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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28
Business Locals.

My stock Of Mons Wear, aud Ladlei, !
Goods must be sold TO make room y
Great inducements offered at II. Il. w.
You can save money by buyiag goOu
at II. i. Norris.
CENTENNIAL CLOTHING HOUSE.
Keep your eye on this IL you wan :
money and buy cheap.
Suits from $3.50 aud upwards
Pants g 100 "
Vests g rs -
Goats g 10
All kinds Of ready made clothing n
bought low at II. Sehenthars oePSSs'l
W. NJ. X. II. depot, Westminster ma
House dies have been unusually wv
for some time past, and the biting his, ~
the horses aud cattle almost past emu"
Oh. the ilies the horrible ales
Buxning around like election ue% -,
DOdEing nrDund Ike a maniac aIea''
Over TIE butter and Into the cream
Holding conventions all over the ptsgeb
Biting your ears and tickling your 49,"
Crawling buxxing too busy " ~
Dog gone the nasiyspesuierous ny
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28

Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale.
at fity-six. has an 1adoable litile baby
born on tho 3Ist Of March last.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28

IMPORTANT TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
We publish below letter from Hon. Charles
B. Roberts, which fully explains itself and
which presents golden prize, and a fair and
open held for honorable rivalry. We hone
to see Carroll county well represented in The
competitive examination, and shall be glad
to note the fact that at least one of her Sons
is the victor. We can assure all that merit
alone will decide the contest
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28

The contract system Of mending the
public roads in Cecil county, has not pre-
vented complaints Of bad roads.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28

REFRESHING showers Of rain fell on Monday
and Tuesday and were Of great benefit to he
growing crops
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-07-28

The sixth Regiment Of baltimore Ordered Out
They are stoned Back by Mob aud the Armory
Beseiged- Attempted March Through the CITY
Nine Citlxens shot and sixteen Moundctl-Cut-
break az PittShnrg, Pa-Soldicrs Mobbed aud
killed-Great Loss Of iife-ta5 Locomotives and
800 Freight Cars Burned-lmmense Loss Of Mer.
ehandlige--A Harvest for TrAmps and Thieves
The strike Excluding Throughout the Country
NEW York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland
West Virginia, Ohio, MISSOURI Indiana, Illinois
and California Involved
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
How the Late Strike Was Inaugurated.

The Trainsmen's Union, which in
augurated the late strike, was organized
between June and July 10. 1t was
started when the Pennsylvania Company
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
ordered the reduction Of 10 per cent. in
in the wages, to take effect on June 1.
Mr.. A. r. Ammon, then employed on
the Fort Wayne road, was dismissed
from the service, and at once proceeded
to the organization of the Union. Three
years ago, when the engineers struck,
the fremen took their positions at the
throttle, and there was no interruption
to business. This time it was concluded
to begin at the other end of the trains,
and fagmen, brakemen, conductors and
fremen took the oath, which the mem
bers refuse to disclose. Ammon was the
first to sign the roll and take the oath,
and following came the names of the
Fort Wayne men. This was all the or
ganization there was about it. A trip
was made over the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad by the leaders, and trainmen the
length of the line took the oath. About
this time the managers of the Connells-
vile division got wind of the association,
and discharged all the men who joined
the Union. The work of organization
meantime went on, and strike was or
dered for June 81, the going out of the
Fort Wayne men to be the signal for a
general strike on the trunk lines. The
men on the Fort Wayne line weakened,
and the strike did not take place. Mr..
Ammon predicted that general strike
would follow the action of the Fort
Wayne road, and the news by telegraph
from all parts Of the country seems to
justify his statement. The union was a
strong one, considering that it was lit
tie over msnth old. The engineers,
although not members Of the union, are
nevertheless in sympathy with the
strikers, and it does not require much
intimidation to cause them to desert
their engines. This is the statement
made by the leading strikers in the
union. Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
The Wheat CrOn.

