The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-08
Maryland Affairs.

800.
Taxes in Queen Anne's county are 90 on
the 500.
The Maryland district synod ofthe Lutheran
Church will meet in Hagerstown October 6-9.
The Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow
Point, began the making Of Bessemer steel,
on Saturday.
Owing TO the continued wet weather the
wheat crop of Howard county has deprecated
| fully % per cent.
Numerous arrests have been made in Queen
Anne's county, growing ont OF disorder at
the recent primary elections.
An effort is to be made to celebrate the
200th anniversary of the establishment of the
capital at Annapolis in October, 1894.
Snow Hill. Worcester county, has increased
nearly 200 in population since the last census,
and many new buildings are being erected.
Thomas Whistler, of Baltimore, caught at
Newport, Rhode Island, on Saturday, rock
fish that weighed 65 pounds. He sent 1t to
the Maryland Club.
A co operative abattoir will soon be built
at the Claremont stock yards, Baltimore, and
the indications are that il will be the largest
east of Chicago.
Miss A. NJ. ZolTckoifer, of Columbia, Tenn,
a daughter Of the late Gen. Felix Zollickoiier,
HAS DGtu appOinlcu lcICuGI VI Az IA tiiS
Frederic Female Seminary.
On Thursday John G. Wheeler, school
teacher, was shot and killed by John M. Rye,
at Nanjemoy, Charles county. The men
quarreled over trifling matter.
Rock Creek and vicinity, in Anne Arundel
county, was visited by destructive tornado
ON Sunday afternoon. Fruit trees, growing
crops and outhouses were blown down and
shipping was damaged.
Mrs. Bridget C. Mcguire, aged So years,
died in diminishing on July %. George w.
Bush, aged 93 years and 8 months, died in
Baltimore on August 3. He was the father
Of 81 children, Is of whom survive him.
VIII Nichols barn and stables, near Mich
OILS, Caroline county, were struck by lightning
Friday afternoon of last week, and totally
destroyed by fire, together with five horses,
all his wheat, corn and hay, reaper and
drill.
On Tuesday the farms of L. B. Emory, a
we'll known stockbreeder of Queen Anne S
county were sold. The land ranged in price
from S13 to $500 per acre. Some of it is
located in the best and most prosperous part
of the county.
Owing to the bad service and high rates it
looks as if the telephone will be run out of
Baltimore. Already the druggists and physi-
clans have stopped its use. The same cause
of complaint has extended to the counties and
in many places it has been abolished.
''Rosecroft," the beautiful and historic
estate on the st. Mary's river, in ST. Mary s
county, at one time owned and occupied by
Anthony Warder, collector ofthe proprietary
revenues of the port of st. Mary's, has been
sold by Alexander Porter Morse, on behalf
OF the Hardy heirs in Louisiana, to Alexander
Kennedy, OF Florida, who proposes to restore
the prestine glory and beauty of the colonial
estate.
George Groh died on Tuesday at the home
of his son, at Carroll, Baltimore county, aged
30 years. He was born in Bavaria in 1902,
and came to Baltimore ffty.seven years ago.
He served in the Bavarian army and partici-
pated in several European wars. Mr.. Groh
was the father of IL children, three daughters
and two sons surviving him. One son, John
Groh, is the father of % children, including
these he leaves thirty-fve grandchildren and
twenty-five great-grand- children.
Lightning performed a curious freak at the
residence Of Captain Collinson, Rhode River,
Anne Arundel county, recently. After pass
ing down the chimney, which was slightly
damaged, the lightning continued its course
through the house and ont ofthe kitchen door,
striking an earthenware jug and entering the
ground alongside the well in the yard. Cap
tain Colinsons family were considerably
frightened, but no one was hurt. Mrs Col
linson was baking bread at the time, and the
electric shock nearly turned over her cook
stove. The stove doors were blown open and
the half baked bread enpted on the floor.
The large bank barn on the farm of S. C.
Linton Cramer, one mile west of townsville,
Frederick county, was struck by lightning
Wednesday night and destroyed, with all its
contents. The farm is tenanted by Charles
G. Cramer, who, with several farm hands, was
at the barn when the bolt struck it. Alf
Keanny, one of the men, received shock
that nearly proved fatal. The barn contained
eight hundred bushels of wheat, fifty tons Of
hay tEd the seasons crop of oats, &c. The
stock was gotten out safely, but everything
else was destroyed. The loss is about So 200,
partially covered by insurance in the Ameri-
can, of Philadelphia.
The banks of this State at the close of bus
mess on July show a total under the head
of loans and discounts of 9,503, $3.50, with
total surplus fund of 81 $50, 480.12, and in
dividual deposits amounting to IS, 297, 456. 90.
r This shows a considerable increase Of bust
{ ness since the statement of July Is, 1890,
; when the same items were as follows: Loans
and discounts, s., $40, 39l.3l; surplus fund,
, 81, 157 ,G62 90, and individual deposits, 81,
S85, 5GO.51. The reserve held was %. IA per
cent of the deposits, indicating that the banks
, of Maryland are in a sound condition, but Is
per cent. being the reserve required by law
| to be maintained in these banks.
A letter from Dunkirk, Calvert county, says
r Mrs Griffin, who was fatally injured by the
cyclone of July Is, was buried on Thursday
last, and her brother, Mr.. John Moreland
who was there at the time and seriously hurt
: has since lost his mind and has been removed
10 a hospital for treatment. The track of the
1 cyclone is more distinct now than ever, being
marked by dead leaves and branches of trees
showing a gap or swath cut through fine tim
Der and wringing off large trees twenty feet
from the ground. At MIR. Griffn's house the
| destruction is most visible. Not a particle OF
: the timber which once composed the house il
S left on the spot, and the nearest piece is a sill
t lying twenty feet from its former position.
! During one of the recent thunder storms il
the vicinity of Lisbon, Howard county, the
; lightning played very remarkable freak a
the home Of DR.. Milton w. Warfeld. Il
struck a locust tree standing alongside al
; Usage orange hedge in front of DIR. WarGeld'!
residence, and from the tree the electric fuiC
was communicated to the wire which sup
ported the hedge and seems TO have beer
: diffused in undiminished force throughout the
entire length of the hedge, killing all of tn,
hedge plants, and tearing away parts of two
strong chestnut posts, which supported the
; wire at either end OF the line. The tree tina
first invited the current was splintered anC
! killed and the last of the plants are whitening
away, until now there is hardly single greer
sprig to be found in what was before the storm
!, one of the handsomest hedgerows in tina
whole community.
A Model Pennsylvania Farmer.