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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-05-05

NOTWITHSTANDING the assurances of
peace by Turkey, the principalities and
the great powers, the Bashi Bazouks con-
tinue TO commit nameless atrocities on
defenseless populations, the Bosnians are
arming their whole population, and Rus-
STA is strengthening her Black sea de-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-01
Sporting News.

Three boys of Jersey Shore Pa, killed
three deer last week.
Wild turkeys have not for long time been
more numerous in Virginia than they are this
year A flock entered the city of Lynchburg
last week. One killed in Shenandoah county
few days ago weighed So pounds.
DEER SHOT Mr.. John r. Peddicord, liy.
ing near Emmittsburg whilst on a deer hunt
to Allegany county, shot a large buck weigh.
ing 40 pounds. lie put seven buckshot
through the deer, after which the animal ran
more than mile before he fell.
A GEEAT SPORTING COUNTRY. The London
World says bohemia, after all, is a couu-
try TO live IN. In less than eight days a
shooting partyou Prince Won Schwarzenberg' 5
estate have brought down 1000 hares, 100
roebuck, $50 deer of other kinds, As bears,
200 pheasants, and 800 partridges. Only
fancy, four dozen boar What terrific pig
sticking
A SUccEssFuL Wild Turkey HuNT.-On
last Tuesday evening Mr.. Joseph c. Hersh-
berger, of the Conococheague District near
Fairyiew, learning that there were some wild
turkeys in the woods along the creek, took
his gun and started in quest Of them. At
nightiall he saw flock go to roost in the top
of some large pine trees they always 60 as
near the top Of their roosting tree as possible)
and having waited until it was dark, the moon
being under some floating clouds, he took off
his shoes and crawled on all tours to a tree
into which he had seen one fly. This one he
killed without soaring off those which were in
the neighboring trees. He moved off then
some distance the moon suddenly shone out
bright, when a turkey saw him and flew off its
roost and disappeared. BY concealing him.
self when the moon was shining and carefully
creeping when it was under clouds, he sue.
eeeded in shooting four by 10 o'clock. On
Friday morning at daybreak the Squire re.
spuled. .he hAnt, accompanied by Massrs ID.
| c. Herbert andlNewton Daley, and during
the day Mr. Hershberger killed two more and
Mr.. Herbert one. The next day the same
party went out, and Mr., Hershberger succeed
ed in killing another. Those killed in the day
time were shot flying. This made eight out
Of the flock OF eleven turkies which had wan.
dered over the open country to the Couoco.
chehgue woods from the mountains, driven
probably by a scarcity of food. The bagged
turkios consisted of three young gobblers and
five hens, weighing in all 10 pounds. This is
The most successful turkey hunt in the valley
for many years. -HdgGstolon Mail.
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Sale of Mortgaged Real Estate


