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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

BRucEyILLE lrENs.-0ur correspondent,
under date Of Jan. y, writes :-0n thursday
night and Friday morning last we had grand
sight in witnessing the immense body Of ", ter
and ice flowing at fearful rapidity down Big
Pipe Creek, taking everything on its way,
fences, mill dams &c. There is not mill dam
on the stream from Double Pipe Creek to the
head Of the stream that escaped damage. and
some were destroyed to considerable extent.
Mr.. Gents mill dam on Piney Greek, near
keysville, has not even vestige of /, left.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

SoSs OF TEMPERANCE. Carroll Division.
No. AZ, Westminster, elected the following
officers, who were duly Installed on the Sd
nstant:-Frank X. HerrS W. p; James
Shreeye, W. A.; H. L. Norris, r. S. John
II. Yingling, A. r. S. VIM. H. Yinaling,
Z. s.; N. Banghman, 7. j. W. Poole, c. I;
Charles Lease, A. G. Charles +. Sanford, |.
.: Thomas H. Bankard, o. G. DIR. Chas
Billngslea, G. The Division is in very
fiourishing condition.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

ASCENSION CHURCH.. --Rer. Mr.. Bartol. az
baltimore, Is expected to ofIiciate. to.morrow.
IN the Place Of Mr.. Ingle, who is absent.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25
Business Locals.

We have Just received large supply Of
Letter and Note Paper, also several sizes d
Envelopes. Every business man should use
them Send your orders to the ApyocArE
Remember that Me largest and cheapest
stock Of Queehsware, Glassware and House,
keeping Goods in Westminster, is at ". o.
Ligget's.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
Those desiring to have their children thor.
oughly instructed in Piano music, will applv
% Mrs. ParTamore, at Mrs. Mills residence.
Main Street. East End, Westminster. nov 81
Read W. 0. Liggefs advertisement h
another column and profit by it,
Magistrates Blanks and Fee Simple Deeds,
for sale at this Office,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

sIElcHNc.-A gentleman from the vicinity
OF Double Pipe Greek informs US that the
sleighing still continues in that region, and
that the sleighs have not ceased to run since
the irst snow fell, period Of five weeks.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

London underwriters refused to insure a
vessel because i was named 'sThe Devil"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

RICE DRILIs.-Messrs. Wagner 4 Mat.
thews, Of this city, are largely engaged in
manufacturing their rice drill. This driIl is
being extensively used throughout the South
Their principal depot is Charleston, South
Carolina they will ship about fifty drills by
spring. This drill will do the work Of twelve
or fifteen men. Ii would be much better than
buying bonds II our capitalists would aid with
their means IN the extension Of our manufac.
turing establishments.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25
WANTED.

II AB0RING MEN wanted on tho Mines
IL Of Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company,
near Manchester, Maryland. Ready work Tor
good men. Apply at the Mines.
.TRuNkS, valises, Umbrellas, &c, good
= Goods and low Prices, at
Jan 70 W. o. LIGGET's
THRY the 81 TEAS, at
4 W. o. LIGGErs.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

HoucESyILtE lTENs.-Our correspondents
at Houeksville send us the following:
Shocking dccideni.-0n Thursday evening.
the 10th inst. the quiet neighborhood of Pleas.
ant Grove, Baltimore county, about FIVE miles
east of this place, was thrown INTO a terrible
state Of excitement, by the drowning Of Henry
IL. Millender, boy about eleven years of age.
While returning home from school, taught by
Mr.. Frank Newbelle. in attempting TO cross 4
foot bridge over Big Piny Run, near his father
residence, he either became giddy. or the wind,
which was blowing very strong, blew him of
the log backwards into the stream. which was
very much swollen by the melting snow, and
there being no one present, except his sister
and younger brother, who were urable Ia
render him any assistance, the water carried
him down the stream about three or four hun,
dred yards to n wagon bridge, at which place
his body was found, in about an hour
after he fell into the stream. Henry II. Nil
lender is a son of Mr.. John II. Millender. {
prominent citizen Of Baltimore Co., Nd.
Great Rerirdi There has been in progress,
u great revival at Browns NJ. Il. Church, neal
this place. There have been good many hap
PLY converted, and several are still seeking a
the altar for pardon Of their sins. Notwith
standing the inclemency of the weather III,
house is generally crowded The meeting hai
been in progress for six weeks, and bids fair I,
continue for some time yet.
Sales Of Real Estaie.-Mr. Chas. T. Ref
snider, Trustee Of Margaretta c. Bordley, sol,
on Saturday the 18th instant, one mile nortl
Of Houcksyille, at public sale, q tract Of Ian,
containing A acres and II perches, improve,
with n frame house, barn and other out build
ings, to William A. Davidson, for Ssl5; ais,
at the same time the property known as tn,
Houek 4 Hoffman old Pulling Mill property
containing 81 acres, improved with ston'
dwelling and stable, to George W. Heller
| for S5l5.
A son on Mr.. Jesse Bixler, of Hampstead
aged l6 years, on returning to his home iron
the store Of Mr., Murray, between and II
| o'clock on the evening of the 10Th instant
| fell upon the ice and fractured the thigh bon
Of his left leg. The fracture was reduced b,
DIS. Wells and coonan. The patient is do
ing as well as could be expected, as he ha
been afflicted in the same leg for some years
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

