The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-14
MARYLAND Affairs.

day.
One hundred and forty-one deaths were
reported in Baltimore during the week ended
Saturday evening. Births reported during
the week two hundred and thirty, or eighty
nine more than the number OF deaths.
Wheat near Reisterstown is looking well.
1t is believed that Mr. Lsle, of Glenn, Falls, will
have the largest yield of corn per acre IN that
neighborhood. Mr.. George Kephart, OF
Reisterstown, husked nine barrels to the acre,
or 225 barrels on % acres.
The Senate chamber and the hall of the
House of Delegates are being overhauled and
renovated for the meeting of the General As
sembly of Maryland for the session OF 1886.
Some of the Senators and members have
already selected their seats.
The schooner S. H. Travers, with 1900
bushels of oysters, was sunk near Sharp S
Island, in the Chesapeake, on Thursday night
of last week, by running against spar of a
wreck. The crew took to the rigging and
were rescued by passing steamer
VIM. A. Urquabart attempted to commit
suicide in Baltimore Sunday night. With a
razor he cut a fearful cash in his throat, but
the wound is not dangerous. He has COM
mission house on South street, and five months
ago went to Baltimore from Steubenvilie, ..
Notwithstanding the rain and mud Frederick
Democrats had grand celebration last Satur-
day over their unprecedented victory last
week In Ellicott City on Thursday night OF
last week, the Democrats fired salute OF
twenty-six guns over the victory there and
throughout the country.
Gov. LLOYD has pardoned Frank johnson,
colored, convicted in the Circuit Court OF
Anne Arundel County, at the October term,
1884, of perjury and sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary. The pardon was recon-
mended by Judge Jones, States Attorney
Munroe, Major Sprigg HARDWOOD, clerk of the
court, Sheriff Fowler and Others ~
All accounts agree that the present condi-
ton of the wheat crop throughout Cecil coun-
ty was never finer, and farmers generally are
hopeful of large yield of excellent grain
next season. The corn crop, which is now
being gathered, is not turning out so we'll as
expected. Some of it was down, and much
of it is mouldy in the shock. Still the yield
will be large.
A Pittsburg paper says that the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, which has
claims against the Government for several
hundred thousand dollars for transporting
troops and supplies to the Army of the Po-
tomac during the late war, is making prepa-
rations to have Congress appropriate suffi-
cient amount of money for the payment OF
these claims in full.
At meeting of the Hartford County Medi-
cal Society on Tuesday, DR.. w. Stump For
wood said he is now treating for typhoid fever
patient 65 years old, period of life ten
years above that in any case of typhoid fever
he had ever seen. There is, he said, no au-
thenic record of man over 65 years old hav.
ing typhoid fever. The youngest case he had
known was eighteen months.
Frederick bakers, colored boy, IA years
old, was taken to the Annapolis Jail on Sun
day. charged with stealing horse from VIM.
Snowden, of the fourth district of Anne
Arundel county He acknowledged his guilt
TO the officer who took him, and stated that
this makes the fifth horse he has stolen
bakers escaped from the Colored House of
Reform several months ago.
In the Baltimore County Circuit Court on
Saturday, the following prisoners, previously
convicted. were sentenced: Leon Devere,
assault with intent to commit a rape, five
years in the Maryland penitentiary Robert
Williams, larceny, to the House of Refuge
till he arrives at the age of twenty one years:
and VIM. Chase, larceny; one year in the
Maryland House of Correction.
The Governor of Massachusetts on Monday
granted requisition upon the Governor
of MARYLAND for the arrest and removal to the
former State of A. l.. Mellen, of Baltimore,
indicted by the Grand jury in Boston for con-
spiracy with Mrs. Coolidge and others of that
city to murder his daughter-in-law. Mellen
could not be found when the officers called at
the ST. james Hotel for him.
Mrs. Sarah Smith, aged 20, wife of Michael
Smith living about two miles from Mechan-
icstown, Frederick county, caught fire while
lighting fire with coal oil about O'Clock
Tuesday morning. The can burst throwing
the contents over her. She started to run to
her fathers house, about one hundred yards
distant, but fell dead before reaching there.
Mary Thomas, colored woman, of Elkton,
and a thirteen-year- old boy named Thomas
Simmons got into an alteration last Satur-
day afternoon. The woman struck the boy
with a stick, and he in turn threw a brick,
which struck her in the abdomen, rendering
her insensible for several hours. The attend
ing physicians at first thought her injuries OF
a fatal nature, but now think she will recover.
The Rev. John O'Brien, of Boston, died
at leicester Howard county, on Sunday OF
heart disease. He was priest of the Re-
demptorist Order giving mission at the
Church of the Annunciation, in Philadelphia.
Leicester, suffering at the time with inlam-
matory rheumatism which attacked the heart.
The remains were embalmed and sent on to
Boston on Tuesday afternoon.
The report of the State board of immigra-
ton of Maryland to the Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington shows that during
the fiscal year ended June 3d. 1885, IL, 729
passengers arrived at Baltimore from foreign
norts, of which number II were returned as
paupers, 312 were cared for at the Home, and
81 we're treated at the hospital. The head
money collected during the year amounted to
81, 942, and the expenses of the board were
81, 1914
The secretary Of the Washington County
Agricultural Society has submitted his report.
which shows that the receipts of the late fail
at Hagerstown amounted to S11 800. Of this
amount $500 was paid out for premiums,
$4,000 for permanent improvements to the
grounds and buildings, and 81 200 for expen-
ses, leaving balance of So, 100, which will
wipe out the indebtness of the association and
leave surplus of over $500.
At meeting of the directors of the Wash
ington County Orphans Home, held on Friday
of last week, letter was read from b. f.
Newcomer, of Baltimore, making a PROPOSE
ton to give $40, 900 to the Home on condition
that the directors raise by subscription from
the people of Washington county the sum OF
So. 500 to liquidate the debt resting on the
property of the institution. The proposition
has been accepted. Some time ago Mr.
Newcomer gave 81, 800 to the support of the
Home.
Columbus Dronenburg, aged about % years
son of Charles Dronenburg, a blacksmith
living at Urbana, Frederick county, was found
dead in the loft of stable owned by Mr.
Thomas Dixon, at that place Tuesday, morn
ing. He left his home on Thursday of last
week and was seen on Friday under the infu
ence of liquor. The discovery of his body il
the hay loft is said to have been the result o
vivid dream had by the father Monday night
Death is supposed to have been caused by
exhaustion and exposure.
The regular monthly meeting of the board
of directors of the Maryland House of Correc
ton was held at that institution on Thursday
of last week. The only business before the
board of any importance was the report o.
the committee appointed on September t
investigate and report upon the condition ant
methods of conducting the institution. One
of the resolutions of the long report submitted
was. "That the good of the institution re
quires that we should at once elect another
superintendent in the place of General Bond.
As soon as the result of the vote was commu
nicated to General Bond he sent in his resig
nation, which was at once accepted, and
motion to place the management of the inst
tuition in the hands of Assistant Superinten
dent Merrefeld until the meeting of the boarC
next month, was adopted.
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