The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-08-05
MARYLAND Affairs.

Wednesday by the caving IN OF sandbank-
During the storm on Monday three horses
were struck by lightning near Cambridge and
killed.
On Thursday fire destroyed over 100 tons
of hay on the farm of exGov. Carroll, in
Howard county.
Mrs. Mary E. Mullinix has purchased
farm in the fourth district of Howard county,
containing IFS acres, for 81 800
Frederick county farmers are feeding wheat
to their cattle, owing to the low prices. it
being cheaper than to bny bran.
Some boys in Frederick were smoking
corn sik cigarettes on Tuesday and started
fire causing loss of over $4,000.
Owing to the long continued drought the
corn, melon and whorteberry crops in Wi
comieo county will be short fully one-half.
great drought prevails in Somerset conn
ty, and vegetation is being killed. Water is
being hauled into Cris6eld. to prevent water
famine.
Cantaloupes, watermelons, peaches and
soft crabs are being shipped in large quanri-
ties from the Eastern Shore TO eastern and
western cities.
Burglars are operating in Cecil, Baltimore
and Frederick counties. Postoffees, stores
and poultry houses are the places most fire.
quently entered.
Parts of Washington county were deluged
on Monday afternoon. At Leitersburg much
fencing was washed away, and the STERN was
too violent to be beneficial.
John Weller, veteran thresherman, died
in Funkstown, Washington county, on Mon
day. He was the patentee of several improve
ments on threshing machines
Miss Abel, of Baltimore, has built and pre-
1 Il, of q Ia-arhfs
of the visitation. at Wilmington, Del, large
building which cost $l50,0a0
Charles F!ory has been awarded the free
scholarship in St. Johns College, and Gilbert
! H. Whiteford in the Agricultural College.
Both are from Resterstown.
A barrack containing 80 tons of hay and
about IS tons of straw, owned by DIR. George
johnson, near Frederick, was burned on
Saturday night by an incendiary.
\ A pigeon, over IA years old, owned by
Cation Davis. of Howard county, died on
| Wednesday. 1t lived with the cats and dogs
and was great favorite in the family aud
| neighborhood.
| Charles Isaac and Edward e. Miller, paint
ers, while at work on a building in Baltimore,
/ on Saturday, We're thrown to the ground, 60
! feet below, by the fall of Il scaffoid and in
stantly killed.
| Northern and Western people are buying
Eastern Shore real estate. Rev. Gilbert
oyer, of Kansas, has purchased 500 acres in
Dorchester county on which Il number of
Germans will settle.
Emory Nusz, of Frederick, jumped from
a train at the Point of Rocks, on Thursday,
and fell under the wheels. Both feet were
so badly injured that amputation was deemed
necessary. He died during the operation.
A heifer l24 months old, and owned by
Doe. Garges at Bladensburg, Prince Georges
county, recently gave birth to well and per
| fectly formed calf. Old farmers and stock
raisers say they have never known such a re-
markable case.
The charcoal furnace Of the Catoctin Noun
tain Iron Company, near Mechanicstown, has
again been put in blast and is now turning
out daily from ten TO fifteen tons of line
| quality of iron. The company have big
stock of ore ON hand.
Martin C. Blessing, Of the firm OF Rice X
| Blessing, while at work in the mills of the
firm at Buckeystown, Frederick county, We'd
nesday night, caught his coat sleeve in u
pulley, which drew his arm into the machinery,
| breaking il in two places.
Howard county Democrats on Tuesday
nominated the following ticket House of
| d. Wolfe. Register of Wills-Isaac Scaggs.
Sheriff-Gilbert E. Flower. County Com
missioner-Patrick l.. Smith. County Sur
veyor-Beal A. Wariield.
| An attempt was made to start another fire
in Hagerstown on Monday. but it was dis
covered in time to prevent any damage. The
| colored boy was arrested in the act and he
confessed that he and another colored boy
| had started the others. They are IL and Is
years old, respectively.
A destructive storm passed over Indian
| Springs district of Washington county Satur-
day evening and blew down several buildings
| and a number of wheat stacks. On the farm
/ of Mr.. David Hull. along Lane s run, the gale
/ blew down large wagon shed and corn
crib and felled to the earth lot of fruit trees
and ruined several peach orchards. -
Elmer Scott. residing near Fredericktown,
| Cecil county, finished threshing one stack of
wheat on Saturday afternoon, and prepared
1 to thresh the larger portion of the crop on
| Monday, but spark from the partially ex
4 tinguished fire ignited the remaining stacks,
and he lost nine tenths of his crop. The
engine and thresher were also destroyed.
Fleet r. Neighbour, principal of the Buck
4 Bond, daughter of Cornelius Bond, of Johns
nesday morning in the NJ. P. Church at
townsville, Rev. Mr.. Canen officiating. Pres
/ ton Willard, Of Buckeyestown, and Mr.. Devil
/ bliss, of townsville, were ushers, and the
church, which was prettily decorated, was
i crowded with friends and relatives of the
bride and groom.
| Mrs. Joshua Danner and her step son,
| Oliver, residing short distance north Of
/ Knoxville, Frederick county, were shot
| Saturday night about u O'Clock. Two young
men entered the yard and used abusive Ian
guage to Mr.. Danner Oliver Danner rushed
down stairs with revolver to brighten off the
4 men. In passing out the door the revolver
struck the door frame and discharged itself,
shooting Oliver through the hand and Mrs.
Banner in the hip and groin. The wound may
prove serious in Mrs. banners case.
The people of 0wings's Mills, Reisterstown
and Glyndon are agitating the project of exr
| tending the Traction Company's electric line
from Pikesville to Glyndon. meeting to
discuss the subject is to be held at the Fang
meyer Homestead, 0wings's Mills. The
principal object of the meeting is to discover
how mach money can be raised for building
the road. President Hambleton, of the Trac-
ton Company, has informed those interested
in the extension that ifthey procure the money
to construct the road and show him that the
extension is likely to pay profit he will fur
nish the CARS and operate the road. 1t is
claimed that on account of the large popula-
ton in the section of country through which
the proposed road is to pass, it can be made
to pay from the start. The people who live
along the route to be traYersed are anxious
for the road, and it is believed the money can
be raised.
TuE WORTn,S BATR