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The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28
Was it a Retail Store2

He had on coat of remarkably open
countenance behind, with comfortable
absence of sleeve as far up as the elbow,
pants of somewhat scattered texture, and
q chip hat with cyphon-like lock trailing
from crack in the crown. He was from
away back. He walked hesitatingly into
one of the Union street bazars that flung
million or two yards of fabrics to the
dusty breeze in front.
"What can I do for your" asked po-
lite clerk, disengaging himself from bevy
of shopping ladies,
80 nothin pertikler, Just go on wait
ing on them gals" and he shyly fumbled
bundle under his arm.
"The ladies are through purchasing,
and am ready to attend to your wants. "
The gentleman from afar looked all around
the glittering emporium in dazed sort of
way, but took his time about speaking.
Finally he inquired;
s!Is this here retail store ?"
oft is" answered the clerk.
"And you retail all sorts of things here,
do you?"
"Why, yes we keep general stock of
goods and sell them lower than the lowest.
"You amt foolin' me, are you? This
here is sure enough place where they re-
tail things 2"
"Certainly, my friend" answered the
clerk, losing patience. "What do you want
to get ?" '.Well, eff this yere's a retail
store, said the man of the flowing lock,
looking decidedly awkward as number of
ladies drifted up close to him-"ef this
yere is retail store, [ jes lowed I'd fetch
in this old shirt o mine and get you to
retail it. That thar bosom's role stun
ner to last; it's done wore out three sets o.
tails now, and l jes thought eff this yere
was retail store I'd just get you to retail
her agin."
Scattered ladies and red-faced clerk
Doctor, you must really prescribe some
thing for me.
"My dear lady, you need no medicine,
only little rest and then you'll be as well
as ever
"But, doctor, surely I ought to be given
some medicine of some sort or other.
You've only felt my pulse; examine my
tongue" lie does so,)
"Rreeisely, madami your tongue needs
rest too.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28
Select 4oetrg.
THE T0OTHAoHE.

To have it out or not-that is the question,
Whether It's better for the jaws to suffer
The pangs and torments of an aching tooth,
Or to take steel against hos. of troubles
And, by extracting, end them? To pull-to tug
No more and by tug to say we end
The toothache, and thousand natural ills
The jaw is heir to-'tis consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To pull-to tug
To tugI perchance to break-ay, there's the rub;
For in that wrench what agonies may come,
When we have half-dislodged the stubborn foe,
Must give us pause there's the respect
That makes an aching tooth of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and stings of pain
The old wife's nostrum, dentists eontulneiy,
The pangs of hope deferred, kind sleep delay,
When he himself might his quietus make
For one poor shilling? Who would fardels bear,
To groan and sink beneath load of pain,
But that the dread of something lodged within,
The linen twisted forceps from whose pangs
No jaw at ease returns, puzzles the will
And makes it rather bear the ills it has
Than fly to others that it knows not of?
Thus dentists do make towards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied DER with the pale cast of fear;
And many one, whose courage seeks the door
With this regard his footsteps turns away,
Scared at the name of dentist.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28
The Confidence of Woman.

Here is quiet description of what ev-
cry woman has been, or hopes to be-a
bride. She quits her home, her parents,
her companions, her occupations, her
amusements-everything on which she has
hitherto depended for comfort, for affec-
tion, for kindness, for pleasure, The par
ents by whose advice abe has been guided,
the sisters to whom she dared import
every embryo thought and feeling, the
brother who has played with her by turns,
the counselor and counseled, and the
younger children, to whom she has hith-
erto been the mother and the playmate
all to be forsaken at one fell stroke, every
tie is loosened, the spring of every hope
and action Is changed, and yet she flies
with joy into the untrodden path before
her. Buoyed up by the confidence of re-
Quilted love, she bids fond, grateful adieu
to the life that is passed, aud turns with
excited hopes and joyous apticipations Of
happiness to come. Then woe to the man
who can blight such fair hope, who can
coward-like, break the Illusions that have
won her, and destroy the confidence that
love had inspired,
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

