The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-18
Maryland Affairs.

and II, 115 colored.
Fig and ounce trees in Somerset county
indicate an enormous yield.
In the vicinity of GAINESVILLE, Howard coun.
ty, scarlet fever is prevailing.
Miss Sarah Hockensmith, aged 80 years,
died in Emmtsburg, on the 10Th instant.
A new disease has broken ont among the
horses in the upper part of Cecil county.
On Saturday 40, 400 bushels of wheat were
shipped from Baltimore in one steamer to
Europe.
Washington county farmers are feeding
wheat to hogs instead of selling it at present
prices.
Elias f. Lambert, aged 81 years, fell dead
on Wednesday, in Hagerstown. He had been
suffering from quinsy.
Eastford Hall, at Oxford, Talbot county,
was burned on Thursday. The boarders lost
nearly all their baggage.
On Wednesday 1000 barrels of sweet pota-
toes were received in Baltimore from the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia.
Gov Brown has decided to release the
Coxeyites who were recently sent to the House
of Correction provided they leave the State.
A hailstorm began at La Plata, Charles
county, on Monday, and extended to Holly
Wood, in ST. Mary's county, causing a loss of
over $4,000.
severe storm passed over La Plata,
Charles county on Monday, which was ac-
companied by hail. W. H. Wenk lost his
corn and tobacco.
States attorney Duncan, of Baltimore
county, has warned all slot and card machine
keepers that they are gambling devices and
must be closed.
At Hancock, Washington county, on Mon
day, VIM. p. Gordons barn and contents
were burned. No insurance, it having ex-
pired few days previous.
The dwelling on the farm Reuben Dorsey,
of Howard county, was burned on Tuesday;
insured for $500. Mr.. Vernay, the tenant,
lost all his furniture.
Arrangements have been made in Baltimore
for the organization ofthe Philadelphia Steam
ship Company, which is to run direct line
of steamers between Philadelphia and Jack
sonvilIe, Florida.
During the recent smallpox scare at Spar
rows Point DIR. j. S. Woodward vaccinated
862 persons. He presented bill of $43l for
services to the County Commissioners, who
refused to pay for vaccination of other than
INDECENT persons.
John Henry Schilling and Miss Ruth Anna
Sears, both of Urbana, Frederick county, have
procured marriage license and were welded
this week. The groom is gay widower OF
SO and Miss Sears has lived life of single
blessedness for "a years.
Robert 7. C. Crouch died Sunday morning
at his residence, near Elkton, of consump-
ton, in the 37th year of his age. He was
superintendent OF the Elkton Stock Farm,
William NJ. Singerly, proprietor, and was
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country.
General Coxey visited the camp Of his IN
dustrial army near Hyattsville, on Wednes-
day. After heated talk with the five men
who escaped being sent to the House of Cor
rection with their comrades, he shipped elght
horses back to his home at Massilon, OHIO,
and left the army to its fate.
From eleven damsom trees in the orchard
of John A. Denton, at Ellicott City, there
have been gathered 234 bushels of sound fruit,
an average of over two bushels TO u tree. The
trees are of the Shropshire variety, and are
nine years old. In view of the age of the
trees, the yield is considered somewhat re-
markable.
Mrs. Mary Winchester, widow of Jacob
Winchester and daughter of the late Horatio
and Ann Weems Ridout, died Saturday morn
ing at the family residence, Severn Heights
North Severn, Anne Arundel county, in. her
8lst year. Mrs Winchester was the oldest
of eleven children and was the mother OF
fourteen, seven of whom are now living.
On Friday afternoon of last week, Jacob
Larius, of Fawn township, recorder of deeds
of York county, Pa. while trying TO cross the
Northern Central Railroad at Bentley's Sta
ton, Baltimore county, was struck by the 10
connective, fracturing one of his legs and other
wise injnring him. He was picked up nm
conscious and taken to Parktou, where ply
stefan dressed his wounds.
Charles P. Montague, of Howard county,
had the mate Of his pair Of matched mares
killed on Monday, it having gone mad like
the former one. He states that as he was
driving into his front gate, dog on his place
came down the road TO meet the team, and
playfully, as he supposed, snapped one of the
mares in the nose. No attention was paid to
this at the time. but it is quite plain now that
the dog was mad.
Frank Shupp. aged IA years. son of Denton
NJ. Shupp, of Williamsport, was instantly
killed Monday morning by falling down a
hatchway in an old unused building of the
De Frehn Chair Factory, at Williamsport.
He was fighting bumble-bees, with several
companions. and in his haste to get out of the
way of the bees fell backward into the hatch
way. distance of twenty feet, to the ground.
His neck was broken.
Daniel Russell, farmer near Level, Har-
ford county, committed suicide Friday night
of last week by hanging. He went out in the
night and his wife, becoming uneasy, went to
look for him, but did not find him. In the
morning some neighbors found him hanging
to tree near the house, under which his wife
had passed while searching for him the night
before. His father committed suicide by
hanging in l848 He was about 90 years old
and had been in bad health for some time.
The carriage house and wagon shed on the
farm of j. Gilpin, near Elkton, Cecil county,
tenanted by George Dean, was completely
destroyed Wednesday evening during severe
electrical storm, together with the contents
of the buildings, consisting of wagons, NOW
ing machines and other farming implements.
The barn, which stands nearby, was only
saved from being destroyed by heavy down
pour Of rain and the changing of the wind.
| The loss is estimated at about 500, partly
insured.
During a match game of base ball on Sat
urday afternoon in Paramount, Somerset coun'
ty, between the Paramount and st. Peter s
mines dispute arose over decision OF the
umpire. During the dispute Oliver Ford
struck William Smith on the head with bat.
Smith fell to the ground in an insensible con
dition and remained so for several hours. DR..
John Dale was summoned, and, after exam
lining the wound, found that the skull was
fractured. Smiths condition is considered
serious by his physician.
On Thursday the steamer Sedgemore left
Baltimore for Liverpool, England. Her cargo
consisted of 425 hogsheads, 2l5 tierces, 10
half hogsheads and 90 cases leaf tobacco; PAS
bales cotton, 81 bales hair, 81 casks chrome
ore. S74 tierces lard, II, 468 sacks -four, 81