The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-27
Maryland Affairs.


| The hog cholera is doing sad havoc among
the hogs in Frederick county as well as in
Montgomery.
State Senator Richard H. Magruder, Of
Prince Georg's county, died las Monday. He
was Republican. re,t.
In the Frederick circuit court on Saturday
Susan Shields was awarded 81, 900 in suit
for breach of promise against Daniel Kruge,
ST..
Owing to the lowness of the water in the
Susquehanna river traffic has been suspended
on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company's tidewater canal.
De Merolla, the late Italian Consul at Bal
timore, is said to have victimized several per-
sons prominent in diplomatic circles at Wash
ington, the aggregate of his unpaid debts in
the latter city being estimated as high as SIS,
600.
John Vogel was convicted on Tuesday in
Baltimore, of selling oleomargarine for butter,
without having it conspicuously labelled as
required by law. His counsel moved a new
trial. The penalty for the offence is fine of
500.
A barn located near Middletown, in Fred
erick county, owned by Thomas Derr, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday. Its contents
consisted of quantity of wheat, corn, &c.
The fire originated from sparks from a trac-
ton engine.
Great complaint is made by the oyster;
planters of the Patuxent river over the havoc
now being wrought among the young oysters
by drum fish. These fish are very fond of
oysters, and nature has provided them with
the means of crushing the lighter shells and
RECALLING themselves at will. Large schools
of them have invaded the waters of the Pa
f,,xr nd Vie ha.p
at rate which threatens disaster the planted
beds. The planters are making war on the
marauders to the best of their ability, and
large numbers are taken daily. In fact, drum
fishing was never better in the Patuxent than
now. . ........l-'
The Hagerstown correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun of September oath says: In Ha-
gerstQwn there is almost water famine, the
water-works supplying but little, while numer-
Gus wells, cisterns and springs have given out.
Building operations-there being large num-
Der of houses in course of construction-are
greatly retarded, it being necessary to haul
water from streams at great distance.
Probably the most serious local inconveni
ence is experienced by the Cumberland Val.
ley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads, the
water supplies of which have been cut off by
the failure of the water-works, compelling
the running of engines to Greencastle, Pa,
Shepherdstown and Falling Waters, W. Va,
to get sufficient water for locomotion.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
and the Great Falls Manufacturing Company
have begun suit in the U. s. Court of Claims
against the United States, for damages aggre-
eating in both cases nearly 81, 100000. The
action is brought on account of prospective
damages to be caused by the proposed extern
sion of the Washington Aqueduct, provided
for by the Act of Congress of July 18th, 1882,
work upon which has already begun. In the
case of the Canal Company, 5000, 200 are
claimed as damages for the appropriation to
the Government of certain lands belonging to
the Company and for damages to its rights in
the waters of the Potomac river, while in that
of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company,
although no sum is mentioned as damages,
an offer is made to compromise for $3.50, 900.
This latter suit is brought by Benjamin F.
Butler, on behalf of the stockholders.