Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-03
MARLBORO' MATTERS,
The Right to Search Titles-Changes In
the Schools.
OF THE EVENING STAR,

Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR
UPPER MARLBORO. Nd, July 2.
At the last meeting of the county school board
held here committee-Mes5rs. Danl Man
ming, p. s. Scraggs, L. Middleton and NJ. L.
Wallis-petitioned for the erection of a new
school house at Branchyille. The board held
the matter under advisement till next meeting.
petition was also presented favoring a night
school at Laurel, and the board suggested pc
tltion to the county commissioners asking the
necessary appropriation therefor. VIM. F.
Brown, Alex. Baines, and Charles Burgess were
appointed trustees for the coored school at
Groom. Orders were passed directing the re-
building of the school houses in Surratts and
Nottingham districts recently destroyed by fire
and that correction be made in the appoint
ment of the trustees of the lIyattsville school,
affirming the appointment of John I. Hickey,
for whose name that Of Il. o. Evans was substi-
tuted by error.
CASES IN COURT.
Judge Brooke heard arguments here on
Wednesday in the case of Irene Lowe against
l.. L. Callahan, the point at issue being the
title to a farm in Piscataway district, Messrs
Vim. Stanley aud WOODBURY. Wheeler repre-
senting Lowe and Judge Chew and Geo. c.
Merrick representing Callahan. Case held
sub. curla Mr. Lewis Ford of the firm of Duckett
d Ford, Washington. was appointed commits
slOner of chancery vice L. L. Smith, resigned.
The case of the Prince Georges County
Abstract Company against John w. Belt clerk
OF the circuit court OF Prince Georges, was up
for trial today, Judge Brooke on the bench,
Messrs. Stanley and Beall appearing for the
company and Magruder and Wilson for Belt.
The case Is an interesting one, and will adj udi-
cate question never before raised in the state,
namely, the right of the public to use the
record books of the county without charge.
The abstract company was organized q few
months ago. and when its employees were set to
work examining titles MIR. Belt refused to allow
them the use OF the record books without the
payment Of a fee for each examination, where
upon the company got out an injunction re-
straining him from interfering with their
work Yesterday the motion to dissolve the
injunction was heard and the case held sub.
curia.
The sad death OF the wife of young Dr. Ryon
at Bowie last night is universally regretted
throughout the county and has thrown an I'M
usual gloom over the neighborhood in which
she resided during the short period Of her mar
ried life.
Ex-Gov. Bowie is still critically ill at his
home in this county.
On Wednesday Sheriff Beall and Constable
Suit arrested Henson West colored, for the
larceny of a suit of Clothes and Justice Moore
sent him to the house of correction for six
months
Mr., Vim. Stanley and family of this place are
off for a trip to Capon Springs.
At the recent commencement of st. Johns
College, Annapolis, Charles Marbury of Prince
Georges received the degree of bachelor of
arts.
The Prince Georges Rifles, Capt. Chew and
the Calvert Light Infantry, Capt. Banting, have
been transferred by order of Adjutant Gener al
Howard to the third battalion, Maryland Ne
ton al Guard F.