The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-12
Maryland Afairs.


Harvest will begin next week.
| Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out among
the cattle in the fourth district of Howard
county.
Captain William Glessner died at his home
in Frederick, on Tuesday, aged 50 years. He
was native of York, Pa.
! Archbishop Gibbons last Sunday admins
tered the sacrement of confirmation to eighty
six persons at St. Mary's Church, Rockville.
Mrs. Annie Atwell died in Baltimore on
| Tuesday. She was born in Annapolis on
! April g, 1856, making her a little over 100
years old.
James NJ. Touchstone, a prominent citizen
of Port Deposit, Cecil county, and former
member of the legislature, died on Monday,
aged about 40 years.
Oscar Hoffman, a prominent chemist of
Baltimore, committed suicide last Friday by
taking hydrocyanic acid. Pecuniary embar
rasment is alleged as the cause.
William Bryan, of Annapolis, died in Bal
timore last Friday night, aged "a years. He
had held various public positions, among them
mayor of Annapolis and register of wills.
Philip Smallwood, one of the best known
| and most respected citizens of the fifth dis
irict of Howard county, died suddenly on
Friday last, of paralysis, in his S5th year.
Earnest Clarvoe went to the house of James
Wood, in Prince Georges county, on Tues
day to collect bill. Some hot words oc-
Cured over the bill, and Clarvoe shot Wood
in the right breast, inflicting a fatal wound.
The store of VIM. L. Gross, at Barry, Fred
erick county, was entered on Saturday night
by burglars, who blew the safe open with
powder and succeeded in getting off with $3.50
in cash and valuable papers. A reward of
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A milk-white snake, six feet long, was cap
tured last week by two youths, near Jewell
Postoffice, Anne Arundel county. 1t has a
head like the black snake, with bright glisten-
ing eyes, slim, tapering neck, the body
about an inch in diameter in the largest part
Mrs. Louisa Taylor, a young married wo-
man, committed suicide in her fathers house,
at Charlestown, Cecil county, on Saturday
day night, by taking laudanum and strichnine.
She said she would kill herself because her
husband did not provide for her. She was %
years of age.
The entire class of naval cadets of 1884,
numbering SO, has been successful at its final
examination in the Naval Academy. Nearly
80 will be retained in the navy; the rest will
be honorably discharged, with one year pay.
First in the order of merit for the six-years'
term is Charles Fl. Hewes, of Pennsylvania.
Shipments of strawberries from the Eas-
tern Shore and Delaware have ceased. The
crop this year was immense. From Salisbury
alone 129 carloads of strawberries were sent
North. Each car contained $4,000 quarts,
and the total amounted to 1926, 900 quarts.
To New York "a carloads were sent, to Bos-
ton 81, to Philadelphia Is, to Chester 8, and
to Newark, New Jersey 5.
Work on the Easton water works has begun.
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built of immense blocks of Port Deposit
granite. The requisite number of deep wells
have been bored. These wells, ranging from
80 to 10 feet deep, send flowing stream to
the surface. The water has been tested, and
analyses as almost pure water.
A shabbily-dressed young woman, who
claimed to be the sister of Thomas j. Cluve-
RUS, charged with killing Miss Lillian Madi-
son, in Richmond, Va, was arrested near
Waverly, Baltimore county, and sent to the
House of Correction as a vagrant. Cluve-
rius has no sister, and this young woman
tried to create sympathy by palming herself of
as such, but Justice Gallagher paid no atten
ton to the yarn, and gave her three months.
The Arthur Kill bridge bill, which passed
the United States Senate several weeks ago,
was called up in the House of Representatives,
on Monday, and passed with but three dis
President, of whose approval there is no
doubt. The bridge is to be located under the
supervision of an engineer to be detailed by
the Secretary of War. Thus the way is now
open for the Baltimore and Ohio to Staten
Island. and it will doubtless speedily avail
itself of the privileges granted for so favorable
an entrance to the harbor of New York
Postmaster Brown, of Baltimore, with the
approval of the Postmaster General, has ap
pointed John w. McKenna, Samuel l.. Ste
VEINS and Joseph E. Hustler to be auxiliary or
third class carriers at 5000 year, to succeed
Charles A. Rotan, John Sellers and George
C. Cooper, removed for cause The re-
movals include two Republicans and one
Democrat. The friends of the two Republi-
cans criticised the action of the postmaster,
and the point was made that there were
political reasons for the change. Postmaster
Brown said that politics had nothing to do
with his action. He had been told that one
of the men was an ex- soldier, but that would
not condone for violation of the postal
rules.
Mrs Cornelia Pruitt, living near Cris6eld,
Somerset county, was assaulted by man one
night last week. Her husband was at his store
about half mile away, and Mrs. Pruitt and
her little child had gone to bed. A lamp was
burning, and Mrs. Pruitt saw that the intrud-
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material. The villain extinguished the light,
then went after Mrs. Pruitt, but she fought
and screamed, so that he left to avoid detec-
ton by the neighbors, who came to the res
cue lust as he had made good his flight. Isaac
7. Dougherty, who formerly lived in the fam
lily and married a girl raised by Mrs. Pruitt,
was arrested on Saturday, charged with the
assault, and was committed to Jail after a
hearing. In the struggle with Mrs. Pruiti
she bit Dougherty's finger, and at the hearing
wound was found, which will be the evil
dence to convict.
A human skull was found on the Duvall
farm, Montgomery county last week, and
search being instituted the balance of the re-
mains were found, and proved to be those of
Arthur Tolliver, colored, who disappeared
some time previous. At the coroner's inquest
the remains were fully identified, and the
jury brought in the verdict that Arthur Toll
liver came to his death at the hands of Dan
Brown or Larkin Bowie, or BOTH Toliver
had stolen some money from a respectable
old colored man named Clagget Bowie, and
Brown and the Bowies gave chase, but at the
time it was though Toliver had escaped.
| Ellen Bell, colored woman. who is held in
Jail at Rockville on the charge of larceny, on
Saturday, when she heard of the finding of
the skull, exclaimed, 'sThen it was So" This
excited the jailers curiosity, and he question
ed her as to what she meant. She stated that
when Brown came to her house on his return
from the hunt for Bowie she asked him if
they had caught and brought him back. Brown
said, Hell never come back; I've fixed
him." She asked him what he meant His
answer was, 81 shot him. Sheriff Miller
had the woman make an affidavit to these
statements. He then swore out warrant
for Brown, and arrested him and had him be-
fore the coroner's jury, which found the ver-
dict before mentioned. The body of Toliver
was found wedged in under pine brush fence
so tightly that the buzzards even could not
get at him. Sheriff Miller has the skull in
his possession, and it shows two small holes
which the bullet made in passing through.
The theory is that Brown alone murdered
Toliver to get the money he had stolen, as he
was spending money constantly after Toliver's
disappearance, and was not working at the
] time. Both Brown and Bowie are lodged in
jail.
Charles White. colored, aged Is years,
was lynched at Prince Frederick, Calvert
county, on Sunday night. Whittle was mu-
latto boy employed by Rev. L. NJ. Lyle. of the