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

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| Five persons were drowned at and near
Baltimore on the Fourth.
The Maryland Central Railroad has filed a
mortgage deed for $4,000
Charles O'Hare, aged g. years, was killed
| by the cars at WoOdberry last Friday.
Only eighteen miles of the oil pipe line to
Baltimore remained to be completed last Sat
urday.
| A reaping machine was destroyed in the
| field of farmer near Hagerstown on Tues
day night.
! The value of domestic articles exported
| from Baltimore during the month Of June was
81, 9OO,56
The contract for building the Maryland
| Central Railroad from Belair to Delta has
| been awarded.
The first peaches of the season arrived in
Baltimore on Tuesday. They We're from
Matthews county, Va.
| There was hail storm in the southern part
of Frederick county on Thursday afternoon.
Some damage was done to crops.
Frank Fredericks, said to be wild man,
was captured in the woods, near Dorsey 5
run, Howard county, on Thursday.
An unknown man, about 80 years of age,
drowned himself in the Chesapeake x Ohio
| Canal on Tuesday, near Sharpsburg.
| The tax for county purposes in Somerset
county has been fixed at 8GI cents on 500
for this year, a reduction Of SIX cents
The Hagerstown Light Infantry have
| changed the date of holding their encamp-
ment from the last week in August to the
| 9Th, 9th and 18th of September.
A riot occurred at Cross Keys, on the
Falls road on Wednesday, over cooking
main. A dozen or more men were injured.
Some were shot, some had heads battered,
and one had leg broken.
Henry A. Didier fell out of third story
window of his residence in Baltimore Tuesday
night and received injuries from which he
! died twenty minutes later. He was 50 years
of age, and married a daughter of Hon. Alex.
r. Boteler, of Virginia.
The Warren Glass Works at Cumberland,
| like other similar establishments in the coun-
| try where union men are employed, Saturday
| shut down for six weeks to reduce stock.
| The Cumberland Works do not employ union
men and will continue work
Messrs. Watts & Seth, of Baltimore county,
/ owners Of the celebrated Jersey COW Value
/ 2nd, submitted her to a test last week. under
the supervision Of VIM. II. West and AleXan-
! der NJ. Fulford, and the result was 5pounds
and 1l-12th ounces of butter in seven days,
/ free Of water, milk and salt.
/ Frank Nixdorff, aged about sixteen years,
/ son Of Samuel NiXdorf, cashier of the Farm
ers and Mechanics National Bank of Fred
erick, in exploding a large-sized gun shell
which he had loaded with powder, Thursday
/ afternoon, had his face and neck badly burned
and his eyesght probably severely injured.
Col. H. 7. Douglass, chief engineer of the
Baltimore and Ohio Philadelphia extension,
has closed the most of the contracts for the
construction work. Wilcox & Driesbach, of
Bradford, Pa. are stated to have secured a
portion of the work at 81, 800, 900. The stipu
lation Of the company in making the lettings
to the several contractors is to have the line
in running order in the winter of 1870.
Samuel I. Magruder, a substantial and
prominent farmer, aged about 80 years. re-
siding near Jamestown, Montgomery county,
attempted suicide on Friday last by cutting
each side of his throat with a razor. Failing
to touch the vital artery, he then made a
moose and jumped from the window of his
residence. When discovered by some mem
Der of his family life was nearly extinct,
whilst he was struggling with his hands to
raise himself.
Mr.. Enoch Pratt on Monday formally turn
ed over to the city of Baltimore his magnifi-
cent gift of 81 ,0S3, 1913, SO, for the Pratt Free
Library This included his check on the
National Farmers and Planters Bank for
SS33, ,3333 3, and the deed for the lot of ground
and handsome marble library building ON
Mulberry street, near Cathedral street, valued
at S250,00O, Mr.. Pratt carried out the whole
proceeding with the characteristic business
eXactness for which he is noted.
An article appears in the July number of
the Maryland Farmer giving an interesting
description of ''Burnside Park, = the country
seat Of Mr.. Samuel NJ. Shoemaker, of Bati-
more city. This is an estate in Baltimore
county. II miles from the city, comprising
500 acres Of fertile land. It's chiefly Jersey
stock farm, and the statement is made that
Mr.. Shoemaker "can certainly show the high
est priced and among the finest Jersey stock
in the world, and a farm as we'll managed and
as fertile as any such sized farm in the state
of Maryland" Among the Jersey cows are
Princess Second, which cost 81, 800; Khedive's
Promise, IS, $50; st. Clementaise, 81, 600.
Mr.. Shoemaker employs 60 hands on his
place.
George Lake, coored, was hung at Cam
bridge last Friday for criminal assault on Mrs.
Clara Simmons, of Hooper's Island, Dorches
ter county. The assault on Mrs. Simmons
was committed on Sunday night the 18th Of
April Her husband and daughter were alb
sent at church. She was at home with her
. little child, who was asleep. She was i'll her
| bedroom and was asleep in IL chair, when she
| became conscious of something over her face
! She awoke and felt u shawl over her head.
/ She thought at first it was her husband, but in
attempting to pull off the shawl Il rough hand
/ caught hers and she knew it was not her hus
band. She made another effort to pull off
the shawl, and saw that the hand was that of
Il black man. She struggled harder and got
off the shawl, and saw 1t was George Lake.
/ She called him by name and asked him what
he was doing in her room. He got the shawl
over her mouth and eyes again, and after Il
protracted struggle she was overpowered.
Several of the officers of the Maryland
Jockey Club met at Coney Island last Satur-
day, it being the concluding day of the sum-
mer meeting at that place, for the purpose of
inspecting its racing improvements and Sc
curing future attractions for Pimlico. Assur-
ances were received from Mr.. Pierre Lorillard
! that lroquois, who is expected to arrive in
New York on Saturday next, will be entered
and run at Pimlico this fall if he shall have
sufficiently recovered from his sea voyage
| At all events he will be at Pimlico, and.
CARRYING the colors under which he won the
Derby, he exhibited on the track. All the
other prominent stables announced their in
tention of being present at the fall meeting,
now rendered additional by attractive to them
from the fact that the exhibition of the Agri-
cultural Society, with its liberal racing pro
gramme, will commence as soon as the Jockey
Club meeting concludes. Active preparations
are being made for remodeling the cattle
sheds and preparing suitable exhibition ring
for the fine live stock expected at the fair,
and an enlarged area will be arranged for the
/ display of agricultural implements.
Rt. Rev. William pinkney, d, d., LII. D.,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese Of Maryland,
and rector of Ascension Church, Washington,
died very suddenly about six o clock Wednes-
day morning at the rectory of Sherwood
Church, Cockeysville, Baltimore county.
The cause of his death was congestion of the
heart. He had gone to Cockeysvile in COM
pany with DR.. Levin to attend the consecra-
ton services of Sherwood church, and preach
ed Tuesday night. After services were over
he went to the rectory, played with the child
rem awhile and retired about 1870. His
room adioined that in which DIR. Levin slept.
He seemed to rest very comfortably, but
about o'clock Wednesday morning DR..
Levin heard him sigh very heavily. The