Mr.; /. L. Cootes, proprietor of the Central
Hotel, this city, shot an owl, a few days since,
near Union Mills, which measured three feel
from tip 70 tip Of its wings
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25
LOCAL ArrArRs.

PooR ASSOCIATION OF WksrMISsFER.--A
respectable number Of our citizens assembled
at Nheeler's Hotel on Thursday evening last,
and organized temporarily an Association for
the relief OF the poor of Westminster, b. elect
ing John 4. Smith President, Chas. B. Rob
eris and David II. Shriyer Vice Presidents,
A. II. Huber Secretary, VIM. A. Mckellip
Treasurer, and the following Relief aud Col
lecting Committee East End to Church
street, Hanson I. Webb; Church street 10
Wheeleg's hotel, Henry Vanderford Wheel
ers hotel TO Centre street, y. l. Wheeler I;
Centre street to Union National Bank, w. L.
W. Seabrook Union National Bank to Rail-
road, 1heo i. Fritchey Liberty street snd
vicinity, q. W. Matthews; Railroad 10 Main
street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Joshua
lingling; Yingling's store TO College Hill,
Il. B. Norment; Pennsylvania Avenue, Geo.
ShaeIfer.
The officers and relief committee will meet
again, in the parlor Of Wheelers Hotel, this
saturday. evening, at O'Clock, 10 more fiil.
" systematic the work to be done. In the
meantime We hope our citizens viii consider
the importance OF this organization and hold
themselves in readiness to respond lberaly,
when solicited to do so. The collection and
distribution of money will be Systematically
DONE and accounted for through the columns
Of our local papers. II is intended that this
organization shall become permanent, and be
continued from year to year. The present
winter has been unusually severe, aud there is
no Disgusting the fact any longer, that we have
some distress among us that needs prompt
and speedy relief On Monday next, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, the members
of the relief committee will wait upon the fam
lilies in their respective districts and solicit
such voluntary contributions as each indiyid-
al may be willing to make. They will also
ascertain the wants of those requiring assist
anee, aud through the organization have them
promptly supplied. Let us then ask that our
citizens will do their full duty in this matter,
remembering that he who giveth TO the poor
lendeth unto the Lord
Before closing this notice, we would suggest
TINT the aim and object OF this organization
be commended to the people from the pulpits
Of each Of our churches tomorrow Sunday.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

