The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-26
Maryland Affairs.

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DIR. Jacob Houck, aged &C, we'll known
physician of Baltimore, died suddenly on
Tuesday.
Fielder Carr, aged 60, blew his brains out
with shot gun on Monday, near Jockeys
vile. His mind had been failing for several
years.
Rev. DR.: John S. Foley, pastor of St. Mar
tins church, Baltimore, has been appointed
Bishop of Detroit.
Isaac Hartman, president of the Metropol.
itan Savings Bank, Baltimore, died on Tues.
day, in his 10th year.
A soda water fountain exploded in Balti.
more. on Wednesday, and broke the right
leg of VIM. Tysinger.
Rev. Edward J. Sourin, s. j., died on Sun.
day, at Loyola College, Baltimore, aged SO
years. He was an eminent theologian and
teacher.
Harry Vent, Baltimore newsboy, fell
from the sixth story of the new telephone
building and his back and shoulder blades
were broken.
James Honey, colored, died near Annap.
oils, Monday, after having been assaulted on
Saturday. Two of his alleged assaiants are
said to have disappeared.
Meredith Ford bridge, over the Gnnpow-
| der, four miles from Towsontown, was burned
on Tuesday. 1t was covered bridge and il
will require $4,000 to replace it.
The tax rate in Anne Arundel county, this
year, is 81 cents on the 500 for county pur-
poses, and 20 cents additional for schools,
which, with the state taxes, makes the total
S1.313.
Minister McLane arrived from France on
Sunday, and Immediately left for Washington.
Il ua will ha in thic Oh tluao
spending his time between Baltimore and
Washington.
Lewis Paugh, aged about 65, residing in
Garrett county, about eight miles from Pied.
mont, W. Va, was fatally burned Saturday
by accidentally falling into the fire in fit.
He only lived two hours.
Rev Osborne Inge, pastor of the Episco.
pal Church in Frederick, was on Monday
night presented by his Pensioners with a
purse of $500 and leave of absence for q
three months trip to Europe.
| VIM. Neal was shot and killed by George
Brown, on Tuesday morning, near Chopper S
Station, Montgomery county. Both are col
ored men and were returning from a whitsun
ball at the time of the shooting.
Under the auspices of the Salvation Army
seven persons, including three ladies, were
baptized by immersion in Carroll's creek at
Frederick on Monday. The ceremony was
witnessed by more than thousand people.
The county commissioners of Frederick
county have passed an order requiring the
B. and o. r. r. Co., for the public safety, to
station hagmen at Doub's Switch, Limekiln
Switch and Knoxville, in Frederick county.
The funeral of Mr.. Robert R. Lilly, one of
the oldest and best known citizens of How
ard county, who died at his residence, near
Simpsonville, on Saturday, in the eighty-sec
ond year of his age, took place Sunday after
noon.
Mrs William Castle, the wife of we'll
known farmer residing short distance south
of Boonsboro', Washington county, fell dead
while walking across the floor at her residence
on Saturday evening. She was about fifty
years old.
Mr.. c. W. Selby, former resident of How
| ard county, and for thirtytwo years past an
employe of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, died suddenly. on Tuesday morn
ing at Winchester, Va, of heart trouble, in
his 5Sth year.
The Catoctin Iron Works, near Mechanics
town, Frederick county. were sold at public
sale on Thursday to Thomas Gorsuch, of
Frederick, for syndicate of creditors for
S75,00l. 1t is one the finest properties of
the kind in the country.
George A. Riley was shot and instantly
killed on Sunday, at Curtis Bay, near Balti-
more, while protecting young woman from
insult VIM. johnson was arrested as the
guilty man. Both belong in Baltimore. Riley
leaves a wife and several children.
The continued cold and cloudy weather is
having a serious effect upon farming in Wor-
cester county. The corn worm, in conse.
quence of the weather, is playing havoc with
the young and tender plants, and many large
farmers will be compelled to pillow up and re-
plant their entire fields.
Rev. N. W. MITCHELL colored. was arrested
in Baltimore. on Monday, for obtaining
money under false pretenses. When arrested
he attempted to swallow some papers, but
was prevented. He was released from the
penitentiary in February, where he had been
confined for similar charge.
| The Methodist Protestant Conference, in
session at Adrian, Mich, on Thursday elected
DR.. E. J. Drinkhouse, editor the Methodist
Protestant, published in Baltimore, w. j. c..
Dulany, book agent, and Horace Burrough
John g. Clark, j. 7. Murray, John d. Kinzer
and W. j. c. Dulany, directors of the Balti-
more Book Concern.
On Tuesday afternoon the factory of the
Hagerstown Spoke and Bending Company,
and the entire building, together with all the
machinery and large part of the stock and
lumber on hand, was consumed. The fire
originated in the engineroom and the alarm
was given promptly, but in that section of
the town the water-mains are so small that
but a small stream OF water could be thrown
on the building from the water pipes, and by
the time the steam fire engines could be put
in operation the fire was too well under head
way to be put out. 1t was with difficulty that
the elevator of Mr.. Victor Cushwa was saved.
The aggregate loss is about S25, 900.
The oyster industry of Maryland has recently
been the subject of an official report by the
British Consul at Baltimore to his Govern
ment. The report states that nearly 200
square miles of water are devoted to oyster
fisheries. From this area over 100000
oysters of the legal marketable size-300 to
the bushel-are yearly taken. The average
annual value of these fisheries is 5000, 900,
of which amount 100000 represents the
earnings of the $1,000 people to whom they
are means of support. In other words,
Maryland gets out Of the salt water around
its shores an annual crop equal in value to
about 125, 900 bales of cotton, which droughts
cannot reach, and for which there is always
a sure market.
A bill has been filed by Joshua Barnett,
through R. r. Boarman, for divorce vim
culo matrimonii from his wife, Alice NJ. Bar
nett, in the Baltimore county court. The bill
alleges that when he was married. on the 9TH
of September, 1887, to Alice NJ. Coburn, who
was then widow, he was over 81 years old,
and that ne lived with his wife until he was
scompelled by harsh and cruel treatment on
the part of the said Alice NJ. to escape from
her control and custody, which he succes5
in effecting on or about
1888; that at the -