The latest returns received at the Ag-
ricultural Department show that the
winter wheat crop, already safely har-
vested, is the largest produced in this
country for many years. The spring
wheat is also in excellent condition, and
an unprecedented yield is anticipated.
The cotton prospects are also more IA
vorable than last year at this time, the
product being now estimated at upward
Of 100000 bales. The wheat crop Of
last year was 260. 000,0 900 bushels. This
year it will be more than 1876, 100000
bushels. The average export of five
years has been 81, 100000 bushels. The
largest amount ever exported in one year
was 90,O00,000 bushels. Of this years
crop not less than 100,000,000 bushels
may be sent abroad.
Another important circumstance in
connection with our own abundant har-
vest is the reduced production of South
ern Russia, resulting from the disturbed
condition Of affairs in the countries ad-
iacent to the Black sea. Recent special
reports from Southern Russia report the
estimated crop of the present season at
less than one-half that of former years.
Russia has hitherto been our only great
rival in the English wheat market. Be-
fore 1872 Russia shipped almost as much
wheat to the markets of the world as the
United States. Last year the Russian
supply was only one-third as great as
that of the United States, and for the
present year it is shown by official COM
munications that the proportion of Rus
sian wheat will be much less. It is
shown by official reports that the wheat
crop in California for the present season
is small, SO that the estimated surplus of
1OO,OOO,OOO bushels will be produced
east of the Rocky mountains, and must
reach the seaboard by rail or river
Washington Dispatch to NeaO York
Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09

fearful lest his coming, as suggested
by her appearance, was inopportune and
awkward
But Mrs. Baldwin flushed and smiled,
and looked lovely despite the old blue
veil. And then he suddenly discovered
she held in her hand the note he had
written her six months ago. She an
swered his inquiring look as she con-
Quoted him into the parlor.
"I have only this moment read your
letter. Oh, Mr.. Ammidon, what must
you have thought Of me all this time?"
His face lighted gloriously.
"That you were the sweetest little
darling in all the world, whom loved
so, and wanted so, that I came again to-
day to plead my cause. Bessie. consider
that letter written just now-what would
be your answer"
And she dropped her white eyelids
and half-averted her sweet face, and the
answer came through her parted lips, SC
low that only lovers ears would have
known she said eyes"
And Mr.. Ammidon never finds fault
when his wife "cleans house." because
he knows that if it had not been for that
abused institution he might be lonely
bachelor in Mrs. Benedicts establish
ment,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
BaltimOre's Losses by the Strike.

Attention has been called in the Ga
2ette number OF times to the serious
losses, caused by the strike on the Bal
timore and Ohio road, to nearly every
industry and branch of trade, wholesale
and retail.
1t is of course impossible to estimate
with absolute accuracy the amount of
loss, in dollars and cents. Inquiry by
the Gazette into this question makes it
certain, however, that it does not fall
short of several million dollars. The
railroad company itself has done no
freight business, it's passenger traffic
has fallen off to mere nothing, and
freight of all kinds, detained at various
points, has suffered more OF less dam
age, some of it having been rendered ut
terly worthless. The railroad property
near Mount Glare destroyed by fire was
alone valued at about $50, 900 and the
loss by other causes has been at least
$500, 900. The petroleum trade has
been one Of the greatest sufferers. The
loss to this branch of trade may be put
down at $100, 900, the loss to the grain
trade at $4,000, to the coal trade at
1875, 900, to the wholesale liquor trade at
$50, 200, to the liquor saloons at $50, 900
estimating that the 500 saloons made
an average OF only $40 day., to the cat
tie trade at $50, 900, and to other trades
at $500,000. Besides these items are to
be considered the cost OF the burning of
the sash factories near President street
depot, $5O,OOG the maintenance of the
troops, $4,000, and of the special
police, $4,000. There are, further
more. to be taken into account the stop
page of manufacturing, and consequent
ly of wages, the effect of this upon the
retail trades, and another item is pre-
scented of not less than 100000. This
makes a grand total of nearly $4,000 900,
a sum that will, it is believed, come with.
in the actual figures could they be posi-
lively ascertained. The following table
will show more clearly an approximate
estimate of the losses incurred by the
various trades:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Irish Discomfort.

