The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-29
Maryland Affairs.

Police Commissioner John Milroy, of Balti
more, died last Saturday.
Patrick Henry Walker, we'll resi-
dent of Baltimore county, is seriously Ill a
his residence, near Pikesville.
A large whaling vessel, built at Cambridge
was launched on Tuesday. This is the sec
ond whaler launched at the same yard this
spring.
The annual convention of the Maryland
State Pharmaceutical Association will be held
in the hall of the House of Delegates in An
napolis on Tuesday next, June l.
The Senate has confirmed DIR. George II.
Cairnes to be United States Marshal fol
Maryland, and Thomas. G. Hayes United
States District Attorney for Maryland.
During the thunderstorm in Frederick
county, on Saturday evening, Ohio W. Cook,
living near Urbana, had thirteen head of hogs,
which had taken shelter under tree, killed
by lightning.
George Munday, aged II years, son Of
Thaddeus Munday, was run over and fatally
injured on Thursday by train on the Wash
ington County Branch of the B. o. He
died in an hour.
The grain trade of Baltimore, it is said,
has rarely suffered such depression as al
present. There is n very limited foreign de-
mand, and shippers are careful to avoid over
stocking themselves.
The convention of the p E. Diocese OF
Easton will meet at Elkton on Wednesday
next, Ju.e 2. An important part of the du-
ties of this body will be the election of a
bishop of the diocese.
The indications for large wheat crop
throughout Cecil county are most excellent
The wheat is shooting rapidly, and farmers
are predicting an early harvest, some say as
soon as the 18th of June.
The Maryland State Institute of Homeo-
patty of Baltimore City was incorporated on
Monday by Drs. Eldridge c. Price, Henry
Chandlee, Elias c. Price, Robert W. Mifflin
and Oliver Edward Janney. 5fs5
The total amount of stock required for the
Talbot county fair grounds, $4,000 has
been subscribed, and to-day meeting of the
stockholders will be held to elect directors
and officers, and to take measures for the in
corporation of the association.
Hon. c. S. Anderson, member of Congress
from Ohio, will deliver the address at the
commencement in June of the Maryland
Military and Naval Academy at Oxford,
Cadet Arthur F. Haddaway, of Easton, has
been selected by the faculty of the institution
to read the academic essay at the commence
ment.
A convention of all the Presbyterian Sun.
day schools in New Castle Presbytery south
of Lewes, Del, will be held at Salisbury on
the 18th and 10Th of june Each school will
be represented by the pastor, superintendent
and two delegates, and the two days will be
occupied in discussion of questions relating
to Sunday school work.
Jas. S. Hill, of Media, Pa, who recently
purchased a farm in Queen Anne's county.
situate near Ashland Station, Queen Anne s
and Kent Railroad, of Mr.. Walter J. Draper,
containing 160 acres, proposes to make it a
nursery for thoroughbred and standard bred
trotting stock. His paddock will consist
principally of thoroughbreds.
The public school teachers of the State will
hold their annual convention this year on the
9th, It'll and 9Th of July at the Blue Mountain
House, on the Western Maryland Railroad.
1t is expected that the exercises will be very
interesting, and that there will be very
pleasant reunion of those who are engaged in
the occupation of teaching throughout the
State.
James Graham Pearre, son of the late
Judge Pearre, of Cumberland, convicted OF
an assault on Mrs. Kirkland, forfeited his
bail, and his bondsmen, his brothers, have
paid the $4,000 forfeit. Young Pearre is not
safe, however. A bench warrant has been
issued for his arrest, if in Maryland, and if
he is found elsewhere a requisition will be
made for him.
On the Goth instant George Holyland, who
lives near Fork, Baltimore county, was shear
ing a sheep and held it on his lap. The ami
NAL, in struggling and kicking, struck the
shears with so much force that one of the
blades penetrated Mr. Highlands stomach,
intlicting a wound from which he died in
great pain the same evening. He was IS
years of age, and leaves wife and several
small children.
The house of VIM. Whitridge in Green
Spring Valley, Baltimore county, was totally
destroyed by fire between IL and II o'clock
last Tuesday night, together with all the fur
niture. Mr.. Whitridge had difficulty in gett-
ing all the members of his family safely out
of the burning building. The house was a
very fine one, many handsome additions hav-
ing been made to it by its owner. His loss is
high up in the thousands. How the fire orig
mated is unknown. The family took up their
residence temporarily in the overseer' IS house.
There was probably fatal ARRAY in Balti-
more county on Wednesday night, at Beaver
Dam. Two brothers, Joseph and Francis
Mcdonnell, got into fight. According to
the fathers version Joseph caught Francis by
the feet, pulled him of lounge, and, drawing a
pistol, shot him. Joseph himself says he took
hold of his brother and drew him off the
lounge in order to arouse him and get him to
bed. He says his brother seized butcher
knife and attacked him, cutting him several
times on the wrist and hand, when he (Joseph)
under the joint excitement of the assault and
liquor he had been drinking, and thinking to
defend himself, drew his pistol and shot his
brother. The ball entered the left groin.
The schooner Francis A. Hall, of Crisfield.
was capsized about one o'clock Wednesday
afternoon in the Magothy river. Anne Arun-
del county, and one man and a boy were
drowned. The schooner was bound from
Baltimore with about twenty-five strawberry
pickers aboard. When the schooner capsized
some of them managed to get into the boat
and reached shore, while the others bung OF
to the vessel until rescued by the schooner
Fair View, which was in the vicinity. One
man was in the fore peak at the time of the
accident, and to get him out, it was necessary
to cut a hole through the deck. When res
cued the man was nearly exhausted, and
could not have survived much longer. He
was standing with the water up to his chin,
and only by superhuman efforts had he been
able to maintain his equilibrium. For nearly
an hour he had been in that position, every
minute expecting to have to succumb.
The warriors of the Salvation Army say
that the attendance at their barracks, corner
of Ramsay and Barre streets, has been falling
off ever since Sam Jones has been in Balti-
more. They think Mr. Jones is the biggest
sort of an evangelist and is doing good work,
but they don't want him to draw all the peo-
pie. To counterfeit the attractiveness of the
Jones meetings they got up novel service
last Monday night, which they called ''grand
hallelujah trade qnion," which consisted of
each member of the army coming out in his
shop clothes, so as to represent the different
trades and to explain that when they hung up
their best clothes they didn't hang up their
religion too. The carpenter carried saw,
the miller was covered with flour, the shoe
maker was pegging away at pair of boots,
the baker wore white cap and had loaf of
bread in his hand, the whitewasher swung
brush in the air, the cook held aloft a rolling
pin, the chambermaid was armed with a dust.
ing brush, and the rest ratified tambourines as
an accompaniment to the singing. the most
popular song being, HWe're going to lick the
devil tonight" As each warrior gave his or
her experience in s'being saved, the others
shouted and laughed aud the audience roared.
Captain Thomson said that religion made
the army so happy they couldn't help showing
their gladness" Arrangements are making
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