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

Ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll will sail for
Europe September l.
Five per cent. Washington county bonds
sold this week at premium of 81 on the 500.
In the past seven months 1921 children
under hive years of age have died in Baltimore.
A company has been organized at Port De-
post, Cecil county, to supply that place with
water.
The extensive paraffine works of Hunt &
Brady, near Baltimore, were burned early
Sunday morning causing loss of over $50, 900.
The tax rate for Kent county has been fixed
at So cents on the 500, making the total rate,
including State taxes, $l.069. This is a re-
duction of six cents.
Susan Pindell. So years old, and for many
years faithful servant in the family of the
late Murray Thomas, at West River, Anne
Arundel county, died last week.
AT the chapel of the Redemptorist novi-
tate, Annapolis, Sunday, nine young men
took the perpetual vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience, and eleven others received the
habit of religion.
The medical laboratory of NJ. Laupheimer,
Son L Co., in Baltimore, was damaged by
fire on Monday to the extent of about $4,000.
Michael Halloran, a fireman, was fatally in
jured by falling from third-story window.
George E. Swindell, well-known resident
and business man of Baltimore, died at the
Blue Mountain House, Western Maryland
Railroad, Saturday afternoon at l. 10 o CLOCK.
He had been suffering for some time from
consumption.
A special election to decide the question
whether or not the sale of intoxicating liquors
in Charles county should be prohibited after
the first of May next was held in that county
on Thursday. Prohibition was defeated in
every district by vote of about three to one.
One of the most successful agriculturists in
Dorchester is q woman-Mrs. Goslin of Link
wood. She delights in her occupation and
directs ali the details of farm management.
She has just garnered 1000 bushels of wheat
and her peach orchard will net as many
dollars.
Mrs. Susan H. Atkinson, wife of Isaac S.
Atkinson, of Somerset county, was found I'M
conscious on the floor of her bedroom Satur
day morning and died the same day. Death
was caused by apoplexy. Mrs. Atkinson was
a daughter of the late Chief-Justice Booth, of
Delaware.
Mr.. Milford Schindel gentleman largely
engaged in the fertilizer business, estimates
that the wheat crop of Washington county for
1885 will aggregate about one million bushels,
one half of last years yield. The greatest
yield per acre he places at 26 bushels, and
the smallest bushels.
While Capt. Stacy Jarvis, of the schooner
Sarah Cullen, at Baltimore, was standing
near the hatchway on Monday morning, a
large bucket, used for hosting coal, fell upon
his head and knocked him down the hatch
way into the hold. He was fatally injured,
and died in few hours.
A peculiar and fatal disease is now prevail
ing among the hogs in parts of Cecil county,
and many deaths are reported. Samuel Mil
Ter, who lives at Appleton, has lost Y pigs IN
two weeks, while a farmer at Elkton has lost
60 within the same period. The disease
strikes the animals suddenly, and after stag
gering awhile they fall over and die in convul-
sions.
The Centreville Observer says: 1.-The trac-
ton engine is being used now as a motive
power in breaking fallow, cutting wheat, &c.
Mr.. NJ. D. Wilson met with such success in
cutting his wheat by steam that he has con-
Guided to utilize the same power in breaking
his fallow. 1t is only a matter of time when
the greater part of teamwork will be done by
steam.
Squire Geisman, who was killed by light
ming at Pikesville, near Penmar, during the
storm on Saturday, had one of his children in
his arms at the time, but it escaped uninjured.
Geisman was sitting in the door of his resi-
dence and the lightning struck him in the
face, burned a hole through his beard, fol-
lowed his body and one of his legs down into
the ground.
Jacob f. Gerwig, native of Wurtemberg,
/ Germany, who came to this country in 1880,
died last Friday in the 93d year of his age
He was farmer, settling at Gainesville,
Baltimore county, So years ago. From there,
II years ago, he went to reside with his son
at Pine Orchard, Howard county. He never
/ had occasion for the services of doctor un-
! til his last sickness. He died of blood pois-
oning.
Miss Clara Colbourn, aged 18 years, daugh-
ter of VIM II. Colbourn, of Nutter's district,
near Salisbury, died very suddenly Wednes
day afternoon. The family were making
preparations to spend the afternoon at pic
mic near by, and while Miss Colbourn was
dressing she was taken suddenly i'll, and died
! before physician could be summoned. Her
death is supposed to have been caused by
heart disease.
At recent meeting Of the directors of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Anne
Arundel and Howard Counties it was decided
to close up the business of the concern. In
the meantime Mr. Robert a. Dobbin, one of
the directors, is acting in the capacity of re-
ceiver. The company was organized under
a charter from the Maryland Legislature at
the session of 1868, and has been conducting
/ the insurance business ever since.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was PIT, against 31S of the week before.
a decrease of 101. The number of deaths OF
infants under year old was 92 against 1877
the previous week. The total of children
under years old was ITO, against $50 the
preceding week. The cholera infantum deaths
last week were 48. while the total the week
before was II. The more favorable show
ing is due entirely to the more moderate
weather.
John A. Groves, of Kent county has been
for some years one of the largest peach grow
ers in the United States, aud he seems dis
posed to extend his operations. Last week
he leased that portion of Paca's Island
recently purchased by Joseph Rasin, located
on Wye river, and containing about four hun
dred acres, upon which he proposes to SCI
out twenty thousand peach trees the coming
fall He will also plant ten thousand trees
additional on his Poplar Neck farm, making
his total number of peach trees about eighty
five Thousand! Carroll county farmers, just
think of it-850 acres in peaches.
The Baltimore Sun of Thursday says
1 Gov Lloyd, State Senator Edwin Warfeld,
of Howard county, and other members of the
Legislature including the Senators whose
terms have expired and those who hold over,
together with several other Democratic public
men, are going on pleasure trip to the
mountains the last of this week. They will
leave Baltimore on Friday afternoon by the
regular train, land will stop at Sykesville, Car
roll county, where they will be the guests of
Mr. Frank Brown, former member of the
Legislature The next day the party will go
to Deer Park. reaching there on Saturday
evening. On Monday morning they will make
. trip oyer the West Virginia Central Railroad
10 the BIaolswatep, where there is famous
trout fishing. On Wednesday they will take
a run over the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
to Luray caverns, and return the same night
to Baltimore,
A gigantic devil fish was captured in the
Gulf, off Galveston, Texas, last Friday, 1t
was caught in a seine, and ropes being thrown
around it, it was dragged ashore by horses.
The monster weighs about two tons, is six
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