The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-05
Maryland Affairs.

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mates, 20 of them insane. 81
Rodman Cole, of Baltimore, last week shot
white woodcock near colchester beach IN
Kent county.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal was dam
aged to the extent of $40, 900 by the rains and
floods last week.
Five of the cotton mills at Woodberry, Bal.
timore county, have shut down on account OF
overproduction. ND
S. Teackle Wallis, of Baltimore will sail
for Europe on July II. Col. Chas. Marshall,
of the same city, will sail on the 9th.
The Montgomery County National Bank,
i of Rockville, opened for business on Monday.
The deposits the first day amounted to $780,
900.
August Deckert, aged 45 years, committed
suicide, in Baltimore, last Friday morning,
by cutting his throat. Intemperance was the
cause. 4,5 r., .z.-- -r.-- .-..s-.-
A Democratic campaign club was organized
at Reisterstown Saturday evening with Mr..
VIM. Slade as temporary chairman, and thirty
members. l
Mary Matthews, colored servant of Mr..
Shertzer. at Reisterstown, was found dead in
the ward of the house Sunday morning A
iury of inquest found that she died from natur-
al causes.
James Brady, stone cutter of Baltimore.
was shot and fatally wounded in Chicago by
policeman, from whom he had broken away
1 after being arrested for fighting and cutting
u man with knife.
Mai. E. Y. Goldsborough has lost three fine
horses, valued at about 81, 200, on his estate,
"Chfton,'' near Frederick, within eighteen
hours. A post-mortem examination showed
that they had been poisoned. ~ 4 %
! :. IL, Oh Il I'll,
a short distance from Frederick Junction,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were consumed
by fire last Friday. The wheat caught fire
from the sparks of a passing locomotive.
Joseph ]. C. Dougherty, Chief Money Or
der Clerk of the Post office in Baltimore,
was arraigned Monday on the charge of
embezzling $3260. He waived an examina-
ton and was committed for trial in Septem-
Der.
Judge Bond, at Baltimore on Saturday ex-
tended the time for an answer to the applica-
ton of the Trustees of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal for receiver, etc., to the 10th
of September next instead of the LIST of Au-
gust.
1t now seems certain that the pack of toma-
toes in Hartford this year will be greatly be-
low that of 1885, even if the yield should be
full Very few packers are contracting for
outside crops, and will only pack what they
can grow themselves.
In Baltimore on Tuesday proposals were
opened for S115,000 of city bonds, payable in
1925, and bearing 4 per cent. interest per
annum. The bids aggregated S448, 900, and
! the bonds were awarded at premiums ranging
! from 10.7 to 14.25.
The village of Rowlandsville, in Cecil
county, was almost entirely swept away by
| tba ctorp, ofl CT 1vaaly ha huildin0c
destroyed was the Mccullough Iron Compa-
ny's works, the principal industrial establish
ment of the place. The loss is estimated at
$150,000.
An effort is being made to induce the Penn
! sylvania Railroad Company to run a train
from Bruceville to Frederick, connecting with
the early fast train from Baltimore over the
Western Maryland, so that the morning papers
and mails can be received in that city by about
o'clock A. NJ.
| Spot wheat on Tuesday reached the lowest
point in Baltimore since the organization of
the Corn and Flour Exchange of that city,
thirty years ago. "a cents was bid and the
market closed dull. The depression is as
cribed to the absence of foreign demand
and the largeness of the incoming crop.
Two prisoners, named John Long and C.
H. Huyett, escaped from the Washington
county Jail on Saturday in daylight by seal
ing the wall with rope and board that they
had broken from the pump floor. Long was
serving out a sentence for assaulting an officer
while Huyett was also under commitment, but
for minor offense.
Solomon King and c. S. Griffith have with
drawn from the bond of Postmaster Adreon
of Baltimore. Messrs. King and WEIGH, son
and nephew of the bond5men resigned their
positions in the postoflice on account of i'm
proper treatment, as alleged, and the bonds
men say the Office is managed too much as a
political machine.
The Cumberland Daily Times suggests the
grant of the use of the tow-path of the canal
to the Western Maryland Railroad Company
to lay tracks from Cumberland to Williams
port at an annual rental of 100000. This, it
is claimed, would give direct line to Balti-
more, while steamboats, could be employed at
the same time the whole length of the canal
to Georgetown.
In consequence of the damage done to the
roadbed and bridges on the Frederick Dvis-
ion of the Pennsylvania Railroad by the re-
cent flood passenger trains were run the first /
part of this week as far as Taneytown only. /
Arrangements were made for the transporta-
ton of passengers for the North and East over |
the Western Maryland Railroad via Baltimore
until repairs ON the Pennsylvania Railroad |
are completed.
Nine hundred grammar school pupils were
examined in music in Baltimore, On Tuesday, |
preparatory to admission to the Baltimore .
City College and Female High Schools. A |
piece written for the occasion in any key en-
bracing the principles taught during the year,
was written upon the blackboard and the
pupils required to sing it at sight There
were no failures. The music in the public
schools, for ten or fifteen years, has been very
otto Al
churches.
Early last Friday morning a little fve-year
old son of County Commissioner Prettyman
III. White, of DANES Quarter, Somerset coun-
ty, was drowned underpeculiar circumstances
Mr.. White had driven to the Maryland Steam
boat Compan' US wharf at Deals Island for
goods, and while reh;tching his horse the
wagon containing his little son was blown
over the wharf into the sound, and before
help could be given the little fellow was
drowned. The wind was blowing gale at
the time. The body was recovered.
William Anderson, driver of the mail stage
plying between Belair and Edgewood Station,
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail.
road, was accidentally killed at Edgewood ON
Monday. While delivering the mail to the
postmaster in the Office about o'clock his
horses started to run. Mr.. Anderson went
out, and scizing the lines to stop them was
hurled violently to the ground, the heavy
stage passing over his head. He was taken
up unconscious, and Drs. Billingslea and
Munnikhuysen found that his skull was fractur-
ed. He died at o clock.
At special session of the county commits
sioners of Cecil county on Monday, at which
the road commissioners from the districts
north of the Elk river were present, it was es-
timated that the damage to roads and bridges
would reach $4,000 Twelve of the princi-
pal bridges on the Conowingo, Octorara,
Northeast and Elk creeks have been washed I
away. The commissioners concluded to re- I
place the bridges on the principal thorough {
fares as soon as possible, and for that pur- {
pose added twenty-five cents to the 500 for
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