The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-07-11
Maryland Affairs.

died IN montgomery county taSG week.
a Baltimore ice dealer computes that the
people of that city use seven hundred tons OF
ice daily.
The tax rate for Charles county this year
is 81. on the 500, an increase of 2 cents over
last year.
Rev. f. T. Tagg, corresponding secretary
of the board of foreign missions, NJ. p. Church,
is confined to bed by sickness.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment, 800 strong,
will go into camp at Atlantic City, n. j..
next week. They will remain two weeks.
Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, aged 81; Mrs.
Mary Saddler, aged SO; and Miss Cecilia
Murray aged SO, died in Baltimore on Sun
day.
! A destructive hail-st passed over por-
! tons of Wicomico county last Friday night,
doing great damage to growing crops. In
Sharptown the hail was especially heavy.
w. Fl. CLANCY was arrested in Baltimore
ON Tuesday, on the charge of robbing the
store of W. w. Dorsey, in Calvert county
several months ago. He will be sent to Cal.
vert county for trial.
/ Rev. Charles H Stonestreet, we'll known
Jesuit Father, died of heart disease in Holy
Cross College at Worcester, Massachusetts,
on Saturday. He was native of Maryland
and 70 years of age.
During game of baseball at Winchester,
Queen Anne's county, on Saturday, batted
| ball struck little child of Richard Collyer on
the head above the ears, inflicting injuries
from which it died on Monday.
Sixty four new buildings have been erected
in Hagerstown during the past six months,
which does not include number of large
and handsome buildings now in the contract
ors' hands and shortly to be completed.
Columbus W. Edmondson, well-knowr
I citizen of the fourth district, Howard county,
and for several years justice of the peace al
Cooksville, died suddenly on Monday morn
! ing of paralysis, in the SD year of his age.
Judge Brown, of Baltimore, has decided
that judgement is in no sense negotiable,
and that an assignee takes it subject to all the
equities which exist as against the assgnor.
The case was that Of Charles I. Stansbury
against Thomas w. Bamberger and Chew
Snebley.
Some pigeons of the Excelsior Homing
Pigeon Club recently had race from Allan
Ia, Ga, to Baltimore, distance of 5S8 miles
in an air line. The first, a blue cock, owned
by Mr. Elias Riler, made the flight in 80
hours minutes.
A young lady of Anne Arundel county, in
/ imitation of DIR. Tanner, undertook to deprive
herself of food for long period. She per-
sisted in her determination until her health
was seriously impaired, and her parents have
taken her to Bedford Springs in the hope
that she may be benefited by sojourn there.
John Emerson Lamb, an old and wellknown
citizen of Baltimore, died on Tuesday morn
| ing suddenly at the residence of his son
George M. Lamb, on the Reisterstown road,
near Mount Hope. He was eighty-one years
old For number of years he was principal
of Milton Academy near Sparks Station, on
| the N c. r. r., in Baltimore county.
It is said that when old Green Hill 2. d.
Church. on the Wicomico river, was built, in
/ 1913, the people drove their cows to the
building, MIXED them, and with the milk
mixed the red ochre with which the pews
were painted. The color still remains. The
effort to restore the old church has taken a
practical shape
In the United States Circuit Court at Bal
timore on Tuesday, Judge Bond affirmed the
decree of the District Court awarding three
colored women damages 500 each for hav-
ing been excluded from first-class sleeping
apartments on the steamer Sue, after they
had purchased frst-clas tickets. This set
ties the question so far as travelling on
steamboats, on Chesapeake Bay is concerned.
Chas. Lippey, colored, aged IL, was struck
by lightning Sunday afternoon at the farm OF
Frank Bennett, on the Westminster turnpike,
three miles from Reisterstown, Baltimore
county. The boy was sitting at an open door
way in a chair when the bolt struck tree al
the end of the house and then struck the boy
in the right leg Lippey fell unconscious
with his leg badly shattered and remained I'M
conscious for some time. He died on Monday
while being taken to Baltimore for medical
treatment.
A Young man, who is said to have COM
mitted FORTY robberies in Maryland, was ar
rested by Washington officers last Saturday.
He gives his name as VIM. B. Brooks, but
who under the name of Harrison, as alleged,
is indicted in Prince Georges county, fol
horse stealing. He was taken by Sheriff
Scaggs and Deputy Robey and carried tic
Marlboro. Brookes- Harrison was arrested
at Laurel, where he has recently gotten mar
ried, established and ice cream saloon and
was about to start billiard saloon. He was
arrested after his trail had been followed fol
eight hours by Detectives Edelin, and Mating
", of Washington, and Sheriff Scaggs, Of
Prince Georges county. The same man was
arrested in Washington last year and turned
over to officer Barranger. of Baltimore, who
carried him to that city. On the way from
Baltimore to Marlboro, while in charge Of
officer Talbot, of Prince Georges county, he
leaped while handcuffed from train running
thirty miles an hour. He then walked on tC
near Good Hope hill, and on the way got an
axe from farmhouse yard. He gave a col
ored man named Payne the axe in payment
for taking off his letters, and after some
months absence came to Laurel, and as men
toned married and settled there. His wife,
it is stated, says that he has been absent from
home on every night that robbery has been
committed in that neighborhood. He denies
that he is Harrison, and says that he is the
son of brcklayer living in the Northern
Neck of Virginia, noar the line of King George
and Richmond counties. The detectives, il
is said, have ample evidence against him.
The negro to whom he COVE the axe attempt
to sell it, and the first person to whom he
offered it was the farmer from whom it had
been taken.
Another heavy rain fell during Saturda,