The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-19
Maryland Affairs.

heZln ferry, OF Olneyi montgomery county,
died from hydrophobia on Monday.
Forged drafts on the Wells. Fargo Express
Company have been cashed in Baltimore.
Anne Arundel county tax rate is 62 cents
on the 500, an increase of cents over last
year.
Eutaw Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, celebrated its 86th anniversary on
Sunday last.
Matthew Scotch, near Elkton. a we'll
known farmer, committed suicide, caused by
dependency.
Coxey's crowd are deserving in large num-
bers from the camp at Hyattsville, Prince
Georges county,
Ex.Gov Jackson and family will sail for
Europe about the middle of June. They will
be absent several months.
During celebration in Frederick on Mon
day, by the colored people, fight occurred in
which several were severely cut.
On Tuesday Baltimore was glutted by the
arrival of 5000 dozen soft crabs, which were
sold atfrom 8 to 10 cents per dozen.
Hotel beast and check swindlers are opera
ting throughout the State. One of the former
was arrested in Baltimore on Monday.
A large memorial meeting in honor of the
late Henry E. Wootton, of Howard county,
was held at Ellicott City on Tuesday.
William jackson, colored, was sentenced
to death on Tuesday, in Queen Anne's county,
for the murder of Mr. George j. Leager.
Rev. DIR. j. o. Peck, formerly pastor of
the Mt. Vernon Place NJ. E. Church, Balti
luore, died at Brooklyn, N. Y. on Thursday.
Mrs. Charles H. Gibbons, wife of Senator
Gibbons, has had printed cook book. 1t is
said to be valuable assistant to housekeepers.
John Gels has presented st. Joseph's Cath.
Ole Church, in Emmittsburg, with nine
acre lot of ground to be used as a cemetery.
Joseph A. Hodel, of Cumberland, has re-
ceived patent for chimney cowl, and Sol
ONION German, of Wetherdville, for clothes
pin.
Governor Brown has fixed July for the
execution of James Brown, colored, for as
saulting Cora Simpson, Of Prince Georges
county.
The receivers of the Equitable League of
America have filed their report at Baltimore.
They have 1881, SlS to be distributed among
500 members.
Thomas Swami Latrobe, son of Mayor La
trobe, Baltimore, died on Sunday morning,
aged 80 years. He was well-known in society
and sporting circles.
Augustus Starr, formerly of Baltimore, died
in San Francisco, California, leaving an es,
tate of $500. Attorneys are hunting for
heirs. He was unmarried.
Benjamin Wells, of Elkton, Cecil county,
died on Saturday, aged so years. He had
been ticket agent for the Philadelphia, VIII
mington and Baltimore Railroad for 81 years.
Martin Wagner & Co. have chartered YES
sci to carry tin cans to Key West, Fla, and
return with cargo of canned pineapples.
This will be the first cargo of the kind to Bal
timore.
Prof. Geo. C. Pearson has been appointed
school examiner for Washington county, in
place of P. A. Wilmer. The salary has been
reduced 10 $1,000 and an assistant appointed
at a salary OF S720.
Bishop Paret confirmed 32 persons at An
napolis on Sunday last. During the services
Lieut.. @. d. Galloway, of the United States
Navy, was taken suddenly i'll and had TO be
removed from the church.
During the month of April 1888, 400 bushels
of corn, valued at 1853, 1872, and 1880 barrels
Of cornmeal, valued at 81, 39l, were exported
from Baltimore, showing a great increase
over that of the corresponding moath of last
year.
j. Edward Lester, colored, was convicted
in Queen Anne's county, on Saturday Of man
slaughter for killing Fletcher Bias, colored.
The murder was committed for pair of boots.
Lester is said to be weak minded and scarcely
responsible.
A draft for 81 800 was cashed at the Nation
al Mechanics Bank of Baltimore for f. NJ.
Sage. 1t afterwards proved to be bogus, and
other bogus drafts were discovered. The total
loss falls on the Hartford National Bank OF
Belair and amounts to over $1,000.
Charles l.. Bennett, employed at the Sin.
gerly Pulp and Paper Mills, at Elkton, on
Monday met with painful accident while at
his work by having a spear run through the
aeshy part of his thigh. Mr.. Bennett was ia
great danger of being crushed 10 death.
George D. Wyles died on Tuesday at hi:
home, near Phleeger's Mills, Frederick county,
of neuralgia of the heart, aged 6s years and
Mrs. Sarah Lindsay died at her home neat
Unionville, aged IS years. She was the
mother of ex-Register of Wills Hamilton
Lindsay, Of Frederick city.
Frank Tribull, a German farm hand, is
locked up in the Canton Station House,
charged with killing an unknown man We'd
nesday night. He says three men assaulted
him in his shanty on Bear Creek, Baltimore
county, at night, and he struck one Of them
with an axe. No body has been found.
The choir of st. Ignatious' Church, Balti-
more, will give a sacred concert at the Con
federate Home at Pikesville on Sunday, May
30, ut o'clock in the afternoon, after which
Father W. r. Cowardin, S. j., who is one oil
the chaplains of the society, and was SER
geant in the Twenty second Virginia Regi-
ment, will give war talk.
The colored man, Nelson, who was found at
81, D,l IL d.
in Washington, said TO be suffering from
smallpox, came from Chesapeake Beach City,
Calvert county, where he, with some 40 others,
was pronounced by physician to he suffering
from an eruption caused by contact with poi
son. oak and other similar weeds. Get vac
cinated.
The Peninsula Press Association, including
newspapers of Delaware, Maryland and Yir-
ginia, has been invited by the Board Of Trade
of Denver, Col, to visit that city this sum
mer. The invitation copes through Dir. FL.
G. Sniteher, formerly of Wilmington, Dell,
and once member of the Press Association.
A visit to Colorado Springs, Manitou, Pike
Peak, Royal George The .'Loop' and other
places of interest are offered as Inducements.
Charles X. Harrison has sold to Mr.. Chas.
Tyler tract of land near Pikesville contain
ing 235 acres, for 10000. The tract was the
country home of MIR. Harrison, and was
known as "Annandalen 1t lies Just north
of Pikesyille, which it adjoins, and extends
along the Reisterstown pike 10 the land Of
Christian Devries, which adloins it on the
north Eastwardly it runs along the county
road leading from Pikesville to Towson to
HUMILIATION, home of the late Noah Walker.
The First Brethren Church Progressive
Duukards) was dedicated in Hagerstown, on
Sunday. Rev. John Crawford Mackey de-
livered the dedicatory sermon. The church
cost 81, 500, and the site, purchased from J.
w. Myers, 1000. Mr.. Mackey, the pastor,
graduated from the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary at Philadelphia and served Pres
byterian congregations in Brooklyn, N. Y,
and Conemaugh, Pa. He resigned his pas.
torase at Conemaugh to accept the pastorate
of the First Brethren Church in Hagerstown.
The semi-annual lovefeast of the German Bap.
fist Brethren (Dunkards) was held at Browns.
vile. There was very large number of
people present.
Bribery in the u. s. Senate.