The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-26
Maryland Affairs.


| Susan johnson, colored, OF CumDefiahu'
claims to be 100 years old.
The MARYLAND Central railroad will be COM
petcd to Belair next month.
Frederick is to have a shoe factory whlch
will employ one hundred hands.
Negotiations are in progress for the con-
struction of water-works at Cambridge
Mrs Susan Elizabeth Henry, wife of Hon.
Daniel NJ. Henry, of Cambridge, died Sunday
M sniritnous liquors will be sold at the
s.Blue Mountain House" the new hotel at
Pen Mar.
The Fifth MARYLAND Regiment will camp
far ten DAVIS this summer at Deer Park, Ale
gany county.
Rev. A. NJ Randolph, of Emmanuel T. L.
Church, Baltimore, has been elected assistant
bishop of Virginia.
Tbos. Hughlett, Jr., son of Fish Commits
s;oner Hughlett, placed $40, 900 young shad in
| North East creek last week
| The eighteenth annual commencement OF
the State Normal School, Baltimore, Will be
| held Thursday next, the 3lst.
4 committee of the Baltimore city school
| hoard has reported in favor of a ten year term
| for teachers of public schools.
! Daniel ONeal, a miner in the New Central
| Company's Koontz mine, at Homecoming, was
| killed by a fall of roof coal Monday.
The centennial celebration of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Maryland commences in
| Baltimore on the 29th and will be concluded
| the next day.
| Annie Bangerd. threw herself in front OF
train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad, Baltimore, last Friday,
! and received injuries from which she died
| shortly after
A house in the eighth district, Baltimore
county. was struck by lightning Monday morn
ing. One end was completely torn out, and
Mrs. Gill, who occupied the house, was thrown
from her chair. The damage is $50.
John Frankford, who escaped from the
Towsontown JAIL in December, where he was
confined for horse stealing and robbing the
Mount Washington church, has been found to
i-be in the West Chester, Pa, Jail awaiting
4 trial on six different charges of horse stealing
4 The residence of William Fisher, at Fred
erick, was robbed of $50 last Friday night.
In order to get into the bedroom where the
money was kept some of the furniture in
another portion of the house was set on
/ fire by the thief and the robbery committed
during the excitement caused by the fire.
! 1t has been ascertaned that the youth who
was killed Sunday while boarding passing
freight train on the Baltimore and Potomac
Gold street, Philadelphia. He ran away from
home two weeks ago with another lad, who
was with him when he was killed.
/ During the thunder storm at Hagerstown,
Monday night the residence of Judge Syester,
on Prospect street. was struck by lightning.
passing down the lightning rod, from which it
passed to gass pipe and along it into the
house, tearing up part of the flooring in one
of the rooms and scorching the carpet.
The Rev. John Gaffney, of st. Navier :
Church, near Warwick, Cecil county, is about
to visit his home in Ireland in order to be
present at the celebration of the centennial
birthday of his mother, which will take place
on the 2Sth of June. Four generations will
there meet around the altar of the Reverend
Father first communion.
G.. W. Delawder, fish commissioner for the
Western Shore Of Maryland, has returned
from visit to Havre de Grace. He states
that the State sh-hatching there were going
on frstrat until the cold snap which com
menced a few DAYS ago. Up to that time 3
I roc, 900 young shad had been Matched out this
season, but no white perch.
Thomas Gross, indicted for setting fire to
the p. z. parsonage in Prince Frederick,
which was used at the time as the offices OF
the clerk of the court and the register of wills,
was acquitted last week in Calvert County
Circuit Court. George Brooks, coored, whose
testimony differed from that given on previous
occasions, was indicted for perjury after the
trial.
The exciting story of most shocking
double crime in Garrett county is related IN
the Mountain Democrat of last Saturday. Il
contains the full details of the murder of d
white man named Harden, near Elkins, on
Tuesday night by John Smith, and the muir,
derer added to his crime by outraging the
wife of his victim. Smith was captured at
Winchester, Va, on Saturday.
Mr. John P. Murray recently resigned the
chief clerkship of the Orphans Court of Bal
timore city, after serving forty-eight years.
1t was Mr.. Murray desire to continue work
ing in the office until he could say he had
spent half century there, but bad health
caused him to resign. Heis now seventy two
years old, and expects to pass the rest of his
; days quietly at his home on Druid Hill avenue
Samuel Jefferson, residing near Norbeck in
Montgomery county, had his house and stables
destroyed by fire Monday night. His loss is
estimated at 81 900; no insurance. The meat
house of Hon. Jeff. Chandler was destroyed
by fire Friday night; the residence was saved
by the continued application of wet blankets.
Many of the handsome ornamental shade
trees were destroyed.
, A barn on the farm of Mrs. Elizabeth Mer-
riken, on North Severn, Anne Arundel county
stroyed, together with the contents-twenty
five tons of hay, four tons of shucks, hay-press
and lot of farming utensils. The loss was
about 81, 800, and there was no insurance.
1ncendiary fires have become so frequent in
the county of late that the farmers are dis
) cussing the formation of vigilance committees
to protect their property.
An Annapolis letter of Tuesday says The
rain storm that passed over this section yes
terday, accompanied by loud peals of thunder
and vivid lightning, was unusual for its sever
ity. A white woman in the eastern section of
the city was rendered unconscious by the
lightning shock and remained so for twelve
hours. In addition to the uprooting of trees,
a wharf used for the landing of small boats.
at the foot of Hanover street, was carried
: away and other damage done by the storm.
The annual report of Health Commissioner
Benson. Just issued, shows that the total num-
Der of deaths reported in Baltimore during
1882 was 1928 white, 1878; colored, 2,O45;
marriages, 1894; births, 1859. Of the whole
number who died 5,435 were white natives of
the United States, 2,O45 colored and ], 443
foreign The Oldest white male persons who
died during the year was Abner Webb, 100
years; oldest white female Catherine Manion
LOG years oldest colored male Daniel Miller,
90; oldest colored female, Sophia Webster,
10.
Geo. w. Carpenter, one OF the Republican
county commissioners of Charles county, was
arrested on Tuesday last. while transacting
business of the county with the other COM
missioners, charged with outraging the person
of Miss Scott, aged 16 years, living with the
family of Thomas A. Groves, near Port To
bacco. Carpenter was visiting Groves house
on Monday. The family went away and left
Miss Scott in charge of the house. Carpenter
went off with the family and then returned
and committed the act on the girl. He was
indicted by the grand jury on Tuesday.
At halfpast five o'clock on Saturday even
ing whilst a heavily loaded south bound freight
train was switching off cars on the siding at
Woodberry Station, another south. bound
freight train, ran into the rear, smashing up
two freight cars and wrecking several others,
and almost instantly killing brakeman Chas.
E. Gallagher, who was at the time of the crash
in the act of coupling the cars. Albert Alder,
| another brakeman was irving to couple the