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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28
FOURTH
ANNUAL EXHIBITION,
OF rHE
Carroll County Agricultural Society,
TO BE HELD or rHH
Fair Grounds, Westminster, Md,
az MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
srprrpuEa 3Oth, 0croBEE lst, ID, ID, 4th
and 5th, 1879.
slo4o as Premiums for Trials
of Speed.
Trials ofSpeed.

II, lrots to be mile heats, best in 8.
A Running, hacking, Racing and Pac'
a. 10 be mile heats, best 2 in 8.
Ia trials Of speed. Except running race }
an entrance fee of 10 per cent will be charg
"a not less than to enter and 2 to start.
Entrance to be closed at IL o'clock, ~,
Tuesday. October LIST, the second day Of
lie fair. All entries to be kept secret un
nj sfter the hour named. Two trials of
s,sed 10 come of each day. No purse to
he Maid TO distanced horse.
Running Race Purse $500. $500 to FIRST,
300 TO second. ID per cent. entrance,
catch riders, mile heats, best in .. Open
10 all.
FIRST, $50 to the second. Open to all.
For Horses owned in Carroll County
prior to August lst, 1872.
Trot No. For Horses that never beat
as, 500. $50 to the first, S25 to the
second.
no. 8.-For Horses that never beat o
minutes. Purse 500. $50 TO the FIRST,
SIS to the second.
No. I.-For Horses that never beat 3. 80.
Purse $40. $40 to the first, $40 To the Sc.
eond
No. 5.-For Horses that never beat Z. so.
Parse $50. S25 to the first, $40 to Sc
eoud.
No. s.-Racking Race 1nder saddle
Parse $50. $50 10 the first, IS to the Sc.
cond.
No. Pacing Race under saddle -
Purse SIS. $50 TO the srst, S. to the Sc.
tVnd
"a Trials of speed will take place each
DAY.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28
what Constitutes Promise Of Marriagol

The Albany Laio Journal furnishes
a learned article with this title. 1t re-
views the decisions in England, and in
the different States OF the Union. We
learn that the promise to marry may be
Inferred from circumstances IL may
be made without words. The fact of
keeping up correspondence is good
evidence for the jury, aud, indeed, we
remember it was 80 in Mr Pickwick's
case, though be only wrote about chops
and tomato sauce to his landlady. In
Massachusetts, mutual engagements
are inferred from course Of devoted
attention aud apparently exclusive at
tachmeut;" and it is relief to find
that in Rhode Island Chief Justice
declares that "ordinary politeness and
.ciyilty which gentleman extends to u
lady are not to be considered as furn.
ishing proof Of promise to marry"
But West Virginia, being young State,
allows "tender epithets" to afford proof
of an engagement. Ia fact, after read.
Ing this learned essay, we feel disposed
to change its heading, aud ask "What
does not constitute promise Of mar
riage Z"
The law is, indeed, in very uneer.
tain aud unsatisfactory condition on this
subject. If preliminary attentions may
be as binding as marriage itself, people,
may as well be married lat sight" and
take no time to consider the matter.
Yet every sensible person will agree
that it is far better to recede from an
engagement or intention to marry, it
there is a repugnance to it in either
party. 1t is a pitiable thing to marry,
not for love, but for fear OF the sheriff.
Damages ought not to be given except
for some expenditure that can be made
good in money. If woman jill man,
she might be made to pay for carriage
hire, or presents, or like expenses in.
Cured by him in making himself agree
able. What woman has spent 10 dress
upon n reasonable expectation Of mar.
riage, should be refunded by the man
who had encouraged it. But for senti-
mental or vindictIye damages there
ought to be no room, as there is no oc-
casion for them. 1t is no damage to
the substantial interests of either party
to end an engagement that is no longer
agre cable to both. In fact, suits under
these circumstances are rarely brought
except by designing females, who have
eutrapped unwary young fellows, or old
fellows, into some Of those ambiguous
acts from which the law extracts a
promise to marry.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28
What are Dreams ?

