The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-27
Maryland Affairs.

Three new cases OF Small-pOA; making SEVEN
in all, were reported in Annapolis on Wednes-
day.
An eight year old child of John A. Orr,
near Port Deposit, was burned to death ON
Wednesday.
Rev. Jacob Weaver, formerly OF Middle
| town, Frederick county, died recently at SD
ney, OHIO.
Five deaths from diptheria occurred recent
" in one family, at Scrabbletown, Anne
Arundel county.
B.A. Garlinger & Son, of Hagerstown, han
died last year 800 horses, which required an
expenditure of 100000.
Fourteen oyster vessels captured in the wa
tiers of the Little Choptank, Dorchester coun-
ty, have been fined $50 each.
Elizabeth Freiber, aged 26, unmarried,
committed suicide in Cumberland, on Sunday
evening, by inhaiGng chloroform.
Arthur Preston, colored, was hanged last
Friday, at Belair, Hartford county, tor the
murder of Mary Dorsey, colored, his mistress.
Jos. P. Merryman, Baltimore lawyer, was
tried for forging a replevin bond IN the Cir-
cult Court at Towsontown this week, and dis
charged.
Robert H. DashielI, colored, and Thomas
Heath became involved in difficulty IN Som
erset county few days ago, and Heath was
fatally beaten.
Hillard Gossard, living on the farm of Elias
| Gunnert, near Funkstown, Washington county,
was knocked down by an enraged bull last
Tuesday, and badly bruised and cut
A Catholic Church is being erected near
Wilson Station, Prince Georges county, on
the farm of Mrs. S. j. Wilson, who donated
the lot for the purpose.
Capt. Mitchell, of the State steamer Leila,
captured ten vessels, charged with illegal
dredging, in St. Mary's river recently. Seven
were fined $50 each and costs and three es-
7 capped.
Capt. Mitchell, of the oyster police, reports
the capture of IA vessels this:season for illegal
dredging, and convictions have followed IN
nearly every case A large majority OF the
captured vessels hailed from Baltimore.
Sixty loaded coal cars, and two locomotives
were thrown down an embankment by the
breaking of a wheel, on the Cumberland Val
ley road, eight miles from Cumberland, on
! Tuesday afternoon. Four men were killed.
Ross johnson, lawyer of Baltimore, aged
"a years, fell on the ice at the corner OF Cal
vert and Lexington streets on Wednesday OF
last week, and sustained injuries from which
he died last Friday night. He was formerly
of Frederick.
A malignant form of diphtheria, which has
proved such a scourge in st. Mary's, has bro
| ken out at Bladensbnrg. Three deaths have
occurred and there are several other cases re-
ported. The disease also prevails In Noting
| ham district.
John Somerville, ST., died at Bloomington,
| Garrett county, Monday, aged seventy-hve
years. 1t is said he inaugurated the ship
| ment of Cumberland coal West, and that the
| first carload sent west of the Ohio river was
under his direction.
/ j. Frisby Gordon died near Leicester, How
ard county, on Tuesday, aged rs years. He
was once Judge of the Orphans Court, and
was native of Kent county, where he pre-
| ceded Jesse Hines as clerk of the Circuit
! Court.
! Robert S. Proctor, Il well-known farmer of
Baltimore county, and soldier of the war of
1872, died at his residence, near Loeb Raven,
on Monday. Mr.. Proctor was in the 9lst
year of his age, and leaves a widow and seven
! children.
| Mr.. Gallo Fahrney, of the firm of Fahrney L
| Poffenberger, merchants and grain dealers at
St. James Station, on the Shenandoah valley
| Railroad, near Hagerstown, absconded on
Monday night, leaving over $15, 900 owing by
the firm. He had been dealing in margins
through Baltimore brokers'
The Queenstown Meas says that colored
man was hired to bury Capt. Alfred Somers,
of that place, who died of smallpox: The
man ''rolled the body up in the bed clothes,
tied rope to the feet Of the corps, tied the
rope to sleigh and dragged the dead man to
| hole in the woods and rolled him in it.
! Smallpox has made it's appearance in two
| colored families numbering eleven persons, at
Easton. The patients were promptly removed
to the pest-house, outside of the town. The
Marylander, published at Princess Anne,
4 Of
varioloid at colored settlement at Liberia, in
DANES Quarter district
Captain Joseph N. Chiswell aged about Il
years, one of the most popular citizens OF
Frederick county, died very suddenly at his
residence, near Buckeystown last FRIDAY
morning. from the effects, it is supposed, OF
apoplexy. He was prominent Granger, an
extensive farmer, and widely known through
out the State. He was the Democratic NOM
inee for the State Senatorship against DIR.
Steiner a few years ago.
The colored man, Moses Boone, who was
sick foe several weeks with the small pOX on
the farm of George c. Merrick, Prince George
county died on Saturday last. Some trouble
was experienced in getting the body buried,
but finally the little children in the house plac-
ed the corps in coffin and by means OF
long rope attached it was drawn to the grave
over the snow and inferred.
A pulp boiler at Marley Paper Mills, four
miles above Elkton, Cecil county, exploded on
Monday morning at 6.45 O'Clock with terrific
| force. Two men were instantly killed and
eight others were injured, and the mill was
partly demolished. The boiler that exploded
was a revolving one, and was used for reduc-
ing straw to pulp. 1t was IL feet long by .
| feet in diameter, and stood in the upper boil
! -. 81 +bo mill Tho antIra end of the
boiler, weighing {, 1000 pounds, was blown off,
and was found 80 yards distant. The main
body of the boiler went through two two-teet
stone walls and wrecked the limehouse.
Governor Hamilton has appointed George
| A. Won Lingsn, James Carey Coale and DIR.
| Charles O'Donavan a commission of lmml-
grafton for Maryland, under the act OF Con.
| gress passed about a year ago. 1t was found
! that humber of immigrants arriving IN this
country failed to meet the friends or remit
tances they expected and were left destitute.
Accordingly Congress enacted law that
steamship companies bringing immigrants to
this country should pay tax OF fifty cents
head for every one landed. The act also au-
thorized the Secretary of the Treasury to make
contracts for the expenditure of the money so
collected with any commission appointed by
the Governors of the States where immigrants
were landed. The commission is to eXpend
the money among the sick and helpless immi
grants, and are to appoint clerk. AS soon
as the members receive their commissions
from Annapolis, and a copy of the bill, they
will organize.
Just previous to the opening of the Balti-
more County Circuit Court at Towsontown on
| Tuesday morning dispute, ending in blows,
occurred between Col. ID. e. Mcintosh on the
one side and ex-Judge Grason and his son,
Williams Grason, on the other. Col. Mcintosh
is State's attorney for the county, and as such
was the prosecuting attorney in the case of
Joseph p. Merryman, and the Messrs. Grason
were counsel for the defense. Ex-Judge Ora
sons statement is that he was sitting ON a
bench at one side of the court room talking to
Justice j. T. Carter who had been summoned
by both sides as witness in the case. He
did not know that Justice Carter had been
| summoned by the prosecution. Col. McIn-