The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-26
Maryland Affairs.


in his SD year.
The Court of Appeals adjourned on the
18th until January 9th.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris died in Baltimore on
Sunday last, in her ODD year.
About $50, 900 have been expended in new
buildings in Salisbury the present year.
Efforts are being made to secure water
supply for Mechanicstown, Frederick county.
Albert Bond, aged 80 years, dropped dead
from heart disease at Cumberland on Friday
last.
Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges county,
is considering a project for establishing
bank.
A Salvation Army meeting at Hagerstown
was interrupted by red pepper thrown on the
stove in the hall.
Mrs. CorneIa Winfield Scott, daughter of
the late Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott, died in
Baltimore ON Monday last
Mr.. William F. Dorsey, resident of the
fourth district, Howard county, died sud
denly at his home on Sunday last of pneu-
monia
The hen-roost of Mrs. Charles Coblens,
living in Baltimore county, near Ellicott City,
was visited by thieves few nights since and
eighty chickens stolen.
| Gov. Lloyd has pardoned George L. Faith
full, colored, of Queen Anne's county, SEN
fenced to fine and imprisonment for shoot
ing another colored man.
The Port Tobacco Times asserts that Gen.
A. G. Chapman will ''persist in his fight for
the speakership until the House decides the
question for or against him..
A movement is on foot in Baltimore to pro-
cure from the Legislature stringent enact
ment against the opium joints which have re-
Gently multiplied largely in that city
Hon. B. G. Harris, of st. Mary,s county,
ex-member of Congress and candidate for
appointment as naval officer of the port OF
Baltimore, celebrated his 10Th birthday on
December 18th.
Isaiah Kinsey, prominent merchant of
of Ellicott City, was seized with sudden
attack of illness Monday night. He became
unconscious, and up to late hour Tuesday even
ing remained in an unchanged condition.
The Frederick Weekly Times has been
purchased of VIM. Bouldin, Jr., by Charles
f. Markell, of Frederick. The paper will be
continued as a weekly, with its politics un-
changed. Messrs. C. F. Markell and j. w.
Kaufman will assume control on January L,
1886.
The health of Baltimore continues remark
ably good the mortality record last week only
reaching 113, which is % less than during the
corresponding week of 1884, 90 less than IN
1888, and 113 less or just nehalf of what 1t
was in the corresponding week of 1882.
Births reported during the week 118, or
more than the deaths.
John B. Murphy aged 90, employed as a
laborer at the Koontz mine, Homecoming, war
run over last Saturday by the locomotive used
on the tram road outside the mine, receiving
injuries from which he died a few hours later.
He rode on the bumper of the engine to the
place where he worked and jumped of. He
then discovered that his dinner bucket was
still on the bumper, reached for it, and in do
ing so got under the wheels. Both legs were
cut off.
The Baltimore San says: The movement
of corn from the West for Baltimore has set
in for the winter season, and this port Will
get good share of the export trade in that
cereal. Last week charters of eight steamers
were noted to load corn for Europe, aggregating
some 800, 900 bushels. This does not include
the contracts made for grain with the regular
line steamships. 1t is estimated that the char
ter for corn aggregated about l 1000, 900 bush
els for December, January and February ship
ment.
DIR. 7. J. C. Maddox, who was killed Satur-
day in fight between U. S. troops and Indians,
near White House, New Mexico, was son
of DR.. Thomas Maddox, of Breathedsville,
Washington county. For several years he
was the assistant in the school of MIR: Charles
B. Young, of Washington, and while SO en-
gagged studied medicine at Columbian Unlver-
sity. Whera he was graduated in the spring OF
1850. He was commissioned assistant sur
geon in the army in October, 1881, and his
first assignment to duty was to the Depart
meut of Texas, DR., Maddox was SO years old
on the 18th of this month.
Mr., John Bosley of William, one Of the
most prominent farmers in Baltimore county,
died suddenly Tuesday morning, about 3
; o'clock, at his home near Cockeysvllle, OF
heart disease in the Goth year of his age.
He went to bed about 8 clock Monday night
in his usual health. His wife heard groans
from him twice, and went to his bedside each
time. The last time he was breathing his
last The deceased owned several fine farms
in Baltimore county, the one upon which he
lived being among the finest in the county.
He is estimated to have been worth from four
to FIVE hundred thousand dollars. He had
inherited large interest in the celebrated
Beaver Dam marble quarrieR, now operated
by Mr.. Hugh Sissoa. He was treasurer OF
baltimore county from 1857 to 1861, was foF
two years weigher of live stock at the western
scales, and was 8 member of the State Legls'
lature in 1852, and served for two terms. He
was prominent politician of the Jeffersonian
Democratic type.