Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-20
From Washington County.

WHAT Is GOING ON IN HAGERsTowN AND VICINITY
AN INTERESTING NEWSPAPER sUIT-A NEW
WEEKLY JOURNAL TO BE sTARTED-PoLIrICs
! AND PERSONALS.
| Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR:
| HAGERsTowN, Nov. 10, 1883.
In the matter of the Injunction case between
George NJ. McCardell Vs. George l.. Albert
late publishers of the Williamsport Leader in
which the bill was filed September Z. the
opinion and decree of the court of this county
has just been filed. The case is one involving
some points of general interest. Previous to
the fling of the bill in September last the
| Leader was published by McCardell and Albert
| as partners. Difficulties having arisen between
| the partners touching the financial manage
! ment, &C., of the business. and the presses,
types, material, &C., belonging to the Defend
| ant, he excluded the plaintiff from all partici-
| patton in the conduct and management of the
! paper, or participation in its receipts The
plaintiff filed his bill asking for an Injunction
| and the appointment of receiver to make sale
and distribution of the firms assets. The court,
in its decision perpetuating the injunction and
| appointing Adam s. CARTS as receiver to make
| sale, observed that although it appeared from
the evidence in the case that the material of
the office was the property of the defendant
alone, yet the 'good will' was an essential part
of the firm assets, in which the plaintiff had
clear right to participate. A sale of the paper
together with the good will, material, &C., was
therefore ordered to be made in ten DAYS
1t is rumored that weekly newspaper will
shortly be started at Hancock, this county
This will give Washington county eight weekly
papers and two dailies, with several monthly
ublications-certainly sufficient to enlighten
an already intelligent people.
Invitations are out for the wedding of VIM.
Orndorf and Miss Mollie Downin. daughter of
Mr.. 5. 5. Downin, county surveyor and all of
| this place. The ceremony viii take place on
Wp1npadaV in Cat 10 oh
There is no change in the condition of COL
Fl. X. Douglas, the late democratic candidate
| for Congress, whose illness has heretofore been
reported. The arduous work of the campaign
| was more Than he could withstand.
The will of the late ex-Gov. VIM T. Hamil-
| ton has been admitted to probate. In it his
wife is namedas sole executor, without bonds.
He bequeaths to her his vast estates, with the
exception of a cash bequest of 81 900 to each of
his two sisters, and the sum of SIS. 900, which
is to be invested in home securities for their
benefit at their death the principal to revert
| to his wife,
Mr.. H. H. Miller, freight agent of the Cum
berland Valley railroad at this place, and for
has been succeeded by Mr.. r. T. Mickey, of
Chambersburg, Pa. The removal of Mr.. Miller
has caused considerable surprise, and petitions
are in circulation praying for his reinstate-
ment
Every town in this section of the state is
being painted red by jubilant republicans over
| their success at the recent election. On Friday
night the republicans of this town held mon
| ster demonstration, consisting of a torch-light
| parade and an illumination. The other dis
tricts of this county are to follow in regular
order, and during the next ten days the hills
and valleys of western Maryland will resound
with the shouts of the faithful. B.
FRANCE AND THE SLAVE TRADE-In the
French chamber of deputies to-day, NJ Goblet,
minister of foreign affairs, stated that France
had not engaged to cooperate with England
| and Germany in blockade of the coast of East
Africa. Both powers, he said, had requested
permission to search ships flying the French
flag which were suspected of being engaged in
the slave trade or in importing arms into
Africa. The government had replied that to
search for arms was natural result of an effec-
| tive blockade, but it could not recognize the
| right of England or Germany to search all ves-
sells under the French flag. Certain abuses
due to the slave trade might have arisen but
they did not have the gravity with which it
was sought to invest them. They were not to
be compared with those perpetrated in the in
terror or on the coast of North Africa.