The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-26
Maryland Affairs.

examiner of Frederick county.
Calvert county is to have an agricultural
fair, lands for which have been secured near
Dunkirk.
The first new wheat received in Baltimore
this season arrived on the 10th, from Virgin
ia, and sold at 80 cents bushel.
w. T. Dickinson, aged 67 years, bookkeep-
er for Robert Hough & Sons, Baltimore, died
suddenly of heart disease at his desk on Tues
day.
Ex-Gov Robert NJ. McLane, now United
States Minister to France, sailed on Saturday
for his post. He was home on few weeks
leave of absence.
The Board of Public Works met on We'd
nesday last and reelected Colonel Levin
Woolford tax commissioner, and Jesse X.
Hines insurance commissioner, each for a
term of four years.
Sarah Nichols, good looking woman, was
arrested in Baltimore on Monday on bail
piece from New York. She is charged with
having kept an opium joint and induced young
girls to visit her den.
Miss j. May Hatch, of Baltimore, Com
mitted suicide last week by jumping into the
ocean while on the way from Baltimore to
Boston. The body was recovered few days
afterward and buried in Baltimore on
Tuesday.
President Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, will leave New
York to-day for a summer trip to Europe,
combining business and pleasure. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Garrett and couple
of secretaries.
1t is reliably estimated that $50 self binders
and $50 self-rake machines and choppers were
in operation in Queen Anne's county this
week. The crop of Col. William Mckinney,
IF fbot ooupfv from, hic cavarol rmc will
aggregate 10000.
The intermediate term the Howard county
circuit court was held this week, lasting but
one day. The home docket contained 60 cas-
es, there were 81 on the foreign. Judge L
Thomas Jones was sick, and Judge Miller
occupied the bench. A
The corporation of Annapolis has offered
reward of $50 in each case for information
leading to the detection of the party or par
ties who set fire to the college boathouse
June 20, Ludam' stable June 20, and Stiles's
blacksmith shop June q.
The levy for county purposes in Allegany
county is 814 cents on the 500; in Frederick
county 65 cents; in Dorchester 863cents;
Garrett $1.03; Somerset, 781, against S1.02f
last year. The Democrats now have the
county, hence the reduction.
The school commissioners of Garrett county
county until next January. When the board
came into Office last January they found the
treasury empty and the board in debt, and
they forthwith closed the schools.
Lewis A. Drummer, native of Frederick,
and brother of Valentine S. Drummer, of
that place, died suddenly of heart disease at
Tiffin, Ohio, where he had resided for num-
Der of years. and where he was an editor and
prominent Democratic politician. He was
&c years of age.
Hannah Butler, an old woman, died in Bal
timore last Friday evening. She and her
husband were boarded by charitable society
at private house. Under her bed after her
death, was found an old purse containing
$50 and bank book, showing that she had
$1700 in savings bank.
Thornton Poole, aged about rs years,
well-known farmer residing in Linganore dis |
trict, Frederick county, died Wednesday night |
from injuries received in falling from cherry |
tree on Sunday evening last. He was long
time commissioner of Frederick county, and |
filled other positions of trust.
Miss Gloyd, of Montgomery county, was
taken to the House of Correction last week
and there. picked out colored man named
Neale, as her assalant. She picked him out
in a crowd, and afterwards selected from
lot Meals hat he wore when the assault was
committed. Neal was sent to the House of
Correction recently for year.
A large Touring mill owned by Jacob W.
Kaller, located near New London, Frederick
county, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
night of last week. Among the contents con-
sumed were several hundred bushels of wheat,
lot of feed, &c. The insurance on the
building amounted to 1000. The fire is be-
lieved to have been of incendiary origin.
Elisha F. Kelley a well-known farmer,
near Timonium, Baltimore county, committed |
suicide Monday morning at his home with
gun. 1t had been noticed by the family for
some three or four months that he had been |
acting strangely, and watch had been kept
upon him, but on Monday be eluded the vigi
lance of those who were looking after him and
committed the fatal deed.
The ravages of what was supposed to be
fly in the wheat fields of Queen Anne's and
Kent counties are now thought to be due to
English sparrows. These voracious little
birds have been known to commit serious
depredations in wheat fields, and as they have |
multiplied very rapidly in Maryland in recent
years, it is more than probable that they are
the authors of the mischief.
The Papal Embassy bearing the beretta for
Cardinal Gibbons arrived in New York on
Monday morning by the steamer Servia, and
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zuchetta or red skull cap was presented to
the Cardinal by Count Mucciola, and the
beretta will be conferred upon the prelate
on the Both inst, the twentieth anniversary of
his ordination to the priesthood.
Postmaster Brown, of Baltimore, on Mon.
day dismissed NJ. B. Corcoran, C. J. Kars- |
ner, r. A. Kinnaird and John I. Kreamer, |
clerks in the city division of the Baltimore |
postoffce. w. S. Mckay, James P Mellow
an, NJ P. Ell. McGuinness and David Cowan,
civil-service substitutes, were appointed to
succeed them. No reasons other than politi-
cal were assigned for making the changes,
those dismissed being Republicans.
A. H. Barnes, of Springfield, Ohio, an en-
ploye of the Champion Reaper and Binder
Company, jumped into the Elk river, near
Singerly's pulp works, last Saturday, with the
intention apparently of committing suicide.
Owing to the tide being low the water was
not over his head and he crawled out. He
was taken charge of and committed to Jail.
Barnes had been drinking heavily of late, and
is supposed to have been suffering from
mania.
Col. E. H. Wardwell, commanding the
Second Battalion Infantry, NJ. N. g., has is
sued orders for target match to be partici-
pated in by all the companies of the command,
to take place at Oakland, July next Here
tofore the Battalion has had an annual parade
and drill at Cumberland on July A. This
year, however, the target match will take
place instead. There will be six teams of
twelve men each to contest for the champion
ship and also for handsome prizes.
The heavy rainfall of Tuesday did great
damage to the wheat and hay crop in Somer7
set county. In some cases, it is said, the in
jury will prove almost ruinous Reports
from different sections of Howard county state
that the heavy rain and wind of Tuesday were
damaging to the ripening wheat. Many fields
were almost leveled with the ground. The
tangled condition of the wheat will render it
difficult to save large portion of it in reaping.
Many farmers have already commenced cut
ting.
Arrangements for the erection at Gettys-
burg of the monument by the surviving mem
bers of the Second Confederate Maryland
Regiment are about completed. The monu-
ment will be erected on the line of breast
works captured by the Second Maryland on
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