The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-11
MARYLAND Affairs.

IS counterfeit bills are in circulation in
Frederick county ~ 81
Up to Tuesday night no rain has fallen in
Belair for 80 days
Ex.Gov Whyte. of Baltimore, was 20
, years old on Thursday.
Several deaths have occurred in Calvert
county, recently from typhoid fever.
Lucy Jane Madden, colored, aged 100
years, died in Baltimore on Sunday.
A mink killed over 100 chickens for VIM.
B. Owings, of Ellicott City, last week.
In Baltimore manufactured as well as
natural ice has been advanced in price.
Tomatoes and sweet corn are almost
failure on the Eastern Shore and in Della
ware.
Oliver F. Hack, well known lawyer of
Baltimore, died at Block Island, R. L., on
Tuesday.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Ellicott City Electric Light and Power
Company.
Many towns throughout the State are max.
ing efforts to have waterworks. owing to fire.
quent fires.
The Maryland Broom Company of Balti.
more county has been incorporated with a
capital of $4,000.
James A. Adams, aged 50 years, native
of St. Mary's county, died in Shepherdstown,
West Virginia, on Saturday.
On Sunday horse owned by Charles P.
Montague, of chichester, Howard county,
showed symptoms of rabies and was killed.
Samuel L. Bye, of Cecil county, was
thrown from his buggy, while driving through
Northeast on Tuesday and will die from the
injuries.
On Tuesday corn sold at the Baltimore
Corn and Flour Exchange at 81 cents more
a bushel than wheat, causing furry in the
market.
Robert Dawson, aged 9S years, died in
Passaic, New Jersey, on July 81. He was
native of Cecil county and lived there until
Two years ago.
Owing to the drought farmers in Long
Green Valley, Baltimore county, are cutting
off their corn and feeding it to the stock.
Packers will be short Of sweet corn.
Robert S. Emory, near Chesterstown,
sowed about an acre of oats last fall as an
experiment, and this spring cut the crop
harvesting about seventy five bushels.
While driving an artesian well on the
property of DR.. Roach, at Highfeld, Fred
erick county, a vein of almost pure copper
was found that is said to be equal to Lake
Superior ore.
VIM. Cornish, aged GO years, near Elkton,
last week, insulted Mabel Anderson, aged 4
years, crowd of neighbors took Cornish
from his home and inflicted a severe thrash.
ing upon him.
The Northern part of Hartford county has
suffered severely from drouth In Dublin
district corn will not be over half a crop and
tomatoes will only yield from rs to 100
bushels per acre.
Horace d. Baker, alias George P. Sage,
the man who played the religious racket to
swindle the Hartford National Bank and
several citizens by means Of forged checks,
has been arrested and placed in Beair Jail.
On Thursday night of last week at Ring
gold, Washington county, hail fell in such
quantities as TO beat the fruit and grapes from
the vines and trees, and sand was washed
upon the railroads as to prevent trains run.
ming.
Enos Jones, of Millington, Kent county, is
possibly the smallest man in the State. He
is 81 years old, feet inches high, measures
% inches around the chest, and weighs Sc
pounds. His mother has several other
children of average size.
Marcus Norman, a former workman for
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, has been ar
rested on the charge of stealing silverware,
&C., from the firm. On Saturday and Sun
day other arrests were made. 1t is said the
firm have lost over SIT 900 since the LIST of
January.
After serving FIVE years of an IS years
sentence, George Lorber has been released
from the penitentiary. Since his imprison-
ment it has transpired that he was entirely
innocent of the crime he was charged with,
and his pardon is the consequence. He was
charged with burning a barn in Hartford
county, and a woman witness has testified
that she swore falsely at the trial.
At Frostburg. Alegany county, on Thurs
day night Of last week, terrific thunder
and lightning storm, accompanied by a
heavy dashing rain. with a sprinkling of
hail, struck Frostburg and continued for an
hour. Whether the lightning or hail killed
them is not known, but the entire colony of
English sparrows was almost exterminated.
Two hundred and thirty-one of them were
found dead in one place.
A rich and full deposit of clay has been
found on the farm of William M. Singerly, of
Philadelphia, at Frenchtown, on the Elk
river, three miles below Elkton. The clay is
of gray variety. Daniel Golf, of Millville,
N. j., who has been prospecting for clay in
Cecil county, said that it far exceeded his
expectations. 1t burns white, and is used in
the manufacture of fine brick for interior
work 1t is intended to erect a plant on the
property and ship by water to New York.
On July 81 last, near 0wings's Mills,
Alfred Lowe, farmer of the neighborhood,
was baptized according to the ceremony of
the Baptist Church. pool was improvised
in the bed of Red run, branch of Gwynn's
falls, which runs through Mr.. loves farm.
On this farm Mr.. Lowe was born and has
lived the 80 years of his life. A number of
friends and neighbors witnessed the cere-
mony. Mr.. Lowe is the youngest of the
has never married.
Saturday night large barn on the farm of
G. A. 7. Snouffer, near Buckeystown,
Frederick county, was destroyed by fire,
together with its contents, including $50 tons
of hay, farming implements, 8 horses and rs
hogs. The FIRE is thought to have been of
incendiary origin. The barn had just short
time ago been completed, Mr.. Snouffer hav
ing lost his barn few months before by what
was also thought to have been a fire of in
cendiary origin. The total loss, it is thought.
will amount to $500, with an insurance Of
81, 700 on building and contents.
! |. Cochran Amman, of the mercantile firm
of |. S. Amman & Bro, of Emmitsburg, died
suddenly onTuesday morning Of heart trouble,
aged 81 years. He retired at night in his
usual health. but was awakened by an OPP
preston and severe pain across his chest.
His brother, DR.. Robert Amman, was sum-
moned and relief given. He was again at
tackled in the morning, and died before
medical aid could reach him. Mr.. Amman
was prominent in the Presbyterian church,
and was widely known. He leaves q wife
and one son.