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

A young woman shooting at rats with q
pistol, in Cumberland, on Thursday killed a
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. %. The city debt is $548,
600.
At Towsontown on Tuesday the jury in the
case of Mrs. Mary Jane Hundertmark for the
murder of Charles III. Ensor brought in a 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 it. No one
hurt.
The Legislature will be asked to appropriate
$4,000 annually to the state Militia. Al
present only $4,000 are appropriated.
military board of Baltimore have the mat
ter in charge.
Two hundred Italian laborers working Al
81 per day on the Baltimore and Philadelphia
road, near Principle Furnace, Cecil county
struck on Saturday last for an advance o.
twenty five cents per day in wages.
The Annapolis postoffice was entered Sat
urday night and robbed of $1,000 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, a well-known farmer O
Hartford county, aged IS years, was founo
hanging in an outbuilding near his house
Wednesday afternoon with chain. He has
been in a melancholy state of mind tarthe
past two years.
Since January the Baltimore I'D Ohio
Railroad Company has stored COZ, 500 tons Of
ice, all cut fropa-1Ia&e Youghiogeny, between
Mountain Lake Park and Deer Park. Be-
tween 16O and 200 men have been constantly
employed at the work.
A mail train on the Valley Branch of the
Baltimore & 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
Deblius.
Mrs. Catharine P. Pattison, mother of Gov.
Pattison. of Pennsylvania, died on Tuesday
at her son-in-law's 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 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 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, al
Mount Zion, in the first district of Anne Arun,
del county, about mile from Owensville,
West river, was entirely consumed by fire on
Monday 1t is supposed to have been caused
through the carelessness ola colored boy, who
had built fire in the barn to keep himself
warm while he was at work stripping tobacco.
A writer in the Leonardtown, St. Mary's
county, Beacon charges that the judges of the
orphans court Of that county meet 'ofteneI
than public interest requires, thus increasing
their salaries at the expense of taxpayers. II
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
appearances, would prove terribly destructive
to life in an engagement. tits so constructed
as 10 he used either Us percussion or fuse
shell, and to break into hundreds of pieces
when exploded, carrying death aad destrnc
ton to all who come within reach of the many
missiles with which it is charged. The in
yentiOp has been patented in several foreign
countries.
Sol Turner, eolored, employed by n. s
Stayton of Caroline county, was started with
horse and wagon the other day to drive oyel
into Queen Anne's county with the informa
ton that his employer was i'll. Sol was MOI
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 o
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 a Wagon
of marketing. Finding the market-houst
closed, he hitched his horse and went to the
house of brother living in town. There HI
found that his brother had gone to church
and on inquiriag whether there was a funera
in progress, he was surprised TO learn that hi
brother was attending the regular SERVICE ans
that the day was Sunday. He hastily exeus
ed himself from an invitation to come in, say
ing he must hurry home and tell his wifi
what day it was, as he had left her irensBg.
A coasting accident occurred near Yves
Point school, about two and halfmiles from
Reisterstowp last Monday morning. Some o
the children went down a steep hill On q Slet
and ran into fence BERTHE Uhler, daughte
OF David Uhler. aged about sixteen years
was seriously injured in the hip Katie Smith
| aged about twelve years, daughter IF Jah
Smith, had her leg broken between the knee
and ankle, and Eddie, her brother, aged abou
ten years, had his leg broken between tn,
/ knee and thigh. Marian Uhier, yoqnge
| brother of the young lady named above, wa
seriously cut about the face,
William Fisher, of Frederick, discovered
fire in the cellar of his nextdoor neighbor'
house, on Sunday night, and quenched it witt
bucket of water. While he was thus engag
ed burglar entered his house, sought in val
| for llapder, and came out with Fisher pistol
! As the n,aa crossed the yard Mrs. Fisher saw
him and gave the alarm, when the miscrean
turned and shot at her, the ball grazing he
hand In the darkness he escaped. Severa
times within two years like attempts hav,
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 Universit
Hospital, Baltimore, performed an interesting
operation, and one of rare occurrence, OF
Wednesday. The patient was a colored bo
from Virginia, whose organs of hearing wer
of extraordinary size externally In othe