The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-03
Maryland Affairs.

II is stated that the Baltimore and Ohio will
enlarge its rolling mills in Cumberland.
Emma Scott has been commissioned post
master at owings' Mill, Baltimore county.
Threshing is in progress on the Eastern
Shore, and the wheat is not turning out as
well as anticipated.
The expense of comforting the berretta
upon Cardinal Gibbons, is stated, in Balti-
more paper, at $4,000.
The county tax rate in Talbot county has
been fixed at 70 cents on the 500; in Wor-
cester at Y cents on the 500.
Mr.. Jno. McClelland, an old and we'll
known resident of Ellicott City, died suddenly
at his home there last Sunday of paralysis, in
his I'D year.
The first Maryland peaches, the Beatrice,
were received in Baltimore, on Tuesday, 10Th
of June, from Calvert and Caroline counties,
and also from Virginia.
George NJ. Hiss, well known citizen of
Baltimore, died suddenly of apoplexy, on
Sunday, at the residence of Henry Wiers at
White Hall, Baltimore county.
Henry McComas, q cigar maker recently
from Pittsburg, Pa, was committed to Jail in
Baltimore on Saturday, charged with a Grim
inal assault on Annie Krause, dumb girl,
aged Is years.
The Fifth Regiment will leave Baltimore
Wednesday night, July IA for its summer
encampment at Atlantic City, N. j., and will
get back to Baltimore Sunday morning July
%. The REGIMENT will muster about $50
men.
A petition signed by sixty residents of Bal
timore county, has been received at the Post
office Department asking the establishment
of mail station at Howardville, on the West
ern Maryland Railroad, seven miles from Bal
timore city.
A white snake, nearly six feet long, captured
near Fair Haven in Anne Arundel county,
has been been purchased by the Bay Ridge
Company for its geological collection. The
reptile was held at $50, but the account does
not say that that sum was paid for it.
The hail-storm of last Friday was unusually
severe in some portions of Howard county.
In the vicinity of Savage and Elkridge it is
reported that the young corn and other crops
were much damaged. 1t was also heavy in
sections of the second and fifth districts.
John Streaker, who lived at Hampden, Bal
timore county, went fishing last Friday after
noon near Cold Spring lane, and being seized
with apoplexy fell into the water. County
policeman Kennedy rescued him in time to
prevent his drowning, and took him to his
home, where he died Saturday morning.
The new iron tower Mt. Quirauk, at Pen
mar mountain resort, was opened on Monday
for the excursionists who made the trip from
Baltimore. 1t is handsome structure, 20
feet in height, giving the visitor a view of the
Cumberland valley from an altitude of $500
feet above the sea level. The tower was con-
structed by the engineering department of the
Western Maryland Railroad Company.
Judge David Davis died at his home in
Bloomington, Illinois, last Saturday evening,
aged II years. Judge Davis was native of
| Cecil county. He was the son of David Davis,
and an uncle of Henry Winter Davis. He
filed several judicial positions in his adopted
state, was judge of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and recently United
States Senator and President pro TEN.
After the declnation of the bishopric of the
Diocese of Easton by Rev. Kinloch Nelson,
| d. D., it was thought that special conven-
ton of the diocese would be called for July
IA, for the purpose of new election. The
| idea, it is understood, has since been aban-
doned, and it is now stated that the election
will be deferred until after the General Epis-
copal Convention which meets in October.
A fire in Port Deposit, last Friday after
noon, destroyed the tin can factory and hard
ware store of Reynolds Brothers, with several
stables and out buildings. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000; insurance $4,000. The
fire was started by the falling of hot solder
ing iron into mass of rosin. During the fire
man named Rogers was dangerously, if not
fatally, injured by falling from the roof of
neighboring house.
Ella Gaufinn, alias Gahan, was found dead
in cell in the county Jail at Towsontown on
Saturday night. She had been committed to
Jail on Friday by Justice Gallagher, of WAY
erly, on the charge of drunkenness and disor-
orderly conduct, together with Martha Jane
Kerr and Harry Pierce. Both the women
were taken sick about midnight, and DR..
jackson Piper, physician to the Jail, attended
them. They got better, but on Saturday
night the woman Gauffinn grew worse, and
died, as stated.
The project of the completion of the Read
ing Railroad to connection with the Wes-
tern Maryland in the Cumberland valley is
again discussed. The Reading officials went
over the route last week. A bridge across
the Susquehanna at Harrisburg would give the
Reading a connection with the Harrisburg
and Potomac Railroad to Shippensburg, on
the Western Maryland. This would give
line from the Reading to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Hagerstown, besides be
advantageous for the exchange Of local traffic
in a rich and populous section.
United States Marshal Geo. H. Cairnes has
received from the Treasury Department at
Washington the approval of the Secretary of
the Treasury of the following nominations
made by the marshal as custodian of the
| United States courthouse: George Blucher
machinist, Woodberry, Baltimore county, to
be fireman, at 5000 year, in place of Henry
Mehrling, removed; Daniel Fenton, brother
of Capt. j. j. Fenton, of Baltimore, and for
merly clerk in the States attorneys office, to
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III. Matthews, colored, removed Raphael
Hartman, of Canton, to be laborer, at $40
year, in place of VIM. 81. Richardson, color
ed removed. The appointees went into Office
on July l.
John Simms, colored, picked up an old
musket in shop on the farm of William
Feldmyer, near Annapolis, one day last week,
began looking at it, and probably concluded
it was about useless. Taking a cap from
his pocket, Simms capped the musket, and
proceeded to test it. About FIVE feet from the
muzzle of the gun, in an oblique direction,
stood Charles Herald and George Romer,
white. When the gun was discharged the
scattering shot struck Herald's forehead and
nose, infiicting serious wound, and powder
entered his eyes, and it is feared the sight is
destroyed. Romer's left arm received a num-
Der of stray shot. The main body of the load
passed through an inch board, wagon cover,
and lodged in the wall of the dwelling house.
Thomas G. Hayes, United States district
attorney for Maryland, on last Friday filed
libels of information in the United States
District Court against the steam vessels Gov.
Robt M. McLane, Governor Hamilton and
Gov. P. F. Thomas, of the State oyster navy,
for navigating the waters of the Chesapeake
bay and tributaries without having the boilers
and bulls of the vessels inspected by the local
inspectors of the United States, and for not
obtaining certificates of approval of the in
spectors and for receiving and transporting
passengers without such certificates, in vio-
iation of sections ALI, 44lS, 442l and 4423
of the Revised Statutes of the United States,
and claiming penalties amounting to 81, 100
against each vessel forfeited by the owners
by force of section 4499 of the Revised Stat
uteS.
In Baltimore, on Saturday morning, George
FORSYTH shot and dangerously wounded his
wife, Ella, and then committed suicide.
FORSYTH was 81 years old and his widowis 10.
The couple married three years ago, when he
was ls and she 16, and after year or two
separated. Forsyth was then clerk in some
establishment, but recently kept a saloon.