The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-04
Marvland Affairs.

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er; Ti appointed trustees 900.
sets 81 900; liabilities i;a;,od ..o,o o;d from
c. F. Markell fHoward to equip new
Adjutant- Gensiy at Frederick.
military ecf 0f L. Brendle, a well-known citi.
Mr.. lagerstown, died on Wednesday after
zeptracted illness, aged 81 years.
, Philip W. Downs, of Caroline county, has
been chosen to succeed General Appraiser
Combs, at the port of Baltimore.
Judge Ritchie's eyesight is not as bad as it
has been represented. He says that with rest
and care he expects to recover.
Rev. Andrew T. Hayes, Presbyterian
clergyman, died at Berlin, Somerset county,
last week, and was buried at Emmitsburg, his
native place, last Friday.
A sharper defrauded coal dealer in An
anppolis out of $1,000 last Saturday. He Or
dered ton of coal, ordered it sent to par
ticular place, and presented bogus check
for S16.5O, the coal being Sc.
Hon. E. K. Wilson will speak at the open
ing of the Crescent Club, Baltimore, on De-
cember 18th. The speech will contrast the
principles and policy of the two parties and
is expected to be an able one.
Miss Susie Webb, second daughter of Mr..
Levi Webb, died on Wednesday morning at
her fathers residence, at Lisbon, Howard
county, of heart trouble. Miss Webb was an
attractive girl, in her twelfth year.
Mrs. Myers, residing at State Line, Wash
ington county, while confined to her bed on
Tuesday last, was so badly frightened by see
ing child falling from chair that the shock
to her nervous system resulted in her death.
Henry August Wendorff, aged 4S years, the
proprietor of a saloon at the southeast corner
of Payson and McHenry streets, Baltimore,
committed suicide Saturday morning by TAX
ing poison known as trough on rats" in a
cup of coffee.
A few days ago Mr.. Joel Fahrney, residing
near st. James College, Washington county,
fell from an apple tree and broke his back.
Since then the entire lower part of his body
has become paralyzed, and but little hope is
entertained of his recovery.
Owen Poole, highly esteemed citizen and
well-known mechanic of the Fourth district
of Howard county, died suddenly on Wednes-
day at his home near Cooksville, of dropsy,
in his eightieth year. He leaves widow, six
children and several grandchildren.
Reports from Clearspring district, Wash
ington county, indicate handsome corn crop.
David Cushwa raised over eight hundred bar
rels of corn on eighteen acres; John Strife
2, 400 barrels on sixty eight acres, and Peter
Kreigh about $50 barrels on eighteen acres.
Somerset county does not raise beef or pork
sufficient to supply the wants ofits inhabitants.
Half million of dollars are sent out of the
county annually for meat alone. More than
L cac3 81 hoe cd in no uni Of Urls
field comes from the west, and is slaughtered
in Baltimore.
John Bevans, colored, was jailed at Tow
sontown on Sunday for shooting and killing
Charles France, colored, near Rogers Station,
on the Green Spring Branch of the Northern
Central Railway, on Saturday night. There
was a woman in the case, and Bevans' story
is on the elf-defense order.
A barn containing 200 barrels of corn and
a large quantity of hay, on the farm of John
g. Kane, Hartford county, near Long Green
Station, Maryland Central Railroad, fell down
during the storm Thursday afternoon of last
week. A fine Jersey bull and four cows,
which were in the barnyard, were crushed to
death in the ruins.
Gen. Booth, the organizer and head of the
Salvation Army, of London, England, was in
Frederick on Tuesday, and his presence was
the occasion for a great parade by the local
army, which has a large number of colored
people in it. At night Gen. Booth made an
address at the City Hall to an immence au-
dience, estimated to number 10000 persons.
The Bottlers' Division of the Glass Blow
ers' League met in secret session in Baltimore
on Saturday, and ordered a strike among the
members in the Eastern Division, which in
cludes all territory east of the Alleghenies,
including Canada. The strike went into eff
feet at once, and is against apprentices and a
reduction of five per cent. in wages. About
5000 men are affected by the strike.
Two ''bug eyes, engaged in oyster catch
ing off Piney Island. in the Chesapeake, were
lost in the storm of Thursday of last week,
and aIl-srands were drowned except the cap
.tafff d due ofthe boats. Another ''bug eye
and sloop were capsized in Honga river,
and two men were drowned. The boat Fleet
wing was capsized in the mouth of the Anna
messex river and three men were drowned.
William H. Draper, fagman, was killed
at crossing on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
& Baltimore railroad, near Elkton, Cecil
county, on Sunday, while warning DR.. Ellis,
who was about to cross the track in his car
rage, of an approaching train. He was struck
by the cars and instantly killed. DIR. Ellis
said he seemed to be confused. If Draper
had not appeared as soon as he did, DR.. Ellis
would have been struck.
The chief engineer ofthe army recommends
the following appropriations for river and har-
Dor work in Maryland during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1888: Susquehanna river,
above and below Havre de Grace, $50, 000:
Chester river at Kent Island, $500; Corsica
river, $40, 900; Choptank river, SIC, 1000; Up
per Thoroughfare, between Deals Island and
the mainland, $1,000; channel. C g blltiigagfe
$50, 002 e md Annapolis harbor, $4,000
= A physician of Frederick, speaking of the
unsanitary condition of the place, says 40
deaths have occurred there from diphtheria
since August LIST, while Al new cases and 9
deaths occurred between October Is and No
vember Is. He attributes the disease almost
exclusively to hog pens. There were 100
deaths and 1000 cases during the first six
months of the epidemic, and 300 deaths and
800 cases from the advent of the disease to
the present time.
NJ. T. Goldsborough and Col. Oswald
Tilghman, of Talbot, and Robert G. Lowry,
of New York, have ''tsrrapin farm at OF
well, Mr.. Goldsborough's plantation, in Ok
ford Neck, Talbot county. Here they have
placed thousands of young diamond backs
in creek securely fenced in, where they are
fed and watched and their habits studied,
The terrapins are now in the mud in winter
quarters, but in warm weather they respond
TO the call of the keeper, and come up to get
fed with the eagerness and precision of a flock
of chickens.
A dispatch from Cumberland on Thursday
says David Riley, boss teamster Of Fair
weather & Ladew, Flintstone tannery, was
killed by falling under the wheel Of his wagon
on the Baltimore pike this morning. Three
of the wagons left here this morning for Flint
stone, loaded, with Riley's in front. Two
miles from Cumberland the driver of the sec
ond team found Riley unconscious in the
road, with fractured skull and he died in a
short time. No one saw the accident, but it
is supposed he fell from the wagon. The rear
wheel had run over the head and breast.
The Baltimore Sun of Monday says:-
"Yesterday Matte Stevens, the S-year- old
daughter Of Mr. N. B. Shorey, stove dealer
on West Pratt street, died of diphtheria at
Mr.. Shorey's residence, on the Pimlioo road,
in Baltimore county. A week previously.
November q, Nellie, George and Olive, aged
respectively 6, and II years, children of
Mr. Shorey, died of the same disease the same
day. and at the same time it was stated that
another child was ill. The death of Matte
Yesterday makes the fourth member of the
family swept away by the deadly disease, and
their mother, Mrs Martha E. Shorey, is now
i'll of the same malady.