The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-28
Maryland Affairs.

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at St. Mary's Industrial School.
George Yellot, of Towsontown, has been
granted patent for hydraulic ram.
| The total number of deaths in Baltimore
city last week was 222. Births reported 101.
The First National Bank of Havre de
Grace has been organized with $50, 900 CAPT
tai.
The Sunday School Teachers Assembly
will convene at Mountain Lake Park, August
It'll.
The telegraph line between Baltimore and
Washington is completed, and gives great
satisfaction.
Hartford Democrats will hold primaries on
August and convention to nominate county
candidates on August IL.
The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Hagerstown will erect new edifice,
and have purchased lot for 81 900.
A weekly paper, The Week, has been COM
menced at McDonogh school for the purpose
of learning the boys the art ofprinting.
The Democratic primaries in Anne Arun-
del county to-day, and the county nominating
convention will meet in Annapolis next Tues
day.
John C.. Hege, a merchant, and Henry
Weller, shoemaker, of Milestone, Washing
boating Sunday night.
William Pitt Brown, brick-layer of Balti-
more, attempted to hang himself last week,
but the rope broke and the next day Brown
went to brick-laying again.
Terrific storms, accompanied by thunder
and lightning, passed over Frederick, on
Monday afternoon. Rain fell in torrents,
flooding the streets in places from house to
house.
E. S. Riley, Sr, associate editor of the
Annapolis Adrertiser, died on Sunday morn
ing. AT one time he was State printer, and
he published the Annapolis Republican and
also paper in Frederick.
Gen. E. O. C. Ord, of the United States
Army, and native of Cumberland, died of
yellow fever at Havana, Cuba, on Sunday,
aged 65 years. He was born in 1918, and
graduated at West Point in 1889.
Three men were drowned in the Potomac,
near Cumberland, on Monday, by the capsiz-
ing of skiff. There were seven in the boat,
and too much beer induced the crew to rock
the boat for fun, which resulted in the drown
ing of three.
There was a 'harvest home" at Brown
ingsville, Montgomery county last week.
From eight hundred to a thousand people
were on the grounds. Speakers were present
from Baltimore city and the counties of AL
legany, Frederick and Montgomery.
1t is estimated that three hundred self
binding reaperS were used in cutting this
years crop of wheat in Frederick county.
Notwithstanding each machine did the work
of about six men, farmers still found laborers
scarce and in many instances not to be had
at all.
Both farms of the late Joshua S. Cosden,
sold to John +. Goodwin, the home farm 12S
acres, at $101.40 per acre, and the farm on
the opposite side of the road, 100 acres, at
SOL per acre-or an aggregate for both
farms of $50, GOA.
Arthur P. Dorsey, of 165 st. Paul steet,
Baltimore, and formerly from Howard county,
committed suicide on Tuesday at Mt. Royal
reservoir by drowning himself. He left a note
on which was written "drink, drink, beware
of it." He was a brother of DR.. r. w. and
James Dorsey, and leaves wife and five
children.
Ex-Gov. Thomas Swami died at 8 o'clock
on Tuesday night, near Leesburg, Va. He
was native of Alexandria, Va, and was
about II years Of age. In 1915 he removed
to Baltimore, where he took an active part in
public affairs, being twice elected Mayor of
the city, and in 1864 was elected Governor
In politics he was Wing; Known othing;
Republican, and lastly affiliated with the
Democrats
Tivoli, formerly known as Holly Grove,
10 miles below Baltimore, on the Patapsco
river, on Monday night last was the scene of
the most appalling accident that ever occurred
in this State. An excursion was given by the
Mt. Royal Beneficial Society," Catholic
organization, in the parish of Corpus Christi
which was attended by many members of
other parishes in the city, and the day passed
off in a pleasant manner. Ten o clock was
the hour set for returning to the city, and
shortly after the crowd began gathering
on the piers which extended out into the
water nearly 1000 feet. Gates were used to
prevent crowding, and some persons insisted
on having the gates opened before the time.
which request was refused by the gatekeeper,
but the crowd pressed on and broke open the
gate. A rush was made, but another gate
stopped their progress. While in front Of
the gate some young men began skylark-
ing. and one jumped upon the guard rail
of the pier, lost his balance and fell over
board. The alarm was given and the crowd
rushed to the side indicated, when the pier
fell in, preciptating several hundred men,
women and children into the water, which
was ten feet deep. The scene that followed
is described as heart rendering. Every effort
was made that an excited crowd could render
to rescue the untortunates, but in many in
stances their efforts caused loss Of life, owing
to the darkness. Sixty-three persons We're
drowned, including women with infants in
their arms. Several families lost husband
and wife, and left helpless children, while in
one case an entire family were drowned.
The accident was caused by the breaking of
the rotten timbers of the pier. Great excite
ment prevailed throughout the city. On the
night of the accident, and in the vicinity of
the wharf, where the party were expected to
land on their return, as the hours passed by
without the boat arriving, the widest scenes
were witnessed, and the first knowledge they
had of the accident was the landing of the
boat on the opposite side of the basin with
a number of bodies on board At this point
the excitement was so great that the police
were called in to take charge of the crowd
while identifying the bodies. Many of the
bodies were bruised and torn by the jagged
timbers to be almost beyond recognition.