The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-02-24
Maryland Affairs.

| WOIhs-
| C. C. Cecil, of Iamsville, has lost three
horses by some unknown disease.
A violent thunder storm ragged in the lower
part of Frederick county on Monday night.
Intelligent use of road machines in Queen
Anne's county has greatly improved the
roads.
DIR. Charles NJ. Ellis, of Elkton, has pur-
chased the Odd Fellows Hall, in that place,
for $1,000.
! The Green Spring Valley Game Protective
Association have 5000 partridiges which they
will turn ont in the spring.
| Mrs. Sally kote's residence and contents,
] in Hartford county, was burned on Thursday
night of last week. Insurance $500.
New Jersey, New York and Connecticut
vessels are at Annapolis and other places
buying oysters TO replenish the beds of those
! States.
! A petition has been sent from Frederick
county to the Legislature asking for the re-
peal Of the law which increased the salaries
of the Judges of the several courts in this
State.
The largest and finest -four mill at Iams-
Vile, Frederick county, was burned Wednes
day. The mill contained 1000 bushels of
wheat, lot of corn, &c. Loss. $4,000. par
italy insured.
On Saturday the farm of the late Col G.
Keeler Thomas, in Frederick county, CON
tanning 254 acres, was sold at public sale to
Samuel Thomas, Of Berryville, Virginia at
$50 per acre.
Mrs. Elizabeth Denney, widow of VIM.
Denney, died at her home, in Elkton, on
Saturday evening, in the S4th year of her
age Her husband built the Continental Hotel
in Philadelphia.
On Friday of last week The steamer Ida was
burned at her dock in Baltimore; loss $75, 900.
The church of the Disciples, on Calhoun
street. was damaged to the amount Of $4,000
the same afternoon.
The circuit court of Cecil county has decid
cd that in the contest between the Demeera-
tic and Republican candidates for sheriff that
tile Republican candidate. Mr.. Clinton j.
White is entitled TO the position.
The eleventh annual convention of the
independent Order Sons of Benjamin was
opened in Baltimore on Sunday. The Order
has III lodges and 5000 members. Hon.
Ferdinand Levy was re elected Grand Master.
VIM. +. Stanshury, the oldest active com
posiior, perhaps, in the United States, died on
Saturday night He had been an employe
Of the Baltimore Sun for nearly 81 years
He was 20 years old and died as he wished, ''in
the harness.
Mr. Harrison II. Beeler, of Hagerstown.
has thus far fed between 600 and 700 bushels
of wheat Ia his dairy COWS. Mr.. Beeler states
that he can get more for his wheat by feeding
i, in this way than by selling it at the prevail
ing low prices
Victor l.. Emerson; native of Caroline
county and prominently connected, was con-
victed in the United States Court. in Balti-
more, Wednesday, on the charge of photo
graphing ten-dollar silver certificates, and
making u seal similar to that used on these
notes
In Anne Arundel county farmers are suffer
ing from robberies. Lately rails have been
stolen from fences, allowing stock to run at
large. Several arrests have been made. In
some cases cut wood has been given to people
who are too poor TO buy it, but fence siealers
will be vigorously prosecuted.
/ William Franklin Bonner foreman of repair
section No. II, Hagerstown Division, Western
Maryland Railroad, dropped dead of heart
disease on Friday of last week while joking
with his men at the Toulouse, in HagerStown.>
He was 81 years old. He leaves widow,
who was Miss Sarah Boward, and ten chill
dren.
The Mccullough Iron Company's mills, at
Northeast, Cecil county, which have been clos
ed for nearly two years. have resumed opera
ton thus giving employment 10 about two
hundred hands. The Armstrong X Company
Stove Works, at Perryville, Cecil county,
which had been shut down for over month,
has also resumed.
A company has been organized with album
dant capital to build a network of electric
roads on the Eastern Shore, work to com
mence as soon as charter can be obtained, to
run along public roads, beginning at Chester
town, thence to Rock Hall, Colchester,
Church Hill, Centrevile, Queenstown, Eas
ton, Cambridge and on down.
Can't George A. Coleman aged 81 years.
died in Baltimore on Sunday night last. For
a number of years he followed the sea; he was
Il member of the Legislature of 1861. which
was arrested and many of the members sent
to Fort Warren. Capt. Coleman filed several
offices, both political and appointive, and
was also Deacon in Trinity Episcopal Church
for a long time.
Capt Abram Lingan Jarrett died at his
home in Belair on Sunday last in his seth
year. Since his retirement from the clekship
of the Circuit Court for Hartford county. which
he had filled for 80 years, his health had
gradually failed. and several months ago,
from weakness OF age. he was seized with
dropsical affection which ended his life.
Justice John W. Streaker, of Jamestown,
Howard county, on Wednesday SAID he wit
messed red fox surrounded by IA multitude
of buzzards, which had evidently determined
10 devour the little animal. The birds, with
their wings raised as if TO do battle, seemed
about to close in on the fox. He was very
much alarmed, and as soon as | scared his
tormentors away he made off on double
quick. His troubles were not yet ended,
however, for away in the distance | observed
flock of crows fly down at him and peck
him numerically, but he finally escaped to
the woods.