THE undersigned, Attorney and Trustee,
Il by virtue Of power Of sale contained in
the Mortgage made September 80, 1875, by
Frederick kiesel and Catharine, his wife, TO
Gustave Flohr, and recorded among the Real
Estate Mortgage Records of Carroll county
in Liber +. I. s., No. Q, Folio ll9, &c, will
offer the Real Estate named and described in
said mortgage, at Public Sale, to the highest
bidder, on the premises, on
Saturday, e9th day Of December, A. D. 1877,
at II clock, a. IN. This Real Estate is sit.
uate in the eastern part Of Manchester Dis
triet, Carroll county, Maryland, about II
miles from Bahn's Mill, mile from Shaffer' 5
Mill, and adjoins lands Of Charles ShafIer,
George Eversole, and George Bankert and
others, and contains
20 Acres, 3 RoOds and 90 Perches
of land, more or less. A due proportion of
which is in TIMBER the cleared land is laid
of into convenient fields, enclosed with good
fences, and this land is naturally of good
quality, and is well watered aud supplied with
fruit The improvements consist Of a two.
story Log House, with basement, bank
barn, spring house, and other necessary out.
building.
The Terms of Sale prescribed by the mort.
gage are Cash, to be paid on the day Of sale.
]. j. BAUMGARTNER,
Attorney and Trustee.
HENRY MoTTER, Auctioneer. nov 24-4t
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exception, were lost, the rescued seaman be.
ing VIM. Weed, Of Roekland, Maine
The damage to the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal is estimated at over 5000, COO by n,
President, Hon. A. p. German, who wan,
over the line on "Wednesday.
The Baltimore Sun, of Tuesday, snvs
The heavy storm Of wind and rain, ne las,
fragment Of which fingered until yesterdsv
spread over vide area Of country from M
northern lakes to Texas, westward 10 H.
Ohio and Missouri valleys, southwestwnrd h
Arkansas, and was felt with great severity ali
along the Atlantic coast. The Middle AMI
Southern States bore the heaviest stress "a
the storm. All the rivers were swollen ~ a,
unusual extent, but in Maryland yery I;,,Is
damage was done by them beyond submerying
low meadows and sweeping away fence, sy.
eept along the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal and Of the Main Stem of the Raj.
timore and Ohio railroad, from the Point If
Rocks to Harper's Ferry, and at points west.
ward TO Cumberland, the Potomac river hav.
ing risen on Sunday afternoon twenty two feet
above its ordinary level. In Virginia the Dan,
the Shenandoah, the James and the smaller
streams having their headwaters in the NOM.
tains, rose with great rapidity. The rise in
the Dan river was greater than was ever be.
fore known, and at Danville great destrnction
of property is reported. At Lynchborg' on
the James, the bridges were washed away
The James River and Kanawha canal was
oyerflowed and broken, and the DAMAGE Of
Richmond is estimated at over a million of
dollars. The long railroad bridge over the
Roanoke river on the Petersburg and Weldon
road was swept away by the torrent. No se.
rious injury was done to the Valley railroad
but the Winchester road was damaged 10 an
extent that has temporarily stopped the mas.
sages Of trains from Harpers Ferry, Along
the Atlantic coast the storm was very severe.
The wrecks thus far reported are those of III
United States steam soop.oEwar Huron, off
kittyhawk, on the North Carolina coast. with
the loss Of over one hundred officers and men
a foreign bark in ballast, the Joseph Lang,
twelve miles north Of Cape May, and the BRIG
Ossipoe, with fruits from Spain.
BY reason Of theCOnunction of the foods in
the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers at Har.
per's Ferry the rise Of the water in the Poto.
mac, in its flow from that point down as far
as Alexandria, was higher than perbaps ever
before known, and certainly higher than since
1852. Yet the great railroad bridge at Har.
per's Ferry has withstood it all and remains
intact. The bridge al the South Branch of
the Potomac, this side Of Cumberland, how.
ever, is injured TO the extent of the sweeping
off of single span. The greatest damage
within the State Of Maryland, it is believed,
is to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, which
has its outlet at Georgetown, d. c., and
where the trade may be cut Of for the balance
Of the season.
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Loss OF THE SLooP.oP.WAR HrRoS. -Ac
'epting as true the statements now made Of
the surviving officers that there was no break
ing down of the engines at a critical point
aud that the vessel held together long after
sh9 had struck, it would seem that the loss Of
the ship must be attributed to an error Of
navigation, miscalculation of leeway and Of
the set of the shoreward currents, or varia.
ton Of the compass. In this the matter ends
With a negative satisfaction. Mistakes will
happen, and must happen, in the best regula.
sd service. England is still proud Of her
navy, though her iron,clads have had bad
rick for some time past of running into each
other. But the public mind will scarcely &C
oept the plea Of mistake as covering the
whole case. 1t seems hard that, when the
heroism of whole crew eliminates in con.
ierring rewards and honors almost exclusively
upon one man, the error of one man should
entail destruction upon whole crew.-NeE
FORK World.
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Thirty families of Russian farmers number.
ing altogether ia souls, arrived in New York
on Friday, ON their way to the far West.
Their curious costumes attracted the atten.
liion of visitors to Castle Garden. The men
hyore slouch caps, all of the same pattern, and
A1ng oyercoats Of serge, or Of sheepskin with
tlie wool turned in, invariably gathered tightly
ID the waist like an ulster and Aaring in bell.
,share at the bottom. Their boots reached "a
he knees. Their hair was Topped straight all
hrolnd as il the edge of an inverted bowl,
lAeed on the head had been used as a guide
h The shears. Their faces were smoothly
tayen. The women had cloth about the
aad, and over the ends Of the cloth a heavy
iak Many Of them wore heavy boots, and
4 babies, which they carried in front in q
culiar sling that seemed to be part of the
al The children were in dress like mi
! ,tiies of the old men and women.
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THE WORLD FOR 1878.

