The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-02
MARYLAND Affairs.

marsh near ElktOn.
Montgomery Blair's i'll health causes his
friends much alarm.
Senator A. P. German spent several days
in New York this week.
Three steamships, with =, 740 immigrants,
arrived at Baltimore Saturday and Sunday.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson will deliver the
address at the st. Johns College commence
ment on June %.
A State Temperance Alliance detective ar
rested three violators Of the local option law
in Port Deposit on Monday.
Lake, the Dorchester rape fend, who is to
be hanged June %, says the sooner the day
comes the more he will be pleased
Three attempts have recently been made
to start big fire in Cambridge. The would
be incendiary has not been caught.
The Baltimore and Potomac double track
was put into service last Sunday between
Baltimore and Washington.
Charles Mahon, IA years of age, of Ha-
gerstown, fell into the canal at Alexandra
Monday night and was drowned.
About sixty fertilizer dealers met in Balti-
more on Wednesday, from various states, and
resolved to form q national society.
William Mckinney, of Queen Anne, coun-
ty, owns twenty seven farms on the Eastern
Shore, or about ten thousand acres.
The only resident Chinaman of the Eastern
Shore resides in Queenstown, and is master
and part owner of the sloop Mary Caroline
Eleanor Grosh, of Frederick county, was
the first person received into the Episcopal
Church in Maryland by Confirmation. 1t
was on March "a, 1898.
George w. Carpenter, Republican county
commissioner of Charles county, is on trial
at Port Tobacco for rape on Miss Ellen Is.
Scott
The oyster vessels Mary V. Duncan, Lewis
j. Duncan and Beachamp were each fined
$50 and costs in the Talbot county court last
week for illegal dredging.
The Confederate Memorial Association of
Frederick county will decorate the graves at
Mt Olive Cemetery on June A. Gen Brad
ley T. johnson will be the orator.
The postoffice at Crumpton, Queen Anne S
county, was robbed of $50 worth of stamps
and postal cards last week. The thief has
been arrested and made full confession.
Considerable destitution and suffering are
said to exist in the vicinity of Frostburg,
caused by an epidemic Of measles. -Four
hundred cases of the disease are reported.
The barn. corn house and stables of John
Henry Winder, in Talbot county, were burned
Saturday. Mrs. Mike Wilson'S dwelling in
Bay Hundred, was destroyed by fire Sunday.
The grand jury Of Hartford county declined
to indict the Mormons Parker Scarborough,
charged with having set fire to the dwelling
house and barns of Mrs. Catherine Morris,
was indicted.
Mrs. Daniel Baker, of RohrersvIle, Wash
ington county, weighs 205 pounds She has
three daughters who weigh respectively $50
2G0 and 800 pounds. The grand total is l,
OILS pounds.
During the memorial exercises at Fred
erick, on Wednesday,, bench on which Il
number of ladies were seated gave way, and
Mrs. Susanna Smith. an elderly lady, living
near Liberty, had an ankle badly fractured.
The military encampment at Frederick this
week was a great success Ten or twelve
companies were there, and the encampment
had $50 tents. On Wednesday there was a
sham battle, in the presence Of 1000 specta-
tors.
Last week, at Hagerstown, William Payne
got verdict Of $4,000 damages against the
Commissioners of Washington county for
injuries received by being thrown from car
riage whilst travelling on a county road which
was out of repair.
/
Michigan, was dishonorably dismissed from
the Annapolis Naval Academy, for stealing
on Tuesday, and left for home the same day.
He would have graduated with high honor;
on the 18th Of this month.
The Monument Association of Frederick
| the object of which is the erection of a shaft
| 10 the Union dead, has heen organized, with
Col Charles f. Trail as president, Col. G.
! W. +. Vernon vice president, Hon. Thomas
/ Gorsuch treasurer and H. c. Keefer secretary
/ During a storm on Monday evening two
! stables on the farm of Mrs. Kershaw neal
upper Marlboro, Prince Georges county
were struck by lightning and had the gable
/ ends torn out. A large barn in Surratt'
/ district, same county, belonging to Anton
/ Miller, was struck by lightning and destroyed
/ The Tooth anniversary of the organization
/ of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland was
! celebrated on Tuesday by services in tho
morning at St. Paul's Church, baltimore
where Bishop Lay, OF the Diocese Of EaStOn
preached the sermon, and at Lehmann's
/ Hall at night by addresses by Bishops Lyman
of North Carolina, and Lee of Delaware,
Rev. Chas. II. Hall and Hon, ]. H. b. La.
/ trObe.
Jerome Duvall, lock tender on the Ches
apeake and Ohio Canal near Sir John Run
was arrested last week, and was charged witt
an assault with intent to rape Alice Watts 4
twelve year-od daughter Of Alfred Watts, OF
the Hancock district, Washington county. Il
/ is alleged that Duvall enticed the girl, with
a younger sister, into the woods, and by per.
suaslons and offering her money, endeavQre0
to accomplish his design
| Mr.. s. I. Herbert, resident of Clear
sprins, Washington county, in 1871 caught
/ ,,l H.,
that district, and with penknife engraved
the name of j. T, Mason and Joseph Troup
| with the year, respectively, on the shells OF
both. A few days ago Mr.. Herbert oame
upon these same turtles, bearing the inscrip
ton almost as plainly as when they were put
| there, tOrty-two years ago.
| Robert Farwood of Hartford county. was
shot in the shoulder Sunday morning by
! Charles Grover, farmer of Baltimore cOun.
/ ty. Grover was engaged to Farwood S daugh
| ter and had ruined her. He promised tC
marry her at once, but Farwood was 50 in.
censed that he attempted to kill Grover, So
/ ing TO his house to do sa about . O clock Sun.
/ day morning. On Monday Grover married
! Miss Farwood, and the old man Farwood is
doing well with the wound in his shoulder.
A charter has been issued to the Balti
more and Harrisburg Railroad The line
will run from point of connection with the
Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg
| Railroad Company at or near New Oxford
| Adams county, to a point On the Harrisburg
and potema6 Railroad at or near York
! Springs borough, Adams county, distance OF
| twelve miles. The amount of capital stock is
/ S12O, 200, and the principal office will be in
| Hanover, York county. A. w. Eichelberger,
of Hanover, is president, and the directors
are David Wills, Gettysburg; Charles W.
Slagle, Baltimore; Henry A. Young, VIM.
/ Grumbine, Robt. A. Writ Stephen Keefer
! Hanover.
William H. Beck shot hialself through the
! brain between two and three O clock Saturday
! afternoon at 10 Cough street, Baltimore, and
died the same day at fifteen minutes past four,
He was one of four prisoners who escaped
/ from the Baltimore county Jail last Wednesday
week. The crime of which he was accused
was higamy and he had been confined since
Easter Monday. Hartman Redemann rents
the house at 70 Cough street, and while he
uses the ground floor as cigar and tobacco
store and lives on the second floor with his
/ family, the rest of the house is occupied by