The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-20
Maryland Affairs.


Maryland Affairs.
Mrs. Ann Miller Duvall died in Annapolis
recently, aged 81 years, 8 months and l day.
John T. Ridgeley, indicted for stealing har-
ness, has been declared kleptomaniac by a
jury in Howard county.
A lot of fifty bushels of white corn, the first
of the new crop, was sold on the Baltimore
Corn and Flour Exchange on Thursday at 81
cents bushel. The corn was shipped by S.
5. Andrews, of East Newmarket, Dorchester
county.
The dockets for the October term of the
Marland Court of Appeals, which begins on
the first Monday in October, contains &C cases,
53 of which are placed on the general and l3
on the special docket Cases that come in la
ter will be put on a supplemental docket.
The Alabama claims commission have paid
to Messrs. Martin l.. and d. A. Banded, who
are members of the firm of j. NJ Banded &
Sons, of Baltimore, $4,000 for the bark
Empress Theresa, which was destroyed in 1864
by the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee off
Wilmington, N. c.
Il. de Merolla, the Italian Consul at Balti-
more, left that city about two weeks ago and
has not been heard of since 1t is said he is
indebted for about $4,000 of borrowed mon
ey. On Tuesday the Sheriff seized all the
stock in the wholesale house of E. de Merolla
Il Co., on South Gay street.
Seventy four shares of stock of the First
National Bank of Hagerstown sold at public
sale at $500, par value $40; Washington
County Bank of Williamspolt at SLIGO per
share, par value SIS. Four $500 Washington
county bonds, due in 1898, sold at a premium
of S12 on the 500.
On Monday night thieves stole from Mr.
John j. Husey, residing three miles from
Hagerstown, bay mare valued at SITS, -and
also from Mr.. Samuel Zeller, living six miles
from that place, black horse valued at $500.
They then proceeded to Kemp's mills, near
Williamsport, where they stole buggy, hitch
ed the horses thereto and drove rapidly away,
thus far making their escape.
The Burnside Park herd of Jerseys of Mrs
S. NJ. Shoemaker, of Baltimore county, made
a clean sweep of the prizes at the Pennsylya-
MIA State fair on Tuesday, when the awards
were declared. They received a special prize
for excellence of breeding, for the bull Black
Prince of Linden, for the best herd, the best
and second best cows of any age, and for the
best heifer. Competition was very strong,
but the judges were practically unanimous in
their awards.
r. P. Long, of Middletown, Penna., who
acts as Secretary of the Maryland Guarantee
Life Association, of Baltimore was arrested
on Tuesday in the latter city, on the charge
of using the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Long visited Baltimore twice month to OBJ
tain letters, and the Office was never open
directed to "H. L. McAvoy, Post office Box
- which | antbnriza1 tn
He was held by the U. S. Commissioner for
hearing next month.
Albert Bell, aged about 90 years, living in
Calverton, on Lanvae steet extended, Balti-
more, committed suicide Tuesday evening by
hanging himself. He had been i'll for some
time, and this together with money troubles,
is assigned as the cause for the suicide. On
Tuesday evening he called his wife to his bed
side, and kissing her sent her to her niece's,
telling her to stay there at least an hour. Mrs.
Bell being worried by his conduct, returned
in half an hour. She found the house locked.
At her request neighbor, VIM. b. Hopkins,
climbed in the back window, and going up
stairs found Bell hanging from the bar of the
transom.
For the first time in the history of the world
massive railroad piers and abutments are be-
ing made of artificial stone. The work is 60
ing on at Little and Big Gunpowder Falls,
on the Philadelphia Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. There are to be about
10000 yards of artificial masonry, 1000 of
which will be at the Big Gunpowder and 5000
at the Little Falls. At the latter there will
be "a piers and abutments, and at the for
mer 6 huge piers, each of which will be 10
feet thick, 10 feet high and 30 feet wide, with
spans of % feet between the arches. The
work is being done by the Hopes Artificial
Stone, Cement and Paint Company of Balti-
more city.
The wheat market was demoralized on Sat
urday at the Baltimore Corn and Flour Elk.
change, and No. red winter Western on the
spot closed at S2i to SD, with one cent higher
for October delivery. These are the lowest
figures perhaps within the memory of the pres
ent generation. Lack of confidence is as
signed as the cause for these drops in the
wheat market, and there is no more activity
at the figures now than when the article was
ten cents higher. Everybody admits that
wheat is low enough, and most people say it
is too low. But these opinions do not help
matters, and it -appears to make no difference
what the price may go to. Every break only
makes the buyers here and in Europe go in to
push wheat further down. The corn market
is stagnant, because dealers at this early date
are uncertain as to the crop yield.
james Lee, alias ''Joe'' Hartman, alias j.
L. Coleman, alias Herman Goethe, was ar
rested in Baltimore on Wednesday ON the
charge of having swindled eight persons by
presenting bills of lading for goods which he
stated had arrived from Europe for them.
He represented himself as Custom House
officer. and in each case the pretended duties
were 1898, and in several instances when $50
bills were entrusted to him to procure change
he kept the whole of it, In several instances,
when he made victims, he sat at the organ
and played Nearer, my God, to Thee,
while the ladies left the parlor to procure the
money for him. He was committed for trial
in six cases, and two are yet to be examined.
He is from New York, and has served u term
in Sing Sing.