THE WIND.-The wind is a musician
at birth. We extend a silken thread in
the cEeyice Of a window, and the wind
finds it, and sighs over it, and goes up
and down the scale upon it. It tries
almost every thing upon the earth, to see
if there is any music in it. ii persuades
a tope out Of the great bell in the tower,
when the sexton is at home and asleep; it
makes mournful harp of the giant pines,
and 1t does not disdain to try what sort Of
whistle can be made of the humblest
chimney In the world. How it will play
upon great tree till every leaf thrills with
the note in it, and wind up the river, that
runs at its base, for sort of murmuring
accompaniment. And what d melody It
sings, when it gives a concert with a full
choir of the waves Of The sea, and performs
an anthem between the two worlds, that
goes up, perhaps, to the stars. Then how
fondly it haunts old houses, moaning un.
der the caves, signing in the halls, open
ing old doors without fingers, and singing
. measure Of some sad cid aona around
the freless and deserted hearth r
Tiger
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Select Aoetrg.
NEW YEARS BELLS.

Ring. bells, ring, with your mellow din,
ping the old year out and the new year in!
IiIe the voices of birds from the old gray splre,
LET YOUR silvery music rise higher and hlgher;
Floating abroad DER the hillside bare
In biIIows' of sound on the tremulous air,
Tot il rise and fall with the fitful gale
Toll over city and wood the tale;
Saw that tonight the old year dies!
Rid the watchers look to the eastern skies
For the beautiful halo that tells afar
ofthe welcome rise of the new years star
Ring the old year out with its sighs and tears
1ts whitening heart-aches and tiresome fears;
AWAY with its memories of doubt and wrong,
Its cold deceits and its envyings strong,
All its pandering lures to the faltering sense,
All its pitiful shams andcold pretense
We will heap them together and bind them iast
To the old mans load as he totters past.
Tho ills that he brought he may take again;
Keen we the Joys let him bury the pain!
Ring soft, oh, bells, as he goes to rest
Far In the shades of the darkening west!
Ring. bells, ring with merry din!
Tho did wear has gone with its care and SIN!
Smiling and fair, at the eastern gates,
Glad in tinted light, the new year waits!
Welcome him in with the rosy Dand,
Hone with her wreaths of sweet spring fowers,-
Low for the summers glowing hours;
PLENTY and peace for the fruitful fall,
And love for all seasons-best OF all.
Ring merrily, bells! s!-o'er the blushing skies
See 1he beautiful star of the new year rise!
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

EsoUIMAUx DoGs.-No kind of life
among dogs is comparable for hardship
with the life Of dog in an Arctic sledge.
His tent is scarcely the pretext Of shell
ter, and his natural coat is generally GOV.
cred with a thick rime. The snow, when
1t drifts, covers him, though he constantly
endeayors to shake it off. He draws bis
breath with difficulty; hunger gnaws at his
bowels, and his wounded feet color The
snow with his blood. Often, too, these
poor animals, amid tho great auld, mus
keep still then they lift up their paws alter
nately to prevent frost bite.-Austrsa,
ArctSc Rogoqe.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28
Fraudulent Gems.

Paris is the great centre for this bust
ness, writes the French correspondent of
the St. Louis journal, which has been
brought to the most astonishing perfec-
ton. The astounding transformation of
grains of heavy-looking, dirty sand into a
diamond of the first water, is the daily
avocation of large number of persons
who avowedly work with the intention of
deceiving everybody but the buyer. Ev-
erything in the operation depends upon
the equality of sand, and that used for
the purpose is brought from the forests
of Fontainbleau. Large quantities of it
are sent abroad, 80 high is the repute in
which it stands. For initiating emeralds,
sapphires and rubies coloring matter en-
tirely mineral in its origin is employed
and has been brought to high state Of
perfection. About twenty years ago the
principal merchant in this class of jewelry
was q NJ. Bourguignon, whose atelier was
situated at Barrier du Troue. He was the
prince of his trade, and surpassed all 9TH
ers in the excellence of his productions.
He employed nearly ono hundred work
men, besides q number of women and
young girls, whose business it was to pol
ish the eolored stones and line the false
pearls with fish scales and wax. The
scales of the roach and dace are chiefly
used for this purpose, and form copsid-
erabIe source of profit to the fishermen of
the Seine in the epvirons of Corbell, who
bring them to Paris in large quantities
during the season. They must be stripped
from the fish while living, or the glisten-
ing hue which we admire so much in the
real pearl cannot be initiated, It was,
however, to the cultivation" of the dia-
mond that NJ. Bourguignon devoted his
ingenuity, and, had he detailed the mys-
teries of his craft, some of the most singu-
lar histories of ''famiIy diamonds and
sheirlooms" would have been brought to
light.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

