The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-19
Maryland Affairs.


From 1886 to 1887, period of 81 years,
there were 592 suicides in Baltimore city.
Thos. W. Anderson, well-known resident
of Frederick, was stricken with paralysis on
! Tuesday night and died on Thursday.
Cecil county appropriates S1240 TO seven
towns within her borders. The highest sum
given to any town is $500 to Port Deposit.
A freight engine on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad burst its boiler on Sunday morning,
near Cumberland. The engineer and fire.
man were killed.
The earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad during the past seven months have
decreased $3.50, 1872, caused by heavy expen-
ditures upon the road and equipment.
Two colored boys were playing in Chester
town, on Saturday last, and one kicked the
other in the stomach from the effects of
which he died in Is minutes.
Kent county was visited by severe thun-
der storm on Monday night, Hail as large
as walnuts fell and much damage to fruit and
vegetables resulted.
The house. of VIM. Gardner, at Chester
town, was burned to the ground at an early
honr Monday morning. The fire was caused
by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp.
Louis McMurray, of the Frederick eannin g
factory, is having A 500 acres planted in corn
this season., 900 acres of his own land, and
2, 500 acres belonging to farmers in the neigh
borhood of Frederick
In the Circuit Court at Oakland on Monday
Judge Syester sentenced George Grim to
eight years in the penitentiary for wrecking a
passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in April, 1881.
Greenbrier Twigg died at Cumberland
/ Thursday in his ninety eighth year. He was
native of Old Town, Allegheny county, and
served in the war of 1872, for which he
received pension. His wife survives him.
Peter Hoke, of Emmitsburg, is the holder
of lucky number in the Louisiana State
Lottery. The number is 21,942, and has
drawn a $4,000 prize. Mrs. Hoke holds
one-tenth of the ticket and will get $1,000.
Damon Robinson and Thomas Harper, of
Petersville district, Frederick county, both
lcoiored, got into fight Monday. Harper
was cut and nearly killed. Robinson has
been arrested and placed in Jail.
Alexander Rieman, aged 70, senior mem
Der of the firm of Henry Rieman & Sons, died
in Baltimore, on Tuesday. In 1873 he was
President of the Western Maryland Railroad,
and subsequently was a director. He &C.
cupied high position in business circles.
Joseph H. Harrison died on Wednesday at
his residence, near Royal Oak, Talbot coun-
ty, aged II. He was one of the directors in
the Easton National Bank, and has been
prominent as a successful farmer and con-
spicuous in Democratic politics for many
years. He leaves fine estate. A widow,
three daughters and one son survive him.
The FIVE story iron front warehouse, No. II
West Pratt street, Baltimore, occupied by f.
Y. Ganter manufacturer of show cases,
organs aud billiard tables, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night. Loss, SIG, 900; insurance,
$40, 900. The saloon and dwelling of P.
Ganter, adjoining, was crushed in by fall
ing wall Loss, $4,000. 1t was also owned
by T. y. Ganter.
N J. Wagner, highly respected and we'll
known farmer and politician, was fatally hurt
on Tuesday while running a saw-mill on his
farm, near Rockville. A flying timber struck
Mr.. Wagner in the side, inflicting injuries
from which he died Wednesday morning at s
O'Clock, aged 50 years. Mr.. Wagner was
strong advocate of temperance, and was
well known for his work in that cause.
While the sons of VIM. Chiswell, farmer
living near Buckcystown, Frederick county,
were at play in a stone quarry on the farm
few evenings ago, they discovered cave in
the side of hill which, upon investigation,
proved to be thirty feet deep, and to contain
a number of curiously formed and very beau
tifully polished stones. An arch formation
was found resembling petrified human arm
and hand. The hand was in q glove.
On Monday afternoon the barn on the farm
of John T. Quynn, near New Market, Fred
erick county, and tenanted by Manassas Fad
err was struck by lightning and destroyed.
The barn contained agricultural implements,
stock, &c. Six horses were burnt--three of
which are dead-and the others it is report
ed cannot recover. The stock was insured in
the Montgomery County Insurance Company
for 81, 500. The barn is insured for a small
amount.
On Saturday evening last large barn on
the premises of Mrs. S. e. Sparks, tenth dis
trict Baltimore county, was struck by light
ming, set on fire and totally cosumed, together
with the hay and other feed in the building.
The horses, cattle, vehicles, harness, i'm
| pie nents and machines in the barn were
saved. The value of the building was about
I $1,000 with an insurance of only $500. The
same evening barn belonging to Mordecai
Ensor, near Cockeysville, was also struck by
lightning and consumed, everything except
the feed contained therein being saved. The
insurance on the building was $500.
! On Monday one of the Baltimore courts
/
which treats habitual drunkards exactly as
lunatics are treated in many States. On
petition under oath an habitual drunkard is
| taken into custody, and jury determines
whetherhe is incapable of taking care of him
4 self and his estate. If he is found to be an
habitual drunkard, the Court is Empowered
to appoint a committee to contine him in an
| institution for such length of time as the
court may approve, and to release him or ex-
4 tend the period of his confinement with the
4 appreciation of the court. Without consider
ing physiological or psychological questions
| that might be raised in the matter, 1t seems
to be eminently proper to place an habitual
! drunkard under some wholesome, and, ii un-
avoidable, legal restraint.
! The Grand Jury for the late term of the
| Criminal Court in Baltimore made its final
report ON Saturday. The report says the
Grand Jury found III indictments for felon-
les and misdemeanors, and of those disposed
of .35 per cent, were adjudged guilty, IL per
cent. acquitted and AZ per cent. nolle pressed.
| If the same rule will be worked with those
| yet to be disposed Of, with those already con-
| Glued, 274 will be found guilty, 131 not guilty
and 3G6 nolle pressed. This disposition of
the cases indicates looseness in the admin
istration of criminal justice which cannot but
be prejudicial to the public welfare, and calls
for an investigation with view to determln-
ing whether or not the exercise of the power
to dispose of SO large per centage of crimi
nal cases by nolle pros. is jndiciously exer-
cised in the interest of justice" The report
also complains of the laxity of the enforce
ment of the Sunday liqnor law.
The trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College as newly constituted, with the six
members recently appointed by. Governor
Jackson, met on Wednesday at the college
and organized. Fifteen of the eighteen men,
bers were present There we're present, ON
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Being graduate of the Maryland Colleg
-Le6dft OF Ine state, Governor JacEsSdEhhe; me- !
resident of the Senate George Peter, Comp
roller Baughman and Treasurer Archer; on
ne part of the stockholders, Colonel John J
arroll Walsh and Messrs. Wilmot johnson,
harles B. Calvert, Allen Dodge and Robert z
'obbin. This year they will go slow. One
nndred and iye varieties of potatoes have I
cen planted, and the president hopes to e
ave at least one hundred samples on exhi- Q
ition at the state fair Two acres are in a
otatoes. The land is laid off into quarter Q
ere plats, and an estimate of results will be p
ade up by these plats. Mr.. Elmer NJ. a
unn, of Washington city, is President Al 0
,rd'a sanretarv President Alvnrd IA aIro