The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-22
Maryland Affairs.

The tax rate IN dOWaru County 10 w SSh'o
on the 500, four cents more than 1T was last
year.
The graduation exercises at the Naval
Academy, at Annapolis, this year will take
place June IL.
Peas are being shipped from the Eastern
Shore to New York, and are bringing hve
dollars barrel.
The Dist annual commencement OF the
State Normal School will be held on Thurs
day evening, the 9th.
Archbishop Gibbons confirmed class of
ninety-two at st. Mary's Catholic Church,
Annapolis, last Sunday.
A new postoffice has been established at
Braddock, Frederick county, with Daniel M.
Grumbine as postmaster
J. A. Heffinger, manager of the Maryland
Hotel, at Annapolis, died on Tuesday. he
went from Hagerstown to Annapolis.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal has again
suffered damages. The cost of repairing will
be about as much as the canal is worth.
Four hundred and fifty thousand shad were
deposited in the Wicomico river at Salisbury
last Tuesday, by the United States Fish Com
mission.
Rev. John L. Green, formerly rector of
st. Luke's Episcopal Church. at Church
Hill, Queen Anne's county, died Saturday OF
paralysis, aged 76 years.
Col. Charles Marshall, of Baltimore, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the address
at the laying of the cornerstone of the Lee
monument in Richmond, Va, October %.
The Italian government has given an order
for purchase of 1900 hogsheads of tobacco at
Baltimore, and the French government will
want $500 hogsheads of Maryland tobacco.
Thomas B. Towel, of Hampden, Baltimore
county, was found drowned in Lake Roland
on Wednesday night He had typhoid fever,
and wandered away from the house of a rela-
| tive.
Charges of character that require the
attention of the First Assistant Postmaster
o>..vlei IN person have bve-. Fjrvferrvd agains'
Conrad Doenges, postmaster of Arlington,
Baltimore county.
! By the opening of Monroe street, Balti-
more, from Baltimore street to the Liberty
turnpike, the damages to the Western Mary
land Railroad are estimated at $40, 1870,
and the benefits at 81.
The May crop report of the department OF
agriculture states that the grain crops OF
Maryland have never presented so general a
promise of large product as they do at pres.
ent. The same may be said of meadows and
pastures.
The coal strike in the Cumberland OF
Georges Creek region is over The delegate
meeting of miners held at Homecoming on
| Tuesday decided the matter by declaring the
! strike off, and the men have gone to work al
forty cents ton.
Annie Stanley, an aged colored woman,
who lived on High street, Cambridge, was
found dead on the floor Sunday afternoon.
Justice Flint was notified, but being satisfied
that death resulted from natural causes deem
ed an inquest unnecessary.
At the municipal election in Cumberland
| on Monday j. W. Shuck, Republican, was
elected Mayor by 102 majority; Horace Res
| ley, Democrat clerk, by over 500 majority,
and the Democrats elected three out Of five
councilmen. The vote Of the city was 1892.
During the hail storm on Monday evening
of last week, Mr.. Jesse Hoshall, of the 18th
district, of Baltimore county, reports that a
| flock of wild ducks passing over.at the time OF
the storm were beaten down by the hail and
a number were captured by him on his farm
in a crippled condition.
Mr.. VIM Bosley, of the Sixth district, Bal
timore county, while driving out last week,
saw an old fox and two young ones crossing
the road near Big Marsh bridge. He jumped
out aud killed one of the young foxes and
caught the other, but the mother fox fought
him SO hard that he had to get back into his
buggy.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused
a new trial to James Graham Pearre, son of the
late Judge George A. Pearre, of Cumberland,
who whas convicted of an indecent assault on
Mrs. Estellc NJ. Kirkland lat the Hotel Albion,
Baltimore, on March IA, 1885. Pearre at the
time was law student in Baltimore, and was
drunk. The lady was thirty-f four and Pearre
%, at the time of the assault.
The Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights
of Pythias, will meet in biennial session on
July Is, 1886, at Toronto, Canada. About
rs members of the order in Maryland will at
tend, besides a number of ladies. Judge
Geo. W. Lindsay, Jas. Whitehouse and S. r.
Mason are the committee of arrangements for
the Maryland party, and are pushing their
programme with vigor. There will be grand
parade in Toronto in honor of the Supreme
Lodge.
Reports from different parts Of Frederick
county indicate much injury to the growing
wheat crop by the ravages of the fly. A
number of farmers are thinking seriously of
blowing their wheat under and planting some
thing else. As an instance, it may be men,
toned that the crop of Mr. Henry Sommers,
who resides about four miles from Frederick,
has been injured to such an extent already
that he hardly expects to raise 500 bushels
from his eighty acres planted.
On Tuesday, June LIST, 1886, there will be
held in the Grove near Lutherville, on the
Northern Central Railway, about ten miles
from Baltimore, a meeting of farmers and a
basket picnic. A number of earnest and ell
oquent speakers will address the meeting.
among them, DR.. Thomas Welsh, lecturer of
the Maryland State Grange Hobart Hutton,
past lecturer of Montgomery County Grange;
DR.. NJ. G. Ellzey, formerly professor of Ag-
riculture in the Virginia Agricultural College.
The Baltimore Orioles are doing well this
year, and now stand third in the Association.
st. Louis is first, with II games won and 10
lost; Brooklyn second II won and 8 lost;
Baltimore third, II won and 8 lost. This was
after the games of Thursday. The Western
clubs came East on Monday, and on Tuesday
all four lost. On Wednesday, two won and
two lost. and on Thursday three games were
played and were all won by the Western clubs.
On the same day in the League the four Wes-
tern clubs were victorious.
Nicholas L. 0wings contests the will of
David 0wings, his father, recently admitted
to probate in the Orphans Court of Baltimore
county. The caveator alleges that the will
was not signed by David 0wings, or in his
presence, or by his request or express direc-
llOu, VI ll1I ~ 10 dllCSbCu ouDSCElDcu III
his presence by three or more credible wit
nesses. The estate, except some small be-
quests, is given to Sophia A. r. Weaver; she
to take care of Nicholas L. Owings as long as
he lives, and to give him four suits of clothes
year.
The Rev. NJ. A. Fence, chancellor of the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, announces that the
official notification of the elevation of Archhi-
shop Gibbons to the cardinalate has been re-
ceived by the Archbishop. The letter was in
Italian, and was written by the cardinal secre-
tary of State 1t said in substance that the hon
or was conferred upon the Archbishop on ac-
count of the personal regard felt for him by
the Pope, in appreciation of his ability and
his labor in the church, for the success with
which he presided at the late plenary council,
and in honor of the metropolitan see of Balti-
timore and the great republic of the United
States. 1t was dated May G.
The Baltimore county jury in the case of
the petition for the condemnation of the Bati-
more and Libertytown Turnpike Road found
a verdict for the company without delay, and
refused to annul their charter. The jury,
with the counsel and the parties in interest,
including Mr. VIM. p. Webb, the president,
went out the turnpike last Saturday in a coach
as far as Harrisonville, II miles from Balti-
more city. By that time the jurors were sat
isfied with their survey and they returned to