The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-03-16
Local Intelligence.

tsioRtoirn.--The following letter was
received too late for our last issue:
Saturday night, March I'd, Mr. Eph.
rain Powell died, supposed to be aged
about SO years, Of consumption and
plcurisy; was good, honest aud in
dustrious citizen, man much respected
and leaves a wife and children to mourn
their loss, with large circle of friends
Near Muttontown on Saturday night,
black man named George Hillery was
accidentally shot by the careless hand
ling OF a revolver, not serious. Ed
mund foyer and Josiah Hay, colored,
each prayed the surety OF the peace
against the other, aud Justice Gilbert
took their recognizaneo for. the State.
On Saturday, March %, the Stock.
holders oil the Uniontown Savings
Bank" elected the following gentlemen
as directors for tho ensuing year -
Messrs. Il. y. Warden, John Gore,
Judge Foutz, Daniel S. Diehl, Emanuel
Formwalt, Levi Englar, Levi Caylor,
Dennis COokson, VIII. ii. Starr aud
Ii. Singer. The directors of this Bank
have declared dividend Of 5 per ccut.
for the past year.
March 9Th, at Charles II. Gilbert's
Hotel, Uniontown, late Sheriff Tracey
sold Francis Bohen's interest in At
acres Of land to Granville Wilson for
Sl25.
Under date of the 18th instant, oar
correspondent writes:
90 the 18th Mr. VIM. Zimmerman
made sale Of his personal property, one
horse, Sl25; one horse, $40 two and
three year old colts, S2l6; Que COW, s55
two heifers, one aud two years old,
S3450. Amount of sale about 81 900.
Sold by Henry g. Cover in about three
hours.
On the 18th Mr.. Abraham Garner
sold five horses ranging from S7l 60
1888 so; seven cows averaging S37 90.
Mr.. Joseph LoogaDeeker, Of Union.
town, sold his blacksmith stand to Mr.,
Jacob Yon of same locality for 81, 900.
Mr. Longanecker has removed to Penn.
sylvania.
MIR. Jacob Yon sold to Mr.. Ephraim
Winter u and fraction acres OF
timber land, at 1888 33i per acre.
Mr. Winter expects to have his build.
ings erected aud ready to move BY
April LIST.
Thursday, Mr. John Hamburg, wife
and three children, start for Kansas,
having already shipped his goods.
Heirs of John b. Williams deceased,
sold to Mr.. John Wagner, ten and
fraction acres of land for 81 600.
HoUck;sviHc.-Sincc our last we Lave
again been made to feel the blasts of
Z" old winter" said to have been as cold
as any other portion of the winter, fol.
lowed by snow aud rain which has ren.
dered our roads nearly unfit for travel.
ing.
The measles have made their ap
pearance in this neighborhood, aud
there are quite a number of cases,
though none have proven fatal, yet
they have quite a bad effect on our
primary schools, by causing many chill.
dren to quit for the present, either ia.
ken with tn, measles or afraid of getting
them.
The primary school at Browns, near
this place, was reopened in the NJ. L.
Church, which is only few rods di..
lance from the place where the school
house stood, on the following day afte.
the school house burned.
Our farmers are all busy hauling
limestone and burning lime, as that is
the only work most OF them eau do at
present.
On Monday, at 5 o'clock, F. NJ. snow
commenced falling aud continued during
the night, at intervals, leaving the earth
covered to the depth of 1--WE or six
inches, and the zephyr high and the
earth bound in ice to the depth of 10
or 20 inches But with the fine rains
aud snow, it gives no nourishment to
the earth, as the rain falls and the
snow melts, it, in consequence of the
ice bound surface, runs of, having no
good effect upon the wells aud springs.
A large mas:ilf belonging to Jacob
+. Allgire, Of Baltimore county, showed
signs of hydrophobia on Friday, of last
week. The dog left home on Monday
evening, and has bitten several dogs in
this neighborhood. When last heard
Of he was a, Adam Skaters.
Carroll aud Albums Counties.-Wc
give in juxtaposiiion, for the sake of
comparison, the following statistics Of
Carroll county, Md, and Adams coun.
ty, Pa.
Carroll county was Adams county, Pa.
organized In 1886. II was organized Jan. 22d
has IS paupers In its 1900. II has 50 paupers
Aims House at an an In its Almshousc at an
nuai cost Of S5,357.72. annual cost of $40, 69i.-
Products OF the County Is. Products Of the
Farm containing l40lcounty farm, number
acres, for 1871: COS of acres not eiyenl-
bushels Of wheat, 1850 6Ss bushels OF wheat.
bushels Of corn, S00ll5 bushels Of rye IS
bushels OF potatoes, so bUshels cf eioverseed,
bushels OF onions, i0 2425 bushels Of corn 10
bushels Of beets, 9,0O0the ear, SIS bushels of
heads OF cabbage, 50Ioats, - bushels tno-
bushels Of turnips, sthy seed, lilo bushels Of
bushels Of parsnips, 0lpotatoes, IL bushels Of
bushels OF beans, 40lonions bush. OF bee.s,
tons Of hay, &c loads of 900 heads Of cabbage,
corn fcd der, 1919 lbs. so tons OF hay, 70 loads
OF pork, $3.50 lbs. oflof corn fodder, 2l90 lbs
beef. of pork, llis Of beef.
Number Of way faring travellers
lodged in the Aims House of Carroll
county, from March, 1870, to March,
1871, 1880 meals furnished, BIS.
Syhesrilie.-The only excitement that
has tended to rufflc the even tenor of
our unusually quiet village duriug the
past week. has been the agitation Of the