The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-10
Maryland Affairs.


Miss Ann Thompson died in Baltimore last
Saturday, aged 80 years.
The public schools of Howard county will
close on May 3lst, much earlier than usual.
The local option campaign has been opened
in Annapolis. The election takes place on
the 28th inst.
Postmaster Veazey. of Baltimore, has re-
moved twenty-five letter carriers. They walk
the plank on the 18th inst.
About IT'S persons left Hagerstown on
Wednesday, via the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad for the West, most of them destined
for Kansas and Nebraska.
Mrs Mary A. Scaggs, well known lady of
the fifth district of Howard county, died at her
home, near Fulton, Wednesday evening, in
the SD year of her age.
| VIM. Keech and L. N. Rich, trustees, have
sold the property of the late Mrs. Ann Jes-
sop, near Glen Morris Station, 800 acres, to
ex-Sheriff VIM. Slade for 81 500.
| Mrs. Sidney Handle, aged ninety years, was
| found dead in her bed at Funkstown, Wash
ington county, last Friday morning. She
| lived alone, and had been in poor health. for
some time.
Geo. w. Harrison, for number of years
deputy sheriff of Frederick county, was found
| drowned in the canal, near Harper's Ferry
Thursday morning. His horse and buggy
were found in the canal also.
The Governor has appointed as the State
live stock sanitary board, under the pleuro-
pneumonia act of the late session, Messrs.
| Alexander NJ. Fulford, of Hartford county;
Z. Alex. Seth, of Baltimore county, and John
Brady, of Montgomery county.
The heavy rains of last week, and conse-
quent floods, did great damage to the Chesa-
/ T. 10 five
or six places, some of the washouts being
long, and they occurred at intervals from near
Georgetown to above Hancock.
| At meeting of the Frederick County Agri-
| cultural Society last Saturday, James FL.
Gambrill, we'll known flour manufacturer
of Frederick, was elected president for the
| ensuing year, in place of DIR. Fairfax Schley,
who declined the position.
E. N. Rich and Milton 0ffutt, trustees,
have sold the old Gingrich property, at Gin
| grich Switch small station between Timber
Grove and Owings's Mills, on the Western
Maryland Railroad, 297 acres, for 81 900, to
Jacob X. Giest, of Shawan.
Mrs. Edward W. LeCompte, wife of the
Secretary of State, met with painful accident
on Saturday last by falling down the stairs at
her boarding house in Annapolis, and striking
her head with such force as to drive hairpin
believed her injuries are not serious.
A military company has been organized in
Easton under the state militia law, with
seventy men enrolled and the prospect of an
increase to one hundred. The officers are
Edward Roberts, captain; James S. Bocock,
first lieutenant; Richard NJ. Roberts, second
lieutenant; VIM. Nelson, orderly sergeant.
Owing to the small demand and unfavorable
prices for apples in the New York and Chi
cago wholesale markets, the apple growers of
Western New York, it is said, have on their
hands this spring over 60, 900 barrels of choice
fruit for which they do not expect to find a
sale. There are 10000 barrels stored at Ly
ons, N. Y, alone waiting for market.
The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, who
has been trying to purify Chicago, will be in
Baltimore the first Sunday in May, to remain
a month or more. The committee having
charge of the arrangements for his visit met on
Monday and completed most of the necessary
details. A choir will be organized under the
direction of Prof. Harry Sanders.
The Baltimores defeated the Nationals
(League) of Washington at Baltimore, on
Wednesday, by a score of to 4. The Balti
mores had Kilroy, the new left-handed pitch
er, in the box Only one of the Nationals
could hit him, and their four runs were all
made on passed balls. Traffley caught Kill
roy. Fifteen of the Nationals struck out.
The Baltimores beat the National the Nation
ais on Thursday at Washington by score OF
to 2.
BENJAMIN P. Cooper, of Towsontown, Bal
timore county, was found dead in woods
near Lutherville last Monday morning.
Cooper, Charles Stetser and Thomas Boylan
were drunk together on Saturday night and
Sunday, and Cooper being too drunk to walk
on Sunday, fell down. His companions
they were then trying to go to Lutherville-
assisted him all they could, but, being very
drunk themselves, left him and he died during
the night. ~
Joseph Brown, of Laurel, Prince Georges
county, committed suicide Monday night on
the porch of James Lewis's house, on Main
street, very near the Laurel mills. Brown
was in love with Bette Lewis, plump maiden
of Is years, and his family were very much
opposed to it. AT the inquest the girl related
that Brown complained several times of bad
treatment from his family, and had as often
threatened to commit suicide. He had done
so on the evening of his rash act.
Walter Myers, son of Henry Myers, of Lib
erty, Frederick county, was shot and danger
ously wounded, it is charged, by John L.
Hitzelberger at Munshour's Hotel, in that
place, at about eight O'Clock last Friday even. |
ing. He became involved in a quarrel and
was knocked down by Chas. f. Hitzelberger.
In the melee that followed the latter's broth |
err, John F. Hitzelberger, drew revolver, |
and, It is said fired at Myers, the ball striking
him in the mouth and lodging in his head, |
after passing through his left hand, which he
had raised to his face. The wounded man
was Immediately conveyed to his home, where |
he is said to be in critical condition.
The surviving members of the famous Sec
ond Maryland Infantry, Confederate States |
Army, are making an effort to raise thou |
sand dollars to erect monument on Culp's
Hill, Gettysburg, to mark the line reached by |
the regiment in the final charge Of July ord, |
1868. Of the desired amount 500 have been
subscribed, and it is hoped that Marylanders |
will feel sufficient pride in the fame of the |
gallant regiment to promptly make up the re,
naming $500. Other States are represented
ON the battlefield of Gettysburg by handsome |
monuments to their dead soldiers, and it is !
intended that this monument to Maryland
bravery shall compare favorably with the
others.
William 7. Walters, of Baltimore, has i'm
ported twenty four Percherons, thirteen OF
which are mares and eleven stations. They |
will be placed on his breeding farm near that |
city, All of the animals are from the De-
partment de 0rne, where the Percheron
breed is purest. Only one or two of the col |
lection is more than four years old, almost
all of them being very young. They are all
gray in color, of various shades, and seem
fine examples of their race, large of size,
strong of limb, and stylish of carriage, and
their clean cut heads and fine bone show the
Arabian blood which flows in their veins.
One of the stations is a yearling, already
fifteen hands high, while one, called very
properly Goliath, is three years old, and
stands ia hands high. The mares are from
two to six years old, and from 16 to l63 hands
high. Only one of them has been bred.
!, A considerable portion of the extensive
leather-tapning establishment of Messrs.
Brown Mckinney, located on South Market
street, in thickly settled district of Freder-
lex city, was destroyed by fire between the
hours OF and 6 O'Clock last Saturday morn
ing. A blacksmith shop connected with the
coach factory of Messrs. Hood Hane, about
one hundred yards distant, was the only other
building damaged. In addition TO their build
ings, Messrs. Brown & Mckinney lost also
from 200 to 400 tanned hides, between 100
and 200 tons of bark and the greater part of
their machinery. Their loss, which is fully
covered by insurance in the two mutual com.
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