The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-09
Maryland Affairs.

A strike has commenced among the coal
miners in Allegany county.
The Anne Arundel almshouse has Is in
mates-3 white aad II colored.
A sturgeon measuring III feet long and
weighing 240 pounds was caught at Annapolis
on Wednesday.
Fifteen inches Of snow fell at Dixmont,
Maine, on Saturday, thirteen at Dexter and
ten at Bangor.
Four frame stables were burned in Fred
erick city about l o'clock Wednesday morn
ing. Incendiarism is suspected.
James w. Counselman, farmer, near
Pikesville, was thrown from his wagon on
Saturday and seriously hurt.
Peter Dykes, who was probably the Oldest
inhabitant of Wicomieo county, died Tuesday
morning, in Nutter's district, aged 80 years.
Mrs. Mary Otter, wife of the late William
Otter, of Emmitsburg, died Wednesday morn
ing, in Baltimore, in the 9th year OF her age.
DIR. Henry Seeler, the oldest physician in
Washington county, died Monday morning at
his residence in Williamsport. He was about
rs years old.
The woman's medical college of Baltimore
turned out four female doctors last week.
Three of the graduates reside in Maryland
and one IN Germany.
Two white and one colored prisoner es-
CAPPED from the Elkton Jail last Sunday morn
ing. One of them broke leg in getting out,
and returned the same day.
A little son of Mr.. Edward Kitzmiller, of
Leitersburg, died from lockjaw on Wednes-
day evening, the from effects of running a
splinter into his foot.
The Secretary of the Treasury last Friday
appointed VIM f. Switzerlee, of Missouri, to
be chief clerk of the bureau of statistics, vice
Jos. N Whitney, of Maine, removed.
The pharmaceutical association of the State
of Maryland, which held its sessions in Balti-
more last year, will meet in annual session
at Hagerstown Oh Tuesday next.
The house of Joseph Watson, near Gam
brill station, Anne Arundel county, was de-
stroyed by fire about o. clock Tuesday morn
ing, causing loss of 1000.
Fifty thousand herring were taken at one haul
from the Susquehanna river on Friday of last
week, and $4,000 at another. The fish sold
readily at from SIS to $50 per thousand.
Shad are now plentiful in the Susquehanna.
w. E. Hartman, of Homecoming, charged
with burning his store in that place recently,
which caused considerable conhagration,
was tried at Cumberland last week, the jury
on Saturday returned verdict of not guilty.
Robert Ward, state veterinarian, reports
the state free from pleuro-pneumonia. In his
report to the Governor he takes occasion to
remark that Jersey cattle are more liable to
the disease than any other breed, on account
of in and-in breeding.
VIM. Grey, Jesse Grey and Robert Howard,
of Sharpsburg, and George Washington, of
Fairfax county, Virginia, all colored, were
drowned while trying to cross the Potomac
near Washington on Thursday. A fifth man
got on rock.
The Baltimores defeated the Metropolitans,
of New York, in three straight games on Sat
urday, Monday and Tuesday. The Baltl-
mores started on western trip Tuesday
night, to play four games at Louisville, and
an equal number at Cincinnati and Pittsburg
The shipments from the mines of the Cum
berland coal region for the week ended Satur-
day, MAY 2, were 70, 527 tons, and the total
shipments for the year to that date 8O7 ,698
tons, an increase of Al, 1856 tons as compared
with the corresponding period of 1884.
Major B. 7. Biggs, who owns considerable
land in Queen Anne's county, recently set
out Z 900 peach trees. The Major has now
on his farms 33 900 trees, young and old,
covering about $50 acres of land. He is one
of the most successful peach growers in the
county.
George Collins, coiored aged IS years,
was convicted of manslaughter at Annapolis
on Tuesday, for killing George Millers colored
aged Is. The killing was done with barlow
knife in fight last November. Collins was
recommended to mercy at the hands OF the
court.
At the matching station at Salisbury $4,000
shad were halched from the roe of two shad.
They were liberated in the Wicomico river.
Considerable attention is being paid to the
raising of fish in private ponds, several of
which have been made in different parts OF
the county. German carp are mostly used IN
stocking the ponds.
Samuel I. Crandell, aged fifteen years, son
of f. A. Crandell, of Marlboro, ate a lot OF
dried peaches on Tuesday evening and shortly
afterwards was taken with commissions, which
lasted until twelve O. clock Wednesday, when
death resulted. The boy suffered terribly,
and all efforts to relieve him proved truitless.
The county commissioners of Howard coun-
ty have appointed the following tax collectors
for 1885: First and second districts, William
Davis; third and fourth districts, D. l.. Brad
ford fifth and sixth districts, Harry u. Carr.
1t was decided to allow the registers of voters
800 each for their work of last year in regis
tering the voters of that county.
Forest fires broke out again on Wednesday
in the Blue Ridge mountains, about one mile
from High Rock. The fire communicated
from an engine on the Western Maryland
Railroad, and soon spread rapidly. Notwith-
standing the fact that the railroad employees
and others were working hard to suppress the
flames it continued to burn all night.
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school will be the both of this month. There
will be eleven vacancies caused by graduation
and the board determined to add ten to the
school. which will authorize twenty-one new
amendments. The secretary is now examin-
ing applications for these appointments.
Mayor Latrobe will make the annual address.
The new building will be finished by that
time.
E. C. Eichelberger, attorney for z. Hanson
Hiss and others, on Wednesday filed charges
with the county commissioners of Baltimore
county against Geo. Fl. Carman, for collect
ing assessments for opening streets and failing
to properly appropriate the money for that
purpose, and for failure to account for the
money so collected, and asked that MIR. Car
man NAV be removed from the Office of street
commissioner A hearing of the charges Is
fixed for Tuesday, May ~.
Samuel NJ. Roosevelt, of New York, was
married on Tuesday to Mrs. Augusta +. Boyle
ston, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Shoe
maker. in Baltimore. Before the ceremony
he took horseback ride with friend. The
horse ran off, fell down and threw Mr.
Roosevelt off. Mr.. Roosevelt was thrown
against a large Belgian block, cutting his heac
severely. The marriage had to be postponed
an hour, and was celebrated in the presence
of a very few relatives. He is now confined
to the house in Baltimore.
The President has appointed the following
named presidential postmasters u. ID. For
ter, at Bowling Green, KY; VIM. Weeks, a
Wauseon, Ohio; James Mckinney, at Sus-
ouehanna, Pa; John R. Parshall, at Fari-
bault, Mimi: Daniel w. Connolly, at Scran-
ton, Pa; James B. Hutcheson, at Hazleton
Pa; Thomas II. Bayless, at Hope, Ark.
John H. Golden, at Menonk, ILL.,; Henry 5
Howell, at Watertown, Wis; John B. Larkin
at Pittsburg, Pa; VIM. Brown, at Lake Gen
eva, Wis; Thos. J. Seamans, at Wabash, Ind
Much excitement prevailed at Rockville OF
Wednesday day over the finding OF the body
of Andrew Thomas, the colored man, who dis
appeared on the night of March %. Wher
| Thomas was last seen he was at Travilah on the
night mentioned in company with Frank ant
Geo. jackson, colored. The next morning thu
Jacksons, when questioned as to Andrew
whereabouts, said that he left them not IA
from Traviah for Hunting Hill, and tina
they had seen nothing of him since. The.
admitted, however, that George jackson ant
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