The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-04-23
Maryland Affairs.

Baltimore county public schools will re-
quire $17l, 447. 63 this year.
Up to last Saturday 40, 900 tons Cumber-
| land coal had been sold to the United States.
Mrs. NJ E. Arringdale is to be appointed
tax collector for the fourth district of Talbot
county.
1t is said that the past oyster season has
! been the most improbable one that Cristield
has ever known.
The Havre de Grace Shoe Manufacturing
| Company during the month of March shipped
over S., 900 worth Of shoes to England.
The curfew law, which was passed last
week by the City Council of Snow Hill, has
been vetoed by Mayor John p. Moore, of that
| place.
| DR.. McShane, former health commissioner
for Baltimore, was arrested on Thursday
charged with embezzling $1,000. Bail was
furnished.
Gen. Richard Thomas on the 10th instant,
| had been with the Easton talbot county
| National Bank for 80 years, and was chosen
cashier August 20, 1S49.
A new counterfeit two-dolar treasury note,
series of 1891, that is in circulation, may be
detected by the misspelling of the words
Clearer and ''bureau."
Mrs. Mary Marison was fatally burned
while preparing dinner on Wednesday in
Baltimore. Her husband was severely burned
while extinguishing the flames,
Somerset county has floating indebted
ness of $28, 849. Is, more than half of which
amount has been created by Inc failure of
collectors to collect taxes due.
Ellicott City has no debt, and tax rate of
ten cents. 1t has $343 in bank, and last
years receipts were $4,000, 81 200 of which
was received from liquor licenses.
A Guthrie. Oklahoma Territory, despatch
says nearly thousand Cheyenne Indians are
holding ghost dance, and it is feared they
will take advantage of the absence Of troops
and lnaugurate an uprising.
Enoch Jones, one of the smallest men on
the Eastern Shore. died at his home in Mil
lngton last week of general debility, aged
about 81 years. He was 81 inches tall, and
one of his peculiarties was wearing knee
pants.
The Republicans carried Frederick on Tues
day, electing the mayor and all the aldermen
except one. The Democrats were split ow-
ing TO tactonal troubles This is the first
| time the Republicans carried the city since
1872.
Harry Knipple is under arrest i'll Frederick
charged with beating his wife and children.
| and also for eating negro man who asked
knlpple to deSlSt. The negr ran to q saloon
close by and Il crowd followed knippe
knocking him down with stones and stamping
him.
Oliver F. Snyder, Of Washington county,
has been sentenced to the House Of Correc
ton for three years for beating his wife, If
40 lashes on his bare back had been given he
would have remembered it, as in all pro0a
billy he will be pardOned after short ser
vice.
Louis Volz. ST., aged 81 years, was to have
been tried before magistrate in Baltimore
on Thursday, for assaulting girl 8 years old.
When the officer went for him he found that
the man had shot himself just Us he entered
the door.
Thomas c. Chappel has been stricken from
the roll of prac;icing attorneys before the
United States Circuit aud District Courts, in
Baltimore, for attempting to deceive the court
i'll filing an appeal bond for $500 with the
Fidelity and Deposit Company Of Maryland
as surety, which had been given il another
cause than that in which it was attempted to
be fled
The grist and saw MILL canning house,
storehouse and wagon shed belonging to
Ben amin T. Jordan, at Trump, seventh dis
irict, Baltimore county, were destroyed by
fire Monday evening. The fire was caused BY
sparks from the smokestack. The cannery
and storehouse were both large two -st0ry
frame structures. The total loss is about
$4,000, upon which there is no insurance.
Mrs. Dashiell the neither of J. Marcelus
Dashiell, of Salisbury, paid her son a visit
some weeks ago. Mrs. Dashiell now lives in
Washington, D. C. She was born in Octo-
Der. 1898, and will be one hundred years old
at her coming birthday. She reads the news
papers without glasses and does fine needle
work with ease. Her general health is ex-
celent, and she bids fair to live many years
yet, she walks with as much ease as a
person of half her age. Mrs. Dashiell has
now seen part of two centuries, and if she
lives twenty months longer will have seen a
part of three centuries. This is remarkable
case of longevity.
Twenty years ago Mrs. Ellen Burley and
her husband. of Annapolis, purchased some
land from building association. They con-
tinued to make their regular payments to the
association, the wife continuing to pay the
instalment after the death of her husband,
which occurred several years after the pur-
chase. The association having gone out of
existence, the woman, who is anxious to Sc.
cure clear title to the property, wants to
know to whom to pay the $40 balance she
owes on it. Acting under the rule that The
that seeks equity must do equity her coun.
sci contends that by offering the balance Of
the purchase money she is doing equity on
her part, and will apply to the Equity Court
for deed of the property. The question
that puzzles the lawyer is, the corporation
being dead, who can receive the balance.
DR.. Robert Y. Fechtig, Cumberland, on
Monday left a lucrative practice to accept the
position as chief gunner's mate on the cruiser
Dixie. c. Edgar Keller, a young attorney,
who learned military tactics at St. Johns
College. Annapolis, has offered his services
to the state and has been notified to hold
himself in readiness. Capt. R. c. Bamford,
OF Hagerstown, who served in the Union army,
expects to tender to General Miles and Pres
ident Mckinley his services as staff officer in
case of war with Spain. He spent 1859 80
IN Cuba, where he was employed as superin.
tendent by a Baltimore firm building rail.
way. He is familiar with every foot of
ground from Havana back TO the first noun
tain range, and believes his knowledge of the
country would be of use to the nation. He
considers Moro Castle would be an easy fort
TO demolish by bombardment.