The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-15
MARYLAND Affairs.

Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, celebrated his
SOth birthday on Monday.
Miss Gertie Hape, of Woodsboro', Freder-
lex county, has been committed to Jail on the
charge of infanticide.
John G. Schlund, respected German cit.
iZen of Cumberland, died on Monday, in his
SD year. He had lived there since 1872
One hundred and seventy-fve shares Of
First National Bank stock of Hagerstown,
par value $40, were sold at $40 per share on
Tuesday.
A shooting ARRAY in Cumberland on Sun
day resulted in the wounding of VIM. Maho-
ney by VIM. Fl. Horstman. Mahoney died
on Monday.
Col F. C. Goldsborough, near Easton, has
received IS Oxforddown ewes and 5 rams
from England.
I. Alfred Bryan, register of wills for Queen
Anne's county, died from cancer of the stom-
ach on Tuesday.
Mrs. Annie, wife of Zachariah Anstett,
committed suicide by shooting, at her resi-
dence near Denton on Monday night. No
cause assigned
Diphtheria is prevalent in Bishopville, a
small town in Worcester county, and has as.
sumed very malignant form. Six deaths
from it have occurred within week.
The store of James K. Gies, at Butler,
Baltimore county, was set on fire by mice
gnawing matches. Loss $1,000, insured in
the Baltimore County Company. The dwell
ing adjoining was saved.
The shipments from the mines of the Cum
berland coal region for the week ended Sat-
urday, September 8, were 81, 764 tons, and
for the year to that date 2, 424, 103 tons, an
rnnr nf 4r., : IL Il
ing period of last year. The canal shipments
to date were 1S7,714 tons.
Charles Washington, aged 0years, colored,
who was charged with the murder of Beulah
Layton, and the attempted murder of her
sister Sadie, both infants, by cutting their
threats in June last, was acquitted by How
ard county jury on Wednesday. He was af.
wards sent to the Colored Reformation School.
= Josiah Bayley, lawyer, son of Hon. Josiah
Bayley, of Cambridge, Md. for long time
Attorney General of Maryland died at the
Almshouse in Alexandria, Va, about two
weeks ago. Mr.. Bayley was eccentric. He
practiced law for years, but taught school in
Alexandria until physical intirmity threw him
upon the public charity.
Louis McMurray's canning factory, Fred
erick, is the largest in the country. 1t gives
daily employment to nearly 200 men, wom-
en- and children. The number of cans of
corn, succotash, Lima beans, tomatoes, &c..
packed each day reaches an average of 200,-
900, and for the season, which will end in
October, it is expected that an aggregate of
from 100000 to 100000 cans will be
packed. Mr.. McMurray has had under cul
tivation during the past season about 1850
acres of land
A young man in Baltimore saw an adver-
tisement of a firm in Bangor, Maine, ''offering
to sell fine steel engraving of George
Washington for fifteen cents" He sent the
money and received in return an ordinary
two,cent postage. stamp stuck on a piece of
cardboard. Another Baltimore man answered
an advertisement of firm in Wellington,
Conn, which read: "Goldl For ten cents we
will put you in the way of making a fortune"
He sent the cash and received postal with
this message: "Catch suckers as we do.'' A
newspaper that advertises frauds like these is
no better than the scamps who play such
tricks on a gullible public.