The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-06-08
Maryland Affairs.

Fuss, at diminishing, of wheat on Saturday
night.
The residence of Dr. VIM. 7. Pratt, Mont
| gomery county. was burned Wednesday; loss
s., 500.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Wooters Manross, of
| Hillsboro, died in Frederick, on Monday,
aged so years.
part of Kent county was struck by a
| cloud burst and cyclone ON Wednesday.
Great damage was done.
Margery Stewart, colored. died in Annapolis
| on Saturday aged 10 years. She had been
slave in the Pindell family.
DR.. L. Gibbons Smart has been elected
| superintendent of the Home for Feeble Mind
ed Children, at 0wings' Mills
By vote on Monday Of 36l majority il was
| decided TO change the county seat of Charles
county from Port Tobacco to La Plata.
| Forest fires are raging in several parts of
| Garrett county. Thousands of acres of valu-
able timber land have been burned over.
Vim. c. Hoxter, aged 80 years, eolored,
has been arrested and placed IN the Caroline
! county Jail, charged with assaulting his daugh
| ter
Rev. DR.. W. L. Murkland, PASTOR of Frank
| lin Street Presbyterian Church. Baltimore,
/ celebrated his 25th anniversary ON Sunday
\ last.
Richard W. Hook died in Baltimore on
/ MAY 81 in his Goth year. In 1853 he was
I elected sheriff Of Baltimore county a Dem
ocrat by 6 majority.
! James Toner. notorious tough of Balt-
more. was shot and killed 5y an officer who
| he had knocked down and was running away
from on Monday night
! DIR. James Cornell. formerly of New York.
who recently purchased one Of the fine Thigh
man farms in Queen Anne'S county. has
! opened terrapin breedery.
| John H. Herbert has qualified a. n nudge of
| the~Howard County Orphans Court He was
apuoin,ed to fill the vacancy left in the court
by the death Of Judge John McShane.
Col. Philip w. Downes, a well known
LAWYER. Democratic politician. land owner
aud business man. died in Denton, Caroline
county. ON Saturday last. IN ms 5sth wear.
On Monday Miss I.ollie Prince. of BaIij
more guest at the home Of John A. isssou,
Hyattsyille. Prince Georges county, dropped
dead while conversing with some visitors.
Miss Eliza Jane I.eech. native Of Cecil I
county. died in Baltimore on Monday. aged
50 wears She was q member OF Caroline
Street W. F. Church for a number of wears.
Frederick Shriver, who for many wears was /
connected with the steamboat business Ia +
pneumonia. He was q native of FrederiC4i.
A. Long. Of Brunswick, Frederick county.
who was recently arrested for violating ni,ed 1
States laws, and escaped from The officer. /
was captured 10 Martinshurg. West Virginia, .
on Tuesday
Part Of Worcester county was visited bv q I
severe thunder storm on Monday afternoon. /
George johnson, an assistant telegraph oper 4
ator, NJ Snow Hill, was partially paralyzed hy +
lightning aud Gordon Bowen. who was talk f
ing 20 him. vas severely burned.
The store and postogfice kept BY A. J. /
McKeRua. az Buckeystown. Frederick county. 1
was robbed on Friday nighi % last week. A /
Young negro mau Eas suspected. and uhen az .
officer attempted to arrest him be ran, bui .
was captured and Is nov in Jail
Hager,own. Cumberland and Frederick /
we're visited hy a heavy thunderstorm on
"Wednesday afternoon. Rain fell in torrents
Zoe three hours. Much damage was done to
corn fields and growing grain. The lemneTa-
ture. which had been ranging trom - ~ 100 .
iell 90 o7 - degrees
On Nav q a license was iSsocd hy the
county clerk FOR the marriage oi William
Conley. Of Verona. Baltimore county. and
Miss Annie Riley. Of Hereford. seventh dis
tv;ct The prospective bride Is 0Rly fifteen
wears old. and the consent ~ her parents
Mr.. and Mrs John Riley was tilei before the
license was issued.
