Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-16
In Washington County.

THE SOLE OCCUPANT OF THE HAGERsrowN JAIL
! REPRESENTATIVE MCoMAs AND HIS coNsTITU-
| ENTs-THE ADVANCE OF HAGERsTowN REAL
ESTATE.
Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
HAGERsTowN, March 15.-Charles Seibert is
the single occupant of the Washington county
Jail at the present time. and it is he who created
such sensation by bringing baby from WASH
ington i'll basket and depositing it on the
| doorsteps of the Orphans home in this place.
For this little irreGularity he now languishes
III prison. where he is to remain for five months
and pay a fine OF one hundred dollars and costs
| of prosecutions the novelty of which was that
/ Selbert was convicted of an assault upon the
babe as provided for in an old Maryland statute
which had been lost sight of, but which was I'M
earthed to meet his peculiar case.
Hon. L. +. McComas is at his home in this
( city with a view of obtaining much needed rest
and relief from hungry office-seekers, by whom
! he was overrun in Washington. In this, how
ever, he has miscalculated. for each mail
! brings him scores of letters. while the hotel
registers show that he is receiving calls from
the faithful of almost every hamlet within the
| bounds of his constituency.
! new national bank to be called the Second
/ National. Is about to be established in Hagers-
! town, with a capital stock of 100000. Prom-
nent citizens are connected with the enter
prise. which has every indication of starting
| out under the most favorable auspices
JuuSe SNester mas uenleu the motion Tor q
new trial III the case OF Samuel Carly VS.. The
Agricultural association, of Washington county,
III which the plaintiff was awarded -. 35S. 30 for
/ the killing of his at the fair grounds in
/ October last. by balloon-pole falling upon
him. The case will now 60 to the court of ap-
! peals.
| Mr. Thos. Seigman, of the firm of Seigman Il
| Co., real estate agents. died here to-day from
the effects of a paralytic stroke received a week
/ ago.
Hagerstown's municipal election takes place
Monday, March Is. at which time councilmen
will be elected from wards l. 3. and 5. The
contest promises to be unusually spirited from
the fact that the prohibitionists propose to take
part and are first in the field, with their nomi-
nations made up of well-known citizens.
An evidence of the rapid advance of Hagers-
town real estate is sale made to-day by
| Mr.. j. Il. Young to Geo. ID. Hoover of two
| story frame house. used as a restaurant and
| residence. for $500. which Mr.. Young pur-
| chased year ago for - 800
The case of James H. Elgin Vs. the Balti-
| more and Ohio railroad has been removed from
! this county to Allegheny county for trial 1t is
| an action brought by plaintiff for damages
caused to himself and daughter from the negli-
gence OF the company i'll not providing proper
guards where the road crosses the county road
! from Sandy Hook to Weverton. Ten thousand
dollars damages are claimed. b.
Important Gladstone Victory.
THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE ELECTED IN KENNING-
TON AFTER HARD BATTLE.
The election in the Remington division of
Lambeth yesterday resulted in a victory for
Mr.. Beaufoy the Gladstonian candidate, who
polled 4.O69 votes, against 3.439 for Mr. Hope,
the conservative nominee. At the last election
Mr.. Davis, the retiring member, received g. 222
votes and Mr.. Beaufoy 1892. The election was
hotly contested, both parties straining every
nerve to achieve success. The Standard refer
ring to the result of the Remington election
says: mo sensible unionst will pretend to
minimize the seriousness of this misfortune
All the explanations in the world will not de-
prive the figures of their unpleasant signifi-
! cance."
In government and political circles it was
generally conceded that the result would afford
| to the country absolutely certain proof of the
popular drift of opinion and indicate as nearly
as can be ascertained the effect which Pigott
and other recent tory exploits have had upon
the minds of the people. Mr.. Beaufoy. the
/ liberal candidate, who was also the Gladston-
ian candidate at the previous election, had a
slight advantage in the fact that he is a large
local employer of labor, but as the same con-
/ dtions prevailed on the occasion of his defeat
the revulsion of popular feeling rather than
any other consideration was relied upon to
carry him through.
| Queen Natalie will shortly make application
to have the divorce obtained from her by her
husband, ex-hlng Milan. through metropolitan
| TheOdosius, annulled. Emperor Francis Joseph
has requested Milan not to stop in Vienna on
his way to GratZ, where he is going to take
| hydropathic treatment
| Lord Salisbury. Lord Carnarvon and Sir
/ William Vernon Harcourt have been subpenaed
t by Sir Charles Russell to appear before the
| Parnell commission. None Of the Parnellite
/ counsel will participate in the attack in the
house of commons on Attorney-General
| Webster.
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