The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-01-05
Maryland Affairs.

The Baltimore city police made "a, 1855 ar
rests last year.
The Circuit Court for Montgomery County
will convene on the 9Th of January.
Daniel T. Lakin has been elected exami-
ner of the public schools of Frederick county.
The government has secured six acres of
ground near Baltimore at cost of $4,000
for site for new marine hospital.
According to the Easton Star 500 demijohns,
jugs and bottles of whiskey have gone from
Baltimore to contribute to holiday festivities
in Talbot county.
Permits for the erection of 1892 buildings
were granted by the Appeal Tax Court Of
Baltimore in 1888, against $50 in 1882.
Three prisoners escaped from the Somerset
county Jail last Friday. Two were white men
from Philadelphia, and the other was colored
man from Baltimore.
Judge Jones, of Howard county, has reap
pointed the old board ofschool commissioners,
as follows ExGov. John Lee Carroll, DIR. J.
T. Williams, John W. Dorsey.
Three men were buried under an embank-
ment at Principle Furnace, in Cecil county,
on Saturday morning, and one of them was
killed, the others being severely injured.
Ex-Judge Black, of Mechanicstown, has
been appointed member of the board ofpub-
llC SCuUOl vi rFeuerlCh Guilty.
in place of Col. ]. R. Rouzer, Republican,
who has declined to serve.
Henry j. Goldenburg, of Frederick, has
failed for about $40, 900. He offered settle
ment of about rs cents on the dollar, but his
creditors declined a settlement The credi-
tors belong to New York and Philadelphia,
with one or two in Baltimore.
On Sunday evening carriage shed con-
nected with the livery establishment of Messrs.
Cost & Rouzer, Frederick, was crushed in by
the snow on the roof. Twenty carriages and
buggies in the building were crushed beneath,
entailing loss of from $500 to $1,000.
Oh Saturday, at Boyd station, Montgomery
county, on the Metropolitan branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Charles Thomp-
son shot his cousin, Buck Thompson, and then
man was wounded in the neck, but his father
was shot in the breast, and it is feared that the
latter's injury may prove fatal.
Classification of tonnage received at Balti-
more during the year 1888, over the Western
Maryland railroad, was as follows: Lumber,
2,29S tons lime, 179; wood, SOB; coal, btu
minous,) 1884; grain, GO, 429; ores, 1863;
live stock, II, 804; fertilizers, 85; miscellaneous
40, 444, and flour, 92,302 bbls. $3.50 bales
cotton are included in miscellaneous freight.
The new board of county school commits
sioners for Baltimore County, appointed on
Monday, are as follows: John P. Clark,
Samuel NJ. Rankin, Oregon r. Benson. Chas.
J. r. Thorpe, and Jacob Shamberger. The
| first three are Democrats and the others Re-
publicans. This is the first time for a num-
Der of years that the Republican party has
had a minority representation in the board.
According to the American Grocer, the
| tomato pack for the season of 1888 aggregated
/ s n -, ,nh
| these MARYLAND packed l ,450, 200 cases, or
within fraction of one half of the entire pack !;
New Jersey comes next, with.612, 703 cases !;
Delaware, l56,39l California, $4,000 !;
Ohio, 1l2,O00; Indiana. 10000; Virginia,
$4,000, and Pennsylvania, $4,000. The in
crease in Maryland, compared with 1882, was
525, 1000 cases;
The last rail of the Maryland Central Mar
row. Gauge Railroad was laid on Monday on
the farm of Jonathan Warner, near the Rocks
of Deer Creek, Hartford County. The road
is now completed from Baltimore to Delta,
York county, Pa. where it connects with
the York and Peach Bottom Narrow Gauge
Railroad, and with branch road to Peach
Bottom, on the Susquehanna river. Ajubilee
to celebrate the completion of the Maryland
Central will be held at Delta January Is, at
which time the first through passenger train
| from Baltimore will pass over the road.
George B. Saylor, of York county, Pa.
was arrested in Baltimore on Thursday of
last week, just as he was about taking steamer
for Bremen, Germany. Saylor wanted in Cal
ifornia for highway robbery. Last August one
of the express coaches belonging to Wells,
Fargo Co. was stopped by two highwaymen
several miles beyond Sacramento and robbed.
The robbers, at the point of their revolvers,
compelled the driver to step down from the
/ box. One man stood guard while the other
relieved the passengers of their valuables.
| The principal portion of the booty was fifty
FIVE ounces of gold, valued at one thousand
dollars, that was in the care of the driver.
After getting their plumber, the highwaymen
made the man in charge drive the vehicle
away. Then they escaped.
The deaths in Baltimore during the past
year number {, 1880, to 8 1928 during 1882, an
increase of 457. This is accounted for partly
from the increase in the population and partly
on account of there having been 81 more deaths
from smallpox during 1888 than in 1882 The
total deaths from smallpox in 1882 was SOL,
| while in 1888 it was $685. There were, how
ever about 800 more births during the pres
ent year than last OF those who died this
year, 1899 were children under five years of
| age, which is pa more than last year. The
total deaths from scarlet fever were pa, last
year 179; diptheria sol, last year 707 Group
| 1877, last year DID; typhoid fever 49,, last year
/ 1G5; consumption 1858, last year l,2l7;
pneumonia 563, last year 45S: cholera
/ infantum 473, last year 399. 1t will be seen
that there was decided decrease in the num-
! Der of deaths from scarlet fever, but just as
decided increase in the deaths from diphthe-
ria. There was also considerable increase in
the deaths from pneumonia.