The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-05
Maryland Affairs.

Judge Holland, of Wicomico, was nom
mated for associate judge by the Democrats
of the first judicial circuit on Wednesday.
The colored camp at Asbury Grove was at
tended by about 10000 persons ON Sunday,
1000 being carried by the Western Maryland
railroad.
Nathan Mills, colored, who is said to have
been 107 years old, died in Oxford Neck,
Talbot county, few days ago. His two sons,
Levin and Nero, are both stated to be great
grandfathers.
The singing societies of Baltimore met last
Friday night and voted to accept the PROPOSE
ton to hold the National Festival in that city
in 1886, and arrangements will be made for
the lagest musical festival ever held in Amer
lea.
Extensive preparations are being made by
the managers of the Frederick County Agri-
cultural Society for the next annual exhibit
ton, to be held on the 18th, 18th, 18th and
10th of October The speed premiums offer
ed amount to $4,000.
Ephraim Collins, one of the best-known
citizens of Howard county, and member of
the board of county commissioners, died sud
denly at his home, in the sixth district,
about 4 O'Clock Wednesday morning, of
heart disease, in the Goth year of his age.
for Liverpool, via Halifax and st. Johns,
was totally wrecked Wednesday morning at
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Her passen-
gers, 179 in number, ard her crew are report
ed safe. The Hanoverian was an iron screw
vessel of $3.50 tons register. She was built at
Glasgow in 1882.
The barn on the farm Of Charles Council
man, near Reisterstown, caught fire from
burning brush on Friday evening of last week
and was burned. The stock was saved, but
700 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of potatoes
$50 tons of hay, lot of harness and farming
implements, &C., were burned also. The
barn cost 50, 600, upon which there is small
insurance, and the total loss is said to be
about $4,000.
Mrs Culleney, aged about seventy years,
wife of James Culleney, of West Amwell,
Cecil county, while making a bed Saturday
morning, was wounded by ball from revol-
yer which had been placed under pillow.
The ball entered the thigh, inhicting seri
GUS wound. The revolver, which was a small
one, belonged to Benjamin Culleney, son,
who is nearly blind. 1t is supposed that the
weapon was cooked, and discharged by being
caught by the bed clothing.
The annual fair of the Baltimore County
Agricultural Society will open at Timonium
on Tuesday, September 20, and continue four
days. The indications are that this will be
one of the most successful exhibitions the So
ciety has ever held. The management has
been liberal in the premiums offered, and the
trials of speed, which of late years have be-
come leading feature at agricultural fairs,
will embrace some of the finest trotters in the
State, as well as running horses.
At the extensive corn packing establish
ment of Mr.. Louis McMurray, which is Fred
erick's principal industry, there are employ
ed at present nearly 700 men, women and
children. Last Saturday the unprecedented
number of 140, 400 cans of corn and 800
cans of succotash were packed. When the
establishment was first started 10000 cans
per day was considered a very extraordi-
nary number. Mr.. McMurray has had more
than 2, 900 acres planted in corn this year.
The Meadow Mill of the Messrs William
E. Hooper & Sons, at Woodberry, Baltimore
county, which has been idle for about year,
and which, when running full, gives employ
ment to between five and six hundred hands,
started on Tuesday on full time. The Wood
berry Mill of the same firm, which has been
running on partial time, also resumed on
Tuesday on full time, as did also the other
cotton mills of the same firm. The Mount
Vernon Cotton Mills are all now running on
full time, and the Druid Mill of the Messrs.
Gambrill Sons Il Co. will start on full time
next Monday The shops and foundry of the
Messrs. Poole & Hunt, at Woodbury., are in
active operation.
The Democrats of Howard county on Mon
day last nominated the following county
ticket For the House of Delegates, DR.. S.
A. Keene, William Clark; Clerk of the Circuit
Court, L. j. Watkins; Sheriff, Frank Shipley
County Commissioners, William H. Forsyth,
VIM. J. Harding, B. G. Sunderland Edwin
Warfeld, Thomas H. Hunt, Hammond Dor
sey. Frank Brown, John f. Kyne and John
I. Hardey were chosen delegates to the State
Convention, with power to cast three votes
Resolutions endorsing Hon. A. p. German
for reelection to the U. S. Senate were unan
imously passed.
The directors of the Annapolis and Elk
ridge Railroad Company, President Bans
presiding, formally decided on Saturday to
| yield possession of the road to the trustees of
the bondholders. This puts an end to further
/ litigation on the subject as far as the railroad
company is concerned. Judge Jones had
previously filed an order in the Circuit Court
| for Anne Arundel county directing that the
road be turned over to the trustees, Stewart
Brown and Arthur George Brown, and pro-
/ hibiting any interference with them in the
management of the same on the part of Pres
ident Bans and the directors of the railroad
company. The road will be sold shortly.
A dispatch from Middletown, Frederick
county, August 81, says: Another great storm,
accompanied by the most vivid flashes of
! lightning, passed over this place and valley
about eight o clock last night, and for about
ten minutes the rainfall was very heavy.
/ Nearly all small streams were bank full,
while Catoctin Creek overlooked its banks,
/ but not to any great extent. This is the
seventh overflow in Catoctin Creek during
August. The ground has become so thor.
oughly saturated from the previous extensive
| floods of this month that nearly every ordna-
ry rainfall now causes an overflow in the
streams, which otherwise would scarcely rise
more than a few inches. Catoctin Creek at
its lowest point must rise foot before it can
overflow its banks.
A portion of Montgomery county has suff-
cred terribly for some weeks past with the
/ dysentery epidemic, and the disease has also
spread into the lower portion of Frederick
county, in the vicinity of Plane No. f. The
scourge has been particularly severe in the
/ vicinity of Damascus Montgomery county,
scarcely day passing that there has not
| been one or more funerals at that place.
| Rev. Alfred Baker on Sunday last said that
during the last seven weeks he had oiliciated
at thirty funerals. OF course it is impossible
to trace the true source of the disease; some
say it is caused by the carcasses of hogs that
! died last fall in that section and were left ly-
ing above ground, the decaying matter Of
which found its way into the earth, the germs
of the disease settling in the water used by
the people. Others again have intimated
that hogs were slaughtered which were sup
posed to be free of cholera, but which may
have had the disease in their systems, and
that eating this meat has caused the epidem-
ic. Some have even pronounced the disease
cholera. 1t is certainly quite sad state of
affairs in that section, which has turned very
many houses into houses of mourning
Adults, as well as children, are attacked.
Miss Mollie Wilson, aged about 20 years,
daughter of Mr. Henry Wilson, of Woodville
district, and very estimable young lady,
was attacked with the disease a few weeks
ago, and changing to typhoid malaria it prov
ed fatal on Sunday night last.
Change in Maryland Postmasters,