The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-09-04
Maryland Affairs.

The organization of national bank at Eli
colt City has been completed.
Cardinal Gibbons confirmed a class of
forty three persons at st. Louis Catholic
Church, near GAINESVILLE, Howard county.
A handsome new NJ. p church has just
been completed at Powelsvile, Wieomieo
county, and will be dedicated on Sunday,
Sept. II.
Joseph Murphy, of Baltimore, was drown
ed while bathing at Atlantic City, on Sunday
and Frederick Roeseke and his son, also of
Baltimore, were drowned the same day at
Cape May.
During the thunder storm Monday night
the barn of Levi Furguson, of the eleventh
district, Baltimore county, was struck by
lightning, and together with its contents was
destroyed.
The Annapolis Glass Works were put in
operation at Horn Point, opposite Annapolis,
on Tuesday. The works have large order
for manufacturing glass bottles for a Balti-
more firm.
Jonathan W. Scott, manager of the Price
Current, Baltimore, committed suicide on
Monday morning. When the colored engi-
neer went to the Office about 81 o'clock he
found the body dangling in the air, he having
hung himself
VIM. Brown, colored, of Frederick, about
rs years of age. attempted suicide on Tuesday
night by suspending himself from rafter
He was discovered almost lifeless by his wife
and was cut down, and by prompt medical at
tention revived.
Gov. Lloyd has refused to pardon Thomas
Tighe, of Baltimore, sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary for assaulting a young
woman at the Western Scheutzen Park, dur
,pr nd + Of An
napolis, convicted of embezzlement.
The barn of S. B. Thomas, near Adams
town, Frederick county, was burned on Fri
day morning of last week, together with 900
bushels of wheat lot of hay, farming imple
ments, &C., involving loss of over $4,000,
upon which there is an insurance of $4,000.
John Murphy, of Boston, and William
Young, of Baltimore, fought prize fight in
after hard fight. Young asked that the
fight be given to Murphy, feeling that he got
the worst of it, though not knocked out.
Murphy was shorter and lighter.
Rev. Alexander J. Drysdale, Rector of
Christ Church, in New Orleans, died on Mon.
day at Waukesha, Wisconsin, aged As years.
It is only few days SINCE he was elected
Bishop of the diocese of Easton. The do.
cese of Easton might be added to the diocese
of Maryland and an assistant to Bishop
Paret be chosen.
Thomas Reddington, aged %, of Havre de
Grace, died in Belair Jail Sunday night An
inquest was held by Coroner Lyle. The YER
dict was that Reddington came to his death
from excessive use of alcoholic stimulants.
The officers of the Jail were exonerated from
blame. Reddington was sent to Jail for dis
disorderly conduct in Havre de Grace and
was awaiting the action of the grand jury,
Thomas Garrett, of Baldwin county, Ala,
who recently registered in order to vote for
Gov. Seay, will be 119 years old at his next
birthday. He cast his first vote for John
Adams in the fall of 1896. He was born in
Maryland on August Is, 1867, and lived in
this State until he was eight years old. Since
then he has lived in North Carolina seventeen
years, Georgia two years. Florida thirty
years, and Alabama sixty two years. He has
lived in Baldwin county for the last nine
years. He is the father of twenty.one
children.
An Englishman named j. w. Biddle living
at Poplar Grove, Queen Anne's county, the
home farm of Z. B. Emory, committed sui.
eide on Monday night by taking dose of rat
poison. He made an attempt to take his life
by drowning, but was prevented by his family
who were on the alert, as he was subject to
fits of dementia. After taking the poison he
went into Mr.. Emqry's garden and lay down
under tree, where be was found Tuesday
dead. He was about SO years OF age, and
leaves a wife and five children.
During the heavy thunder storm at Wash.
ington. D. c., Monday evening between and
s o'clock Mrs. Julia A. Marble, of Frederick,
died just after a vivid flash of lightning. Mrs.
Marble, accompanied by hep husband ". s,
Marble, was on her way to the home of q
relative. They had just reached the corner
of Twelfth street and Ohio avenue when there
came fod vivid A. dsh a Of lightning Instantly 1
fell forward without word of warning to her
husband, who quickly raised her in bis arms
and carried her to the office of J.. B. Ham
mond near by. Medical aid was summoned,
but before DIR. Taylor, of the Emergency
Hospital, arrived Mrs. Marble was dead. Mr..
Marble said his wife was subject to heart dis
ease, WHICH the. Doctor pronounced the cause
Of her sudden death.