The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-09
Maryland Affairs.

University opened on Monday with 300 stu
dents.
Typhoid fever of fatal character is pre-
vailing in some portions of Montgomery
county.
Bishop Wingfeld, of California, recently
elected Bishop of the Diocese of Easton, has
declined the position. This makes the fifth
declension.
Mrs. Nettie James, wife of William l..
James, of Ellicott City, died suddenly last
week while on visit to New London, Con-
necticut.
John Powell, living in Funkstowu, Wash
ington county, has pumpkin vine bearing
twelve pumpkins, the aggregate weight OF
which is upward of 1900 pounds. The larg-
est will weigh It's pounds.
Martin E. Carderman, living at Rocky
Springs, about five miles west of Hagerstown,
hung himself to a rafter of his house with a
bed quilt on Thursday. When found he was
dead. his feet resting on the floor. He had
been subject to dementia for several years.
The annual election of the Baltimore Board
of Trade resulted on Monday follows:
President, Charles D. Fisher; Vice Presidents,
S. P. Thompson, ]. Carey Coale, Joseph b.
Rieman and William H. Peerot; Treasurer,
John R. Seemuller; Secretary, Chas. I. Crane.
The Board of Directors was not changed.
DR.. F. W. Pattison, of Baltimore county,
has been appointed by President Cleveland
United States inspector in the Bureau OF AMI
NAL Industry of the Agricultural Department.
DIR. Pattison, while regular practitioner, has
given good deal of time to the study of the
diseases of cattle, and hence his appointment.
The severe frosts of last Friday and Satur:,
day nights reached Southern Maryland, and
| it is estimated that the tobacco crop in Prince
| Georges, Charles and st. Mary's counties is
emit short nv from 5000 to 10000 hogheads.
The cron Is also badly injured in Calvert
county. These counties embrace the chief
tobacco growing section of Maryland.
con.on,-
me IL lntitefTnai dYstrict Were Beer
$45,I61.l5; spirits, Sio, zaz. AZ; cigars anu
cigarettes, 200 ooo. zo snun, ooi % DO
bacco, $40 "A speciai taHes, , go 90
penaities, &C. LOYAL sloo ,es
eoiiections ln Augqs', 1897 oo p eooo 30 o., eo
iections IN oeptemDer' 1000 9@o''f'o''|
Cardinal Gibbons arrived at Mt. st. Mary's
coIlaga IN "Wednesday evening and was re-
ceived with the usual welcome. On Thursday
morning he conferred minor orders and sub
deacohsnlp on several steue5tS Vi enI sem,
nary. o1 fr M ne c1nlereI :n ueaconsnip anu
prlesthood. Inc Oardinai VIII REMAIN soue
time at Mt. 81. mary s. tne guest Oh 'ne coiiege
Robert T. Baldwin, president of the Ma
tiopal Mechanics Bank and one of the most
prominent citizens of Baltimore, died on
| Thursday night in the 68th year of his age.
Mr. BALDWIN naa oeen IN la,,iIg ne Ia LILLE lille
ene suni y. L., anu III wv ,no ~ pas rot;ye
oe1ln.I ~ a mo W
Vi oainDeii eoun'f'
A stranger giving his name as NJ. Z. Fen,
nypacker, of Washington, ID. e., was found
upon the floor of his room in d. Hearst's
boarding house at Hagerstown last FRIDAY
morning, and died shortly afterward. he
had been engaged in canvasslng for the sale
OF a hog cholera medicine. he was man OF
u anooua an AZ aSoT. 20 ,,ears nf orc
aHoe' '"U a''1' %
| The Baltimore San of Tuesday says =
Daniel Wilhelm s little daughter died of diph-
liberia several days ago, and the ice in the
casket where she had lain was empted into
the road. The son OF Frank Harper, OF
Hampden, picked up some of the ice and ate
it, from the effects of which, it is said, he is
now lying dangerously Ill with the same DIS
ease which carried OF his little playmate.
A telegram from Baltimore says it is un-
derstood in railroad circles, though the fact
is not officially stated, that President Garrett,
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Com
pany, while In Europe perfected arrange
ments for securing the funds necessary tor
extending the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
south to Pensacola, Florida, and that the
work is to be commenced within thirty days.
IT, 49,. ,o;1 Sc D ,+;no,o mot On Mon
II 49, oonnant;o,, the foIIo1z;no
were confirmed as directors on the part of the
city of the Western MARYLAND Railroad VIM.
| A. Boyd. Christian Devries, T. Edward Ham.
! bIeton, John r. Hudgins, j ohm C. Legg, VIM.
S. Rayner, S. H. Tagart and Alfred B. Burt.
The new directors are Messrs. Hudgins, Legg
and Burt, who take the places of Messrs. Z.
G. Hipsley, James W. McElroy and James
! C. Wbeeden.
w
DIOR For steanng noIses DelonSlng 20 I I.n w.
Isliue, Vi - -.
was seii1euceu Wy 'ne Itomafu ecui.y oouis oii
buesIay " 'ne S ~, i io II %
burning Rhine's barn, he was sentenced to
the penitentiary for twelve years by the Grim
inal Court, of Baltimore, whittier he removed
his case. The last sentence follows imme-
diately after the expiration of the first, and
together make 26 years.
5o-..oa .. .
AN pgen., hnuerS'oG y W represea. pf 3IIa
nent relusyNanla vi conipany' rs III Aile-
gsny county securing oP.i2hs On iarse lraeS
i p - III II a. eII
cal man, ana careluliy examines all tne lanu.
de secured sixty Gays optlon on inlrteen
thousand acres near Ellntstone' ana ais0 on
large tract IN re M near Ine wary
lana Doaroer. many persons DeieVe that tne
within sixty DAYS.
The grand jury OF Baltimore county on
Monday found three presentments against
VIM. H. Richardson, publisher OF the People
voice, on the charge OF libel against hon.
David Fowler, one OF the associate justices OF
that Judicial circuit. The presentments are
based upon matter contained IN the issues OF
the Voice OF February 9th, July LIST and
August l9h; all OF the present year, and
walcn, !! y aiIegea, cnarge ms nonor, among
etner tnsngs' WIN potency, WIN pas ~, IN
lavor 81 a corporation' ana as Delng leo
around py tne nose Dy certain attorney at
lowsontown whose name is given.
| II is authoritatiyely stated that Hon. Henry
Lloyd. Governor of MARYLAND, will be married
| To Miss Bette Stanlefort. n beautiful and ac.
comnI;sbed young Iadv of Cambridge nm
Monday, the 18th inst. The wedding, which
will be a quiet affair, owing to recent domes.
t;c affliction in Gov. Llovd3s family will take
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