The Democratic advocate., 1898-07-09
Maryland Affairs.

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John w. Perry, aged 81 years, we'll
known citizen of Centrevi!le, Queen Anne's
county, died on Monday.
Miss Smith. of Caveiown, Washington
county. was severely burned by the explo-
sion of can of gasoline on Monday.
A Middletown valley, Frederick county,
farmer has 1900 bushels of wheat, for
which he refused 3S per bushel.
State Entomolosist W. &. johnson in
spected the peach orchards of the Messrs
Prv Bros. near Keedysville, Washington
county. and stated they would yield 80 per
cent.
During the storm on Monday afternoon
two colored men were killed by lightning
in the railroad station at Round Bay, Anne
Arundel county, and seven others were
severely stunned.
4 violent thunderstorm visited Wash
inetong county on Monday afternoon, and
much damage resulted. In Hagerstown
several unfinished houses were blown down,
and others were unroofed.
\ 40-acre field of hay, partly i'll cock,
on the farm of Major Alexander Shaw, of
Allegany county, was burned on Monday
by sparks from passing engine. The farm
buildings were saved by great exertlon.
The two historical paintings Burning
of the Peggy Stewart and Landing of
the Pilgrims purchased by the State
from F. B. Mayer, the artist, have been
placed in the State House at Annapolis.
Isaac n. Mills, agent of the Philadel
phia. Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
has estimated the number of baskets Of
peaches that will be shipped from the
Eastern Shore and Delaware this year to
be311 434 The yellows have disappeared,
but the curculio has devastated the or
chards.
Two hundred bushels Of wheat i'll the
shock belonging to Victor Neikirk, Il
farmer living near Williamsport, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday evening. The fire
was started by sparks from passing engine
on the Western Maryland Railroad, and
ragged for about two hours. After desper
ate fighting farm hands succeeded in ex-
tingushing the fire.
Stevens Gambrill Haynes died on Sun
day at the home of his brother Launcelot
HAYNES. near Oakland Mills, in the Sixth
district of Howard county, of Bright :
disease, aged Sc years He was Il half
brother of the late Richard &. and Patrick
II. Macgill and IL nephew of the late G.
\. Gambrill, head of the well-known c.
\. GambrilI Manufacturing Company.
lie was Il bachelor.
\ letter from Frederick. under date Of
July | , says This was the warmest day
of the season, the thermometer registering
102 to 104 in the shade. The corn crop
and truck gardens are suffering greatly for
the want of rain. On account of the eX-
cessive heat vegetables are very scarce and
are selling at from two to three times their
usual prices The corn packers say unless
the crops soon receive rain there will not
be over half pack this season. at least
from the early corn.
Sparks from Il passing engine on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad set fire to
wheat fields on the farms of Jacob Eek
stine and Christopher Blennard, near
Williamsport, on Saturday, doing consid-
cradle damage. About forty bushel of
wheat in the shock belonging to Mr.. Eek
stine and about the same number of bush
els belonging to Mr.. Blennard were de-
stroyed. The farm hands and neighbOfs
fought the fire for over an hour to prevent
it from spreading and finally succeeded in
extinguishing it. The loss is nearly $50.
Rev Michael j. Brennan, pastor of st.
Patrick Catholic Church, Cumberland,
died on Friday afternoon of last week, at
the parochial residence, in his 10th year,
from congestion of the lungs. Father
Brennan was man of large physique. but
for several years had been a great sufferer
from rheumatism. Last Sunday he cele-
brated vespers and was nearly overcome by
the heat. He sat on the porch to cool off,
and was thereafter taken sick Father
Brennan was Il son of James Brennan, a
miner, and was born at Mount Savage,
Allegany county, He dug coal when
young. He graduated from St. Charles
t'ollege, Ellicott City. and st Mary
Seminary, Baltimore.
The CAestertowp News Of last week.
says : The shipment of wool front Kent
and Queen Anne counties closes with this
month. Although the price has been low.
farmers have realized handsomely from
their flocks, and the receipts III the aggre-
gate are astonishing. Rufus F. Parks
has purchased about 10, 600 pounds of
wool from the farmers of this section. He
has paid to the farmers not less than 2.
000 Marcus Archer purchased over ten
tons ! He received two tons of wool from
one farmer, to whom he paid 5000
Another farmer was paid $3.50. There are
three men in Kent who raised over tons,
being paid $4,000 cash for it. Messrs
John Gale & Son and NJ NJ Raisin have
also brought over 5000 pounds each.
making the grand total of 40, 900 pounds
Of wool purchased by four buyers, This
means that at least Sc, 900 have been
paid the farmers of Kent for wool A
fleece through the two counties averages
FIVE pounds, while the price is estimated
at twenty cents, making an average of one
dollar per sheep. The income from wool
is the smallest item, for the increase is
worth three times as much as the wool
A well-known farmer says conservative
estimate of the income from sheep to Kent
farmers will not be less than $40, 900.
From Centreville, last week, there ware
shipped three cars of lambs fat sheen and
calves by one dealer, valued at SIS, 900;
and another dealer shipped three cars loaded
with lambs valued at S13, 900. For the
week over $33, 600 worth of live stock
was shipped from that station. Who says
the Eastern shore isn't booming.
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