A full-bcarded grandfather recently
had his beard shaved off, showing clean
face for the first time for number of
years. At the dinner table bis thFee-year-
old granddaughter noticed it, gazed long
with wondering eye, and finally calculated,
ssGrandfathcr, whose head you got on Z"
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

A little fellow, four years old, the other
day, nonplussed his mother by making
the following inquiry :-"M Mother, if q
man is a mister, amt woman mystery 2"
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

A correspondent Of she Calivator says
that few drops Of butyr of.antimoHy aps
piled to the diseased part is q certain cure
for foot rot in cattle Stacked lime thrown
at the entrance 10 the stable door, 80 that
cows may tread in It, is sure pFeYeRtiyes
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the mighty land.
Little curled-tail piggies, pals of Tactic lees,
Make the nifty bacon and the nifty cheese.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

I There's only one thing stronger than
d woman's will, and that's woman's
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

Dost thou love life Z Then d. not
squander time, for that is the stuff life i
made Of Franklin.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

E Was il q pun when Pat said to bis EN-
pfoyer TAP q the morning to ye sur.'
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

The nose is placed in the middle Of the
face. because it is the sce,lter.
The Democratic advocate., 1878-12-28

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between
sunrise and sunset, two golden hoHFs,
each sst With sixty diamond minutes. No
reward IS offered, for they are goneforeyer.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri-
~ bers will petition the County Commits
siOners for Carroll county at their first meet
ing, after thirty days from the date hereof, to
lay out Public Road beginning at point
on the county road leading from the Gettys-
burg road to the Pennsylvania Line, near
Walnut Grove School House, and running on
the bed of an old road on the line between
the lands of Alexander b. McNair and Widow
Jacobs to the lands of Sterling Gait; thence
on the division line between the lands of
Sterling Gait and Emanuel Lambert to the
lands of John Staly; thence on the division
line between John Staly and Sterling Gait to
Bethel Church; thence on the division line
between Sterling Gait and William Babylon;
thence on the same line to the lands Of Ezra
W. Mehring; thence on the division line be-
tween the lands of Ezra W. Mehring and
Emanuel Harner to the bed of an old road;
thence through the lands of Ezra W. Mehring
and the heirs of James Feeser, deceased, to
the lands of Augustus Smith; thence on the
line between the heirs of James Feeser, de-
ceased, lands and the land of Augustus Smith
TO the lands Of George Hilterhrick; thence on
the division line between the lands of George
Hilterbrick and Samuel Mehring to the lands
of Jacob p. Harner; thence on the lire be-
tween Jacob p. Harner and Sell and Wine
miller to the road leading from Taneytown to
Littlestown.
EZRA W. MEHRING.
EMANUEL HARNER,
mar lost and rs others.
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An Iceberg.

