The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-08-11
Maryland Affairs.


$50 pounds
The Cumberland coal shipments by canal
last week were q ,521 tons.
There are 262 persons in the House of Cor
rection-204 males and So females.
Benjamin Brown, of Hagerstown, has been
arrested for charging illegal fees in pension
cases.
The thirteenth annual fair of the Kent
County Agricultural Society will be held Sep
TENDER II, II and 13.
Captain John B. Brickley, of Cecil county,
threshed 672 bushels of wheat off Of 143 acres,
or over 45 bushels per acre.
Five large campmeetngs are being held
within fifteen or sixteen miles of Baltimore,
and all are largely attended.
An unknown man was struck by train On
the B. & o. r. r. on Tuesday, between the
Relay and Mt. Airy, and fatally injured.
J. B. Hoyt & Co.'S. extensive tannery at
Flintstone, Allegany county, was destroyed by
fire last week, causing a loss Of $4,000.
j. B. Jarboe, of St. Mary's county, sowed
one bushel of wheat and realized forty-eight
His crop averaged twenty-five for one seeded.
Frederick county Republicans will hold a
convention to nominate county officers on
September 3, and the primaries therefor on
September 1st.
Two suits of $4,000 each, growing ont of
the operations of the new tariff act have been
brought against Collector Webster by Hodges
Bros. and Rogge & Koch.
The Orioe celebration in Baltimore in Sep
TENDER will be conducted at night. The pro-
gramme has been arranged, and includes
three night parades.
r. Nicholas Burriss, nearly all his life
resident of Montgomery county, died on Sun
day at his late residence in Georgetown, i'll
the Goth year of his age.
D. J. Cramer, residing near Walkersville,
Frederick county, recently threshed his wheat
from so acres, which yielded 1000 bushels,
an average of so bushels per acre.
A census of voters of Baltimore city, taken
by the police, according to the provisions of
law, shows a total of 81 463, which does not
include all, as many persons are out of town.
A house in Acton lane. Annapolis, occupied
by colored family named Price, was burned
down Saturday afternoon and two children
were considerably burned before they were
rescued.
Martin H. Baron, an old citizen of the fifth
district, died at Ellicott City Sunday, aged
20 years. He was at one time Judge of the
Orphans Court and also served as a county
commissioner.
Last Friday, at tournament, Henry Edelen
and James Ricketts, got into fight in Mont
gomery county, when the former was seriously
cut and lies in a critical condition. Ricketts,
has been arrested and put in jail at Rockville.
An unknown white man was instantly killed
Saturday near Patapsco, eight miles from
Baltimore, on the line of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad He was walking on the
track, when the New York express struck
him.
The Republican State Central Committee
met on Thursday, and fixed Baltimore as the
place and September 9th as the time for
the State Convention to nominate candidates
for Governor, Attorney General and Comp
| troller.
Farmers from Montgomery, Prince George S
and Howard counties held basket picnic
near Liberty Grove on Tuesday. The atten-
dance was large. An appropriate address
was delivered by Rev. James b. Avrett, rec
tor of Silver Spring.
The stable and store house of Franklin
Davis, near Baltimore, was burned on Tues
day, together with six horses and three mules.
-Four of the horses were thoroughbred, two
being Percherons and the other two from the
stables of ex Gov. Bowie.
As young Mr.. Newcomer, living with .JnO.
Dorsey, near Mount Moriah Church. Downs
Vile, Washington county, was riding home on
Saturday night, some concealed person shot
at him. The ball imbedded itself in his
horses neck. a foot from the rider.
The farmers around North East, Cecil
county, report that work on the B. d 0. R. R.
has started an active market for their produce,
besides demand for 100 carts at $3.50 per
day. The work is being done chiefly by Italian
laborers, boarded by the contractors.
Between 1900 and 1000 bushels of wheat
belonging to Lewis Bell, tenant on the farm
of Thomas Yarwood, near Adamstown, in
Frederick county, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire at an early hour Thursday morning.
The wheat, which was uninsured, had Just
been threshed and was stored in sheds.
The fifth annual tournament and picnic,
under the auspices of the Towson Guards,
will be held at Groom's Dairy Grove, Tow
sontown, on Tuesday next at 2p m. Exten-
sve arrangements are in progress, and it is
expected that the tournament will be one of
the most attractive ever held in the state.
A new Protestant Episcopal Church will be
erected near Poplar Springs, Howard county.
Work has been begun, and the cornerstone
was laid on Tuesday last. The church will
be under the pastoral charge of Rev. James
Stephenson, dean Of the convocation of Cum
berland.
A fire broke out in Baltimore on Wednes-
day afternoon, in tlnware mandatory,
corner of Lexington and Arch street The
mandatory was destroyed and about twenty
five other houses on Josephine street, Penn
alley and neighborhood were damaged, caus-
ing total loss of $4,000
Mr.. Ephraim keyser, the young sculptor
of Baltimore, has made another sketch for the
proposed monument to be erected in Annap-
,1,p TO h.. Of lnS n1h l,o .1-.+.
is in plaster, and is now at Mr. Keyser's
studio. Mr.. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of
State, has accepted the model, and il contract
will be made with the artist.
Ex-Governor Bowie's brown FLY Empress
won the PocahontaS stakes, a mile and three
turongs, for three year-old fllies at Saratoga
on Tuesday, beating the Dwyer Bros. here
tofore invincible crack Miss Woodford and
two others. The time (2.144) is the fastest
on record for the age and weight 106 pounds,
and was only once excelled, and that by the
great Bend Or in his four-y ear-old form,
when he covered the distance in the remarka-
bic time of 2.lOi. The stakes were worth
over 81, 800 to the winner.
On Saturday last fracas occurred between
Benz. +. Legg and Il colored man named VIM.
Robinson, on Kent Island, in which Legg
shot and killed Robinson. Legg was thrash
ing wheat, and Robinson was employed to
assist, and not performing his work satsfac-
torily, Legg spoke sharply to him and Robin
son resented the attack Robinson ran Legg
into the barn with pitchfork. Legg then
got gun and shot Robinson in the groin in
tcting wound from which he died in about
two hours. A coroner's jury rendered YER
dict of premeditated murder. Legg escaped
and has not been apprehended.
A committee, consisting of Rev. DIR. Diehl,
of Frederick, and Revs. Messrs. Mann, of
Middletown, and Wira, of Mechanicstown,
has been appointed to arrange jubilee cele-
bration of the 4O0th anniversary of Luthers
birth year, to be held either on the agricul-
tural fair grounds at Frederick or at Penmar
on the 3Oth inst. All the Lutheran congre-
cations, Sunday schools and choirs in Fred
erick and adjoining counties will be invited
to participate, as will also number of brass
bands. The celebration will be in the open
air, with picnic features, and addresses will
|. 1 I,