Double PirE CREEK lTEas,--The fall of
rain and melting of snow on Thursday night
and Friday morning, caused a nine.ieet rise
in Double Pipe Creek, breaking up the ice,
which averaged thirteen inches in thickness.
and while in its descent over Mr.. Co ver's
mill dam injured that structure to such an ex-
tent that $500 will not repair damages. The
running of the mills, however, is not in.
terrupted Mr.. Joel Myers mill dam. on
Big Pipe Creek, one and quarter miles
northeast Of here, was also injured to the
amount of several hundred dollars. The wa
ter overhowed the banks Of the creek, and the
heavy masses Of ice crushed down the heavy
locust posts Of Elder Sayler's bottom fences
like pipe stems, doing that gentleman CON
siderable damage. Mr.. Milton Cover also
lost heavily in the destruction of fencing, &C.
Along the lines of Big and Little Pipe Creeks
the lost was heavy, especially on Little Pipe
!, Creek, the water being higher than il has been
! for years; and its banks being low and the
channel very crooked, the bottom lands were
overfowed; an ice-nood not only sweeps
the fence away and lodges the rails and posts
in piles as an ordinary flood does, but the
masses Of ice weighing ton or more, crush
aud break everything to pieces and hence the
heavy loss.
The delay Of one hour in the A. N. eastern
bound train on Monday was caused by the
water running on the track, near Mechanics
town, and freezing solid, causing the front
wheels of the engine to slip the track The
Waterman stationed ut this point of the road
was at his post and signaled the train, but the
officers Of the train thought they could run
the engine over it in safety, but the result
showed they were mistaken.
The food did more damage on Big Pipe
Greek than was aware of when first wrote.
Thirty or forty feet Of Joel Myers mill dam
was swept away, and the running of the mil
stopped; Fred. Nearing dam, at Bruceville
and David Burlington $, near Middleburg, have
been carried away.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-25

Mr.; Samuel Sauble, butchered hog, last
month, seven months and a half old, which
weighed 262 pounds, This is hard to beat.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
Life Insurance Evils.

Agents have reaped and continue to
reap abundant harvests. Commissions
are paid to them out of all proper pro-
portion to the services rendered. If
every policy-holder understood that
from One-fourth to one-half of his first
premium and nearly one-twelfth of all
subsequent ones are given to the man
who solicited and, perhaps, deceived
him, public Indignation might force a
change in matter so important. The
annual accounts which officers render of
their stewardship are not satisfactory.
What are call other expenditures
which swallow up by millions the mon
ey of policy-holders how many officers
are attached to a company? what the
services of each, how much, and how is
he paid q? what is the profit from lapsed
and surrendered policies, and how is it
disposed of? are questions which,
among others, ought to be, and are not,
answered. The state authority, under
present laws. can effect much, but even
it has complained that officers ''evade
the rendition of fair and honest state
ments of expenses. The utmost ex-
plicities in the matter should be insisted
upon by the assured as the only way of
protecting the sacred interests involved.
Full information as to principles and
practice, fair ind candid dealing in
every respect, are essential, if the bust
ness is ever to be properly understood
by the community, and serve success
fully the real purposes for which it was
established. It will merit the unquali-
fed approval and support of all men,
when it shall be conducted in methods
consistent with the following character
so well given it by Prof. Bartlett: cit
may be proper to say, that have never
been able to regard the institution of
life assurance as a mere business con-
cern, of which the main object is to
make money. 1t has always appeared
to me rather as fraternal charity, Gre
ated by the voluntary unions of persons
for mutual protection against the ca
lamities of sudden pCnury to helpless
widows and Orphans-always dispensing
the largest iberality toward its mem
bers, consistent with equal justice to
all, ,'-GaLdEg.
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The Frau Won Goethe.

Many admirers of Goethe, will miss
| the pleasant house in the Goethe Platz
Weimar, where the daughtef-in-law OF
the poet used to receive visitors and
keep up in some degree the literary ira
dition of the place. The frau Won
| Goethe was hospitable, especially to-
ward the English and at her little re-
unions the grand duke and duchess of
Weimar would drop in unceremOnious-
ly, and over the tea and brown bread
and butter, discuss art, literature, and
music with two or three intimate friepds
of their hostess and such visitors as had
been presented to her. She would have
been handsome old lady but for a pro-
jecting jaw; but she was vivacious,
deeply interested in literature, and
spoke English fuently and willingly.
When she lived in the Goethe house
she occupied the upper story, so thet
strangers saw nothing to remind them
of Goethe except family portrait OF
him, and, it is true, his two grandsons,
one of whom is very much like the
great poet. But she had fiat in the
Schiller-strasse, and for the most part
lived there /; it was supposed, for econo-
my's sake. Pilgrims to Weimar felt it
rather hard not to be admitted into the
rooms consecrated by Goethe's lifelong
labOrs and death, but so it was. No
one was ever allowed to cross the
threshold, and even those who knew the
frau Won Goethe well did not venture
to ask the favor. She used to regret
, the decay of conversation in Weimar.
In my fathers time" she said, "the
people met because they wanted to dis
cuss subject. Now it is only gossip
and idle talk" She hated the French,
their language and their literature,
which was odd, for there was a good
deal of the Frenchwoman about her.
Till the last she was always surrounded
by little cotterie of friends and admir-
ers, the grand duke, and the grand
duchess made much of her, if all Wei
mar did not, and when she fell i'll the
grand duke, who happened to be absent,
Immediately posted back to Weimar to
see her. The frau Won Goethe was GER
tainly an agreeable, nay, fascinating
woman, without being intellectually
and personally gifted in a remarkable
degree, and she was one of the remain
ing few who really knew Goethe That
she was sparing of her information is
hardly to be wondered at, since it used
to be the fashion to print in German
periodicals can afternoon with Ottilie
Won Goethe, etc. Latterly, the people
left her in peace.-PdU Mall G0zet te
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
HUMOROUS.
The Controller-General-Cupid

