The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-05-30
Maryland Affairs.

Ex- Gov. Bowie is i'll with the gripRe.-
On Friday night of last week thg1.eiters-
burg Frederick county, creamery was burned.
During the past year Bishop Paret, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, confirmed 1900
persons.
Frederick County Agricultural Society has
been admitted to the Middle State Trotting
Circuit.
The Democratic nominating convention in
Cecil county, will be held on June 9th-the
primaries on June 9th.
On Monday a sale of lots was held at
Frederick, and 1874 were sold at prices ranging
from 500 to $3.50 each.
Soft crabs are unusually plentiful at Girls
field, and over 1000 persons find employment
in catching and shipping them.
Mrs. Kezia Hopper, relet of Thos. Hopper,
died at the residence of her son in Chesapeake
City, on Monday, in her 99th year.
Some fishermen near Baltimore on Sunday
caught swapping turtle over four feet in
length and weighing over 500 pounds.
Geo. Daughton, aged SO years, was killed
in a slate quarry in Hartford county, on Mon
day. A large block ofslate fell on him break
ing his neck.
On Saturday the Hartford county grand jury
indicted the Maryland Central Railroad for
maintaining three dangerous trestle bridges
on their railroad.
At Deerwood, Montgomery county, on Sat
urday night, burglars forced the safe of S. B.
Syddane & Co., and took from it over $500
and valuable papers.
Ex-Judge George W. Dobbn died at his
residence in Howard county on Thursday, in
his SD year. He was one of the most emf
nent jurists of the state.
The mother house of the All Saints Sisters
of the Poor in America, an Order of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, was consecrated
in Baltimore on Tuesday by Bishop Paret.
The Hartford Agricultural Society is ar
ranging for next falls exhibition, and the
various farmers clubs of the county are ac-
lively cooperating in efforts to make the fair
a success.
Col. Harrison Adreon died in Baltimore,
on Monday, IN his 51st year. He was APP
pointed postmaster by President Garfield,
was a lawyer by profession and prominent in
Republican politics.
A lively gale accompanied last Friday
nights storm in Frederick county and much
damaged resulted. In Howard county the
barn of Dorsey Rogers was blown down and
telegraph and telephone poles were damaged.
The Bellissima Sanitarium of Washington
county has been incorporated. The capital
stock is fixed at So, 900. The object is to
establish an institution for the treatment of
all kinds of diseases.
1t has been decided to hold the next en-
campment of the State Militia at Loreley
City. "A miles from Baltimore, on the Gun
powder river, on the Philadelphia branch of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
E. l.. Tunis 4 Co., lumber dealers of Bal
timore, have failed. The failure was caused
by their connection with Baltimore and Eas-
tern Shore Railroad, which was recently
placed in the hands Of a receiver.
The Port Deposit constables quarreled
lately about the division of reward for their
capture of stolen horse, when Constable
Foster shot Constable Purner in the shoulder
blade near the spinal column. Foster is in
Elkton jail.
BENJAMIN f. Croft on Tuesday purchased
the farm Of Benjamin |. Worthington, near
Dover, Baltimore county, containing lS2
acres, at public sale, for ST. $50; 491 acres of
the same estate was sold to Edward Worth
ingtou for $4,000.
Cardinal Gibbons was taken quite sick at
the parochial residence of St. Mary's Church,
Bryantown, Charles county, on Monday night
last. with malarial trouble. He ofiiciated at
St. Mary's Church, Bryantown, on Sunday
last aud confirmed over 200 candidates.
Recently, as Rev. j. Barclay Scarborough,
of Hartford county, was unyoking pair of
oxen BY amplight. one of the animals took
fright and horned Mr.. Scarborough, ripping
up the calf of his leg almost its entire length,
producing a very severe and painful injury.
The children of Mrs. Alice Dennis, who
were bitten in Hartford county by cat sup
posed to be mad, are improving, and DR..
Whiteford thinks it will not be necessary to
send them to the Pasteur institute, New York,
for treatment, as no serious results are now
apprehended.
Mrs. Henry Pryor, Or Waugh, killed her
husband near Sablasville, Frederick county,
on Sunday night, by shooting him through
the head. She was arrested on Tuesday, and
states she did it on account of jealousy. The
woman is supposed to be insane, and since
her confinement tried to butt her brains out
in her cell.
Lee p. Temple, SON of the late DIR. Thomas
p Temple, of Howard county, died on Mon
day morning, after lingering Illness from
complicated troubles. The young man was
/ in his twentieth year. His family has been
sadly afflicted. father, son and daughter just
grown to womanhoOd having been stricken
within year.
Dr. Chancellor, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, reports smallpox in Con-
nectcut, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri.
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
California, and says, that, although the law
in Maryland makes vaccination compulsory,
probably fifty per cent. of the children of this
State are unprotected by vaccination.
James f. Wagner, colored, aged 10, of
Ellicott City, fell from train near Evansville,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on Friday
morning of last week, and was killed. His
companions returned home, but did not tell
any of his relatives of the accident. His body
was buried as that of some one unknown near
the scene Of accident by the authorities.
George 7. Robertson, chief clerk at the
House of Correction, was instantly killed on
Tuesday morning at that station. He had
gotten the mail and was walking toward the
building, stepped from the track to avoid Il
passing train and was killed by one approach
ing from another direction. Mr.. Robertson
was 40 years old, and was native Of Wicom-
leo county.
Large quantities of rock fish have been
seen in the Chesapeake bay below Havre de
Grace. In one day Thomas Reynolds took
1890 pounds of fish, the largest weighing
about forty pounds. At Carpenters Point
Perry Barnes caught in his shad seine
quantity of rock fish estimated to weigh two
tons, the largest fish weighing thirty-ive or
forty pounds.
On Monday Howard Munnickhuysen, as
trustee of the estate of The late George Pres
bury, sold 1,150 acres of land in and near
Reisterstown, comprising the greater part of
the estate of Andrew Banks. Only one bid
was offered, and the property was sold for
$26, 700, subject to a mortgage of $50, 900, to
c. Ridgely Goodwin. Mr.. Goodwin repre-
scented syndicate who intend to develop the
property.
100 acres of land have been purchased in
Prince Georges county, near Laurel, on
which 462 Danes will settle. Through Peter
Ceder, of Copenhagen, and Mr.. V. Richards,