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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-04
An Autumn Picture.
nY DORA REED eooDALE.

sky deep, intense, and wondrous blue,
with clouds that sail the heavens through;
And slopes so nt9a Sa sna
Amaple or an ash-tree seen
In glowing color, bright and rare.
Green fields, where silvery ripples fade,
With cattle resting in the shade;
Far mountains, touched with purple haze,
That, like veil OF morning mist,
By gleams OF golden sunlight kissed,
Seems but 4 breath of by-goue days.
And clover which has bloomed anew
Since shining scythes did cut it through,
And corn fields with their harvest fair,
And golden rod upon the hill,
And nurple asters blooming still,
And sunlight melted into air.
-,Seyibusr.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-04
Western Farm Life.

Quite often, in the course of my ram
blcs, have found Western farm houses
furnished i'll exquisite taste from library
to kitchen. Charts, tables, carpets, cur
tains and pictures,in many Of our country
homes, have been chosen with correct
ness of judgement rarely evinced by
large class of most excellent city folk.
In the matter of books, farmer OF the
better class generally selects with great
care and with view to solid mental
food. But taste for light fiction, poe
try, music and painting is not wanting.
It is surprising, indeed, to find how gen
orally the works Of the leading British
and American poets and novelists are
read among the rural classes ct the West.
The Younger American poets are as we'll
known, by their writings, West as East.
Even Hawthorne, whom to read and ap-
preciate is high evidence of literary taste
and intelligence, has found very many OF
his sincerest admirers inside the homes
Of the ssHoosier'' and the Buckeye
Not long since, while sojourning for q
| fortnight or so on the shore of one OF
our Western lakes, had the pleasure Of
spending several evenings at farm
house where, as member of the family
Tor the time, was allowed to hear one
Of George Elliot's hovels read aloud BY
the farmers daughter. Everywhere II
the West the leading literary journals
both weekly and monthly, are subscribed
for py farmers, for the pleasure and in
struction of their families, while many o
them take daily paper. But, despite al
that can be said to the contrary, the ge1au
r1sticus, which has by some one sbeel
rendered into English and made to 'meal
'srusty cuss," still largely asserts itself il
our rural regions genus Of the COP
peras brooches, ginger cake-loving ilk, t
whom we owe the racy, soil-aavore
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-04
Facts and Fancies.
Marvellous brae's are bonnie,
When early notes fall due, 49,
And twas there the Bank Of Glasssw,
Gave me its promise true.

When early notes fall due, 49,.
And twas there the Bank OF Glasgsw,
Gave me its promise true.
Gave me its promise true.
Which ne'er forget will be,
II only had my money back,
+. 10 ss / would lay me down and dee.
The cucumber does its best fighting af-
ter it is down.
The bonds which are most apt TO be
irredeemable are vaga-bonds.
In killing mosquitoes at night the
sportsman has to take aim with his ear
The highest mark of esteem a woman
can give to u man is to ask his friend
ship, and the most signal proof OF her in
difference is to offer him hers.
Women attain perfection in bu. two
departments Of Observation-Disclosures AID
memoirs. They only write we'll when
they imagine they are talking.
Those women are to be pitied who pass
their lives between the world and the
theater; poor souls who have only fiction
as a relief from falsenood.
She is to be pitied who thinks to find
friend other than her husband if she be
wife, than her children if she be q
mother. than God if she be neither.
AS rule women care little for comedy,
because it makes them enter into them
selves. Give them the drama which
draws them out ofthemselves.
The jealousies of friendship are IL this
more exhausting than those Of love =
there are only phantoms to fight, and the
price of peace is merely a chimera.
| Friendship is d picnic which all parties
contribute, and therefore is something
that women cannot understand. With
them one party or the other must stand
treat.
Oil City Derrick: Burglars entered
the residence of circus clown, who was
summering in Pottstown, this state, and
carried off some silver spoons and cloth
ing. In rummaging through the house,
they came upon the clowns Jokes, which
he had in pickle in the cellar, and they
3 Immediately took off their hats and pro.
q ceeded with their work with uncovered
heads, thus showing that burglars have
as much respect for Old ace as anybody.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
A Marriage in High Life.

