The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-14
Maryland Affairs.

Mrs. A. A. jackson has been commissioned
postmistress at Black Rock, Baltimore county
The report from Southern Maryland is that
the tobacco crop will be more than an average
yield.
Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, and
number of his staff, were at Pen Mar last
Saturday.
in. Hughes, of Somerset county, thrashed
1000 bushels of wheat from 25 acres, being
40 bushels to the acre.
Nine young men were arrested in treder-
lex, Sunday, as Migrants. 1t is thought they
had escaped from the House of Refuge.
George w. Owens a resident of the fifth
district, Baltimore county, who IS over nifty
years of age, is cutting new set OF teeth.
Albert g. Griffith, a native of Hartford
county, and brother of 6. 5. Griffith, died
in Baltimore last Saturday, aged Y years.
Thomas Graham, of BuckeystOwn, Fred
erick county, was run over on the West Nlr-
ginia Central railroad on the 4th instant and
Instantly killed.
The count of funds in the United States
sub-treasury at Baltimore, which was finished
last Friday, showed that there was S9,9l5,-
534. Ga on hand.
The farm house of Dayton Mills, five miles
from Galestown, Caroline county, was struck
by lightning Sunday and burned down. Mills S
son, aged 5, was killed.
There were 275 deaths in Baltimore last
week, 200 of them being children under III
wears of age. This mortality among children
is attributed to the extreme heat.
John Walt, colored, aged about 65 years,
was run over by a freight train at Frederick
junction, Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on Sun
day night and one of his arms was crushed.
The Easton Star mentions the following as
showing the wheat yield per acre IN Talbot
county: Isaac Bryan 25 bushels, DIR. James
II. Anderson 80 bushels, John W. Seemer %
bushels, Thomas E. Price 274 bushels.
Erasmus Perry, an old bachelor, aged about
76 wears, and his maiden sister, Miss Caro-
line, both residing near Concord, Montgom-
ery county, died last Sunday morning, the
former at 7 and the latter at II O'Clock.
Charles Solomon, colored, while working
in n harvest field near Boonsboro one day
last week, was overcome by the heat. He
started home, and was shortly after found
dead by the roadside.
The barracks on the farm of John I. Sny-
der. at Parkhead, Washington county, with a
large amount of newly-made hay, was de-
stroyed by fire On Tuesday. 1t was set on
fire by children playing with matches.
Harry Proctor, six years old, son of widow
in Hartford county, was fatally burned last
Friday by coal oil. He was sent to store for
coal oil and matches, and when returning he
and another boy started fire along the road
An unsuccessful attempt was made to force
an entrance into the postotfice at Hagerstown
Monday night, but the party making the at
tempt was scared off by the discharge OF a
pistol by an inmate of the dwelling over the
postoihce.
The people of Emmittsburg are hoping that
by autumn the water company recently char
tered will have their works completed and
the town supplied with the finest water in
Western Maryland. Work has been COM
menced on the reservoir.
The Centreville Observer says a good crop
of peaches will be harvested in Queen Anne S
county. While there are not so many peaches
on the trees as in some years, this fall short
will probably be made up in size. The early
fruit will be ready for market in about two
weeks.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, of Washington, has
written to the family of the late Bishop Pink
ney asking permission to erect monument
over the remains of Bishop Pinkney, and also
take the body of the wife of the Bishop to
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, from Bla-
densburg.
During a fight between lot of drunken
colored men. at Burkettsville, Frederick coun-
ty, on Saturday night last, James King was
shot in the shoulder and seriously injured by
Mortimer Hunter. Hunter escaped the ottl-
GERS. Kings wound was probed, but the ball
could not be found, and he is now in critical
condition.
1t is considered practically settled that Mr..
Ephraim Keyser, the Baltimore sculptor, will
be selected as the sculptor for the De kalb
statue. which is to be erected at Annapolis.
His model, already Endorsed by the Secretary
of State at Washington, only needs the ap-
/ proval of the Governor of Maryland to COM
plete the preliminaries.
BENJAMIN Brown, colored, the well-known
leader of Browns Monumental Cornet Band,
of Annapolis, died Tuesday night from in
| iuries received while playing baseball about
two weeks ago. Shortly before his death an
operation was performed on him with hopes
of relieving him, but he died three hours at
forwards. The deceased was a polite and
popular colored man.
Percy Shehan, boy six years old, living
in Trappe district, Talbot county, who has
been to school only six days, is described as
prodigy with figures. He can calculate
mentally the most difficult sums in arlthme-
tic, and give the answer instantly. His pow
ers of calculation are wonderful, and he IS
smart to learn anything.
DR.. S. |. Scott, of the American rifle team,
is making a record in England as creditable
to himself as it is gratifying to his friends
In the contest for the Halford prize at VIM
bledon, on Tuesday, he made score OF forty
four out of a possible fifty at the l 1000 yards
range. Dr. Scott is well-knoWn citizen OF
Sandy Springs, Montgomery county.
The Baltimore Sun, referring to the wheat
crop in Western Maryland, says: The wheat
crop in Washington and Frederick counties IS
reported fine. Governor Hamilton has 800
acres in wheat on his farm in Washington
county. and says the yield will be between 30
and 40 bushels to the acre. Mr.. VIM. Dow
ney, in Frederick county, expects his crop OF
wheat on $50 acres to turn out 18, 600 bushels.
The grand jury of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore has presented Major Andrew j.
George. bail and grand jury clerk in the office
of the clerk of the Criminal Court. He is
charged with corruptly interfering, intlml-
dating and impeding witnesses III the dis
charge of their duty as witnesses before the
grand Jury on or about May 8, 1888, IN viola
ten of article $40, section Y, page SIG, Re-
vised Code, Major George asserts his lnno-
cence, and has rendered his resignation.
Last week, little daughter of James Bean,
colored, living at Ellerslle, near Fort obacoo'
was fatally shot while playing with gun.
The father and mother of the girl were out in
the field at work, and there was no one at
the house they occupied except several small
children. Upon returning to the house, they
found one of the children, girl of ten or
twelve years of age, lying dead with the top
of her head blown off and the other children
very much frightened. 1t seems that the
child was playing with loaded musket, which
was left in the loft of the house, and from the
nature of the wound must have had the muz-
zle in its mouth at the time it was discharged.
On Wednesday afternoon about 2 o'clock,
whilst rye was being threshed with rye
thresher on the farm of John Kaufman, three
miles east of Middletown, Frederick county,
the cylinder in the machine suddenly bursted
with terrific force, tearing the machine into
hundreds of pieces John D. Keller was
feeding at the time, and six other hands were
at work around the machine, but Mr.. Keller
was the only one hurt. He was cut and
hrn;sad worry hadlv ahout the face and head,