The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-07
Letter from Baltimore County.
BACK RIVER NECK, RossvILLE,

BACK RIVER NECK, RossvILLE,
August End, 1886.
EDITORS OF THE ADVOCATE: Your bright
columns are again in our possession and We
find them freighted with valuable intelligence.
The Baltimore & Ohio extension will erect
a depot near our village, whose appellation
shall be Rossvile. The company is building
temporary stations now. Heavy freight is
now passing over the road in large quantities.
Mrs. Frederick Walters has sold her farm
and hotel for SIS, 200.
Rev. John Leonberger, pastor of Howard s
German Lutheran Church, is critically ill of
bilious dysentery. DR.. W. II. Mace has just
recovered from severe attack of rheumatism
and malaria.
Our old friend, j. Milligan Gillespie, of
Back River Neck, is among the earliest with
the tomato crop. He is also one of the pio-
neers in the fruit packing busine of Balti-
more county.
Our late corn, which we expect to market
green, looks quite promising. Cantaloupes
and watermelons are a failure this year with
US.
Mr.. Mordecai Shaffer lost colt recently,
by hanging or choking itself with halter.
Messrs. jeremiah and John Shaffer, of
Cranberry Valley, have been soiourning in
this neighborhood with friends. Upon the
arrival of the above gentlemen in Baltimore
city, they informed the young Baltimoreans
of their antipathy for unadulterated waters,
which they claimed would most absolutely
result in something worse than leprosy, it
they imbibed too freely; after being clearly
shown that much of the water drunk in the
city was manufactured upon the banks of the
historic Rhine and Danube, they departed
well satisfied that malaria or dumb chills
could not exist under such medicine.
ECONOMY IN THE PosroFFIcE DEPARTMENT.
Postmaster General Villas referred with
great pride to his administration of his de-
partments. He says since he came in great
savings of the public fund have been effected,
many abuses have been corrected, curtaillng
of unnecessary service has been made, and
the letting of contracts has been regulated so
that the government really gets the benefit OF
competition San.
There is reported to be grave alarm through
out the mining districts of Montana over the
rapid decline of silver. The Butte City Inter
Mountain estimates that $1,000 personsin the
Territory are dependent on the mining in
dustry and cognate enterprises, and says the
recent depreciation of 10 cents per ounce in
silver represents the profits of the mining
companies, Which Will udNo W ClOoC uOhh uii-
less a reaction occurs. The lead and copper
mines, in which silver is an important by
production, are also seriously affected. The
Glendale work, employing 1000 men, will
shut down on the 18th. The Alice, Moulton,
Lexington, and Wickes works and many other
great enterprises, which for years have paid
heavy dividends and employ thousands Of
men, cannot run if the present depression in
the silver market continues.
There was q snow fall, lasting FIVE minutes,
at Rome, New York, between four and five
o'clock on Tuesday morning, An inch and
half of snow fell on the summit of Mount
Washington the same morning, and the tenn
perature was % degrees above zero. The
races at Saratoga were postponed on that day
on account of the threatening and extremely
cold weather.
The New York Times says a decree of the
Sacred Tribunal Of the Inquisition, at Rome,
prohibits Catholics from participating in the
act of cremation of human bodies, either by
leaving directions to that effect or otherwise,
and Catholics becoming members of crema-
ton societies in utilization with secret forbid
den societies fall under the recommendation
of the Pope.
The legislature of California on Tuesday
elected A. P. Williams to be United States
Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Miller. The vote of both
houses stood: Williams, 20; Hearst, "a. Mr..
Williams is a prominent merchant OF San
Francisco and chairman of the Republican
state central committee.
Miss Alice E. Meiklcham, the great grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, who was on
Saturday last discharged from clerkship in
the patent office, was on Tuesday reinstated
by Commissioner Montgomery, who said that
she would not have been dismissed had her
relationship to her distinguished ancestor
been known.
An "Inter- Denominational Convention
opened at Valley Camp, near Pittsburg, on
Tuesday. Its object was to promote greater
unity between the different denominations
and discuss questions affecting the religious
and political denominations of the people Of
the United States which call for united action.
A boiler in the shops of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company at Lansford, Pa,
exploded on Tuesday. William Lewis was
killed, and fourteen others were injured, one,
named William Kissner, fatally. Another
of the injured, Reno Weis, had both eyes
blown out.
| The Democratic Convention of the Seventh
District of North Carolina on Wednesday
unanimously -renominated John S. Henderson
for Congress- A resolution endorsing Presi-
dent Cleveland and his Administration was
adopted by rising vote by reclamation.
The local election in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, on Tuesday, resulted in the re-
election of Mayor Eldredge, Democrat, by 467
majority. The Democrats elected all the city
officers except one alderman.
The Democratic State Convention of South
Carolina met on Wednesday in Columbia, and
nominated ]. p Richardson for Governor,
Resolutions we're adopted expressing regre'