The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-12-31
Maryland Affairs.

Smallpox is prevailing at Hancock,
Washington county.
Horses are dying in Anne Arundel
county from an unknown disease.
Good land is being sold in Wicomico
county at from So. 80 to SO per acre; no
buildings
Edwin Dashiell, ST., aged II years of
Dorchester county. died last week from
carbuncle.
Charles McDougal. of Cecil county. was
100 years old on the 9th instant. and has
excellent health.
The postal card factory at Luke, Ale
gany county, has been making on the aver
age Of 200, 900 cards per day.
The steel works at Sparrow 5 Point, Bal
timore county, have received an order from
Russia for so, 900 tons of steel rails to be
delivered by the LIST of April, and from
Victoria an order for 35, 900 tons Of steel
rails. This will necssitate day and night
work until the contract is finished.
Jennie Hitrick, who was confined in
Garrett county jail for 1O5 days as wit
ness has demanded S105 witness fees, and
has asked the county commissioners to pay
her that sum. If they refuse she will sue
them. The court of appeals has decided
that person so confined can recover.
Nehemiah Bailey aged sc years, died
at his residence in Baltimore. on the Odd
instant He was native Of Queen Anne $
county, and was recognized by all as a
good citizen in every respect. Ex-Shcritf
VIM F., of that county, and Thomas G.,
Il Justice of the peace of Baltimore, are his
sons.
Albert Small, well-knovn lawyer of
Hagerstown, died suddenly on Friday of
last week in Richmond. Virginia, while on
visit to his son. He was 5S years old,
left Hagerstown on Wednesday previous
with his wife to spend the holidays, was
taken sick near Richmond, removed from
the train to hospital and died without re-
cognizing his family.
About = clock Christmas morning
James German, a negro, attempted an as
sault on May Long, white servant, in
Cumberland Her screams attracted an
officer, and after desperate struggle, as
sisted by the girl, the negro was over
powered and lodged in jail The girl was
very much bruised and it was sometime
before she recovered from the shock.
John w. Bowling, negro, and his
wife, formerly Martha Craven, white, both
of Pennsylvania, were recently married in
Cumberland. The parents Of the girl pro-
tested by telegraph, but too late, as the
marriage had been performed. The
woman swore she had negro blood in her
veins The parents proved to the con-
trary at the trial, and both were sent to
the penitentiary for IS months for miscege-
nation.
On Saturday last Cardinal Gibbons sup
piled a thousand poor families of Baltimore
with their Christmas dinners. \ long
line of men and women with baskets filed
through the Railways of the Archiepiscopal
mansion that afternoon. The Cardinal
stood in the bay window, and with happy
smile watched their coming and going,
while Mrs. Richard McSherry and other
ladies of the Cathedral congregation filled
the baskets.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Coun-
ty Union, in its last issue, says, in speaking of
Worthington Valley: Judging from the
appearance of some of the fields of this
fertile valley it looks like some of our
farmers will be able to gather two crops of
corn from the same ground in 1899. On
several farms hundreds of barrels are still
in the fields unhusked and a very short
time remains of the year 1898 in which to
do this work. | notice that nearly every
farmer in this section except Mr.. Charles
A. Councilman, still has fodder standing
out in the shock. Mr.. C. makes it rule
to secure his corn and fodder early and his
work in this line is generally completed
early in November In this way he gets
the benefit of better weather and longer
days in which to do the work-important
considerations where man runs big farm
and employs large force of hands.