The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-03-10
MARYLAND Affairs.

the cattle IN Kent county.
House burners and store thieves are one.
rating on the Eastern Shore.
Hagerstown will have its mail delivered Inv
carriers on and after the 18th instant.
The first herring were caught in the Chop.
tank river, in Caroline county, on Saturday
last.
Williams and Boyer's store, at Bower.
Montgomery county, was robbed on Sunday
night.
Charles Herbert, proprietor of the Frank.
lin House, Hagerstown, has made an assign
ment.
Snow fell for three consecutive DAYS at
Oakland, this week, and the weather was ex-
tremely cold.
In st. Mary's county, on Saturday, John
Goddard was cut about the head and throat
with razor by colored man.
The town hall at Port Deposit was burned
on Saturday. 1t was occupied by stores.
lodge rooms, &c. Loss $25, 900.
Tuesday morning was the coolest exper.
fenced in Frederick for many years, the mer-
curry being degrees below zero.
At MechaEicstown, on Saturday, the real
estate of the late Henry Rouzer, of that place.
was sold at public sale for an aggregate of
S11,2O5.
Archibald Sterling Pennington, Assistant
United States District Attorney, died in Bal
timore on Wednesday morning from pneu-
monia, in his 10Th year.
On Tuesday last the residence of VIM.
Fields,,eedftor of the Sentinel near Rockville,
Nd, was burned together with its contents.
Loss $4,000, no insurance.
Mrs. Mary D. Farnandis died in Belair
on Thursday in her 93d year. Major George
W. Grove, aged sS, died at Burkittsville,
Frederick county on Thursday.
The estate of Henry Merryman, containing
20 acres was sold at public sale at Townson
tawn, on Tuesday at S37 per acre, some ground
The Mallalieu mills, in Queen Anne's
county, which have been idle for some
months, are undergoing repairs, and will be
put in operation soon by gentlemen from New
York.
James Blackwell, colored, aged Is, was
arrested at Easton on Saturday for attempt
ing to poison John Engerman and his son,
with whom he lived. by placing Paris green
in their coffee. Both men were made very
sick, but threw up the poison.
At the meeting of the national board of
officers of the League of American Wheel
men held in New York on Monday the invi-
tation of the Maryland division to the League
of American Wheeman to hold its constitu-
tional convention and annual meeting in Bal
timore on June Is, 10 and 20 was accepted.
The Denton FIGURING Mills were destroyed
by fire on Tuesday morning. The fire origi-
mated in the centre of the basement, 40 feet
from the engine-room, and is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary. The
fire had gained such Roadway before it was
discovered that nothing could be done to
check it. The loss is about SIS, 200, and the
insurance about $4,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which con-
trolls the railroads on the peninsula between
the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, having
raised the fare to four cents per mile and
freight rates one third, the Eastern Shore
people are resolved to build road from
Elkton to Cape Charles, and they will try to
secure the necessary legislation at tie present
session of the legislature.
Charles Miles and Edward Chase, colored,
and Robert Hamilton, white, were given a
hearing on Wednesday at Hagerstown, upon
the charge of being accessories to the murder
of Rudolph Herr in Clear Spring on the night
of February o. They were each, in default
of $4,000 bail, sent to jail to await the action
OF the next grand jury. The evidence brought
out the fact that Herr and Charles Sanders,
VINO is SILL al laISe. udu SUnt ulluCuity Ou
the night of the 22d; that Sanders picked up
several stones, and Chase, Miles and Hamil-
ton, who were close by, urged him to hit
Herr.
At the Carrollton stock farm, owned by G.
A. I. Snouffer, near Adamstown, Frederick
county, on Tuesday there was an extensive
public sale of highbred horses and thorough
bred registered shorthorn cattle. The auc-
ton was largely attended and there were
present many well known stock breeders from
different parts of the State. The prices re-
ceived for the cattle ranged from $40 to a
$3.50 each. Johnny Crapaud, light gray
imported Percheron stallion, foaled in 1880,
was purchased by Mr.. Beverly, of Leesburg,
Va, for 81 AIS The other horses and FLIES
ranged from $500 down to less than one hun
dred.
In the circuit court for Frederick county,
on Tuesday, John Graham, the colored boy
about 16 years old. was convicted of man.
slaughter last week for the killing of his
brother near Woodville in November last
during quarrel over a chicken bone, was
sentenced by Chief Judge McSherry to the
House of Reformation until he is tweny- one
years of age. James NJ. Smith, a well-known
hotel keeper at marlborough, pleaded gull
ty to an indictment charging him with selling
liquor to minors and on Sunday, and for vic.
idllllS the BdululluS ldWSf anu was oChtChS1u
by the court to pay fine aggregating with
cost 1896, and to have his license suppressed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sands, of Baltimore, cee-
brated her Goth birthday on Wednesday last.
She is hale and hearty, enjoys company of
friends, AMI retains her mental faculties un-
impaired she is active, goes about the house
daily and is frequently on the street. and
spends her time in sewing and doing numer-
GUS kinds of fancy work, and although unable
to read herself, yet enjoys having others read
to her from the Bible and historical works re-
lating to the latter part of the last century
and the early portion of this. Her memory
is good and she can entertain the student of
American history for hours at time. Mrs.
Sands had seven children, five of whom
are now dead. She has twenty-five grand
children, forty-fve great grandchildren and
twelve great great grandchildren living.
They are located in all parts of the country,
and most of them sent kilograms of congrat
ulation. She has been an attendant at the
First Baptist Church for over sixty-fv years
and was the first person admitted TO mem
bership in the old Ground Top" Baptist
Church which stood at the corner of Sharp
and Lombard streets for so long period.
Her home was crowded all day with members
of the First Baptist congregation. From
these friends she received as a souvenir
money bag OF black velvet, which was insert
bed suitably on the front and on the back
displayed the figures l7s9-lSS7. The silver
money in the bag weighed over four pounds.
]. R. Snyder was taken to Denison, Texas,
on Tuesday, charged with opening United
States mails. He had large package of val.
liable mail in his possession, which he claimed
to have found on the railroad track. In his
pockets were drafts on New York banks ag-
gregating SAG, 575, and many checks on local
banks and money orders.
Why shouldn't Uncle Sam pay the farmer
q bounty on every bushel of corn he raises,
when he pays the steel rail man bounty of
sl7 on every ton of rails he makes? The
farmer is just as good as the steel rail man.
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