The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-02
LOCAL RECORD OF THE YEAR.

swept the county Dy an unpreceueuteuiy iii &c
t majority The wheat crop was far below the
average, being about 10 bushels to the acre,
while the corn crop was unusually good.
Prices of grain were little better than during
the year previous, but not high enough to
make up in the aggregate the difference IN
the Yields of 1884 and 1885. There were
heavy rains and floods, high winds and
droughts, as usual. The winter was quite
cold and there was almost continuous sleigh
ing from the latter part ofJanuary until March
4th. The latter part of April the weather was
quite hot for week, the mercury ranging as
high as 3d. During the week ended May l6
there was frost on several mornings. The
summer was quite cool, though there were
several intervals of extremely hot weather.
After the latter part of August there was very
little summer weather Snow fell on Janua-
nv 4, Is, 80, "a, % and 81; February l, 2. 5,
10, IS, IA, 16, II, "a, &c and q; March Z, s,
u, 13 and 10; April 10, II 70 inches,) IL, IL
and 10; November 81, %, "a, 25, 26 and p;
December l, 8, 5, IL, 10 and 10. In all, snow
fell on thirty nine days, but most of the falls
were mere hurries.
Below will be found the more important
events in Carroll during the year, as gathered
from the files of the ADVOCATE:
JANUARY.
adams Express Company and City Ho-
tel. Westminster, robbed of goods and cloth
ing.
6-Slight shock of earthquake felt in this
CITY. The shock was severe in other parts OF
Western Maryland and the Virginias.
1O-Westminster postofice robbed OF about
S36 in money. ,a
I2-John Bowers died in this city, aged 62
years.
Hampstead, aged about IS years.
| 5aI T Mt n mai n
chester, died in Baltimore from the effects OF
the amputation of leg.
17-ira E. Grouse died in this city, IN his
Goth year.
ster, in his Gath year.
benjamin Worthington died in Hamp-
stead, aged about 20 years. :,
26-Catharine Blessing found dead IN bed
by her husband, about four miles from West
minister.
CDR. William White, a native of fancy
town, died suddenly of heart disease at Me-
chanicstown, aged 60 years.
Ann King, colored, died near Warfields-
burg, aged 108 years.
l2-Mrs. Stansbury was found dead IN bed
! in Westminster. Her age was about 70.
12-Thomas Horton died near SANS Creek,
aged nearly rs years.
14-Capt. o. 7. Anders died in Westmin-
ster, aged AZ years.
I'LL. L. Norris, formerly of Westminster,
died in Baltimore, in his Goth year;
27-George A. Miller appointed Clerk OF
the Circuit Court in the place of DIR. Frank L.
s. Shaw, resigned.
4-John w. Barrick died suddenly of heart
disease at Barrick' station, aged sc.
9-Prof. William Jones Thomas, of West
ern MARYLAND College, died in Baltimore, aged
80 years.
9-Mrs. Anna Mary Shriner died at Union
town, aged 81 years. and months.
14-Building belonging to John V. Horn,
Jr., at Mt. Airy, destroyed by fire, together
with lot of bacon.
1S-Dr. Francis j. Crawford died near
Winfield, in his Goth year.
26-Mss Rachel Dell died near this city,
in her 10th year, and Miss Susan inst die9 IN
Westminster, aged 80 years, 5 months and 10
days.
3o-Sheriff Shower discovered a scheme OF
prisoners to escape from Jail.
APRIL.
Telephone line opened from Westmin'
ster, via Reisterstown, to Baltimore.
4-Jacob Snader died at New Windsor,
aged so wears, having died on the 80th ami
versary of his birth.
5-Lewis Waltz died near Linwoo d, aged
sc years months and 10 days.
1.-Two children cf James Simm, colored,
near Wafersville, were playing with pistol,
and the elder accidentally shot the younger in
the arm, causing painful wound.
12-John Quilts store at Hoods Mill was
destroyed by fire, with almost entire stock.
14EJacob Sanders died suddenly, near
| Manchester.
1S~Philip Thater died at Sykesville, aged
sc.
23-Forest fires burned over about forty
acres of land between Patapsco and Carroll
ton. The same day about sixty acres of clover
and timber were burned over near Lineboro.
25-Zepp Ramsour run over and killed by
the cars at Dade's crossing, near Mt. AIRY.
2S-Residence of Perry King, near War
fieldsburg destroyed by fire.
MAY.
1-Rebecca Byers died near this city, aged
Sc years.
2-Dr. Frederick Klink died in Westmn-
ster from an overdose of morphia taken on the
night of April 30. =,
5-Woods fire on the lands of Jonathan Nj.
Owings and Charles Magin, near Shipley.
G-Barn on the place of Jos B. Boyle, near
Carrollton, destroyed by fire.
1.-TWO acres of timber land OF CALVIN
Starner. Fountain Valley, destroyed by fire.
9-Charles Clarke, colored, shot in West
minister by Robert Hunter.
1O-Thomas b. Mercer died suddenly near
W oodbine. ,,.
I4-House of Raymond Barnes, at Mt.
Airy, destroyed by fire.
l6-Store of David Boose and the cellars OF
W. Burgoon and David Pannebaker, IN Bach
man Valley, were robbed.
25-Brass band and drum corps parade at
Manchester; seven or eight hundred people
25-House of William Brown, colored, at
Uniontown, set on fire by lightning and de-
stroyed.
2S-John Curry, colored boy, died in this
city from burns received from coal oil can
explosion the night previous.
2S-David Moul dropped dead from apo
plexy at his mill, near Avondale, aged ~
years.
John Knott, near Mt. Airy.
JUNE.
Townsend Cook, colored, taken from
the iail in Westminster and lynched near the
city.
5-Huber's drug store, Westminster, robbed
of small sum of money.
6-Jesse Sherman died suddenly near Man
chester of apoplexy.
Glider Daniel p Saylor died at Double
Pine Creek, in his 74th year.
Nathan Gorsuch died near Shipley, In
his 10th year.
Citizens of Patapsco and vicinity organ
lied to capture the notorious Dan Christ, give
him a good beating and make him promise to
leave the county and never. return, under
penalty of being lynehed. They caught him,
but believing he could be held on charge
that would eventuate in putting him in the
penitentiary, he was brought to Jail. He got
clear in court.
9-Henry Williams died suddenly of paral-
ysis in Manchester.
l5-Cyclone near Freedom, doing consld-
cradle damage. Rain fell in torrents, and the
wind was furious.
l5-Anti- Nicotine Manufacturing Company
organized in Westminster.
I8-Mrs. Samuel Lauyer died at Patapsco,
aged &c years.
29-Wheat harvest begun, and lasted to
about the 10th of July. The yield was about
an average of IS bushels per acre, against
about % bushels in 1884.
Helen, daughter of Charles R. Favour,
Sykesville, painfully injured by falling from a
tree.