The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-12
Maryland Affairs.


Wednesday. in her 91st year. She was born
in Bremen, Germany, but had lived IN Baltl-
more sixty years.
Rev. DIR. Samuel Ridout, rector OF St
Margaret's p E. parish, at North Severn,
Anne Arundel county, died suddenly OF heart
disease on Tuesday.
The colored camp at Asbury Grove, on the
Western Maryland railroad, closed on Tues
day. About 10000 people were present last
Sunday, a large number being white
The canmakers' strike at Baltimore ended
on Friday last week. The strikers accepted
an advance of ten cents per hundred. They
had demanded fifteen cents advance.
William j. Harding, Democratic nominee
has been appointed county commissioner 'ol
Howard county to fill vacancy IN the board
caused by the death of Ephraim Collins.
Dr. VIM. B. Rowland, prominent citizen
of Cecil county, and member of the House o.
Delegates. died in Philadelphia last Saturday
where he had gone for medical treatment.
H. D. MiddIekauff, ofsLeitersburg, Wash
ineton county, threshed out his grain crop last
week. The yield was $50 bushels from 3e
acres of ground, an average Of 224 bushels to
the acre. !.
Robert R. Vandver died at Havre de
Grace, on Saturday, in the 81st year of his
are. He was a member of the last Constitu-
tional Convention of Maryland and had served
in the Legislature of this State.
The Maryland State Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association will unite this year IN
holding fair with the Agricultural Associa-
ton of Washington County at Hagerstown,
beginning on the 2lst of October.
Professor Joseph Hanson Clarke, we'll.
known educator, died on Thursday at his
residence, in Baltimore, in the ninety fifth
year of his age. He was born on a farm near
Hagerstown, November "a, 1870.
Rt. Rev. DR.. Paret, Bishop of Maryland,
will visit the Episcopalian congregations IN
Washington county, commencing on Wednes-
day. the 10Th. On Thursday, the goth, he
will consecrate ST. Paul's Church at Sharps-
burg.
The Baltimore Orioles have lost every game,
with perhaps two exceptions, they have played
for three weeks or more, and is now the low.
est in the American Association. The cluh
stood near the top at the beginning OF the
season.
Typhoid fever is prevailing at Phoenix,
Baltimore county, and the public school al
that place is almost deserted, not more than
twelve or fifteen pupils being now in daily at
tendance out of an average daily attendance
heretofore of about 100.
William Snowden, of Anne Arundel co.
while riding to his home near Laurel, OF
Monday night, rode in the darkness against &
niece of timber which had been left juttlng
across the road The timber struck him ii
the breast, breaking his collarbone and other
wise injuring him.
Bishop Henry C. Lay, of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Easton, is in very
critical condition at the Church Home and
Infirmary, Baltimore. He has heart disease
with kidney complications. The heart dis
ease, which is the primary trouble, daily be
comes worse. He grows steadily weaker, ano
his physician does not think he can last &
great while.
A straw rick on the farm of John Fl. Ow
ings, in the sixth district of Howard county
caught on fire Thursday afternoon. Tx
flames rapidly spread to the stable and barn
totally destroying them and their contents
consisting of about one thousand live hundred
bushels of grain, thirty-fiye tons OF fertilizers
wagon and agricultural implements. The
loss is not estimated, but will probably react
four thousand dollars, insured for one thous
and. The fire originated from wad being
accidentally fired from a gun into the rick.
w. W. Teach, proprietor of the Contra
Hotel, at Waynesboro, Pa, and recently Of
the Teach House, Leitersburg, Washington
county, met with a serious and probably fata
accident on Tuesday night when on his way
from Hagerstown to his home. The horse
which he was driving and the buggy in which
he was seated were precipitated down steer
embankment. Mr.. Teach fell upon the rocks
below, breaking his collar bone and several
e ~ he baCidac ranaiviTU Ofhap
external and internal injuries, from the effects
of which he is now lying in a critical condl-
ton.
Following is list of county tax rates in
the different counties of Maryland for 1885,
as furnished the state tax commissioner
Allegany, S41 cents; Anne Arundel, SO cents
Baltimore county, 60 cents; Calvert, 80 10 l.
cents; Caroline, 81 cents; Carroll so cents;
Cecil, IS cents; Charles, 81; Dorchester, 86I
cents; Frederick, 65 cents; Garrett. Sl.123;
Hartford, so cents; Howard, 81 cents; Kent
SO cents; Montgomery 86l cents; Prince
Georges, so cents: Queen Anne's, S1.002;
Somerset, Sl.024; St. Mary's. $1.07; Talbot
IS cents: Washington, 81 cents; Wicomieo
81 cents; Worcester, 68i cents.
The work of tracklaying, surfacing and
ballasting on the line of the Philadelphia ex
tension Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
going on steadily. From Baltimore to Ches
ter, Pa, and beyond it begins to assume the
appearance of complete railroad. This
month the iron work of the Susquehanna
bridge is to go up, and one of the engineers
says it will not be long before train can be
run over a considerable portion of the line.
The B. and O. transportation department are
said to be getting details into shape for opera
ting the new line, and it is confidently said in
hot Mill ho lafaH
the city of Philadelphia by February l, 1886,
in condition for the running of trains.
Comptroller Durham stopped requisition
for the salary of }. A. j. Cresswell, OF this
State. Government Counsel before the Court
of Alabama Claims, for the month of August,
until it is settled that there is any salary due
him. The Comptroller holds that Mr.. Cress-
well is not entitled to fixed salary of $4,000
per annum, but that that sum is named as the
limit of the fees to be allowed him for the
trial of cases. He says that the law organic
ing the court provided that the Government
counsel should receive n reasonable compen-
sation for each case tried, and that subsequent
laws limited such compensation to $4,000 per
annum The Court, however, neglected to
fix the amount of reasonable compensation
and has illegally treated that item as q fixed
salary"
A gentleman connected with the Annapolis
and Baltimore Short Line Railroad stated
on Thursday that oil the money had been
subscribed by Boston capitalists to construct
TIE road, and 100000 is deposited in bank
for this purpose The agents of the company
are closing up their work of securing the right
of way, which has been obtained in nearly all
cases, and the engineer is in Baltimore max
ing arrangements to begin the work at once,
An effort will be made to connect with the
Baltimore and Ohio near Baltimore. so as to
get the use of Camden Station for depot
The ground for the station at Annapolis has
been secured and the right of way obtaiued.
The Bay Ridge Company will construct a
railroad to connect their property with the
railroad leading into Annapolis,
A violent hailstorm visited St. Mary's
county on Saturday last about five o'clock p.
M, damaging the crop of tobacco, fruits and
other vegetation in its wake, which extended
from near the line of Charles county, between
Mechanicsville and Budd's Creek, for the
width of about three miles directly through
the central portion of St. Mary s, a distance
of nearly twenty miles. Near Piney Point
some crops will be scarcely worth saving.
Rain. accompanied by heavy wind, fell In
torrents generally throughout the county. A
small dwelling al California, the property of
Mr.. John Cecil, was struck by lightning and
consumed by fire during the storm, and a
house on forest farm of Jas. F. Abel was
partially wrecked. The appearance of the
country over which the hail fell is really dis
tressing to look upon, and the aggregate loss
in crops very heavy. The storm started in
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