The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-03-21
Maryland Affairs.

Hagerstown' municipal election takes place
on Monday next.
The Wilmington NJ. E. Conference will
next year meet at Elkton, Cecil county.
The Court of Appeals has decided that
poolselIing is not contrary to the gambling
law.
There were four slight fires in Baltimore on
Thursday, the total damage aggregating about
81, 500.
Pope & Cole and Pope, Cole & Co., Balti
more, last week made an assignment, with
liabilities of about 100000.
The Chesapeake & Ohio canal is expected
to be opened to navigation on Monday next
The water was let in this week.
VIM. H. l.. Reitz hanged himself at his
residence No. 127 Hanover street Baltimore,
last Tuesday morning. He had been de-
pressed over business affairs.
The fifth excursion of the season by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad left Hagerstown
Tuesday with 1O3 settlers for the West.
OF this number sixty-three were for points
in Kansas, and the others for Illinois and
Iowa.
Aaron Stirling, a resident of Crisfeld,
was accidently shot while ducking with
three companions near that place, on last
Friday. A heavy load of buckshot struck
him in the stomach, and he died in few
moments.
On Thursday the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more city fled its decision in the case of Chas
S. Wilson, colored lawyer, declaring that
colored men who have passed the requisite
examination cannot under the amendments to
the constitution of the United States be ex-
cluded from the bar on account of color.
The ministers of the Wilmington Confer
ence who were charged with lying, adultery,
&C., were all let off easy except Rev. Aldred,
who resigned and has quit the ministry.
Revs. Lightbourn and Mowbray were reprl-
manded by the bishop. The evidence was
damaging, and must weaken the influence OF
the accused.
Ambrose Anderson and Sherman Hase went
to a drinking saloon kept by Wagner Broth
| ers, Just beyond the city limits of Baltimore,
| on Sunday afternoon, and created distur-
bance. They were elected, and Anderson
threw stones into the saloon. William Wag-
ner fred through the door with pistol and
| the ball penetrated the left breast of Ander-
son, causing his death almost instantly. An
derson had been the terror of the neighbor-
hood for ten years.
A. r. Carter, secretary of the health office,
| has made the following comparison from the
vital statistics of Baltimore for the year 1884:
Total deaths among the white population, s.
| 398; total births reported among the white
population, 6,899-showing an excess of sol
births as compared with the deaths. Total
deaths among the colored population, 1895;
total births reported, 1,136-showing an ex-
cess of 759 deaths as compared with the
births.
Mr.. Clinton Barlow, young man residing
in the fourth district of Howard county, at
tempted to kill himself on Wednesday by
cutting himself with knife, but was pre-
vented by the timely interference of friends.
He is a son of the late Joseph Barlow, and il
is claimed that he has been laboring under
mental troubles since his fathers death, con-
nected with the settling up of the estate. de
has been placed in jail at Ellicott City foI
! safe keeping to await the action of the court.
| 1t is probable that he will be placed in some
asylum.
The Baltimore San of Thursday says
Mrs. E. NJ. Kirkland, accompanied by hei
lawyer, went before Justice Cashmeyer, al
the central police station yesterday, and upon
her testimony q warrant was issued for the
arrest of J. Graham Pearre, son of the late
Judge Pearre, of Cumberland, charging him
with attempted felonious assault. This is the
case which occurred in large and fashionable
uptown boarding house on Saturday nigh
last, and was referred to in Tuesdays Sun
After the affair Pearre went to the EutaW
House, where he remained until yesterday
morning, when he took the o'clock train
for Richmond and the South. Mrs Kirk
lands delicacy in regard to encountering pub
licity was the reason the warrant was no
served sooner.