The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-06
Maryland Affairs.

Some of the wheat in Frederick county has
been attacked by Hessian fly.
Spring agricultural fairs were held in Cecil
and Montgomery counties this week.
Mrs. Ellen Ballard Skinner died in Balti-
more on Wednesday, in her Goth year.
| A number Of salmon have been caught in
the tributaries of Chesapeake bay recently.
William Watkins, colored, died in BaIti-
more on Thursday at the alleged age of los
years.
The stores of C. s. Abrahams, at Wood
lawn, and G. r. Burlington, at Rising Sun,
Cecil county, have been robbed recently.
A school house, costing $1,000, is to be
built at Snow Hill. In the same county, at
Berlin, another, costing 5000, is to built.
The Baltimore base ball club is doing bet
| ter than formerly. 1t defeated the ST. Louis
club on Wednesday and Cincinnati on Thurs
day.
The postofice at Baltimore was on Sunday
afternoon turned over by the retiring post
master, Adreon, to his succe ssor, /. Parker
Veazey.
VIM H. Howard, aged AZ years, a promi-
nent farmer of Frederick county, died at his
residence, near Frederick, on Saturday night,
of pneumonia.
For county purposes a levy has been made
of 81 cents on the 500 in Washington coun-
ty. The basis of taxation is nearly eighteen
millions of dollars.
President Baughman, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, has arranged to pay Off the
employees of the company for the month of
April on or about the 18th inst
The Prohibitionists of Dorchester county
have entered the field of politics and on Tues
day nominated full county ticket and can
didates for the Senate and House.
Abraham Huffer, noted for his numerous
inventions, including vacuum pump, died
at his residence at Hagerstown on Wednes-
day of heart disease, aged about 53 years
The county commissioners of Frederick CO..
fixed the tax levy for the year at 65 cents on
the hundred dollars, which is a reduction Of
three cents in comparison with that OF last
year.
VIM. H. Welsh, of Baltimore, editor of the
old Baltimore Gazette, on Wednesday was
appointed by the President deputy third audi,
tor of the treasury at Washington, to succeed
A. G. Gangwehr, of Ohio.
The receipts of grain and -four at Baltimore
during MAY we're: 701, 482 bushels wheat, 969,
4. lO2 bushels corn, 215, 297 bushels oats, 1911
bushels rye, $3.50 bushels barley, AZ ,9O9
bushels barley malt and PSI, TAT barrels flour.
Samuel High, aged seventy nine years,
died on Tuesday at his home, on the Reisters-
town road between Arlington and Oakland,
Baltimore county, from stroke OF paralysis
received on May 20 while he was at the sup
portable.
Rev. Thomas Scott Bacon, rector of st.
Luke's Episcopal Church at Adamstown,
Frederick county, was married Tuesday after
noon at that place by Bishop Paret to Miss
Sophie T.. Graf, daughter of Mrs. Ann Graft,
of Buekeystown.
Villa Grace Peoples, aged four years,
youngest daughter of William Peoples, of
New Valley, Cecil county, fell into the ma
chinery of her fathers saw-mill about nine
o'clock on last Saturday morning. and was
killed instantly. Her body was cut IN two by
the saw.
Several changes were made in the force OF
watchmen at the Treasury Department at
Washington, on Monday. Thomas McRae,
of Maryland, was appointed captain of the
watch, vice A. NJ. Stevenson, reduced to the
rank of lieutenant, place made vacant by
the dismissal of James &. Crump.
Mr.. Edwin II. Reynolds, of Cecil county,
has carp pond containing about three thou,
sand of these fish. He feeds them on canned
corn. and saws he can make more out OF
corn in this way than by feeding it to hogs.
He last year sold 1928 worth of fish, and his
stock is larger now than it was then.
Patrick Friel, living at Contee, Prince
GEORGES county, while eating dinner about
two o clock OH Monday, was choked to death
by piece of beef, which lodged in his throat.
Death ensued in few moments after the
accident, and before medical aid could be
summoned The deceased was powerful
man, and in perfect health when he sat down
to the table,
Hanson Johnson and Jerry Brooks, both
colored. while attending a church festival
near Burkittsville, Frederick county, on Sat
urday night became involved in a quarrel,
which resulted in the former being shoti the
head twice by the latter, and it is thought Sc
riously wounded. Brooks then fed, and has
not yet been arrested.
On Wednesday morning German named
Motel, aged about fifty, while walking on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Paw
Paw and No. II water station stepped from
one track to another to avoid train, and was
hit by the engine of the train on the second
track, which he did not see approaching;
His right leg and arm were badly mangled and
both were amputated.
A meeting of the stockholders of yhe Ches-
aneake and Ohio Canal was held at Annapolis
on Monday. The annual report of President
Baughman-six months of his term and SIX
months of President Smith s-was presented,
and showed an improved condition In the at
fairs of the canal There has been saving
in the last six months of nearly 100000, as
compared with the same period last year.
A State Temperance League, non-political,
as distinguished from the State Alliance, was
organized in Baltimore on Tuesday. Henry
i q Deyries. of Howard county, was chosen
president The following board of directors
was elected: VIM. r. Griffith, Rev. Chas. A.
Reid. of Carroll, Rev. James R. gladden.,
Prof J. K. Taylor, VIM. II. Il. Young, Ed
win Blackburn. This board was empowered
to fill up the list of county vice presidents and
to increase its own number to twenty -one'
Harrison Scott, ooIored, is charged with
attempting to feloniously assault a eolored
girl named Banks, about ID years old, living
on the farm of Mr. Iachariah Berry, near
Brightseat, in Kent district, Prince George
county. The girl, it seems, was passing
through a thick woods near the residence OF
| Mr.. Berry when Scott is said to have attempt
ed to assault her. Her screams brought lady
living near by to the spot and upon her APP
nroach Scott ran off and left the neighborhood.
Sheriff Scaggs ard deputies are looking for
him. 1t is thought he has gone to Virginia.
Joseph Stewart, a colored man about fifty
years Of age, was arrested in Baltimore on
! Thursday on the charge of attempting to COM
NIT felonious assault upon his daughter Ann
Maria Stewart, about ten years old. He went
to his home, No. A State street. and chased
the little girl about until he caught her. He
then dragged her into the house. The child s
screams aroused the neighborhood and Annie
Askins and John Williams. rushed into the
house, and taking the child away from Stew
art, assisted her to escape from further injury
by jumping from the window. Officer Schley
arrested Stewart, who, after a hearing at the
Western station house, was committed tor
court.
Charles R. Sewer on behalf of himself and
other property holders of the third district OF
Anne Arundel county, who recently sustained
heavy losses by forest fires on their premises,
waited on the board of county commissioners
on Tuesday and stated that he had every rea-
son to believe that the recent fires in his
neighborhood which destroyed much valua-
bic growing timber, fencing and cord wood
were of incendiary origin, and urged that
something be done to prevent "a repetition OF
the act. Fires have been of such frequent
occurrence that some of the farmers have felt
obliged to patrol their property during the
night to see that everything is secure. The
people of the neighborhood, Mr.. Sewer says,
have been worked up 10 such an extent that
should the guilty parties be caught IN the act
they would probably be summarily dealt with,