The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-28
Maryland Affairs.

! It's capital STOCK.
The Miles River Farmers Club has been
formed in Talbot county, with DIR. Charles
Lowndes as president.
The Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank of Frederick has declared a dividend OF
6 per cent. for the last six months.
DR.. VIM. S. Keeeh, of Charles county, died
on the 18th, aged nearly 81 years. He practic-
ed medicine for SO years, and for some years
was professor at Charlotte Hall and at Marl-
| boro.
Business on the Washington County Branch
of the B. & o. r. R. was better than usual
last year, showing decrease in expenses and
an increase in receipts. Samuel Spencer has
been reelected president.
| Senator German has rented the residence
belonging to Mrs. Mary j. Blair, 10 Lafayette
! Square, Washington, and will occupy it during
the session of Congress. tits nearly opposite
the Presidents Mansion.
The authorities of the York, Pa, aims
house have written to the commissioners of
charities and corrections for Frederick county,
stating their intention of visiting Montevue
/ Hospital in a body December 3.
Thomas Sorrell, colored, shot and, it is
thought, fatally wounded William Murphy,
colored, Sunday afternoon, shortly before
five O'Clock, in front of Cornelius Bevan's
saloon, Baltimore, during a quarrel.
James Dickinson, so years of age, was
struck and killed in Baltimore Wednesday by
an express train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. He was boss carpenter at the
works of the company at Mt. Clare.
w. C. Scatterfeld, of Greensborough, Car
| oline county, has closed contract with
Montgomery & Howard, Boston shipbuild-
ing firm, for the framing of steamboat of
two hundred and eighty feet keel and seventy
two feet beam.
St. Paul's Methodist Church, of Hagers
town, ground for which was broken Deem
Der, 1888, and the corner stone laid on the
! 18th day of August, 1884, was dedicated last
pressive ceremonies.
! The Maryland State Farmers Association,
| which held a convention in Baltimore last
February, will have its first annual meeting
in Baltimore on Wednesday, January 18th,
1886. Each local organization of farmers
throughout the State is invited to send dele
! gate.
State Librarian Duval has awarded to j. H.
Medairy Il Co., of Baltimore, the contract
for supplying stationery for the library at the
coming session of the Legislature. Yhe con-
tract includes stationery for the executive de-
partment, Court of Appeals and both branches
of the Legislature.
Mrs. Mary A. McIntire, relict of the late
Rev. James McIntire, who was for many
years collector of internal revenue for Della
ware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
died at the residence of her son-in-law, ex
Postmaster General Creswell, near Elkton, at
! 11.30 Tuesday night. She was in her 80th
year.
! C. A. Tborp, of Frenchtown, Cecil county,
e d.. IL, IL,
went to bed together at the Rose House, Bal
timore, Sunday night, and were found dead
from suffocation Monday morning. They
either blew out the gas or accidentally turned
it on after turning it out.
Another Old Defender is dead, leaving but
four now living in Baltimore out of the ,259
who formed an organization in 1912 to ar
nuallv celebrate the battle of North Point,
in which they had CALAMITY fought in 1914.
Samuel Jennings is the old gentleman name,
and his age was eighty eight. He died peace
fully last Sunday morning.
Can't. John R. Taylor, of Wicomico county,
is on trial at Easton, for the murder of Alex
ander Mclaughlin, of Baltimore. McLaugh-
lin was hand on Taylor's boat, and the lat
ter, it is alleged, beat Mclaughlin and then
threw him overheard and he was drowned.
Taylor was acquitted on Thursday.
The Western Maryland Railroad has for
more than month been handling large ship
ments of cotton to Baltimore for foreign ship
ment and for the use of local mills. On
Wednesday two train loads of cotton arrived
at Hillen Station. 1t came from Montgomery
and Selma, Alabama, and from other points
in the cotton growing States.
VIM. Holland attempted to kill his wife in
Baltimore on Thursday, shooting her with
a pistol. the ball entering the arm and passing
through to the shoulder He married his
wife when she was fifteen years old, then left
! her for four years, and the shooting was be-
cause she refused to live with him again.
At Nanticoke, Wicomico county, on Friday
night last, Maggie Evans and Mary Davis,
each about II years of age, and members OF
the Salvation Army, quarrelled after saliva
ton meeting about some trivial remark. Fl
nally they clinched and fought, after which
Maggie picked up large stone and hurled 1T
in the others face, causing injuries which are
likely to result in death.
;. CAPTAIN John Abbott, Robert Treanor
mate, and Patrick lilly, hand, of the schoon-
er John Nichols, were drowned at the mouth
of the Patapsco river on Thursday of last
week. lilly wanted to go to the cabin, and
CAPTAIN Abbott took hold of him to prevent
him. While the two were struggling Treanor
came to help Abbott and in the scuffle all
fell overheard together and were drowned.
The Centreville, Queen Anne's county
Record says: Peach trees have been scarce
in this locality, the demand for them never
being greater. 1t is estimated that upward
of $50, 900 young peach trees will be or have
been planted in this county the present season
Mr.. Joseph Rasin, the present owner of Wye
Hall, on Paca's Island, has leased the farm
to Mr.. Groves, who will plant $4,000 peach
trees this season.
The rife contest between ten teams o
State militia closed on Thursday. AS was ex
pected, the Easter Flower team of the Gar
ret Guards, Oakland, won the match Then
score at the 200 yards range was 1852; the
aggregate for both days shooting was 331
and their average shooting was 41S. The
gold medal to the best marksman was won by
Corporal Browning, of the same team, with ;
score of As out of a possible so.
The Treasury Department announces thai
the values of imports and exports ofmerchan
disc at the port of Baltimore for the month o.
October were as follows: Imports; S542, 839;
exports, SO, 800, 619; for ten months ending
October, 1885, imports, S8,948,275; 1884,
Sc. 979, 1853; exports, 1885, 500, 1854, 1874; 1884
So. S38, 355. Five hundred and seventy sever
Immigrants arrived at Baltimore during Octo
Der, 1885, and 2, 421 during October, 1884;
7,1i2 during the ten months ending October
1885, and %, 554 during the same period o
1884.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad compan,
have made an arrangement with the Slater
Island Rapid Transit Company, of which
Erastus Wiman is president, by which thu
Baltimore and Ohio secures the valuable rail
ferry and wharfage franchises of that compa
ny. The arrangement will give the Baltl
more & Ohio greater terminal facilities thai
, any other road running into New York pos
sesses The announcement of the contrac
created quite stir in railroad circles as a.
effort was being made to head off the B x o.
entrance to the city.
John Mohr, blacksmith, living near Ross
Vile. Baltimore county, has had nine death
in his family from diphtheria in the past 81
DAYS His mother, brother-in-law, Georg
Woerlein, and seven children, from nine year
of age to an infant, all died. Mr.. Woerlei
" contracted the disease at a neighbours house
: where he nursed child who was sick with II
:, and introduced the disease into the family
q The children died almost as fast as the tathe
could procure cofins. Diphthera is in tn
neighborhood.- Balto. Sun Of Thursday.
f Samuel Emmert, one of the oldest and mos
# respected citizens of Washington county, die
last Sunday at the residence of his son, Ella