The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-10-11
Maryland Affairs.

Cottman Cox, of Salisbury, died last week,
aged 80 years.
John E. Smith has been commissioned
postmaster at Lochearn, Baltimore county.
The Johns will case from Baltimore county
was argued in the court of appeals this week.
The cranberry crop of Wicomico county is
said to be very large this year, and is now
being gathered.
On last Friday tramp assaulted the wife
of Mr.. Theophilus Barnes, at Scudtown, How
ard county, but she beat him away from the
house.
The cholera seems to be taking off poultry
rs we'll as swine. A farmer near New Lon
don, Frederick county, has lost twenty-four
turkeys.
1t was announced on Wednesday that the
rival gas companies of Baltimore had come
to an arrangement, and that the price OF gas
would be advanced from 81 to SLIGO per 1000
feet.
The last four stones that complete the
Washington Monument at Washington, ID. e.,
the highest structure in the world, were
shipped on Wednesday by the Beaver Dam
Company, of Baltimore county.
Over 900 grand stand tickets have already
been sold for the the Marine Band concert
pyrotechnic DISPLAY and exhibition of tab
ieaux at Oriole Park, Baltimore, on the even
ing of October p under the auspices of the
Order of the Oriole.
J.J. c. Dougherty, formerly clerk in the
Baltimore Post-office money order depart
ment, on Monday pleaded guilty in the
| U. S. District Court to the embezzlement
of So, 1858 He was sentenced to three
years. Imprisonment and to pay fine OF 3d.
1854.
| Salisbury and surrounding country is filled
with smoke from the forest fires raging In sew
eral portions of the county. Acre after acre OF
good timber land is being swept away by the
flames, causing heavy losses to the owners.
The fire that commenced at Eden has extend
ed to and below Princess Anne, and other
| fires are raging near Pocomoke City.
| On Tuesday afternoon a gun burst on board
the United States steamer Standish, at Anna
polls. The cadets, Is in number, had fired
| five shells at a target 700 yards distant. IN
! Chesapeake Bay, when, ON the sixth shot, the
gun burst No one was hurt, the pieces fly
| ing over the heads of the cadets and crew,
but the vessel was considerably damaged.
The gun was muzzle-loading Parrot convert
ed into steel lined breech-loader.
Jonas Houston, colored, for shooting Mar
shall Smith, was found guilty in the Frederick
county court, on Wednesday, and sentenced
to four years and six months Imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The following were also
sentenced to the penitentiary: John Den
mark, larceny, four years; John Dixon, horse
stealing, five years; R. johnson, larceny,
eighteen months; Henry loft, horse stealing,
| five years, and Frank A. Johns, larceny, five
years.
Miss Mary Monahan, aged 1G years, daugh-
ter of John Monahan, of Hartford county, was
struck by the North. bound express train over
the Northern Central Railway at Texas, Bal
timore county, on Tuesday morning, and in
stantly killed She had been on visit to
Mrs. Thomas Kenney, of Texas, and attempt
ed to cross the track in front of the train to
get a bucket of water. She evidently mis-
judged the rate of speed the train was moving
at until it was too late. The back of her
head was badly crushed, and death was in
Simultaneous.