The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-03
Maryland Affairs.

There were 1872 deaths and 113 births in Bal
timore last week.
Joseph Graham died at Easton on last Mon
day, aged SO years.
About 800 German immigrants arrived a
Baltimore last Sunday. They came from al
parts of Germany, and went West by tn
B. e. o. railroad.
John W. Collins, of Chapel district. Talbo
county, is in Jail at Easton in default of SlOO
bail, on the charge of abdueting and maltreat
ing the wife of Capt. James E. Todd.
S. A. Kirkwood, of Baltimore, committed
suicide in Chicago last Saturday. He wa
the son of the late Philip Kirkwood, the shin
builder, and leaves wife and five children
Jacob Boston, librarian of the school boarc
of Baltimore, died on Tuesday, aged "a years
On the same day DR.. Thomas Littig, a well
known physician, died in the same city, aged
So years.
Patrick Herman, of Baltimore, convicted il
Annapolis, of murder in the second degree
for killing his uncle, Thomas Herman. was or
Monday sentenced to sixteen years in the pen
itentiary.
The Mccullough Iron Mills at Northeast,
Cecil county, resumed on Monday morning,
giving work to 200 hands They suspended
two weeks previous because of lack of coal,
owing to the strike.
John M. Edgar, member of the Baltimore
bar, was paralyzed at the MARYLAND Club
house, on Saturday night, while witnessing a
game of billiards, and died at his home on
Cathedral street Sunday morning.
The April term of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland will commence on next Monday.
9Th of April. The argument of cases will
begin on Tuesday, 9th April, when the cases
on the general docket will be called in their
numerical order.
An infant child of J. Wesley Creeeer. at
Mechanicstown, Frederick county. was found
dead in bed with its parents on Saturday
morning last. The child had been complain
ing slightly but not seriously and the imme-
date cause of its death is unknown 5
A casket containing the ashes of the late
Thomas Gales Forster, who was cremated
this week, has been brought to Baltimore and
inferred at Greenmount. Mr.. Forster weigh
ed when in health about $50 pounds, and his
ashes after cremation weighed but about six
pounds.
W. o. Crawford, drummer from Balti
more, had difficulty on the street at Abing.
don, Va, on Tuesday night, and was badly
worsted. He retired to his hotel and took
laudanum, and but for prompt medical assis-
lance, would have died. He is thought to be
out of danger now.
The circuit court of Hartford county closed
last week after session of 80 days; the long
est session for twenty years. There were
twenty one local option cases, and four con.
victions, and as many appeals Four colored
gentlemen were sent to the penitentiary for
horse stealing and other crimes
In the circuit court of Wicomico county
last week and part of this, the judges, lawyers |
and witnesses were wrestling with a trespass
case on five-eights of an acre of land worth
800. The cost to the county was about $500,
and the attorneys down the Eas'n Sho' don't
work for nothing.
The Rev. Erastus F. Dashiell, D. D., rec
or of st. Michael's P E. Parish, Talbot
county, died at four o'clock Tuesday after.
noon, after an illness of several months. He
vas among the most beloved of all the cler
,ymen in the Diocese of Easton, and held a
high position in the councils of the church.
Charles Reynolds, Jr., managing editor of
he Baltimore Morning Herald, died in An
.apolis on Sunday from paralysis of the brain.
lie was paralysed on Friday night, while
onversing with Emma Abbott, at the resi-
ence of her father, VIM. A Abbott, editor
f the Capitzl Mr. Reunallssulneip,uiiui.,sc