The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-04-14
Maryland Affairs.

S5 counterfeit bills are in circulation in
Baltimore.
Capt. Henry j. Walling, aged 10 years,
died in Frederick on Saturday.
Maryland, according to recent bulletin of
the United States Fish Commission, produces
one-third of the worlds oyster product.
An expert examination of ex cashier Daw-
sons accounts Of the Easton Savings Bank
shows that he is defaulter to over $ll, 900.
At Delta, Hartford county, a trotting as
ISOLATION has been formed. A halfmile track
will be made at once so as to be ready for the
fall racing.
OF the $4,000 levied for taxes in Kent
county, only IS, 500 was handed over as I'M
collected by the retiring treasurer to the sheriff
on April l.
Rev. James A. Brindle, aged "a years, died
in Caroline county, on Saturday from paral'
ysis. He was one of the oldest ministers in
the Wilmington Conference of the NJ. T..
Church.
In Baltimore, on Monday night, the livery
stables of Griffin Manion, on North Eutaw
street we're burned, together with 125 horses,
carriages, provender, harness, etc. Loss over
$500, 900.
Baltimore city's tax rate is $I.70 on the
500. Now it will be in order for the kicker
to be heard, Notwithstanding his name is at.
tached to every petition asking for all kinds
of improvements.
A large stable on the farm of Caleb Lewis,
near Frederick, and tenanted by N. W. Bell,
was burned down at late hour Saturday
night. with most of the contents, consisting
of four horses, five COWS, lot Of harness and
farming implements and five tons Of clover
Tho 1oss - ,lN1 GavaraI k,y
insurance.
On Friday afternoon of last week the barn
on the farm of Ambrose Pierce, in Montgom-
cry county, was entirely destroyed by fire,
including provender and implements, causing
loss of several thousand dollars. A fine
driving horse was burned to death. The fire
is supposed to have been ignited by sparks
from brush fire near by.
Buyers are gathering all the canned peaches
| that can be procured. From Snow Hill 5000
cases were received in Baltimore on Tuesday,
and on the same day 5000 cases were received
from Waynesboro, Pa. Fait & Slagle have
$4,000 cans of Maryland and Virginia
peaches. The snowstorm this week is said
TO have almost destroyed the entire fruit crop.
Worcester county is going to build new
courthouse. 1t will be in the Colonial style
of architecture, with front of II feet and a
depth of 50 feet, two stories and basement,
surmounted by a tower IS feet high. A new
Jail will be built in the rear Of the courthouse.
When completed both buildings will be an
ornament to the town and the most conven-
iently arranged on the Eastern Shore.
Governor Flower, of New York, has refused
TO grant the application of the Governor of
Maryland for the extradition of Charles A.
Halves, who is wanted for forgery. 1t was
discovered that Halves is paroled prisoner
of the Elmira Reformatory, and the Governor
holds that he is not free man and cannot
be arrested and punished for another crime
until he has been finally discharged from the
reforrnatory.
Al the Cathedral, Baltimore, on Sunday
morning Rev. P. J. Domaine was conseerated
as bishop of Wheeling, W. Va. The altar
was lighted up with more than hundred
other cut flowers masked about it, while palms
formed a frame work at the base of the altar.
Archbishops, bishops, monsignori and vested
clergy, with hundreds of seminarians formed
picturesque scene in and about the sanctu.
airy. The music, under the direction of Mr.
F. Y. Hale, was excellent. The seminarians
of St. Mary's sang part of the conservation
music.
The Baltimore, East Baltimore and North
Point Railway Company has secured an option
on t.RosebanE,' Il tract of land in the Twelfth
district of Baltimore county, containing 2S
acres and perches. "Rosebanki has been
used as picnic grove for many years, and is
owned by Mr.. August Weis, one of the Balti-
more County Commissioners. The price is
S,000 If the property is purchased, it will
be improved, and madean excursion resort
The railway company has obtained from the
ROunfv an IF
in which to begin the construction of its cleo
trio railway.
At the mouth of 0ctoraro creek, above
Port Deposit, Cecil county, is a bed of gravel,
where shad, rock and herring go to spawn.
Recently gray eagle saw rock6sh in the
water there and pounced upon him, sinking
his talons deep into the sides Of the fish,
When the bird attempted TO arise he found
the load more than he could carry. He could
not release his hold either Finally he was
dragged under the water and drowned. The
current carried the eagle and fish into fish
pot, where the bodies were found, with the
hold of the eagle unrelaxed. The fish weighed
sixteen pounds, and the bird measured six
feet from tip to tip of the wings.
A corps of Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's engineers are at EIkton under William
81. Brown, for the purpose of beginning
a survey of the proposed route for the new
Elkton, MiddIetown and Massey Railroad
The route viii be from Elkton through Ches-
apeake City to St. Augustine, at which point
the road will divide, one branch going to
Middletown, Del, the other through Cecilton
to Massey, on the Queen Anne and Kent
Railroad. The construction of this road will
open up rich and prosperous section Of the
country heretofore without railroad facilities.
According to the terms of The bill passed by
the last Legislature Of Maryland, which trans
ferred to this new company the $4,000 APP
propriated several years ago by the State Of
Maryland to the Elkton aud Middletown
Railroad, provisions are made that the work
shall be commenced within 80 days from the
passage of the act, and that the road shall be
completed as far as Cecilton, in the first dis
trict Of Cecil county within one wear and