The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-28


was lynched last week.
Owing to the low price of fruit last year
and the poor prospects this year many farmers
of Caroline county have taken up their peach
trees and planted the largest acreage OF corn
ever known in the county.
The Principle Furnace Property, including
$500 acres of land in Cecil county, with i'm
provements near Baltimore and New Castle,
Delaware, was sold at auction on Tuesday to
the Whitaker Company for 100000.
The prohibition camp-meeting at Glyndon,
on the Western Maryland Railroad, will
commence July LIST and will continue one
month Ex-Governor St. John, OF Kansas,
is to deliver an address at the camp July J.
An effort is being made at Frederick to or
ganize company to purchase and reopen the
the shoe factory that recently went into the
hands of Il receiver and was sold to bank for
81, 100 The building and plant is said TO
nave cost over ST., 900.
Mrs. Polly Green, of Wolfsville, Frederick
county, was 10 years old Friday, May IL.
She was Miss Pofienberger, and came to
this country from Germany in 1910, and was
married to Mr.. Douglas Green in 1872. She
has a son living who is over so years old.
Webster Snyder, residing three miles north
west of Sharpsburg, recently found forty in
genously wrought arrow points and one stone
spear six inches in length IL his field. These
were the implements of the Delaware tribe OF
Indians. who, it is said, occupied this tract of
country.
A large harm belonging to T. Edward Swarla,
near Fountain Green, Hartford county,
was totally destroyed by fire late Tuesday al
ternoon The barn is supposed to have been
set on fire by some children who were play
ing in the building shortly before the flames
were discovered.
An organized body of negro thieves has
been discovered in Worcester county. Lewis
Davis, the leader, was arrested, tried and
convicted, and afterwards made a full con-
fession. As soon as he was arrested mum
her of cqlored men left the county, but their
whereabouts are known.
John W. Avirett, editor of the Cumberland
Daily News, and Joseph G. Robinson, editor
of the Homecoming Star, were sentenced on
Tuesday to pay fine each Of 500 and be
imprisoned ninety days each in the Allegany
county Jail for libel. Appeals were taken and
the parties gave $500 bail.
Engineers are engaged in surveying the
twelve miles circle between Maryland. Della
ware and Pennsylvania in order TO determine
which State is entitled to the Three Cor
nefS, OF lFlauSuldT piece vi i1uu, OOhttlihihS
some six hundred acres, so long in dispute
but long controlled by Delaware.
Harriet J. Smith, colored, was convicted
Of manslaughter, at Easton, Talbot county,
on the both instant. On December 26, last,
she and her brother quarreled and she placed
rough on rats in his tea, but her father dranK
the greater portion of it and died from the eff
fects of the paison. The brother was only
slightly sick from the quantity he used.
The Potomac Bridge Works of Frederick
have been sold to the Frank Ward Creamery
Company of Washington, d. c., and will be
converted into creamery ON large scale.
The bridge works were established several
years ago by H. G. Welty, of Baltimore, and
failed about year ago. The creamery com
pany gets all the property except machinery.
Charles j. Baker, of Baltimore, has pre-
scented the American Bible Society with a
curious manuscript containing the whole q
the Scriptures in Latin. 1t is supposed that
the manuscript was written in the fourteenth
century. Il is written on Vellum and the script
is so small the letters cannot be distinguished
without the aid of powerful magnifying
glass,
4 tremendous storm of rain and hail passed
over Annapolis about six o clock Thursday
evening. At its elimination lightning struck
the house occupied by Lieutenant j. o. Mich
olson in the Naval Academy. The shaft en-.
tered the chimney, split it in two, tore up the
roofing, and burnt up a picture hanging on
the wall. No one was hurt. The electric
storm semed to center in the AaYal Academy,
and broke up telephone communication in
the yard,
A man went into the office Of City Collector
Hopkins Thursday and handed Deputy Col
lectnr Barnes an envelope containing 1920 10
in United States notes. He did not say whom
the money came from, but simply remarked
that he wished it credited for friend to the
conscience fund. of the total, So, 7G6 Sc was
designated as city taxes. Major Barnes knew
the man who presented the money, but did
press the question as to whence it came.
Co lionel Charles Marshall, of Baltimore,
who during the civil war was on the staff of
General Rohert 4. Lee, will deliYeF the ora
ton at Grants tomb on Decoration Day.
The Confederate Camp Of New York has been
invited by the U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R.,
to march with it to Grants tomb on Decora.
ton Day. The Blue and the Gray will thus
join to do honor to the memory of the great
commander.
Several Maryland journals are noting the
fact that Maryland farmers do not Faise stock
sufficient for their own use, thai thousands or
dollars are annually paid TO the people OF
other States for horses, mules, sheep, cattle
and hogs. This continual drain upon the ex.
chequer of Marylanders ought not to be. The
home demand for domestic animals might
be supplied, with profit, if our farmers would
tuFn their attention more generally to the
raising OF STOCK.
The Maryland Society of Sons of the Amer.
loan Revolution, General Bradley Tyler
johnson, President, has accepted the invita-.
ton of the Washington Society in social re-
union at Annapolis on Monday next. The
society will met in the Senate chamber where
Washington resigned his commission. This
assemblage will be comprised of many nota
BILE men pf distinguished ancestry. Interest
ing addresses Will be delivered by Gen. Brad,
ley johnson, Gen. A. W. Greedy, of Arctic
exploration fame; Ex-Governor John Lee
Carroll, Admiral Jouett, Lieutenant Ernest
Wilkinson, commander of the Dickens, and
Alexander Porter Morse. A complimentary
lunch will be served on board the United
States steamer Constellation, and hop will
take place in the gymnasium.
The question whether an unmarried woman's
will is rendered void by her subsequent mar
rage was argued in the Orphans Court Balti
more, on Tuesday. 1t has never been deci
| ded 10 Maryland, and was raised by the pro
ceedings instituted by Louis Z, Roape I'd set
aside the will of his wife, which was offered
for probate several days ago by Mrs Elizabeth
Hollingshead, her stepmother. Eighteen
months before her marriage Mrs Roane, be-
ing then Miss Holingshead, executed will
leaving the bulk of her estate to her step
mother. She died last week without having
executed any other will. 1t is commended BY
Mr.. RQsne that his marriage to Miss Holdings.
head revoked her will, and that she, tkere
fore, died intestate, he being entitled to letters
of administration. If the will is held to be
revoked by the marriage Mr.. Roane will have
life interest in his wife's real estate and will
| tske her personal property absolutely. II the
will is sustained al MFs. Roaqes estate viii
pass to the persons named in the will, and her
husband will get nothing The estate is est.
mated to be worth $4,000.