Deeply buried beneath its sluggish
veil OF death, the soul carries ON its
multilarious operations without cessa.
ton. Dreaming is when by some cause
part of the veil is lifted or a momen.
tary perloraton made 10 the mask, SO
tina. glimpse Of the interior activities
shines through, and fasteDs a clew GU
the outer world for waking recollections
to seize, llazlett eloqueutIy asserts this
theory in his Round Table" 1t is now
the popular theory propouuded BY most
writers on the subject. But it is by.
pothesls, more reeondite than is war.
ranted by facts. No proof has yet been
advanced, reaching to SO remote con.
clusion. That bodies throw off ghosts
which assail the soul and produce per.
ccePtions, is a puerile, though interest
ing device, OF the early cropping Of
speculation. That guardian angels and
tempting devils mould our sleeping
fantasies, is Pigment Of superstition.
That the mind never rests from its
labors, Is a metaphysical couceit uusus.
tanned by adequate authority. We are
therefore to reject these three theories
OF dreaming, and seek some simpler
statement more in consonance with ma.
ture aud reason.
Though there is ample evidence to
demonstrate that we frequently dream
without retaining any remembrance of
the dream, it by no means follows that
we never sleep without dreaming. And
indeed, on all physiological grounds,
the probabilities seem irresistible that
IN healthy aud perfect sleep the mind
Is without the slightest touch or gim.
mer OF dream. A series of images or
perceptions may be caused in US BY
outward influence producing sensations,
by inward operations, summoning ideas,
or by the two conjoined, constituting a
more complex mental action. When
awake, we spontaneously discriminate
between these two with distinctness,
aud have power in degree to order
them at our will. But when we are
asleep we know no differences between
external influences and internal opera
tions; then our experience is entirely
at the mercy of iortuitous causes and
the law of association In our sleep
one faculty Of sense may act alone, but
IN our waking state they act, as il we're
simultaneously, correcting or confirming
each other. lu dreaming, the mind for
the most part furnishes its own mate.
rial in wakeiuluess, nature conformity
furnishes IT, There the action is recoi.
lection aud arrangement; here is per.
eeption aud assimilation. When the
sleep is complete we do not dream at
all. When the senses are closed. but
the mind partially wakes, we dream,
but retain 10 memory of it. When our
sleep is SO superficial or disturbed thai
1t Is accompanied by sensations. how.
ever iragmentary or vague, traces OF
these sensations left on the brain, sug
gest the associated dream to US when
we awake, or perhaps long afterward.
Such Is the most rational account as it
has been developed OF late by several
authors.-Doabtin Uaipersity Magaza.e.
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Marriage.

Here is 4 short chapter on maria &c
worth millions 10 gold to the young.
There is no question that our costly
style Of living dimiuishes the number
OF marriages, and indirectly recruits the
ranks Of the vicious and deprayed. So
long as fashion demands style Of living
which only millionaire can really at.
ford, aud young married couple must
support an extensive establishment, or
be excluded from the circle in which
they moved before marriage, bar is
raised to matrimonial engagements,
which only the very courageous or the
very INSCRIPTIONS will have the hardi-
hood to overstep. The opportunities
aud lures to a single life OF easy indul-
geuce aud dissipation, have constantly
increasing influence over the young men
of our cities; while continually in-
creasing number of young ladies are
educated to life Of ease, display and
extrayagance, which only few young
men can possibly support them in, aud
be honest. So our fashions put pre-
MUM upon bachelorism and vice on the
one hand, and untold waste and wretch.
edness on the other. What is wanted
more than anything in our society to.
day, is the courage on the part Of young
men aud women to break away from
the present thraldom, and set new
and nobler fashion Of Independence and
economy. A score or two of examples
Of that heroism which de6es the foolish
sentiment aud custom of the times, and
dares TO be true to the noble instincts
of the heart, and live simply and hon.
estly in a small aud quiet way, would
create a reform, if not revolution.
The question comes to every young
heart Which shall | sacrifice, the in
stincts and affections Of the heart or the
shows and shams of society? Alas,
that SO many yield the former to the
latter ! For love is the religion Of the
young, and whoever suppresses it for
the sake Of ease or display, whoever
sacrifices it for fashion, commits a sac.
rilege for which nothing on earth can
atone. Love is not a thing to be
ashamed of or laughed at, but senti-
ment to be cherished and gloried in,
aud, at any sacrifice it may require, is
cheap so long as ii adds fuel to the pre-
cious fame which purifes the heart,
refnes aud ennobles the character, and
makes manhood aud a womanhood
worth the saving and worth the name.
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WESTMINSTER. MD, SATURDAY, MORNING. SEPTEMBER 28 rs

