The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-14
Maryland Affairs.

Dorchester county's tax rate is 92l cents in
the 500.
Hartford county's wheat crop has been
seriously injured by the recent rains.
The Second Maryland Battalion of Infantry
will encamp August Is at Frostburg.
John L. Robins, Of Worcester county, har-
vested 900 bushels of wheat from so bushels
sowing.
Samuel j. Robinson has been appointed
postmaster at Towsontown, in place of Mrs.
Sarah Feast.
In the first district the Prohibitionists have
nominated Walter F. Hartman, Of Queen
Anne's county, for Congress.
The Fifth Regiment went into camp at
Atlantic City, N. j., on Thursday, and will
have $50 muskets in line.
At the close Of the July registration of
voters, in Baltimore on Tuesday, 70,7s8 per-
sons had been registered, of whom 10,G7S were
colored.
The Furniture Workers Cooperative Man
ufacturing Association, Baltimore, made a
deed of trust for the benefit of creditors on
Monday.
Some difficulty is feared in handling the
immense peach crop of Delaware and the
Eastern Shore. The crop is estimated at
IL, 200, 900 baskets.
Stephen Simmonds, aged IS years, died on
Monday in Baltimore. He was native of
Frankfort, Germany, and came to Baltimore
about fifty years ago.
A slight earthquake shock was felt in Fred
erick, on Tuesday morning. Three distinct
vibrations, lasting several seconds, were felt,
and low, rumbling sound was heard.
NJ. Rosenfeld, Jr., patient at the Mary
/ 81 Ralk,
hanged himself on Tuesday with a swing rope
on the hospital grounds. He was not con-
sidered dangerous patient
John Holly, the young colored man who
was shot last Sunday by Isaac keenan,, colored,
in Baltimore, died on Wednesday afternoon.
keenan, demanded $l.80, which was owing to
him. A dispute arose as to the amount when
Holly was shot.
Within the past two weeks nearly 800 men
have been discharged from the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad shops, at Baltimore. This ac-
ton is due to the recent sale of the sleeping
| car system to the Pullman Company and a
general lack of work.
Gov. jackson has appointed Goldsborough
S. Griffith, DIR. John Morris, A. 81. Green
field, George J. Zimmerman and Rev. Levin
J. Zinkhan delegates to represent Maryland
in the National Prison Association Congress,
to meet in Boston from July IA to July 10.
Wheat harvesting in Frederick county is
generally over, and threshing has begun. The
yield and quality in many localities is reported
to be larger and finer than it has been for
years. Some fine specimens are shown,
which were raised without the use of any kind
of phosphates or fertilizers.
Havre de Grace and vicinity, Hartford
county, was struck by a cloud burst on Thurs
day afternoon of last week. Lightning struck
an ice house, containing 600 tons, and burned
it. The canal at Lapidum was so filled with
debris that boats could not pass. County
roads were damaged so much that it will be
weeks before they can be made passable.
Fire starting in the three-story brick can
factory of Kirwan & Tyler, Thames street,
Baltimore, on Wednesday afternoon, burned
two hours and a.half, destroyed four build
ings, partly destroyed three, and damaged,
more or less, twenty-five others in the block
at the foot of Broadway bounded by Broad
way, Thames, Bond and Shakespeare streets.
Rev. DR.. John S. Martin, pastor of st.
Paurs NJ. E. Church South, Baltimore, and
one of the best known ministers of the South
ern branch of the Methodist Church, died at
the parsonage, West Fayette street, on Sun
day night, in the I'D year of his age, from a
carbuncle on his back. He was a native of
Alexandria, Virginia, and began preaching
in March, 1895.
The barn on the farm of Edward Rider,
near Ruxton, on the Northern Central Il. R.,
was burned on Monday morning. The cattle
in the yard and the hogs in the pens were
saved by pulling down the fence and letting
them run free The crop of wheat from 81
acres, three tons of husk and lot of farming
implements were destroyed. Loss $4,000.
Insured in the Baltimore County Insurance
Company for $1,000.
On Thursday night of last week some
person or persons entered a wheat field be-
longing to Jacob Summers, near Frederick,
and almost totally destroyed a selfbinding
reaper. An acre or more of growing corn in
an adjoining field, owned by VIM. P. Marsell,
was also destroyed, and a number of cattle
and hogs were let into a corn field of Charles
Howard, in the same vicinity. The farm of
John Heffner was also visited, and consid-
cradle quantity of milk and cream tRLen out
of the dairy and upset
Hon. Joshua Biggs, one of the most prom
inent and esteemed citizens of Frederick
county, died suddenly at his residence, at
Rocky Ridge, Creagerstown district, on Mon
day afternoon, of heart trouble. He was
about seventy years of age. He represented
Frederick county in the Maryland Senate in
1867, having been the first State Senator
elected under the present constitution. be
was staunch Democrat and for many years
prominent in the councils of the party. He
was frequently called upon to preside over
county conventions, and was commonly styled
one of the war horses of the Democracy.
For some years past he had been director of
the Western Maryland Railroad, to which
organization he is said to have rendered val
liable services. He had been operating a
large Touring mill at Rocky Ridge for some
time past. He was a gentleman of genial
disposition and of the most upright character.