The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-16
Maryland Affairs.

There were only 121 deaths in Baltimore
last week.
After February LIST gas will be one dollar
per thousand feet in Baltimore. The price
is 81. so now.
The Oxford Military and Naval Academy
begins the second term of the year with an
increase of thirty cadets.
The house of Mr.. John johnson, near
Granite, in the second district of Baltimore
county, was totally destroyed by fire on Mon
day.
Oliver +. Simmons. a prominent citizen oil
the third district of Calvert county, died on
the 18th. He was only i'll about twenty-four
hours with pneumonia.
The property and franchises of the South
ern Maryland Railroad Company were on
Wednesday sold at Philadelphia for SIS, 900
to a person representing the Boston bond
holders.
On Monday night Roger McSherry, aged
about Is years, son of Capt James McSherry,
was run over by sleigh while crossing Market
street, Frederick City, and received injuries
which are pronounced by his physicians to be
very serious.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about to construct the necessary wharves,
track, etc., at Perryville, in order to make
that town depot for the shipment of anthra-
cite coal, which will be brought from the coal
regions of Pennsylvania via the Port Deposit
and Columbia Railroad.
Daniel W. Webb, of the firm of Stackhouse
& Webb, general store, at Woodstock, How
ard county, died on Sunday morning at his
home. after an illness of four days from heart
trouble. The deceased was the agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Woodstock.
He was 35 years old, and leaves a widow and
four children
Mr.. John Devoe, aged 81, residing near
Fishel, was taken i'll with pneumonia. While
caring for him, his wife, aged II, was para
lyzed Mr.. Devoe tried to go to her relief
and failed. and when found both were pros
trate on the floor, with a partially burned
pillow near them. They died the same day,
within few hours of each other, and were
buried together.
Rev. DIR. J. G. Morris has sold the Luther
vile Seminary for Young Ladies, Baltimore
county, to Rev. ]. II. Turner, the present
principal of the school, for $4,000. Rev.
Mr.. Turner has been the principal of the SEM
mary for the last six years. The building is
of fine, imposing appearance, has eight acres
trees and shrubbery, attached.
a movement Is on lOOI anu is making gOOu
progress to establish fair grounds and have
an annual agricultural fair in Talbot county.
A little effort has obtained over $4,000 in
stock subscriptions for that purpose, and it is
thought that a capital of $4,000 can be OBJ
tanned from the farmers and business men OF
the county to put the matter on a good fnan-
cial basis. The board of the Eastern Shore
Agricultural Society is taking interest in the
matter, and has named DR.. Isaac l.. Adkins,
president of the Easton National Bank and
one of the largest farmers in the county, and
Mr.. Preston B. Spring a committee to look
into and report upon its feasibility.
Charles Williams, the colored assaiant OF
Mrs Eliza j. Keene, of Dorchester county,
in May last, was hanged at Cambridge, on
last Friday. The execution of the death pen
atty is seldom accompanied by so much har-
diness and obduracy and such utter destitu-
ton of good feeling. During all the months
since the commission of his crime Williams
has exhibited no CLEAN of pity for his victim
and no evidence of his contrition. Even on
the day before his execution, he disavcwed
all faith, with the foulest blasphemy. He
was sullen and vindictive, and persisted in
charging the witnesses with perjury and the
courts, the jury and the officers of justice
with a conspiracy to send him to the scatfold.
For Sometlme the cltlZenS OF fIelSterStOWn
and Glyndon have been considering the feas-
Utility of starting passenger railway line be-
tween these two places. There is much trav-
Ell over the route and it is thought horse car
line will be the most convenient mode of
travel, and also paying investment. A
meeting was lately held, at which it was de-
cided that the line should be built, and that
the Hannah More Academy should be one
terminus and Glyndon Station the other. A
stock company is now being formed. The
estimated cost of the road 1.-TWO and a,half
miles) is $4,000. Already $4,000 worth of
stock has been taken, and it is thought no
trouble will be experienced in getting the
road from Glyndon to the turnpike, and then
the turnpike two miles to the Hannah More
Academy. It is now almost settled thing
that the road will be carried through in the
spring.