The State line steamer State of Georgia,
Captain Cooper, from Glasgow, arrived at
New York on Saturday, having experienced
heavy gales and high seas during most of her
passage. On Sunday, the 10th inst, the
steamer entered dense fog and slackened
her speed. She was then between Flemish
Cape and Grand Banks of New Foundland.
The fog horn was blown constantly and the
temperature of the water and atmosphere were
tested every half hour. As the water grew
cooler 1t was evident that the vessel was ap-
preaching the neighborhood of ieebergs,
which, however, are rarely met with at this
season. About nine o'clock in the morning
the lookout discovered something ahead which
he at first thought was land. The helm was
put hard to and the engines reversed at full
speed. The sea was comparatively calm, and
the ship readily answered to the helm. She
could not be checked Immediately, however,
AMI in few seconds was within half her
length of huge iceberg, looming far above
her. The men at the wheel strained every
muscle, and the ship going only few lengths
changed her course fully three points. The
steamer swung more and more to the star
board, but still it seemed as If she must strike
the mountain of ice. At last she passed clear
and all who saw the danger drew sigh of
relief. The iceberg, which was covered with
snow, is described as being many times the
length of the steamer and two hundred feet
high. Had the steamer been going at full
speed she would certainly have been lost with
all on board
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RIoTISG AT ToRoSTo.-The lecture of
0'Donovan Rosa, the Irish agitator, in To-
ronto, last Monday evening, for the benefit of
the Diminishing Fund, - was delivered to a
small audience. The result was little cash
for the fund, but much rioting, smashing of
windows, and the wounding of many persons,
two Of them perhaps fatally. The trouble
began during the lecture by a mob outside
the hall sending repeated volleys of stones
through the windows. After the lecture, two
tayerns, IN each of which Rosa was supposed
to be harbored, we're assaulted by "Young
Britons," and hundreds of shots were ex-
changed between them and the attacked party.
Finally, at an early hour of the morning quiet
was restored by the police. 1t is stated that
$50 of the rioters were wounded, IA by pistol
shots, but only two a "Young Irishman, -
and a spectator named William Clegg-were
seriously wounded. Five policemen we're
wounded, one severely. Scores of the com
batants received bruises and minor injuries
Tuesday night rioting was resumed through
out the city, and the police were again kept
busy in quelling fights. At midnight, in diff
ferent parts of the city, two men were shot,
one in the abdomen, the other in the head
Later dispatches state that seven other men
are missing.
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LOCAL LAWS.
CHAPTER So

CHAPTER So.
An Act relating to Justices Of Peace in and
for Carroll county.
SECTION l. Be Il enacted by the General
assembly Of Maryland That it shall not be
lawful for any resident of Carroll county to
be sued before any Justice of the Peace
OF said county out of the election district in
which he or she resides. Provided, however,
that upon any cause of action within the iu-
risdiction of Justice of the Peace arising in
said county, any resident may be sued before
Justice OF the Peace in the election district
wherein the contract was made, and such
cause of action did originate, and provided,
further, that when any cause of action arises
in any other county or the city of Baltimore,
suit may be brought before any Justice of the
Peace in the county; and provided that where
there are two CT more defendants residing in
different districts, il shall be lawful to insti-
tute proceedings in any district in which any
defendant resides.
SECTION =. And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its pas.
sage.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of Assembly passed
January Session, 1878
Approved February 81, 1878.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
marlG-3t
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Ion ACRES OF LAND
ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri-
IN bers will, after thirty days from the date
hereof, at their first meeting, petition the
County Commissioners for Carroll county to
open Public Road, commencing at a stone
planted in the centre of the public road lead
ing from Middleburg TO Mechanicstown, lin
Frederick county, through theland of Hiram
Englar and Sarah Fogle, along the dividing
line between the said Hiram Englar and Sa-
rah Fogle, for about 2o7 yards; then north
through the land Of the said Hiram Englar
for about mile, on or as near as practicable
the bed of an old road until It intersects the
public road leading from Emmittsburg to the
Monocacy, at or near point in or on said
stream, called ''Biggs' Ford" to said public
road. JOSEPH WHITM0RE,
SYLVESTER VALENTINE,
HEZEKIAH FOX,
mar 9-5t And others.
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NO. 1887.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County
a Court of Equity.
Lewis Green, Mortgage, vs.. Benjamin Brown
and wife, Mortgagors.
ORDERED this 10Th day of March, A. d.
~ 1878, that the account of the Special
Auditor filed in this cause be finally ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the lst day OF
April next Provided copy of this order
be inserted for two successive weeks before
the last named day in some newspaper pub
lished in Carroll county.
FRANK 7. SHAW, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
mar 1927 FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk.
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Ice formed on Wednesday night last.

