The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-21
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA.

Mr.. A. b. Mecker, president of the
Winthrop Mining Company, has taken
several options to prospect for gold
near Potomac, Montgomery County,
Md.-Professo w. II. Smith of Cen
trcville, Md, has in his possession
violin which is 1913 years old The
imprint engraved on the card inside the
instrument is rs follows; "Gaspard
Dufso Pruggav Bouonienfo, Ammo
1916" The instrument has been in the
Elliott family for over one hundred
years. Lizzie johnson, colored girl
thirteen years of age, mysteriously dis
appeared from Frederick last week.
When last seen she was talking to
band of gipsies and after they moved
off the girl was missed. Her mother
offered a reward for her return and
Constable Waters Is searching for the
girl. Rev. Theodore Meade, who
has had charge of the Catholic
churches in Williamsport, Clear Spring
and Bloomsboro', in Washington
County, has been transferred to the
Hancock charge; ;--Michael Kutter OF
Baltimore, brakeman on the Western
Maryland Railroad was struck by
piece of iron twenty feet long at Union
Dl1uBt ytSlciuuy Ills mp WIS DluNCu
and his head badly cut--A collision
on the p, w. and B. r. II. at Charles.
town, Cecil County, Md, yesterday
morning caused considerable damage
and delay to trains The Austrian
naval school ship Saida is expected at
the Naval Academy. .--Robert Kohn
of Manchester Carroll County, yester-
day was fatally burned. Five Demo
cratic councilmen and one Republican
have been elected at Cumberland. -
The second trial of Thomas Hyams of
Baltimore for killing Joshua Evans,
was begun at Westminster yesterday.
More, than six hundred col.
ored converts were baptized in
Richmond yesterday afternoon. -
Yesterday afternoon mixed train on
the York River Road ran into wash
out near Romancokc. The engine,
tender and one box car jumped the
track. k.-The eight sub-branches of the
Virginia State Formers Alliance, com
posed of several hundred of the best
farmers of Rockbridge County, have
perfected county organization, with
Thomas A. Sherrett as president
Thirty-three acres of land near Hun
tersville, Norfolk County, have just
been sold for $4,000. 1t will be laid
out in town lots. s.--Severa wealthy
citizens of Roanoke, Va, have just
| purchased thirty-three acres of suburban
property for $4,000, and will begin at
once the erection of cottage houses,
which can be sold at reasonable
prices. Work on the new Virginia
Midland iron bridge at Lynchburg is
progressing at avery rapid ca
special grand jury of the city of Staun-
ton, Va, has been summoned TO investi-
gate into certain crimes alleged to have
been committed at the Western Lunatic
Asylum. The Virginia State Bar
Association will hold its first annual
meeting at the White Sulphur Springs
on July "a and 25. Judge Robertson
will deliver the Presidents address. -
The suit for damages of Mr.. Green, the
blind lawyer, against the Richmond
and Danvillc Railroad for $40, ,00Q is set
for hearing in Richmond next Satur-
day. Mr.. Green was seated in pas
senger car which was standing on the
track at Culpeper, when freight
train ran into his train and caused him
TO be thrown out of his scat, resulting
in serious injuries.