The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-17
Maryland Affairs.

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chester county.
Small herring are so abundant this season
IN the susquehanna river that the farmers OF
Hartford are using them for compost.
: The 250th anniversary of the founding OF
Maryland, took place at the site of the ancient
city of st. Mary s, st. Mary's county on Thurs
day. -'-s'
The Cambridge papers say there is some talk
OF establishing glass factory on the Sandy
Hill farm, about couple of miles from that
place.
At the Methodist mass meeting at the Acad-
envy OF Music Monday night 49,, 900 were sub
scribed towards the founding of a Methodist
female college at Baltimore.
In Prince Georges county thirty one OF
Gov. McLane's appointees failed to qualify
within the time required by law, and the
commissions have had to be reissued.
On Sunday last the first church built al
Glyndon, Baltimore county, was dedicated.
1t was Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
dedicatory sermon was preached Rev. Mr..
Ferguson. 1Tte .....te ..
The Democratic central committee of Fred
erick county in meeting Saturday fixed upon
the 24th instant as the time for holding pri-
maries and the 3lst for the county convention
to elect delegates to the State and congress
ional conventions.
Under the license law for Garrett county,
thirty days notice is required to be given by
applicants before license can be granted.
This law went into effect May l, and as con.
sequence the bar-rooms will be closed until
the expiration of thirty days from date of ap
plication for license.
One firm in Cambridge, will have to pay 81,
500 in fines for selling weiss beer. Prohibi
ton prevails in Dorchester county, and it was
supposed weiss beer was not prohibited. Al
trial in court last week an analysis was pre-
sented showing it to be intoxicating.
The Convention of the Diocese of Easton
Rev. I'll. c. Lay, bishop, will meet in st. An
drew's Church, Princess Anne, June A.
About thirty ministers and thirty lay delegates
will be present. The Diocese of Easton has
683 COMMITMENTS.
Five hundred men are at work upon the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail
road, on the Peninsula between the Delaware
and Chesapeake bays, and the road will soor
be completed from Franklin to Cherrystone
giving short through route from South tc
North.
Charles Sisco, a colored man working at q
brick yard in the suburbs of Baltimore, armed
himself with two revolvers On Monday anG
began, without any apparent provocation, to
fire upon his fellow workmen. He shot three
before he was captured and disarmed, one
James johnson, being in critical condition
The last Legislature established bureau
of labor statistics, with IA Labor Statistics
Commissioner as chief officer. Thos c.
Weeks, of Baltimore city, has been appointed
and ha uualifaA locf MonAax
His duty will be to collect information con.
corning labor, wages, &C., in the state and
make report to the General Assembly.
A two-story house belonging to C. Wood
one and one-half miles from New Market
Frederick county, was burned on We'd
nesday of last week. The building was
unoccupied and the fire was supposed tc
have been the work of an incendiary The
property was valued at $500, and was insured
in the Montgomery Mutual Insurance Com
pany for $500.
Henry Miller, aged 65 years, who carried
on the milk business near the Calverton Ho-
tel, Baltimore county, was found dead Mon.
day morning hanging to the rafters in his
barn. The body was discovered by Mrs. Mil
Ter. his daughter-in-law, who gave the alarm,
and Messrs. John Rhodes and George Sarrer,
two neighbors, cut it down. He had evidently
put the moose about his neck and then Jumped
from box.
Edna Tate, girl aged about 20 years, went
to the Niagara House, Baltimore, on Monday
night, went to bed and failed to properly turn
off the gas She was found nearly dead the
next morning. and died shortly after being
discovered. Her identity was a matter OF
doubt for some time, but it was finally ascer-
tanned that she was once domestic in a
family near Harrisonburg, Va, and that her
mother is dead. H. C. Roberts of Pana, Put
nam county, Illinois, claimed her body on
Wednesday, claiming to be her cousin.
spirited warfare is in progress in Wicom-
leo between the Salisbury Times and a semi.
monthly paper called the Salisbury District
Adrdnce, edited by the Rev. J. a. b. Wilson,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The latter is rather Incorporate in his advo-
cacy of prohibition, and refers to some of the
citizens as "Whiskey devils of Salisbury
The Times retorts by denouncing the pastor
as IAN apostate from his cloth," and charges
him with wearing the livery of heaven to
serve the devil in
A warrant has been Issued for the arrest
of George Drenner, married man forty years
of age, resident of Funkstown district, in
Washington county, for an outrageous assault
on Monday last upon q little l4-year old
girl named Lizzie Clark. Drenner met the
little girl on the road to Funkstown, and
forced her into the woods near by, but was
frightened off by the screams ofthe child He
made his escape, and efforts to find him have
proved of no avail. Drenner bears the repu-
tation of having on two occasions eloped with
young unmarried women.
Under the new liquor law passed for Wicom-
leo county at the recent session of the Legis-
lature applicants for license ia sell spirituous
or fermepted liquors are required to have the
signatures of eight freeholders to their appli-
cations. Several dealers have experienced
difficulty in securing the eight freeholders in
their school districts, and some have failed
entirely and are compelled to close their places
for time. The clerk of the Circuit Court is
the person to decide who shall receive IL
cense, and if there are any affections raised
by persons living in any school district against
the applicant hearing is held and the case
decided for or against said applicant. II Is
believed the law will have the effect to close
up many crossroads groggeries, which are
nuisance to their respective neighborhoods.
Capt. John Wilson, of Milton, Del, father
of the Rev. J. A. b. Wilson, presiding elder
of Salisbury district, and Rev. W. W. Wilson,
of the NJ. E. church, committed suicide last
week by jumping ppeEbaard from one of his
vessels in Chincpteague bay. After the Grew
had gone to sleep the captain took from his
pockets $3.50 in money and gold watch and
laid them on the table. He then went on
deck, tied his feet together with rope, fast,
ening the other end to the boat so that there
would be no trouble In finding his body, tied
heavy stone about his neck, climbed over
the rail; and dropped into tho water. The
body was discovered early the next morning.
He owned three-fourths Of the boat, and his
son, Rev. j. A. B. Wilson, the remaining one
fourth. The vessel was lying at the wharfo on
Chincoteague Island at the time of the occur
renee.
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