This brings me to the question of
Irish discomfort. There can beno doubt
that it is quite as deep and passionate as
ever. Of course it ought not to be if
Mr.. Gladstone's predictions were worth
anything at the time he disestablished
the Protestant Church in Ireland.
Thenceforth, he assured the world, the
Irish would be contented and happy.
What are the facts? An Irish landlord
of the greatest influence in his own coun-
try assured me the other day that never
had he known the country to be in so
disturbed and dangerous a condition
Everywhere, said he, the peasantry
are being drilled with the utmost care
and regularity, and they are now all well
armed. The police dare not interfere.
The people hope that England will get
to war with Russia, and then they ex-
pect to give her some trouble, and they
will do it, too" Tt would be of little
use to tell this to the majority of En-
glishmen, for they would only laugh at
1t. Yet it may turn out to be anything
but laughing matter. In the event Of
foreign war there would not be many
troops to spare for the suppression Of
insurrection in Ireland. Mr.. jennings
London Letter IN the NeaO York World
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
MY MOTHERS DOOR.
BY R. H. sToDDARD.

met in the mist one summer morning
A girl whom had known from child,
And whose bright self was her best adorning-
But that dark morning her looks were wild.
a. STOP little Norah." She did as / bade her.
Z" Why are you here alone on the moor 2"
$50 WAS sad last night, to-day am sadder,
Because go from my mothers door"
'@E Why do you go, then, and what is your sorrow?
Tel an old man who has known you long"
q S0ggath Aroon, you will know tomorrow,
And be first-but don't-to say was wrong.
I used to be glad-no girl was gladder-t
never remembered that we were poor;
r was sad last night and to-day am sadder,
Because L go from my mothers door,"
d "a what has she done to your" I" Broken my heart
SIR
"And what have you done to her now, pray?"
d &c Nothing but love him, and take his part, sir,
For the poor fellow hasn't word to say"
1s Then she got mad, and you got madden,
"a was sad last night" "And to-day you are
sadder,
Because you go from your mothers door.
"a xou will go back, Norah. Give me your hand
now"
seI would rather not, SIR" 81 say you WILL
You will fetch him to see me. You understand
now" -
Your reverence knows him. It's only Phil.
She locked me up, and he brought ladder. s.
He loves me-" You told me that before.
But your mother is sad" She shall not be sad
der ...te s.a,
Z viii not go from my mothers door,"
--AppLet0nS Journal for august
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Secretary Sherman.

A correspondent in Vermont, who
met Secretary Sherman when he visited
that State few days ago, photographs
him in this wise His personal APP
pearance is striking, if not imposing.
Over six feet tall, lean and lank, he is
the type of true Westerner. Careless
~ dressed, wearing sack-coat of dark
material anything but broadcloth, with
a dark, high-crowned straw hat, not re-
Gently purchased, his feet incased in
brogans, with cotton socks, which might
have been covered had his trousers been
an inch or two longer, he reminds one
of careless, well-to-do stock buyer OF
o patent-rights peddler, rather than the
chief financial agent of this great nation.
In conversation he is affable, and when
not being interviewed by newspaper
correspondent, which, by the way. is
his especial aversion, he is free and
somewhat careless in his remarks"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
The Nathan Murder.

The Philadelphia North american
says that the police of New York had the
murderer of Nathan in custody at one
time and knew that they had him. Mr..
Nathan's coachman had the idea that his
master owed him $1OO, 900, and the muir
derer entered by the area way, just as
the coachman was in the habit of doing
surreptitiously. Also for several nights
before the murder the coachman had
slept about the wharves on North river,
and the murder was committed with a
" ships dog" The police detained him
sixteen days and then sent him to the
Wards Island Asylum, without men
tioning the fact publicly, the family be-
ing satisfied that he could not be con-
victed on account of his insanity.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Able Liars.

