The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-21
Maryland Affairs.

Edward Day has been commissioned post
master at Glenelg, Howard county.
The Naval Academy cadets will return
from their practice cruise the latter part of
August.
The Fort McHenry batteries, Baltimore,
have been ordered to Washington for rifle
practice.
John Gies, aged rs, died of apoplexy at his
home, Reisterstown, Baltimore county, las t
Saturday.
The labor organizations of Baltimore are
arranging for large demonstration on Sep
TENDER 9th.
The colored camp at Asbury Grove closed
on Tuesday. The visitors last Sunday num-
bered Il, 900.
B. F. Deford, of Baltimore, has given ST.
500 for the improvement of the Lutheran
Church at Luray, Va.
The oyster steamer Gov. McLane has been
ordered to Sassafras river to investigate alleg-
ed violations of the fishery laws.
The great gathering of Lutherans at Pen
mar, on the Western Maryland Railroad, will
occur on Wednesday, the Sth of September.
The union picnic at Harmony, Calvert
county, last week, realized $1,000. The pro-
ceeds will be applied toward erecting church.
Forty-three prisoners were released from
the Baltimore city Jail last Saturday. They
had all been committed for nonpayment OF
fines.
Woodville, Prince Georges county, died of
apoplexy last Monday, after a few hours
illness.
The Baltimore base ball club arrived home
Tuesday night, and celebrated the event by
badly defeating the Athletics on Wednesday
and Thursday.
Two colored men living in the same house
in Baltimore, had fight with razors about
each others wife. Both were terribly and
perhaps fatally cut.
man Mouldin, at Port Deposit, were robbed
last Saturday night The plumber consisted
of money and jewelry.
DIR. Geo. W. Massamore, of Baltimore, has
been elected a permanent corresponding
member of the American Pneumismatic and
Archaeological Society of New York.
Andrew E. Warner, manufacturer of silver
ware and jewelry in Baltimore, made an as
signment on Wednesday for the benefit of his
creditors. The bond OF the trustee is $50, 900.
COL Buchanan Schley, of Hagarstown, will
deliver the address before the Montgomery
County Agricultural Association at the ap-
preaching fall fair at Rockville, September 2.
The grand jury of Baltimore on Saturday
found presentments against Wallace Owings,
charged with shooting and cutting Jerome
Kuhn, and against Kuhn for assaulting
0wings.
The grocery, tea and provision dealers OF
Baltimore had big parade on Wednesday,
and picnic and a general good time at
Scheutzen Park afterwards. The procession
was imposing, with many handsome and gaily
decorated wagons, brass bands, &c.
Mrs. Polly Trehearn, who was brutally as
saulted, it is alleged, by James Stevens, col
ored, about three weeks ago, in Dublin dis
trict, Worcester county, is not expected to
recover. 1t has been ascertained that three
of her ribs were broken during the struggle
which occurred at the time.
A. N. Guest, of Dexter, Michigan, COM
mitted suicide in Baltimore on Tuesday.
He and his wife lived unhappily. They had
been in the city but two weeks. In the same
city on the same day, George Kappes fell
dead on the street from apoplexy.
DIR. Ward, State veterinary surgeon, has
discovered pleuro-pneumonia among the cows
of several dairy stables in the vicinity OF
Highlandtown, Baltimore county. He order
three cows killed belonging to Geo. Clay, and
one cow belonging to Mrs. Lauf. He also
ordered Mr.. Clay's stable quarantined.
Private Louis Bennix, of the Fifth Regi-
ment, who was charged with visiting the re-
cent camp of the Baltimore Light Infantry in
fatigue uniform and acting disorderly, has been
dismissed. Sentence has not been passed yet
upon Private c. E. Hessler, who was found
guilty of going to the camp in uniform.
The handsome residence of Isaac S. George,
on Eutaw Place, Baltimore, north of the
Boundary, and occupied by Antonio Martinez,
2.30 o'clock. The building was valued at
So, 200 and contents at 1900. Martinez s
family were away for the summer.
Milton G. Ward, of Washington county,
was committed to Jail at Hagerstown on We'd
nesday, for murderously assaulting woman
known as Mollie Ward and a man named
Thomas Mccoy, on Tuesday, at Slackwater,
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, he being
an employe of the company. He is said to
have stabbed Mccoy with large knife and
to have shot at the woma. with a gun.
The schoolship Amazon, from the Maryland
Military and Naval Academy, Oxford, Talbot
county, set sail from Oxford recently with
seventy-fiye cadets on board, for the summer
cruise The ship will cruise on the Chesa-
peake and along the Atlantic coast as far
north as Newport, R. l., touching at the prin-
cipal ports and returning in the early part of
| September
| Cardinal Gibbons is reported to have said
that he infers, from reading the newspapers
and Mr.. Powderly's public statements, tina
the objects of the knights of Labor are praiset
worthy and in no way opposed to the Church.
He believes that the hostility of Cardinal
| Taschereau, in Quebec, grew out of some To-
cal laws or conduct of the Knights, contrary
to the doctrine of the Church.
| The Baltimore base ball club is making a
worse exhibition than before the reorganiza.
ton. Last Sunday the Louisville club defeat
ed them 10 to 6 in the morning, with Kilroy
in the box, and by % to in the afternoon,
with Conway in the box. In the last game
Hecker, of the Louisvilles, was at the bat
seven times, and made three home runs and
three singles, the greatest batting feat ever
recorded.
The new St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery,
on the Frederick road, near Baltimore, oppo-
site Loudon Park Cemetery, is very nearly
completed, and it will be dedicated on Sun
day, September II. Cardinal Gibbons will
dedicate the Building and make an address.
This new monastery, which has been built in
place of the old one destroyed by fire nearly
three years ago, is the largest and handsom-
est of the seven Passionist retreats in this
country.
1t is said that within the next week or two
the Bay Ridge Company will issue stock to
| the amount of 100000 for the further i'm
provement of its grounds. The stock will be
taken by syndicate of capitalists, with Mr..
L. Harrison Garrett at the head. The money
will be used to meet all the company's en-
gagements, and to push new improvements
which are contemplated. Large sums have
already been spent in making Bay Ridge one
| of the most deliberately fitted out and enjoya-
| bic resorts down the bay.
| Gaddes Brothers, extensive marble workers
in Baltimore, on Monday fled deed of trust
for the benefit of creditors. They place their
assets at $50, 900 and their liabilities at $4,000
or $4,000. The failure was caused by the in
debtedness to the firm by |. Parker Yeazy Of
$I06, 900 of which $78, 900 is in notes Of the
firm, used by Mr.. Veazey, who is prominent
lawyer, and was for year Postmaster of
Baltimore, having been appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland. Mr.. Veazey, it is said, has
become embarrassed by some unfortunate in
vestments.
A call has been issued, signed by L. b.
Sappington, Ell. H. Hartsock, Frank Higgins,
I. j. Peddicord and Z. Tracy Bishop, vice
a