The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-02
Maryland Affairs.

well, have been badly beaten tnlS week, anu
fallen to about fourth place from second.
The Baltimore county tax rate for 1885 is
60 cents on the 500, the same as in 1884.
The basis of taxation is $62, 2O0, 908, and the
revenue will amount to 1876, 205.
The Kirmes held in Baltimore this week,
for the benefit of the fund for the Baltimore
Home for Incurables, Melted about $4,000.
The Kirmes consisted of dances of all nations
and festival.
At meeting of the Frederick Rihemen
held in their armory on Wednesday, Mr..
Quitman S. j. Beckley was elected captain
of the organization, in place of }. 5. b. Hart
sock, resigned.
Cumberland proposes to have military
celebration next fall-a reunion OF the Fed.
eral veterans of Maryland, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania. Maryland state troops are to
be invited also.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal board
met at Cumberland on Thursday and took
action looking to the collection OF moneys
due for rents and leases, and for dispensing
with surplus employees.
The Meadow Cotton Mill of the Messrs.
VIM. E. Hooper & Sons, at Woodbury., Bal
timore county, suspended operations Thurs
day until further orders. The mill, when
running full, gave employment to several
hundred hands,
After quarrel about whisky bill, at Wood.
vile, prince Georges county, in which James
A. Morris was struck on the head by John
w. Lamar, the latter was shot by the former
while passing Morris saloon in a carriage
with his wife and mother-in-law and child.
An effort is being made to introduce the
electric light into Salisbury. A party of Sal
isbury capitalists are prepared to furnish the
necessary funds to put down the plant, which
will cost $50, 900, if the business men will en-
courage the enterprise by general use OF
the light.
fight between John Miller and William
Wright, both colored, took place IN Bethany
lane. Baltimore, Tuesday afternoon. Miller
bit Wright's left ear off to the lobe Police
officers Sheppard and Considine, arrested
them. Wright went into the station carrying
his ear in his hand.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan will be the or
ator on Decoration Day, May 80, at Antietam
Cemetery. 1t will be his first visit to the
Antietam battle field since the battle, although
it was in that engagement that his fame
reached its zenith While in Hagerstown
General Mcclellan will be the guest OF Col.
H. Kyd Douglas, who was on the staff with
Stonewall Jackson at Antietam.
Darius M. Howell, popular young farmer
of Dorchester county, died at his farm, Lin
den.'' on the Choptank river, about two miles
above Cambridge, last Saturday afternoon.
About two weeks previous Mr.. Howell injured
the index finger of his right hand in drill
while seeding oats. The wound was appar
emily healing, but symptoms of lockjaw APP
peared, which afterwards fully developed and
resulted in death.
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
have awarded the contract for furnishing coal
for their use for one year from May /, to
Victor Cushwa and Steffey & Findlay, of
Williamsport, shippers of the Consolidation
Company Cumberland coal. The Western
Maryland uses about $4,000 tons of coal a
year, and has been supplied for long time
with the Consolidation coal by the same
Williamsport shippers.
Mrs. Mary F. Morris, wife of w. W. Morris,
of Landlord, Kent county, died on Tuesday
from injuries caused by her clothes catching
fire the day before. Mrs. Morris was engaged
in her kitchen when she caught fire. Her
husband went to her rescue and enveloped her
in carpet but she was so seriously injured
as to make her recovery impossible. The de-
ceased was daughter of Lorenzo D. Wilson,
formerly of Howard county. She leaves
three sons.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows of MARYLAND on Monday laid the corner
stone. in Hanlan Park, Baltimore, of a monu-
ment to the late James L. Ridgeley, for more
than forty years Secretary of the Grand Lodge.
There was a procession from the hall to the
Park. where Sovereign Grand Sir Henry +.
Carey laid the stone. Addresses were made
bv Grand Master of Maryland John +. Plum
mer, Sovereign Grand Sire Carey and others
An immense throng attended the proceedings
A large and handsome switzer barn on the
home farm of Mr.. Eugene l.. Derr, proml-
nent farmer of Frederick county, four miles
from Frederick, was destroyed by fire of
supposed incendiary origin Sunday night last.
About fifteen tons of hay lot of fodder and
other feed, and quantity of machinery and
farming implements were among the contents
consumed A beautiful Bashaw stallion, for
which 81 900 was recently refused, also per.
ished, and u or Is other horses were saved
only with great difficulty.
The Rev. August Krause, pastor of Otter
bein German Evangelical Reformed Church,
ON the north side of Conway street, between
Sharp and Hanover streets, Baltimore, had an
attack of apoplexy last Sunday morning while
PRAYING in the church. He had preached the
sermon and was in the midst of the prayer
which followed when he was noticed making
a convulsive movement of one of his arms.
As he ceased speaking and did not rise again,
a member of the congregation, approached
him to see what was the matter. Mr.. krause
was lying in heap, motionless and with an
expression of intense pain on his face. He
was removed to his residence in the afternoon,
and died about midnight.
On Saturday evening as Solomon Neff, a
track Waterman on the Columbia and Port
Deposit Railroad, was engaged at his duties
near his home, at Turkey Hill, Pa, he saw
his little two-year- old son wander away from
the house and toward the railroad track. He
started hastily to overtake him, but before he
could do so train No. 20 came laundering
around a curve and struck the child, which
had reached the track, and hurled him into
the air in full view of the agonized father.
Owing to the sharp curve the child had not
been seen by the engineer or fireman until
too late to stop the train or rescue 1t, as the
fireman attempted to do by getting out on the
pilot and endeavoring to reach him. The
train was stopped and the little one taken to
his home. His skull was badly fractured, and
the child died about II o'clock Sunday night.
Mr.. Robert C. Lowry, of New York,
and Messrs. NJ. [. Goldsborough and
Oswald Tilghman, of Talbot, are preparing
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raising diamond back terrapins for market.
The place selected for the terrapin farm is a
cove or pond on Mr.. Goldbsborough's East
Avon farm in Oxford Neck, Talbot county, at
the mouth of Trippe's creek. The pond con-
tains one acre, and at high tide the water in
it is six feet deep. The bottom is soft, oozy
mud, over much of the pond-just such
place as terrapin delights in when he wants
to go into winter quarters. The ponds to be
enclosed by high board fence, with gates
made of bars to allow the flowing in and out
of the tide. A separate enclosure will be
provided for the young terrapins, to prevent
the old terrapins from eating up their pro.
geny. A beach of sand will also be provided
as a nesting place to lay their eggs.
The suit of Daniel K. Stewart of England,
against the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pany, for an Injunction and receiver for the
canal, was placed on trial on Wednesday in
the United States Circuit Court before Judges
Hugh H. Bond and Thomas j. Morris. Mr..
Stewart is a holder of the bonds of 1874, now
overdue and unpaid, and he is joined in his
application for receiver by VIM. w. Cor
coran, of Washington, Allen Bowie Davis, j.
Bayard Smith, Geo. S. Brown and Geo. Haw-
kins Williams, trustees for the holders of the
bonds of 1874 The case is before the court
for final determination of all the points at is
sue The canal company contends that the
bonds of 1874 are a lien only upon the tolls
and revenues, and not upon the corpus of the
canal. Ex-Gov. P. F. Thomas, ex- Attorney-
General Chas. j. NJ. Gwinn and Mr.. Thomas
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