The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-04-18
Maryland Affairs.

A yacht club has been formed at Easton,
with w. O'S. Dimpfel as Commodore.
Petroleum has been discovered on the farm
of Robert Forward, near Sandy Hook, Har-
ford county.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment has decided
to go into camp the coming summer at At
lantic city.
Messrs. Bib & Son, of Baltimore, are en-
ploying non-union men in place of iron moul-
ders on strike at their works in Port Deposit.
The basis of taxation in Baltimore city is
$255, 900, 900, and the tax rate for the ensuing
year is fixed at SLIGO on the 800, the same as
at present.
Rev. DIR. George Leeds, rector of Grace
Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, died
suddenly in Philadelphia on Wednesday, OF
heart disease, aged SO years.
Corn planting and potato planting COM
menced in Caroline and Somerset counties
last week. That section of the State is fully
two weeks in advance of this
The bazaar held in Baltimore to raise funds
to establish home for disabled ex-Confed-
crate soldiers, closed on Wednesday night.
The proceeds amounted to over $4,000.
In 1876 the population of Oxford, Talbot
county, was $50. 1t is now 1,400. This
is rapid growth, for small country town,
which has quadrupled its population In eight
years.
A number of persons in Baltimore city are
contemplating the purpose to build a summer
resort on the beach between Sinepuxent bay
and the Atlantic. ocean, six miles or so north
of Ocean City.
The election of Democratic mayor and
majority of the town council of Frostburg last
week created good deal of surprise in Ale
gany county, as it is the first time Frostburg
has gone Democratic in many years.
1t has been stated that the Hon. Henry
Lloyd is the youngest Governor Maryland
ever had. This is incorrect. When K. Louis
Lowe was elected he was under thirty years
of age, but was thirty before he took the oath
of office.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday, while David Nc
Leod, walking along the street, was passing
some buildings in course of erection, a heavy
pine plank was caught up by the wind and
hurled against his head, knocking him sense
less. He died in four minutes.
A tenant house on the farm of Mr.. P. G.
German, near Guilford, in the sixth district
of Howard county, was burned, with its con-
tents, at late hour on Saturday night last.
1t is covered by insurance in the Montgomery
County Mutual Insurance Company.
The Centreville Observer says that the
Democrats of Caroline will probably nominate
Col. Philip w. Downes for the State Senate,
and, as all factions have become united in that
county, it is believed he can pull through.
The county is now represented by Republi-
can.
Mr.. Jonathan Shafer, soldier of the war
of 1912, died at his residence in Sharpsburg,
Washington county, on the 9th, in the 91st
year of his age. The deceased participated
in the battle of Bladensburg as a member of
Captain E. G. Williams's Williamsport Hus-
sars.
The Very Reverend John ]. Dougherty, one
of the best known and most esteemed priests
in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Tuesday
morning, at st. Joseph Hospital Baltimore,
in the 59th year of his age. He had been
suffering from cancer in the face, but the i'm
mediate cause of death was bronchial troubles,
superinduced by an attack of pneumonia.
John Stouffer, a farmer, residing near
Beaver Creek, Washington county, who had
been in i'll health for some time past, commit
ted suicide several days ago by drowning him
self in stream near his residence. A short
time since Mr.. Stouffer had one of his hands
torn off by thrashing machine and since
then he has brooded over the accident greatly
The Democratic club of the Chapel dis
trict, Talbot county, has adopted resolutions
declaring that ''No more deserving appoint
ment has been made than Mr. Higgins" by
the present administration, and indorsing
Senator German and the democratic govern
meut at Washington in the highest terms.
The meeting was large, harmonious and en-
thusiastie.
The three-story frame Touring mill and
stable of Mr.. Josiah Harp, situated midway
between Myersville and Ellerton, in Frederick
county, were totally destroyed by fire about 8
O'Clock Monday afternoon, together with II
barrels of -four, several hundred bushels of
wheat and lot of farming implements. The
fire is supposed to have originated from the
friction of the machinery. The wind was
blowing gale at the time, and the dwelling
house and saw mill were saved with great
difficulty, the roof of the house being on fire
several times. The loss on the mill is placed
at Sc, 900, with no insurance.