The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-04-24
Maryland Affairs.

swindlers are at work in Frederick city
and county
Oakland -four mill, in Howard county,
was burned on the 10th instant 1t con
tanned fine machinery.
Herbert Moore, aged SO years. a we'll
known hotel keeper Of Leonardtown. ST
Mary county, died on Friday night of
last week. He leaves a widow and six
children.
Capt. r. S. Emory, of Chestertown,
Kent county, prescribes spraying trees in
fected with San Jose scale with solution
formed by dissolving p lbs of whale oil
soap in one gallon Of water.
John Campbell, of Hagerstown, has been
convicted by the Howard count court Of
stealing chickens In his house great
stacks Of feathers and complete scalding
apparatus were found 4 number of live
chickens we're identified by their owners.
Charles r. Potts, Of Chestertown, Kent
county. was struck and killed by locomo-
tive Of the Baltimore and Potomac Rail
road Company, while walking on the tracks
near LAFAYETTE Avenue Station, Baltimore,
on Sunday. He was in the city hunting
for work.
Charles H. f. Harrison, Of Williams
port, Washington county, died on Friday
night Of last week from overdrinking Of
whiskey on a wager. Harrison drank
nine gilIs in succession Shortly after the
last drink he fell to the foor senseless and
died from paralysis Of the brain
By the sinking Of artesian wells at
Leonardtown. ST. Mary county from 80
to $50 feet malarial fevers have decreased
and are rarely known The same condi-
tions exist in all the tidewater counties
throughout the State. In Kent couney
recently a well was sunk $50 feet before a
supply Of pure water was struck.
The funeral of Mr.. William Chamber
lame. who died in Baltimore Wednesday,
took place at Easton, Talbot county on
Friday Of last week. Mr. Chamberlain
was 30 years old and unmarried. He was
Of the Chamberlain family Of Talbot
county. one of the earliest of the English
families that settled in Maryland in early
colonial days, and whose seats in Talbot
were the estates of Plain Dealing.
Boniield and 'Cloras Point
On Saturday last Judge Jones de-
cided a point in the Howard County Court
touching the validity Of mortgages execut-
ed since the adoption of the new assess
ment law The point arose over an ex-
ecution issued by Albert P. Strobel, Of
Baltimore, judgment creditor Of Fulton
r.. Gordon, and a lot Of personal property
was levied upon Amanda E. Gordon,
npon petition, claimed the property under
a mortgage bill of sale The validity of
this mortgage was attacked because of the
omission in the affidavit required under the
new law. In addition to the usual Aft
dayit Of mortgage as to the bona fides
Of the consideration, the portion omitted
is as follows: And also make oath ON
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that
he has not required the mortgagor, his
agent or attorney, or any person for the
said morgagor, to pay the tax levied upon
the interest coyenanted to be paid in adj
vance, nor will he require the same to be
paid by the mortgagor or any person for
him during the existence of this mortgage.
The same section of the law provides that
mo mortgage shall be valid except as
between the parties thereto unless the said
oath is endorsed thereon There were
other objections raised by counsel to sustain
the execution against Gordon, but the court
simply ruled on the invahdity Of the mort
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