Half the manageable girls in New
York have gone crazy-Lord Alfred Pag-
cts son has married Miss Minnie Stevens,
daughter Of Mr. Paran Stevens, of that
city. The ceremony took place in Lon
don, on Saturday, and the event was teIe-
graphed to the New York Herald. The
bellies of Gotham are all in a Hutter of ex-
element over it, and regard it as a great
"catch" for Miss Stevens, as if the Amer
lean queens of love and beauty were not
good enough for the bedizzened nobility Of
the ''effete monarchies" of the old world.
For ourselves, we take the thing in high
dudgeon, that our girls should throw them
selves. away on titled foreigners in that
manner. Here this fair young being has
gone and thrown herself away upon a mere
servant of the Queen, when she might have
married an American sovereign. True, We
were not consulted about it, but that makes
the matter so much the worse. IF we had
been consulted we would have advised A.
gainst so rash a step, for the emptiest Of
all things are these titles of nobility. They
wont "make the pot boil" bit, and this
young prig, Mr.. Arthur Henry Paget,
(Paget, Paget what a name y eldest
son Of Lieut.. Gen. Lord Alfred Henry Pag-
ct, (what long tail our cat has got) clerk
marshal of the royal household, and fifth
son Of the first Marquis of Anglesey, is
probably depending for that indispensable
domestic arrangement, ''pot-bOiling," up
on the size of her fathers bank account.
But, American girls always would make
fools of themselves about titled foreigners
and snap them up whenever they could
get a chance, like a toad does a FREELY,
just to have all the other girls "dying" of
envy. And now there wont be staterooms
enough in the Cunarders to accommodate
the New York beauties who will be run
ming over to Europe, each bent on catch
ing Lord, Count, a Duke, Marquis,
or something of the sort
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
As to the third term, why, Grant can t.

BARN BURNED.-0n Saturday night
last, about u o'clock, the barn of Noah
Englesthree miles south of Friedrich, with
its contents, consisting of 800 bushels of
unthreshed wheat, about 80 bushels of old
cloverseed, IS or so tons of hay, lot of
rye straw, quantity of threshed wheat.
farming implements, &c, was entirely con-
sumed by fire. So rapid was the work
of the devouring element that it was found
impossible to do more than to save the
eight head of horses and several cattle in
the barn. The outbuildings in close prox-
unity were only saved by the active efforts
of the neighboring farmers, who gathered
as quickly as possible at the scene of con-
fagration. The barn was built in 1871,
measured 90 by 81 feet, and was one of
the finest in the county. The loss to Mr..
Eugle by the destruction of his crops and
building viii amount in the aggregate to
nearly $4,000, which unfortunately is GOV,
cred by no insurance The Ere is supposed
to have originated from spontaneous COM
bustion.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03


Border population IS apt to be lawles,
and turbulent. Such seems to be the case
on both sides Of the boundary between the
United States and Mexico, where state
of quasi war exists nearly all the while.
Plumber, robbery, murder, retaliation and
reprisal, result AT the present time rival
raiding parties are acting in a way that
must lead to open hostilities unless they
are held in check by the respective gov
ernments. Many wars, in the history of
the world, have happened from just such
causes. The war with Mexico in 1876,
did not subdue her, or inspire her people
with any great dread Of our military pow
er. They assume for their own troops a
superiority over those Of the United States,
and their want of appreciation of Ameri-
can proves results in a readiness, among
her people generally, to throw down to US
the gage Of battle, even on the slightest
provocation. Nevertheless our govern
ment has been forbearing towards her,
and in the brush we had with her under
the Administration Of President Polk, il
was not until forbearance ceased to be
virtue, that We took up arms to compel
her to the ful6llment Of her duties toward
US according to the comfy of nations.
Much complaint has been made for years
of Mexican raids across the Rio Grande
into Texas, for the purposes Of cattle steal
ing and plumber. These raids have pro-
yoked similar expeditions from Texas into
Mexico, and Mexico has made formal
complaint to the authorities In Washing
ton. On Tuesday last, at the Cabinet
meeting, Secretary Evarts submitted
letter from the Mexican government charg-
ing that Americans have been crossing in
to Mexico, stealing cattle and driving
them across the Rio Grande into Texas
Not only so, our troops have in number
Of instances pursued bands of thieves and
marauders across the border and into
Mexican territory. So the mutual irrita-
ton goes on, and will go on, until open
hOstilities are again declared. Besides,
the border rufEians on either side Of the
boundary would profit by war, and both
interest and INCLINATION prompt them to
do all they can to spur it on. With this
state of things existing along the border,
it would not be surprising if open hOstili-
ties should again ensue.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

