The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-30
Maryland Affairs.

Frederick county tax rate is 65 cents on the
500.
Samuel Garrison died in Baltimore, on
Monday, aged 81
Cleveland and Thurman clubs are being
formed throughout the State.
Mr. and Mrs. Holdefer, of Baltimore, cele-
brated their golden wedding on Monday.
The Court of Appeals has affirmed the con-
stitutionality of the act annexing the Belt to
the city of Baltimore.
In Queen Anne's county 1900 self binders
and 800 reapers were engaged in saving the
wheat crop this season.
Lemuel Ogden, of Upper Marlborough,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for Is
years for committing an assault upon his wife's
sister.
The first new wheat was received in Bati-
more on June % from Rappahannock river,
Va The lot contained 242 bushels and sold
at 81. II per bushel.
John G. Schoff, native of Germany, who
had been suffering from neuralgia for several
months, cut his throat from ear to ear, in
Baltimore on Tuesday.
little daughter of Thomas Elzey, Of
Buckstown, Dorchester county, fell headlong
into pot Of boiling water and was scalded to
death on Friday of last week.
VIM. Riggs, colored, has been committed
to Jail at Hagerstown on the charge of bigamy.
He recently married there, and it is said has
a wife and child in Frederick.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Dove, near Rockville,
celebrated their golden wedding on June &c,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Janpey, of Balti-
more also celebrated their 50th anniversary
on Wednesday.
The Confederate Soldiers Home, formerly
the Old Arsenal at Pikesville, was opened
on Wednesday with interesting exercises, in
Guiding addresses by number of prominent
ex-C onfederates.
St. Jerome's Church at Hyattsville, Mary
land, FIVE miles from Washington, was dedi-
Gated on Sunday by Cardinal Gibbons. The
church is a memorial to the most Rev. John
Carroll, first Archbishop of Baltimore.
Joseph Williams, his wife and stepson,
near Rising Sun, Cecil county, were lodged
in jail for stealing chickens, tools, etc, from
neighbors. Williams is prosperous farmer;
his wife went her own bail aud was released.
| DR.. Benjamin King, a surgeon on the re-
tired list of the U. S. army, died on Sunday
last in Anne Arundel county, in his 9lst
year. He served over As years, was in the
war of 1872, the Seminole and the Mexican
wars as surgeon.
The prospect for fine crop of peaches in
Kent has not been marred. 1t bids fair to be
is reported to be somewhat injured. The
great question is how to find market for
this tremendous yield.
On Tuesday two daughters of r. ID. Layton,
near Florence, Howard county, were murder
ously assaulted, the windpipe of one, aged IA
months, being severed, and the throat of the
other, three years old, badly gashed by Charles
Washington, colored, aged 10. The eldest Of
the children said that Charles did the deed
with butcher knife. The boy said he was
tired of nursing them.
COL Herman Stump has presented band
some souvenir to each of TIE delegates from
Hartford county who stood by him so faithful
| ly in the Congressional Convention at Havre
de Grace. 1t consists of heavy gold Mary
land cross, on one side of which is engraved:
Congressional Convention, Havre de Grace,
| MAY 80, 1885," On each medal are the mi
tials of Col. Stump and of the delegate to
whom it was given.
| A large frame building located on East
street, between Sixth and Seventh streets,
! Frederick, aud used as a paint shop by
Messrs Stewart & McCobb, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday last. The structure was
owned by Messrs. VIM. p, Maulsby, Jr., d.
| C. Winebrener and Major Samuel ii. Brown.
| The loss amounted to nearly 81, 200, which is
partly covered by insurance of 5000 in the
Frederick County Mutual company. The fire
was the result of an accident
On Monday afternoon Danl. G. Mumma, a
we'll known citizen of Hagerstown, while tes-
tifying in case before Justice A. B. Mitchell,
in which he was plaintiff, fell from his chair
and died almost instantly. He seemed in
good health at the time, and was giving his
testimony in a quiet and deliberate way when
he died. He was at one time mayor of
Hagerstown, and once held position in the
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81 years of age. The cause of his death was
heart trouble.
Geo. T. Holyday, Of the firm Of KRAFT Il
Hollyday, insurance agents and brokers, was
| found drowned Sunday in the Spring Gar
dens, off the foot of Marshall avenue, Balti-
more Mr.. Hollyday had been missing since
Friday afternoon, and his disappearance had
caused his family and friends great deal of
anxiety. He had been married only about
two months to his second wife, Miss Maria
Trimble, of Hartford county. Mr.. Hollyday
was As years old, served with distinction in
the Confederate cavalry for two years, and
was an author of some note.
A heavy wind -and-rain storm, which last
ed more than an hour, visited the vicini-
ty of Kennedyville, Kent county, about noon
on Sunday last. Telegraph and telephone
/ poles were blown down or splintered, and
connections shut off from the upper part of
the county. Mr.. Dillon, of the main tele-
graph Office of Philadelphia, while at work on
a new line ny Worton Station, Kent county,
was holding wire in his hand, and the light
ming, passing down the wire from Blacks,
stunned him, and for some time he lay un-
conscious on the ground. B. P. Rambo, the
operator at Worton, was burned about the
shoulder by the same stroke.
Arrangements have been completed for the
reception and entertainment of delegates and
visitors to the Convention of the National
League of Democratic Clubs in Baltimore on
July 4th and 9th. The Convention will be
opened in the Academy Of Music at noon on
the 4th, and mass meetings will be held on
the nights of July 4th and 9th in Ford's
Opera House. On the 9th an excursion will
| go down the bay, and on returning there will
| be display of fireworks from barges in the
water. On Saturday the clubs will go to
Washington, where a Presidential reception
will be held and a parade will take place.
] About 5000 delegates will be present.