The prospect Of the repeal or modification
of the present unsatisfactory bankrupt law is
matter of general congTatulaiion with the
business public While the law as it stands
is admitted to have not few commendabe
features, yet as an entirety it offers so many
facilities to dishonest debtors, and tempta-
tons for becoming dishonest, most people
are glad to get rid Of it, not doubling that
Congress viii be able to devise in its place a
bill which will better respond TO the require
ments of the times. 1t would probably not
be difficult matter TO demonstrate from the
court records that large proportion of the
so-called business embarrassments' which
continue to figure in the public journals, from
day to day, would never be heard Of but for
a bankrupt act which enables people with
elastic conseienees to scale down their in
debtedness to q point anywhere from fifty
cents on the dollar to nothing at all.
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NGORTGAGEES' SALE
or
LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,


pY virtue of a power of sale contained in
ID a Mortgage from Amos Williams to
Henrietta NJ. Miller and Delilah w. Miller.
dated April 10th, 1871, and recorded among
she Real Estate Mortgage Records Of Carroll
county, in Liber j. B. B. No. 5, Folio 449.
&c, the undersigned, Mortgages, will offer at
Public Sale, on the premises now occupied
by the said Amos Williams, in Manchester,
Carroll county, Maryland, on
Saturday, the 6th day Of April, 1878,
at one O'Clock, P. NJ, thetwo Lots or parcels
of land in the said Mortgage mentioned and
described, being distinguished on plat made
for the Trustees Of the United Brethren
Church in Manchester, by numbers and 8.
Each containing One Quarter of an Acre of
Ground, more or less, and lying contiguous.
The Improvements thereon consist of a newly
built two story Brick Dwelling A ~-0
House, with Cellar, Kitchen, ~Al
Wood House, Smoke House, AT NEI61
Frame Stable, Corn House, - -
Hog House, well of water with pump near
the house, Garden, &c. This property is
subject to a ground rent of 50 per annum.
Terms of sale,-Cash.
HENRIETTA N. MILLER,
DELILAH w. MILLER,
Mortgages.
Smith & McKelip, Solicitors. feb 28-5t
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscri
~ Der has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Carroll county Letters Testamentary
on the personal estate OF
WILLIAM B. NELSON,
late Of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the voucher.
thereof, legally authenticated. to the sub
scriber on or before the 4th day of October
1878; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate. Those in
debted are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 4th day Of
March, 1873.
RACHEL A. NELSON,
mari6-4t Executrix.
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Notice to Creditors.

NHIS Is to give notice that the subscriber
4 hath obtained from the Orphans Court
OF Carroll county, Maryland, letters Tesla
mentary on the personal estate of
JACOB j. LEISTER,
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
scriher on or before the 25th day of Septem-
Der next; they may otherwise BY law be ex-
cluded from all benefit of said estate. Those
indebted are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day Of Feb
ruary, IN the year eighteen hundred and sew
enty-eight.
MARY ANN LESTER,
Executrix.
Il. b. NoRMENT, Agent. mar2-4t
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EXAMINERS NOTICE.

THE undersigned, Examiners, appointed
Il by virtue of a commission to them issued
by the County Commissioners of Carroll
county to open and locate Public Road in
said county, commencing at the east edge of
the Baltimore and Reisterstown Turnpike
Road, at point directly opposite the Me-
ehaniesville and Finksburg Turnpike Road,
where it intersects said Baltimore and Refs
terstown Turnpike Road, and then to run on
the most practicable route through the lands
OF Abraham Lester, Thomas Demoss and
Francis Lamotte, to the Western MARYLAND
Railroad, at point on said Railroad about
twenty-five rods southeast of Bridge No. %,
on said Western Maryland Railroad.
All persons whom it may concern are here
by notified that we will meet on the premises.
on Friday, the Ieth day Of april, 1878, at
O'Clock, a. m. to execute the trust reposed
IN us by the aforesaid commission.
JABEZ a. BUSH,
JOSHUA BEASMAN,
THOMAS C.. BROWN,
march Got Examiners.