The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-02-20
Maryland Affairs.

more and 147 births.
A new postolfice has been established at
Fowblesburg, Baltimore county, with W. l..
Allgire as postmaster
Cecil county is praying an act of the legis-
lature to allow the issuing of bonds to the
amount of S45, 200, to fund a floating debt.
Thomas Hopkins, a retired merchant OF
Baltimore, and cousin of the late Johns Hop
kins, died in that city on Wednesday, aged
&c years
There are 1G, 260 Sunday School scholars
registered in the Sunday Schools of the Pro.
testant Episcopal Church, in the diocese OF
Maryland.
Daniel Grant Emory, son of Thomas Lane
Emory, of Baltimore, went to Annapolis on
Wednesday of last week. He took cold, and
from the effects of it died on Sunday.
John G. Hall, county treasurer of Prince
Georges county, died on Monday night.
Had Mr.. Hall lived few days longer he
would have been appointed collector OF inter
nal revenue for the district of Maryland
A young daughter of John Abrams, living
in the second district, Anne Arundel county,
fell recently with a pair of scissors in her
hand. The scissors entered on one side of
the windpipe and came out on the other, in
flicting painful and probably fatal wound.
DR.. NJ. A. Berry, for many years practi-
cal dentist and one of Hagerstown's leading
citizens, died there on the 18th, aged 62 years.
He was at one time one of the editors of the
Hagerstown Twice Week, and fora number
of years the managing publisher of Gruber's
Almanac.
The newly appointed board of charities and
correction on last Saturday appointed Mr..
George W. Strasburger, of Liberty, superin-
.2al oil
place of Charles Fl. Fleming, and DIR. ). ).
Maynard physician to that institution, in place
of DIR. Franklin B. Smith.
Peter w. Hairston, of the commission firm
of Herbert & Hairston, No. 81 South Charles
street, Baltimore, died suddenly of apoplexy
about noon on Wednesday, in his office. He
was chatting with a number of friends in his
office when he was suddenly attacked aDd
died in an hour.
In the City Court of Baltimore on Monday
Judge Stewart, in an appeal, decided that
suit could be brought before q justice of the
peace ON promissory note for 500, if the in
terest be RENTED, justice sjurisdiction being
limited to 500. 1t is the amount recovered,
or recoverable, that determines the jurisdic-
ton.
1t was reported on Tuesday that the Rev.
DR.. John S. Foley, of ST. Martins Church,
Baltimore. will be made Bishop of Whining
ton to succeed Bishop Becker, who, according
to a dispatch from Rome, will be transferred
to the vacant see of Savannah, Ga. AT the
archiepiscopal residence in Baltimore it was
said that no official notification of the changes
had been received.
The annual meeting of the Agricultural
Society of Montgomery County was held at
Rockville on Wednesday. President r. B.
Farquhar, on calling the society to order,
said the retiring board of management were
entrusted with the affairs of the society under
the most unfavorabfe circumstances, there
being a scattered Indebtedness of more than
s. 900, with no power to consolidate 1t nor
any means to reduce it other than the receipts
from the annual fair, which receipts hereto
fore had barely been sufficient to meet current
expenses.
Annapolis is felicitating herself on the
of large appropriations for local
improvements. Congress is in fair way to
appropriate 500, 600 for government build
ing and SO, 600 to clean out the Annapolis
harbor; the State library improvement in
wolves an outlay of $4,000; the Short Line
Railroad is expected to put $4,000 in the
city, and the Annapolis and Bay Ridge Rail
road and improvements about Sl25, 200; the
addition to the Anne Arundel court house
SIS, 900, and the bridge on Severn river S40,
900; total, S425,000.
J. Wilbur Dorsey, of Evansville, Frederick
county, is reported to have recently come into |
possession of 100000, the generous gift of a
young lady whose life he saved last summer.
Dorsey spent last season at Atlantic City, N. |
j., and while bathing one day he rescued
young lady from watery grave and restored |
her to her distracted mother. His act of |
bravery was greatly appreciated by the young I
lady and her friends. The young lady is said
10 have died recently, and in her will it was
lou nd she had bequeathed Mr.. Dorsey $780,
300 for his heroism. Dorsey last season
pitched for a base ball club in Frederick and
Homecoming.
One of the finest Touring mills in Ereder-
ok county, located near Middetown, and
owned by Samuel NJ. Kefauver, was destroyed
~ fire at late hour on Thursday night of
asst week. The building was four-story
we're consumed, included about fifty barrels
If flour, between four hundred and five hun
lred bushels of wheat, about four hundred
bushels of corn aud ten tons of feed, &c. The
mill cost originally 81 800. The total loss is
at about 50. 500, on which there is
IN insurance of $4,000 in the Montgomery
Mutual Insurance Company, 50, 100 in the
washington county, Company,
md about 81 800 on the stock in some other
company.
A social event that excited good deal Of
interest in Frederick Tuesday afternoon was
he marriage of Miss Fannie johnson Dennis,
me of the accomplished daughters of Col.
ieo R. Dennis, of that place, to Henry W. ,
Rogers, of Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore.
The ceremony took place in All Saints Pro {
estant Episcopal Church, and was performed ]
n the presence of a large congregation by the
ector, Rev. Osborne Ingle. The bride, at ]
ired in plum colored satin, combined with
elvet of same shade, with corsage bouquet
# white roses and lilies, entered the church !
Gaming on the arm of her father, and was ,
net at the altar by the groom and his best
nan, Mr.. Anthony Calls. Addison, of Balti- t
nore. The ushers were Charles w. Hof, j. 4
Vm. Raughman, John B. Mcpherson, and
ohm Dennis, brother of the bride. {
On Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay,
IN Sunday afternoon, two small children of
yapt VIM Pruitt aged respectively and Q
ears, were burned to death while endeaYor.
ng to make fire in stove by tie use of coal J
il, and three other children of neighbor
AIMED Cooper, who were present with the
'ruitt children, were also badly burned.
APT. Pruitt sailed Sunday morning in his
essel for Norfolk, and his wife had gone to
hurch, leaving the little children at home
lone. Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper also went to
hurch, and sent their children, whose ages {
'ere eight, six and four years respectively, to !,
tay at Mr.. Pruitt's. During the absence of
ne parents the fire went ont in the stove, and
ne seven-y ear-old girl of Capt. Pruitt at
smpted to rekindle it by pouring in some
oal oil, while the other stood by to touch it
nth match. The younger child dropped
ne match, and the oil exploded, bursting the
an, and the flames spread and enveloped all
ne children. :
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