The Controller-General-
What length ought lady's petit
coat be? A little above two feet.
"A poetic Hibernian explains that
love is commonly spoken of as flame
because it's tinder sentiment
They have young lady at Grand
Rapids who is so conscientious that she
won't take kiss without returning it.
Why is a man who makes additions
to a false rumor like one who has con-
fidence in all that is told him? Be
cause he relies on all that he hears.
Moore said to Peel, ON looking at a
picture of Burke, " You can see the
very quiver of his lips" Yes, said
Peel, "and the arrow coming out of
it." Moore was telling this to one of
his countrymen, who answered, "He
meant arrah coming out of it.
Mrs. Fisher, of st. Louis, has a
babe which is six months old, and
weighs one hundred pounds. A paper
in that city informs us that the mater
nal Fisher has "rigged up a steam
spanker capable of giving sixty taps
minute, of thirty pounds to the square
inch, and sings him to sleep through a
freman's trumpet"
"A young man entered a restaurant,
being attracted by the sign, "Fresh
boiled crabs, fifteen cents" He sat
down, had q crab dished up, ate it, and
threw down fifteen cents on the counter.
The keeper demanded a quarter. 81
thought that the sign read fifteen
cents?" suggested the young man.
$50 it does. It's twenty-five cents
when Won take 'em here, and fifteen
cents when you take 'em home.
"Well," was the reply, I'm taking
this home" and he cody walked out.
-Filial piety someumes assumes
most affecting forms. An Eastern
physician, who pays a great deal of at
ton to anatomy, was presented by his
son, upon his birthday, recently, with
a very interesting corpse which the de-
voted child had resurrected from the
cemetery the night before. When the
father saw it, he sat down upon the pi-
ano stool and burst into tears. He said
that at least he felt repaid for all the
trouble he had with that boy, for all
the nights he had charged around the
room with him in his infancy, and for
the anxiety with which the father had
watched and directed. the growth of the
child's moral nature,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
Discovering the Thief.

Nick Bowers was a MEMBER of the
original Christy Minstrels, and, in his
day, was the greatest middle man and
interrogator" known in the profession.
Nick used to tell, with great merriment,
an incident of his boyhood To pre-
serve the flavor of the relation, we will
record in Nick's own language, and only
regret that we cannot accompany it with
his inimitable gesticulation.
"My old man, SAID Nick, sc as a gen
eral thing, was pretty steady old gent,
but once in while he would get oblivi-
Gus, and water was not the cause of 1t.
I recollect a certain holiday was ap-
preaching, and I had been skinning
around to get little money to have
time with on that day but the fates
and purses were against me, 1t was
but two days prior to the anticipated
holiday, and hadn't marry red. Re
member this, boys, when [ add that on
the same afternoon / came into the
house, when 10 ! there on the floor, to-
tally overcome by his libations, lay my
respected daddy, and beside him lay
six shining half-dollars, which had
rolled from his pockets. Boys, I've
been an honest man all my life; but
once, when a boy, / committed a theft.
I hooked one of those half-dollars
Thinks to myself, the old mans been
on a jamboree, and won't know how
much he's spent, and will never miss it.
But, mark you, the next morning and
my two brothers were summoned into
our fathers presence. The old mans
face lowered. / thought of the half
dollar, and knew that a storm was brew
ing"
Boys, said he, "last night when 1
came home had six half-dollars. One
of EMS gone. Your mother didn't take
it. There's been no one else in the
house. Which one of yor took it p
We all protested our innocence.
Boys" said the old man, that
half-dollar never walked off, and I'm
going to find out which one of you
took it"
Turning round, he took down from
the wall an old flint-lock blunderbuss.
This he deliberately loaded with pow
der and buckshot in our presence; then
fastening it upon the table he cooked it,
tied string to the trigger, took a seat
behind it, holding the string in his
hand, and in solemn tones addressed
us thusly:
Boys, I'm going to discover the
and punish him at the same time. You
must each of you blow into the muzzle
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Some Interesting Medical Statistics


