The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-03-07
Maryland Affairs.

| Citizens of Cambridge are considering the
establishment of glass factory near that
place.
Salisbury is expecting lively business
boom this year. There is a greater demand
than supply for houses.
| AT meeting of the Frederick Rilemen
Tuesday night j. S. B. Hartsock was re elect
ed captain of that organization.
! DIR. Felix McManus, the pioneer physician
of homeopathy in Baltimore, died on Tues
day, in that city, aged rs years.
At the present term of the circuit court of
Washington county, six persons have been
sentenced to the penitentiary-th white and
three colored.
The peach crop Of the Maryland and Della
ware peninsula is said to be uninjured, the
severe winter keeping the buds back and thus
avoiding danger of late frosts and freezes.
Centreville had a So, 900 fire last Saturday,
Harriman's bakery and candy mandatory
and Miss Anderson's millinery store being
burned. The town had no fire apparatus.
Mr.. Theodore Masmore, one of the defend
ers of Baltimore in the war of 1872, died last
week at Rayville, Baltimore county, the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Jacob Shaver, in the
Goth year of his age.
Mrs. Mollie N. Mulholm aged SO years,
died near Millington, in Kent county on
Sunday evening from the effects of fall the
day before. Previous to the accident she was
well and quite active.
Mrs. Morris, the wife of Mr.. Francis Nor
ris, prominent New York stockbroker and
landed proprietor, died at her home at Oak
land Mills, near Ellcott City, Sunday night,
from apoplexy, at an advanced age.
Last Sunday services were held for the first
time in the new NJ. P. church at Belair, Har-
ford county. Rev. ]. T. hurry, president of
the Maryland Annual Conference, preached.
When the debt of 81, 800 is paid the church
will be dedicated.
N. K. Forten, seamen, Jos. Joharnell
at a sailors boarding house in Baltimore on
Tuesday night. On retiring the gas was
blown out, and Wednesday morning all three
were found dead in bed.
Hon. Hiram Mccullough. of Elkton, died
on Wednesday, aged about 70 years. He was
two terms in Congress and was Speaker of
the Maryland House of Delegates in 1880.
In 1860 he was one of the codifers of the laws
of Maryland.
The case of James Pickett indicted for the
shooting of Edmund Gloyd in October last, on
Jonathan street, Hagerstown, and who was
tried at the November term of court, the
jury failing to agree, has been ordered to
be tried at the next term of the Washington
county court.
Mrs Eliza Blaine Walker, wife of Major
r. c. Walker, retired paymaster in the |
United States army, died in Baltimore on
Tuesday morning. She was sister of Hon.
James &. Blaine, and came from her home
in Montana several months ago to seek med
ical aid for bright's disease. Mr.. Blaine |
spent Sunday with his sister.
Walter Tucker and John Robinson, fireman
and brakeman, respectively, of freight train,
were struck and injured by the engine of a
passenger train at the water station a mile |
below Ellicott City, Tuesday evening. The
cars approached them unawares while they
were standing on the down track. Tucker |
was only slightly hurt about the right leg; but |
Robinson was badly injured in the left hip, |
and cut about the head and face, though not |
fatally wounded.
The annual meeting of the Frederick and |
Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company was
held last Friday in Baltimore. The directors
elected on the part of the stockholders were
Charles E. Trail, II. 81. Carter, R. d. Bar
clay, V, S. Drummer, James P. Kerr and Jas.
McSherry; on part of the city of Frederick, |
Joseph f. Payne, NJ. e. Doll, NJ. E. Getzen-
The board reelected President G. Z. Trail,
Vice President Fl. H. Carter, Treasurer John
S. Leib, Secretary Stephen w. White.
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church began its 101st
session on Thursday morning in Eutaw Street
M. E. Church, Baltimore. Bishop Randolph
S. Foster, of Boston, Mass, presided. The
fifty fourth session of the Virginia Annual
Conference of the United Brethren Church
convened in Frederick Thursday morning,
Bishop Dickson presiding. Devotional SER
vices were conducted by Bishops Glossbren-
ner and Dickson. Revs. A. p Funkhouser
and Geo. P. Holt were elected secretaries.
The Frederick News says: Friday after
noon young gentleman and lady called at
the Carlin House to await the arrival of
minister in order to assume matrimonial re-
sponsibility. Mr.. Isaac Ely acted as agent
for the pair and solicited the aid of Rev. DIR.
George Diehl, of the Lutheran Church.
While Mr.. Ely was absent an alteration arose
between the lovers, and the lady expressed
herself as not ready to be married and the
engagement was declared null and the two
left the hotel. When the minister arrived
there were no applicants for matrimony, and
nothing could be found out of their where
abouts. The couple were from the southern
part of Montgomery county"
The Northern Central Railway will soon
begin the construction of new union station
at Baltimore. The dimensions of the new
structure will be 200 feet by so feet. 1t will
be built of brick and granite, in the most APP
proved style, and will be fitted with particular
care to the convenience and comfort Of pas
sengers. The entrance will be on level with
Charles street, from which descent is made
to the waiting-rooms off the railroad platform.
There will be a restaurant and smoking-room
on the second floor, near the entrance. This
new station has long been needed at that
junction and the growing business of the sew
eral branches of the Pennsylvania Railroad
centering there, have made its immediate
an imperative necessity.