on
Wednesday.
Charles Fl. Mann, of Baltimore county,
has been appointed doorkeeper of the repor-
ter's gallery of the House of Representatives,
Washington.
The town commissioners of Easton will ask
the Legislature at its coming session for au-
thority to borrow 900 with which to build
water-works.
A summer resort, with hotel to cost
$50, 600, is to be opened in the Green Spring
valley, about IA miles from Baltimore, on the
Northern Central railway.
The recent bids for the construction of the
reservoir of the Emmittsburg Water Company
have been rejected because they were too high,
and the company have concluded to do the
work.
The Frederick Citizen complains that the
almshouse of that county is nearly filled with
tramps, and their support cost from $4,000 to
900 per annum, in addition to the support
of their own INDECENT residents.
Hon. Robert NJ. McLane has declined to
have the military of the state at his Inaugural
ton at the states expense, and desires as
unostentatious an Inauguration as possible.
Rev. George Scholl, pastor of Second Lu
theran Church, West Lombard street, Balti-
more, for the last nine years, has resigned his
pastorate to accept a call to st. Marks Lu-
theran Church, Hanover, Pa.
A fire Monday night at Galesville, in Anne
Arundel county, destroyed w. F. Childs' store
Seibert. They were all insured in the Balti-
more county Mutual Company.
The store of Mr.. Peck, at Owing's Mills,
was entered by burglars on Friday night last
and robhed of a quantity of cigars, tobacco,
and bacon and other articles. Entrance was
effected by boring through the door.
A fair is in progress at Snow Hill. The
object is to buid memorial Presbyterian
church at that place, where, it is claimed, the
first Presbyterian church in America was
built some time between 1880 and 1890.
The Gainesville Short Line railroad, from
St. Agnes station, on the Baltimore & Poto
mac railroad, to Gainesville, has been put
under contract and ground was broken last
Friday. The road is expected to be finished
by next May.
On Saturday night terrible affray occurred
at American Corner, four miles from Concord,
Caroline county, between young men, the
cause of the quarrel being dog chain. Geo.
Trice during the fight dangerously wounded
Thomas Hignault and Charles Smith and fed
into Delaware.
Robert Green, of Havre-de Grace, was
found dead in one of the canal locks at that
place Saturday morning There is some doubt
as to whether he came to his death by acct
dent or foul play. He recently married the
found murdered in the cabin of the schooner
Scheldrake in the Baltimore harbor two years
ago.
John Wilson was on Thursday, the 9th in
slant, convicted in the circuit court of Wash
ington county of stealing horse from J. Jes-
sic Moore, of Sandy Hook, in September
last. Wilson was arrested with the horse in
his possession near Mount Airy, in Frederick
county, and is the party who, while under ar
rest, claimed to have knowledge of and to be
connected with an organized gang of horse
thieves in several counties of Western Mary
land and Pennsylvania, who were bound to-
gether by oaths and knew each other by secret
signs.
The Baltimore Day of Monday says =
Henry r. Hammond, of Petersburg, Va, was
locked up at the Western police station this
morning on the charge of threatening to kill
Frank j. HELEN, of Uniontown, Pa. Both
gentlemen, it appears, were suitors for the
hand of Miss Fannie Zimmerman, daughter
of prominent minister, residing on West /
Biddle street. To-day was the time appointed /
for the wedding to take place, the lady, it is |
said, having promised to marry both. At a |
early hour Mr.. HELEN reached /
the house of his bride-elect. Justas they en-
tered hack to be driven to a minister, Mr.. I
appeared on the scene, and taking /
in the situation at a glance, he, too, ordered I
a carriage. Off they started, HELEN and the .
lady in one hack closely followed by Ham
moId in another Becoming tired of the |
race, HELEN finally directed his driver to go
to the Western station, where he swore out a
warrant for Hammond, charging him, as
stated, with threatening his life. Hammond /
being close at hand was captured by the po
lice, and after seeing him consigned behind /
the bars, HELEN and Miss Zimmerman drove /
away, and were soon after married.