The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-28
Maryland Affairs.

Last week there were LAG deaths and ITO
births in Baltimore.
| The tax rate for Baltimore county has been
| fixed at 81 cents on the 500.
Jos. W. Etzler, postmaster at Libertytown,
Frederick county, has resigned.
Mrs. Sallie Talbert, of Prince Georges
county, died on the 18th instant. aged l02
years.
100000 of Baltimore city 4per cent. bonds
were sold on Thursday at an average of
SOFIA per 500.
VIM. G. Wetherall, aged SO, died in Balti-
more on Saturday. He was In active business
from 1886.
Mrs. Mary ]. Harper, a prominent colored
woman in church circles, died u Baltimore on
Wednesday.
Reuben Flohr, near Emmitsbnrg. was
thrown from q wagon, on Wednesday, and
received fatal injuries.
Daniel Baker, ST., died in Buckeystown, on
Wednesday afternoon, aged a.. He was a
prominent and well known man.
A vigilance committee has been formed for
the detection of the perpetrators OF rcbberies
in the vicinity of Lewistown, Frederick county.
Arthur Exley, of Philadelphia, Pa, was
killed at the mouth of the Union tunnel, Bal
timore, on Tuesday. His body was horribly
mangled.
The Franklin House hotel property, at
Hagerstown, was sold on Monday by the
trustees of Charles Herbert at private sale
to A. D. Bennett for $4,000.
John B. Briscoe, colored, was executed at
Leonardtown, yesterday, for the murder OF
gust, 1885, He left confession stating that
t. I,llod n,x0n in Golf dafanca
Samuel Sands, editor of the American
Farmer, is the Oldest journalist in the State.
He passed his 8Sth birthday on the 10th of
the present month, April. He has the honor
of being the first to put in type that immortal
lyric of Francis Scott Key, the Star iSpaassett
Samuel Whitney, alias VIM. Spurgeon, ar
rested in Springfield, Mo-, on complaint, OF
the Baltimore authorities, who accused him
of embezzling $150,000 several months ago,
has withdrawn his application for writ of ab-
cas- corpus and will return to Baltimore yolun-
| tairly. He was the cashier and confidential
clerk of Hurst, Purnell & Co., wholesale dry
goods dealers.
The 18th anniversary of the Prisoners Aid
| Association took place in Baltimore on Mon
day evening. The President, G. S. Griffith,
made his annual report. Rev. L. F. link
han, chaplain, in his report, referred to the
increase of crime, which he attributed to neg
lected children, Sabbath breaking, gambling,
idleness, Righteousness, imported criminals
and intemperance. He said it was not strange
there were in this country 10000 criminals
and 10000 paupers, when there were 5000
saloons. Intemperance he characterized as
''the abomination Of desolation."
The will of the late A. S. Abel was adj
mitted to probate at Towsontown, on Wednes-
day. He bequeathed The Sun to his three
sons and, after providing legacies to employees
of The Sun and others, he devised $1,000 each
to the following institutions: Maryland Insti-
tute, Aged Mems Home, Aged Women S
Home, Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Mary s
Female Orphan Asylum, st. Vincent of Paul s
Benevolent Association commonly known as
St. Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum, House
of the Good Shepherd, St. Francis's Orphan
Asylum for Colored Children, Boys Home
Society of Baltimore, Orphan Asylum, Mary.
land Academy of Sciences, Colorsd Orphans
Home and Hebrew Hospital and Asylum AS
ISOLATION.
In the Anne Arundel county court, on We'd
nesday, the grand jury, in closing their report,
said:-"We beg to call the attention of your
honors TO a state of things which has existed
for some time, which we think to be wrong,
viz: The practice of the county commission
ers in releasing delinquent collectors from the
payment of interest on moneys and taxes held
by them long after the time in which they
should have paid, when we know that they
demand and receive interest from taxpayers,
as we find from an examination of the books
of the county commissioners that the amount
of $500 or more has been released during the
last few months" The court Judges Jones
and SMITH said they would carefully consider
the suggestions referred to in the report.
The suit of James Hodges against A. S.
Abel g. Co., publishers of the Baltimore Sun,
for $40, 900 damages for alleged libel resulted
on Saturday last in a verdict for the de-
PENDANT, after trial of six days. Just
before the Mayoralty election last October
Hodges was arrested with ten men in his
charge, whom he had brought from Phifadel.
phia, on the charge of being suspicious char
acters, that suspicion being that they had
come to Baltimore to vote illegally. One of
the men arrested made confession to that
effect. The SIN published an account of the
matter and headed it: Important Reporters;
Three Gangs Arrested; Confession of One OF
of the Captives." The plaintiff claimed that
the head was libelous, because it stigmatized
him as repeater. The Court held that the
head was privileged if it was fair comment
on the body of the report and that no vindic-
tive damages could be allowed unless the jury
found that it was made with an improper mo-
tive.