In addition to the very valuable vol
umes embracing the "medical and sur
gical history of the wal" two of which
are now being issued, DIR. Baxter, medi-
cal purveyor of the United States army,
has in preparation a report on the medi-
cal statistics of the provost marshal
generals bureau, which will be some
respects a document of even greater i'm
portance than the other, because it will
give an immense mass of medical facts
relative to the physical condition OF the
great number of males examined by the
surgeons. About enc and three-quarter
million persons were examined from and
after January, 1864. The examinations
are tabulated. To accomplish this o.
344 preliminary tables we're prepared,
containing $500, 900 sets of figures. By
grouping these were reduced to 81
tables, giving l ,524, ,334 sets of figures,
showing 48,050 ratios. These tables
are arranged in four classes. One
shows the effect on accepted or reJeetep
persons examined on the height, COM
plexion, weight and age. The next
class shows the height, girth of chest
and nativity, as bearing on the decision
of the ex miner. The next cleass deals
with complexion, occupation, and
whether married or single, and the
fourth relates to the different national
tiles. These divisions are all arranged
with regard to the prevalence of certain
classes of diseases or injuries, affecting
the capacity of the examined. In the
ratios thus obtained it is found that con-
sumption and scrofula are most preva-
lent among persons of light complex
ion. Consumption is found to be most
prevalent between the ages of 35 and
40, and in the several occupations the
larger percentage of these diseases are
found among editors, physicians, public
officers and tailors, while the lowest are
miners, boatmen and cooks. The aver
age prevalence is largest among whites.
With those of foreign birth, consump-
ton prevails most among Welsh and
Germans, while the lowest ratio is in
the Scandinavians. The native born
suffer less from this disease than other
nationalities, except the scandinavian
l.
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of that gun. When the gfi'ty one
blows, off goes his head. Now, then,
you have a chance; will you own up or
blow?"
Ben," said the old man to my Oldest
brother, have you got that half
dollar?''
"No, sir. -
Take blow"
Ben did so in safety.
Nick" (eh, boys, I tell you the
chills began to crawl down my back, }
"got that half-dollar ?"
"No, SIR said 1, with a defiant
swagger.
"Blow in that gum"
l walked up bravely, gave blow, and
lodged
"Nick, said the old man, in voice
of thunder, "where is that half-dollar %
He had me. The truth lodged out
of me. Said I, "Out in the barn,
pop."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
LEES lfN-STERI-

Oh love, so fair and sweet: yet dead
And can il be the words are said
That binds thee to earth's narrow bed?
And though above tha Cay weep,
Can I ne'er waken iIes from slCe.-
That seeUas 50 peaceful, yet so deep?
All love, it seems bat yesterday
We Tambled down the old path Ey,
And summer DER the landscape lay
We knew not then the storm was near,
Our hearts were troubled with no fear
Nor dreadful autumn, cold and sore
Your ewes are closed my love, aud yet
/ strive to stifie vain regret,
For earth and Heaven in thee are met.
But can this be last goodbye,
And will our love forever die
In that pure land for which sigh?
And can it 5e that love forgets,
When death seal of silence sets
On pallid lips, and life's regrets
Shall not the purer things we knew
Live on, grown grander ard more true,
In this life which has come to you?
Dear love, the mystery l would see,
The lOnged for is reality
To you, but not yet, dear, to me.
Content l am TO wait till when
My haTfd shall clasp your hand again
And then, oh, my dead darling, then!