The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-02
Maryland Affairs.

Louis L. Beatty has been elected School
Examiner for Queen Anne's county.
The cranberry crop of the lower Eastern
Shore is being harvested. The crop is good.
Robert Garrett, President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, arrived in New York on
Sunday, from Europe, by the steamship Au-
rama.
Henry Nachman, cattle dealer of Baltimore,
made deed of trust for the benefit of cred
itors on Monday to Daniel Greenbaum, who
gave bond as trustee for $500
The store of Thomas HI. Keller, at Cearfoss,
Washington county, was broken into and
robbed on Tuesday night. This is the third
time the store has been robbed.
The Cecil County Fair, at Elkton, begins
on Tuesday next, and continues four days.
The annual county ball, which is held in the
week preceding the fair, came off in Elkton
on Wednesday night, and was attended by
between 300 and 400 people.
The colored Methodist church at North
Severn, Anne Arundel county, over the own
ership of which dispute arose before the
Circuit Court, was destroyed by fire some
time during Friday night. The fire is sup,
posed to be of incendiary origin.
Mrs C. b. Rudolph, aged %, committed
suicide on Thursday of last week, in Balti-
more, by shooting herself four times in the
breast. She was married a few weeks ago.
Before her dea tn she said she twas lead by
an irresistible impulse to shoot herself"
Col. Samuel Hambleton, one of the best
known among the public men of the State.
and former member of Congress, is quite i'll
at his residence in Easton. He has been feeble
and in failing health for some time, and is now
aapGnal To nd tlxyf ob ha1
William II. Mcdonald, a brakeman of the
Northern Central Railroad, was run over in
the Union tunnel, near Greenmount avenue,
Baltimore, on Monday morning and instantly
killed. The train upon which he was employ
ed was one of twenty-five empty cars on
its way from Union Station to Canton.
An engine attached to a train from New
York on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
burst her boiler Sunday evening, about mile
from Baltimore. The engine was wrecked,
and the baggage and smoking cars were tel
escoped. Fireman Charles Lizer was badly
scalded, and Engineer Jeremiah Morningstar
badly injured. Two passengers were slightly
hurt.
Several cases of typhoid fever have occurred
in Towsontown and vicinity, attributed to the
lack of proper sanitary precautions. DIR. r.
c. Massenberg, health officer, on Tuesday
reported to the board of county commissioners
some fifteen or twenty citizens for allowing
nuisances to exist in and about their premises.
The county commissioners have served notice
on them to abate the nuisance or they will be
proceeded against under the provisions of law.
For some time past feeling of dissatisfac.
ton has existed on the part of some of the
cadets and others, at the Maryland Military
and Naval Academy at Oxford against the
associate superintendent, Professor j. NJ. c..
Johnston. 1t eliminated on last Saturday
night, when number of masked cadets en-
tered the professors room, and while a por-
ton of them held him PROSTATE on the floor,
others, with shears, dexterously removed
from his face luxuriant growth ofred whisk-
ers.
Albert K. Fulton. the only son of the late
Charles c. Fulton, proprietor of the Balti
more American, has engaged Isidor Rayner
as counsel against Mr.. Felix Agnus, manager
of that paper. Mr.. Rayner says a bill will be
filed by him in few days, in which he will
ask the court to discharge Agnus as trustee
or manager upon the ground of "gross mis-
conduct and un6tness of character to act as
trustee for the heirs, and upon the further
ground of maladministration of the trust"
The bill will also ask for the appointment of
another trustee. Mr.. Fulton says it is his
intention to have the trustee removed if he
can do so. He says the trustee has given no
bond for the faithful execution of the trust,
and no account of the business has been rem
dered in the past three years.
A serious ARRAY occurred on Thursday of
last week at the house of John Jackson, a
farmer, in Charles county. Two oystermen,
Nicholas Keenan, and Lemuel Penn, in the
afternoon visited Jackson's place. They had
been in the habit of taking Jackson's daughter
out rowing, and jackson had ordered them not
to come again. When the men landed some
words passed between the visitors and Mr..
jackson and his son, the latter grown man.
Mr.. Jackson attacked Keenan, with tobacco
knife, made of an old scythe blade, and at one
stroke cut through the heavy muscles of the
neck. Keenan, fell unconscious, and remained
so until late in the night. He was put on
board the steamer Lee at Chaptico wharf.
taken to Washington and placed in Provis
dence Hospital. The physicians think he will
recover. Penn, who was attacked by the son,
escaped serious injury, and was only struck
with the back of knife.
The Protestant Episcopal convention of the
Diocese of Easton met at Centrevile, Queen
Anne's county, on Wednesday, and selected
Missionary Bishop John Henry Ducachet
Wingfeld, of Northern California, as Bishop
vi lnc ulOCcSc. DlSHOp W Is IL HdliNt
of Portsmouth, Va. He was born September
"a, 1888, and was graduated at St. Timothys
College, Maryland, in 1850, and at the Col
lege of William and Mary, Virginia, in 1858.
He had been tutor at St. Timothys before
he went to William and Mary, and after his
graduation at the latter college he returned to
St. Timothy's and taught for year. In 1854
he became tutor at the Churchill Military
Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y. The following
year he entered the Theological Seminary of
Virginia. He became principal of Ashley
Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1856.
He was ordered deacon January II, 1858, and
in July of the same year became assistant
minister to his father, the Rev. DIR. John H.,
Wingfeld, rector of Trinity Church, Ports
mouth, Va. When Gen. Ben. Butler occu.
pied Portsmouth during the war, Rev. Mr..
Wingfeld was made prisoner and placed in
a squad of men to sweep the streets. In 1864
he left Virginia and became rector of Christ
Church, Rock Spring, Hartford county. Md.
Returning to Virginia in 1866 he again became
assistant minister of Trinity Church, Ports
mouth. In 1868 he became rector of st.
Pauls Church, Petersburg. Va, and three
years later, founding st. Paul's School for
Young Ladies, became its rector and profess
sor. William and Mary College conferred
upon him the degree of d. D. in 1869, and
that of LII. d. in 1874. In the latter year he
became rector of Trinity Church, San Fran
cisco, California. In that year he was elected
the first bishop of the missionary diocese of
Northern California, and was consecrated in
St. Pauls Church, Petersburg, Va, Decem-
Der 2, 1874, by Bishops John Johns. of Vir-
ginia; Thomas Atkinson, of North Carolina;
Henry C. Lay, of Easton; VIM. Pinkney, of
Maryland, and Theodore B. Lyman, the then.
assistant bishop, but now Bishop of North