The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-30
Maryland Affairs.

A bank is to be started at Havre de Grace
Hartford county.
New Orleans Continental Guards will visi
Baltimore to-day.
A colored infantry company has been or
ganized at Annapolis.
Charles Stone, formerly of Montgomery
county, died in Colorado Saturday.
| Annapolis municipal election takes place
July 9. Much interest is manifested.
The Maryland Central Railroad was opened
to Belair on Wednesday of last week.
Christopher Wynn, an Old Defender, dieo
in Baltimore last Friday, aged 81 years.
| Two fine horses were stolen from Price
King. a eolored man living near Cumberland
Saturday night.
James Fleishell, of Baltimore, attempted to
commit suicide by cutting his throat with 6
razor last Saturday.
John Kelley, arrested for disorderly con-
duct in Cumberland, Saturday night, tried to
hang himself in the cell.
The tax-rate in Montgomery county for this
year is 864 cents on the 500. Including the
state tax it is S1.05.
The tax rate in Talbot county is 624 cents
on the 500, and 65 in Frederick county.
The latter is a reduction.
The time for holding the proposed military
encampment at Hagerstown has been fixed
for August 90, 80 and 81.
The heavy and continued rains this week
delayed harvest and did considerable damage
to crops in various counties.
The first new wheat was received in Balti-
more on the 22nd. There were three small
lots, which sold at $1.15, S1.3O and $1.65.
81 WoI, ha
distance from Baltimore to Washington, 40
miles, on the B. & o. Railroad, in SO minutes.
A sea lion weighing 1,O4O pounds has been
placed in pond No. 2, Druid Hill Park, Bal
timore. 1t was the gift of Mr.. John W. Gar
rett.
James H. Wilson, member of the St.
Mary's county bar, died of CONGESTION of the
lungs at the Baltimore city hospital on Satur-
day night.
- Rufe Minor was arrested in New York on
the National Bank of Baltimore in September
last.
Six prisoners were taken to the penitentiary
from Hagerstown this week. Quite number
were contributed to the same institution from
Baltimore county.
There are 400 self binders in Queen Anne s
Without these binders it would have been
impossible to have saved the grain.
A dock. with 100000 feet of lumber. fell
into the lake at Muskegon, Mich, on Thurs
day, precipitating twenty men who were at
work on it into the water Three or four are
missing.
Jason Williams, colored, convicted of muir
der in Howard county, has been granted a
new trial by the Court of Appeals, on ac-
count of an informally in the rendering of the
verdict.
Benjamin May aged SO years, and Albert
Troup. aged q years, were drowned in the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal last week, the for
mer two miles north of Williamsport and the
latter near Weverton.
John N. Ripple, of Baltimore, has imported
one horse and six filly colts, of the percheron
stock, and sent them to his farm in Washing
ton county. where they will be kept for breed
ing purposes. They were purchased at La
Perche, France.
Commencement exercises at Hannah Moore
Academy, near Reisterstown, took place last
week. The graduates were Miss Sallie Rob-
erts, of Upper Marlboro, Md, and Miss
Ellen R. Stewart, of Princess Anne, Nd.
Bishop Pinkney was present.
Confederate memorial services will be held
at Friendship, Anne Arundel county, on the
4th proximo, on which occasion the graves of
ex- Confederates in the neighborhood are to
be strewn with flowers, and floral monument
placed in each of the burying grounds.
John Reilly, an employee of the Cumber-
land rolling mill, is suffering from the effects
of very severe accident received in the mill.
A few days ago his little boy was drowned in
the canal. On Thursday his wife died, leav-
ing baby six weeks old, who has sinceSdied
also.
James Stevenson, a farmer in Baltimore coun-
ty, three miles from Baltimore lost two chill
years, died on Wednesday, and Annie,
years old, on Thursday. Other cases of the
disease are reported among children in that
neighborhood.
John Whisner, n well-known resident of
Frederick, aged about so years, while walking
on the Pennsylvania Railroad track in the
suburbs of the city Wednesday evening was
struck by a passenger train and probably
fatally injured. He had several ribs broken
and was otherwise badly hurt.
The Court of Appeals has promulgated ad-
ditional rules to go into effect from and after
September l, 1888. The new rules reduce the
cost of printing transcripts from ten to seven
cents hundred words, and the same for
briefs. Payment to the clerk Of the court for
printing is required i'll advance.
About 10 o'clock on Saturday night John
Kale, alias Bowers, shot and fatally wounded
William Leighton at the residence of the latter
in Hagerstown. Kale is alleged to have been
on intimate terms with Leighton wife. KaIe
shot Leighton without any warning while the
latter was sitting on the steps of his dwelling.
VIM. Pearre, who was appointed executor
of the estate of his father, the late Judge
Pearre, filed an inventory of the personal
on Friday in the Orphans Court of
Allegany county, amounting to SIG, 608.74.
The real estate, of which no valuation il re-
CURED by the court, is not included in this
inventory.
Mr.. Z. NJ. Devilbiss' barn, near Triadel- /
Dhia, Howard county, was destroyed by fire |
on the evening of the Dist inst. There were
5ester and some other farming implements |
in the barn, all of which were destroyed. The !
loss is about 81, 400. There was an insurance
Of 81, 900 on the property.
Baltimore business men do not regard with
favor the extension of the Baltimore & Ohio !
railroad to New York. They say Baltimore |
will then be a way station. The Baltimore 4
Ohio, they think, should make Southern ex-
ensions, as it is from the South that Balti-
more is to get trade, and upon the Southern
rade depends its prosperity.
Four homing pigeons, owned by John Abel,
IF Baltimore, were liberated in Cumberland
IN Wednesday morning at O clock, and three
If them arrived, one at 11.35 and two at 1.36
/. m. The distance (air line) from Cumber-
and to Baltimore is 120 miles. The time
Town is the best that has ever been made by
my birds owned in Baltimore for the dis
ance, the average speed being 1852 yards
DER minute.
In accordance with an application from
iov. Hamilton, on the part of Maryland, and
10Y. Cameron, on the part of the state of
Virginia, the Secretary of War has signifed
us willingness to detail Lieut.. Frederick V.
4hhott, of the corps of Typographical engi-
leers, to run the boundary line between Ma
yland and Virginia, provided for under the
tot of 1882, chapter 1853, which makes an APP
,ropriation of 1900 for the purpose. A
imilar appropriation was made by the Legis-
ature Of Virginia.
Considerable damage is reported in Ale
any county from floods Monday night, es-