The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-27


ard county.
The tax rate for county purposes in Mont
gomery county was fixed on Thursday at o6i
cents. For state and county purposes the
rate is $1.05.
The Baltimore Orioles have actually won
another game, beating the Metropolitans of
New York on their own grounds on Thursday
by a score of 5 to 2.
There is prospect of four tickets being
put in the field in Dorchester county this fall,
a Democratic, Republican, Local Option
and an Independent.
Michael Delaney took a watch from a jew
elry store in Cumberland on Thursday, in
order to be arrested and sent to the peniten-
tiary. He was out of work.
The Frederick NelCs says some farmers in
that county will not get more than eight bush
els of wheat per acre, and the maximum will
not be over twenty bushels.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was be-
slowed on Rev. VIM. Simonton, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at diminishing last
week, by Delaware Collge, at Newark, Del.
A number of the cadets at Annapolis have
been tried for flirting with some girls that
landed on the wharf with an excursion party
recently. The verdict has not yet been made
public.
Frank Myers, who was sentenced in Balti-
more to twenty lashes for beating his wife,
has been denied new trial by the supreme
court. and he received the lashes on Wednes-
day.
d. w. Kaufman was sentencedin the u.
S. Court, Baltimore, on Wednesday to three
years hard labor for stealing letters while
postal clerk on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad
VIM. Williams, of Hyattstown, Montgom
cry county, has been awarded the contract
for furnishing roofing slate for the custom
house at Toledo, Ohio, at his bid of 81 per
hundred.
The remains of Frederick Eversman, ST.,
who died in Baltimore several weeks ago,
have been taken to Lancaster, Pa, to be Gre
mated. 1t was the desire of the deceased
that he be cremated.
DR.. w. II. Purnell, president of Delaware
College, Newark, Del, has signified his ac-
ceptance of the presidency of the Frederick
Female Seminary, recently rendered him by
the trustees of that institution.
Andrew Shannon, As years of age, fell
asleep while sitting on a key in the doorway
of the second story of factory in Baltimore,
last Friday afternoon. He fell to the first
floor and broke his neck, dying instantly.
Commencement exercises took place at St.
Johns College, Annapolis, this week. Col.
H Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown, delivered
the annual Grafton before the societies, his
subject being "Good Swords Make Good
PIowshares." 1t was an able address.
At the meeting of the County Commission
ers of Wicomico county last week the levy
for 1886 was fixed The county tax will be
814 cents on the 500, which is Al cents less
than last year. The 81 cents, added to the
State tax of 18& cents, will make the taxes
just 81 on the 500,
Rev. Charles W. Rankin, for thirty-two
years rector of st. Luke's Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Baltimore, resigned on Wednes-
day. Failing health was the cause of the
resignation. Dr. Rankin is widely known in
the American church as a scholar and pro-
found theologian, and in England is but little
less known and reverenced than in the United
States.
Frank Pyers, a young man formerly en-
ployed as brakeman on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, who was convicted on April
20 last of brutal assault upon his wife,
Lille Pyers, to whom he was married in Sep
TENDER last, was last week sentenced by Judge
Fisher to six months in jail and to receive
fifteen lashes, which were given to him by
Sheriff Airey last Friday.
Hon. Richard T. Merrick, native Of
Charles county, died in Washington on Tues
day aged So years. He was lawyer OF
national reputation and was counsel for
Andrew johnson in the great Impeachment
Trial was counsel for j ohm H. Surratt in his
trial for conspiracy and murder, for the Dem
ocrats before the Electoral Commission, and
for the government in the Star route trials.
Mrs. Southey F. Miles, wife of Capt.
Southey F. Miles, prominent farmer and
we'll known citizen of Somerset county, died
Wednesday afternoon at her residence neal
Marion, after a protraeted illness OF three
months Mrs. Miles was 81 years old. She
leaves seven children-four sons and three
daughters. State Attorney JoshuaF. Miles
of the Somerset bar, is son of the deceased.
Mrs. Mary Reside, who had such pleas
ant interview with President Cleveland at the
White House few days ago, and who greeted
him with "God bless you, my son" upon hel
return one last week was the recipient OF
the Presiaent's autograph card. Mrs. Reside
is IN her eighty eighth year. She resides al
Hampden, Baltimore county. DR.. George
III. Cairnes is her son-in- law, and resides with
her.
The following REIMBURSEMENT of salaries OF
postmasters in Maryland has been made for
the year 1885, 6;-Annapolis, from So, 400 to
81, 800; Cambridge, from 81, 400 to Sl,3OOi
Centrevlle, from 81 300 to 81 POO; Easton,
from 81, 700 to 81 900; Elicott City, from 81, )
300 to 81, 2O0 Emmittsburg, from 81, 900 TIC
81 900; Frostburg, from 81, 300 to 81, 100
Hagerstown. from 81, 800 to 81, 200; Port De
post, from 81, 100 to $1,000.
The electric motor tc be used on the horse
car line between Baltimore and Woodberry,
was tested last week and worked to the
entire satisfaction of all who witnessed it. II
is claimed that in time this motor will entire
ly supercede horsepower, as cars can be
propelled by it at one third the cost of any
other power. 1t costs SO per day to run al
ordinary horse-car and it is said that by the
motor power twelve cars can be run at tota
cost of SIS per day.
The Democrats of Cecil county put theil
ticket in the field last Tuesday. Clinton
Mccullough, ESQ.,, son of the late Hon. Hi
ram Mccullough was nominated for STATE
Senator, and the BALANCE of the ticket are
also good nominations. Albert Constable
who has been controlling affairs, was badly
whipped in the primaries and at the conven.
ton. Writ, Crothers and lamar, the latter
the nominee for register of wills, all his former
leutenants, were against him.
We learn that another new railroad i,
talked OF lot t1dSeIoCOMu WHICH VII Pi"SO =
on the shortest direct line from the west tc
the Atlantic The proposed road is to rur
! from Annapolis Junction on the Washington
Branch j. & o. R. R., to Hagerstown, via
Frederick. The design is to connect witt
the Vanderbilt road here, and so give, by the
new road to Annapolis Junction, and theppf
by Annapolis and Elkridge road to Annapq.
lis, direct short route from Fittshurg apd
the west to the Atlantic acknowledges
t0pR NeWs.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused
to grant a new trial to Howard Cooper. the
negro ravisher, who was convicted in Balti
more few weeks ago of an assault on Mis-:
Gray, of Baltimore county. The court were
unanimous in their opinion that the ruling o.
the Criminal Court of Baltimore City should
be affirmed. The court decides that the jury
laws of Maryland are not in contravention O.
the fourteenth amendment of the constitution
of the United States, and consequently that
the petition for removal Of the case to the
| United States Court on the alleged ground
dat the Jury laws of Maryland were unfair to
persons Of bis race and color was properly re-
J fused.