The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-29
Maryland Affairs.

Robert Lambdin. a ship builder, died at
st. Michaels Talbot county, on Tuesday,
aged Sc years.
The Towson Guards tournament last Tues
day was broken up by rain. Eleven knights
had entered.
On the 1st of September midnight coIlec-
ton of letters viii be commenced in Balti-
more. Five additional letter-carriers have
been allotted to Baltimore.
Edward Otis Hinkley of Baltimore, has
been chosen secretary of the American Bar
Association. The annual session was held at
Saratoga, New York, last week.
VIM. H. Knight, of Port Deposit, commit
ed suicide at Castleton, about eight miles
from Port Deposit, on Monday, by shooting
himself through the heart with pistol.
The barn of Thomas Nately, near Port
Deposit, Cecil county, was struck by lightning
on Monday afternoon, set on fire and burned,
together with wheat, oats and hay crop.
Gov. Hoadley, of Ohio, who is the Demo
cratic nominee for reelection, is director
in the Union Passenger Railway company, of
Baltimore, and spent several days in that city
this week.
Charles A. Gambrill, Of Baltimore, died
suddenly at the Continental Hotel, Philadel-
phia, last Sunday. He was the head of the
firm of Charles A. Gambrill & Co., owners of
Druid Cotton Mills, at Woodberry, Baltimore
county.
The surviving members of the Second
Maryland Confederate Infantry propose to
erect a monument on Culp's Hill, Gettysburg
battlefield. to mark the line reached by the
regiment in the final charge on the morning
of July 9, 1868.
The Wis of Mr.. j. Guest King, editor of
the Annapolis Gazette, met with painful ac-
cident Tuesday morning by fall down cell
lar about feet, by which her left arm was
broken below the wrist and her face very
much disfgured.
Fred. Wins, aged IS years, died at his
residence about four miles from Hagerstown
last Monday. He was an eccentric gentle
man, cooking and eating his meals in his own
room. Rev. DR.. Grammer, of Baltimore, Is
a nephew of Mr.. Wins.
The fine residence of F. w. Cassard, near
Ellicott city, caught fire from defective hue,
about clock Tuesday afternoon, and was
entirely consumed. The house was new
one, and cost $4,000. 1t was occupied by
Thomas Sanford and family.
Charles J. Lewis, of Frederick, and Ralph
Jefferson, of Washington, d. c., have recent
ly purchased about q, 900 acres of land near
GAINESVILLE, Texas, for the sum of $4,000.
1t understood to be their intention to remove
to Texas and engage in stock-raising.
On Tuesday morning a colored woman
named Francis Cain, living near Darlington,
Hartford county, attempted to light fire in
her cooking stove by using coal oil. She took
fire from the burning oil, and died, after lin
gering several hours, in great agony.
a serious drought has prevailed throughout
Somerset county and the lower peninsula
during the greater part of the summer, which
has greatly damaged the corn crop. Some of
the farmers have already begun to save fodder,
and the yield of corn will be unusually small.
Ex.Judge William Motter died at his resi-
dence at Hagerstown shortly after eleven
o'clock on last Friday night, aged 6S. He
was born at Emittsburg, Frederick county, on
the oath of March, 1917. In 1867 he was
elected Associate Judge of the fourth judicial
circuit.
The heaviest freight trains that ever passed
through the Maryland and Delaware peninsu-
la are now being hauled over the N. Y. P.
and n r. r., loaded with potatoes from Vir
ginia. Some trains are composed Of forty
and fifty cars, containing potatoes and other
truck
The house of George Kline, near Benevola,
Washington county, was entered by masked
robbers during his absence last Saturday, his
wife roughly handled and the house robbed of
S240. Edward Ludwig, Harry Hill and Hi
ram Kline are in Jail at Hagerstown charged
with the crime.
1t is stated that work on the proposed Del
aware ship canal will soon be commenced by
Ferguson 4 Fairchild, of New York. Agents,
it is added, are now securing the right of way,
and seven large dredging machines are being
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made on Bombay Hook Island.
John A. Brown and William Hall, two col
ored boys, were on Tuesday detected in the
act of placing two large stones, two cross-ties
and some fence rails across the tracks of the
Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad. They
said they wanted to have some fun. They
were lodged in Jail in Annapolis.
The peach crop of Wicomico county is turn
ing out much better than was anticipated. 1t
is claimed by good judges that the yield will
reach 10000 boxes. The prices are quite
good, and considerable money will be realiz-
ed from the crop Prices have ruled better
in Baltimore than elsewhere, and a great
many have gone to that city.
Rev. S. S. G. Idleman, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Old Town, Allie
gany county, met his death there Saturday
evening in a peculiarly distressing manner
He was i'll with typhoid fever at the house Of
a Mr.. Wilson, and was delirious. Being left
alone few minutes he jumped from a second
story window, striking on his head, and was
instantly killed. He was about twenty-five
years old and unmarried. He had been sta
toned at Old Town two years, and was gen
orally esteemed.
Mr.. Geo. H. Moore, a representative of the
United States fish commission, was in Sails
bury few days ago on tour of inspection,
and surveyed the fisheries along the Wicomi
co. The past season was a very poor one for
shad, which is accounted for by the fact that
there were in use on the river $50 drift seines,
5 haul-seines, IA fykes, and a large number
stake.seines. some say $50 to 200. 1t is esti-
mated that over POO shad were caught in
the various ways this season, the value of
which was nearly $4,000. The value of all
fish caught on tie river last spring is estimat
ed at $500
The children of Elijah Birmingham, of
county, appear to be the subjects of
i'll luck. An eight year old son was kicked
on the head by a colt, in1cting a dangerous
wound. A six year old daughter was stand
ing near as her father threw the saddle over
his horse, when one of the stirrups struck her
in one of her eyes, putting it out. Another
child, a little boy, three years old, was play
ing in the yard, when rooster flew up and
spurred him in one eye, destroying the sight.
Ali these misfortunes happened within brief
period of each other.
Mr.. Frank n. Hunt, paying teller of the
Eutaw Savings Bank, was run over and ia
tally injured by the cars at Hollihelds Sta
lion, on the Baltimore and Ohio, five miles
above Elicott City, last Friday morning. Mr..
Hunt had been spending the summer with his
uncle, DR.. VIM. G. Kloman, near Holliields,
going in every morning to Baltimore. On
last Friday morning, as the Mt. Airy train
came up, and before it completely stopped,
he tried to Jump on the cars. An umbrella,
which he held under his arm, caught in the
hand rail of the car and Mr. Hunt fell under
the car A portion of the train passed over
the right leg, completely seyering it below the
knee, He was also badly bruised about the
head and body, DR., s. A. Keene, of Eli,
colt City, was Immediately summoned, and
later Dr. L. McLane Tiffany, of Baltimore.
The latter went out in special car at half
past eleven o clock, accompanied by Mr.. VIM.
r. Burns, president of the Eutaw Savings
Bank. Before their arrival DR.. Keene had
already amputated the leg at the thigh. Mr..
Hunt died Saturday.
On Monday Randolph Wilson, son of Mr.
David Wilson, young man apparently about
is years of age, accompanied by several
others, visited the colored camp now in prog
ress near Piney Hill, in the seventh district
Of Baltimore county. After being at camp a
short time the young men INDUCED consid-
erably in whisky, and young Wilson drank
HI boIP q n;uf ot onoe The whisky COM