The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-07
MARYLAND Affairs.

There is to be a telephone line between
Washington and Baltimore.
The Hagerstown gas works have been leased
for ten years to Philadelphia company.
- Valerious Ebert, former mayor OF Freder-
lex, and writer of some ability, died last Sat
urday, aged 20 years.
Lewis F. Derrick, of Baltimore, has pur
chased Montpelier, the home of President
Madison, in Orange county, Virginia. i
Octavius Difenderfer, senior member of
the firm of Charles H. Ross Il Co., Baltimore,
was found dead bed on Monday morning.
Additional counsel have been employed to
assist the States attorney of Montgomery
county in prosecuting violators of the local
option law.
The amounts of tobacco wanted for the
French contract were announced Thursday,
as follows: 5000 hhds. Maryland and 5000
hhds Ohio.
R. G. Harper Carroll has sold his mill prop
erty on Doughoregan Manor. including four
acres of land, to Mr.. Royal Phelps, OF New
York, for 800.
The season for catching oysters in Maryland
waters closes on the 18th of April except for
small quantities, to be disposed OF IN the neigh
borhood where caught.
The board of directors of the Hartford Coun-
ty Agricultural Society will meet on the 10th
of April for the purpose of deciding upon the
ACCESSIBILITY of spring fair.
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad ran into an open draw at Bush river
bridge on Tuesday morning.
Prof c. C. Lancaster, a native of Charles
county, and for fifty years member of the
Jesuit order, died at Loyola College, Balti-
more, last Monday night, aged y years.
VIM. Clark of T. has sold his farm in the
fifth district of Howard county, 225 acres, to
John l.. Clark for SIG, 900 cash. This was
the homestead of the late Thaddeus Clark, de-
ceased.
The old Franklinville mill property, Har
ford county, has been sold to some capitalists,
who intend to build new iron mill for the
manufacture of cotton on the site of the old
burnt mill.
Last week five vessels were surprised in
Choptank river, dredging on forbidden ground.
The State oyster police feet came upon them
suddenly and captured every one of them, and
the captains were fined $50 and costs each.
The work on the Maryland Central Rail-
road is pushing ahead, 40 men being now EN-
ployed in the construction force. 1t is stated
the passenger trains will be at Fallston be-
fore the 18th April, and at Belar six weeks
! later.
The Court of Appeals has affirmed the judg-
ment of the Circuit Court for Washington
county, which gave verdict for $1,000 to
State Senator Joseph H. Farrow against Peter
and Charles Negley, publishers of the Hagers-
town Herald and Torchlight for libel.
George w. Spates, worthy citizen of
! Poolesville district, died last Friday morning
! &C
| Spates was in the Goth year of his age, and for
number of years was prominently connected
with the management of the Chesapeake and
! Ohio canal.
At sale of stocks, bonds &c. of the late
Jacob Miller, at Hagerstown last Tuesday
shares of the Hagerstown Bank, per value Sl5.
/ sold for 49,. 82l; five per cent. county bonds
sold at SO and SO premium; First National
Bank of Hagerstown shares sold at $3.50,
per value $40.
| The case of Wm H. Lloyd VS.. the County
/ Commissioners of Frederick County suit for
| s. 900 damages, alleged to have been sustain
ed by the plaintiff in 1882, while crossing Il
bridge over a branch of the Catoctin creek, in
Frederick county, has been removed to Wash
ington county.
| Mrs. Eliza McSherry, Il well-known and
highly esteemed lady, relict of the late Col.
James McSherry, a prominent lawyer and au,
thor of McSherry's History of Maryland, died
at his residence, in Frederick City, Monday
afternoon, after brief illness of pneumonia.
| She was 63 years of age.
The value of the foreign exports from Bal
timore for the month of March was 81, 759, 053.
/ The principal articles exported were l 1897 ,O32
| bushels corn, ,063, $40 bushels wheat, q, ia
bales cotton, 4,013 cases canned goods, 1913
head cattle, ] ,450 sheep, 9,208 tons coal, 49,
1853 bbls, 38,573 sacks -four, 1864 hogsheads
tobacco.
The Frederick Times says Perry Cochran,
of that county, hearing of the success of the
incubation process of Matching chickens,
placed a number of eggs in his smoke house,
started a fire and went to bed. When he
woke next morning he found his smoke7house
burned down, together with several barrels OF
corn and farming implements.
The family of Edward l.. Garrison, OF Ches-
apeake City, has been greatly afflicted with
pneumonia for the last two weeks. An aged
aunt of Mrs Garrison died about two weeks
ago; Mrs. Garrison died Sunday, and cousin
of hers from Delaware, who came to nurse
her, died on Wednesday, and Mr.. Garrison
died on Thursday afternoon.
The Montgomery Farmers Club appointed
Charles f. Brooks, Francis Thomas and Ben
iamin D. Palmer a committee to promote the
plan for constructing a narrow gauge rail
road from Laurel, via Sandy Springs, to
Olney. The committee say such road Is OF
vital necessity to that portion of Montgomery
county and certain of proving remuneratlve
on account of the comparative cheapness OF
the route and the populous and thrifty com
munity through which it will pass.
The Salisbury Advertiser says that as two
ladies' daughters of Mr.. Powell, of California,
were returning from class meeting Tuesday
evening, they were attacked by a colored man,
who seized one of the ladies by the foot He
was frightened off by their screams. Chas:
Layfield was suspected and taken to the ladies
residence but they failed to identify him.
He was then released. While he was in Gus
tody a number of colored men assembled and
| hurl ID stones and bricks against Mr.. Powell s
house, which also shows the marks of pistol
! bullets.
The large landed estate known as Round
Top, lying on Chester river. on the Queen
| Anne's side, near Chestertown, has been sold
to Dr. Ford, of the Chester River Steamboat
Company, for S44, $50. The tract contains
| 1,Ol3 acres, 800 of which are in peach trees.
The Round Top tract is celebrated as having
been the site Of what was undoubtedly the
largest peach orchard, and perhaps the largest
orchard of any kind, in the world. The origl-
/ nal tract contained about ZOO acres, from