The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-09
Maryland, Affairs.

Active steps are being taken toward the
construction of the Washington and Chesa-
peake railroad from Marlboro to the PatuX-
ent.
Henry D. Harlan, Esq, of Hartford county,
has been appointed assistant professor at the
Law School of the Maryland University, Bal
timore.
McCusker, who killed Bishop with fence
rail near Hancock early in April, was con-
victed of mauslaughter at Hagerstown on
Monday.
The tax-rate for county purposes in Wash
ing ton county for this year has been fixed at
SS cents on the S100-one cent less than for
last year.
The Baltimore County Temperance Alliance
met on Tuesday and appointed a committee in
each district to see that the Sunday laws are
observed.
Thomas L. Maclin, register of wills for
Howard county, has purchased the property
of the late VIM. Timanus, near Ellicott City,
for 1855.
The diocese of Easton of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, met at Chestertown on
Wednesday, about sixty clergy and delegates
being present.
There was a six-days' walking match in
Baltimore last week. The contestants were
all professionals, Hughes winning with score
of $50 miles.
Isidore Louis, aged 10 years, was attacked
with heart disease and died whilst bathing at
the natatorium on Howard street, Baltimore,
on Wednesday.
The Hartford Democrat says many of the
farmers of the county are replanting their
cornfelds. Much of the corn last fall was
housed when damp, and the grain destroyed.
There are 107 inmates in the Washington
county Aims House, of which number there
are l insane men and 16 insane women; 8
colored men and women; - white and 3
negro children.
The Montgomery county local option con-
vention met on Tuesday but did nothing of
importance. Resolutions were passed eschew-
ing politics, but requesting prOhibtionists to
vote for the best men.
There are 400 canning establishments i'll
Hartford county, which is more extensively ell
gagged in this branch of business than any other
portion of the country. Peas, corn and to-
these cannereS.
Miss Emma Walker, aged eighteen, and
living at Alberton, Howard county, while
crossing the railroad Sunday morning on her
way from church was struck by a freight train,
receiving injuries from which she died three
hours afterward.
Kate Wilson, an unmarried woman of Bar
ton. Allegany county, died Sunday night.
She left deposition charging DIR. }. W..
Piper, a well known physician, with preform-
ing an abortion on her: DR.. Piper says it is
a Matchmaking scheme.
The stockholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal have reelected Lewis c. Smith,
of Hagerstown, president, and all the old
board of directors except Mr.. Morgan, Of
Washington, d. c., in whose place Col. l..
Victor Baughman, of Frederick, Nd, was
chosen.
Col John L. Mapes, of Snow Hill, has
been appointed chief engineer of the proposed
Sussex Midland railroad, which is to run
across the peninsula from Kent Island to the
Delaware Breakwater. He has been ordered
to organize an engineer corps and CONNER nee
his surveys at once.
Insurance Commissioner Hines, in his an
nual report, says that fire and marine insur-
ance companies doing business in Maryland
for the wear 1892 received 81, 591, 95S. IL III
premiums, and paid losses to the amount of
$749 $685. life insurance companies received IN
premiums 81, Jos, 225.4G and paid 1884, 6O4.
sc for losses.
The Belair Kgis Monticello,
s'Foust," 'Holland Gin" are the labels on
coaches. These packages vary in size from
one pint to several gallons. They contain no
address, but are numbered, the carrier having
a list of names and the number of the package
intended for each person.
Harry J. Brooks, of the Cloud House, Bal
timore, recently drove from Baltimore to
Washington, a distance of forty miles, in
three hours and twenty-one minutes, and
walked his mare three miles of the rout, on
account of mud. He had wagered $500 he
could drive the distance in four hours. The
mare has q record of 2.40.
The Salisbury Advertiser of Saturday says:
''The amount of strawberries and other early
produce leaving the two counties of Somerset
and Wicomico during the week is unprece-
dented. From so to Is carloads a day have
zone to Delmar The very unfavorabe
weather has made the berries inferior and
prices broke down very soon, but even at
cents per quart so carloads represent gross
sum Of S3O,0 tits safe to say that 5000, 900
worth of berries left these two counties dur
ing the week. Of this large sum the railroad
companies received the proportion of $780,
000.'
The Susquehanna Flint Mills are located at
Shure's Landing on the Susquehanna river,
nine miles above Havre de Grace. The flint,
after being ground and properly prepared, is
shipped chiefly to Trenton, n. D., where it
enters largely into the manufacture of china
ware though large shipments are being con-
| stantly made to other sections of the country.
A new paper mill, with a capitol of 100000;
will also be located near Shure' S Landing, the
river to furnish the power. Hartford, Cecil
and Philadelphia capitalists, are interested in
this enterprise which is to give employment
to one hundred and fifty men.
| On Tuesday afternoon Josiah Ridenour, a
carpenter, while at work on the fourth story
of the Updegraff building, Hagerstown, was
struck and instantly killed by lightning. At
the time ten or twelve hands were at work on
the building, and all were Frustrated by the
shock The lightning struck derrick which
Ridenour and several others were using, shat
tering it to atoms and throwing large pieces Il
distance of fifty yards AT the time Ridenour
was about four feet of. Other workmen were
as near, but on the opposite side, and escaped
with only severe shock. The deceased was
about thirty years of age, and leaves wife
and four children. The building was not in
jured.
A fatal accident occurred Monday evening
at "Folly Quarter the old McTavish prop
erty, about nine miles from Ellicott City, re-
Gently rented by Frederick Brosene. Mr..
/ Brosene's son Frederick, who lives with his
father, had been blowing in field some dis
lance from the house during the afternoon.
As evening approached and he did not re-
turn home his family became alarmed and
instituted search for him. About nine
o'clock he was found lying dead alongside his
pillow. His body was covered with bruises,
and the suppostion is that he was kicked to
death by the mule which had been used in
blowing, as the animal was standing near by
unhitched from the pillow, with the harness
very much tangled, giving evidence that he
became unruIy by Mr.. Brosene endeavOring
to mount him that he might ride home. De-