The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-05-06
Maryland Affairs.

Frederick county children are suffering
from peculiar eye disease.
Workmen are being discharged from the
Mt. Clare shops, B. K o. R. R., Baltimore.
The Easton Star newspaper Office was sold
at public sale on Tuesday for $500, subject
to mortgage.
Great activity exists at the several granite
quarries in Howard county owing to the de.
mand for Belgian blocks for pairing purposes.
On Tuesday night the store and postofiice
at Principle Furnace, Cecil county, was
burned by an incendiary. Loss over $1,000.
Gov. Brown has fixed June 80 as the day
for the execution of Daniel Barber and VIM.
Pinkney, the murderers of Francis NJ. Bowie
of Prince Georges county.
The grand jury Of Allegany county has in
dicted the Mayor and City Council of Cum
berland for allowing slaughter houses and
other nuisances within the city limits.
Rev. George A. Leaken on May IS, will
have been ordained and in active service of
the Protestant Episcopal Church fifty years.
All his labor has been in the city of Balti-
more.
Joseph Queen, colored, was arrested for
an attempted assault upon Mrs. Louis Camp
bell, of Pikesville, Baltimore county, on
but the man was placed in Jail at Towson.
Mrs. Anna Christiana Doarnberger died in
Hagerstown on Monday, of general debility,
aged eighty years. She was a native Of
Hesse Darmstadt, and emigrated with her
husband and family to this country in 1854.
Robert Hodges, brother of x-Mayor
James Hodges, committed suicide at his room
at the Maryland Club, Baltimore, on Sunday,
by sending a bullet through his brain. His
suicide is attributed to grief from the death
Of his mother.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday night, Frank
Sorrel, colored, aged about % years, was shot
in the forehead and died in about fifteen min
utes. Abraham Davis, colored, was arrested
charged with having done the shooting.
He admitted to Coroner Geer that he did it.
Rev. James G. Kerr, u chaplain in the
Usiied States Army, substituted action for
SIS, 600 damages for an alleged libelous pub
LEGATION in the Baltimore Evening News in
reference to the attempted suicide of Lieut..
S. C1Robertson at the Mount Vernon Hotel.
On Tuesday ground for the Baltimore ex-
tension of the West Virginia Central Rail
road was broken near Ridgey's schoohouse,
in West Virginia, Just across the river from
Cumberland. The were no ceremonies, but
Mayor Hebb drove the first pick into the
ground and loosened the first wheelbarrOw
load of earth.
The fishing season is at its height at Havre
de Grace, on the Susquehanna river. Shad
are becoming quite plentiful. Herring are
sometimes caught in such quantities that the
seines can not be landed for the weight of
fish in them. Small seihes are used to haul
inside of the large ones until enough fish are
taken out to make it light enough to land.
Sheriff Calder of Hartford county, on Sun
day arrested John Dennison, ,Jr. and Lewis
Monk, both colored, charged with assault
with intent to kill John C. Dennison on the
night of April u, near Michaelsville, while
he was asleep. One of the accused is son
of the victim. Dennisen's son is eighteen
years old and Monk is twenty-three years cid.
Longnecker Bros. have sold 432 acres Of
land, portion of the Chew estate, near Tow
son, to a syndicate for $175 an acre, or to-
tai of 1000. The syndicate is composed
of j. f. Hayward, general manager OF the
City and Suburban Railway Company; j.
Mex. Merryman, Charles B. MCLEAN and
others. The property belonged to the late
Charles and Benjamin Chew.
Several weeks ago Uriah Devilbiss, q
prominent cattle dealer of Unionville, Fred
erick county, suddenly disappeared from
home, and few days afterwards note was
found in hotel in Pennsylvania, signed by
him, saying that he contemplated taking his
life. He had become involved in debt, anC
it proved on his mind Last week, however
word was received that he had gone to Chi
cage.
Governor Brown on Monday appointed
Judge John Mitchell Robinson Chief Justice
of the Maryland Court of Appeals, and A
Hunter Boyd, of Cumberland, to be Chic
Judge of the Circuit Court of the fourth judi
eial circuit and an Associate Justice of the
! Court of Appeals. These appointments were
made to fill vacancies caused by the resigna
ton Of Chief Judge Richard II. Alvey, who
was recently named as Chief Justice of the
new Supreme Court of the District of Col
umbia.
The Maryland Chassis of the Reformed
/ Church met on Thursday evening at Sharps
burg, and will continue in session until Tues
day next. The opening sermon was deliv
cred by Rev. Joel I. Rossiter, of Baltimore
| The Chassis elected delegate to the mex
meet ng of the Potomac Synod, which will
/ be held next autumn at Gettysburg, Pa. /
will hear reports from the churches and ap
| propriate money for church work. Eacl
congregation is represented by a lay delegate
| The Maryland Chassis is one of the oldest ant
I largest in the Reformed Church.
Gen. Joseph B. Seth, commander of tn,
| oyster navy of Maryland, suggests that the
boundary disputes between Maryland anC
Virginia, which have been pending for two
hundred years, in which time several unsuc
cessful attempts have been made, by join
commission and arbitration, to settle tn,
same, be now taken for adjustment to the
Supreme Court of the United States. Tn,
disputed boundaries relate to the Potomac
river and the Pocomoke river and sound
where the common right of fishing and oys
tering is in dispute between the citizens anC
authorities Of the neighboring States.
| Andrew Stanfeld, who lives upon the farm
of Truman Skinner near Gainesville, Balti
more county, was attacked on Sunday by {
colored man who had been in his employ
several weeks. The man left Mr.. Stanford
employ Saturday night and was paid for his
4 services. He claimed that Mr.. Stanford did
not pay him in full and assaulted his former
employer on the Frederick turnpike. Mr..
! Stanield was knocked down on apple Of stone
and was kicked and beaten. Seeing some
| one approaching the assailant ran away. He
was arrested by constable Maggie, but escaped
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