The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-12
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ed patent for clearers for coffee and teapots.
Herr Bros. Of this city, received the first
Fair.
A small reduction has been made in the
force At the Taylor Manufacturing Company
works in this city.
i IS proposed to have a law enacted to
make il a capital offence 10 sing or whistle
'grandlather's Clock"
Pipes, cigars and matches, are the greatest
Of incendiaries. They destroy more property
than all other causes combined.
Ga Wednesday and Thursday of last week
81 ,594 persons attended the York county fair.
They know how 10 sustain their fair in York
J. Frank Noel, near this city, left at this
office fine sample of ground nuts grown by
him. Some of them contained FIVE kernels
Carroll county receives from the Comptrol-
Ter, as her portion Of the school tax of 1878,
S3,ll5.s0 for white schools and S29l.62 for
eoiored
California bean, raised in the garden of
Mr.. Strasbnrger, Baltimore, three feet ten
inches Ia length and weighing six pounds,
was brought 10 our Office on Thursday.
The handsome cake presented by Mr.
James Biggs was ratified of on Monday last
and the proceeds, $1,000, sent 70 Mayor La
trobe for the benefit of the yellow fever suf-
About 1900 persons participated in the ex-
eursion to High Rock, on Thursday, under
the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal
Brotherhood Of Baltimore. quite number of
whom were from Westminster and Hagers-
town.
The Towsontown Union says:-Messrs
Herr & Bro, well-known and extensive car
riage builders Of Westminster, are selling a
large number of vehicles through Baltimore
county. They turn out good work and give
general satisfaction.
The President Of the Carroll County Agri-
cultural Society gives notice that all stockhol
ders, with their families, will be admitted free
to the Butchers Barbecue on the 10th instant,
on presentation of their tickets at the en-
trance to the Fair Ground.
The German Lutheran congregation Of
Woolerys district, have recently built a resi-
dence for their Pastor. Il is frame, 22x24
feet, stories and basement. The church is
in hourishing condition, and the Sunday
School has about forty scholars.
This is the nutting season, and many ju-
yenile party returns laden with chestnuis, chin
quopins, hickorynuts and other spoil of the
forests. There is more pleasure in juvenile
nutting party than there is in fashionable
leyee, rubber of whist, or q bout at billiards
OF bowling.
At an election Of the stockholders of the
Westminster Savings Institution held on the
9Th instant, the following named gentlemen
we're elected directors for the ensuing year
Jesse Reifsnider, James w. Beachem, Ed
ward j. Lawyer, Charles Billingslea, Morde-
cal c. McKinstry, Chas. L. Reifsnider and H.
l.. Norris, and organized by electing Jesse
Reifsnider, President, B. W. Bennett, Treas
urer, and Jno. T. Diffenbaugh, Secretary.
Driving cattle with the aid Of dogs is a
method of utilizing the canine race which
might be more generally adopted with profit
BY farmers, drovers and herdsmen. We saw
a large drove of cattle driven through this
city, last week, and when part of the drove
turned aside into by-streets, the two dogs ac-
companying the drove Immediately pursued
them aud turned them back, nor did they wait
for orders from their masters. We did not
learn to whom the dogs belonged, but the
feat excited our admiration.
MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BoARD.-AlI the
members of the School Board we're present at
the regular monthly meeting, held on Mon
day. the 9TH instant.
An urgent application from Double Pipe
Creek, petitioning for the opening of a public
school TO accommodate the children of that
place, was presented; and after careful con-
sideration, DIR. Reindollar was commissioned
to consult counsel, the Hon. j. L. Smith,
and, if the proposed measures be legal, to
proceed to cooperate with the petitioners to
open the school, should he, DR.. R., after
full investigation, taking surrounding schools
into consideration, be satisfied of the neces-
sity and expediency Of opening said school.
Several applications for positions as assis-
tant teachers were presented and referred; in
a contest between two applicants to be assis-
referred to Mr.. Herring, to inquire into the
wishes of the principal teacher, the trustees,
and the people concerned, to make choice of
that assistant who shall appear to be most ac-
ceptable, and to notify the parties.
A committee, having been appointed at
special meeting to report upon a choice Of
Biographies to be supplied to the schools,
presented a comparison between two, Swim
toms and Cornell s, showing that financially
the latter presented the advantage of cheap
ness, saying nothing about the relative merits;
but as difference of opinion existed among
the members of the Board, some members
favoring one and some the other, a ballotwas
ordered, and Messrs. Zolhckoifer and Herring
we're appointed tellers. The vote being thus
taken and the ballots counted, it appeared
that three ballots had been cast for CornelIs
and but two for Swinton's; and the question
VI ttAS 00oFAAbu VI a tcAN-booN on 0NbEtaPhl
was thus decided in favor of Cornelfs. This
decision rendered it necessary to repeal the
order of the 4th of February adopting Swim
toms, which was done.
The annual report of the Secretary and
Treasurer was adopted after restricting the
personal expenses of the Office to the smallest
limits; and the Secretary was directed to pre-
pare his report to the State Board, and for
the publication of the annual statement in
the county papers, which will probably appear
next week
Bills were presented, passed, and ordered
to be paid, for repairs to Sandy Mount school
house, for digging a well at Manchester, for
school furniture, for rent, for per diem of
members, and for incidentals, &c, the whole
total amounting to the sum Of ST26.76.
An application for permission 20 use pub
lie school-house, No. Ia, in the 9Th election
district, one evening in each week, to accom-
mOdate class in vocal music, was granted
on the usual condition, that the teacher and
the trustees Of the school, individually and
collectively, be held responsible for all dam
age that shall thereby be done to the public
school property.
The Board adjourned, to meet on Mon
day, the 4th day of November.
SUNDAY ScHooI. CELEBRATIoX.-Krid
Union Sabbath School held their third anna
al celebration on Saturday last, and il was
one of the hest ever held in the countv Tho