The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-01-28


commission merchant and prominent citi-
zen, died in Baltimore on Wednesday.
AT Hagerstown, on Tuesday, 116 shares of
the First National Bank stock, par value $40
per share, were sold at $2l.l0 per share.
Owing to severe criticism of the courts ac-
ton in several local-option cases, two Belair
papers were declared SIN contempt last
Saturday.
county, dropped dead on Tuesday while at
work in his blacksmith shop. He was an es.
Unable citizen.
On Saturday last, Irving Brooks, colored
man made an assault upon his father at the
and while defending himself the father broke
the sons skull.
The Maryland Colored Industrial Fair As
ISOLATION has been Incorporated for the pur-
pose of holding fair in Baltimore in the
month of October every year for the exhibition
of the products of the skill of the colored
people of the state.
Mrs. Emma B. Simpson, of Baltimore, aged
sc years. committed suicide on Tuesday by
taking laudanum. She was addicted to drink
ing and could not control her desire for liquor.
Her husband and family were very much
shocked by her untimely end.
j. NJ. Miller, engaged in the lumber, ma
chinery and fertilizing business at Walkers
vile, Frederick county, made deed of trust
on Tuesday to Messrs. Harrison Miller, Jos.
G. Miller and VIM. P. Maulsby, Jr. His
liabilities are said to be about Sl3, 900 or S14,-
COO and assets about S4 900.
A banquet was given under the auspices
of the Young Mems Republican Club of
Baltimore, on Wednesday, at Rennert's.
One hundred and fifty subscribers and thirty
guests were present, among whom were SEN
ptors Evarts, Hawley and Chandler, Gov.
Beaver and other well known Republicans.
At Hagerstown, on Wednesday, Geo. w.
Cover was committed to jail to await the
action of the grand jury on the charge of
perjury. Several months ago Cover married
Miss Ward. When he procured his license
he swore that Miss Ward was Is years Of age.
Miss Wards mother says her daughter is only
13 years of age, and she has brought the
charge against her son-in-law.
The trustees of Grace NJ. E. Church South,
at Cambridge, have made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors. The conveyance in
cludes the church, the church furniture and
fixtures. The edifce, which stands on the
corner of Main and Race streets, is hand
some stone structure, which was completed
about three years ago at q cost OF about Sl6,-
900. The liabilities are estimated at Sll 900.
On Tuesday morning the dwelling of Ros.
well Woodward, near Washington Grove,
Montgomery county, was entirely consumed
by fire. The FIRE caught between the weather
boarding and the wall Mr.. Woodward, on
discovering it, found that his little child was
nearly suffoeated by the smoke. Nothing was
saved except one bedstead and few chairs.
The family escaped with great difficulty.
Insurance 5000.
The Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad
Company has voted to issue Sl,500,000 of six
per cent. bonds, mortgaging the whole of
their line from Baltimore to Drum Point.
The Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company
shave been made the trustees of the bonds.
iSIhem money will be used in Fastening the con-
struetion of the road and purchasing equip
ment. The contractors are pushing the work
of grading of the road along almost every
mile from Drum Point up to Annapolis.
Reports state that the grain trade of Balti-
more is more depressed than it has been for
twenty years. Apart from all other causes
some assert that the decline in receipts is due
to the excessive elevator charges, while others
attribute it to the lack of foreign demand.
Whatever may be the cause, it is certain that
the grain trade has fallen off fearfully, and so
little interest is manifested that membership
tickets, the par value of which is S2500, are
sold down to $40 each, and there are few
seeking them at that figure.
On Wednesday the Reform League of
baltimore settled the costs incurred in tho
registration cases by scaling the bills Of the
sheriff and court clerks down about one half,
and paying fifty cents on the dollar of the re-
mainder. John c. Rose, the attorney of the
Reform League, informed the sheriff and
clerks that this was the best that would be done
by the League, and the offer was accepted and
receipts in full given, in the belief that quar-
ter Of the amount due was better than nothing,
as they had no hope of recovering from John
T. Biggs, in whose name the petitions with
which the courts were flooded had been filed,
and the Reform League being an unincorpo
rated body. which cannot be sued. Elk Sheriff
Henry G. Fledderman received 1858 and the
clerks of the FIVE courts about $50 each. The
witnesses have not been paid their attendance
fees