The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-17

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the shooting was about razor.
B. F. Minnick, of the Hickory, Hartford
county, has a flock of eleven SouthdOwn ewes
that have produced this year nineteen lambs.
Mr. Minnick's Southdowns were awarded
premiums at the last Hartford county fair.
At recent sale of stock by auction for
George w. Harris, of Washington county,
eight COWS sold for S525.25, or an average of
500. IS per COW. Seven horses averaged 5000
apiece, and nine-the entire number sold
footed up grand total of $1,000.
DR.. w. X. Brooks, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, is having the apparatus invented by
him for rearing oysters from the eggs pre-
pared on a working scale, and expects to put
it in active operation as soon as the spawning
season begins. This season commences early
in May.
Notice is given by the lighthouse board that
fog bell, struck by machinery, has been es
tablished on the west side of the lighthouse at
Bloody Point Bar, Kent Island. During
thick and foggy weather this bell will be
sounded, giving one blow at intervals of y
seconds.
The Baltimore Conference of the NJ. +.
Church South, embracing portions of Mary
land and all of Virginia, began its annual
session in Charlestown, W. Va, on Wednes
day The conference numbers 49, ministers
and 81 lay delegates, four from each presiding
elder district
The commissioners of Washington county
have called for payment, on the LIST of April,
Sc, 600 of court-h house and 81 900 of school
bonds, thus reducing the bonded indebted
ness Of the county to the extent of 10000
and lessening the annual interest some five or
six hundred dollars.
Can't. Augustine j. Smith has been elected
president of the Maryland Agricultural Col
iege. Capt. Smith is SO years old, and is a
native of Virginia, but has been living in
Baltimore for some years. The board of
trustees at the meeting also reduced the tut
ton fee from S275 to $780,
A nine-months' old female child of Michael
Rolf, No. IA Welsh alley, near Lexington
Market. Baltimore, died last week of inham
nation of the glands of the throat and neck,
(lymphangitis) superinduced by vaccination.
The little girl was vaccinated February % by
Dr. j. H. Simmons, a special vaccine physi-
eian On Saturday last, the ninth day after
the operation, she showed signs of fever.
Baltimore is to have musical festival next
month. 1t is proposed for the Oratorio to
sing the 'Redemption' on April 26 and 81.
On the 28th Thomas's orchestra will give a
matinee orchestra, interspersed with solos by
prominent singers, and at night another con-
cert will be given, with the aid of additional
soloists and the Oratorio, which will sing Sc
lections from different works.
On Saturday last three boys were going
from the pungy Florence to shore at Drum
Point, in fiat bottomed boat, when the
craft upset. William Hicks and Thomas
Willett were drowned and the third Prince
King, was rescued by Capt. Hance, of the
steamer Wenonah. The bodies of the two
drowned boys were recovered on Monday.
They all belonged in Calvert county.
Mr. James Woltz, who was arrested some
time since in Washington county and taken to
Oregon, ILL.,, on a charge of raising check
from SO to $3.50, has returned home, having
been admitted to bail His assertion of inno-
cence is confirmed by the disappearance of
the merchant of Oregon, from whom Woltz
purchased a suit of clothing, giving the check
for SIC and receiving the balance in cash.
The presumption is that that the merchant
altered the check.
The Frederick county grand jury on Satur
day last found an indictment against Mr.. j..
/ C. King for assault with intent to kill DR.. A..
/ A. Roth, on the 9th of February last. The
presentment was on the charge of alleged
extortion of note for s., 900 at the point of
a pistol Mr.. King, it will be remembered,
has had civil suit instituted against DIR.
/ hOtn IOf OlU,UUU lOI IHe dlleScu St.
duction of his (King's) wife.
| At Queenstown last Friday shooting af-
! fray took place between Jacob H. Galloway
and John O. Donnell, both of the parties be-
ing badly wounded. Mr.. Galloway owns a
house kept by Mr.. Edgell as a boarding
house, and requested the latter to require
| O'Donnell to cease his visits to Edgells res
idence. This incensed O'Donnel, and meet
| ing Galloway he shot him, the ball striking
him in the head. Galloway returned the fire,
wounding O'Donnell in the leg Each fired
three shots.
According to the official annual statement,
Just completed, the charges as ascertained and
settled by the commissioners of Frederick
county, at their April term and June session,
! 1882, amounted to $40, $40. 90. OF this sum
| S12,0 900 was appropriated to Montevue Hos
pital, $4,000 for building new schoolhouses,
So, 900 for the support of public schools,
S66, 2OS for interest on bonds, Sc, 953 for pen
sions, S18, 593 for public roads, So, 0S3.55 for
! printers accounts, 81, 1872. 40 for magistrates
accounts. SIS. 525 80 for sheriff s accounts,
ETC. The amount of property liable to as
sessment and taxes in the county is S25,-
009, 307
Mrs. VIM. Griffin gave birth, on Monday of
last week, to two boy babies in a Darkroom
of a building in the rear of No. Is Lee street,
Baltimore She had no medical attendance
and no nurse. Some charitable gentlemen
and ladies, hearing of the case, visited the
place and found that three weeks ago the
landlord of the house, to whom the family
were in arrears for rent, took all the windows
and doors from the two rooms, leaving the
mother and her four children, since six, eX-
posed to the seyerest weather. The husband
had gone down the bay Clustering and the
mother was unable to work, having two chill
dren down with the smallpox, both OF whom
are we'll now.
A suit for $50, 900 damages was filed in the
United States Circuit Court at New Orleans
ON Saturday, on behalf of the city OF Baltl-
more against jacques A. Ola, surveyor-gen-
oral of the State of Louisiana, and his sure
ties The substance of the petition is that i'll
his CAPACITY of surveyor general, Mr.. ella has
caused to be surveyed as public lands and has
giyen title to them as swamp LANDS 10 inc
State of Louisiana 10000 acres OF lana IN the
parish of st. James, IN the sWamps near
Blind river, these lands belonging to the CITY
of Baltimore, and being part OF d, the peqqesC
of the late John MeDonOgh. The land was
promptly bought up by the land buyers at 70
cents an acre. and they have taken possession
and stripped the land of valuable timber,
worth. the plaintiffs say, thousands OF dollars.
Judge Clay Dallam, secretary OF the Nc
Donogh trustees, of Baltimore, instituted the
suit at New Orleans by authority and dlrec-
ton of the trustees.
A caravan of Turks, consisting OF four
men. four women and seven children, elaa ~
the most forlorn condition, with three trained
bears. a monkey and three old broken down
horses, which carried their baggage, appeared
in Woodberry last Friday, evening, Paraaing
the streets, playing tambourne and putting
bears ta through various evolutions; A number
of horses became frightened at the bears and
ran of. Friday night they enea%pedl don, on a
hill in the woods Just north OF Mooaoerry,
weather under some old gpapQ sacks sewEed
together and stretched over poles. Saturday
saorning the women went down to the Village
begging, one of them carrying IN a wallet On on
her back dead child, which it was afterwards
reported had been fed to the bears. On Sun
day crowd of boys and young Men from
Hampden went to the eHeaIHp~eHF, aaq seen
a free fight commenced between them apa We
rT.-I.z =, vb;oh sfonas and clubs were uSeQ,