The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-01-20
Maryland Affairs.

Mosquitoes and honey bees are busy in
Howard county.
Parts of Anne Arundel county are afflicted
with hog cholera.
On March Annapolis will celebrate its
20Oth anniversary.
Robert Fife. aged "a years, of Hartford
county, died suddenly on Sunday.
Hancock, Washington county. is to have
national bank with capital Of $4,000.
Thieves are carrying away chickens. wheat
clover seed, ETC., in Frederick county.
Negro footpads are holding up persons on
the public roads of Montgomery county
Kent county truckers report that tomatoes
for canning average from $50 to So per acre
Charles Ernest. a h.sher, in Elkton. is un
der arrest for attempting to burn the Howard
House.
Mrs John I. Rutter, of CentreviIe took
arsenic in mistake for quinine, and her death
resulted.
Fire bugs are at work in Cecil Prince
Georges, Montgomery. Frederick and Wash.
ington counties.
Edgar knode. of Washington county, has
been arrested for sending obscene letters
through the mail.
John George Gill is very i'll at his home
near Dover, Baltimore county. with heart
trouble and dropsy.
Mrs. Margaret Deaplaine. aged 81. and
Mrs. Margaret r. Measell, aged 81 died in
Frederick this week.
hay barrack and contents, on the farm of
DR.. Bernard b. Brown, near Ellicolt City.
were burned on Tuesday night.
Four or five new canning factories will he
opened in Talbot comfy this year. Contracts
for corn at $40 per ton and tomatoes NJ ST
have been made.
Fire caused a loss of over $4,000 to the
knitting works connected with the Colnred
House of Reformation. III Priuce Georges
county, on Saturday.
John l.. ketchmer, baggage master of
the Northern Central Railroad. was instantly
killed ON Saturday while crossing the tracks
at the depot in Baltimore.
Two colored children. who had been left
alone by their parents on Saturday night. al
Milington, Kent county. were burned to
death by the upsetting of lamp.
Henry Eyler, of Funkstown Washington
county. stuffed without break sausage
casing which measured SIS feet and . inches
in length. 1t weighed aG pounds.
Burglars robbed the meaihouse of Samuel
Lowman, near Hagersto@n on Monday night
and then set fire to the huiding Fire was
communicated to the dwelling and other
buildings.
Six sailors were drowned in Baltimore, on
Friday night of last week while going from the
city TO their vessel. The boat in which they
were in was overloaded and the men were M
toxcated.
English sparrows have become such IA NUS
ance in Kent county, that they are being ex
ed hut he Mt
night attract the birds and broad paddles are
used in killing them.
A petition is being circulated and is
receiving many signers asking the Legislature
to pass a stay law for the State, or for Talbot
county if the whole State does not want it.
The petition alleges that the foreclosure Of
mortgages and execution of Judgments these
hard times will ruin the people of the county.
and begs TO have them stayed for II couple
of years.
l.. H. Small, q lour aud feed merchant of
Baltimore, had - foot crushed and leg injured
at Relay Station. on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad on Monday. He jumped from a
train before it had stopped, and was thrown
under the wheels. fortunately his wife caught
him and prevented him from being dragged
under the wheels. Amputation Of leg was
| performed.
! The amounts of book fees paid in the pub
lie schools of Baltimore county the past three
| years were as follows: In 1891. SIS, 095. &c
! 1892, Sl3, 116.6S, and 1898, Sl3, 623. 80. IL
is stated by Secretary Rogers. of the school
/ board, under the provisions of the Smith free
school book bill Baltimore county would get
about 81 900 less than the county would be
called upon to pay.
| Henry r. Mercer, time keeper at the Mt.
Clare shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
/ road, died Sunday of the grip. He was "a
/ years old He had been employed at Mt.
| Glare 80 years. He formerly lived in Howard
4 county. but had been resident of Baltimore
40 years. His wife died two years ago and
/ he leaves no children. Three brothers and
| three sisters survive him.
/ Ralph Thayer was buried on Monday DE
was SO years of age and was 0akland's Oldest
I resident. He was born in Massachusetts aud
/ travelled to Western Maryland on wagons.
/ He was reared on the Spiher farm, , miles
/ from that place. He was a member of the
1 House of Delegates in 1910 and was believed
to be the last member OF the House of that
years. He left two daughters and four sons.
! Recent land sales in Baltimore county are
reported as follows: Joshua Cain and wife
sold to John F. NJ. FranIz is acres and l.
perches of land near Warren Factory, in the
Sth district, for 81, 800. August Eowner and
wife sold to Louis Becker two lots on the
Reisterstown turnpike for S967.S5. John
Bevard and wife sold to Thomas j. Wells,
Iii acres on the Frankinville road for 1878.
A large barn on the farm of Atwood Blunt
near Granite, in Baltimore county, was de
stroyed by fire at noon on Monday. together
with its contents of grain, hay and farming
! implements, altogether valued at 81 900. The
| loss is partly insured. The goods destroyed
| included 400 bushels of wheat, 800 bushels Of
rye. 40 tons OF hay, u new dayton wagon, q
| spring wagon and q large quantity OF rye
| straw.
In Frederick the Jury in the celebrated
Hoffman Secrist road case on Friday OF last
week awarded the road to the petitioners and
assessed the damages at 81, 500. This case
has been before every term of court for ovel
ten years and only once before had it reached
Il jury. That time the jurors disagreed
Eight lawyers were employed, and the ex
penses have been heavy TO the county and tho
litigants.
The case of Allen Z. Burrier versus the
County Commissioners for Frederick county
a suit to recover 500 damage for traction
engine damaged on a county bridge, was de
cided by the court of that county in favor o
the Commissioners, and will be likely to es
taOllsh an important preceutht. ~ uenhe'
explicitly the limit of the Commissioners re
sponsibility. The practical part of the deci
sion is, that the county is not bound to pro
vide bridges adapted to extraordinary and un
usual modes of travel or excessive weight, anC
persons SO using bridges do so at their Owl
peril.
Annie E. Sullivan, former slave of th'
CAROLS of Howard county, died in New
York on the 9th instant, aged 100 years. He
Youngest son is 65 years old, and lives Will
the o. Dell family near New York. Annie wa
the daughter of Phillip Pickering, who Tough
with Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox, il
the Revolution. She was born slave in thu
Carroll family in 1885, and in later days Offer
recalled visits made with her master aud mis-
tress to General Washington at Mount Yer
non, By the dying request of her mistres
she was given her freedom, and removed I,
Wash;noton where she entered the service a