The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-07-18
Maryland Affairs.

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C. & p Telephone Co., died in Hagerstown
on Wednesday, Of consumption, aged IS.
Joshua Carson, once prominent builder
of Baltimore, died of paralysis on Sunday at
Oakland, Baltimore county, aged 81 years.
Jas. E. Stewart. whose back was broken
by fall from ladder in Oxford Neck, Tai
hot county, some weeks ago. died on Sunday.
Hog cholera has made its appearance in
Elk Neck, Cecil county, and many hogs have
died, Mr.. VIM. j. Wilson alone losing sixty
five.
Maryland Democrats are preparing for the
approaching campaign, and in a number OF
counties have fixed dates for primaries and
county conventions.
Hugh Harris, of Landing Neck, Talbot
county, has a young turkey hen that has laid
over a hundred eggs this season, and yet
shows no disposition to set.
Col VIM. H. Love, Secretary to Mayor
Latrobe, of Baltimore, was thrown from a
carriage at Peach Bottom, Pa, on Wednes-
day, and had two ribs broken.
The Calvert Journal says the seventeen
year locusts have sighted Calvert county, and,
as far as it can learn, very few have appeared
in any part of Southern Maryland.
The wheat crop of Washington county, it is
thought, will average ten bushels per acre.
At first the average was put at eight bushels,
but the grain turns out better than was sup
posed it would.
President Baughman, of the Chesapeake Il
Ohio Canal, is looping off expenses wherever
possible, and his report shows a reduction OF
So, 500 for the month of June, compared with
the same month last year.
The wheat crop in the neighborhood of
Reisterstown, Baltimore county, is represent
ed to be very poor, the average yield being
from eight to ten bushel per acre. The high
est yield is said to be eighteen bushels.
The Baltimore Orioles have had very
disastrous Western trip On Sunday they
lost their ninth consecutive game of the trip.
On Tuesday they won a game from the Pitts
burg, but we're BANKED out by the same club
on Wednesday.
The establishments of J. C. Strausburger
and John 0'Brian, liquor dealers, on the
Baltimore county side of the Patapsco, at
Ellicott City, were robbed Tuesday night of
a quantity of whisky, cigars and a small
amount of money.
John C. Barkley, trading as Barkley & Co.,
coffee dealers, of Baltimore, on Monday made
deed of trust, for the benefit of his creditors,
to Fielder G. Slingluff. The FIRMS liabilities
are estimated at 100000, and its assets at
nearly the same.
Emory Grove camp is expected to be larger
this year than ever before, the demand for
lots being unusually large. Already there are
dozen families there, and on Wednesday
four car loads of tents were shipped to the
grounds. The camp opens regularly in Au-
gust -
Farmers in Talbot county have been thresh-
ing their grain, and the reports of yields pub
lished in a local paper show from 20 to SO
bushels per acre. Perry Thomas Leonard,
on his Benoni Point farm, harvested 1000
bushels from 40 acres, or an average OF 80
bushels per acre.
Geo. Nachman and Thomas Turpin, found
guilty on November IA, 1884, of giving indie
cent performances at the French Froliques
Concert Saloon, on Baltimore street, near
North street, Baltimore, were sentenced by
Judge Phelps, in the Criminal Court, Satur.
day, to six months in Jail and $3.50 fine each
and costs.
Ten carloads of steel rails arrived at Ha-
gerstown last Saturday to be used in relaying
that end of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company tracks. When this work is COM
pIeted the entire road will be of steel rails,
thus placing it upon an equal footing in this
respect with the other roads centering at
Hagerstown.
Mrs. Merriek. widow of the late Richard
7. Merrick, died in Washington on Thursday
of last week. She died in ignorance of the
death of her husband, her condition since
the latter's death being at no time such as to
allow the sad intelligence to be broken to her.
She leaves family of eight children, one of
whom has been an invalid for several years.
President Cleveland, accompanied by Col.
Lamont, Postmaster General Villas, and Sec
retaries Whitney, Manning and Lamar spent
Sunday in Washington county, the guests of
the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club, at their
grounds along the Potomac. They left Wash
ington at p NJ Saturday, on the B. 4 O.
road. spent quiet Sunday, and returned to
the city on Monday night.
The Western Maryland Railroad S new con-
necton with the Baltimore and Ohio at Ha
gerstown is proving a source of great revenue
to the company. The Baltimore and Ohio
Company, by way Of this connection, is de-
livering to the Western Maryland for trans
portaton to points on its line and branches
an average of ten carloads daily. The prin-
cipal part of the freight now moving is bark.
A frame building at Highlandtown, near
Baltimore, belonging to Timothy Burke &
Bro, contractors on the Philadelphia extern
sion of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, were
burned on Saturday morning last. Twenty
eight horses were burned to death, besides
twelve wagons, tools, &C. The total loss is
about $4,000, including the cooperage es-
adjustment of Frank Heiseman, in the same
building. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Sunday morning the regular freight crew
of the B. Il G. V. railroad ran an extra freight
train to Baltimore over the Western Maryland
railroad. On the return trip brakeman Daniel
Ridge, of Blue Ridge, miraculously escaped
a horrible death. Ridge was running on top
of the ears towards the rear end of the train
and did not ace bridge under WHICH the train
was passing. The result was that his head
came in contact with the railing and he was
knocked fiat on the car roof Luckily he did
not fall between the car wheels or his end
would have been sudden and horrible. Mr..
Ridge will nurse his injury, deep cash in the
back of his head, for some time before he will
be able to resume work.
The Peninsula Press Association. compris-
ing Journalists of Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Virginia, have ar
ranged pleasant excursion for this year, be-
ginning July IS. Ehe rendezvous will be
Wilmington, Del, whence the eKeursionists
will go down the Peninsula by rail to Cape
Charles City, across the bay to Old Point
Comfort; thence for day to Norfolk and
other points adjacent of interest; then up the
bay to Baltimore by the Bay Line steamers;
then to Washington by the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad; a day or two at the capt.
tai and return home by rail. The association
will spend Sunday and Monday at Cid Point
and vicinity. On Tuesday morning they will
arrive in Baltimore and go direct to Washing
ton. ORieers for the ensuing year will be
elected at Old Point. The stay in Washing
ton will probably include on excursion to Mt.
Vernon.
Early 10 the spring of 1884, says the Hag-
erstown Globe, resident Of Frederick county,
in the vicinity of Wolfsyille, came into pos.
session Of litter Of pigs, one of which had a
solid coat of black bristles, with a slight ex-
cepton. The exception was in the form of a
single spot of white bristles upon the body Of
the pig. The spot grew in prominence and
size as the pig matured, and a more perfect
letter 'C'' could not have been formed by
draughtsman, it is stated, than that formed
by patgre on the body of this pig. In time
the Democratic National Convention nomi
mated Grover Cleveland as the candidate toy
President. 1t was then that this pig became
o treasure to its owner, who accepted the
mark upon its back az an omen Of coming re-
suits. Election time came and with it the
announcement of Cleveland's election to the
Presidency. The pig then was treasure,
indeed, to its owner, who became so fond OF
his pet that he had not the heart to slaughter
it with the balance of the family Of porkers.
Howard Cooner. who brutally beat and