The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-09-02
MARYLAND Affairs.

Frederick knitting mills have closed for a
month. 1t is the largest industry in that city
BENJAMIN P. Norris, Of Gorsueh Mills.
Baltimore county. died on Saturd ay, aged 50
years.
Miss Annie. daughter of Saylor Boone, Of
i Araby, Frederick county, committed suicide
on Tuesday.
The rain Of Monday night was general
| throughout the State and vegetation much
benefited.
Texas fever has made its appearance in
Cecil county, and many cattle have died from
/ the disease.
George Reed, of Baltimore, on Friday
/ afternoon of last week, cut his wife throat
and then his own.
While coupling cars near Woodsboro, Fred
/ eriek county. on Wednesday, Anthony Jarvis
had his right arm crushed.
i Samuel and Edward Bridendolph, of
4 Washington county, have confessed to setting
! fire TO James McKee's barn on Saturday last.
FIRE bugs are still operatingin Hagerstown,
/ and much anxiety is manifested. Owners of
/ property and renters are becoming nervous.
Hagerstown is to be placed in sanitary
condition. Ali nnisances are to be removed
from the city by order of the mayor and coun-
ell.
| Thomas W. Eiason. aged II years, of
/ Chesertown, died on Wednesday. He was
/ one of the Oldest weathiest and best known
business men in Kent county.
/ Efforts will DE made in every county town
I on the Eastern Shore 10 have fire proof vaults
| erected for the preservation OF the county
records. la lower Maryland similar work
| is to be done.
I In Charles county land is selling ut ridicu-
/ lousy low prices. An estate OF $50 acres owned
! by the late Alfred u. Lloyd was purchased for
| S2700. The land is first class and has fair
buildings on it.
| DR.. VIM II. Clendinen, one Of the most
prominent physicians Of east Baltimore, died
+ ON August IS. Arabela, wife of I. Edward
! Hambleton, died at their summer home in
4 Lutherville, on the same day.
| Mrs. Stansfed, wife of Thomas Stansfield,
/ OF Howard county, died near West Friend
ship, on Saturday morning, aged 10 years.
/ She was the mother of fifteen children, all
but two of them surviving her
| The barn of Ignatius Fitzsimmons, near
! Buckeystown, Frederick county, was burned
on Tuesday morning about 3 O'Clock. In the
| barn were 1900 bushels Of wheat, all the
wagons, implements, &c; partly insured.
| Up to and including August u but little
rain had fallen in Middletown and vicinity,
| Frederick county. Vegetation is parched,
streams dried up, and the heat last week was
intense, the mercury ranging from 80 to l0tzs
in the shade.
While driving along the road with his
/ daughter, on Monday, NJ. p. Traver, we'll
/ known farmer Of New Market, Frederick
county, suddenly fell forward and died before
| the young lady could render any assistance.
| He was AS years old.
| Several farms have been recently sold in
! Kent county. The Horace Beck farm, 400
acres. brought $l7,390; the Frisby farm, Us
acres, $40, 700; the Lambson farm, 3l2 acres,
ST. 800; the Lecate farm, at private sale, 2l3
acres, for $500
AloBzo Vane, of Caroline county, who was
paralyzed some time ago, has not tasted food
for 81 days, his only stimulant being one-half
a gallon ofmilk per day. He is looking well.
! He is unable to move or speak. but has the
use of his right arm, and his mind is clear.
Mrs. Helen Mcleod Eeeleston, wife of
i Rev. j. Houston Eccleston, Of Emanuel p.
/ Il. Church. Baltimore, died at midnight on
1 Sunday. The deceased was 81 years old and
was the daughter of the late DIR. Joshua B.
| Whitridge, of Charleston, S. G.
Owing TO the drought the bees in the vicin-
ity of EIlicott City have taken almost com
/ plete possession Of the grocery stores. One
merchant swept out at least a quart of bees
every morning that died during the night.
| Peaches that were free-stone became clings,
as verified by Joshua B. Day.
The canning houses around Belair are in
| full blast. More carloads of tomatoes are
shipped over the Baltimore and Lehigh Rail-
road from Belair than from any other point
on the line. There have been so far % car
| loads started from Belair from IS packers.
/ ooi.1
E. D. Onion, one of the oldest and best
known coal and wood dealers in Baltimore,
made a deed of trust for the benefit of cred
titors on Monday, to Thomas Ireland Elliott,
who gave bond in $40, 000-$30, 600 in Balli-
knore and $4,000 in Hartford county, the lat
/ ter to cover real estate owned by Mr.. Onion
/ there. He had been in business for over 40
| years.
The number of pupils attending public
/ schools in Hartford county during the past
/ year was II ,959 Ofthis number II. 973 were
| white and :. 1856 colored. The average attend.
ance was 2,66S white and l, ST. colored. The
teachers were 100, of whom % were colored.
/ The county now owns II schoolhouses and
and rents Is making 102 in use. the expen-
ditures aggregate $50, 2s6.Ol.
Israel, aged u years, son of Frederick A.
1 T. Griffith died from lockjaw on Saturday,
near Ellicott City. The injury that brought
on the fatal attack was caused by nail in the
toe of one of his shoes and was so slight it
had troubled him only little while. The
| first symptoms of tetanns he felt while eating
supper Tuesday evening. The case rapidly
developed next day and he died in violent
4 commissions, which succeeded one another to
/ the end.
The wheat crop of Washington county is
4 considerably larger than that of last year and
of much finer quality. 1t was harvested and
threshed without a drop Of rain upon it, and
is as bright, hard and finty as wheat can be.
| The work of threshing is nearly completed
and the granaries and mills are filed The
| crop of 1898 in the county for sale will not be
/ less than Twelve hundred thousand bushels
besides the half million bushels required for
seed and bread by the citizen. There
is also small quantity of the crop of 1892
still on hand.
A large barn, residence and number of
| outbuldings, owned by Mr.. Thomas Pearre,
| an extensive farmer near Unionville, Fred
I erick county, were destroyed by fire Sunday
| afternoon. The contents of the barn, which
were also destroyed, included an entire wheat
crop, which was only threshed a few days ago,
a considerable quantity OF hay, farming inn
| plements, &C. Five horses and one mule
also persisted in the flames. LOSS $4,000;
| The FIRE was caused by children playing in
| the barn with matches. Insured in the
Montgomery County Company for $500
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