The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
Maryland Affairs.

Bishop Lay, of the Diocese of Easton, who
is still in i'll health, was removed last Friday
to Massanetta Springs, near Harrisonburg, Va
John p Derrickson, living near Church.
vile, Hartford county, raised an average OF a
bushels of oats to the acre. The oats stood
six feet high in the field.
Jas. S. Anderson, a repair hand on the
| Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, was run
over last Friday morning by south bound
| express train three miles from Odenton, and
instantly killed.
| Owing to the numerous petty thefts in Elk
ton of late the town commissioners are post
ing warnings to tramps to keep out OF the
town limits, under penalty of being sent to the
House of Correction under the tramp law.
Samuel II. Miller, living near Elkton, Cecil
county, threshed 726 bushels of oats, heaped
measurement, from seven acres-an average
of nearly 104 bushels per acre. A bushel,
stroked measurement, weighed 364 pounds.
The Democrats of Baltimore county will
hold primaries on September and 5, and a
convention on the Sth, to send delegates to
the State convention. The county nomlna'
ting convention will be held September IA.
John NJ. Thackery has just harvested l, 100
bushels of oats from field of fourteen acres
on his farm near Elkton, Cecil county. The
oats are of very good quality, and the average,
1922 bushels to the acre, is unusually large.
Fanny Wagner, domestic, in Baltimore,
committed suicide last Sunday. She went to
bed in the morning, after closing the doors
and windows tightly and unscrewing the tips
from the gas burners. She was found dead
in the afternoon.
Lemuel Mark, one of the oldest engineers
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, died in
Baltimore last week, aged Y years. He en-
tered the service of the Company when Il
years old, and for number of years lived II
Frederick.
Captain John S. Oliver, an old sea captain,
died very suddenly of apoplexy at his home,
Baltimore, Tuesday morning He had just
returned from visit to the Eastern Shore
and had not been in the house an hour. dc
started up the stairs, but fell back and died
almost instantly.
The barn of James H. Barrow, near the
Hickory Hartford county, was struck by light
ming on Thursday of last week, set on fire
and destroyed with all its contents. consisting
of about SIX hundred bushels of wheat and
oats and large quantity of hay and farming 11
implements. The loss is over $4,000. The
property was insured in the Farmers Mutual
Company of York, Pa, for 81 900.
The Democratic convention of the first
judicial circuit met at Ocean City last week
to nominate candidate for associate judge,
and after ballotting 1874 times without result,
adjourned to meet in Cambridge on Septem-
Der =. The ballots from first to last stood
eight votes for Holland who is judge by APP
pointment to fill the vacancy caused by Judge
Wilson's resignation, and eight for Purnell.
Samuel Wyant, of Leitersburg district,
Washington county, met with very serious
accident on Monday. While he was at work
in a steam sawmil near the Union school
house a board struck him, breaking one OF his
legs between the knee and ankle, and throw
ing him upon the saw, which severed his foot
from the limb. He also received other in
iuries, and now lies in a critical condition.
Mrs. Barbara Kuhn died very suddenly
Tuesday evening in Baltimore. She had spent
the afternoon at Ferry Bar with friend named
VIM. Weglein. They started for home, and
after proceeding as far as the foot of Marshall
avenue Weglein left her. He had gone but
a short distance when he heard her exclaim
she was dying. He hurried back, and as he
caught her in his arms she died. Death was
caused by heart disease.
A large fire occurred on the farm of Mr..
Galloway Cheston, in the first district OF
Anne Arundel county, last Friday, night, and
caused the total destruction of the stable, car
riage- house, granary, tobacco barn and cattle
shed, with contents, consisting OF about 615
bushels of corn, together. with oats, hay, to-
bacco farming implements, NC The prop
erty was partly insured in the Montgomery
County Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
The loss is quite heavy. The origin or the
fire is unknown.
Mr.. Samuel Deuston, of Somerset county,
L ,Fl; ota 81 cnH n
bereavements His family consisted of him.
self. wife and five children. One son died on
a Thursday, very suddenly, having been ser.
iously sick only a few hours. daughter died
on the third day following, and the death OF
a second daughter is impending. The father
and mother and all the other children arc
sick, except one son, who, though complain
ing, is not confined to his bed The malady
is pronounced bilious fever.
Mrs Ruth B. Mettam celebrated her eighty
first birthday Sunday, August l6, at Pixies
Vile, Baltimore county, surrounded by her
children and grandchildren. Her husband
the Rev. Joseph Mettam, pastor of Pikesville
Baptist Church. celebrated his eightieth ami
versary March u. They are both well pre-
served, and bid fair to remain together for some
years yet, and if spared until November
| they will have been married GO years. Rev
| Joseph Mettam is the only surviving membe
of the Maryland Baptist Union Association
which was organized in 1886, and he look
forward to meeting with them in October a
the Seventh Baptist CHURCH, BALTIMORE.
For the past ten years John Shrek anc
Anna NJ Shreck, his wife, an aged German
couple. have lived and carried on a small
truck farm on the Belar road, near PERI
Hall, Baltimore county. Mr.. Shrek ha'
come to this country from Germany over lift
years ago, and for many years worked TO
Hayward 4 Bartlett. Last week Mr.. Shrecl
took to his bed, and his wife soon realize
that he was going to die. From the momen
she became assured of this fact her own vital
ity seemed to forsake her, and whilst her hus
band was lying dead in the house last Frida
she gave evidences ofapproaching dissolution
and followed him ip Just a hours. He va
in the 18th and she in the 18th year of he
age. They were buried on Sunday side b
side in the cemetery of st. Joseph's Church
The Emmttsburg Chronicle says :-Th
residence of the venerable Mrs. Rebecc
Welty, in this village, has been the scene Of
delightful home gathering this week. dc
daughter, Sister Josephine, of the Sisters {
Charity, after an absence of twenty five years
recently returned from st. Louis, to the HON
House, st. Joseph's, near this place, and he
mother, Mrs. WGlty, desiring reunion OF hi
children, summoned her sons, DIR. Georg
W., of Brooklyn, n. Y; Frederick A.,
Richmond. Va, and Joseph A., OF Baltimore
to meet their sister at the parental home, wit
their other sisters Miss Annie Welty and Mr.
S. R, Grinder; and they have nlet t?Eeth'
in renewals of affeetiopate love to their age
mother, and one another. The occasion hi
been one of interest to many warm friends
the parties.
Mr.. G. S. Griffith, president of the Mar
land Sunday School Union, has returned fro
, a trip through the lower Eastern Shore cou
! ties, where he took occasion to look aft
Sunday school matters. He says he sa
many evidences of progress both in the tow
and rural places, and was gratified to iii
numbers of testimonies to the faithfulness al
; efficiency of the 4Hion missionaries. He e
: presses himself az particularly pleased wi
the advanced condition OF Sunday spho
work in the towns of Salisbury, Princess Ann
Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke City. /
=. says the people of Worcester are much |
terested in the county Sunday school conve
n ton, which is to be held there in October u
: der the auspices of the Maryland Sund
= School Union.
The new barn, containing about four to
; of hay and about $50 bushels of wheat, !
: longing to Francis Humphrey, on the Hoah
{ town pike, about q miles from Reisterstow
u was totally destroyed by fire Monday mornin
e All the cattle were saved. The loss is S: