The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-07-15
MARYLAND Affairs.

John S. Poet has been arrested for forgery
in Hagerstown.
Cecil eounty's tax rate is 20 cents on the
100, which is u cents lower than last year.
Mrs. Harriet Vreder, aged % years, died at
Granite, Baltimore county, on the Sth inst.
The wheat crop of Frederick county is esti-
mated at from 100000 to 1000, 900 bushels
Elk Governor Carroll has hay crop of $50
acres on the Doughoregan farm in Howard
county.
AT the municipal election in Annapolis, on
Monday, the Democrats elected all the Off
GERS except one councilman.
Charles Ridgely Goodwin has purchased all
the land of Andrew Banks, l., 1856 acres, near
Re;sterstown, for $2G, 100, subject 10 mort
gage of $4,000.
Rev. DR.. John Leyburn, pastor emeritus Of
Associated Reformed Church. Baltimore,
died on Thursday night at Waynesboro' Va,
aged abont rs years.
Negroes in the lower portion of Cecil conn
ty are feasting on the sheep and lambs of the
farmers In one house the skins Of three
sheep were recently found.
A Gve-year-old child of Richard Null, of
Cecil county, while playing in a field, was
horned by COW. The horn entered one of
its eyes producing an ugly wound.
An explosion of ire-damp took place on
Tuesday in Mine No. l, of the West Virginia
Central Railroad, near Cumberland on Mon
day. Ninety men were at work in it at the
time and all escaped except two.
One of the finest farms in Kent county.
owned by the late Morris Barnard, contain
ing 443 acres, has been sold for $50 per acre.
1t was largely devoted TO the culture OF fruit
and trucking.
Napoleon Dorsey, of Columbia, Howard
county, has an eccentric turkey gobbler which
persisted in sitting on something, and so Mr..
Dorsey started him at work to hatch out a
nest of forty guinea eggs. The old gobbler
has got right down to business and very rarely
leaves his nest.
On Sunday night the barn on the farm of
Ezra Marker, near Church Hill, Frederick
county, was destroyed by fire, together with
farming Implements and lot of hay. The
origin of the FIRE is unknown. 1t was insured
in the Changers Company Of Middleton for
$3.50.
On Saturday 81 acre field of wheat on the
bellevue" farm OF Mrs. Clara Hamilton,
near Hagerstown, and tenanted by Mr.. Samuel
Johnston. was swept by flames. The wheat
was cut and in sheayes, and is a total loss
The FIRE originated from a spark from n Cum
berland Valley locomotive. The field was
fine one and yielded probably 30 bushels TO
the acre
George Gamble, colored, was electrocuted
at the corner of Greene and FaYeite streets,
Baltimore, on Sunday. At o'clock in the
morning he was alive and WELL A few min
| utes later his dead body was in the patrol
wagon. A broken wire, an electric current
and fatal grasp of the hand formed the
/ simnla death dealing mechanism.
Baltimore county Democrats on Monday
nominated the following ticket: For Regis
ter of Wills-Dr. H. J. Hebb. Sheriff
Charles II. Holmes. County Treasurer-G.
Albert Mays. County Surveyor Charles b.
| MCLEAN. House Of Delegates-James B.
Councilman, John C. Bosley, Frederick S.
Myerly, Osborne |. Yellott, Thomas G. Car
ter and George S. Kiefer.
Daniel Ridge, Western Maryland freight
\ conductor residing in Hagerstown, fell from
his train on Saturday evening on the Shippens-
| burg branch Of the road. The train was
moving at the rate of twenty miles an hour
| at the time and Ridge was climbing upon the
stirrups at the side. He sustained severe
Commissions of the shoulder and hip. His es-
cape from instant death is regarded as wonder
full.
Mrs. Ellen E. Dorsey, wife of Mr. Joshua
| W. Dorsey, one of the most prominent and
best known ladies Of Howard county, was
stieken with apoplexy at her home in Ellicott
City, on the It'll instant and died the day
following. Mrs. Dorsey was the eldest
daughter Of the late DIR. William w. Watkins,
who served three consecutive terms as clerk
of the Howard County Circuit Court, and also
represented that county in the Maryland SEN
ate.
The terrific storm of wind and rain Satur
day afternoon, scattering wheat shocks and
leveling the growing corn, was also very Sc
we're in the vicinity Of Broad Run, in Fred
erick county Trees were uprooted and in
some instances the growing corn was blown
as fat as if u roller had gone over it. Near
| Burkettsville q COW belonging to George Flock
was killed by lightning. During the three
heavy rain storms at Middletown a total Of
one and half inches of water fell.
Mrs. Margaret Flayhart, wife of Edward
Fiayhart, of Towson, Baltimore county, died
Sunday, after a lingering illness, in the I'D
year OF her age. Mrs. Flayhart was the eldest
daughter of the late Joseph Yost, who remov-
ed from York county, Pa, about 65 years
ago, to Towson. Mrs. Flayhart had lived
there ever since, and in March last passed the
fftieth anniversary Of her marriage. She
was the mother of thirteen children, Two OF
whom survives her.
A heavy thunder storm, accompanied with
violent wind and rain, passed over Emmitts
burg, on Saturday afternoon. Lightning
struck the barn of Mrs. Foler, few rods
| from town, destroying with it between twelve
and sixteen tons of hay, also killing horse
belonging to Isaac Bowers. Mr.. Seibold and
Mr.. Bowers, who were in the barn at the
| time, were completely Frustrated from the
shock A COW belonging to James Wantz
was struck and killed. Telegraph poles and
trees were also damaged by the lightning
At about the close of the terrific thunder
storm Saturday afternoon lightning struck
the dwelling of Henry Carroll, in Caroline
county, near Dover bridge. Five persons in
the house were all stunned, but none were
seriously hurt except Mrs. Henry Carroll,
who was sitting near a window, which the
| lightning shattered. She received shock
severe enough to badly burn the right side of
her body and to paralyze some of her limbs
! 1t was some hours before she was restored
! to consciousness. The house was shattered.
The lightning struck the chimney first.
During the severe thunder storm on Satur-
day evening large locust tree in the yard of
George N. RidgelY, near Alpha, in Howard
county, was struck by lightning and torn into
splinters. The bolt passed to the dwelling,
shivering portion of the roof. A metallic
clothes line, which extended from the aide of
the house to q post, distance of about fifty
feet, was completely melted, the bolt then
entering the ground, leaving an excavation
several feet deep and nearly two feet in diam
eter. The occupants of the dwelling were
badly shocked.
During the storm Saturday lightning struck
the house occupied and owned by Thomas
Queen, colored, near Ren6eld, Anne Arm
del county. The curren: came down the
chimney, which was crumbled to pieces.
Queen, who was in the house with his wife
and two daughters, was killed. A brick from
the chimney struck his wife, who was hurt,
but not seriously. The house caught FIRE and
was burned down. Three dogs that had
taken refuge under the house during the
storm persisted and a mule in a stable thirty
yards distant was found dead.
William. Getty, of Templeville, Qneen
Annefs conntv. ,tvnd ahonf 40 vAaras died an