The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-31
Maryland Affairs.

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family in Europe.
Representative Shaw has secured the es-
tablishment of new postoffice at Hareigh,
Baltimore county, with VIM. ii. Marriott
postmaster.
Rev. Edward Napoleon Kirby, son of Mr..
Thomas II. Kirby, of St. Michaers, Talbot
county, has been elected teacher of elocu-
ton in Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
The barn of Joseph Bishop, near Smoke
town, Washington county, was struck by light
ming on Monday evening and destroyed, to-
gether with its contents-wheat, hay and
machinery.
II is said that Boston capitalists contem-
Mate erecting q fine hotel at Sharpsburg, adj
Joining Antietam National Cemetery. The
new hotel is to be five stories high, and will
cost 100000.
Three men and two women have been ar
rested in Montgomery county. charged with
violating the local option law. They were
each held in the sum of 5000 for the action of
the grand jury.
Col B. ]. Burgess, superintendent of the
MARYLAND Military and Naval Academy at
Oxford, has bought the bark Amazon from
! Thomas Pierce, of Baltimore. She will be
attached to the Academy and used as prac-
tice ship for the cadets
According to the estimates of large num-
Der of farmers, the yield of the wheat crop
lust gathered in Frederick county will hardly
amount to a two-thirds annual average, al
though it is believed by some that it will be
found to be fair average.
VIM. Waters, of Calvert county, attempted
to commit suicide last week by cutting his
throat. He failed, and isl getting well. He
| is a carpenter, and getting hurt some months
ago, and being unable to work much, he was
afraid of starving and undertook to end his
existence.
Captain Frederick G. Halberstadt, of the
German ship Elizabeth, of Bremen, lying at
Bondays salt wharves, foot OF Ann street,
gave reception on board last tuesday nignt,
which celebrated his fftieth round voyage as
master of ship across the Atlantic between
Baltimore and Bremen.
Prohibitionists in Maryland are directing
their efforts, at this time particularly, to pro-
noting a sentiment IN favor OF inserting a
prohibitory liquor clause in the constitution
ofthe State. The State Temperance Alliance
has appointed an executive committee OF 100
members to urge the matter
The glove contest between the heavy
weights, Jack Kilrain, of Baltimore, and
Ashton, which has been postponed from time
to time, owing to legal interference, is set for
| o.day. in Brooklyn, the permit for it having
been granted by the authorities. The WIN
ner is to challenge Mitchell, the English pugl-
| list. ~.
Detectives Freeburger and Seibold arrived
in Baltimore on Tuesday night from Lancas-
ter. Pa, with James Henry, alias Charley
Wise, alias Henry Linden, the ex- convict, who
is charged with setting fire to the barn OF John
w. Rhine, Pine Orchard, Howard county,
April 20. 1886, and stealing therefrom $500
colt. He has been turned over to the Howard
county authorities.
Tobias Wingerd, of Ringgold, Washington
county, met with a serious and probably fatal
accident last Friday. He had driven to
Waynesboro', Pa, with marketing, and on
his return his horse became frightened and
| threw the occupants from the wagon. MIR.
Wingerd had his nose broken and skull IN
iured, and Mrs. Wingerd also received pain
full injuries.
Miss Annie Mindeline, of Baltimore, who
Is on a visit to Thomas Hayman, residing
about nine miles from Salisbury, met with a
serious accident on Monday night about 8
o'clock. While ridingin wagon she fell out,
the wheels passing over her head intiictng
severe scalp wounds. The jaw-bone is also
broken. and one ear nearly severed from the
side of the head. Her condition is considered
critical
The clause of the Armstrong marriage
license bill providing for the use OF the Camp
hell system of indexing the records has been
declared unconstitutional by Attorney- General
Charles B. Roberts, as heretofore stated, ana
there is serious doubt as to whether the Dill
| itself received constitutional majority. The
Baltimore Sun has also learned from the
Patent Office that the patent of Abner Camp
| u l. lost EphrnarV
The brake rigging on car loaded with
coal, which was standing on grade at Eek
hart mines, Allegheny county, on Tuesday
afternoon broke, allowing the car to run down
the grade at high speed, crashing into sew
eral other cars standing mile further down.
Several repair hands, who were engaged IN
unloading ballast from the cars with which the
runaway car collided, were injured, John
Moore, one of the number, being instantly
killed. and Philip Rephorn seriously injured
internally.
Sheriff Elias Cost, of Washington county,
on Sunday afternoon shot and probably fatally
wounded Henry Robinson, colored, while the
latter was resisting arrest. The sheriff had
been called to remove Robinson from house
on Church street, Hagerstown, where he was
creating disturbance. he placed ho6lnson
under arrest, but Robinson upon reaching the
street knocked the sheriff down and stamped
upon him. The sheriff regained his feet and
placed the nippers upon his man, but was
AGAIN furiously assaulted, when he drew his
revolver. firing two shots, the first striking
Robinson in the left hand, and the second in
the breast Immediately under the throat.
The employees of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal and their mothers and fathers, wives
and babies, sweethearts and friends, number
ing over 1000 persons, had a picnic last
Thursday, ct which they ate one steer. SIX
sheep, two dozen hams, two and a-half bar.
rels of -four made into bread, 500 pies and
two barrels of cakes, and washed 1t down with
two barrels of lemonade and forty kegs of
beer The picnic was given by President
Baughman and the directors of the company
in recognition of the faithful services of the
men in quickly and thoroughly repairing the
enormous damages done to the canal by the
floods of last March, April and May.
The report of the chief of the appointment
division of the Postofiice Department shows
the total number of postofice cases acted on
in Maryland during the past fiscal year to be
800. Seventy-fve postoffices were established
and nine discontinued. Eleven names and
sites were changed, which occasioned the
removal of four postmasters and the appoint
ment of their successors The number of
postmasters who resigned, including those
whose commissions expired, was ll5. One
hundred and sixty postmasters were re-
moved or suspended and Is died. The total
number of postofiices in the State OF Mary
land June 80, 1886, was 907, an increase of g.
The Hon. James U. Dennis, of Princess
Anne, is the largest wheat grower in Somerset
county. He has finished thrashing and real
lied 1926 bushels, to l43 bushels seeding on
80 acres of land. On % acres of the 50 he
drilled two bushel to the acre, drilling one
bushel lengthwise the lot and one bushel
crosswise, to secure a good stand and guard
against freezing out. While Mr.. Dennis got
good returns for the number of acres seeded,
his overseer. Frank Jones, is positive that the
loss by the wheat being too ripe reached be-
tween 300 and 400 bushels. The constant
rains prevented it being cut when it should
have been-consequently when reaped it was
so ripe that it shattered fearfully.
In the case of Day Inspector Clinton G.
| Norris, who was accused of receiving bottle
| of gin from the captain of the steamship En-
dymion, Surveyor Warfeld concluded that
the charges were prompted by malice; that
the gin was not offered as a bride, nor ac
cepted as such, and that the case should he
dismissed with reprimand. Collector
Groome adopted the suggestions and admin
istered reprimand, with an admonition to be