The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-19
MARYLAND Affairs.

Samuel Scott, died at Sandy Spring, Mont
gomery County, on the 9Th inst, aged W
years.
J. w. Dorsey, colored, in Jail at Chester
town for a trivial offence, dug his way out
last week and escaped.
The citizens of Emmittsburg have subscrib-
ed So, 900 towards the construction of water
works in the vicinity of the town.
At the town election in Emmittsburg, last
week, there were 40 candidates, and l IL votes
were cast. Henry Stokes was chosen burgess.
The Charles county board of school COM
missoners have appointed colored men eX-
clusively as trustees of the colored schools OF
that county.
Il. Harris Archer has sold the John Riley
farm, 80 acres. with improvements, near Rock
Run Church, Hartford county, to j. ii. Spen-
Ger for Sc, 800.
Adit General Watkins has assigned Lieut..
Col. Ii. X. Douglas to take command OF the
military camp, to commence at Frederick on
the Both instant.
The fifteenth annual convention of the
Diocese of Easton will meet i'll Emmanuel
| Church, Chestertown, on Wednesday, June &.
Bishop Lay will preside.
Hon. j. F. c. Talbot has appointed Samuel
| Squier, of Cecil county, Il cadet at West
/ Point, and A. l.. Porter, of the same county,
cadet at the Naval Academy.
Preparations for shipping the strawberry
| and pea crops are going on extensively IN
Somerset. Both crops promise to be album
dant though somewhat late.
| Alfred Barber, of Hagerstown, barkeeper
! for Theodore Beeler, was found dead in bed
| Tuesday morning. The coroner S jury decid-
ed that his death resulted from natural causes.
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| Baltimore during the week ended Saturday
evening was 1877, or 35 more than the cores
bonding week of 1882 Births reported 108.
Westemport, Homecoming, Frostburg, Cum
berland and Rawlings are connected by tele-
phone The circuit is 60 miles and CONVEX
sation is carried on readily over the whole
| line.
Mr.. S. Thos Mccullough, who served as
lieutenant in the Confederate army, having
been invited by the Grand Army Post of An
napolis to deliver the Grafton on Decoration
Day, has accepted the invitation.
In Queen Anne CO., under the local option
law, the druggists must obtain a recommen-
dation from twenty-four freeholders, before
they can apply for license, and notice of the
application must be published in the news
papers.
Charles Michaels, of Allegany county, one
night last week had ten sheep and five lambs
killed and thirteen wounded by dogs. John
W. Carter, residing near Hainesville, Kent
county, had ten ewes and two lambs killed
by dogs last week.
Iu the fall of 1880 Howard Woodrow, living
near Colora, Cecil county, caught ii large
buZZard and before releasing it hung round
its neck small bell. The buZZard has car
ried the bell ever since, and has frightened Il
number of superstitious persons who have
heard the bell ringing in the air.
The President last Friday appointed John
Henry Sellman, of Anne Arundel county,
collector of internal revenue for the third dis
trict of Maryland, vice c. Irving Dirty, remov-
ed. The change was made upon report from
the Secretary Of the Treasury that Mr. Ditty
is physically unable to preform the duties OF
that office.
Mrs. Ann +. Landstreet aged 90 years,
wife of the late John Landstreet, prominent
Baltimore merchant 40 years age, died last
Sunday at the residence of her son, Rev.
John lIandstreet, No. So McMechen street,
Baltimore, of old age. She was active in her
habits and had full possession of her faculties
until within year.
Col. Hughlett, of the fish commission, has
placed over II, 200, 900 young shad in Eastern
Shore waters. He has put also i'll the Paper
Mill pond $4,000 rock-perch, and 100000
white-perc in the Third Haven river j. e..
, d. Adams, i'll charge of Il station on the Nan
ticoke, reports that he has turned out 3, $780,,
600 perch and 5000 shad.
Four sets of license have been issued to
parties in Dublin district, Somerset county.
/ to sell liquor under the new high license law
which went into effect the first of this month.
TO obtain license the party applying must
. 1 l,l |, nlo1,l &
the district, must have a merchant license
calling for $500 stock, and in addition to the
regular price of liquor license must pay over
! to the clerk of the court $50, which sum goes
to the school fund of the county.
John Rufe and Chris. Uhring, two Balti-
more county farmers, whose places. adjoin on
! Chestnut Ridge, quarreled and fought on last
Friday evening. RUFF had locked up two of
Uhring's horses that were trespasslng on his
premises. This eXasperated Chrng, who
went to the field where Rute was at work.
drew large knife and plunged it into Rufe
Rufe made fight, and Uhring picked up a hoe
and struck at RUFF, the hoe hitting him just
below the right eye, tearing the flesh from the
face. Uhring then threw Rute in ditch
four feet deep and left him.
A meeting i'll the interest of MormoniSm
was held near the Rocks of Deer Creek, Har-
ford county recently. About sixty persons
/ were present An address, advocating the
abominable practices of Mormonsm was
by Joshua Fowler, convert to Mormonism,
who lives in the neighborhood. 1t is said
that a society protesting Mormonism has eX-
listed for several years in the Long Corner of
Hartford and the adjacent county of York,
Pa. The practices of the society, are as de-
scribed, scandal to the community.
The Homecoming Review says: "A citizen
of Eckhart informed us Tuesday while in
Homecoming that there were at least 500 cases
of measles Group or pneumonia in the villages
of Eckhart, Hoffman and Pompey Smash.
! Whole families in some instances are down
and the suffering and poverty is becoming
greater. Funerals are of daily occurrence
and sufficient medical attendance can scarcely
be secured, so great are the number of cases.
All the children in several families have died,
and proper conception of the prevailing
distress cannot be had away from this afflicted
section.
An extensive woods fire ragged nearly all
day Sunday in Anne Arundel county, on the
right of Marley creek, near the bridge, about
six miles from Light-street bridge. A district
three quarters of a mile in width and two or
three miles in length was burned over on the
lands of Mr.. Robert Turner and the Robinson
estate. This section Of the country is so
densely wooded as to be called the Piney
Woods The fire started about 10 q. M
among the dry leaves, as supposed, and II
high wind spread the flames rapidly. The
country was enveloped in dense smoke and
the roaring of the fire was heard long way
off.
On Tuesday Charles Ridgely Whyte was
killed by Charles Edward Hanson, at the lat
ters residence, near lllchester, Howard
county. They were intimate friends and the
deceased visited his neighbor for the purpose
of procuring seed corn, when Hanson, seized
with insanity, shot his friend dead, and drew
a large knife across his throat when he fell,
severing the windpipe. He stated that his
mother had told him to do the act. Both
| their families are connected with the Oldest
families in the State. Their estates have been
in the possession of the families for 150years.
From the Baltimore .Sun of Monday last =
Mr.. John f. Bayly, IL years DID, nephew of
Mr.. Charles B. Rogers, general agent of Smy
ser & Shall's saw mills, on John n. Carroll's
land, in the third district of Baltimore county,
was returnin0 from Baltimore in q one horse