The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-02-04
Maryland Affairs.

Resterstown is suffering from an epidemic
of measles.
Joshua Hilton, aged, 81, died near Ellicett
City, on Thursday.
In Baltimore last week there were 1877
deaths and 1874 births.
Joshua Rowe, of Emmitsburg, died on
January 81, aged rs years.
John Hall, colored, 81, was suffecated and
burned to death in Frederick on Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret Rodgers died at Homestead,
Baltimore county, on January 81, in her 9sth
year.
Howard and Washington county roads were
badly blockaded by the drifting snow of last
week.
John E. Feast, of Samuel Feast d Sons,
florists, Baltimore, died suddenly on Sunday
night.
The barn and contents of Mrs. Sallie Haines,
near Port Deposit, was burned on Wednesday
Loss $500.
John W. o. Ahalt, of Middletown. Fred
erick county, last week killed a hog that dress
ed rs pounds.
Dr. Joseph Roberts, President of the Mary
land College of Pharmacy, died in Baltimore
on Tuesday, in his 64th year.
Hon. L. E. McComas, member of Congress
from the sixth district is confined to his bed
by an attack of nervous exhaustion.
Ulman's Opera House, at Salisbury, was
opened on Monday night. The audience
room is 47x90 feet with seating capacity OF
800.
James A. Elder, president of the Emmits:
burg Railroad Company, has been appointed
postmaster at Emmitsburg. 1t is a good APP
pointment.
John Donavin, aged 90 years, from North
cumberland county, Penn, was killed on Wed
nesday by falling from roof of the Steelton
Works, near Baltimore.
A tenant. house on the premises of Col.
George R. Dennis, near Urbana, Frederick
county, was destroyed by fire on Sunday.
Loss about 81, 900; no insurance.
The Industrial Home for Colored Girls, OF
Baltimore, wants an appropriation from the
State of $4,000, and also the Pikesville Ar
senal for the use of the institution.
COL Edwin Wilmer, at one time promi-
nent citizen of Cecil county, died at the resi-
dence of his sonin-law, Charles Hepburn,
near Govanstown, on the 9th of January, IN
his Goth year.
Richard G. Reese, aged SO, died in Elkton
on Tuesday. He was a Democrat aud filled
several offices. For many years he was a
merchant, and for IS years vestryman OF
Trinity church.
Capt. Thomas Sadler died at Havre de
Grace on Monday night last in his 92d year
He was native of Dorchester county. The
cause of his death was blood poisoning from
pareing corn too closely.
Mrs. Rose Shaney, of Baltimore, while
stupid from drink, was attacked by rats. Her
neck was gnawed and her nose and fingers
eaten off. An autopsy showed that she died
from congestion of the brain.
A similar disease to the one that proved SO
fatal on the farm of John Fenton last fall,
near Elkton, has broken out again among his
horses and several have died. State Veteri-
nary Ward made an investigation,
Hon. Francis Miller, prominent Republi
can, and candidate for Attorney General al
the last election, died from cancer OF the
stomach at his residence, near Sandy Spring,
Montgomery county, on Thursday.
VIM. Nusz, of Frederick city, has signed a
contract to play with the Albany N. y
Base Ball Club during the coming season al
a salary of 500 per month. He filled the
position of first haseman and relief catcher on
the Frederick Club.
Frederick county railroads and oou1ty
roads were completely blockaded by the drift,
ing snow last week. On the Frederick and
Pennsylvania Line Railroad, between Freder-
lex and Woodsboro, there was drift 900
feet long and feet deep.
Rev. Joseph Mettam died on Wednesday
morning at the residence of his son-in-law,
Philip Watts, in Pikesvile, Baltimore county.
He was nearly SO years of age, having been
born March 81, 1906, at Chesterfield, England:
His wife, Ruth, who is in her S4th year, and
five children, all grown, survive him.
1t has been definitely settled that the
National Saengerfest for this year will be held
in Baltimore, about the LIST of July next.
The committee having charge of the matter
has raised the requisite guarantee fund, aud
arrangements for the festival will shortly be-
GIN There is talk of erecting building for
the singers and audience:
William and Henry Estley of Frederick,
both fear that they will be compelled to have
their feet amputated. On Saturday last they
went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company shoveling snow from the tracks,
between that city and Hanover. Towards
evening they discovered that their feet were
frozen. Their case is very serious.