49, me change In lis PROFESSIONALLY (which
~ s2ok place May /, 1870 THE WORLD has become
~ sprghtiest, most scholarly and popular
lVuInsl IN the metropolis" IL 4 entertaining in
wrong willingly 10 no man no creed nd Interest aud
~ pai3; " treats all subjects OF importance earn
e1hy aug with respect II seeks 10 make itself an
nsteeaOle companion, a. well faithful guide and
teaeeher. IHE WORLD regards the recent victories
% he parry with which 1t by preference acts not as
Iste partisan triuinphS gained by partisan coniri-
am kehuine popular demand for new methods in
koFelnmeht iot thorough publication Of the pub.
~ ssfYlee ana Tot rectheatlon OF the aims OF
party organizations. Wherever and whenever The
yemocrae party proves itself loyal TO this popular
ueinAhd IliE WORLD Will resolutely uphold r. wher-
ever and whenever IL falls short Of or attempts 10
eounleraet this popular demand TaR WORLD will as
tt,,olulely oppose and den0unce IT, In a word THE
NoD believes the Democratic party 10 exist for the
gop1 o. the public service II does not believe the
pugeserVice to exist for the good ofthe Democratic
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REMARKABLE LONGEVITY Buck
walter, who died last Sunday, near Kimber
ton, Chester county, Pa, was a member of q
family remarkable for longevity. He was a
son of Jacob Buekwalter and Mary Buekwal
ter, Of Upper Providence township, Mont
gomery county, and the former of whom died
in 1888, in his SD year. and the latter in
1916, aged rs years. These parents had
fourteen children, three Of whom died young,
and two others, son of 81 years, and
a daughter Of 20 years, died in 1919. OF the
remaining nine the youngest son died seven
years ago, and the youngest daughter, Mrs.
Sarah Coulson, four years ago, aged 67. The
death Of Abraham Buckwalter, on Sunday
last, in his Slst year, now leaves six Of the
family, whose ages are respectively SO, 81,
so, 10, II, 10.
Within a radius Of two miles of 0ldtown
village, in Maine, there are now living, the
most Of them in fair health, eighteen men
and women Of the following ages, to.wit
l0l, 80, 30, SO, 81, SO, SO, IS, 81, 81, 80, 50
50, 80, 80, so, so, 80. Their united ages are
1886 years, making an average of 85i. Many
Of the above are about their work as usual
one Of them, Deacon John Rigby, is at Milo
doing a job of stone work for that town
He works himself, and is said to accomplish
as much as any of his men. Mr.. Patrick
Glynn, not included in the above list, died OF
Friday morning Of last week, suddenly, o
congestion Of the lungs, aged over so years
A week ago he was about his work in hi
usual health.
Samuel Penn, aged 80; Mrs. Anna Penn
aged II; Mrs. Rachel Cooper, aged ss, anC
Mrs, Lydia Garrison, aged So years, live il
one house on South Laurel street, Bridgeton
N. j.
The american Farmer published, som,
years ago, a list of thirty persons, from 10 :,
~ years Of age, all living within radius o
five miles around the village Of Royal Oak
Talbot county, Nd.
Mrs. Margaret Gray died in Cabarrus Co.
n. C., last week, aged ll6 years, having beef
born in that county in l76l. She was tn
mother of sixteen children, had never beef
out Of the county in which she was born, ant
had never seen railroad.
Sela Nutter, colored woman living a
Manticock, Somerst county, Nd, is reliabl,
known to be ll3 years old.
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"A y rHr MES or SAN FRAxcIsco. There
u i 8, forty men in San Francisco whose
mr. exceed four millions of dollars each.
q e are as many more whose wealth is
q one to three millions each. None Of
liz fortunes were inherited, but were &C.
Qr dby business and speculative operations,
ane,H within period Of twenty years.
No OF the millionaires have passed the
prii Of iife, and they are all just as eager in
the qnr suits for riches as those who enjoy
no hhuoE for opulence. The passion for
grea ehih in California is unprecedented.
Shar whose fabulous wealth reads like the
story Monte Cristo, arrived in Sacramento
City lsl9, when il was tent town, and
laid 1 BASIS for his fortune in small gro
Gerry eon X street.
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Foreign Attain.

