The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-13
Maryland Affairs.

Wednesday, in his Goth year.
The remains of an infant were found in a
sewer at Hagerstown on Wednesday.
The Montgomery county Jail is now a lonely
place, there not being a single prisoner in it.
Congressman William H. Cole is quite i'll
at Atlantic City, where he went some weeks
ago for his health.
Mr.. Smith, of Whiteleysburg, Caroline
county, has f8teen children, ffty-fye grand
children and sixteen grandchildren.
The aax-rate of Alegany county has been
fixed at 844 cents ON the 500. The taxable
basis. is nearly eighteen millions of dollars.
/ Edward Clark has sued the commissioners
/ of Howard county for $1,000. Clark broke
leg in crossing culvert near Ellicott city.
Josiah Thomas, living near Adamstown,
Frederick county, attempted to commit suicide
| by cutting his throat with razor last Mon
day.
George w. Harris has been chosen by tie
street commissioners of Hagerstown snperin-
tendent of the Improvements now being made
in that place.
/ A. a. Piper, who SO severely thrasaaG VIM
| Fl. Richardson, editor of the Peoples Voice.
| Towson, has been indicted for assault with
intent to kill.
George p. Frick, one of BalsSmoreis pro-
gressiye business men, died in that. city last
Tuesday of fatty degeneration of the heart,
! aged 60 years.
! The Sunday Schools of Frederick city are
/ talking of having a union psn.nic shortly. If
the union occurs it is thodght there will be
1000 children in attendance.
The Maryland State Normal School has
been awarded diploma, of honor for pupils
work, photographs, plans for schoolhouses,
&C., by the New Orleans Exposition.
Edward Warrington, Of Hampden, Balti-
| more county, atteapted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with knife on Monday
last He was employed at the Mount Vernon
Mills.
! The comptroller of the currency on Tuesday
| extended the existence of the Western Ma
tional Bank of Baltimore and the Frederick
county National Bank of Frederick, to June
49, 1905.
! At Brighton Beach on Wednesday the
Brighton Beach stakes for three year-oId
maidens, one mile, was won by w. Jennings's
! (Maryland) Maggie j.; time l.454. The event.
was worth 81 ,235 to the winner.
/ A violent storm visited Baltimore last Fri
! day afternoon, blowing down trees, unroofng
houses and demolishing buildings in course
| of erection. Christian Burrenfeind was struck
by piece of flying timber and killed.
Hon. George Cotton has sold his paper, the
| Annapolis Republican, to Messrs. Ridgely &
Melvin, of Caroline county, for $4, 500, both
of whom are lawyers. Mr.. Melvin is also
editor and proprietor of the Denton Journal
! Lewis Mehrling, of Frederick, was stung
/ last Sunday by, he thinks, locust. The SEN
sation was not painful at first, but on Monday
morning early be was awakened by an intense
pain in his arm, which was considerably
swollen.
The Democrats of Cecil county will hold
their primaries next Saturday, the 10th, and
their convention on the following Tuesday
The cOabest among aspirants had become so
exciting ID was thought best to have the mat
ter settled at once.
Democratic primaries were held in Kent
county on Saturday. DIR. Samuel Beck, the
/ present incumbent, was nominated for county
| clerk, T. Romie Strong for register OF wills,
j. Fletcher Wilson and Lewis G. Justis, Dr.,
for members of the Legislature.
| The Maryland House of Correction is full
] The inmates number 253 males and 81 females;
| total 304. A meeting of the directors, held
/ Thursday appointed committee to notify
the different courts in the State that the house
| is crowded to its utmost capacity.
| The Surgeon General of the Marine Hospi-
tai Service has notified the quarantine officer
at Cane Charles and the Health Officer at
Baltimore that the ship Jupiter left Valencia,
/ Spain, where the cholera is epidemic, on the
18th of April, bound for Baltimore.
The committee of the Maryland Legislature
now visiting the various institutions of learn
| ing throughout the State, will recommend,
SAYS the San, the withdrawal Of state aid to
| all receiving such, on the ground that the
public school system furnishes all needtu tacll-
/ tiles.
The fourth annual sale of blooded live stock
l. II onrv
owner. in Queen Anne's county, took place
| on Thursday. Twenty two head of cattle
| brought 81 1886, and IL head of horses and
colts brought 81, $50.
Postmaster Veazey on Monday removed Il.
D T. Chenowith, clerk of the mailing division,
and Charles L. Mcpherson, clerk in the city
l division He appointed Mr.. VIM. h. Turner
4 to Mr.. Chenowiths place, and promoted Mr..
| Kennon Jones to Mr.. McPherson's. Both
removals were made for neglect OF duty.
Artemus Hearn, a widely known and re-
spected citizen of the third district of How
ard county, died on Tuesday last in the sew
enty ninth year of his age. Ills remains
were inferred Thursday in the family bury
| ing-eround. on the estate of his son-in-law,
| VIM A. Iglehart, near Glenelg, Howard
A county.
Il Three fine calves belonging to Mr.. +. g.
I Merryman' Hayfelds herd of Hereford cattle,
u were so affected by stroke Of lightning dur
/ ing last Friday storm that two OF them have
I died since, entailing serious loss, as Mr.
4 Merryman had sold only a few weeks before
1 eight bull calves at an average OF more than
4 $500 each.
/ The municipal tax in Hagerstown has been
/ fixed at 46 cents on the $500, on basis OF
4 about SO, 300, 900, The county tax is 81 cts,
! state 49,. which, with the municipal tax.
q r ~ I fbo 210Q Tho 70
paid by citizens of Westminster is o34 cents
| on the SIO0-o little over half of the rate in
Hagerstown.
/ John r. Niernsee, regarded as the leading
architect of Baltimore, died on Monday in
! Columbia, South Carolina, where he had
/ been repairing the State Capitol, building
| erected by him several years ago. He was II
! years of age He had superintendent the erec
ton of the Masonic Temple and Johns Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore.
Miss Bridget O'Rourke, aged 62 years, of
Baltimore, kept two goats. On Wednesday
night she took lamp and went into the cellar
to feed the goats One of them butted her,
knocking her down and causing her to drop
the lamp. A lot of shavings were set on fire
and the poor woman was suffocated BY the
smoke; also the two goats
The storm on last Friday was of unusual
violence on the lower Chesapeake. Several
vessels seeking harbor in the Patuxent had
their sails blown away. Quite number of
fruit and shade trees were blown down in the
lower part OF Calvert county. In some sec
tions of the county hail fell in large guam
tity and was very destructive to the growing
crops.
"A severe gale struck Rock Point, Charles,
county, about O. clock last Friday afternoon,
wrecking the house and barn of L. Schom-
berg Il Co. Mrs. Charles Hughart and
child were badly bruised, and narrowly es-
CAPPED being killed. Two warehouses and
gashouse were also wrecked Lightning
Struck the buildings of Covington Bros. and
Martin Hayden without, however, doing seTi-
GUS damage.
A stock company, with the title of the
Maryland Marble Company and capitol of
5000, 900, is being organized to operate
marble quarry near Rohrersville in Washing
ton county. The company will own five acres
of fine white marble, equal to any found in
this country, some of the leading marble
men of Vermont having pronounced samples
from it equal to the best they have at the eel
brated Rutland quarries.
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