The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-17
MARYLAND Affairs.

Isaac Goldberg shoe dealer, Baltimore,
has assigned.
Morris Marks, clothing and gents furnish
ings, of Salisbury, has failed.
Woodsboro and Frederick turnpike stock
sold on Wednesday at SAG per share.
Sparrows Point works are shipping $500
tons of steel rails to Calcutta, India.
Denton and Greensboro. in Caroline coun-
ty, are TO be connected by "a telephone line.
Mrs James W Clagett, aged 81 years, died
from paralysis at Laytonsville, Montgomery
county, on Wednesday.
On Tuesday a cargo of 4, 40 barrels of flour
made from new wheat was shipped from Bal
tmore to Brazil.
Mrs Alicia Gottier, relict of the late Fran
els b. Gottier. formerly of Elkton, died in
Philadelphia, Pa, on Sunday, at the age of
"a years.
On Tuesday the property of Hon. John b.
Brown, in Queen Anne's county, was sold at
public sale. About 1000 acres of choice land
was sold for $40. 600.
Sidney Whitney, prosperous farmer living
at Mount Vernon, Somerset county, committed
suicide Wednesday night by shooting himself
through the head with pistol.
The storms of Sunday and Monday were
very disastrous throughout the State. Barns,
dwellings, churches. ETC., were struck by
lightning, stock killed and crops destroyed.
Howard S. Baugh, of Coumb ia. Pa, has
Dough the Cambria Steam FIGURING Mills in
Frederick for $12, 900. The capacity is $50
barrels per day, which will eventually be in
creased to about four hundred.
The Gunston farm, in Charles county,
containing 675 acres, with good buildings,
was sold at public sale on Tuesday, for 49,,
lis. 1t is fine farm and produces well.
On the same day 100 acres was sold for 500.
Rufus C, Harris, aged SO years, a merchant
of fredericksburg, Caroline county, dropped
dead while walking in his garden on Tuesday.
He was prominent in everything looking to
the advancement of the county, was a D4mo-
crat in politics and had been a county com
missioner.
| ST Patrick's Catholic Church, Cumberland,
was robbed early Monday morning of two gold
and silver chalices and large gold ciborium,
valued altogether at $500. The large valua-
BILE golden ostensorium was removed, but left
standing on the floor, the thieves evidently
having been scared away before they could
secure it, The gold of the tabernacle was not
| disturbed.
At Wiliamsport, on Wednesday, negro
named Albert Pulpus was sentenced to the
| House of Correction for stealing, and when
! the officer started for the railroad station with
his prisoner he was set upon by a negro mob.
! He was compelled to knock the prisoner down
and handcuff him so that he could keep the
mob from releasing him. The negro belonged
to gang of thieves, and says he will make a
full confession when his time expires.
For a man to stretch himself fat ON the
ground. face upward, and, with both hands
| extended, arise without assistance and with
ont touching hands or arms to the ground, Is
counted something of feat of strength and
agility. but there is a Howard county strong
man who can not only do this, but at the same
time lift up man standing on the palms o
his hands and weighing $50 pounds. The
man is a colored farm hand, employed b,
Charles H. Rhine on the farm of States At
torney McGuire. He is 20 years old anc
weighs 100 pounds. He is the wonder of the
neighborhood. With the entire weight placed
on his hands in the way described he can &c
up and stand erect.
Threshing of the new wheat crop in Caro-
line county is rapidly progressing. The yielC
is said 10 be the largest the county has eve
had. r. B. Culbreth grew on one of hi
farms in the upper part of the county 80
bushels of wheat on "a acres of LANDAU
average of 372 bushels per acre The phos
phate used cost $40, and the wheat sold lat G
cents per bushel) for $596.97. On one 0
Sylvester Smiths farms, near Ridgely, tn
yield was 42s bushels per acre. John Bloxom
of the Eighth district threshed from 3S acre
of land 667 bushels of wheat, weighing sixty
four pounds to the bushel, and Wm. D. Tqylo
harvested 240 bushels Of clean wheat from
81 acre field, near Denton
James f, Landlord, of Marion, Somerse
county, died very suddenly Wednesda
morning from valvular disease of tn
heart. He had been complaining of in
sonia for some time and was being treated b.
his physician. His mother gives the follow
ing account of his death "My son cam
downstairs this morning and complained c
feeling very weak Soon afterward he wen
out into the yard. On his return he asked
there were any gnger-snaps in the house.
set some cakes and bowl of soup on tn
table. He ate three cakes and then state
that he thought he could eat barrel of them
Suddenly his head dropped forward on hi
breast, he groaned two or three times aud wa
dead
Benjamin Ogle Lowndes, aged SO year;
died In Prince Georges county on Monday
Mr. Lowndes was related to eight Governor
of MARYLAND, the first of whom was GovernO
Tasker, his grandfather, Christopher Lownde:
having married a daughter of Gov. Tasker
making Mr.. Lowndes his grandson. He wa
also related to two Governor Ogles tathe
and son; also, to two Governor Lloyds, fathe
and son, and was the cousin of Governo
Henry Lloyd. He was also related to Cover
nor Bladen, after whom the town of BladenS
burg was named. The present Governo
Lowndes grandfather and Mr.. Benjami
Lowndes' mother were sisters, and the GOV
errors grandfather and Mr.. Lowndes' fathe
were brothers. Mrs. Charles Howard, @
Baltimore; Mrs. Frank Scott Key, Mrs. Chas
Hereford and Mrs. Josephine Titon, G
Washington, are his first cousins. His eide
sister married Bishop William Pinkney, {
Maryland. Mr.. Lowndes never married
His latter days were spent in peaceful re
trement Mrs. Pinkney, who lived at Blen
helm with her brother. died about 1877.
The West in the Saddle.