The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-04-20
Maryland Affairs.

Frederick is To have an electric fire alarm system
baltimore county tax rate this year Is - cents on
the sioo.
Garrett countys usie is = 70, a reduction q
cents for this year
Fine farming land s selling in Hariori county AT
from sla.5o 70 So pr acre
clay ola very superior order has been discovered
near Elkton ami j. being shipped 10 fhiiafeiphia,
m
Asbestos ola auc texture and IN paying quantities
has been found on the asrm If John Harlan View
Lecas. cecil county.
AMER the lst OF May Cecil county will be ~dry.
as 40 licenre 10 sell ilaor q any Kind ean h.
yraniel for four years.
Mr.. John q Hardt aged ~ years, diesi in Frsler-
lex on sunday night one Of her Sous. Vim ~ j.
hank examiner In Philadelphia, Ia.
col Robert INV carey. one of the ms-s prauii>
neni Republicans on the Eastern shore died in
CarNline county on Friday Of last week
Valuable mineral springs have bcen BOUND on the
country seat Of VIM " siarerly al Elktoa. and
barres 81 ii arc shipped daily 70 philadelphia "a
Henry G. Wood aged a year. general autiisaT Of
the Western Nd. 4. r. did on sunday from kidney
trouble. lie was native Of England ami va ap-
pointed auditor in iSss
Rev Il. ". Hofmeier aged - year.. died spl
denly on Friday Of last week, in Nsddlctewn, End
criek county lip 10 last spring DE- Was mn active
minister Of the Reform church.
Mrs Mary Lynch, s. years old. residing on Penn
syirania avenue Hsltimorr. made missiep SUNDAY
night and fell down stairs In the a'H her skull
WAS crushed and she died in Is minutes
New Yorkers arr - well pleased with Eastern
shore canoes that they are buying Them OF having
80 as 10 have them resdy FOR the sailing season
Eight oowsrily tcgghs OF south Baltimore on
sunday morning attacked and almost heat and
kicked 10 death Charles Roiay. Who was on his
way home Their was no provooaiion on his par.
Dr. " o. Eversheid's residence anI contents. was
burned on sunday at lIyaifsvillc, Prince Georges
county The family were absent and there had
been no Gre in the house for several DAYS ioss
s7Dn
A hotei. two stores ami o1tlnindings al the june
lion az The Pope's Greek aud the Baltimore and no
tomae Railroads. IN Prince georges county, were
burned on Monday. Los sleOsa insurance IN
hotel and contents S:'ao.
Rev. Rezin H. Gorsuch. aged years, iocal
preacher of the Methodist Episcolai Chureh died
on the iath instant, al The home Of George Merry
man. on the Gnnpowder river about six miles FROM
Tawson. lie was bora III Baltimore county.
Dnring quarrel in south Baltimore GA Sunday
Thomas Welsh shot AMI seriously wounded Edward
and William Lawrence and Charles Eos. The last
named was an innocent hysSander. E'iwarl Law
FENCES injuries may prove fital
Dr. VIM. H. Harley and Wife celebrated their
golden wedding iClarkssille, Howard county. on
sunday David Clark aged s. yezrs. Is one Of i've
persons living who witnessed the marriage. I'r.
Harley Is = ye=irs old and his wife s f,uF years
Younger.
Daniel BEattau. editor of the Cecil News, died on
sunday evening IN Elkion, IN his tisi year lie,
was palibeartr AZ a funeral Monday previous.
and gos wet whch resulted in pneumonia on Thur
day. Mr. Buaiton graduated Al Princeton. resid law
and afterwards purchased the News, uhieh be sue
eessfully conducted lie leaves wife and four
children
Herring are 50 plentiful 10 the Chesapeake Bay
AMI its tributaries this season THAI the fishermen
are turning them into the water again il Is not
profitable TO salt them and there j. demand FOR
them a. there are so many shad. rock perch and
other ish which mud ready sale. one seine hanler
on Saturday caught laeaa herring bat h. gave
orders to release them.
Thomas Rarnmn. coIored. 4 resident Of Williams
port district. whedied saturday the age of -
years possessed a weil-kept farm 81 l3aa ercs hich
he superintendent himself His estate is valued AZ
between si0eO0and sla9O0. he was the slave 81
fanfy near Bakersyille Washington county. and
when he was 3 years Of age commenced buying
himself In eleven years he paid for himself his
wife and two children the sum of - 100.
During the storm al Rockville. Montgomery
county on sunday evening the corcomn Hotel was
struck by lightning. The chimney was demolished
and considerable damage done 10 the telephone
WINS. About the time large tree in the