The Hagerstown Nelos of Monday gives
particulars Of bold and outrageous as
sault on two young ladies, daughters of
Constable VIM. II. Spielman, of Keedys-
vile district They were returning in
the evening about o'clock from friends
house and were stopped on the road and
seized by man named Reuben Yates, a
tramp from Illinois. The younger of the
sisters, girl of IA, tainted, but the older,
stout plucky girl of 20, resisted the
ruffian in a desperate struggle, during
which she was dragged nearly hundred
yards. In the meantime the younger
sister revived and notified some neighbors
who responded promptly in time to rescue
the elder sister from her assailant who
fed at their approach, but was pursued,
and captured, and is now in Jail. Miss
Spielman was badly choked and bruised.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

REHoBoTH BEAcH.-The sacred ora
cles declare Eye cannot serve God and
mammon." This has been demonstrated
at Rehoboth, where a few years ago
joint stock company of christian gentle
men bought parcel of land, laid it out in
town lots and built cottages, and near by
secured fine grove for campmeeting pur-
poses. The idea was to have a comforta-
bic summer resort where they could enjoy
campmeeting facilities and sea-bathing
and other pleasures at the same time But
the old saw was verified here, also, that
"Where God has his church the Devil
viii have his chapel" Soma "worldlings"
bought a portion of the town lots and
erected hotel or two. And this kind Of
enterprise does not agree very we'll with
the original intention Of the founders of
Rehoboth The Denton Union says there
are but fifty tents this year on the beach.
The meetings are not as well attended as
they were before hotels were erected. The
camp, this year, as a religious assembly,
it says, is failure. The world and the
church are in full partnership there.
Dancing and whiskey drinking are prac-
ticed at the Bright House The Method
ist authorities are about to issue writ of
ejectment against Burton, the lessee, but
he holds on and de6es the law.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
An Important Decision.

Ever since the establishment of turnpikes
there has been much ado about the collee-
ton of tolls, and several aggravating law
suits have taken place between turnpike
companies and private citizens. The last
and most important one was between John
w. Garrett and the Hartford Turnpike
Company. Mr.. Garrett lives on or ada
cent to the Hartford turnpike and within
three miles Of one Of the gates. Under
former decisions relating to turnpikes, the
road in question has been charging only
one toll per day for each vehicle belong
ing to any person or persons living on or
adjacent to the turnpike within three miles
of gate, no matter how often during the
day the same vehicle may pass the gates.
Thus, such a resident, if he used half
dozen wagons, paid toll for each once a
day. Mr.. Garrett refused to pay toll more
than once day, regardless of the number
Of vehicles he used. The Company insti-
tuted suit against Mr. Garrett in the Bal
timore City Court to enforce the payment
Of toll once day on each vehicle he used
on their road The Court decided against
the Company, who carried it up to the
Court of Appeals. Last week decision
was rendered in favor of the appellee,
based upon section 80 of chapter rs of
the act of 1912, which, by the act of 1918,
chapter 90, was made to regulate the APP
pellant's right to exact toll of passengers
who live on or adjacent to the road, and
within three miles Of any of the gates or
turnpikes. The Court held that the Sec
ton applies to the resident and not to the
vehicle. Thus, any person living on or
adjacent to turnpike, within three miles
of gate, may pass over the road by pay
ing toll once, and during the day may use
any number Of vehicles on it he may
choose without further charge.
Judges Stewart, Brent and Robinson
dissented, but fled no opinion; and Judge
Alvey, in rendering the decision, admitted
that the law bore hard upon turnpike
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

GLMoRE's BAND BRoKEN.-Advices
from Paris are to the effect that the disas-
tiers that attended Gilmore's Band in the
early part of the season have eliminated
in It's total disarmament. Several of the
members have written home for money to
pay their return transportation, and some
of them, it is said, will have to depend
upon the charity of the United States
minister to Paris. There were sixty men,
bers Of the band all told. Each was ex-
pected to take with him $500 in cash and
to provide himself with a new uniform.
The band sailed from New York in June
last in the City of Berlin, the leader mar
rowly escaping detention.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
dwelling the Great Fraud.

