The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-04-11
Maryland Affairs.

Mrs. IhoS u Morris, near SALISBURY was
taken with fit on Tuesday, fell into an open
fireplace and was burned to DEATH
During the past year over 300 residences
and business places have been erected IN
| Highlandtown and Canton, Baltimore county.
u. s. District Attorney Ensor has recon-
mended that the sentence of the Navassa
rioters be commutedto Imprisonment for life.
There are ten sub alliances in Allegany
county, and there was big Farmers Alliance
meeting in Cumberland on Friday of last
week.
On Thursday the North German Lloyd
steamship Munchen landed 1886 immigrants
in Baltimore Five children died and six
were born On the passage.
Governor Jackson has appointed Luther
| Warrenfeltz justice Of the peace of the sixth
district of Frederick county, vice II. Clay
Hayes, failed to qualify.
On Friday of last week Daniel Wilmer, of
| Beaver Greek, Washington county, celebrated
| his 90th birthday. His wife is IS, and they
have been married G5 years.
| d. H. Gorsuch, of Washington, D. c., says
the eight hundred miles ofroad in Baltimore
county can be built for 1884 per mile, and he
would like to bid on the contract.
A new glass company has been organized
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$40, 900, and they will rebuild ON the site of
the glass factory recently burned down.
The East German Conference of the Meth
odst Episcopal Church, in session in Balt-
more, voted Al TO ! against admitting women
as delegates to the General Conference.
Work has begun ON the Potomac Valley
Railroad from Williamsport to Cherry Run,
the link that Is 20 connect the Western Mary
| land with the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad.
/ So many cellars in Frederick City were
| flooded by the late rains and rise in the
streams that it has been necessary to put the
steam fire engines to work pumping them out
| Jacob Tome is tearing down large frame
| house in Port Deposit in order to clear the
ground for one of the buildings OF the new
industrial school which he proposes TO found
and endow there.
| By vote of 10 to 10 the Maryland Confer
ence of the Methodist Protestant Church de
| cided on Monday that it did not want TO be
divided, and refused even to have the matter
referred to a special committee with instruc-
tions to report next year.
Joshua Rhalt, of Burkittsville, Frederick
county, has sold his farm, so acres, to Ezra
Harine, for $50 per acre, and 80 acres to Ell
| der David Ausherman for SS@.33I per acre.
| Elder Ausherman sold his farm to $. T..
| RemSDurg tOf 9luu per acre
In Baltimore, last Saturday, Lizzie Uhl
threw the contents of large bottle of vitrlol
into the face of George Zaiser. The whole
right side of his head was badly burned, and
the sight of the right eye probably destroyed.
She alleges that he had betrayed her.
| The people of diminishing district, Fred
| erick county, are organizing league TO Sc
cure tax reforms. The league, AS its purpose
is understood, will seek to make mortgages,
CORPORATIONS, trusts, syndicates, combines and
individuals pay an equal and proper share OF
taxes.
The grand jury of Baltimore county ad
| iourned on Friday of last week, having been
in session twenty four days, in which time
they found forty four indictments and dis
missed thirty, four cases. They state that thel
| find no cause for action on the complaints
preferred by the Neighborhood Improvement
Association against the county commissioners
A 81 wear old daughter of Hanson Brown,
colored, was burned to death on Monday near
Frederick city. She had been left in the
house with younger child, her mother being
dead and her father at work at a lime kiln
near by. The father, on going home, found
the elder child burned to crisp from playins
with the fire and the younger child crying
bitterly over the remains.
Charles J. Hull and Richard w. Hull
brothers and rowing musicians, who wert
tramping along the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road on their way from New York to st
Louis, were struck by AN express train neal
Smarden's Station, Monday morning and
thrown against Il rocky embankment. Rich
ard Hull, aged SO years, was killed, and
Charles Hull, aged As years, had six ribs and
leg broken.
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began on Monday, with forty eight cases on
the docket. Included among these are the
cases growing out of the defacation of State
Treasurer Stevenson Archer which in thei
regular order will be reached about the sec
ond week in the term, being Nos. %, % ant
80 on the docket. There are three cases, bu
two appear as cross-appeals, and these vii
be argued together.
The trustees of Johns Hopkins University
have received gift Of $500 from a lady il
New England, for the establishment Of E;
prize, which, in honor of Chief Justice Mar
shall, is to bear his name. The prize consist.
of n bronze replica Of q beautiful original
likeness of the great Chief Justice, together
with copy of his decisions, and 1t is to be
awarded annually for the best essay in histor
ca or political science that may be presented
by graduate student Of the University.
Peach growers in Caroline county have ex
perienced their first scare from very heavy
frost Monday night. Messrs. j. w. Kerr
Thomas A. Smith and other good authorities
say the peach buds on trees under live year.
old are seriously damaged. On the olde
trees there are plenty of live buds. A packe
in Denton has offered an advance of % cent:
per basket over his offer heretofore. In
Washington county the growers say that som'
varieties have been considerably damaged BY
the late cold.
Gov. jackson has appointed Col. Ii. Ky
Douglas to the vacancy ON the bench of tn
Fourth Judicial Circuit, occasioned by tn
death of Judge A. X. Syester. No bette
appointment could have been made, as Col
Douglas stands high as an able lawyer. Thu
vacancy will be filled by an election next fall
and as the counties composing the district
Washington, Allegany and Garrett-have
Republican majority, a Republican will mos
likely be elected.
O. j. Eaton has been arrested in Sharps
burg, Washington county, upon warran
sworn out by John w. Boyer, charging hin
with perjury and miscegenation. He wa
held on each charge and in default Of S60
bail was sent to jail to await u hearing OF
Saturday. Eaton some time ago married
Boyer's daughter. Boyer charges that he il
a negro within the limits prescribed by law
and that he committed perjury when he pro
cured the marriage license in not giving hi
age and the age of the girl correctly.
The different committees that have charg
of the preparations for the annual meeting
the German Baptists or Thinkers at Hager
town next June are getting ready to beg
operations On Monday they expect to con
mence the construction of the large tabern
Gle in which the services are to be held al
for which most of the lumber has already a
rived. Quite number of large buildings wi
have to be put up before the meeting, and fl
this reason the committee finds itself obligt
,, to begin work early. Information comir
from different parts of the United States il
dictate that the meeting this year will be I;
unusually large one.
! The Cambridge Chronicle says that Cap
= Thomas C. B. Howard, of the oyster nav
who lately made cruise of inspection ov
the Chesapeake, found healthy and vigorol
Young growth in many places, holding out