The Sazarac Lying Club meetings are
reported in the Austin (Nev.) Reveille
The members are very able liars, accord
ing to what we read about them. One
Of them stood up in 8 recent meeting
and said: 1.-THE telegraph company are
now using the quadruplex system over
the Virginia and Salt Lake circuit, by
means Of which four messages can be
sent simultaneously over a single wire.
The increased strain on the wire is not
visible here in Austin, but I was out at
Dry creek yesterday, and in that vicinity
the wire was just humping itself, and
grooming and straining, and dropping
words off in chunks. [ examined the
wire and found a knot in it, and came to
the conclusion that a quadruplex mess
age had struck the knot and got tangled
up at that point. [ tried to straighten
the wire out, but section of an account
of battle between the Turks and Rus
slams struck me on the ear and knocked
me down, and [ concluded that it was
not advisable to fool with the thing"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
A PennsYIYania Insect.

There is a general notion that only
tropical countries are infested with ants
that are capable of doing serious dam
age. This, it appears, is mistake.
There is black carpenter ant, whose
name, FOrnaica Pennsylvania, indicates
it's residence, that is capable OF effecting
much destruction in woodwork. The
Rev. DR.. McCook has seen a rafter which
these ants penetrated to the extent of
five or six feet Of it's length, completely
honey -combing it. The rafter was in
the roof of a porch. The attention of
the Philadelphia Academy Of Sciences
was called to the matter, as it is evident
that such penetration of wooden struct-
ures, and especially bridges, might cause
their unexpected fall. Wooden bridges
need at least as frequent and as thorough
Inspection as iron structures.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Death By An@sthetics.

Although deaths during the admins
tration of anesthetics are COMPARE
lively small percentage, yet their total
numbers, if a considerable period of
time is embraced, seem somewhat for
midable. DR.. Charles Anderson recently
prepared list of deaths during the use
of chloroform in and near Cincinnati for
thirty years past. He finds twenty
cases, and in the journal which records
this there happens to be mentioned four
other cases of death by chloroform or
ether-they being recent, but not all
occurring in this country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Cruelty to School Bows.

A London school-boy, II years of age,
committed suicide recently because he
feared fogging. He had played tru-
ant, and knew what the usual conse-
quences were. The matter has stirred
up great commotion in the newspapers.
and Parliamentary inquiry has been
demanded. Some persons familiar
with the discipline Of the school have
written to the London Times about it.
maintaining that the public would not be
astonished at the results if they knew
how the fogging was done. The Rev.
A. A. Day says, over his own signature,
that two men are required for the opera
ton. One takes hold of the boy, hoists
him on the buck by the wrists. and keeps
him suspended. The other strips off
his coat and, armed with large and
heavy rod, gives fifteen cuts on the boys
bare back, and these with might and
main. This, however, was mild fog
ging, for if the offense was at all great.
the boy, after having fifteen cuts on his
back, received fifteen more in another
place with fresh rod J; and that, at least
in Mr.. Days time, used to be the pun
ishment for running away. The school
at which this sort of fogging prevails is
called, by an odd irony, Christ's Hos
pital.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
Copper In Blood.

At last it has been apparently proved
that copper is a norma constituent of
the blood, not only of man, but Of the
lower animals. In the case of the blood
Of man, the presence of copper might
be thought to be accidental, and intrs-
duced through the use of vessels of that
material, in the preparation of food.
But an analysis of the blood of wild
herbivorous animals also discloses cop
per. It has yet to be asccrtained wheth-
er thecopper belongs to the plasma or
to the blood globules, or both, or
whether it is introduced in the food or
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
TOO LATE.

II you had come to me, my friend,
Only one year ago,
To ask this question 1 should not
have answered you with No.
That was time when 1 knew naueht
VI lessons lately learned.
Of trust betrayed, of hope deferred
OF love half won, half spurned.
How could know you only sougbt
To pass an idle hour,
Unmindful how you plucked or drowned
Your once admired flowerY
How could dream yo,tr VOWS were false
Since mine were only true?
II am changed at last, I've learned
The lesson taught by you.
And now you come again to me
To ask my love, my trust?
The flower you spurned a year ago
Has persisted IN the dust
Of its own hopes. When you can raise
hat flower to life again,
Then you may hope to teach once more
MY hearts forgotten pain.
And SO, farewell I do not hold
For you an unkind thought,
Nor yet regret for what has passed
The lesson that you taught
VI heedlessness, Indifference
(Or call it what you WHY,
My woman's heart so surely learned,
1t needs the lesson still.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09

drawing up the bucket, which was at
tached to windlass, her little boy came
to her with bloody knife in his hand,
and the mother let go of the windlass
and ran to the house, to find the little
daughters throat cut from ear to ear,
and quite dead When she released the
windlass, to which the filed bucket was
attached, the wiftly-revolving handle
struck the little boy, crushing his skull,
killing him instantly. Greenville CO.,
Hern7d
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
A Direct AppeaI.