also part Of the explanation of those
immense fortunes which haze been nc
cumulated But moro recently mines
have been discovered in California
particularly at New Almadon, in Que Of
the branch valleys of the San Jose--the
large product Of which has put new
face upon the old monopoly. New Al
MAIDEN has already yielded perhaps two
million pounds to Old Almaden three,
aud from richer ore, with prospects Of
Unlimited supply, and rishtfully, there.
fore, has now some control over the
price. 10 smaller quantities mercury is
produced in several other countries;
particularly in Mexico, Peru, Austria,
and Hungary. IN some Of these places
it is found, to a limited extent, pure, in
the liquid drops in which We see it.
But usually it is cOnbiued with sulphur
in an ore of blood red color, called
cinnabar, from which it has to be
driven by high degrees Of heat. The
process is simple. The fire is built in
one end OF an immense horizontal fur.
mace, aud the orc, reduced to small
fragments, is placed in compartments
behind it. Through this the heat passes
in flues arranged at short intervals, thus
reducing the mercury contained in the
ore to yapOr, aud compelling it to pass
off into cooling chambers prepared to
condense it, On the sides Of these it
gathers in fue drops, which, running
into larger ones, pass to the floor, aud
thence into iron pots, from which the
TASKS used in transporting it are filled
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28
Hard Times and the Cause.

We are fast becoming a nation Of
schemers to live without genuine work.
Our boys are not learning trades; our
farmers sons are crowding into cities,
looking for clerkships aud post offices;
hardly Que American girl iu one hun.
dred will do homework for wages, how
ever urgent her need; SO We are sending
to Europe for workmcn, aud buying OF
her artisans millions worth that We
ought to make for ourselves Though
our crop OF ruscals is heavy, we do not
grow our hemp; though we are oyerrun
with lads who deserve fagellatiou, we
import our willows Our women (un.
less deociyed) wear European fabrics;
our men dress in foreign clothes; the
toys which amusc our younger children
have generally reached us from over
the sea. Hence it is that we plunge
deeper and deeper in debt to the Old
World. We are like the farmer who
hires his neighbours sous to cut his
wood, feed his stock aud run his errauds,
while his own boys lounge at the grog.
shop, playing billiards, aud then Son
ders why, in spite Of his best efforts, he
sinks annually deeper and deeper into
debt, till the sheriff cleaus him out, aud
he starts West to begiu again We
must turn over new leaf Our boys
aud girls must be taught to love labor
by qualifying themselves to do it eff.
ciently. We must turn out fewer pro.
fessiouals aud more skilled artisans, as
well as food growers. We must grow
and iabricate two hundred millions
worth per annum, that We now import,
and SO reduce the foreign debt that we
have so long aud successfully augment.
ed year by year We must qualify our
clever boys to erect aud run factories,
furnaces, rolling mills, tanneries, ma.
chine shops, etc, to opcu and work
mines, improve and fashion implements,
and double the present product of their
fathers farm. So shall we stem that
time Of debt that sets steadily against
our shores, and cease to be visited aud
annoyed by hard times.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

CAPACITY OF WAGON BEps.-To find
the capacity of wagon beds: Rule.-If
the opposite sides are parallel, multiply
the length inside in inches by the
breadth inside in inches, and that again
BY the depth inside in inches, and di.
vide the product by 2,l5042, (the nun.
Der Of cubic inches in bushel, } and
the quotient will be the capacity in
bushels
Example.-What is the capacity of
wagon bed 10 feet long, 4 feet wide, and
10 inches deepi
Solution.--220 inches in length null.
tiplied by AS inches in width multiplied
by 10 inches in depth, ST, 400 BY 2.
l50.42 equal 40 bushels.
Rule 2.-Should the head aud tail
boards, or either of them, be set in
bovelling, add the top and bottom
lengths together and divide by 2 for the
mean length, and proceed by the fore.
going rule. Should the sides be slop-
ing, add the top aud bottom widths and
divide by 2 for the mean width, and
proceed by the foregoing rule.
Should the contents DO required in
cubic feet, divide the product by | ,72S,
Che number Of cubic inches III cubic
foot, instead of 2 ,l5O-42, aud the quo
tient will be the contents in cubic feet.
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The LOUISVILLE CONVENTION A
GRANT AFFAIR-W. Il. Conrad, Esq,
delegate from Pennsylvania to tho
Blanton Duncan Convention at Louis
vile, has, since bis return published a
card, aud below We give the material
portion Of it. He says
The Pennsylvania delegation was
composed of all Grant men except my
self, not one of whom ever intended to
vote for the nominee Of this convention.
Their transportation was obtained aud
paid for by the Grant people. My own
aud those Of five others, each represent
ing district in Pennsylvania, / pro-
cured in the office of the Grant State
Central Committee of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia. For this transportation
| had an order from Swipes, chairman
ofthe Bourbon State Central Committee
Of Pennsylvania That order was
obcycd by the State Treasurer of Penn
sylvania, Bob Mackey, who is well
known as one of Cameron's subjects
The band Of music that accompanied
US was furnished and paid for by the
same Grant people, and our little ban
ner that was carried BY George Mount
joy, is the same that designated the
seats in the Radical Convention Of tho
9th of June, ofthe Pennsylvania delega-
ton that nominated U. S. Grant.
If any one has not heretofore been
satisfied that the affair was Radical
production, Mr.. Conrad's card may do
something toward opening their eyes.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28
The Cherokee Rose,

