The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-30
MARYLAND Affairs.

ut Cumberland.
The heaviest snow of the winter fell on
Sunday on the Eastern Shore.
Pleuro- pneumonia has been discovered
among some cattle in Anne Arundel county.
Thomas P. Morgan, Jr., of Cumberland,
has been appointed deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue.
Five colored men have been drawn as
Jurors by Judge j. Parran Crane IN st.
Mary's county.
Pocomoke City, Worcester county, is lighted
with Edison's incandescent light, and the
people there are happy.
Mr.. VIM. Chopin, the oldest man in Bla-
densburg, died Tuesday, aged 70 years. he
leaves widow 10 years his senior.
In Baltimore last week 145 deaths and Isl
births were reported. OF those who died six
were over eighty years of age and one over 80.
The recent rains and mild weather have
cansed the snow to melt and the ice to break
in the Susauehanna river, and there are fears
of q flood at Port Deposit.
Representative Gibson has secured the ap-
monument of Frank Fl. Greenwood, of the
Eastern Shore, as railway postal clerk, vice
Fredus Aldridge, removed.
The Historical Society of Baltimore county
with Rev. DR.. John G. Morris as president,
and full corps of officers.
The revenue cutter Manhattan, in recent
cruise in Chesapeake Bay, rendered assist
ance to seventeen vessels in distress and saw
ed property valued at about $780, 900.
Henry Warren, colored, was run over and
killed on the outskirts of Baltimore, on Tues
day. by a train on the Baltimore Il Potomac
ID '.i-1.I Tba oooida ~ 1yas the result 0f his
own carelessnes.
The Catholic Universe, of Cleveland, Ohio,
announces, on information received by Bishop
Gilmour from the Pope, that in the near fu-
ture Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, is to
be created Cardinal. tsss
Henry C. Smith, a prominent merchant of
Baltimore. died on Tuesday. He was Presi-
dent of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, and was brother of the late
William Prescott Smith.
Mr.. Amos B. Hooper died on Wednesday
at the residence of his son, Jacob Hooper,
Clifton, Baltimore county. He was in the
9th year of his age, and had worked at his
trade of wheelwright up to four years ago.
Capt. Jonah c. Dorsey, for the past fifteen
wears superintendent of the Louisville and
Jeffersonville Ferry Company, died Tuesday
last in Jacksonville, Indiana. He was sixty
years of age, and native of Frederick county.
Will Jefferson, young oysterman, reports
that while tramping up the Nanticoke river,
30 miles below Vienna, in search of food, he
and his companions found several cows stand
ing upright in the mire and water frozen to
death.
Recently, says the Wicomico Record, di-
vorce was granted to couple in Wlcomico.
The decree was signed at o'clock, p. m.
At 4.15 license was issued for the lady's
marriage to another gentleman, and at p.
m. they were as one.
Mr.. George S. Marsh, aged "a years, who
was contractor on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal when it was built, and had also been
general superintendent of the Annapolis and
Elkridge Railroad died at the head of Round
bay, Anne Arundel county, on Friday last.
A petition has been sent to Washington,
signed by 100 persons, asking an early mail
for Frederick. The petitioners want an early
mail train to connect with the early fast mail
on the Western Maryland railroad. The re-
quest was recently refused, hence the large
petition.
The local option question is being agitated
in Howard county. Petitions requesting the
Legislature to resubmit the question to the
people are being presented for the signatures
of the citizens. The temperance advocates
are soliciting the signatures of the citizens to
a petition praying the Legislature not to re-
submit the question.
The annual election for directors of the
Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange, held
on Monday, resulted in the choice of the fol-
lowing: Edison NJ. Schryver, Henry A. Parr,
Robert S. Fowler, George I. Kenly, Samuel
F. George, Hiram G. Dudley, George W. Tit
low, Charles D. Reid, Joseph B. Foard, Ed
win Reese, A. Henry Nelker, Edward c.
Head, Alexander j. Colby, George Frame,
John II. Girvin.
About noon on Thursday of last week Basil
Stitely, residing at Liberty, Frederick county
committed suicide by hanging in the garrett of
his house. Stitely was about fifty years OF
age, and formerly was public school teaclier
in Frederick county Financial embarrass-
ment is supposed to have prompted the act,
for the family, consisting of husband, wife
and five children, was in very straitened cir.
cumstances. He had been respondent, and
his family anticipated some such result.
Mayor Hodges, of Baltimore, sent his first
message to the City Council on Monday even:
ing. He says that the funded and guaranteed
debt of Baltimore is $50, 733, 246, of which in
terest is paid from other sources than taxa
ton on SIG, 256, $3.50, and productive invest
ments reduce the debt over available interest
bearing assets to S6,016, 1856. The floating
debt of S55,S79 was paid off during the past
year, and there is surplus in the Treasury of
S3S, 4S0.
The local option question is the all-absorb-
ing one in Cecil county. The temperance
advocates are divided on it. A prohibition
law has prevailed for five years, but drunken
ness continues as before while lawlessness
has increased. One branch of the prohibit
tionists want the law continued and amended
to make it more effective, while the other
branch desire to try some other mode OF Sc
curing temperance-high license, or a law that
will command public support and insure
more decency in the liquor traffic.
The great Charity Ball took place in Balti-
more Monday night at the Academy of Music.
1t was q magnificent spectacle, and will long
remain pleasant memory with all who were
there Imagine a scene made up of beauti-
full women radiant in lovely gowns and brill
liant jewels, of handsome men in evening
dress, of dreamy music from two orchestras,
of blooming flowers and rare foliage, of the
murmurous splashing of q prismatic fountain,
of thousand gas and electric lights shedding
their rays upon the picture-imagine all this,
and it will but imperfectly describe the Char
ity Ball at the height of its splendor. Then
duu W tuis ,plCtuic tnC PiCoCuSO " euS
dent of the United States and distinguished
party of friends from Washington, and it will
be see.i that everything necessary to make
the ball memorable social event was there.
Charles W. Hitchcock, letter carrier of
the Baltimore postoffice for four years past,
was arrested on Tuesday by Detectives Smith,
West & Lyons, and committed by Commits
sioner Rogers for hearing Saturday in de-
fault of $500 bail. His route was on parts
of Holiday, North, Calvert, Fayette and
Lexington streets, in the vicinity of the City
Hall. He had been suspected recently, ow-
ing to reports of losses of money sent through
the mail, and on Tuesday Special Postal
Agent Henderson mailed decoy letter.
When arrested and searched the decoy letter
and letter addressed to the Model Stamp
Company of Baltimore City were upon him
opened. He said he had no money, but two
bank notes for FIVE dollars and two dollars
were found on him, one of the notes having
been in the decoy letter.
The Maryland Offices.