The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-07
Maryland Affairs.

The Montgomery county agricultural fair
will be held at Rockville on September l, 9
and 8.
Last Monday the County Commissioners Of
Howard county accepted bids for eight wooden
bridges.
Rev. Francis N. Van Emstede, pastor Of
ST. Michaels Church, Baltimore, died on
Wednesday last.
Congress has appropriated 100000 for Q
public building at Annapolis, but Cleveland
vetoed the bill.
A barn and stable on the farm of Samuel
Parrott, eighth district, Anne Arundel county,
were destroyed by fire on Sunday.
The Second Battalion, Maryland National
Guard, are to have new uniforms. They will
be of the regulation United States pattern.
Jos. Bartlett Lowe, former member of the
Legislature, died in Bay Hundred district
Talbot county, on Wednesday, aged II years.
w. j. C. Dulany, of Baltimore, was one Of
the successful bidders for supplying the De-
partment of Justice, at Washington, with sta
tionery.
Joseph L. Shipley has been appointed a
justice of the peace for the fourth district oil
Howard county, in the place of Levi Webb,
resigned
An insurance company, to be known as
''The Mutual Fire Insurance Company Of
Dorchester county," has been incorporated at
Cambridge.
Frank Ash colored, escaped from the Car
oline county jail last week. He was sent to
Jail in default of fine and costs under the
''cussin' bill"
The Cambridge Chronicle says number
of hogs have died of disease supposed to be
cholera in the Town Point neighborhood of
Dorchester county.
The heirs of Samuel II. Bleakley have sold
the mansion and nine acres, near Owings'
Mill, Baltimore county, to Henry Shipley, of
Baltimore, for So, 160. ,=se
Prof W. H. Hopkins, of st. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, has resigned to accept the
position of the presidency of the Methodist
Female College, Baltimore.
The Baltimore Light Infantry, $50 strong,
under command of Lieut. Col. II. A. Barry,
were encamped at COLCHESTER Beach this week.
Gov. Lloyd and staff rev, ewed the battalion
on Tuesday.
The corner stone of monument to Baron
DcKalb was laid on Wednesday at Annapolis
with Masonic ceremonies. VIM. I. Iglehart
delivered the Grafton. The statue will be un-
yelled on the 18th inst
VIM. Frazer, once a leading politician of
Dorchester county, and for several terms a
member of the Legislature of this state,
drowned himself last Friday near his home in
Cambridge. He was 80 years of age.
VIM. j. Hooper & Son, seine and cOrdage
manufacturers, of Baltimore, made an assign
ment on Saturday. The senior partner is the
owner of the Morning Herald newspaper, of
that city, and of cotton mill in North Caro-
lima. He was Republican candidate for
Mayor in 1881. His assets are estimated at
$500, 900.
J. Augustus Parsons, of Wicomico county,
was on Tuesday appointed chiefof division of
survey in the Interior Department, Washing
ton. Mr. Parsons is a lawyer of ability and
experience, was states attorney for Wicomico
for several years, and subsequently repre-
scented his county for four years in the Senate
of Maryland.
A four-story brick block on South Eutaw
street, Baltimore, occupied for storage pur-
poses by c. H. Beebe, wooden ware manu-
mission merchant, and Smith, Hanway & Co.,
manufacturers of giant powder, was destroyed
by fire last Monday night. The total loss is
500, 900, covered by insurance.
Gov Lloyd, as commander-in-c chief, has
issued an order for the assemblage of the
Maryland military at Annapolis on August 16
for the unwilling of the DeKalb monument
The state steamers will carry the Eastern
Shore companies across the bay. The Fifth
Maryland will turn out in good force. Adju-
tant- General Howard will be marshal of the
day.
Among the wheat crops reported in the
neighborhood of Reisterstown are those of
A. A. Rich, on acres, 40 bushels, or So
bushels to the acre; Robert S. Corse, ZIG
bushels on acres, little more than So
bushels per acre; W. Shertzer, s acres, 120
bushels, or Is bushels per acre, and on the
farm of the Bleakley heirs 600 bushels were
threshed from so acres, making u bushels
per acre. ...-.- L., Il.
The Valley Register, of Middletown, Fred
erick county, announces the death at the age
of log of "Aunt Letta, as she was familiarity
called, a colored woman, and a resident of
the vicinity of Gapland, Middletown Valley.
She was the wife of the late Rev. Rein Alton,
and in the days of slavery was the property
of the late John Willard, father of Ezra Will
lard, of the vicinity of Burkittsville.
The large barn on the farm of Daniel W.
Barkdoll, near Smithsburg, Washington coun-
ty, was struck by lightning. during Friday
nights storm. A large quantity of wheat and
nay, All IuG lulpiCuiGHlsJ Il COWT HNt
calves and several sheep were consumed with
the building. The loss will amount to several
thousand dollars; covered by insurance.
There was fight at Chestnut Grove camp
meeting last Sunday. in which John Ahearn,
constable for the fifth election district of Car
olne county, was badly beaten. Til charged
that Ahearn, while under the influence of
liquor, threatened to arrest several who we've
attending the camp, and finally got into
quarrel with Thomas Hignutt, who knocked
him down and struck him several times.
Nineteen students began their year of pro-
baton in the order of Redemptorists at An
napolis on Tuesday, by receiving the religious
habit of the order, and eleven others, who
had finished their probation, took the VOWS.
The ceremony was performed at St. Mary's
Catholic Church, Rev. Father McInerney,
rector, in the presence of the parents and
friends of the applicants, many of whom
came from a distance.
George Barber, well.known resident of
Hagerstown, and a painter by occupation,
dropped dead there on Monday afternoon in
Justice Bitner's office, while in attendance as
a witness in case then being heard. He
had Just finished his testimony, sat down, and
in a few minutes was corpse. His death
was caused by heart disease. He was man
vi idhiIy anu dooub W J edrS vi aye.
In Baltimore on Monday Henry Martin,
aged 10 years, and John Cornell, aged 80,
were sufocated in a well. They were at
work on the well on Saturday and on Mon
day made bet as to the depth of the water.
They got into the bucket and went down,
when groan caused those above to haul the
bucket up. When they reached the surface
both were dead. No test had been made be-
fore they went down as to the foul air below.
A reunion of Montgomery county lodges,
Independent Order of Good Templars, was
held at Rockville, on Thursday. Upwards of
1000 persons from the surrounding country
were in attendance, and also many visitors
from Baltimore and Washington. The re-
.ilninn.- the largast tamperanuB gathering
ever held in the county. The people from
Damascus neighborhood went down in a body,
and the string of vehicles was fully mile
long.
The annual. Harvest Home at the Rocks of
Deer Greek, Hartford county, took place on
Thursday and Friday, the attendance being
estimated at 5000. 1t is picnic occasion, a
time of relaxation and enjoyment for the farm
ers after the harvest is over, and is always
looked forward to with anticipations of pleas
ure C. Bohn Slingluff, of Baltimore county,
and George Y. Maynadier, of Hartford, made
short speeches on Thursday, and dancing on