A rose ought to be beautiful which
has such charming romance as the
following connected with its name: A
yonng Indian chief of the Seminole
tribe, was taken prisoner by his enemies
the Cherokees, and doomed to torture
but fell so seriously i'll that i. became
necessary to wait for his restoration to
health before committing him to the
fire. As he lay Frustrated by disease in
the cabin Of the Cherokee warrior, the
daug liter of the latter, young, dark.
faced maid, was his nurse. She fell in
love with the young chieftain, and 1,
wishing to save his life, urged him to
escape. But he would not do SO unless
she would fee with him. She cousen .
ted. Yet, before they had gone far,
impelled by soft regret at leaving home,
she asked permission of her lover to
return for the purpose of bearing away
some memento of it. So, retracing her
footsteps, she broke sprig from the
white rose which climbed up the poles
Of her fathers tent, and preserving it
during her fight through the wilderness,
planted it by the door of her new home
in the. land of the Seminoles. And
from that day this beautiful flower has
always been known Throughout the
Southern States by the name Of the
Cherokee rose.
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Original aoetru.
For The Democratic Aduocate.
TRIALS OF A HOUSEKEEPER,

h1 hfRATHAoBE.
Oh dear, my patience is worn out,
with such host OF tiresome duties;
What eau that Bridget be about, tiles.
(Look marin, and sure these ducks are beau
From Monday morning till Saturday night,
No peace find In all the house;
Tho baby cries, and Ned will fight
Good gracious, Sally, catch that mouse,
I'll try to be patient wife,
And mend my husbands socks and breeehes,
But, never Job had such life,
Run Ned, and gather in those peaehes.)
What shall get my lord for dinner
He Is 50 Gerry hard to please
There now | fear am a sinner,
(Stop, Tower, shaking of your aeas.)
Dear girls, think well before you marry,
You little know the cares you'll ind
You'll wish your Harry with Old Harry,
lThoro, Ned, you've torn your pants behind. }
These "Woman's Rights" are queer Inventions,
I'm sure I'd fnd no time to vote;
To 20 with them I've no intentions,
Chat blessed baby's on tho goatD
hear my lord, this very minute,
Oh how he'll scold and stare at me
Now sir, you d better not begin II,
Kun, Bridget, make a cup Of tea.
Now must lay my pen aside,
And smooth away that ugly frown;
Perhaps he'll take me out 10 ride,
We says he'll dine at Swayne's, down town. }
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

THESTRAIaHT CUTTERS. What they
arc, is seen in their running a candi-
date against Hendricks 10 Indiana.
Hendricks is, ever has been, aud ever
likely to be, the straightest of the
Straight Out Democrats he is not
straight enough for the few rouges with
whom Senator Morton thus tries to run
mock State ticket Thus, in this
movement, We see agaiu that Straight-
Out-ism means Grant-ism.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

The Evangelical Alliance to meet in
General Conference in New York in the
autumn of 1873 promises to be the
great religious gathering of the age
both as to numbers and results. From
all parts of Europe delegates will be
sent, and the most eminent orators OF
the Churches in the Alliance will make
addresses during the Conference. One
of its results will BIO a new, thorough
aud comprehensive revision Of the Bible
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PUBLIC SALE
Valuable Tract of Land

1FF II VITEV'F w W w IFFFFWIE NWFFNIys
vINllE undersigned, as Attorney and Agent
Il of Elizabeth Hudson, will offer at
the old Liberty Road, in Freedom District,
adjoining lands OF Augustus +. Dorsey,
Jacob nitabridlc, John W. Parrish aud
others, aud near to Carriers Cross Roads,
On Saturday, tie 2SM Of September,
1872, at ! o'clock, p. NJ, valuable Tract
.f Land containing
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