The early mornings witness the gath
ering of the hard-up and hungry along
the wharves, all armed with bait and
fishing tackle. An old darkey was heard
talking to the fishes he saw swimming
around his line yesterday, and among
other enticing things said was:
"Give me abite, honey de children am
a-erying down to my house, and I tell
you it's fish or nothing in dat establish
ment. - G0lUeStoqa NeaOS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
An Ohio Horror.

About three miles west of Berlin, neal
the Darke county line, on last Friday, {
lady went out to draw bucket Of water
from the well in the yard, leaving hel
two children, a little boy of about
years Of age and little girl of less than
a year, in the house. While she was
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09

"THIs is a great country. Every ma
ton is afraid of us. Except the Indi-
ans. "-MiastreI Joke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09

blue veil tied tightly over her golden
hair, and her muslin dress pinned up in
front, disclosing ravishingly lovely feet,
despite the half-worn boots, with bas-
ket lying in readiness beside her, and
her faithful ally, Annie, waiting to con-
sign piles Of waste to deathly ignominy,
and the paper and rag man.
"Only one pile more, Annie, and
aren't you glad we're SO nearly done :?
Here, you sort the papers, and I'll see
that nothing worth saving has been put
with this music.
And minute after the soft, rustling
stiffness was broken by a sudden ejacu-
lation from Mrs. Baldwin, and Annie
looked up, wide-eyed to see her reading
penciled note, with paling face and
trembling lips. "Its letter I lost,
that's ALL Annie. Go on with the pa
pers. There is a man at the door. I'll
go down. You can finish
And with futtering heart and eyes
that were suspiciously bright Mrs
Bessie went down stairs, glad of an op-
portunity to get away by herself a few
minutes to think it all over, to try to
realize that it was true that Walter
Ammidon had loved her. And she
brushed away tears that were both
rapturous and full of disappointment
and fear, and opened the front door to
Walter Ammidon. He bowed with a
look of surprise and chagrin, fearing
lest, now that his love for Bessie Bald
win had overleaped its boundaries, and
forced him to second attempt to win
her love-that had become more precious
in proportion as it seemed unpossessable
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-27
FOREIGN,

Twenty.fOur Turks and BuIgarians,
from Pevna, come in TO the Russian head.
quarters on the twenty.eight, saying they had
nothing to cat there.
As a naval power Mexico is rather
weak. There are four war steamers alto,
gether, and it is stated by the Mexican papers
that not one Of them has been cleaned or
rcpsred since it were brought from England
several years ago There will probably be n
grand explosion of boilers some day, and
that will wind up the career of Mexico's
navy.
The Russians have gained their sue.
ccsses in western Bulgaria by their superior
calvary force. Having occupied EtrOpo,
forty.tiye miles from Sofia, they range over
the entire country between the Balkans and
the Danube, west Of the Tirnova7Sstova line.
The Turks have only 10000 mounted troops
in their army. Suleiman Pasha mas but 3 :
200 cslvarymen. and the porte is now making
great effort to organize another cavalry
regiment at Bsgdad to re,enforce him Poor
as the cavalry is, it is better than that of the
Turks, which is described by all the cores
pondents as simply execrable. Fresh Russ
sian cavalry regiments continue to pour over
the Danube, and with the fall OF Plcvna the
game will be up for the Turks. As no re.
endorsements can reach Osman, it is only a
question OF a little time when he will vacate
the Plevna forts, although he is understood
to have 10000 men there. He can not feed
them many weeks.