The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-02-10
Maryland Affairs.

wednesday, aged 70 years.
VIM. S. Swartz has been appointed and
confirmed as postmaster at Hagerstown.
Fourteen members of the Fifth Regiment
have been expelled for arrearages of dues.
1t is proposed to hold national convention
of the canned goods industry in Baltimore.
Mr.. John Davidson, venerable citizen of
Montgomery county, died Sunday, aged Sc
years.
There was considerable advance in the
price of grain in Baltimore on Tuesday and
Wednesday,
met on Wednesday night, but delayed action
until May 10th.
A new disease has broken out among horses
at Rockville, Montgomery county. One farm
er has lost three horses.
Col. Harry Gilmore is quite i'll at his resi-
dence in Baltimore, suffering from a cancer,
that is likely to cause his death.
James Conner, colored, of Somerset coun-
ty, was crushed to death last Friday by a
tree which he was telling.
The child of Mr.. Matthews, of Ellicott City,
injured by coasting party some days pre-
vious, died last Friday night.
The double tracking of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad from Baltimore to Wash
ingto will be completed May l.
Wilson Post, of Baltimore, Grand Army
of the Republic, will take $50 men to the
Frederick carnival on February %
Susan Clark, colored, died at Williams
port Sunday She was over hundred years
old, and leaves a son who is seventy.
Col. Cornelius R. Hogan, proprietor of the
Maltby House, Baltimore, died last Friday,
aged SO years, of muscular rheumatism and
pneumonia.
The Supreme Bench of the District of Co.
lumbia has requested the portrait of Hon.
VIM. NJ. Merrick, of Howard county, for their
new gallery.
John Hamilton, one of the oldest and most
respected citizens of Charles county, died last
week at his home near La Plata, in the
eighty sixth year of his age.
Gov. Hamilton has appointed Henry S.
Walther justice of the peace for the eleventh
district Of Baltimore county, vice Daniel s.
Wright, removed from the county.
The United States Supreme Court on Mon
day decided the case of Turner against the
State of Maryland, in favor of the State, thus
affirming the constitutiOnality of the tobacco
inspection laws.
The Court of Appeals on Friday of last
week decided against Harrison Wagner, the
celebrated litigant, who got 1896 judgments,
amounting in the aggregate to SIT 1856,
against citizens of Frederick county.
One hundred and twenty shares of the
Willamsport National Bank were sold on
| Tuesday at $l6.40 per share-per value $40.
Forty nine shares of the First National Bank
of Hagerstown were sold on the same day at
ST. per share-per value $40.
f. S. Darby, of Williamsport, has purchas-
ed of Isaac Gruber, for the sum of SO, 900, the
old planning mill property at that place, and
will convert the buildings into grain eleva-
tor. The chair factory now occupying the
premises will erect buildings suitable for their
purposes.
Last week a cadet at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis was reduced to ranks for some
offence. and he was cheered by number of
the cadets as an indication that they approved
of his act. Those who cheered were pun
ished by Imprisonment, some to solitary con-
fnement, and by a reduction to ranks
The Hartford County Gamers Association
held a meeting at Havre de Grace recently
and appointed a committee OF twenty to visit
Washington to use their influence in favor of
a low tariff on tin when the question of tariff
on that article comes before the House of
Representatives.
An unknown woman, aged about 80 years.
was struck by the New \ ork express, between
Reaves and Hylands, on the Washington
Branch of the B. & o. r. r., on Sunday
morning, and instantly killed. The remains
were taken to Hyattsville and an inquest was
held. The verdict of the jury was that she
was accidentlly killed.
Mr.. Andrew Banks, of Reisterstown, Balti
more county, has sold Jersey calf six weeks
old, from the celebrated COW Slverhorn, to a
gentleman in Columbia, S. c., for $500. Mr..
Banks, at Il recent sale in Philadelphia, by
Hardness e. Co., bought fine cow, ''Rollo's
Flower for which he paid $3.50. A calf
from this COW sold at the same sale for $3.50,
to A. B. Darling, of New York.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Ad-
vocate writes to that paper to give his expe-
rience on the subject of sheep raising. He
saws that with "care and judgement flock of
sheep in our county will pay from 100 to 300
per cent. on the capital invested" In 1881
he purchased ten ewes for which he paid $50.
Up to September last he had made a clear
profit of $64 on this little flock, or nearly 200
per cent on his investment. He thinks
Montgomery county would offer a favorable
field for sheep-raising if the Legislature could
be induced to pass a stringent dog law.
Mary Buckholtz, a German girl, 16 years
old arrived at Baltimore last Monday week,
from her native land in search of her sister,
who had asked her to come to Baltimore and
live with her. The sister wrote the girl that
she had married rich brewer and was living
in STYLE. When Miss Buckheltz landed she
was not met by her relative, and concluded to
search for her. After journey to various
breweries the young girl succeeded the fol-
lowing Thursday in finding the sister in dis
reputable house. The girl refused to live
there and sought the protection of the police.
Through the efforts of Marshal Gray she was
provided with comfortable home as a ser
want in a family on South Broadway.
The Middetown, Frederick county, Regis
ter ys:-The experiment made by Mr. Z.
A. Heagy, of this place of Matching eggs in
an incubator, has proved successful. The
eggs were Matched out last Saturday and Sun
day. The original number of eggs placed i'll
the incubator was 1873. After few days 80,
which were found not to be vitaliZed, were
taken out. One was broken after three days,
another in ten days, and another in two weeks,
leaving 81 in the incubator. Out of these, 81
chicks were Matched, 2 of the eggs were rot
ten, and II could not break their shells. Thus
3d. per cent. of the eggs were Matched, being
81 more per cent than the average claimed by
the incubator manufacturers.
Wright & McDermott, of Baltimore, have
been awarded the contract for erecting six
cattle sheds at the Baltimore quarantine sta
ton for So, 500, and in addition 20 cents per
Hneal foot for the fence. The station is one
of several to be established at the Atlantic
seaports under act of Congress, which APP
poited a commission and appropriated funds
for the purpose. Ten acres of the Patapsco
meadow lands of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, seven miles from the city,
have been accepted as the site for the point
and the necessary sheds will be constructed
at once The quarantine station is for i'm
ported cattle, but it is believed by Mr.. John
w, Garrett and others that the scope of its
operations may be so enlarged as to include
native cattle bound for Europe. The station
is near the crossing of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad, and will afford facilities
for transportation by either of the railroad
lines.
The Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line
Railroad Company, which has recently secur-
ed ground in South Baltimore and Annapolis