The Democratic advocate., 1885-10-10
Maryland Affairs.


The cranberry growers of Wicomico coun-
ty are picking their crop, which gives en-
ployment to large number of hands.
NJ. J. Rutledge, a corporal in the Marine
Corps, committed suicide at Annapolis on
Saturday, by taking laudanum. He was from
Wilmington, Delaware.
1t is reported from Baltimore that John E..
Owens, the comedian, is in a critical condi-
ton at his home near Towsontown. He is
afflicted with cancer of the liver and his suff-
erings have induced acute mania.
There have passed over the New York,
Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad, this
season, over 800 car loads of sweet potatoes,
from Accomac and Northampton counties,
Virginia, making about 100000 barrels.
Work on the Annapolis and Baltimore
Short-L Line Railroad will begin next Monday,
on the north side of the Severn river. The
company expect to prosecute the work
through the winter and have the cars running
in the spring.
DIR. Richard McSherry, the well known
physician, of Baltimore, died Wednesday
morning, at o'clock, at his residence, North
Howard street, in the 68th year of his age.
He had been sick for about month"; and the
cause of his death was disease of the lungs.
Mr.. David Long, of townsville, Wash
ington county, met with a horrible death on
Monday evening. A horse which he was rid
ing threw him, and, one of his feet becoming
entangled in the stirrup of the saddle, he was
dragged for some distance. The horse tram
pied upon him at every step. When found
life was extinct and his body was terribly
mangled.
VIM. A. Durham, who lives near Cooptown,
Hartford county, last spring planted II acres
of tomatoes, and has already picked from the
field over 5000 bushels. He thinks there are
now 1000 bushels or more ripe on the ground
He is engaged in canning them. The yield
was at least 600 bushels to the acre. The va
riety was the cardinal. They were planted
on clover sod, bone and phosphate being put
in the hills.
Michael Keyser, living in Baltimore county,
about a mile from Ellicott City, while hunting
Saturday was shot in the side and leg and
dangerously wounded by boy who was also
hunting. Keyser had a wounded bird in his
pocket, which he had secured with string
and was standing behind tree. The bird
managed to crawl out of his pocket, and at
tracted the attention of the boy, who, not
seeing Keyser, fired at the bird. Keyser is
in precarious condition.
An old feud between Thomas Watts and
BENJAMIN Stoops, both colored residents of
Clear Spring, Washington county, resulted in
a fight on Friday night last, and the shooting
and killing of Stoops and the serious wound
ing of Watts. Stoops received several balls
in his body, dying almost instantly, and Watts
a ball in his back, which passed entirely
through his body. The difficulty is said to
have grown out of charge preferred by
Stoops that Watts was criminally intimate
with Stoops's wife.
Harry Lankford, a son of John S. Lank
ford, leading farmer of Dublin district,
Worcester county, was shot in the stomach
by a stray ball on Saturday. The young man,
in company with friend named Carmine,
was hunting rabbits, and hearing pistol shots
went toward the sound, thinking some one
was trying to call their dogs away. Marion
Clarke, John Horsey and George Lankford,
a cousin of the wounded boy, were firing at a
target, and one of the shots struck Harry.
His condition is serious.
Andrew G. Boyd, we'll known journalist,
of Hagerstown died there on Friday of last
week, after a brief illness, in his 61st year.
At one time he was one of the editors and
publishers of the Hagerstown Weekly News,
and subsequently editor of the Free Press,
paper which was suppressed during the war
Mr.. Boyd was sent by the Federal authorities
into the Confederate lines, and served gallant
ly in the Confederate army. AT the close he
returned to his home and re-established his
paper, which he conducted for a number of
years. OF late years he has been connected
with several of the Baltimore papers as
special correspondent.
A gold mine has been opened near Littles-
town, Pa, and a corporation called the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Mining Company
of Baltimore City has been Incorporated to
work it. Prof. A. L. Keeport, of Littles
town, and chemist in New York city are
testing the ore. 1t is supposed to be a good
find, judging from the surface ore, and the
metal will be comparatively easy to get out.
The corporation have leased 900 acres for ten
years, renewable. They expect to begin op
erations as soon as the proper machinery can
be obtained. Benz. |. Worthington, of Worth
ington's Valley, VIM. D. Yingling. Chas. r.
johnson and Rozelle Bergman, of Reisters-
town, Baltimore county, are directors and
the chief stockholders.
Secretary of State Milligan las received for
record at the executive departmen ent at Annapo-
lis certificate of incorporation of the Wash.
ington and St. Mary's Railroad Company, or
ganized for the purpose of building a railway,
to commence at Point Lookout, in St. Mary
county, Nd, and pass through St. Mary's,
Charles and Prince Georges to point on the
Southeast boundary between Maryland and
the District of Columbia, conveniently near
to the city of Washington. The capital of
stock of corporation is fixed at four million
dollars, divided into $4,000 shares, of the par
value of $50 each. The incorporators named
are VIM II. Vile, w. c. Jerrett, Robert d.
Morrison, Thomas c. Basshor and George
NJ Bokee, of Baltimore.