The Potter Investigating Committee
and the work before it, is source of irri-
tation to the Republicans. They haven't
a good word for the committee, and ap-
pear to be out of humor whenever they
refer to it. This is natural. They are
conscious of the great wrong committed
by their party in perpetrating and sustain
ing the great fraud in the matter of the
presidency, and it irritates them TO have
the scandalous transaction proven and
made matter of record. They pretend
to believe, aud would have the masses of
the people believe, that nothing has been
proven BY the testimony before the CON-
mi:tee, but they know better. They know
that the whole case has been made out by
the testimony of Republican witnesses, so
clearly that no impartial jury would fail
to give a verdict against them. The COM
mittce win prosecute their labors to a
close, and when their report is made to
Congress in December next, it viii be ed
flying reading. 1t viii unfold a tale of
unparalleled scOundrelism, and no matter
what is said to the contrary, Mr.. Hayes
cannot be held guiltless of completely, as
he has rewarded everyone in anyway con-
nected with these frauds This could not
have happened by accident. No, it was
the work Of design, the carrying out Of a
plan, the redeeming Of pledges and prom
ises made BY others in order to secure a
fraudulent count. Il is impossible, in
view Of the evidence and of the circum-
stances Of the case, for any fair-minded
man to come to any other conclusion than
that Mr.. Hayes appointed all the active
agents Of the fraud, in Louisiana and
Florida, to lucrative places in pursuance
Of an understanding between them and
his nearest and most trusted friends.
There is no longer any doubt among truth
full men upon this subject, and history
win hold Dir. Hayes as guilty as Ander-
son, McLin, or any of the abandoned aud
INSCRIPTIONS wretehes who had an active
agency in the preparation of the fraud
He is the guilty possessor of the fruits of
that fraud, and he knows himself to be so,
and is the guilty rewarder of every man
in any way connected with it.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

CoPLAs De MANRIoUE.-Let no one
be deferred by its length from reading
this beautiful poem, which appears on the
fourth page of this issue. II was transla-
ted from the Spanish by Longfellow, and
although it is published in all the editions
Of his poems, few persons are familiar with
it. Its conception is grand and exalted,
and from beginning to end abounds in po-
etic beauties, high moral reflections aud
flashes of genius. Its superior of its kind
has never met our eyes, and we doubt if it
has its equal. Longiellow characterizes
it as "mOdel, and speaks of its style as
"calm, dignifed, majestic"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
MARRIED.

On June 20, at Chatsworth parsonage, Bal.
timore, by Rev. Fl. +. johnson, George p.
Furhman and Miss Emma S. Houck, both of
this county.
On July I'D, 1873, at the Lutheran Par
sonage, in Woodshoro', Frederick county, by
the Rev. d. NJ. Lamotte, Absalom Ropson
and Miss Mary Z. Fox, both of townsville
District, Frederick county.
On the 10th ultimo, at the residence of the
BRIDES mother, by Elder VIM. II. Franklin.
Geo. F. Reaver, of Taneytown, this county
and Miss Leauna Long, Of Frederick county.
On the llth ultimo, by the Rev w. Simon
ton, Of Emmittsburg, John W Eckard, Of
Uniontown, this county, and Miss Alice S
Aulthouse, of Frederick county.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

The Frederick Union and Rockville .Senti-
mel are exchanging some not very compliment
tary apithets with each other, and with
vindictiveness that seems to Overstep the
courtesy Of journalism and to border on vul-
gar personality. We are sorry that it is So
Ye0mGR's Guard.
The Port Tobaeco Independent and the
annapolis Gazette have both turned their
batteries upon Mr.. Cotton, of the Anaap-
oils Republican, and the trio are inter-
changing Greek fire. The Centreville Oh
seruer and the Record, both Democrats,
are also at loggerheads and using hard
language towards each other. No quarrel
ing, gentlemen, the weather is too hot to
indulge in such amusement.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
Political MITES.

