The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-02-11
Maryland Affairs.

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! Mrs Jemima Bishop died in Baltimore nm
Sunday last in her seth year.
Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, died in Hayre de
Grace on Wednesday night, aged "a years.
DR.. Frederick Butler died in Green Spring
Valley, Baltimore county, on Tuesday, aged
81.
On February the barn and contents of F.
Il. Duckett, OF Prince Georges county, were
burned. Loss $4,000.
Prof. James Hickey, instructor of penmaIi.
ship at Mt. st. Mary's College, died on Feb.
ruary ,, in his 18th year f&-t /
In Baltimore 642 deaths occurred in Janu-
airy, smaller number than has taken place
in that month for nine years past.
Sixty shares of Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road stock sold in Baltimore Wednesday at
50. This is the lowest figure in many years.
Jacob Sherman, of Hartford county, died on
Thursday, aged 9l,years and % days. He
was toll gate keeper on the Hartford road for
As years.
The Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad
Company has made deed to the Mercantile
Trust Company to secure the payment of 81,
SOC, 600 bends.
1ost Harbaugh we'll know resident of Har-
baugh,s Valley, died Saturday from the effects
of fall on the ice received several weeks
previous. He was sc years old.
Frank Miller, colored, of Bay Hundred,
Talbot county, got SO badly frightened at the
eclipse of the moon, that he got religion, and
the circumstance started big revival.
| The pottery of Charles H. Hartung, near
Baltimore, was destroyed on Sunday morning
by an incendiary fire, with two horses and a
mule. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Mr.. John Lambright, an old and highly
esteemed resident of Frederick, died on
Monday night last, aged about SO. he was
well known throughout the city and county.
1 Mrs. Ellen Mills, of Baltimore, owing to
her extreme poverty, made an attempt to
\ take her life and also of her ten months old
+ baby on Saturday. tits thought they will re-
cover
Mrs. Emily Hillen died in Baltimore on
Saturday last, in her 10th year. She was the
widow of Col. Solomon Hillen, former
Mayor of Baltimore, and daughter of the late
Gen. Columbus O'Donnell.
! Walter Sorrell, colored man and Demo
crat, mas been appointed by Collector Groome
to the position of messenger in the custom
house. His salary is S720 a year. Sorrell
has been Democrat ever since Greeley ran
against Grant in 1872.
/ Daniel Gladhill, II we'll known and highly
esteemed citizen of Harmony, Frederick
county, died of Bright's disease Sunday, aged
| 60 years. Mrs. Samuel Roger, of Sabillas-
vile, dropped dead few days ago while
conversing with neighbor.
The trestlework of the large bridge span
ming the Little Patuxent river, on the Wash
ington pike, near Laurel, in Howard county,
was swept away by the heavy ice on Monday.
The trestling had recently been completed at
considerable expense to the county.
The lowest temperature ever registered in
Baltimore was IL degrees below zero, in Jan
uary, 1874. On January 80, 1873, the mer-
curry stood at degrees below zero at Balti-
more, 20 degrees below at Mt. Washington,
and "A degrees below at the Relay House.
Judge Stump directed Sheriff Sullivan, of
Talbot county, to take all the old mating and
carpet off the court room floor before the
May term, and not put it back again, but
make such disposition of it as the county
commissioners directed. The Judge said
there were thousands of fleas in it.
Paul Krausz, arrested for burglary in Bal
timore about ten days age, was on Wednes-
/ day convicted and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for eight years. Krausz escaped from
the Raymond Street Jail, in Brooklyn, where
/ he was confined as witness in murder
case, and came to Baltimore. If he shall be
wanted on the second trial, which is said to
have been granted Grunewald, he will be
sent to Brooklyn as a convict in the hands of
Maryland officers.
Michael O'Leary, in the 14th year of his
age, was committed for trial in Baltimore on
February 8, on the charge ofstealing from his
employer and attempting to poison Miss Jo-
| sephine Nair employed in the same estab-
/ slichmapt A work namad ROwarS syVal-
!! lowed part of some muriatic acid which the
young scoundrel had placed in a glass at the
| drinking fountain for the young woman. For
tunately, Bowers drew water in the glass be-
fore drinking any of the poison, and the dilu
ton aided his recovery. 0'Leary confessed
his guilt.
VIM. Hollingsworth Whyte, eldest son of
/ Attorney General VIM. Pinkney Whyte, and
I a popular member of the bar of Baltimore
/ city, died at Eve o'clock Saturday afternoon
last, of pneumonia, in the fortieth year of his
age. Mr.. Whyte became i'll on Tuesday dur
ing the trial of Timothy w. Seward for viola
ton of the oleomargarine laws, in the United
States District Court, and was compelled to
leave court while the jury was out. He went
home at once, and symptoms of acute pneu-
monia developed rapidly, both lungs being
affected. In spite of all that medical skill
could accomplish the disease progressed, and
the sufferer passed away quietly in the
presence of his father and family.
The recount in Frederick county, ordered
by the Court, closed on Monday evening
with the following result:-John R. Mills,
Democrat, who is contesting the seat in the
House of Delegates of VIM. P. Morsell, Re-
publican, who was returned elected by the
judges of the election, by six majority, had a
majority of 35 votes over Mr.. Morsell and
Gideon Bu.sard, Democrat, had majority of
30 votes over Thomas Hightman, Republican
county commissioner, who was returned as
elected by So majority. For the House of
Delegates the other Democratic candidates
also gained as follows Grove 81, Rohrback
Is, stottlemyer is and Buckley 90. The Re
publican candidates lose: Nail l6, Markell
%, Birley % and Shafer II votes. For
county commissioners, Democrats, Lighter
gains 33, Cyler Is, Stouffer 10 and Houck "a.
The Republican candidates lose: Miller %,
Maxell %, Hines 81 and Ecker 81. On We'd
nesday, Judge Lynch, in the absence of Chief
Judge McSherry, briefly stated that in the
contested election case of Bussard VS.. Hight
man, the Judgment of the court was unani-
mously in favor of the respondent Hight
man. and it was ordered that the petition
asking that the commission of Hightman be
dismissed, and that the petitioner (Bussard)
pay all costs in the case except for the ex-
pense of the commission appointed by the
court to recount the ballots. The decision
sccasioned much surprise, as it was contrary
to general expectation. Republicans were of
course delighted with it, as it confirms the
title of the sitting commissioner, a Republi-
can, while the effect on Democrats was d.
rectly the opposite. One of the first results
of the decision is the abandonment of the
proposed sheriffalty contest by Mr.. P. NJ.
Griffith, of New Market, who was the Demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff, and was declared
defeated by 81 votes.
The loss by FIRE in the United States, during
the month of January, was SIC, 100000 over
the insurance.
The public debt statement shows rednc-
ton of $685., 1920 during January. Total
cash in the Treasury, $3.50, 1896, 1887.
web of natural gas, flowing at the rate Of
1000, 900 cubic feet per day, has been struck
at Francesvlle, Indiana, about 20 miles from