The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-26
MARYLAND Affairs.

! John w. Dorsey has resigned as school
commissioner of Howard county.
There were III deaths and an equal num-
Der of births reported in Baltimore last
week.
The cornerstone of the new Evangelical
Lutheran Church at Hagerstown was laid last
Sunday.
There was slight fall of snow about eight
miles northwest of Frederick at an early hour
Wednesday morning.
Southern Maryland is suffering from pro-
tracted drouth That section has Jared badly
this year from droughts and severe storms.
Sarah Jenifer died in Washington, d. c.,
a few days ago, aged II years. She was
mulatto and native of Prince Georges co.
Herr Richard Burmeister, of Hamburg,
Germany, has been secured as the piano IN
structor, and successor of Prof Carl taelten,
by the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Bal
timore.
Nine of the twelve prisoners in Allegany
county Jail on Thursday night overpowered
Deputy Sheriff Mcmillan when he went in to
lock them in their cells and escaped. One
was recaptured.
Lewis Bowling committed suicide in the
Baltimore city Jail last Saturday night, from
the effects of poison taken with suicidal in
tent He had been arrested for threatening
the life of his wife.
DR.. A. Trego Shertzer, of Baltimore, has
bought the place formerly owned by MIR.
Charles Haines, near Owings's Mills, adjon-
ing the places of VIM. j. Ward and Milton
Painter, twenty acres, for 81, 600.
Patrick Herman, who shot and killed his
uncle, Thomas Herman, in Baltimore, on the
night of the 18th instant, because of disa-
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Tuesday, and his trial was fixed for the 18th
inst.
The monument to James l.. Ridgely, Secre
tary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
erected in Harlem Park, Baltimore, was I'M
yelled Tuesday afternoon, in presence of
large assembly. The ceremonies we're pre-
coded by parade of the Order.
After the discovery of a shortage in his ac-
counts, Postmaster Miller, of Frederick, ex-
pressed willingness to resign, but the gov
eminent would not permit him. He was re-
moved, and Henry Williams, cashier of the
Central National Bank, has been appointed in
his place.
The Baltimore Orioles are at the tail end
of the American Association, and will remain
there. The more new players Manager Bar
ME gets, the worse their exhibitions of ball
playing. The club however, enjoys the dis
tinction of having occupied every place in the
Association from top to bottom.
There were shipped to Baltimore last week
285 head fiat cattle from Monroe and Green
brier counties, West Virginia, for shipment to
Europe. In the weighing before they were
put on the railroad lot of 81 averaged l ,576
pounds, and one steer 100 pounds; 40 aver.
aged 1.410 pounds, and Is head averaged
upwards of $3.50 pounds.
!. strange state of affairs was discovered
last Sunday by the persons attending Wesley
Chapel, Cecil county, swarm OF bees having
taken possession of the church. 1t appears
that the swarm has for some time been located
in the building above the ceiling, and that
some person in search of honey battered the
ceiling in order to get at it. AS the bees,
which had escaped into the church, would not
leave, the services for the day had to be aban
doned.
Albert Hall, colored, was arrested and
taken to Ellicott City on Tuesday, upon the
charge of robbing the trunk ofLemuel Robin
son, of Marriottsville, Howard county, $40.
In the trunk at the time Mr.. Robinson had in
apocket- book $50. After missing the money
Mr. Robinson notified the merchants in the
vicinity of the fact, and yesterday Hall pro-
duced the 20-dollar bill at the store of Mr.
Richard Davis, at Marriottsville. Upon being
accused Hall, it is said, made a full confess
sion.
The handsome bridge erected by the city
of Baltimore over Jones' Falls, at Calvert
street, is decorated on each corner by hand
somely- carved lion of colossal size Some
time ago these lions, which suggested the
British lion, had their tails chopped off.
Early Wednesday morning Lawrence Finne-
gan, we'll known character, of doubtful SAM
ty, was caught in the act of further mutilating
the animals with Ratchet. He had chopped
pieces out of them all, and two are utterly
ruined He was locked up. Fnnegan be-
came prominent several years ago by vigor-
ously denouncing the Democratic party and
running for Congress as an independent can
didate.
Grape cultivation is becoming an important
industry in Anne Arundel county Among
the principal growers are Messrs. Hengart-
ner, Diefel and Mervin, each of whom have
vineyards near Annapolis. Together they
have already shipped about $4,000 pounds
this season, Mr.. Hengartner alone shipping
$4,000 pounds. He will retain enough Of the
fruit to produce a thousand gallons of wine.
Most of the Anne Arundel grapes are of the
Concord variety. Grapes are shipped in
baskets holding twelve pounds each, and sell
from . to 81 cents a pound to commission
merchants. Enough were shipped in one day
from AnndpOllS IHlS ScdSOu W eIllT0iy III d
railroad car.
John G.. Hess, Hall w. Eyster, g. T.
Grouse and Charles Oreman, of Emmitsburg
Frederick county, were arrested last week on
warrants sworn out by Postofice Inspector
w. 7. Henderson, charging them with using
the mail for fraudulent purposes by sending
lottery tickets through them. The offences
are alleged to have been committed III May,
1884, and we're the sending of circulars through
the mails offering to sell tickets for a grand
drawing of prizes to the value of $40, 900, the
prizes being reapers, pianos, gold watches
and other articles, the tickets having coupons
bearing numbers and selling for 81. They
were taken to Baltimore and gave bail before
a U. S. Commissioner to appear for further
hearing this week.
On Saturday, the 18th, Nicholas Snowden,
colored, a man about thirty-siX years of age,
was lodged in the Howard county Jail at Eli
colt city, upon the charge of feloniousy as
saulting Alberta Fisher, ten year old color
ed girl. He would have been brought to trial
last Saturday, but crowd of colored men,
about twelve in number concluded to attend
to his case, and about o'clock on Friday
morning of last week they went to the Jail
and effected an entrance by the pretense of
having a prisoner to put in. After gaining
entrance they were not long in finding Snow
den, whom they hurried to large oak tree,
about $50 yards from the Jail, where they
hung him. Snowden was very bad charac-
ter, and no one seems to regret his sudden
demise al the end of rope attached to the
limb of an oak tree.
W. B. Sailer, W. Vanderpool and Oliver
Perry, three strangers, styling themselves the
New York Piano Company, who went to Fred
erick within the past few weeks, and have
been engaged ostensibly since then in an effort
to sell pianos in this section, were arrested
Wednesday evening by Constable Horatio
Waters, at the instance of Mr.. Calvin Wrenn, !
farmer, living on the Manor, and Mr.. Chas.
Wood of New Market, and several others,
upon the charge of alleged swindling. They |
were taken before Justice Turner, and in de-
fault of bail for further hearing Wednesday
Vanderpool and Perry were committed to Jail.
Sailer furnished bail. The charges preferred |
by Messrs. Wrenn and Wood and the others !
are that the accused came to them and in |
duced them to allow piano to be'placed in
their residences for time, promising that, if
they secured the,,sale of four instruments in
their neighborhoods, the one left with them |
should be a consideration for the service. |
They were then asked to sign what they claim
they understood and supposed to be receipts |
for the pianos. They have since learned that
the papers were notes for $500 each, which
Cto r,ls to Mr.