The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-09
Maryland Affairs.

A young woman shooting at rats with a
pistol, in Cumberland, on Thursday killed n
little boy in the yard of an adjoining house.
Frederick city annual statement, just pub
lished, shows the expenditures of last year to
have been S44, 342.2S. The city debt is $685.
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At Towsontown on Tuesday the jury in the
case of Mrs Mary Jane Hundertmark for the
murder of Charles III. Ensor brought in YER
dict of manslaughter,
John w. R. Cumming, of Tilghman's Is
land, recently lost three children from mea-
sizes. Five other members of his family were
afflicted with the same disease.
On Monday night valuable mahogany
brown driving horse was stolen, together with
a saddle and bride, from the premises OF
James p. Rodgers, near Buckeystown.
The engine of the passenger train on the
Emmittsburg Railroad ran of the track on
Thursday morning falling down bank and
carrying two freight cars with ii. No one
hurt.
The Legislature will be asked to appropriate
$50, 900 annually to the state Militia. At
present only $4,000 are appropriated.
military board of Baltimore have the mat
ter in charge.
Two hundred Italian laborers working at
81 per day on the Baltimore and Philadelphia
road. near Principle Furnace, Cecil county,
struck on Saturday last for an advance OF
twenty-five cents per day in wages.
The Annapolis postoffice was entered Sat
urday night and robbed of $4,000 in stamps
and almost So, 900 in money. The entrance
was effected at the front door, and the work
was evidently done by professional cracks
men.
Robert Nelson, well-known farmer OF
Hartford county, aged rs years, was found
hanging in an outbuilding near his house
Wednesday afternoon with chain. he h2f
been in melancholy state of mind tar1he
past two years.
Since January the Baltimore lid Ohio
Railroad Company has stored Coz, 500 tons of
ice, all cut fropa-49aEe Youghiogeny, between
Mountain Lake Park and Deer Park. Be-
tween 100 and 200 men have been constantly
employed at the work.
A mail train on the Valley Branch of the
Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad, ran into rock
near Woodstock, Virginia. on Wednesday,
and John Mckenzie, of Washington county,
an express messenger, had an arm so badly
injured it had to be amputated.
There will be meeting of the farmers of
Baltimore, Howard, Hartford and Carroll
counties in Baltimore on the 22d instant. for
the purpose of organizing society to be
known as "The Agricultural Convention of
Central Maryland" as suggested by the Balti-
more County Society.
The trial of Frank Debilius and Lowry
Albert for manslaughter, in connection with
the Tivoli disaster, near Baltimore, last sum-
mer, was commenced at Towsontown on Tues
day. On Wednesday the state abandoned the
case against Albert, but continued against
Debilius.
Mrs. Catharine p Pattison, mother of Gov.
Pattison. of Pennsylvania died on Tuesday
at her son-in-l laws residence in Alexandria,
Virginia, at the age of SO years. She was the
granddaughter of Colonel Thomas Woolford,
who commanded the Maryland Line during the
Revolution.
Col. John NJ Hood, president and general
manager of the Western Maryland Railroad,
was at Annapolis on Wednesday, and filed with
the secretary of State a certificate ofincorpora-
ton of the Hagerstown and State Line Rail
road. The road is only to be about five miles
long, and is to connect the Western Maryland
with other roads in Pennsylvania.
A freight car and caboose broke loose from
a train at Edgemont on the Western Mary
land railroad on Tuesday evening, and ran
back down grade through Cavetown and
Smithsburg and into Il freight train following
after. No one was killed but the engine OF
the freight train was damaged and the car and
caboose were wrecked.
The barn on the farm of j. Il. Wootten, at
Mount Zion, in the first district of Anne Arun-
del county, about Il mile from Owensville,
West river, was entirely consumed by fire on
Monday. 1t is supposed to have been caused
al, e hAYy bn
had built a fire in the barn to keep himself
warm while he wasat work stripping tobacco.
writer in the Leonardtown, St. Mary's
county, Beacon charges that the judges OF the
orphans court of that county meet oftener
than public interest requires, thus increasing
their salaries at the expense of taxpayers. 1t
is estimated that the tax in that county this
year will be about SIPS on the 500. st.
Mary's county is under Republican rule.
Colonel McCarty, of Hagerstown, has in
vented a new spherical shell which, to all
would prove terribly destructive
to life in an engagement. tits so constructed
as 10 he used either as percussion or u fuse
she'll and to break into hundreds of pieces
when exploded carrying death aad destruc-
ton to all who come within reach of the many
missiles with which it is charged The in
yention has been patented in several foreign
countries.
Sol Turner, rolored, emplnyGd by n. s.
Stayton, of Caroline county, was started with
q horse and wagon the other day to drive over
into Queen Anne's county with the intorma-
ton that his employer was Ill. Sol was not
heard of for three days, and when discovered.
MANY miles from both his starting point and
his destination. he and his horse were com
pletely worn out with fatigue and lack of
food He had become dazed from some rea-
son and driven aimlessly about the country.
An absent minded Talbot county farmer
drove into Easton on Sunday last with wagon
of marketing. Finding the market-house
closed, he hitched his horse and went to the
house of brother living in town. There he
found that his brother had gone to church,
and on inquiring whether there was funeral
in progress, he was surprised 10 learn that his
brother was attending the regular SERVICE aud
that the day was Sunday. He hastily excus-
ed himself from an invitation to come in, say
ing he must hurry nome and tell his wife
what day it was, as he had left her ironing.
A coasting accident occurred near West
Point school, about two and halfmiles from
Reisterstown last Monday morning. Some of
the children went down a steep hill Ola q sled
and ran into fence. BERTHE Ghler, daughter
Of David Uhler, aged about sixteen years,
was seriously injured in the hip Katie Smith,
aged about twelve years, daughter Of JOHN
Smith, had her leg broken between the knee
and ankle, and Eddie, her brother, aged about
ten years, had his log broken between the
knee and thigh. Marian Uhler, younger
brother of the young lady named above, was
seriously cut about the face,
William Fisher, of Frederick, discovered
fire in the cellar of his nextdoor neighbor's
house, on Sunday night, and quenched it with
bucket of water. While he was thus engag
ed burglar entered his house, sought in vain
for nlppder, and came out with Fisher pistol
As the mao crossed the yard Mrs. Fisher saw
him and gave the alarm, EhaH the miscreant
turned and shot at her, the ball grazing hep
hand. In the darkness he escaped. Several
times within two years like attempts have
been made at Fishers house, notwithstanding
the fact that he has nothing but his earnings,
and the inmates are in constant dread.
The professors of the Maryland University
Hospital, Baltimore. performed an interesting
operation, and one Of rare occurrence, on
Wednesday. The patient was colored boy
from Virginia, whose organs of hearing were
In, th1,