Seryia has been long while making up her
mind whether il would be well for her 10 com.
NIT herself in an alliance with Russia, but it
Is now announced that her troops have or
ders TO march TO the frontier on Thursday
29th-Thanksgiying day. ID is nearly 800
years since the Turks first subiugated Serva,
and have ruled to ruin il for more than four
centuries. In 1906 the Servians, under
Czerny, won a short.liyed Independence, and
were cruelty punished by Turkey, when the
latter again sabjugated the country. In 1914,
a revolution, under Milosch, established the
independent government of Seryia, although
it has ever since been required to pay an an
nual tribute to Turkey. Entire freedom is
wanted now, and Seryia was one Of the prin-
cipalities which, last year, reyolted against
Turkish rule, and helped to give Russia the
opportunity Of declaring war. The Servians
have no sympathy with the Turks-race,
religion, language and social customs making
them natural allies of the Russians.
A Havana dispatch Of November 18th,
says "A great battle has been fought and
lost by the Spaniards According to the
Spanish official organs, Gen. Dabau, at the
head of 1900 troops, was attacked near
Holgesim by the combined forces Of Gomez
and Garcia, and after four hours skirmishing
and fighting, the Spaniards were forced to
abandon the field, leaving thereon twenty. five
per cent Of the number in killed, wounded,
and prisoners, among the former Major and
several commissioned officers. The enemy's
numbers could not be ascertained.
A very formidable and murderous plot has
just been discovered and quenched in blood
in Guatemala. The conspirators, led by a
Hungarian named Kopesky, had formed a
plan to assassinate the president in his palace,
then summon the ministers by fictitious
orders, and assassinate them one by one as
they arrived then to seize the government
and levy forced loan, &c. The plot was
frustrated, and seventeen of the consprators
we're shot on the plaza Of the capitol.
Baron Rothschild, Of Frankfort, leads Herr
krupp, the great cannon founder, in the cur
rent years revenue tax-list of the German
Empire. The Baron's tax is $l7, 100, and
Krupp's, Sl5,75O. A Silesian mine-owner
ranks third, with $4,000.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-01

Wcl5ls results of our Great Exhibition
are codually reaching us. The King Of
Swedei the opening Of new railway in
his doit ions, was assigned to highly.
finished1 llman Palace Car, built at Wi.
mington Delaware, on the model Of car
which Via hibited OF The Centennial Ex-
post on "a purchased by the Emperor Of
Brazil bus, 70 the south Of cur own con.
tinent a. 70 the north Of the European, this
one exhit i,arries the reputation Of American
MECHANICALLY. How many such instances
exist, and what variety OF articles, Il Is
impol 81, compute. Nor eau we estimate
the adfant which Americans are deriving
from the latiiions Of the skill Of other
nations tladelphia Ledger.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
NO. 1858 EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
isaiah Brown, Administrator Of Harriet
Brown, deceased, VS.. Matilda A. Brown,
Administrative Of Vincent Brown, and
others.
TINE object Of this suit is to procure de-
Il cree for a sale of certain Real Estate
which was seized and possessed by Vincent
Brown in his lifetime
The bill states that the said Vincent Brown
died interstate in Carroll county, Maryland,
indebted unto your complainant's interstate,
Harriet Brown, and others, in divers sums Of
money, which the personal estate in the hands
of cectain Matilda A. Brown, Administra-
trix Of deceased, was insufficient to pay; and
that the said Vincent Brown left certain Real
Estate, described in the bill of complaint
and its accompanying exhibit; and that the
said Vincent left widow, Matilda A. Brown,
OF Carroll county, Nd, and FIVE children and
heirs-at- law, viz Granville Brown, who re-
sides out of the State of Maryland; Clary, a
daughter, wife Of Jabez Shipley, Of Carroll
county, Maryland; jerome N. Brown, a son,
residing in Carroll county, Maryland, an in.
FAINT under the age Of twenty-one years;
Alice, daughter, wife of William MeLane,
of the city Of Baltimore, Maryland; and Vim.
cent Br.swn, son, an infant, under the age
Va - YEARS. WIN IcSlueS III the CITY OF Dhitl-
more, Maryland, in whom has veated the
title Of the said real estate.
And the bill charges that the said Real
Estate is liable to be sold for the payment Of
the debts of the said Vincent Brown, the per.
sonal estate being insufficient to pay the same.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered that
the complainant, by causing copy Of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper pub
hshed at Westminster, once in each of four
successive weeks, before the 10th day Of De-
eember next, give notice to the said absent
defendant Of the object and substance of this
bill, and warn him to appear in this Court in
person or by Solicitor on or before the llth
day Of March, in the year 1873, to answer the
premises, and show cause, If any he has, why
decree ought not to pass as prayed.
FRANK 7. SHAW, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
nov 10-5t FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk,
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MARRIED.

