The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-08-11
Maryland Affairs.

drowned near Baltimore, Md, ON Thursday
J. G. Goblinghorst, of Baltimore, was near
Il torn to pieces by pet bull dog on Thurs
day.
From Saturday to Wednesday, inclusive
~, 900 bushels of wheat were received il
Baltimore.
mond, colored, were drowned in Baltimore
on Sunday.
Reports from ex Gov. Hamilton represent
his disease as under control, though he is mucf
Frustrated.
William Brown, of Rising Sun Cecil. county
has thrashed over 200 bushels of Fultz whea
from six acres.
VIM. E. Woodhouse, aged 50, died in Hav
re de Grace on Sunday. He was good ant
prominent citizen.
Thomas S. Hodson, of Crisfeld, has beer
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the first district.
On Wednesday, August Is, there will be {
farmers harvest picnic and reunion on the
Frederick fair grounds.
Mrs. Smith, of Zion, Cecil county, died OF
Tuesday, aged SO. Three of her daughters
married three Carhart brothers.
Baltimore hada fall of two inches of rain il
less than two hours on Sunday evening last
and much damage was done by the wind.
John Brown attacked Perry Hobbs, at Fruit
land, Wicomico county, on Monday night
Hobbs struck Perry with board fracturinG
his skull.
Henry Eichorn, a German, committed sui
eide in Baltimore, on Saturday afternoon last
and on Sunday John Schmalzel drowned
himself in Jones' Falls.
Gov. jackson has fixed September % as
the day for the execution of Henry j. Spen-
Ger, who killed w. Scott Dawson, in Allegany
county, July %, 1887.
Mahassss-J. Grove, of Limekiln, Fredericb
county, has purchased the farm Of Mr.. Frank
Simmons, near Buckeystown, containing 1861
acres, for the sum of 1000.
Emma Davis, of Mechanicstown, was com.
mitted to Jail on Tuesday, charged with retain
ing and opening letter addressed to Mrs.
Mary Swathens, of Mechanicstown.
Charles Scranton, colored, who killed Ru.
dolph Herr, farmer of Clear Spring,
Washington county, several months ago, was
arrested at Scranton, Pa, on Tuesday.
On Tuesday fight took place between
Christopher and Charles Boyer, colored, on
board vessel in Baltimore, and they fell
overheard. They were brothers, and Charles
was drowned.
Miss Eliza Goldsborough, sister of VIM.
Goldsborough, of Talbot county, died Sunday
st an advanced age. She was the daughter
of the late Hon. Robert II. Goldsborough,
formerly United States Senator.
Captain John H. Strain, of Rockville, died
on Monday night, aged 20 years. He served
as Captain in the Santa Fe expedition and
subsequently was with General Sam Houston,
to whom he was related, in Mexico and
Texas.
The residence of S. F. Marshall, of Wash
ington, D. G., at Hyattsville, Montgomery
county, was burned on Monday. A house
adjoining was pulled down to prevent the
spreading of the flames. Loss $4,000 above
insurance.
Many of the peach growers in the peach
belt in Washington county report that the
early varieties are ripening prematurely,
caused by the yellows. The late varieties are
in excellent condition, and they will have a
large crop of fine fruit
Harry Tucker, aged IA, son of John C.
Tucker, tax collector for the third district of
Hartford county, was accidentally shot through
the heart on Sunday, by pistol in the hands
of Robert Vail, aged IS. The boys were
cleaning the pistol in Tlcker!s yard, near
Forest Hill. TUCKER died instantly.
baltimore was visited by a terrific rain
storm on Wednesday evening. Nearly two
inches of rain fell. The wind was IS miles an
hour, the lightning came in binding flashes,
borses BECAME Festiye under the pelAng Of the
hail, streets we're flooded, houses anroofed,
buildings blown DOWN, and sewers injured.
A small cyclone struck Frederick on Wed,
Hesday afternoon. The mercury was 102 in
the shade, but the rain cooled the tempera-
ture. Awnings, trees and fences were blown
down, and some damage to residences. AT
Cambridge, Dorchester county, the steenle of
the II. P. Church was struck by lightning
and damaged very much,
In the United States criminal court at Bal
timore on Monday, Justice Harlan granted a
new trial to j. Howard Matthews, a former
post office clerk, who is serving a term of two
years in the penitentiary for embezzling the
contents of decoy letter. Judge Harlan de-
crees that the letter was not intended to be
conveyed by mail,
William j. Head and David W. Sloan,
trustees in an equity proceeding in the Circuit
Court for Garrett County, have sold to
Joseph n Crawford, Of Pennsylvania, the
''Yough Manor" tract of land lying on Yong
hiogheny river, in Garrett county, for $4S, 005.
A great deal of land is changing hands in
Garrett county, and land which few years
ago was not considered worth the taxes upon
it now sells readily, and brings good prices.
John Smith, eplored, of Rockville, Mont
gomery county, and Perry Thompson, white,
who were found guilty at the last March court
of violation of the laoal option law, the for
mer in seven eases, fined 81 400, the latter
fined 5000, have been released under the in
solvent law sitter an imprisonment of about
four months. Judge McSherry severity upon
the violators of the local option law has
wrought a great change in some localities
where the law was violated with impunity.
West Friendship and vicinity, in Howard
epupty, vas visited by a destructive storm on
Sunday evening; Streams oFerhowed their
hanks, bridges were washed away and county
roads damaged. The milldam of Milton W:
Shipley was washed out, and it was with the
greatest difficulty the buildings were saved.
His loss is over 1900. For twenty minutes
during the fercest part of the storm the
falling water was so dense that the largest
object could not be distinguished fifty yards
away. Persons residing on the river at Car
rails MaHof say lhe RateF vas within a fpot
as high as that Of the food of 1865, when the
river towHs of at section experienced so
much disaster.
Mrs. J. S. Furlong, the widow of Henry Fur
long, formerly prominent member ofthe Bal:
timore Methodist Episcopal Conference, died
Of old age, after an lilness ri only few hegrs,
on Thursday evening, in Baltimore. Mrs.
Furlong was IS years old, and was ma
tive of Hampshire county, W. Va. She was
the daughter OF the late Geo, caFruthers, of
Wheeling, W. Va. She became member Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in early life,
and was noted for remarkably strong graces
of character. She married Rev. Mr.. Furlong,
who has been dead IA years, in 1922, and the
newly. married pair for wedding tour rode
an horseback from Wheeling to Baltimore;
-Four daughters survive her-Mrs. Richard
BALDWIN, Mrs. Philip Darby, Misses Lou and
Emma Furlong.
A delegation Of three hundred coloredpeo-
Pile, members of the Good Samaritan Lodge of
Washington, arrived in Frederick on Monday
morning on an excursion. The excursionists
were accompanied by Jefferson Lees eernet
band, and were guests ef OgieJoman and p.
Il. SeEtun Lodges, Good Samaritans, Of Fred
erick. They held cake walk in the rink ON
East Patrick street OF night. The entertain.
ment was attended by eight hundred colored
people, men and women. Shortly after ten
O'Clock a general row occurred, in which
John PhiIip Stanton, well known colored