The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-12
Maryland Affairs.

A cigar mandatory has been put in opera
ton at Centreville.
Kennedy Wright, aged IS years, died ii
Dorchester county on Tuesday morning.
James Adley, colored, committed suicide
by taking laudanum, in Hagerstown on Tues
day night.
Joseph T. Groves, of the 9th district, Cec
! county, raised 1860 bushels of corn on l:
acres-an average of 105 bushels per acre.
| Hogs weighing respectively ia, sos and 5l(
pounds were killed last week at Salisbury.
! These are heavy weights for the Eas ern Sho' .
Augustus Ramsburg, aged Is years, living
near Frederick, was almost instantly killed
last Friday afternoon by being thrown from q
horse.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are prevalent
to a considerable extent in Prince George S
county, and the school attendance is much
reduced thereby.
The store of D. P. West, in Somerset coun-
ty, was destroyed by an accidental fire last
Saturday evening. The postoffice in the same
building was also burned.
The Hyattsville Advertiser, the only Re-
publican paper published in Prince George S
county, has suspended. The propnetor--R.
B. Topham, has made an assignment to Frank
Smith for the benefit of his creditors.
George Mills has purchased 16 acres, with
Improvements, for $1,000, from Robert Mer-
Ger, near Lisbon, Howard county; Mr.. Mercer
has purchased for $4,000, the $50 acre farm
of William Lennon, near Cooksville, same
county.
John W. Merryman, who was shot by Chas.
Jessop, near Cockeysville, some three weeks
ago, appeared as witness before the grand
jury of Baltimore county on Tuesday, for the
purpose of prosecuting Jessop for assauiting
him with intent to kill:
Z. B. Emory, of Queen Annes county,
lost promising six months old FLY, by Cy-
clops, last week, valued at $500. While
playing in lot she stepped on the edge of a
stick, which turned up and struck her be-
tween the fore legs, causing death almost in
stantly from hemorrhage.
The circuit court for Baltimore county be-
gan last Monday. The trial docket contained
221 cases, the original 10 and the appeal 40.
The appeal docket was taken up Tuesday.
Civil cases will be taken up next Monday, and
the criminal docket will not be taken up until
after the holidays.
Adjutant- Gen. Howard has submitted to
Gov. Lloyd his report of the condition, etc.,
of the organized and active militia of the
State for the fiscal year ended September 30,
1885. The report says the condition of the
militia is not satisfactory because of the mea-
gre appropriation made for its support.
Senator Joseph s. Allston, of St. Mary's
county, died at his home in Leonardtown, on
December Sd, aged about SO years. Mr.. All
ston was nominated for reelection by the Re.
pqblicaps of his county this year, but declined
ia the Senate be was independent and voted
for measures that seemed to him to be proner
regardless of party.
Josiah Valentine, aged about 81 years, a
prominent farmer of Frederick county, and
for some years president of the board of conn.
ty commissioners, died very suddenly while
with his family at his residence,
near Daysville, in Liberty district. on last
Friday night. He was brother of Rev. DR..
NJ. Valentine, president of Gettysburg College.