Hon. Hamilton T sh. who Is at I.one
Branch, has been interviewed, and is re-
presented as expressing the opinion that
GENERAL Grant does not desire another
presidential nomination Mr.. Fish fur
Their says that he does not think Grants
nomination probable, 'for the reason that
no man has ever been nominated Presi-
dent whose nomination has been talked of
three years before" Mr. Fish thinks Sen
ator Thurman IS likely to be the next
democratic candidate for President.
Harpcr's Weekly AYERS that "there is
a sort of frantic desperation in the tone in
which Gen. Grants nomination is urged.
The drift of the articles is plain confess
ion that upon him hangs the only chance
of the republican party, and that the
chance arises, not from the greater wis
dom of republican policy, but from the
dire extremity Of the country. A more
ridiculous strain cannot be imagined. :"
The Weekly concludes that those who de-
mand the nomination Of Grant "are do
ing their utmost to extinguish all hope of
the republican success.
The documentary evidence laid before
the Potter committee by +. A. Burke will
not be very easily explained away. 1t
shows beyond cavil that bargain was
made by Hayes accredited agents, Sher-
man and Stanley Matthews, who acted in
the same line of business then that they
had prosecuted with success at New Or
leans
The entire East. says the Philadelphia
Times, is waiting with great cOmplacency
Tor Mr.. Dennis kearney to unfold his plans
to make hard times soft, and raise those
who are compelled to work for living to
positions of affiuence A great deal of
talent has unsuecessfully struggled with
these questions for long time, and will
feel relieved to have Kearney take the
responsibility in the future.
Dennis Kearney, the California aeitator.
arrived in Boston Sunday. He was es-
eorted from the depot by several h undred
people, and addressed them from the bal
cony Of the hotel in denunciation of politi-
clans, monopolies, capitalists and the press.
y dispatch from Washington says that
Kearney, the communist, who is announced
to speak there, will be prevented from
doing so by the police
The latest Massachusetts rumor about
Gen. Butler is that he will run for Gov
ernor on an independent labor greenbaek-
national platform, with left-handed sup
port from the democrats.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

Dorchester county pays State taxes in
1873 to the amount of s11, 329.76, and
receives in return from the State for the
support of public schools about s14 900.
The smaller counties are all benefciaries
of the school fund, receiving more than
they pay into the treasury. The larger
counties and the city of Baltimore, are
thus contributing to educate the children
Of other parts of the State.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

The tomato worms are about as numer-
Gus and destructive to the tomato plants
as the beetle is to potato vines. On one
of the Hartford Furnace farms there is
sixty acres in tomatoes 1t took eight
men six days to remove the worms once
by hand. A boy who was engaged in
the work counted his receipts the first day
and they numbered fourteen hundred and
and sixteen worms and measured over a
bushel. IF the other hands engaged in
in the work were equally industrious the
first crop of worms numbered sixty-eight
thousand and measured about fifty bush
els Belair, Nd, Democrat.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03
SHERIFF'S SALE.

PY virtue ofa writ of fieri facias issued ont
- of the Circuit Court for Carroll county.
bearing date on the 18th day of july, A. d.
1878, at the suit of William p. Maulsbv
against the goods and chattels, lands and
tenements of David Bachman and to me d.
reeted, have seized and taken in execution
all the right, title, claim, interest and estate
at law and in equity of the said David Bach
man. IN and to the following property, viz:
BROWN MARE, FALLING-TOP BUG.
GY, SPRING WAGON, White HOGS.
And hereby give notice that on
Saturday, the I'M day Of august, A. d. 1878.
at l O'Clock, p. M, on the premises, l will
offer the above property so seized and taken
IN execution at Public Sale, to the highest
bidder, for cash.
PETER WOODS,
aug 3-ts Sheriff
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-08-03

IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-Judge Wat
tiers, Of Hartford county, has just made a
decision which viii be Of interest to tax
payers and tax collectors in Maryland.
The County School Commissioners of Har-
ford brought suit against Z. F. Johns,
Collector Of the First district in the coun-
ty, for overdue taxes, which it was shown
were not collected. The Court decided
that the collectors must pay over the a.
mount of the taxes placed in their hands
on the days designated by the law or be-
come liable for the interest, and also to
suit for enforcement of immediate pay
ment. The result Of this will be to cause
prompt and vigorous collection of the
taxes