The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-03-13
Maryland Affairs.

The Talbot couny Jail is without prisoner.
There were 14O deaths in Baltimore last
week.
A military company has been organized DIT
Easton, with Col. Edward Roberts captain.
Thomas Y Candy, President of the Third
National Bank of Baltimore, died last Friday
morning.
Paul Poy and William Springer, of the
schooner Georgeanna, were drowned at Cedar
Point, Chesapeake Bay, on the LIST inst, by
the capsizing of boat.
The Baltimore Catholic Mirror has cable
dispatch from Rome stating that Archbishop
Taschereau, of Quebec, has been chosen for
elevation to the Cardinalate, as well as Arch
bishop Gibbons, of Baltimore.
James Young, living with W. F. Saxton,
near st. Clements bay, st. Mary's. county,
was run over by an ox-cart some days ago
and instantly killed The wheel passed over
his neck, almost severing his head from his
body.
Archbishops Gibbons and Elder on Monday
visited the Catholic institutions at Emmitts-
burg Archbishop Elder, who thirty years
ago was Professor of Theology in Mount St.
Mary's, called upon his sister, Helena, at St.
Joseph's. She has been Sister of Charity
for sixty years, and is said to be the Oldest
living member of that order.
Intelligence has been received at Hagers-
town that D. w. Barr, a former resident of
that place, and brother of Mr.. John Barr, was
murdered recently at Havana, ILL.,, by Robert
Houston. An old grudge had existed be-
tween Barr and Houston for some time and
each had made threats Of taking the other s
life. Meeting at Havana, when they had
been summoned to court, Houston drew his
ravoIvar ap1 Era1 Ra-r tho hill apt
ing his temple and causing almost instant
death. Houston has been arrested and held
to answer.
A small skif, about twelve feet long, drifted
ashore on Castle Haven beach, opposite the
residence of Capt. Jacob L. Corsey, on the
Choptank river, on Monday. An old colored
man. living in the neighborhood, who was
the first to discover the boat, found on reach
ing it that it contained the dead body of a
young white man. The body was lying face
down, and the face, as deep as the ears, and
the whole length of the body to the depth of
several inches, were eneased in ice and frozen
fast to the skiff, requiring the use of an axe
before the body could be removed. The dead
man was unknown.
Last Saturday afternoon, Charles j. Reith,
aged seventeen years. accidentally shot and
killed William Eberlein, aged fifteen years,
III Tue CelIdE VI MI. w III. hIe . DdhCIJi Ddi-
timore. The boys went into the cellar to re-
move some rubbish, and while there saw a
rat Reith picked up an old-fashioned muz-
zle-loading pistol to shoot at the rat, and
Eberlein tried to take it from him. In the
scuffle the pistol was discharged, and although
it was not loaded with ball, frightful
wound was made across the breast of Eber-
lein, who died instantly. A coroner's jury
decided the shooting as purely accidental
Mrs. Mary Sophia Bayard, granddaughter
of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, died on
Tuesday in Philadelphia, aged 81 years. Mrs.
Bayard was the widow of the late Hon.
Richard Bayard, formerly a United States
Senator and minister to the court of Brus-
sells. Her husband was the brother of the
Hon. James A. Bayard, father of the present
Secretary of State of the United States, Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard. Mrs. Bayard was the
daughter of Charles Carroll, the only son of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Her mother
was Harriet Chew. She was born at the
Homeward estate, near Baltimore. She was
the aunt of ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll, of
Maryland, Mr.. Harper Carroll and Madame
Acosta, of Baltimore.