At the Reformed Parsonage in Manchester,
by the Rev. VIM. Rupp, November 10th, Mr..
John W. Houck and Miss Susan j. Burns
both Of Manchester district.
On the I'D instant, in st. Johns Catholic
Church, in Frederick city, by Rev. Father
Cache, Harry Little, Of Frederick, formerly Of
Westminster, and Mrs. Annie NJ. Ebberts, OF
Frederick.
On the 9Th ultimo, at the residence of the
brides father, Joshua Brown, Esq, by Rev.
z. G. Cronin, John B. Bartholow and Miss
Kate Brown, all Of Frederick county.
On. Nov 2sth at the U. B. parsonage, in
Manchester, by Rev. j. II. Smoke, Mr..
i lnomas Aiglre, OF Baltimore county, and
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri.
IN Der has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county Letters Testamentary
on the personal estate of
JOSEPH RooP,
late Of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated TO the subscriber
on or before the Goth day of June, 1878 ;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit Of said estate. Those indebted are
requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 10Th day OF
November, 1877.
nov 24-4t# Execn,or
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COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
Westminster, Nov. %, 1877.

Westminster, Nov. %, 1877.
IN pursuance of an Act of the General As
4 sembly Of Maryland, passed at January
Session, 1874, hereby give the following
notice to taxpayers:
This is 10 give notice that the County Com
missioners of Carroll county having made
their annual levy on the assessable property
Of said county, for State and County Taxes
for the year eighteen hundred and seventy
seven, that said taxes, if unpaid, will be in
arrear on the LIST day of January next, and
bear interest from that date; that all persons
or incorporate institutions failing to pay their
State and County Taxes before the same shall
be in arrear will render the property and
estate of such delinquent liable to Be sold FOR
the prompt payment of said taxes.
l.. c. TRUMBO,
nov 2i.6t County Treasurer.
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Notice to Creditors.

THIS is to give notice that the subscriber
= hath obtained from the Orphans Court
of Carroll county, Maryland, letters Of Ad,
ministration on the personal estate Of
JOHN S. SMITH,
late OF said county, deceased All persons
having claims against the deceased are here.
by warned to exhibit the same with the vouch
ers thereof, legally authenticated, to the sub.
scriber, on or before the 2Sd day OF Nav.
next they may otherwise BY law be ex,
cinded from all benefit Of said estate. Those
indebted are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given Under my hand this Esd day Of 0cto-
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and seven.
ty-seven.
JAMES E. SMITH,
nov S-4t Administrator,
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Notice to Creditors.

THIS is to give notice, that the subscribers
n Of Carroll county, have obtained from
the Orphans Court of Carroll county, in Ma
ryland, letters Of Administration on the Per
sonal Estate Of
SAMUEL MESSENGER,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers
THEORETICALLY authenticated to the subscribers
on or before the 9th day Of June, next :
they may otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit Of said estate. Those indebted are
requested to make immediate payment.
Given under our hands this 9th day Of
November, 1877,
SAMUEL ]. MESSENGER,
JOHN 7. MESSENGER,
nov 104t Administrators