The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-16
MARYLAND Affairs.

Baltimore had its first case oil SunStfoke on
Tuesday. ~
The tax rate in Anne Arundel county for
1883 is % cents.
Two men were arrested in Baltimore on
Tuesday for wife-beating.
The levy for Allegany county has been fixed
at 67i cents on the 500.
Hagerstown wants to have military en-
campment in September.
The Montgomery county agriculture fair
will be held on October II, l8 and 10.
The grand jury of Baltimore county was
discharged on Tuesday. They found "A true
bills.
Edward Hanson was OH Saturday, at Eli
colt City, adjudged insane and sent to an
asylum. ..
In Hartford county considerable damage is
reported to corn and tomato fields by the cut
worm.
During the week ended Saturday 53,342
tons of coal were shipped from the Cumber-
land region.
Fifty hands are now employed in the Cum
berland glassworks, and orders are in excess
of prediction.
Mr.. Edward Sinclair Beall, cashier of the
Farmer and Merchants Bank, Baltimore,
died last FRIDAY.
Joseph Goldsmith, aged I years, committed
suicide on Tuesday at his fathers residence
near Baltimore by hanging.
New assessments to the amount of 100000
have been reported by the tax collector of
Montgomery county.
Mr.. John w. Garrett has presented to the
King of Italy his splendid horse Damascus
from the Montebello stables.
Z. C. Hawkins has been appointed consta-
BILE for the sixth district of Baltimore county,
vice John jefferson, resigned.
w. P. Howard, of Cecil county, lost last
week by drowning his mammoth hog Jumbo,
which weighed at least l 200 pounds.
VIM. E. Tarr, of Talbot county, had his
collar-bone broken last week by the recolL Of
a gun with which he was shooting at crows.
Charles C. Anders, proprietor of the Lin
ganore Mills, near Frederick, died last Sat
urday night after few day illness of typhoid
fever.
Commencements at Mt. st. Mary's College
and ST. Joseph's Academy, near Emmitts-
burg. will be held on the 9th and 28th of
this month.
The French contract for 5000 hogsheads
of MARYLAND tobacco was Monday awarded to
A. Schumacher & Co. and +. E. Weneck, OF
Baltimore.
Christopher Briggs was on Tuesday sem
fenced to the penitentiary for two years IN
Baltimore for picking the pocket OF VIM. f.
Dorsey, Howard county farmer.
What is known as the original McKeen tract
of land in Towsontown, consisting OF over
twenty acres was sold under Il decree OF
the Circuit Court Monday to Mrs. Robt e..
Berry for $50, 900.
Vim. Cover, of Washington county, was
fatally injured Saturday by an iron rod from
a corn shelter, which was broken off while
the machine was in operation and struck him
violently on the head.
Forward Lomax, colored, living near
Scrabbletown, Anne Arundel county, was
waylaid and killed last Friday night. A col
ored man named Brown has been arrested on
the charge of doing the shooting.
Two hundred and thirty cars of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad were required to
transport the three cargoes of sugar that ar
rived at Locust Point the past week from Cuba
for reineries in St. Louis.
Ex-Governor and ex-senator Thos. Swami,
of MARYLAND, has gone all to pieces mentally.
He is living in great retirement and will never
mingle in public affairs again. His last un-
fortunate marriage, it is said, Is responsible
for his condition.
A fire broke out, shortly after seven o clock
Monday night, among a lot of excelsior pack
ing on the fifth floor Of the warehouse No. 4
South Charles street, corner of German street,
Baltimore, occupied by VIM. Seemuller y
Co., auctioneers, which resulted in a loss of
500 OO caused principally by water flooding
valuable furniture, pier glasses, pianos, nc.
The United States government contract for
eight dozen sugar chests has been awarded to
Messrs. Baitz, Vavrina & Co., of Baltimore.
samples was given to Mr.. H. F. Miller, also
of Baltimore. The chests and cans are used
by the government to sample sugar.
The storm or Sunday afternoon was very
severe in Baltimore county. AT Long Green
lightning struck hay-rick of Mr.. Caleb Car
man. It was burned, and much difficulty was
experienced in saving the adjacent houses.
In the neighborhood of Fork, in the Eleventh
district, number of large trees were blown
down.
DR.. Pierre Divide Cherbonnier died in
Talbot county on Tuesday, aged &C years
He was native of New Orleans, and came to
Baltimore, where he practiced his profession
for some time, but removed to Talbot county
some years ago. He was brother-in-law of
Judge Bartol, and leaves a wife and two
children.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, held in Bal
timore on Wednesday evening last it was
resolved to reduce coal tolls from so to 40
cents per ton, so as to compete with the re-
duced rates of toll on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railway.
The turtle dinner of the democracy of
Wicomco county came off last Thursday.
Of this affair the Adrertiser says: at is a
matter of sincere congratulation that Thurs
days meeting was indicative of harmony and
a regard for the best interests of the Demo
cratic party. There was, at least on the sur
face, no disposition to push any candidate.
The ladies' fair at Mount st. Mary's Col
lege Emmittsburg, for the benefit of Mount
St. Marys Parish Cemetry, which has just
closed, was gratifying success, the net profits
being S1,252.44, in addition to which was
S49.7l from two entertainments, making a
net aggregate of 81, 302.1 Is. There are yet a
number of articles to be ratified off, which will
increase the fund considerably.
A fire at Havre de Grace on Monday after
noon destroying Dubois's planning and sash
factory, and in Il single hour blotted out the
chief industry of the town. There was only a
small chemical engine on hand with which to
fight the flames, and, of course, it proved in
adequate to such an emergency. Assistance
was promptly and generously sent from Bal
timore, Wilmington and Port Deposit, and a
general conhagration averted.
twenty-five new houses are now being
erected in Cambridge at an aggregate cost of
SCI, 900. Besides this the bridge over the
creek is being repaired at a cost of 81 100;
two vessels have been launched from John
sons yard during the week. At the latter
yard extensive repairs are being made to a
number of boats, and the yard at the point
hoe aIeo n oood RIM of worl, At lea ST twenty