The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-10
Maryland Affairs.

| Eighteen new school houses have been or
dered to be built in Washington county.
Forest fires prevailed in Cecil county last
| week. a barn and considerable amount Oval
liable timber was destroyed.
The colored people of Talbot are greatly
excited over the recent killing of jackson,
| colored man, by Joseph l.. Kirby.
The General Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States met in Baltimore on Monday.
The oyster and fruit packing house of j. 5.
Farrar & Co., at Baltimore, was damaged by
fire last Friday to the extent of $50, 900.
Prof. Tonry will make an analysis of weis
beer for the Dorchester County Court to settle
the question of its intoxicating properties.
The second annual commencement of the
Women's Medical College of Baltimore took
place last Friday The degree of Doctor of
Medicine was conferred on five graduates
Seth S. Hance, a prominent citizen of Bal
timore, member of the Society Of Friends,
and for many years dealer in proprietary
medicines died last Friday at the age OF 81.
Commencement at McDonogh School will
take place May 81, at which time Hon. j.;
Randolph Tucker, the gifted Virginian, will
deliver an address.
DR.. VIM. H. WEIGH, of Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, N. Y, has been appointed
to the chair of pathology in the Johns Hop
kins Medical School,
At meeting of the trustees of st. Mary S
Female Seminary, held at the institution on
Thursday, Miss Lizzie Thomas was reelected
principal for the next year.
1t is estimated that fully 5000 sheep were
killed in Maryland by dogs during the year
1888. Still the farmer submits gracefully to
his fate and complainant not.
Nine of the magistrates appointed by Gov.
McLane for Frederick county have failed to
qualify, the time for the performance of that
duty having expired on Monday.
More shad and herring have been taken
from the Choptank river this spring than for
number of seasons past, the result, no
doubt, of the work of our fish commission
ers.
The seine haulers in the Susquehanna and
at the head of the Chesapeake bay are taking
all the small herring they can handle, and are
glad to find market for them at rs to 30
cents per hundred.
The grand jury of Anne Arundel county
was discharged on Monday. They found los
true bills, including rs for violation of the Ii
uuor prohibition law; 10 for larceny; for
gambling; one for assault with intent to kill.
Drs. T. Sellers Waters, Charles E. Duck,
Richard Grady and E. P. Keech, have been
appointed examiners to secure the better ed
ucation of practitioners of dental surgery, and
to regulate the practice Of dentistry in the
State.
The subscription to the capital stock for
the enlargement of the steel works at Cum
berand is nearly complete, and there is no
longer any doubt that the company will soon
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commenced.
Prof. Atlee, the famous Philadelphia sur
geon, last week removed a tumor weighing
eighty pounds from Mrs. h. r. Buckley, of
townsville district, Frederick county. At last
accounts Mrs Buckley was out of.danger and
in fair way to complete recovery.
The steamer B. S, Ford was burned at her
wharf at Chestertown, at l o'clock Sunday
morning. She was built seven years ago at a
cost of S75, 200, and had been recently repair
ed at a cost of 5000. Her crew were Sleep
ing on board of her ut the time, and narrowly
escaped with their lives.
Rev. j. Spangler Kieffer, pastor of the
First Reformed Church at Hagerstown, has
accepted the position as one of the associated
editors of the Messenger, the organ of the
Reformed Church, published in Philadelphia.
He will represent the Synod of the Potomac,
but will not be required to leave his congre-
CATION.
JOS. Kirby, Talbot county farmer, was
attacked on Tuesday with u revolver and
club by George jackson, IA colored man liv.
ing with him. Jackson fired at Kirby, and
Kirby returned the fire. Kirby aud jackson
then got into close quarters, Kirby seizing
Jackson's club and killing him with blow on
the head.
VIM. w. Massey, paying teller of the Bank
/ of Commerce, Baltimore, has confessed HIM
self defaulter in sum of oyer SIC, 900, and
was on Wednesday arrested and sent to Jail to
await trial. He began speculation with the
bank money to cover up small deficiency,
and losing heavily, went deeper into the
mife.
Emmitsburg' nev water works will be COM
pleted shortly. The reservoir or lake is two
miles from the village, and has capacity of
nearly million gallons. Its elevation is 224
feet higher than the town, so that the upper
stories of houses may be supplied by natural
| flow, while with hose at hand there will be
abundant security against fire.
Mrs Celia Murphy Bush was recently MUIR
dered in Dorchester county, money being the
object Frederick Csphas, ooloreI, was sqs.
pected of the crime. He was arrested and
| indicted for the offense, and his trial began
on Monday at Cambridge. The evidence was
all circumstantial. but convincing, and on
| Wednesday morning the jury rendered ver-
diet OH murder in the first degree.
| The harm, stables and outbuildings on the
farm of Mr.. Ben. Wilkins, in Kent county,
were totally destroyed by fire on Thursday,
The loss will be about $1,000, covered by in
surance. The cause of the fire is unknown.
This is the Riverside farm of the late Col. Ed
ward Wilkins, and is situated on Chester river,
about six miles below Chestertown. Mr..
! Wilkins saved his stock, though the other
contents of the buildings were destroyed.
The Kalmia -four mills, on the little Gun
powder river, near Eallstoq, Hartford county,
belonging to Henry Reekord 4 Sons, vas de-
sEroyed by fire early Thursday morning with
all the ioitegts, consisting of $50 bushels OF
wheat, 1900 bushels Of corn and q large guam
tity of flour, enrnmeal and feed. The loss
will reach nearly $4,000; insurance 81, 0O0in
the Hartford Mutual, and about the same
amount in Il Baltimore city company. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
At Emmittsburg on Monday the following
! were elected corporation officers for the en-
suing year: Burgess, John G, Hess commits
soners, RobertH II. Gelwioks, Francis W, LgG-
singer, George W. Rowe, Dietrich Ieck,
Joseph Snouffer and Francis A. Maxell.
This ticket was representative of the views of
thase favoring the introduction of water in
the town by means of conduits from reser-
voir, and the question, therefore, which was
made princfpa issue of the contest, yas
favored by majority of the votes cast.
A letter tlp4 Graptsville, Garrett county,
says that the manufacture Of maple sugar in
that that county is developing very rapidly: Sugar
trees Rre abundant through the country and
there are thoqsapGs Of trees that have never
been tapped. Each farmer has bis .'sugarr
CAMP, and ip the season So from 4. The e.aG first 81
busy boiling sugar ard syrup, aaeb producing
from 1000 to 1000 pounds. The frees upon
an average will produce from three to four
pounds each year, The sugar. is put into bar
rels and hauled to the nearest railroad station,
where it ut this time is bringing 81 cents per
pound wholesale.
VIM. Reynolds, machinist at Cecil paper
I mills recently got into AN ugly predicament