The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-12
Maryland Affairs.

shipped 49, 900 eggs this winter.
The singerly Pulp and Paper Mill Company at
Elkton, Cecil county, has assigned
John p. AIaire, who was one OF the party Oh Full
toms first steamboat died recently in Baltimore at
the age of So years.
John E. Vickers, aged rs years. aud George A.
Je>Sop, aged TO- both well-known citizens OF Kent
county, died on Monday
The wife of DIR. W. G. Rilout. of Annapolis. has
lii her possession highly priced inkstand which
formerly belonged to Cecilius Calvert
Baltimore phi ysicans say that there is more throat
trouble in that city than there has been for num-
Der of years past owing to the continued damp
weather.
Harry G. Anderson, of Cockeysyille, Baltimore
county after spending few months in Kansas
has decided to move to Council Grove, Morris
county, Kansas.
Rachel wife of William Moore, of Port Deposit,
Cecil county OH saturday, while suffering from an
unbalanced mind, set fire to her clothing and died
from the burns
At Brunswick, Frederick county, Il o. Rail-
road, there are 1900 cars loaded with coal which
cannot be moved, owing to II lack of barges at
Locust Point, Baltimore.
An effort is being made to extend the electric road
from Towson 10 TimoniuIn and CocSeysville, Balt
more county. IL Ille rulI AS>OCLiliol ldlscS SJO
900 in stock subscriptions the road will be built
Charles Dorsey of the second district of II Dward
county, died at Pine Orchard last week. ased %
years He was former slave i'll the FAMILY of the
late Judge Edward Hammond, of Howard county.
Julia Gibson, colorcd, 81 well-knowu cook one Of
the best by reputation on the Eastern Shore--iied
Sunday night at Easton, from burns received few
days before while using coal oil in kindlins fire III
Il stove.
The Governor has signed the amti-racing bill,
which is designed to put stop to horse racing i'll
Cecil county. where the Iron Hill, BarksCiale and
Elkton winter racing tracks situated. The bill
takes effect April a.
Thomas P. Barry Harry 10y, OFT Sharar and
Samuel Newcomer, members of the Whooley-G
gang, of Williamsport, have each been sentenced
at Hagerstown, by Judge Stake, to serve twelve
years in the House of Correction.
Probably the largest yield of wheat per acre in
Maryland, last years crop, is that of Mr.. Vim. F..
Upton near Emmerts Church, on the Dogwood
road. Baltimore county, who recently threshed, his
| crop showing As bushels and a peck to the acre.
Mrs. Harriet DorseIl, aged 81. mother of Mrs.
Robert Clagettand Mrs. DR.. George Berry residents
of Prince Georges county. died at Washington, D..
c., on Saturday, at the home of Mr.. Thos Dobuyns.
She was buried at Jacksonville, Anne Arundel
county, on Monday.
J. C. Hanley, of Gaithersburg, Montgomery coun-
ty, committed to Jail Sunday night, charged
| with having obtained money to the amount of So
from the Gaithersburg National Bank under false
pretenses upon check purported to have been
drawn by W. A. J. Peck.
At Hagerstown, Monday, Montague Lowell
and May Smith, two gypsies, were married. The
groom's mother, who is the Queen, objected on ac-
count of their ages, they being only II years old.
but the tribe were willing for the prospective King
to marry and the mother finally consented.
At recent conference in Annapolis of represent
alive colored men of the state resolutions were
adopted urging better educational facilities for the
1t is proposed to ask the Legislature to pur-
chase Morgan College, Baltimore for the of the
colored people of the state and change it to a
NAL school.
Thomas Johnson, a resident of Woodstock How
ard county, is recovering from extremely pain
full attack of indigestion. On Thursday of last week
on wager of twenty-five cents he ate pound of
green sausage big slice of bar of soap. and then
took a drink of whskey. few hours later his
tongue began to swell He creased it literally
with lard.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, q native and former resi-
dent of Talbot county, died at Logansport, Ill., last
week, aged 20 years. Easton had been her home
for 80 years. She was Miss Hopkins. Her father
owned and lived at Galloway estate, on the Chapel
road, near Easton, subsequently the property and
residence of the late Howes Goldsborough, and
now owned by Congressman Isaac A. Barber.
At McClenahan Brothers granite quarries, Port
Deposit Cecil county, on Tuesday, Richard Brauer
lost his life. He had arranged chain to be hoisted
from the place below the surface of the road about
foot TO a lodo hy-o loror nd &C
hooking the chain i'll a link, put the hook around
the chain, which slipped, giving him fall of more
than fifty feet splitting his head open, breaking his
neck and MASKING his whole body
Oyster shipments nor thern waters hav We already
sci carried 5000 bushels wonder the Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries are being depleted. But
mans desire for gain frequently kills the goose
that lays the golden egg. The legislatures of Mary
land and Virginia are in session now and both
states should pass laws prohibiting such traffic
under the severes penalties. Let them act once:
delays are dangerous.
The barn and contents on the farm OF Mrs. Il. W.
Fields, near Rockville Montgomery county was
burned by three coored men on Sunday. 1t is sup.
posed they were in the barn gambling, that fight
ensued and the lamp was upset during the melee
The loss was fine work horses 900 bushels of
wheat, all OF the farming implements and harness,
? straw ricks, . head of cattle and Il calf barn and
several outbuldings. The loss is estimated at
about So, 900; insurance about 81, 1000.
The large roller -four mill at Rocky Ridge Fred
eriek county, owned by ]. S. Biggs, and operated
by D. NJ Biggs, was burned at an early hour Mon
day morning. This mill was the best known of any
in Western Maryland, being the first to introduce
the improved system of milling. 1t was remodeled
several years ago, at an expense of $780, and re-
Gently other improvements were added. The fire is
supposed to have beeh caused by the explosion of
an oil lamp The loss on building is 5000; insur
ance, s., 800 loss stock, &c, 81 ,0OO insurance
$1,000.
Elder Daniel +. Stouffer, of Benevoa, Washington
county, dropped dead Monday evening at the home
of his son-in-law DR.. c. r. Scheler of Hagerstown
of heart disease, aged 50 years. He we'll
known auctioneer. His daughter heard him fall in
his room upstairs and, going to him. found him
dead He was wealthy man, was elder of Beaver
Creek district German Baptist Brethren Church and
was noted as a revival preacher. He married Miss
CLANCY, of Frederick who survives him, with two
children-Mrs. C. X. Scheller, of Hagerstown, and
Miss Jennie Stoufer, of Benevola.