The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-30
Maryland Affairs.


fourteen games on the trip and lost ten.
A Talbot county grand jury, which was dis
charged on Monday, found 81 indictments, 10
for violations of the local option law.
The residence of Mrs. z. N. Jones, located
| near Jamestown, Montgomery county, was
totally destroyed by fire Wednesday night
James NJ. Pickett was acquitted on Satur-
day at Hagerstown on the charge of shooting
| Edward A. Gloyd, of Montgomery county.
Mrs. Parr, wife of D. Preston Parr, pro-
prietor of the Smedley House, Towson, died
there on Tuesday afternoon, after an illness
of several weeks.
The mill property known as ''Carr's Mill, :"
! in the fourth district of Howard county, and
owned by Mr.. William Carr, has been pur
chased by Howard Pendicord for $1,000.
A new Reformed church, at Buckeystown,
Frederick county, will be dedicated on Sun
day, June It'll. Rev. 7. +. Hoffmeier, of
Middletown, will preach the dedicatory SER
mon.
Geo. w. Neihoff has been committed to
jail at Towson, Baltimore county, charged
with committing felonious assault on Mary
Windhorst, at Carrollton, two miles from
Baltimore, on the Frederick road.
A railroad accident occurred at Salisbury
on Wednesday morning, by which several
cars were damaged and several persons in
jured, though none seriously. A passenger
train ran into freight train.
Mrs. Lowe, wife of Mr.. John T. Lowe, one
of the Judges of the Orphans Court of Fred
erick county, died very suddenly at her resi-
dence in New Market at an early hour Tues
day morning. She retired in her usual good
health Monday night.
"a . vr0D0cad 70 oroof IN AnnonoIic n arch
of handsome design and proportions to COM
memorate the life and deeds of Hon. Reverdy
johnson, the distinguished jurist The site
selected is the triangle between st. Anne's
Protestant Episcopal Church and the Cover
nor mansion.
The heirs of the late Col. j. Baker Kunkel,
of Catoctin Furnace, have organized and had
incorporated a company to be known as 'The
Catoctin Iron Company Seven thousand
shares will be issued at $50 per share. The
purpose of the company is to continue the
manufacture of pig iron.
Much complaint is heard from farmers
throughout Howard county of the damage to
the young corn by cut-worms. Although
warm weather and recent showers have been
favorable to the growth of corn, many fields.
it is stated, have been almost totally destroyed
by the worms.
Cecil county is local option county, but
at Elkton, its county seat, on Saturday, four
men were arrested for drunkenness, and war
rants are out for others on the same charge.
The same day, at Chesapeake City, same CO.,
there was another arrest for being drunk.
Local option don't seem to answer in Cecil.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rowles. a well-known
and estimable lady, died on Saturday last at
the residence of her son-in-law, John 1. Har-
dey, near GAINESVILLE. Howard county, in the
eighty-secend year of her age. She was the
widow of the late Isaac Rowles, who served
in the war of 1872, and sister of Thomas
Rowles, whose death occurred about year
ago at Cooksville, Howard county.
Mr. George Downey, well-known farmer
of Howard county, near Laurel, was gored to
death by an Attorney bull Monday morning.
Mr.. Downey was repairing fence on his
farm, when the bull came up behind him un-
awares and horned him to death. The body
was badly mutilated. A long line of blood
showed that the bull had tossed the body
about until he became tired of the sport.
On next Monday, June l, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will commence running an
early train between Frederick and Bruce
VILE The train will leave Frederick at 5:15
a. M, and arrive at Bruceville at a. M,
where it will connect with the Western Mary
land Railroad for points east and west on that
line. Train will carry through cars for Baltl-
more. The company is now erecting milk
platforms at all stations between Frederick
and Bruceville, for the accommodation of
milk shippers.
Daniel w. Kaufman, 81 years old, United
States railway postal clerk between Baltimore
and Washington, was arrested in Washington
on Monday upon coming off his trip and
taken to Baltimore by Special Agents Smith
and Henderson. He was taken before United
States Commissioner Rogers and charged by
Mr.. Henderson with taking secreting and
destroying letters and packages, and taking
the money therefrom in bank notes. He was
sent to jail in default of $1,000 bail. Kautf-
man was appointed last November, and lives
in Washington county.
The 102nd annual convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of
MARYLAND, commenced on Wednesday last,
the 9th inst, in Baltimore, the first held I'M
der the episcopate of Bishop Paret. There
are over $50 clergymen entitled to seats in
the convention, and about the same number
of laymen. The Bishop, in giving a summary
of his work, said that he had officiated at
seventy-seven combinations, had confirmed
l, 194 persons, had preached seventy two SER
mons, had made sixty-fve addresses, admin
istered the communion seventy times, ordained
one priest, consecrated one church, and had
oficiated at two funerals, all since last Jan
uary 8, the time of his ordination.
The Easton talbot county, Star says 81
Mr. r. Handy Mccoy, excursion agent of the
Western Maryland Railroad was in town on
Monday on business in connection with his
company 1t is proposed to arrange for a
series of excursions this summer from this
part of the Eastern Shore to Pen Mar, and
other noted places in the Blue Ridge noun
tains, and to place the excursion tickets at
very low rates to accommodate Sunday schools
and other excursions. This will be something
new, and we have no doubt that our people
will take advantage of the opportunity to visit
the mountain scenery of Western Maryland,
which is not exeelled in picturesque beauty
by any on the continent.
Nimrod Gosnell, a we'll known resident of
Baltimore county, near Granite, visited Tow
son on Wednesday to transact business.
Having disposed of what he had to attend to,
he went to the dining rooms of Mrs. j. c.
Cooper, short distance from the courthouse,
and ordered dinner. He was with his SON
in.law, Mr.. Frank Parlett. MIR. Gosnell
stated that he felt very sick, and requested
Mrs. Cooper to allow him to lie down. lie
was accompanied to the parlor, and had been
living on the sofa not more than five minutes
when he requested to be raised up, and died
almost instantly without struggle. From
the time he entered Mrs. Cooper's to the
time of death not over ten minutes elapsed.
The cause of death, as pronounced by DIR. H.
]. Hebb, was heart disease.
James Graham Pearre was found guilty IN
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, on Wednes-
day, of assault with felonious intent upon Mrs
Estelle NJ. Kirkland at the Albion Hotel,
Richmond and Cathedral streets, March IA,
1885. The verdict was rendered at SOP. M,
after the jury had been out half an hour AT
the announcementthere was burst ofapplause
which was suppressed by Judge Stewart
Pearre dropped his head heavily upon his
hand and drew deep sigh, after which he sat
in dazed condition for some minutes, with
his hands clutched together. Ex-Gov.
Whyte gave notice of an appeal on exceptions
to rulings of the court on the admissibllty OF
evidence, and sentence was suspended. As
bail could not be taken until bill of excep-
lions is signed by the court, young Pearre
was placed in charge of the sheriff and taken
to iail, where he will remain until the case is
put in shape for the Court of Appeals. The
bail upon the Indictment was fixed at 81 800,
but will of course be largely increased in view
of the conviction. The penalty IS two to ten
years. Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The arrest last Sunday night of Revs. P.
II. A. Braxton and Harvey Johnson, OF Bal
timore city, colored Baptist ministers IN at
MI IL