The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-22
Maryland Affairs.
Emory Grove camp closed on Thursday.

Isaac Cronise, aged 20 years, died Tuesda,
of the effects of paralysis near Harmon,
Grove, Frederick county.
Geo. t. Stieler, who was born in Hess
Darmstadt in 1893, died in Baltimore las
Saturday, where he had lived since 1882.
Bishop Lay, of the Diocese of Easton. wht
is still in ill health, was removed last Frida.
to Massanetta Springs, near Harrisonburg, Va
John P. Derrickson, living near Church
vile, Hartford county, raised an average of 4
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 ruiz
over last Friday morning by south bounC
express train three miles from 0denton, anC
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 H. Miller, living near EIkton, 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 362 pounds
The Democrats of Baltimore county will
convention on the Sth, to send delegates to
the State convention. The county nomina
ting convention will be held September IA.
John NJ Thackery has just harvested /, 15C
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,
1872 bushels to the acre, is unusually large.
Fanny Wagner, domestic, in Baltimore
ta1 ta,I do loci Sunday Che
bed in the morning, after closing the doors
and windows tightly and unscrewing the tip:
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 II
years old, and for number of years lived in
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. he
started up the stairs, but fell back and died
almost instantly.
The barn of James II. 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 a large quantity of hay and farming
implements. The loss is over $4,000 The
property was insured in the Farmers Mutual
Company of York, Pa, for $1,000
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 3 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 a very serious
accident on Monday While he was at work
in a steam sawmill near the Union school
house 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
juries, 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 a 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
e-house, granary, tobacco barn and cattle
shed, with contents, consisting of about 675
bushels of corn, together, with oats, hay, to-
bacco, farming implements, &c. 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,
has recently been afflicted with sad series of
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 few hours. A 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 are
sick, except one sou, 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 16, 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 q. They are both well pre-
served and bid fair to remain together for some
years yet, and if spared until November 6
they will have been married GO years. Rev.
Joseph Mettam is the only surviving member
of the Maryland Baptist Union Association
which was organized in 1886, and he looks
r., Il NJ
the Seventh Baptist Church, Baltimore.
For the past ten years John Shreck and
Anna N. Shrek, his wife, an aged German
couple. have lived and carried on small
truck farm on the Belair road, near Perry
Hall, Baltimore county. Mr. Shrek had
come to this country from Germany over fifty
years ago, and for many years worked for
HAYWARD & Bartlett. Last week Mr.. Shreck
took to his bed, and his wife soon realized
that he was going to die From the moment
she became assured of this fact her own vital
ity seemed to forsake her, and whilst her hus-
band vas lying dead in the house last Friday
she gave evidences ofapproaching dissolution,
and followed him in Just "a hours He was
in the 10Th and she in the 74th year Of her
age. They were buried on Sunday side by
side in the cemetery of 81. Josephs Church.
The Emmittsburg Chronicle says The
residence of the venerable Mrs. Rebecca
Welty, in this village, has been the scene OF a
delightful home gathering this week. Her
daughter, Sister Josephine, of the Sisters OF
Charity, after an absence of twenty five years,
recently returned from st. Louis, to the Home
House, St. Joseph's, near this place, and her
mother, Mrs. Welty, desiring a reunion of her
children, summoned her sons, Dir. George
W, of Brooklyn, N. Y; Frederick A., Of
Richmond, Va, and Joseph A., of Baltimore,
to meet their sister at the parental home, with
their other sisters Miss Annie Welty and Mrs.
S. y, Grinder; and they Aage pet together
in renewals of afiectiopate love to their aged
mother, and one another. The occasion has
been one of interest to many warm friends OF
the parties.
Mr.. G. S. Griffith president of the Mary
land Sunday School Union, has returned from
a trip through the lower Eastern Shore coun-
ties, where he took occasion to look after
Sunday school matters. He says he saw
many evidences Of progress both in the towns
and rural places, and was gratihed to find
numbers of testimonies to the faithfulness and
efficiency Of the unien missionaries. lie ex-
presses himself as particularly pleased with
the advanced condition of Sunday school
work in the towns ofSaiisbury, Princess Anne,
Berlin, Snow Hill and Pocomoke City. He
says the people of WoroeGter are much IN
terested in the county Sunday school oonvea-
ton, which is to be held there in October UNI
der the auspices of the Maryland Sunday
School Union,