Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-02-15

inary the Cradle OF the Colony.
Pensions granted Marylanders Jas.
P. Burge. Baltimore. SO: Thos. Thomp-
son. Taylor's Island. So: Thomas ].
Brown, Baltimore. So; Elizabeth c.
Lewis. Westport. So; Caroline Conway.
Muirkirk. So: Andrew Hammel. St.
Denis. So: John s. Bickling. Hender-
son. s.: Albanis l.. Anderson. Balti-
more. Sic: William Brewer. Hickory.
SI2: John L. Bailey. Cambridge. s. 1:
Frederick Ochse. Baltimore. $40; John
Phorr. Baltimore. $40: James Brady.
Baltimore, s.: George W. Jones dead
Danes Quarter, S.; Thomas E. An
thony. Cambridge. sI,; minor of Ed
ward Trader. Salisbury. $40. Richard
Union Bridge. Sro: Charles Mitchell.
Quantico. SIo; David Hill. Emmitsburg,
50; Alfred Gantz. Hagerstown. SI2;
John W. Potts. Pylesville. So; John A.
Flowers. Fishing Creek. So: minors OF
John w. H. McFaddcn. Northeast. SI2:
Caroline Thomas. Keedysville. s.; Su
san A. Lynn. Thurmont. 50.
Miss Sarah Sands. the oldest white
inhabitant of Annapolis, who celebrates
her o7th birthday on March next. IS
cutting wisdom tooth. The old
lady is in good health and spirits. reads
without glasses and converses on all
subjects of interest in and about the
city She reads the daily papers and
manifests interest in the progress OF
the town in which she was born. early
III the 10Th century.
George, the 7-year-old son OF John
d. Long. OF near Hagerstown. shot his
s-year-old sister while the two were
playing in the house. The weapon used
was a 32-caliber revolver. which the
children removed from drawer during
the fathers absence from the room. The
bullet passed through the stomach and
lodged in the spine. There is no hope
for the child's recovery
The bill providing for compiling
school population statistics from the
State census will carry an appropriation
OF about $4,000 to pay those enumera-
tors who worked longer than the limit
imposed by the Census law OF 1000. Col.
Buchanan Schley estimates that this
amount is justly due the men who
worked in his department. although he
entered into no obligations to- pay any
sum beyond the appropriation OF $4,000
made for the census How much will
be appropriated for the compilation OF
the school population has not been de
termined. but it is supposed the bill will
appropriate $1,000 or SO mich thereof
as may be necessary. This compilation
was recommended by the Governor in
his message to secure a fair basis for
the distribution OF the school fund. II
is not purposed to change the present
method of distributing the public school
fund by population. nor did the meeting
of school officials recommend that.
What they did recommend was dis
tribution OF the free school book fund
according to enrolment OF pupils
The trustees OF ST Mary's Female
Seminary, Annapolis. went before the
committees OF the two houses. asking
for an appropriation To build All annex
to the institution TO replace the old one.
which had been almost wrecked by the
storm two years ago. MIR. B. Harris
Camalier. in behalf OF the institution.
said: AS the charter OF the colony con
stitutes the organic law of Maryland.
and since to carry out that charter our
Pilgrim fathers riSkcd their lives and
their all and first landed on the spot
whercon the institution = erected. II
should be the pride OF every Maryland
er TO keep up and maintain 1t as trib-
ute to the Pilgrim mother who shared
in their dangers. lifted up their faith
and kept them firm in their resolve to
give to the new world home to relig
ious liberty. the very first. as Bancroft
describes it. in the wide world. The
institution belongs to the State. the title
is i'll the State. and 1t behooves the State
TO maintain IL
For some time leading taxpayers in
Dorchester. Caroline and other Eastern
Shore counties have been discussing the
provision OF the Code OF Public Gener
al Laws requiring the several boards III
county commissioners TO again value
and assess personal property this year
In some of the counties OF the State i
has been decided not 20 make the as
sessment. but i'll order to discuss the
whole matter meeting will be held a.
the Comptroller's office in Annapolis. al
which the presence of every Board oi
Commissioners or OF representatives
therefrom has been requested The sub
ject OF the taxat on of mortgages viii
also be considered at the same time
and requests have been sent ont 10 tn,
various boards of commissioners tc
bring or send data to the meeting rela
tive to the effect aud operations OF the
mortgage tax law.
The third of the series OF hops OF the
Rossbourg Club of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College took place Friday
night. Mrs Richard W. Sylvester re
ceived. with Cadet Major I. B. Sy-
mons. The chaperons were Mrs. ThoS
Humphreys Spence. Mrs. A. l.. Quaint
ance, Mrs. H. B. Mcdonnell Mrs. Dent
Mrs. l.. X. Fitzhugh. Mrs. s. s. Buck
ley and Mrs Henry Turner Harrison.
A large number OF people were in at
tendance from Baltimore. Washington.
Laurel. College Park and Hyattsville.
A delegation from Woodsboro. Fred
erick county. went to Washington to
confer with the Postoffice Department
in regard to changes in the rural de
livery route in that section.
A new fraternal association. the Or
der of Patriots. which admits to meni-
bership both males and females, was
organized by citizens OF Middletown.
at Harper's Ferry. under charter OBJ
tanned from the State of West Virginia.
The following were chosen officers: A.
w. Smith, national president; Charles
W. Shanfer. national vice president: