The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-02-11
Maryland Affairs.

Hagerstown druggists have been hned Tor
selling segars on Sunday
Zion Evangelical church at Dorsey, Howard
county. was burned on Sunday.
One firm at Crisiield, Somerset county, has
sold 10000 terrapins this season.
Fully 1000 boats are taking oysters from
the waters of Crisfeld and vicinity.
David Spessard, of Cavetown, Washington
county, died on Sunday aged 92 years.
Gov. Brown has declined to take any action
in the matter of pardon Of Stevenson Archer.
A large number of offers have been killed
in Wicomico and Somerset counties this sea-
son.
The cost to Kent county growing out of the
trial and execution Of the Hill murderers Will
amount to $4,000.
Mrs. Rebecca Orem, of Howard county,
near Alpha on Tuesday in her 92d year. died
She was teh widow of Capt. John orem.
Joel Doub, of Boonsboro, Washington
county, died suddenly on Wednesday while
seated in chair reading his Bible. He was
Sc years old.
Talbot county has the oldest agricultural
society in this country 1t was organized in
1908 and has been in continuous operation
ever since.
Thirty-fiv freight cars loaded with mer-
chandise were wrecked and burned on the
B. and o., near Cumberland, on Monday
and several trainmen lost their lives.
A large chicken house of Daniel Sweadner,
near Liberty, Frederick couaty, was burned
on Monday, together with a number of chick
ems. With great difficulty the adjacent build
ings were saved.
George Hawkins, is in the Kent county
iai on a curious charge. He is said TO have
stolen one rooster three times from a chicken
house at Rock Hail. and sold it each time TO
the rightful owner.
Thousands of bushels of white and sweet
potatoes have been frozen during the last two
weeks. AS the ice embargo is lifted Nova
Scotia. Scotland and Germany will ship I'M
mense cargoes to this country.
Major Richard Randolph, chief engineer of
the Belt Railroad Company, in Baltimore,
and also acting chief engineer Of the Balti-
more, and Ohio Railroad, died suddenly on
Thursday, aged GA years. He was bachelor
An electric railroad from Elkton to Easton
is talked Of Engineers say it could be built
and equipped for about $4,000 The
Eastern Shore has, by the long continued
! freeze, lost more than the interest on that
sum for one year.
/ Many acres of pine land bordering the
4 Conococheague creek, in Washington county,
which afforded roosting places for thousands
of crows, is said to be literally covered with
dead birds that froze and starved to death
during the extremely cold weather.
The bulletin on statistics of the Protestant
Episcopal Church issued by the census office
1 shows that Maryland has 147 organizations,
2O4 church edifces, seating 6O,742 people.
\ with 28,273 COMMITMENTS or members. the
church property being valued at 81, 1913, l54.
Reports are received from the vicinity of
( Fairlee aud Colchester, Kent county, that the
buzzards and crows are working such destruc-
! ton to Young lambs that farmers dare not
turn their sheep into the fields. Both buz-
yards and crows are ravenous. In many IN
stances crows are so poor as TO be unable to
! fly when approached.
VIM. NJ johnson, of Millington, Kent coun-
ty, has brood of FIVE summer or blue wing
ducks, a well known species of wild ducks.
The eggs were found last summer and Matched
out. The young ducks were raised in pen
in the yard. During the cold weather they
have been kept in the house. They are very
healthy and flourishing. They are fed on corn
and wheat.
Numbers of wild geese continue to feed in
the wheat fields of Kent county. Geese were
reported as far inland as ten miles several
because of the impossibility to secure
supply of coal, the residents have been forced
to use wood At Grey's Inn wood has been
hauled across the creek on the ice in sleighs
drawn by horses.
I Large numbers Of fine pike fish have been
caught through the ice during the freeze.
Deep water fishing at Rock Hall, Kent coun-
ty, which last year realized to the fishermen
1 thousands of dollars, this winter has been
completely shut off by the ice. Three boys
last year realized over $3.50 in one day from
this comparatively new method of taking fihs
in nets, irrespective of the depth of the water.
4 The building of an electric railway FROM
! Frederick to Middetown, and thence to
/ Boonsboro and Hagerstown, meets with
much favor among the people living in the
1 Frederick and Middletown valleys. 1t is be-
/ lieved that large stock subscription can be
/ obtained for the furtherance of the enterprise.
/ Nearly the entire trade of the Middletown
/ Valley is now dependent upon wagon trans,
1 portation to Frederick and other railroad
points.
A most singular accident happened TO Mr..
Smith, young man tom Philadelphia, visit
/ ing friends in Crumpton, Queen Anne's coun-
/ ty, several days ago. He attended church
/ with young lady, and upon approaching the
I church door discovered that he was on fire.
! A spark from his cigar had fallen in his bosom
! and set fire to his clothing. Assistance was
promptly rendered, but he was painfully
| burned about the breast and neck before the
! fire was put out.
Z William B. Breckenridge, the florist and
I horticultural, died suddenly on Friday after
noon of last week at Bellona avenue, Govans-
town, Baltimore county. He was stricken
with .apoplexy and did not regain conscious
! ness. Mr.. Breckenridge was born near Ayr.
/ Scotland, in 1910, and had lived at Govans-
town nearly forty years. He leaves three
\ daughters, Miss Belle Breckenridge, Mrs.
| Frank Bell and Mrs. Frank Renwck, of
Baltimore. His reputation was known
throughout the world, he having filed several
| important positions in this country and in
Europe.
1 The fire which occurred near Glen Morris,
/ Baltimore county, on the Hanover turnpike.
/ early Saturday morning, destroyed the dwell
I ing Of Uriah Cox. Nearly everything in the
/ house was burned. Mr.. Cox saved his watch
and some money. Mr.. Cox had set his alarm
| clock in order to be awakened at a. M, in
tending to make an early start for Baltimore.
( When he awoke he found the house in flames
and quickly aroused the other members of
4 his family. The neighbors saved the barn
and contents from being destroyed. The
loss is about 81, 500. Mr.. Cox has insurance
4 for 81 500 on the house and $500 on the fur
niture.
The will Of Mrs. Harriet L. Brown, widow
of the late General George S. Brown, was
probated in the Orphans Court of Baltimore
last week and letters testamentary were grant
ed to Mr.. Alexander Brown, named as execu
tor in the will, who bonded in $4,000, a
nominal amount only. as the estate Is valued
at over million. The will is ofdate Novem
Der %, 1892, and its execution was witnessed
by Messrs. Arthur George Brown, William
p Hayward and Mary A. Hubbard. Mrs.
Brown bequeaths $50, 000-to the home Mis-
sonary Board of the Northern Presbyterian
Church, $4,000 TO the Foreign Missionary
Board of the same, 5000 to the Young
Women's Christian Association of Baltimore,
| IS, 900 to the Woman's Industrial Exchange,
and 50 900 to the Cooperative Workers of
Baltimore, who have established vacation
lodge. Besides these there are large num-
her of beouests TO relatives friends and SER