The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-19
Maryland Affairs.

Baltimore's tax rate is SLIGO on the 500.
Solomon S. Shealey, of Towsontown, com
mitted suicide on Saturday last.
Mayor Latrobe has vetoed the ordinance
abolishing the school book fees IN Baltimore.
The number of prisoners in Upper Mari
boro' Jail is greater than for the past three or
four years.
There were l2S deaths in Baltimore last
week, 80 less than for the corresponding
week of last year.
Bishop Lay laid the cornerstone of new
Protestant Episcopal church on Monday at
Cambridge.
WI. Hooper, of Baltimore, has purchased
the mountain Island Cotton Mills at Castor,
| N. c., for SIPS, 1000.
Since the first of April $199, 1.sS have
been invested in mortgages on real estate in
Frederick county.
The Western Maryland railroad proposes to
establish its tidewater terminus at between
Ferry Bar and Fort McHenry.
By spark from pipe the barn and 20
hogsheads of tobacco of Levin Somerville, of
Calvert county, were burned on Saturday.
Mrs. Hertlein, an aged lady, residing at
st. Joseph's, on the Belair road, near Balti-
more, was burned to death on Monday night.
Governor McLane has appointed Benjamin
F. Ulman, a well-know Hebrew citizen of
Baltimore, an aid on his staff, with the rank
of Colonel.
John Wicklein, of Baltimore, committed
suicide by hanging himself to the railroad
bridge over Back river, in Baltimore county,
on Monday.
Port Deposit has purchased steam fire
engine. 1t was on trial for five months and
during that time it was the means of extin-
gushing two fires.
James r. Horner was nominated by the
Mayor, and confirmed by the Council, as
Comptroller of Baltimore, to succeed Joshua
Vansant, deceased.
Much damage was done to timber on the
line of the Maryland Central railroad last
week, caused by sparks from engines setting
fire TO the dry leaves.
The Supreme Bench has laid rule upon
VIM. P. Hopes, of the Baltimore bar, to
show cause why his name should not be
stricken from the roll of attorneys.
Alex. L. Spear, of Baltimore has been ap-
pointed grand treasurer of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of Hon. Joshua Van
SAINT.
James Daugherty, blacksmith at Battle
Swamp, Cecil county, was found dead in bed
on Sunday morning. The coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict of death from unknown
causes.
Owing to the emigration of the colored
people from the lower Western Shore coun-
ties the farmers of that section will grow little
tobacco this year. Most of the laborers have
left to work on the railroads in the North and
and West.
L. -, 10 mill af NJ
J. H. Cannon in Talbot county exploded
Wednesday about noon, killing Carl Enger-
man, the engineer. His head was blown off.
The fireman was badly scalded.
A house on the farm of Col. f. l.. Griffith,
in Calvert county, was burned with its con-
tents on Sunday. The family made narrow
escape. Mr.. Hardesty, who occupied it lost
everything, including 500 pounds of bacon.
A corporation election was held in Mechan-
icstown on Monday at which time the follow
ing were chosen: President of Board, A.
Slick; commissioners T. c. Stocksdale. DIR.
VIM. White, James c. Mackley, John III.
Rouzer.
Walter Edwards, who withdrew from the
board of county commissioners of Allegany
county ON Monday, has publicly said that he
has been offered bride to vote for the APP
pointment of certain persons to Office. The
grand jury is investigating it.
Sam. HILL colored, was arrested in Wash
ington, d. c., on Tuesday, charged with
shooting Henry Green on February %, at
Ellicott City. Green's face was seriously
wounded by the ball from Hill S pistol. which
the latter had fred into crowd of young
men.
On Tuesday night Charles Shenton, resid-
ing near Cambridge, had difficulty with his
family and attempted to shoot his eldest son,
aged about 20; the boy ran away and shortly
after the cries of his mother attracted his at
tention and he returned to her rescue. He
found his father beating her when he seized
club and mashed the skull of his father, kill
ing him instantly.
Frank Johns and Jack Denmar, both col
ored, were arrested near Libertytown, Fred
erick county, on Monday. for stealing money
&C., from DIR. Stone, of Mt Pleasant. Both
were lodged in Frederick Jail, together with
the wife of Johns, who is a white woman. A
rumor prevailed that they had destroyed some
valuable papers, but it is not so, as they
were found in drawer in field near by.
On Tuesday afternoon VIM F. Harig as
saulted councilman John F. Weyler, on Bal
timore street, Baltimore, by knocking him
down and beating and kicking him severely.
The assault was made at first with pistol.
Harig and his pistol are becoming too com
mon, as he has frequently used it, not only as
a club but as a means of enforcing his griev
ances. In October he shot two men. Forty
years in the penitentiary or the stretching of
hemp would cure his propensity for such
conduct.
An old woman named Celia Murphy, nee
Bush, living alone on farm near Williams
burg, Dorchester county, was brutally muir
dered on Monday of last week, her body
dragged some distance from the road to Il pine
thicket, where it remained till Thursday, the
day it was discovered, with the old lady's
throat cut from ear to ear, and her skull
smashed with a club. The murder shows that
the object of the assassin was to rob the house
of the old woman's money. Some years ago
she married wandering school teacher NAM
ed Cornelius Murphy. Soon afterwards
Murphy left her; she procured divorce and
again took her maiden name Bush 1t is
believed that she was murdered by her divorced
husband Her farm contained $50 acres
she did all the work on it herself; sold her
own crops and it is supposed that she had
accumulated considerable money, as her wants
were but few. Fred. Cephas and McGlotten,
colored, has been held for the grand jury,
charged with killing her.
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