The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-16
Maryland Affairs.

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500, a reduction of cents.
James Demoss, aged 81 years, died on Friday OF
last week at his residence in Hartford county.
Wheat is yielding very poorly in Montgomery
county not over one-thrd what was expected
Rock Hall, Kent county, has realized over $4,000
from crabs this season. Some of the men average
$50 per day.
Emanuel Bowman died OH Monday, at his home,
in Benevola, Washington county, of acute dlar-
| rhoea aged SO years.
Dr. Cadmus Dashiel aged 81 years. died in SOM
| erset county on Saturday last. wife and hVe
| children survive him.
On Monday, at Mountain Lake Park, Garrett
county the mercury dropped to $50. Fires ana
| 0vercoats were comfortable.
Mrs John Sellers residence on st. Leonard's
Creek Calvert county, was totally destroyed by
fire on Monday. Nothing was saved from the
| building.
On Monday night the Salisbury laundry was ac-
cidentally burned; loss So 800 1t had not been III
operation long and gave evidence of being very
| successful.
Mrs Susan Dodd widow of the late Henry Dodd,
died suddenly on Saturday night at Wye Mills,
! Queen Anne's county, aged 80 years. She leaves
large family.
Bloomingdale the farm of the late S. Teackle
Wallis containing $40 acres, in Queen Anne's
county has been sold to Hiram C. Dudley of Bal
| tmore, for $4,000.
From June co. 1897 to June So 1885, the receipts at
the Baltimore postofice s999, 1879, against
S90 $780, for the fiscal year ended 1897 an increase
this year of SOS, 0O7.75.
James Price, coored, is in the Cecil county Jail
for assaulting Mrs. Sarah Simon aged 65 years, in
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fully identified by his victim.
In Kent county threshing is general, and the
yield of wheat per acre runs from to Il bushels
Some fields have 20 to p bushels The average
throughout the county is placed at II bushels per
| acre.
The farm of the late Judge John Mcshane in
Howard county, containing 800 acres, has been
purchased by James H. Atkinson, Of Baltimore for
So per acre. 1t is of the finest estates in the
county
| Mrs Evelyn S., widow of the late Jacob Tome
has been elected president of the Port Deposit and
the Elkton National Banks. The majority of the
stock of the Elkton bank is held by Mrs. Tome
Mrs. Creswell and Mrs. David Scott.
The large barn on the farm of Daniel Leather
| mon, near Lewstown Frederick county, was
struck by lightning on Friday night of last week.
and totally destroyed together with his hay and
! wheat crops and farming implements.
! A head-on collision, the Baltimore and Ohio
! Railroad - miles west of Cumberland, on Satur-
day last caused the death of Harry Frazier and the
wounding of several Others Both engines were
wrecked and - loaded cars were more or less in
jured.
! A large black cat got on the Pennsylvania train
! at Huntingdon, saturday, and rode 90 miles into
Cumberland. 1t was put off several times, but
J tho train
started The cat made the return trip on the even
| ing train in the same manner.
Forty acres of ground on the farm of Dir. J. McP.
Scott, OF Washington county, yielded 1,l45 bushels
of wheat field of16acres, $50 bushels, and another
field of 10 acres yielded 300 bushels The rakings
from the &C acres amounted to 10 bushels, total
yield of 100 bushels, or 81 y bushels an acre
| Oakland Garrett county had 100000 fire on
| Tuesday. The town has no water supply. Cum
berland fremen rendered good service in prevent
ing the fire from spreading. Among the buildings
burned was the office of the Mountain Democrat.
There was very little insurance on any of the
property.
Quaker preacher named Reese created some
thing of sensation at the thanksgiving services
at the interdenominatiOnal campmeeting at Noun
tain Lake Park Garrett county, on Sunday. His
text was "Be Ye Fishers of Men," Toward the
close he said: 1--WE Quakers don't believe i'll war,
but believe in peace" A great stir followed this
utterance. al am not going to rejoice because this
licentious and rumsoaked government has senta
few hundred Spaniards to hell" number of
persons left the meeting.
On Tuesday at Annapolis the stockholders of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal elected Gen. Thorn
as S Mumford, of Baltimore city, president of the
canal and the following board ofdirectors, all new
members: Thomas s. Mumford, W. H. Dawson, of
Baltimore city; George F. NJ. Houck. Robert NJ.
Sommerville Alegany county; DIR. Thomas H.
Williams, Cambridge, Dorchester county; J. J.
Koontz. Washington county; John X. Rouzer,
Frederick county. The directors will elect secre
tary to succeed Mr. Spencer Watkins who served
under the old board.
The act passed by the last Legislature extending
the jurisdiction of Magistrates from 500 TO $500
apparently intended to apply only to Balti-
more city, but is effective throughout the State.
This is the law whose validity was recently upheld
by Judge Stockbridge. 1t is chapter 167, OF the
acts of 1885, and amends section g. article 81 Code
of Public General Laws The title and subtitle of
the amended article and section are enormously
stated to be Baltimore City" and Justices of the
Peace" respectively, instead of justices of the
Peace and "Civi Jurisdiction" This was one of
the grounds on which the validity of the act was
to indicate that it intended to apply to Balti
more city only
The suit of the Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany to restrain Lawrence Frank Kehoe from pro-
ceeding to enforce judgment for $ll 900 against
the railroad company was dismissed by Judge
Sharp in opinion filed in Circuit Court No. ,, on
Monday. Kehoe lost leg in an accident on the
railroad on July 50. 1895. He recovered judg-
ment for $4,000 against the company on Septem-
Der 20, 1895, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county; new trial was ordered by the Court of
Appeals. The trial took place in November, 1896,
in Hartford county, where Kehoe recovered judg
ment for Sl1 600 This Judgment was affirmed by
the Court of Appeals, and suit was entered on the
appeal bond Thereupon the railroad company
applied for injunction to restrain the prosecu-
ton of the suit the appeal bond and for decree
for the payment of all the costs and expenses in
Cured by the railroad company in defending the
damage suit.
Tramps, both white and coored, are becoming
great nuisance in Baltimore county. They are
especially offensive if they find only ladies and
children about houses when they call. The first
inquiry generally made by tramp is "If the boss
is in If the lady of the house is unthoughtful
enough to say he is not then the unwelcome visitor
demands something to eat and wants the best in
the house. They especially demand coffee, and if
the housewife mas none or mas let the hre go out,
she is obliged to go to work quickly and prepare
some. Usually tramps do not travel alone, and Of
ten white and colored men travel together The
farmhouse is usually approached by one tramp
only, until it is found that there is no man about
the premises then the caller says that he has
pany and wants something to eat for his compan-
ions as well as himself. Even when the man of
the house is at homo he is often afraid to refuse
food or sleeping accommodations in his barn to
three or four roughooking men, for fear that they
will set his barn fire or commit some other dep
relation.
The Maryland State Bar Association will hold its
annual meeting at the Blue Mountain House, on
July % and IS. The annual addresses will be de-
lvered by Robert r. Henderson, of Cumberland,
and a number of interesting papers will be read,
among them one on the Colonial Court and Bench
of MARYLAND" The animal address delivered uDon