In the upper portion Of Prince George
county there are several prosperous village
IAne,ion. Hyattsville RiveTiale Park and
Charlton Heights. Thirty hoHses have been
erected IN these Villages this season and MANY
more are nov building Riveriale Park has
a good system Of surface drainage. Hvstts
vile expects ie have water works soou-
n
MARYLAND. Virginia and West Nirginia. Ia
session nj -. James College. HaEcrsioWn.
adopted q resolution asking the national con
ference Of 1895 70 select tive delegates. rep
reseniing the five geographical divisions ~
the United States. 10 meet IN Joint conference .
a committee Of ike number to be appointed
at the annual meeting ef the German Baptist
Brethren for the purpose of considering an
organic union Of the two denomination.
On Nav 80. at Marion Smiion, Sonerse; I
county. the a-moBths-ald baby Of George .
simpson. farmer 9f that place Was killed 4
The parents had engaged little colorcd giri .
90 mind the child. During their absence
about the farm ne girl took the haby o.
colored neighbor' house. Among the child .
rem gathered there was eolored hoy about
10 wears old The latter took offence az the .
white hahy, and, seizing butchers kniie, .
slashed Il In a frighiful manner. causing al. .
most instant death.
ca Monday Judge Stake dled an opinion in .
the Injunction case Of J. :. DevecmOn against .
ex-sherif David Walker Of Allegany. The .
opinion susiains the injunction. This suil .
was commenced in June. 1891. by Ar. Deyce- +
mon. who claimed that the fees charged los .
sheriff Walker and ordered 10 be- paid hy the .
board Of county commissioners we're in eN.
cess Of what the law allows. The court grant. +
cd an injunction restraining the county treas.
uFer from paving certain items Of the sheriff 4
bill The amount Of money involved IS 81. .
100. II Judge Stakes decision Is hnai. the +
county viii be saved that amount Of money +
Ms. Maria Wilson Devries. wife Of Chris
tan Deyries. president % the Bank Of Balti-
more. died Nav 81. She had been sick fonr .
weeks with Bright disease, bat her death /
was unexpected and came Suddenly rs q re-
sult Of the disease attacking her heart. Mrs. +
Deyries was 80 years old and was daughter
Of tho late James and Maria Wilson. Her
reat.graadiaiher was Rev Samuel Knox, (
who was personal friend Of George Wash 3
ington. Mrs. Devries was Il life long member .
Of franklin Street PRESBYTERIAN Church. She
was thoroughly domestic IN her tastes, but
responded literally 70 the calls Of charitable
organizations without engaging actively ia
their work. She leaves one daughter.
Mrs. inliana Hayes, mother OF stale Sena- f
tor Thomas q. Hayes, died Sunday night Al
her home. g25 North Stricken street, Bati.
more. She was born May 5, 1873, y, Font
Hill. Northumberland county. Va. and was
raised BY her uncle Commodore Thos. Ap.
Catesby Jones. Al his residence Prospect !
Hill. near Washington, d. c., where she
married Rev Thomas c. Hayes. a member OF
the Baltimore Conference. Methodist Episco-
pal Church. Her life was one of wonderful
activity. During the war she was in the South
at Richmond and devoted her whole time to
the nursing of ConfederateS in the hospitals
at that place while her sons were in the army.
She was o devoted Southern Methodist.
Miss Caroline Hallam Leverett, aged ~
years, died Monday at the residence Of Nicho-
las Brewer, at St. Johns College, Annapolis.
Miss Leverett was the third daughter Of Thos
and Susannah johnson Leverett. of Windsor, [
Vt. Mrs. Brewer was her niece. Miss Lev
erett was a lineal descendant of Thomas Lev /
erett, alderman of the Borough Of Boston. I
England, who came to America IN the ship /
Griffin, arriving in Boston 1888. For several [
years Miss Leverett, with her sister, Mrs. /
Batchelder, taught a school for ladies in Bal !
timore. During the war she prominent 4
in a society of benevolent ladies in Annapolis. I
who administered TO the wants OF Federal and /