Few people follow any definite plan in
life. That is why so many come out
almost any where and about as often
next to nowhere at ALL The Fixed pur-
pose, the heroic door die, is a spectacle
which ono in a thousand have no COM
prehcnsion OF.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

USEFUL INFORMATION TO lay a
square acre of ground: Measure 2O9
feet on each side, and you have square
acre to an inch
An acre contains 4,S40 square rods.
A square mile contains GAO acres.
In length mile is 6,2s0 feet, or 1850
yards.
A fathom is six feet.
A league is three miles.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

The great original sea serpent is said
to be at last identified as a monstrous
species of eel, by no means rare in
South African waters, which sometimes
attains the length Of forty feet.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

One of the features of London the
atre is a woman styling herself the
Mexican athlete. She holds suspended
by cord from her teeth two $50 pound
balls, and at the same time pound ball
in each hand. She also shoulders a
500 pound cannon, and holds it while a
round is being fired.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-28

The annual coal production of Great
Britain is 100 million tons; that Of the
United States "a million tons, or less
than one third as much as that of Great
Britain.
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TRUSTEES SALE
DESIRABLE LITTLE FARM.

TESHE undersigned, by virtue Of Deed of
II Trust from Joseph d. Barnes, duly ex.
ecuted and recorded among the Land Re-
cords OF Carroll county, | will offer at
Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on the
premises, on
Saturday, the 2sth day Of September, 1872,
at O'Clock, p. NJ, valuable and desira.
BILE little Farm containing
so rs Acres of Land,
more or less. The improvements thereon
consist OF comfortable two story LOG
DWELLING HOUSE, FRA
Stable, Dairy, Meat House, EfJEIA
also Barn; all the buildings ~ i6im
are in good repair except the u
Barn. Springs of excellent water al the
house, and the fields are conveniently
watcred, there is also one of the best
APPLE ORCHARDS
in the vicinity on the premises, about / 5 or
20 Acres is heavily covered with Timber.
This property is situated in Freedom
District, Immediately on the Washington
Road, aud short distance south of Porter
?. o., and adjoins the land of Jonathan N.
Dorsey, David A. Dorsey's heirs, William
Brandenburg and Others.
This property is desiraby situated, is
convenient To Stores, Mills aud Churches,
and is worthy the attention Of purchasers
who want u comfortable home for a small
amount Of money.
Taxes paid up to and inclusive of levy Of
1872
Terms Of Sale. One third cash on the
day OF sale or on the ratification Of the sale,
and the balance 10 two equal annual pay.
ments of one and two years, to be secured
by the notes of the purchaser or purchasers
with approved security, bearing interest
from the day of sale.
CHAS. I. REIFSNIpER,
sept Its Trustee.
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Thomas Jefferson on old Ago.

ln his letter to John Adams, JefIer.
sou said Our noxt meeting must be in
the country to which they have aown-a
country for US not now very distant.
For this journey we shall need neither
gold nor silver in our purse, nor scrip,
nor coats, nor slaves Nor is the pro.
vision for it more easy than the prepa.
ration has been kind. Nothing proves,
more than this, that the Being who
presides over the world is essentially
Notwithstanding from us one by one
the faculties, leading us like tho horse
in his mill, round and round the same
beaten circle
To see what we have seen,
10 taste H. o tasted, and at each return
Less tasteful; Ger our palates to descant
Another vintage
until, satialed and fatigued with this
leaden iteration, we ask our congo.
heard once very old friend, who
had troubled himself with neither poets
nor philosophers, say the same thing in
prose, that he was tired of pulling off
his shoes aud stockings at night and
putting them on again in the morning.
The wish to stay here is gradually ex.
tinguishcd; but not so easy is that of
returning once in a while to see how
things have gone on. Perhaps, however,
one of the elements of future felicity is
to be constant and unimpassionod
viewer of what is the wish Of occasional
visits. Mercer has given us vision
OF the year 244O; but prophecy is one
thing and history another. On the
whole, however, perhaps it is wise and
well to be contented with the good
things which the Master of the feast
places before us, aud be thankful for
what we have rather than thoughtful
about what we have not
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Tho "oldest inhabitant" is certainly
dead. Her name was Peggy Arlington,
She lived in BrOokneal, Virginia, aud
she was born in 1866. q