The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-07
Maryland Affairs.

Snow fell on the Blue Ridge Summit on
Monday evening
Sheriff Sweander, of Frederick county,
realized 3l8 barrels of corn from "a acres Of
land.
DIR. G. r. Sappington, of Unionville, Freder-
lex county, died on Friday morning of last
week. He was 65 years old, and had prae-
ticed medicine in that village for 40 years.
During the week ended Saturday evening
I48 deaths were reported in Baltimore, which
is the same number reported the same week
of 1884. 10 less than N 1883 and 10 less than
in 1892 Births reported during the past
week IA.
Hon. James Hodges was inaugurated mayor
of Baltimore on Monday. The ceremonies
took plack at noon in the first branch council
chamber, which was crowded with represen-
tative business and professional men, Office
holders and others.
Ri. Rev. VIM. Paret, d. D., Bishop OF
Maryland, at his late visitation to Silver Spring
parish, Montgomery county, preached four
sermons to OVERLOOKING congregations In Grace
Church and the three chapels of st. Mark,
st. John and St Mary, confirming class of
twenty height PERSONS
Fourth class postmasters were appointed as
follows in Maryland on Monday: VIM. T..
johnson, Sassafras, Kent county, vice James
H. Hartley, removed Henry L. Mascot,
Nanticoke, Wicomico county, vice A. F..
Turner, removed; FL. Clay Kenna, Crumpton,
Queen Anne's county, vice G.. X. Ryland, re-
moved.
During the election in Baltim ore, Tuesday
afternoon, John Hebrew, colored, solicited
another man to vote the Democratic ticket.
He was assaulted by several other colored
men, and one of them known as "Sheep"
Brown, shot him through the body, inficting
a wound which is likely to prove fatal.
The trial of Patrick Herman, at Annapolis,
for killing his uncle, Thomas Herman, Sr., i'll
Baltimore, on the night of September II, re-
suited on Saturday night in a verdict of muir
der in the second degree, with recommen-
dalton to the mercy of the court. The verdict
carries with it imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for a term not less than five nor more
than eighteen years.
Mrs. Ann Ashcom, venerable and greatly
esteemed lady of St. Mary's county, died on
October the 18th at old st Mary's, the resi-
dence of her son, DR.. John NJ. Broome, aged
ninety-two years and seven months. She was
twice married, first to James Mackall Broome,
on the 26th of April, 1917, after his death to
John C. Ashcom, who died in the year 1889,
since which time she remained widow.
A conference of the Archbishops of Balti-
more, New York, Philadelphia and Milwau-
kee and the Bishops of st. Paul, Peoria,
Richmond and other sees, as well as number
of Catholic clergy, will be held in Baltimore
about the middle of November to discuss the
best mode of raising the funds requisite FOR
building and establishing the Catholic Ma
tional University in Washington City. The
nucleus, $500, 900, has already been given by
a lady, Miss Caldwell, but large amount ad
ditional will be required.
Mrs Margaret Deibel, German, aged fifty
six, died last Friday at her home, As Marion
street, Baltimore, of the rare disease known
as elephantiasis grecorum. In this disease
the muscles and tissues become enlarged
gradually from an accumulation of fat till they
attain an abnormal size. The disease is one
of the curiosties of medicine. Twenty years
ago Mrs. Delbel weighed l35 pounds. DIR.
VIM. H. Grim, who has been her family physi
clan for about twelve years, says the case has
been one of great interest. The accretions
to the muscles of the legs increased till the
measurement between the ankle and knee
was sixty-fve inches. She was ninety inches
around the body, which had the appearance
of barrel, while the lower limbs resembled
kegs. As a rule, in this disease, certain parts
only, as the arms, lower limbs, are affected,
but in Mrs Deibel's case the enlargement ex-
tended more or less over the whole body.
Judge Duffy remanded on Saturday James
E. Coleman and Solomon Travers, eolored
men and ticket-h holders, charged with pro-
curing Edward Smith, colored, to attempt to
vote illegally at the Baltimore municipal cleo
ton last week, under the name of Jacob Jack
son. They were brought before the judge on
habeas corpus. Smith is a weakminGeG col
ored man, 81 years old, who was hand on a
vessel belonging to Crisfeld. He reached
Baltimore in the vessel election day, and
while looking about the city he was handed
a reform ticket by a colored ticket-holder and
accompanied to the polls of the third precinct,
fifteenth ward. His vote being refused there,
he went to the fourth precinct, where he
again essayed to vote on Jackson S name, when
he and the two accused men were arrested.
Judge Duffy, in refusing to discharge Cole
man and Travers, said Smith did not seem
to have mind enough to conceive scheme of
voting in the manner shown by the evidence.
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