The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-11-04
Maryland Affairs.

| The new Reformed Church on The Man
orr Frederick county, was dedicated sun
day
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad exhibit
at the Worlds Fair is to be presented to
! Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas W. Halter, of Freder..
lick, celebrated the ffty-ifth anniversary OF
their wedding on Tuesday.
DR.. Eli J. Henkle, former well-known
physician and ex.member of Congress, died
in Baltimore on Wednesday.
Hon. Herman Stump, ex.member of Com
gress from the Second district, is sick with
pleurisy at his home in Belair.
Mrs Annie M. Schultheiss, of Baltimore,
fell from second story window on Wcdnes-
day night and crushed her skull.
James Waugh's barn and contents at BY.
attsvile, Prince Georges county, was burned
and the house damaged; loss $4,000.
VIM. J. Murray, aged 80 years, died in
Baltimore on Monday. He was a native OF
Ireland, but had resided in Baltimore since
1910.
The iron bridge over the Potomac river
was formerly opened with imposing cere-
monies at Brunswick, Frederick county, on
Saturday
The voters of Cecil county number 6,S40,
Of which $500 are white and 94I calored.
This total is about 100 less than that Of the
last registration.
Kent is becoming stock feeding county
Over S125, 900 worth of lambs, sheep, hogs,
calves and cattle having been shipped from
the county this year.
The insurance companies have materially
raised the schedule of risks in Hagerstown;;
In some instances the rates have been raised
as much as go per cent.
Thomas Thrasher died near Frederick on
Monday. He recently celebrated his Oath
birthday Samuel L. Hynes, aged 81 years,
died at Brunswick, on Sunday.
Henry P. s. Stone, Baltimore, has applied
for divorce from his wife. One OF the
reasons in the bill of complaint sis his wife
compelled him to mind the children"
The ducking season opened on the Susque-
hanna river on Wednesday, and 5000 ducks
were slaughtered by pot hunters. At this
rate the sport will soon be broken up and
the ducks will find other feeding grounds.
John Brown, colored, aged over 100 years,
died near Ellicott City, on Tuesday. de was
very popular, highly esteemed, was raised IN
the Boyce family, and his funeral was largely
attended by the ladies and gentlemen OF the
neighborhood.
Rev. Thaddeus Anwander, of Highland
town, Baltimore county, was found dead IN
his bed on Wednesday morning by his ser
want. He was a native ofAugsburg, Bavaria,
had been priest for over 81 years, and had
resided in this diocese over so years.
Harry Grove, Breathedsville, Washington
county, has been arrested for causing the
death of Jacob Miller, a farmer, by hitting
him with a stone. Young Grove was tres
passing upon the farm and was ordered off.
A quarrel ensued with the above result.
Colonel William McKenney and his wife
alighted from an electric car at Waverly ON
Friday evening of last week and started to
walk to the home of Mrs. McKenney's father,
Col Charles Taylor. Col McKenney fell
into deep gutter and hurt himself. Shortly
afterward Mrs. Mckinney fell into gutter
and broke her leg. She was taken to her
fathers home.
The Salisbury Advertiser says: Jas. Elzey
from acres gathered l 300 bushels OF sweet
POTATOES. Six acres produced l, 725 bushels.
He sold to W. j. Windsor 500 bushels Of the
small ones for canning. Mr.. Elzey's son,
W. l.. Elzey, of the Eastern Shore OF Nir-
ginia, grew $500 barrels this season. The
crop of white potatoes was not so large rs
formerly, but several fine yields are report ed
The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Bond, widow of
the late Basil Duke Bond, who died on the
Z3IH GltlUO, aSeu seventy years. bOOh PleNO
at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Port
Republic, Thursday following. Mrs. Bonds
maiden name was Eliza Taylor, once dis
tinguished family in Calvert county, but now
extinct. Mrs. Bond was 4 lady Of pure
Christian character and possessed many ac-
complishments.
At Leicester near Bowie Station, Prince
Georges county, the corner stone of the
Catholic Church of the Ascension was laid
on Sunday afternoon. The new church will
in part take the place of White Marsh
Church, one of the oldest Catholic houses of
worship in the state. White Marsh Church
is about seven miles from the new edifice.
Rev. VIM. r. Cowardin, assisted by Rev.
Fabian S. Noel, of Oregon, who was assist
ant master of ceremonies, put the corner
stone in position. Rev. f. y. Brady deiv-
cred the address.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. VIM. Birely, ofFrederick,
celebrated the 50th anniversary of their mar
riage on Sunday last. 1t is a singular fact
that this couple have lived under the same
roof for fifty years, and that all the children
and grandchildren were born there also and
all rocked in the same cradle, and have all
/ lived together at the same place until the
present time. When Henry Clay was the
Wing candidate for the presidency QS44)
there was a mass-meeting and parade in Fred
erlck. III L0aJ DuTduC Was d hOdt bCdAiuS d
cradle and it was decided that the first Wing
boy born after the mass meeting should re-
ceive the cradle as a present. On the evening
of that day Mr.. and Mrs. Birely became the
! parents of their first born son. who became
the possessor of the cradle. That cradle has
rocked all the infants born in that house
since.
The dedication of the Eliza F. Smith Dor
mitory, the gift of Rev. Dexter Smith and
wife, Springfield, Mass, to Princess Anne
Academy, the eastern branch of Maryland
Agricultural College, took place last week.
The building is three and a half stories high
and will accommodate fifty girls to lodging,
besides beautiful study-room, bathroom,
sewingroom, &c. The exercises consisted
of music by the school, prayer by Rev. Wal
| teri. Moore, Princess Anne; address of well
come by Prof B. o. Bird, principal of the
academy; response by Rev. A. r. Shockley,
of Salisbury. The progress of this institu-
ton has been marked and substantial from
the day it was founded, in the fall of 1886.
To the original site, which contained sixteen
acres of land, improved by an old brick man
sion and few small buildings, have been
added a farm containing more than one hun
dred acres of land. One of the greatest
needs of the academy flor colored youths is
building sufficiently large to properly ac-
db lcdob bAddCo nv"
The course of study is thorough and practical.
The girls are trained in cooking, laundrying,
dressmaking and the general proprieties of
housekeeping, while the young men are
taught practical farming and gardening, car
pentry, blacksmithing, shoemaking, tailoring
and bricklaying
Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago,
was shot and killed, on Saturday night, by
Eugene Patrick Prendergast, who is sup
posed to be insane. Prendergast had schemes