The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-24
Maryland Affairs.

Line W0edJ crop OI County Is Sdlu
to be far from satisfactory.
A large German Baptist Church was dedi-
Gated lest Sunday at Frederick.
About 1000 new buildings have been con-
structed in Baltimore this year.
Seven colored persons have been sent to
the penitentiary from Worcester county this
year.
DIR. G. W. Bishop, SUBJ United States Treas
urer at Baltimore, was confirmed by the
Senate last Saturday.
A ball at Ellicott City, on Tuesday night,
to raise funds to build cottage hospital for
Howard county, Melted about $500.
John NJ. Thackery, near Elkton. Cecil
county, raised an average of Al bushels OF
wheat to the acre on 81 acres.
Chas. H. Beard has been committed to Jail
in Baltimore, charged with stabbing Richard
Miller in a drinking saloon at 81 Calvert st.
Major J. D. Furguson, ex-police commits
sioner of Baltimore, has been appointed a
teller in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington.
The peach crop on the Eastern Shore will
not be near as good as expected a month ago.
Except along the water courses there are few
peaches.
Judge /. Thomas Jones has nearly or quite
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| presided at the Anne Arundel county court
this week.
Representative Shaw on Wednesday secured
the establishment of a new postoffice at
Howardsville, Baltimore county, with NJ. A.
Wright postmaster.
Hugh ]. McGarvy, a we'll and highly
respected farmer of the fifth district, Howard
county, died suddenly Sunday night of heart
! disease, in his 61st year.
John Shovey, while painting Chase street
bridge in Baltimore on Monday, fell dis
lance of twenty feet to the ground, receiving
injuries from which he died few hours later.
George Weckleim while locked up at the
southern police station, Baltimore, last Fri
day, for being drunk and disorderly, made
two attempts to hang himself. Both times he
was cut down by the turnkey.
Charles B. Williams died at Montevue Hos
pital, near Frederick, on Monday, from the
effects of severe wounds on his head and body,
inflicted with club by John w. Guy in bar
room at Point of Rocks last week.
Charles E. FARRELL, vice president for Caro-
line, is making a vigorous prohibition cam
paing in that county. Prohibition clubs have
been formed in most of the towns and num-
Der of mass meetings have been scheduled.
A colored industrial school has been incor-
porated in Baltimore. The object is to es-
tablish and maintain a mechanical and indus
trial school which shall afford opportunities
to boys and girls for instruction in the me-
chanicaal trades and arts.
The farmers of Frederick county will hold
their annual picnic at Penmar on Thursday,
the 29th inst. The affair promises to be very
enjoyable. Music will be furnished by the
Fifth Regiment Band of Baltimore, and
number of local musical organizations.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment has had
royal time at Atlantic City, and will be home
| tonight or tomorrow. Last Saturday the
regiment was addressed and reviewed by
| Gov. LLOYD and staff, among the latter being
Gen. 7. Herbert Shriver, of Westminster.
A heavy rain and hail passed north
of Hagerstown on Sunday evening. Consid-
cradle damage to the growing corn crop is re-
ported. The storm was accompanied by light
ming, which struck several barns, including
those of Mr.. Isaac Hull and Mr.. J. ]. Snively.
| At different points a number of cattle grazing
in the fields were killed
Rev. VIM. Thos. DUNN died in townsville,
Frederick county, Monday afternoon; aged
about 20 years. He had been in delicate
health about two years, but had only been Sc
riously sick for few days. He was born in
Ohio, and entered the ministry in the Mary
land Conference of the Methodist Protestant
! Church in 1843.
AT Port Deposit on Sunday afternoon,
James Collins, colored, found Jerry Dites,
colored, in his house under suspicious circum-
stances, in which the wife of the former was
implicated. After violent alteration Col
Inns seized an axe and made for Dites, at
whom he threw the axe, striking Dites on the
| left side below the shoulderblade, and inhict
ing wound five inches long.
United States Commissioner Robert Lyon
Rogers, in Baltimore, on Tuesday, refused to
surrender John Stone to the Canadian au
thorities. Stone shot and wounded his niece,
Miss Maud Hodge, in January last, at Beams
vile, Ontario, and then fired bullet into his
own head. He was arrested, then escaped
and fed to Baltimore, where he was arrested at
the residence of his brother-in-law, Hugh W.
Matthews, and where he had been under guard.
George R. Watkins paymaster of the Uni
ted States ship Ossipee, has been convicted
by court martial on board the ship at Yoko-
hama of embezzlement and desertion. He
has been sentenced to three years imprison-
ment at hard labor, in United States prison,
to be designated by the Secretary of the Ma
Wy, to receive half furlough pay during that
period, and to be dismissed from the service
on the expiration of the term of imprson-
ment Watkins lived in Baltimore prior to
entering the navy.
The Senate aHd House have passed bill,
which will now 60 to the President, to put
Miss Mary A. Thomas on the pension rolls at
the rate of $25 per month. Miss Thomas, a
Marylander by birth, served in the summer of
1862, and for eighteen months subsequently,
as volunteer nurse and superintendent of
nurses in the United States army general hos
pital at Frederick City, and in this period
rendered very valuable service for the wound
ed and sick from the battle fields of Antietam
and Gettysburg.
Captain James B. Willing, of the oyster
packing firm of William L. Ellis & Co., of
Baltimore, disappeared about ten days ago,
and it is said that about 100000 belonging to
his friends, have also disappeared. He was
member of the last State Legislature and
was instrumental in having a bill passed re-
funding money paid by owners of oyster ves-
sells as tonnage tax. Certificates amounting
to $500 we're entrusted to him for collection.
He had them eashed, but failed to make re-
turns. He also borrowed largely from his
friends, and several notes recently due were
allowed to go to protest. Willing was also
administrator of the estate of deceased
cousin, and is believed to have mismanaged
| it. As far as can be learned, the firm of
VIM. L. Ellis & Co. has not been obligated
by the absconder.
The construction OF the Piedmont and Gum
berland Railroad is being pushed forward
very rapidly. The line is % miles in length
and is all under contract. The work is d.
vided between four contractors, each of whom
has large force of hands employed. The
grading, apart from few heavy cuts, ia rath-
er light, and is to be completed by October 20.
The new road crosses the Potomac river nine
times, and will require as many iron bridges.
The masonry is being built, and the bridges
have been contracted for so as to be ready
when the grading is finished. This road is an
extension of the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Road, and gives the latter an outlet
for the Elk Garden coal and the immense
timber and lumber along its line When
completed 1T will carry the Elk Garden coal.
and will be competitor of the Baltimore and
Ohio Co. for carrying Georges Creek coal.
The preliminary surveys for the proposed
Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad, char
tered by an act of the last Legislature, have
just been completed, and Chief Engineer W.
Fl. Eicheberger, of Baltimore, is engaged in
making a map of the surveys and estimates of
the cost of construction. twill take month
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