The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-23
MARYLAND Affairs.

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county.
Miss Elizabeth Berger died in Frederick OIL
Monday, aged rs years. Her sister, Ann
Berger, died last week.
There are about 265, 900 peach trees in OF
near what is known as the Blue Mountain
peach belt in Washington codnty.
Comptroller Baughman, after four years
service, retired from office on Tuesday, and
was succeeded by Marion DeKalb Smith.
James R. Loane, justice of the peace
Baltimore, died last Sunday morning from
the effects of carbolic acid, taken by mistake
Alex. Patton, fireman on the Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania railroad, fell from
his engine at Cumberland, on Saturday, and
had both legs cut off
South Carolina having declined to make an
exhibit at the Worlds fair, part of the space
has been allotted to Maryland. increasing her
space to 116 by 80 feet.
Miss Rebecca l.. Hughes died in Hagers.
town on Tuesday, aged about 80 years. She
belonged to we'll known family that settled
in Washington county in 1850.
Stemmer's Run Station, Philadelphia.
Wilmington Il Baltimore railroad. near
Baltimore, was robbed on Saturday night last
of about 5000 in money and stamps.
1t is reported that the heirs of the lac Mil
ton White, of Cecil county, recently found
gold and government bonds in an old trunk of
the deceased amounting to $1,000.
The pictures hung on the walls in the ex-
ecutive mansion by Governor and Mrs, Brown
are vast improvement to the rooms. The
Governor has taken four beautiful horses with
him to Annapolis.
Mr.. John Shanahau, prominent farmer of
Hartford county, died early Wednesday morn
ing at his residence, near Fallston Mr..
Shanahan was sixty-six years old. He leaves
wife and six children, all grown.
Jesse Gore, who died near Reisterstown,
Baltimore county, recently, left all his estate
to his son Philip. In his will he said a division
OF the property would lead to vexatious dis
putes, to avoid which he divsed it all to
Philip.
The failure of j. j. Nicholson & Son,
Baltimore, Is more disastrous than at first
anticipated. The assets are not over S225,-
600 while the liabilities are more than 81,
100000. Owing to the failure several other
firms have assigned.
The large brick tanne,y building of Thomas
Koogle, at Middletown, friedrich county,
occupied by the Catoctin Valley Creamery,
G. A. Gross, carriage smith, and by Thomas
Shorb, coachmaker, was burned on Tuesday.
The loss is over 81 900.
The Summit Grove Campmeeting Associa,
ton met in Baltimore on Tuesday, and elect
ed officers. The campmeeting for 1892 will
commence July % and continue - days.
The Evangelical Association will hold a camp
meeting after the Summit Grove closes.
The grip has become epidemic and hun,
dreds of persons are down with the disease
in Charles county. The mortality is much
greater among colored people than white, as
in large majority of cases among those OF
that race affected, pneumonia follows, with
fatal results.
George .. Stevens, dealer in builders sup
plies, Baltimore, made an assignment on
Monday for the benefit of creditors, as a
result of the suspension of j. J. Nicholson &
Sons, TO whom, il is said, he owes $50, 900.
His assets are estimated at S25.000 and
liabilities at $50, goo.
The school board of Dorchester county has
adopted Prof N. c. Brooks Scriptural
Manual. The manual contains two hymns and
prayer for each morning and evening of the
month, besides Scriptural reading exercises,
in the form of lessons, which are read in
concert by the scholars.
S. Martin Bayless has selected specimens
oil WINNIE corn STOWH VA HIS IdIll. Elcdi pitH-
Vile, Hartford county, for exhibition at the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Some of
the ears are 13 inches in length, filled out to
the very tip. and nine inches in circumference.
Mr.. BayleSs had IA! barrels to the acre.
The Prohibitouists ofFredrick have chosen
the following delegates to the state conven-
ton to be held in Baltimore on March s: +.
B. Sappington, j. H. kefauver, Dr. John d.
Nicodemus, VIM. c. Scott, VIM. H. Runkels,
d. S. Rice, II. C. Remsburg, j. n. thinner,
man, VIM T. Peters and DR.. D. L. Stone.
W. Hammond Stackhouse of the fourth
district of Howard county, died on January
IA, from the effects of the grip, followed by
pneumonia, at his residence near Poplar
Springs, in the seventy first year of his age.
Mr. Stackhouse was born in Lisbon, and
lived for a number years at the place where
he died.
Anna Hughes, of Havre de Grace, sued the
Philadelphia, Wilmington aud Baltimore Rail
road Company, in the Cecil county circuit
court, for injuries received. The case was
tried last spring and she obtained verdict
for S., 500. The court set the verdict aside,
as excessive, and granted new trial, unless
the plaintiff would accept $1,000 Mrs.
Hughes declined this. The case was tried
again this week, and verdict was rendered
for one cent.
Pickett Nelson, the colored giant of mu-
scum fame, died in Baltimore on Tuesday.
He was feet inch in height and weighed
378 pounds. The measurement around his
waist was 81 inches. When he stretched out
his arms the distance from the finger tips OF
his left hand to the right hand was eight feet.
His hands across the back were q inches.
His feet were II inches long and measured
tla hnttn,,, nf ha colas He
was native of Essex county, Virginia.
Richard ShlIeon, IL resident Of Cumber-
land, was drowned last Friday morning in
the Potomac river. For a number of years
he was the ianitor and Waterman Of the Vigi-
liant Fire Department and al rays slept in the
building. Last week he contracted the grip,
which rapidly developed into pneumonia
Friday morning, about o clock, he arose in a
state of delirium and left the house in mad
condition. He wandered to the river bank,
where he fell in and was drowned before aid
could reach him.
/ John Carson, once we'll known lawyer Of
Baltimore, was found dead in New \ ork city,
| on Friday of last week. His throat was cut.
/ He and his wife separated, and this, coupled
with some financial losses, made him rockies:
! and he took to drink. He was regarded as
| one of the brightest young men of the Balti
more bar His mysterious death lead to in
/ vestigation aud it was discovered that Henry
/ G. Dowd was his slayer, and he confessed
I when arrested, and also to killing and cutting
/ a number of other persons. Intoxicated men
were usually his victims, and he escaped de
4 lection for some time.
The will of Mrs Mary A. Dodge, who dieC
on January II, contains the following chart
table requests: To the trustees of Dodgt
Chapel, Mechanicstown, Nd, and the trustee.
/ of the Mechanicstown Church Of the United
Brethren, the proceeds of the sale ola ground
rent Of S120 in Baltimore $4,000 in trust
to Lebanon Valley College at. Apniyille, Pal
10 the Woman Foreign Missionary Society
of the NJ. P. Church at Pittsburg, $1,000; Il
the Old Peoples Home of the Pennsylvania
Annual Conference of the United Brethren
in Christ, the furniture in testatrix's house il
Mechaniestown, Nd.
George Pierson, nineteen years DID, at
tempted to hang himself in cell al the cen
trail police station, Baltimore, on Tuesday
night. He was arrested Monday evening
charged with stealing $1s7 belonging to the
Northern Central Building Association, which