The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-06-29
Local Intelligence.

Nusonic.-There was public install.
lation of the officers elect of Door.to
Virtue Lodge, at the Lodge room, on
Thursday evening last. A large audi.
cnce was preseat to witness the interest
ing ceremonies, aud music, vocal and
gave them additional in.
terest. The officers elect were Rev.
james W. Reese, Master; VIM Coon,
Senior Warden; Simon A. Leistcr,
Junior Warden; VIM. Moore, Secretary;
VIM. A. Cunningham, Treasurer. After
the installation Of the Master, by Past
Master Moore, the public honors were
given in compliment to the newly install
led chief officer Of the Lodge The Ger.
emony of installation being completed,
the Master read letter from Hon. j ohm
Ii. b. Latrobe, of Baltimore, Grand
Master Of the Grand Lodge of Mary.
land, regrcttipg his inability to be pre-.
sent and to deliver an grafton on the
occasion as previously announced. The
disappointment, however, was less keen.
ly felt, as it was understood that the
Master himself would perform that ser.
vice, which he proceeded to do, addres.
sing the Audience for some thirty min.
utes ia very able aud appropriate
manner, setting forth the antiquity oil
Masonry, which arose from tho neces-
sity Of society, and even antedated the
period of written history itself. lie
also enlarged upon its diffusion, or uni,
versatility. In all nations aud in all
tongues, the essentials of the order arc
the same. Its symbolic language is un.
derstood by its votaries in all parts Of
the globe wherevcrit exists. 1t recog
Misses no distinctions among men, ex,
cept such as are based upon moral and
intellectual excellence, and turning
away from distracting sects, parties aud
creeds, it acknowledges its fcalty to
God, as the father oil all, and to the uu.
iversal brotherhood of man. The Rev.
ereud gentleman is an honor to the
fraternity. He is evidcatly master
builder, familiar in speculative OIL
moral sense, with all the tools of the
craft, aud aiming to fit himself to be
come polished asher in the living
temple on high. The audience seemed
much gratifed with the exercises of The
evening, the pleasures of which were
heightened bv the presence of the Am
phions, and number of choristers
composed OF ladies aud gentlemen, VIII,
rendered several of the beautiful ode.
of the order 10 style remarkable 70,
its spirit as well as for the excellence q
its harmony.
Ihe FIRST Rcaping Machine an Car
roll Coaaty.-lt is believed that the
hrst reaping machine introduced int,
Carroll county, was purchased Jointly
BY Messrs. David Shriver aud John
smith, OF Wakefield, twenty-seven oil
eight years ago, about lo4f. 1t was 6
McCormick machine, with wooden bar
and capable of cutting twenty or thirty
acres ID wheat per day. When The
machine was brought on from Baltimore
there was no one in the neighborhooC
sufficiently familiar with 1t to put it to
sethcr, SO Messrs. Smith and ohriveI
had to pun on their coats aud set Il
work ut 1t themselves, They finally go
the machine IN working order, aud triet
IL IN some grass, but 1t would not NOW
Wheat harvest being at hand, the.
seared Tour horses to the machine ana
put 1t to cutting wheat. Eleven acre
were cut down by dinner time. Som'
hands IN an adjoining field, laid dow
their cradles aud mounted the division
fence TO get view oil the strunc,
machine, which was destined to super
cede the old fashioned cradle, as 1t la,
superseded the older reapiDg hook
Their Indignation rose high against thi
modern lnnosator, which was to destro,
labor and take the bread out OF an hon
est laborers mouth. They refused t,
work even IN field alongside Of tina
wherein the machine was employed, aut
Messrs. Smith and Shriver had TO Gu
Their neighbours crop also, which the,
aad, charging him fifty cents per acre
ihey cut It down so quick, that tn
binders could not get it up in time
and rain came upon-it, damaging tn
ing familiar with the number of binder
required by one of these machines. Tn
Indignation of the laborers in the neigh
horhood ran SO high against this ma
chine, that they threatened to break i
10 pieces, and it had to be watched a
night for fear it would be broken q
burned.
The first threshing machine was in
troduced some ten years earlier. Judp
Hanson I. Webb rememb .rs the frs
one introduced in Union Town Distric,
and drove the team that hauled it, bein
then about II ve,rs az ao H.. -.