The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-15
Maryland Affairs.

COlege
DR.. James S. Mackenzie, one of the best
known physicians of Baltimore, died sudden
ly, Monday morning, aged 81 years.
Robert Mickle, the veteran cashier of the
National Union Bank of Maryland, Balti-
more, died on Monday, aged Ss years.
The centennial of the Grand Lodge, A. F.
A. NJ. in this State, will take place in Novem-
Der, and elaborate preparations will be made
for the event.
Chas. R. Hamilton, of Baltimore, died on
Tuesday. He served three terms in the Leg
islature and was State Grain Weigher under
Cows. Bowie and Carroll.
The Talbot Guards, lat Easton, have received
sixty Springfield muskets from the Springfield
armory obtained by requistion from Gov.
| Lloyd on the War Department.
The Baltimore races ut Pimlico begin Tues
day next There are about 260 stalls on the
grounds, everyone of which is engaged and
arrangements are being made for stalls out
side.
Joseph Shater. n well known farmer re-
siding near Mlddletown, Frederick county
was found dead in bed from heart dis
ease on Thursday morning of last week. He
was aged IA years.
The washing of the banks of the Choptank
river, near Cambridge, has exposed some hu-
man bones. They are believed to be the bones
of Indians, and their size would indicate that
they were giants in height.
Mackerel have been caught in the Miles
river, in Talbot county, the first ever known
to be taken from the river. Among other
strange things reported, is the catching of shad
in the same river with hook and line.
The Maryland State Temperance Alliance
and the Maryland Temperance League, have
been consolidated under the first mentioned
name, with the agreement that the united body
shall be nonsectarian and nonpartisan.
1t is proposed to have a regular old. fash
| toned Fourth of July celebration in Easion
next Independence Day. with military parades,
booming of cannon, target shooting, barbe-
cue and patriotic oratory, like it used to be
done by our fathers.
A severe rain and hail storm passed over
that portion of Washington county lying ad
jacent to the Western Maryland Railroad
Monday night, doing considerable damage to
the wheat and fruit crops. AT Smithsburg
hundreds of window glass were broken
The steamship Acadia, belonging to J. L.
Bell & Co., importers of tropical fruits of
Baltimore, has not been heard of since she
sailed from Port Antonio, Jamaica, April
10th, and is given up for lost. She a
screw steamer of 224 tons burthen, and had a
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Mrs Elizabeth R. Boynton, who was at
tackled with apoplexy about three weeks ago,
and had been in a critical condition ever
| since, at the home of her mother, Mrs. R. E.
Murphy, in Port Deposit, died last Saturday
night, aged 81 years and one month. Mrs.
| Boynton was the eldest daughter of the late
| Col John Creswell, and sister of Hon. John
A. j. Creswell.
Representative Shaw was at the Postofice
Department en- Wednesday to inderse the pc
tition protesting against the action of the First
| Assistant Postmaster General in changing the
name of the postofice at Long Green. Balti-
more county, to Long Ridge. Gen. Steven
son was absent from the city, and Mr.. Fowler,
his assistant, will not take any action on the
protest until his return.
Isabel Kunkel, aged u years, of Frederick,
was badly burned on Wednesday night In
lighting the gas in her room she set fire to her
dress. Her screams quickly brought her
father and mother, who, by promptly wrap
ping blanket around her, succeeded in ex-
| tinguishing the flames, but not until her
splendid suit of hair was nearly burnt from
her head, and her face and arms also pain
fully burned.
The incorporators of the Piedmont and
Cumberland Railroad Company on Monday
organized at Piedmont by the election of s.
i B. Elkins president, Harry G. Buxton. secre-
tary and treasurer, Henry G. Davis, S. B.
Elkins, T. B. Davis, A. P. German, E. W. S.
Moore, Harry G. Buxton and G. W. Harrison,
directors. The company was incorporated in
West Virginia and Maryland to build the road
from Piedmont to Cumberland to connect
with the West Virginia Central Railway.
The commencement exercises at the close
of the current session of the McDonogh In
stitute will be held oil Saturday, May 30.
After the delivery of certificates and an
nouncement of honors the annual address to |
the graduating class will be delivered by The |
Rev. DR.. John W. NJ. Williams, of the First
Baptist Church, Baltimore. An interesting
addition to the programme will be an address |
to the alumni, which Mayor Hodges has been
invited to deliver, and which will conclude /
the exercises of the day.
Col L. Victor Baughman, president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, re-
ports that great damage was done by the re-
cent rains at Shepherdstown and at points
fifty miles below Cumberland and three miles |
above the Great Falls. Sand bars have also
been formed all along the canal. 1t was the
intention of the canal management to turn /
the water in and open navigation last Mon
day, but ii will be impossible to do so now for
several weeks. Superintendent Biser has /
gone to the scenes of the damage, and will |
make report as to the extent of the repairs |
necessary. As soon as his report is received |
large force of men will be put at work in
order that the canal may be opened to the |
trade at the earliest possible moment
AnuHsuccessful attempt was made last Mon I
day night to lynch Hery Davis, negro con-
fined in Belair Jail on the charge of criminal |
assault upon Miss Elizabeth Welch, near the
Black Horse, Hartford county, about two |
weeks ago. Between y and / O'Clock about
25 or so men appeared at the jail, and arous.
ing the sheriff, Mr.. Robert Carman, asked /
him to come down. He refused to do so,
whereupon they said they had come to lynch
the negro Davis. and intended to do it. Mr.. /
Carman warned the crowd against making any |
attempt upon the building, telling them he |
was prepared to defend the building and the
prisoner, and meant to do it. He also told |
them the best thing they could do would be to
dispense and get home before daylight, lest |
they should be recognized, which they did.
A new enemy to the peach orchards has
appeared in the peach growing sections of /
the Maryland and Delaware peninsula this
spring, and is playing havoc with the young
growth of the trees in many orchards. The
enemy is o worm from a quarter to three
eighths of an inch long, and about as thick as
a pin. Its color is dark brown. These
worms eat out the entire hull or leaf end of
the young shoots, which of course kills the
ends of the twigs. Some orchards in Kent
and Sussex, Delaware, look as if fire had
passed over the ends of the limbs and scorch
ed the twigs and leaves, presenting similar
appearance to the forests infested by locusts
last year. The technical name of this worm
is not yet known by the peach growers, and
its origin and habits are likewise unknown.
The area in which these worms appear in
destructive numbers is comparatively limited.
Last week the Susqnehanna bridge on the
Philadelphia branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was successfully swung free of
the ''false york and this great structure
was practically completed. This gives the
new line a continuous track from Baltimore
to its connection with the Chester branch of
the Reading Railroad on the west bank of the
Schrylkill. in the city of Philadelphia 1t is
understood that the terms of a traffic agree
ment have been drawn between the Balti-
more and Ohio and the Reading companies
for the use of the tracks of the latter and of
the Jersey Central between Philadelphia and
New ork for a term of three years. With
the final consummatiol Of this agreement the
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