The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-05-16
Maryland Affairs.

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The Baltimore Orphan Asylum celebrated
its 92d anniversary on Thursday 4
Rev. Osborne Ingle was rector OF All SAINTS
p. f. Church, Frederick, on May IL.
At Chestertown, on Monday, a sturgeon
was caught that weighed POS pounds
A vein of coal has been discovered on the
farm of VIM. A. Hall, near Frederick.
Henry Blackiston. aged 10 years, and the
Oldest merchant in Caroline county, died on
Tuesday.
Lewis Krogman, glass blower, of Baltl
more, committed suicide on Tuesday night
by taking arsenic.
The tax rate of Howard county has been
reduced to 10 cents on the 500. being SIX
cents less than last year.
During a thunder gust on Monday evening
last. lightning killed five horses owned by
Malvin Jones near Elkton.
Another fire broke out on Wednesday in
Catoctin Mountain, near Hamburg, Frederick
county, and is still burning.
Mrs. Eleanor Hitchcock, aged 10 years,
fell from a three story window, in Baltimore,
on Tuesday, and died from her injuries.
An effort is being made to build railroad
from Emmitsburg to Gettysburg, Pa, and
meetings advocating the project are being
held.
Henry Walters barn, on the Belair road, m
Baltimore county, was burned Sunday night,
together with two horses and some imple-
ments; no insurance.
Barn, outbuildings and crops on the farm
of Isaac Guessford, in Kent county, were
burned on Monday. The buildings were fired |
by sparks from a burning forest.
Frost has killed the early strawberry crop
of Worcester county, entailing loss Of thous.,
ands of dollars upon the growers. Peas and
potatoes are blighted, and the drought is in
jurng the farm crops.
Col. L. Allison Wilmer has been elected to
succeed Col. Douglas as colonel OF the First
Maryland Regiment. He is States attorney
of Charles county, and has had much expe-
rience as military man.
Over fifty barrels of lilac blossoms were
shipped from Kent county to New York last
week. The crop of this year has not been so
profitable as that of last year, when the bios
SONS sold for S. per barrel of l25 punches.
A roller -four mill is being built in Chester
town, Kent county, and in tearing down the
old Whaland mill, which was built in l717,
an earthen bottle was found below its tounda-
ton, and it is supposed to be over 200 years
old.
Forest fires threatened the town of Oak
! land on Monday, and the citizens turned out
J and prevented its destruction by hard work.
) Charles Shafer lost 5000 fence rails on Sun
r day, and Nathan Casteel 1000 rails, and with
difficulty saved his buildings.
Among the graduates Of the Annapolis
7 Naval Academy, next month, will be haga
4 Kazu Nire, young Japanese, who was edu-
3, Gated at Annapolis at the expense of his Gov
eminent. He stands 80 in a class of over 40,
and knew very little English when admitted.
The drought has injured the wheat in Kent
/ county on light lands, but has not damaged
the fruit or interfered with the corn planting.
: In Cecil and Hartford, large hay producing
y counties, the prolonged dry weather has ma
st terially injured the grass which had such q
fine start during the wet weather OF early
u spring.
:, The brig Edith, Captain Stewart, with /
h cargo of 3579 bags of sugar, was run into an'
II sunk by the schooner Henry S. Little, Will,
. anchored off the Baltimore quarantine, oil
Friday of last week No lives were lost
! Louis Wilson, on the schooner, had both leg
;, crushed by the anchor falling on him. Tn
. Edith was valued at $25, 900 and her cargo a
$4,000
A. Asbury Green, colored, was convicted a
, Centreville of felOniOus assault on Mrs
IN Tolson, near Stevensville, Kent Island, las
n; February, and was sentenced to q years i
n the penitentiary. Between l and o'cloc
h: on Tuesday morning he was taken from tn
$, Jail and hanged to a tree near by and the bod
n, riddled with bullets.
Frederick Rause, German shoemaker, G
years of age, was tried in the Criminal Cour
Baltimore, on Thursday, for the murder Q
al John Sephon. Sephon was stabbed IN tn
J., abdomen on January IL last, and died on tn
LIST 18th The jury rendered a verdict OF maj
slaughter, and Rause was sent to the pen
y, Tertiary for eight years.
ct William Cartes, of Smithville, Kent count
died at his home, Wednesday afternoon, age
N, II years. He was bitten by a calf about
n week ago, but paid no attention to the inlur
re- He washed asparagus the next day and soc
OK afterward blood poisoning ensued, with fat
results. He was good agriculturist and
'el trustee of Union M. E. Church.
Ill Mrs. Caroline Young, who was SO years
- age last November, died on Sunday at Il
Tu Hebrew Hospital. She had resided at Il
W. hospital for eleven years. Until week az
-, she was able to go about and until the ho
~ of her death her mental faculties were clea
III She was a native of Germany, but had r
&c sided in Baltimore for over 60 years.
1st Judge Reuben NJ. Dorsey has been o
pointed Chief Judge of the Orphans Cou
of of Howard county in place of Anthony
tn Johnson, deceased, and John McShane b
been appointed to fill the vacancy caused
the death of Mr.. johnson. Judge Johns
left an estate valued at $150,OOO, which
me equally divided among his six children.
A petition has been prepared for signatu
ore by citizens of Montgomery county resid
it. along the Metropolitan branch OF the Bal
red more and Ohio Railroad, addressed to I
Governor of Maryland, praying for immedia
,ok action to compel the management oil the bi
1t timore and Ohio Railroad to lay an addition
fo
yon Gaithersburg to the main stem. To give
md additional weight it is proposed that co..
mittee of fifty citizens shall present this pc
and ton in person.
nee Haqerstown seems to be booming. /
bicycle factory has an order for Sc, 900 worth
hikes. to be finished by the first of June; I
. cracker and cake factory has all the orders
can handle, at present; the broom factory
to double its capacity; large number
n. buildings are going up and brekmakers
ltial pushed to fill orders; the German bapl
h nad yearly meeting will be held there, CONNER
mpt ing May %, and is expected to be the larg
set oa1berine ever held in this State; all
End End Industries of the city seem to have taken
rim fresh start.
rect, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Graceham, Fred
onr lex county. was taken seriously i'll while at
! on dinner table on Monday and died Tuest
wa, was morning. She was about forty years of ;
aim.
the and leaves HUSBAND anu tnIee chliut'
the Mrs. Smith was n daughter of Mr.. Geo
hall IWtt c pooI,y R;dge and a neiohhor
going to the latter place to inform the re
NJ. lives of her death, found her father dead
. bed. This was O'Clock in the morni
Mr.. Wachter had retired the previous nj
- in apparently good health. He was seven
eight years Of age, and leaves widow I
linz ,;ng eight children.
,aak Judge Joshua f. Cockey, an old and W
o;ng known resident of Baltimore county, died
Sunday night at Cockeysvile. The Ju
the became very i'll suddenly on Saturday at
rday home, at Gockeysvllle, anu sanh id :,
III September. He was Judge of the Orpha
al. Cont of Baltimore county for about TIVE
au -. - ,,os for ahont four wears a con