The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-11-13
Maryland Affairs

Diptheria has prevailed in Annapolis since
A movement is on foot to establish bank
at Snow Hill.
Miss Emily Wilmot, died in Annapolis on
the 9TH inst, aged 9S years.
Ripe strawberries were sold in the Salisbury
market last week. They were the second
crop.
Ex-Gov. John Lee Carroll returned from
Europe few days since. Mr.. Carroll lett his
family in Europe, and will shortly return.
The piano factory of VIM. Heihekamp d
Sons. in Baltimore, was burned early Sunday
morning, Loss about S25, 1000; fully insured.
Salisbury has received 100 kegs of steel
nails from the Riverside Iron Works of Wheel
ing, to be distributed among her house build
ers.
Hester Armstrong, colored, was fatally
burned near Berlin, Worcester county, by
the explosion of coal oil can while she was
lighting fire.
VIM. B. Hazeleton, formerly well-known
journalist, and at one time managing editor
of the Baltimore American, died on Friday OF
last week in Baltimore, aged SO.
In the Anne Arundel court on Saturday,
Judge Miller sentenced Clarence S. Jickling
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libeling the character of Miss Bourne, of An
napolis.
Bishop VIM. Paret, of the Diocese of Mary
land, has become member OF the committee
of the Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
ton, on the work of translating the prayer
book into the French language.
Three failures were announced in Balti-
more, on Saturday-John |. Middleton d
Co., grain dealers; P. Hanson Hiss 4 Co.,
furniture, and Kerngood Bros, dry goods; on
Monday L. N. & ]. S. Hopkins, cotton and
fertilizers, failed.
John l. Middleton Il Co., receivers and ex-
porters of cotton, in Baltimore, made an as
Segment on Friday of last week. He was
President of the Marine Bank, which posi-.
ton he resigned, and was also President OF
the Thistle Mill Company.
Mrs. Rockwell, widow of the late Elihu II.
Rockwell, well-known citizen of Frederick,
died at her residence, on West Third street,
Sunday, in the 87th year of her age She
left an estate worth between one and two
hundred thousand dollars.
On Thursday of last week Walter Day,
aged 10, son of Randolph W. Day, of Dayton,
Howard county, was shot by VIM. Cross in a
dispute about the division of some corn.
Cross fred at the elder Day and the boy ran
between to protect his father.
A well dressed young man, travelling in the
interest of an advertising scheme, who regis
tered at hotel in Baltimore, about ten days
ago, fell dead in the street on Friday of last
week. Letters found in his satchel showed
that his name was W. R. Woodruff.
In Worcester county, recently, Mr.. Sim.
Payne, while out rabbit shooting, drew his
gun through some bushes with the muzzle to.
wards him. The gun went off and the load
entered the shoulder joint, infcting injuries
from which he died two days later.
The store of John Frederick, adjoining his
dwelling, about three miles southwest from
Reisterstown, on the Deer Park road, IN
Soldiers Delight, was burned to the ground
with its contents about two o'clock Thursday
morning. 1t is supposed the store was robbed
and then set on fire.
The following change in star schedule has
been made in Maryland, route 10,325, Wood
bine to Florence. Leave Woodbine daily
except Sundays at $50 a. M, arriving a.
Florence by II a. M: leave Florence daily
except Sundays at 11.30 a. M, arrive al
Woodbine by 1.S0 p. m.
Mr.. 1. Parker Veazey, ex-postmaster O
Baltimore, upon whom rule was laid by the
Supreme Bench to show cause why he should
not be stricken from the roll of attorneys o.
the Baltimore bar, has closed his office anc
left the city. No action has been taken by
the court on the case, except to assign it FOL
next Monday.
The trial of Michael E. Malone, John P
F. White, Timothy White and Patrick A
Driscoll, for the murder of David johnson
who, it is alleged, was lynched at Western
port, began in the Circuit Court at Cumber
land on Monday, Judges Hoffman and Syes
ter on the bench. One of the jurors in the
case dropped dead on Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Davis. wife of VIM. G. Davis
of Hilton, Howard county, died suddenl.
Sunday morning of heart disease, in her sixty
third year. Mrs. Davis arose in her usua
health, and after taking breakfast walked GU
in the yard Soon afterward she was fount
by one of her children, lying on the grount
in an insensible condition. A physician wa
quickly summoned, but she was dead befor,
he arrived.
In Baltimore, on Saturday morning, Johr
Klein, aged A years, switchman in the EN-
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company at Locust Point, slipped and fel
under a moving train, and sustained injurie
from which he died in few hours. VIM
Grove, a brakeman in the employ of the SAM
company, was killed while coupling cars
The casualties occurred within short distance
of each other.
The German Baptists. or Dunkards, o
Frederick, Carroll and Washington COUNTIES
celebrated their annual love-feast in the new
; church of that denomination in Frederick, oil
Tuesday evening. A large congregation wa
present The ceremonies included the ad
ministration of the Lords Supper and the
washing of feet, and were very interesting
Among the elders present were Messrs. Stone
Long, Eckeman, Saylor, Mccain, Gaunt ant
Roop.
Isaac Harris, colored, of Reisterstown
whose son, Rev. Charles Harris, an elder il
the Methodist Church, was said to have been
drowned in the recent storm at Sabine Pass,
has just received a letter from his son saying
he is well, but that he made narrow escape
as one companion by his side was drowned
and he escaped by clinging to a swimming OK
from which the hurricane blew him twice.
Each time he caught the animals tail ant
climbed on to its back. He said some letter
fell from his pocket while in the water, anC
this, with his absence from home for severa
days, led his friends to suppose that he wa
drowned therefore they wrote his father o
his death.