The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-07-27
Local Brevities.

on account OF the extreme heat, last week.
The aurora borealis appeared on Monday
night, consequent upon a cooler temperature.
A camp-meeting will be held near Mt. Airy.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, commencing
August 9th.
The ladies of Hanover have petitioned the
Town Council against corner loafing and
public swearing.
Trim up the trees, the limbs hang so low
they sweep of the hay from the wagons as
through the streets they go.
The Terpsichorean Association had n very
pleasant hop in the hall of the Advocate
building, on Wednesday evening.
Lynch's billiard parlor, at City Hotel, IS a
favorite resort for ladies, who indulge in the
fascinating game of pool every morning.
Miss Laura Kimier, of Smithsburg, Wash
ington county, has been appointed to the free
scholarship in Western Maryland College.
Business dull, times hard, money scarce,
economy Indispensable; but no matter, keep
a dog, even if you have halls dozen children.
Our city authorities have caused the weeds
to be moved down in the streets; a move in
the right direction, which was much needed
The Baltimore and Reisterstown turnpike
road company has declared dividend Of II
per cent. for the SIX months ending June %.
Three eampmeetings sill be in progress at
the same time in this regioS, Emory Grove,
over.
A heavy rain passed over portions of this
county on Friday afternoon of last week. In
some places it was accompanied by whirl-
wind.
Representatives from New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and
Maryland, viii be present at the races next
week.
Charles E. Stoner, of townsville district,
has been appointed to the free scholarship in
Western MARYLAND College from Frederick
county.
Wilkes Spirit ofthe Times says the purses
offered by the Carroll County Association are
the most liberal in the country outside of the
large cities.
The festival held by Watson Union Sabbath
School, near Hoods Mill, on the 10Th and
| 18th instants realized $50, which will be used
in the purchase of library.
John Covell, formerly an engineer on the
| Western Maryland Railroad, but now con-
ductor on the Queen Anne's Railroad, had
one of his feet severely hurt last week.
| The Reisterstown brass band will hold q
! tournament on the farm OF Andrew Banks,
near that place, on Tuesday, August 9th, and
preparations are already being made for the
/ event.
The jefferson Circuit Camp Meeting of the
| U. b. Church will commence on the 8th of
August and continue one week, in David
Baughman's grove, about four miles south of
| Hanover
! Henry Stevens, Of Abbottstown, Adams
county, while removing a heavy log, one day
last week, received injuries upon the lower
portion of his abdomen, which caused his
death on Sunday last.
The congregations of Grace, Krider's and
Testers Lutheran Churches will extend a
call to Rev. w. II. Kuhns, of Newberry, S.
! c. He has preached at each church recently
and given general satisfaction.
| The assessment for Carroll county for 1878
foots up SIG, 1854, 1852, and the county levy
at 90 cts. on the 500 amounts to So, 624. 70.
The levy for State purposes amounts TO 500
3Sl.52, making total of SIP, 206.28.
| oh! the dustl the horrible Dust
To endure it were doom'd and bear it we must.
| We took a new wrinkle,
And thought we would sprinkle.
But sprinkler and sprnkled, with dust are inerust
The Changers of Baltimore county will hold
pic mic in Cockeys woods, near Ashland
! Furnace, on Thursday, August sth Grang-
ers and farmers generally throughout the
State will be invited TO participate.
The Sunday School of Ebenezer Church,
near Winfield, viii hold festival and tenn
perance jubilee in the grove of T. A. Bale,
on Thursday, August LIST. Mr.. Lee, the great
temperance orator, and others, will deliver
addresses.
Cases of vegetable poison are frequent
/ Take an onion, cut off the root and rub well
with the onion for an hour OF more the part
affected. Then wash off with CASTLE soap.
/ This remedy acts like a charm, and will make
a speedy cure.
On Tuesday, near Taneytown, cow was
grazing on the railroad, when the mail train
came along and caught her OH the pilot of the
engine. She was so tightly fastened that a
crowbar had to be used to get her out. The
COW was not injured.
Mr.. Winfield Scott Amoss, who graduated
at Western Maryland College in 1877 at the
head of his class, and has since taken diplo-
mas in several schools at the University Of
Virginia, viii begin the study of law in the
office Of Hon. Charles B. Roberts on the first
of August.
On Friday afternoon of last week, during
thunder storm, the harm of Mr.. Robert Viii
son, about two miles from Middletown, Fred
erick county, was struck by lightning and en-
tirely consumed, together with about GOO or
800 bushels of wheat and his crop of hay.
Loss 81 800 to $1,000.
Denton Gehr, agent for Dupont's powder,
has built a powder magazine on a piece of
land recently purchased of Thomas Goodwin,
near this city. 1t is built of brick and stone
and covered with tin; the door is covered
with sheet iron, and the building is FIRE and
damp proof. About 200 kegs are kept in
stock.
Mrs Altland, of West Manchester town.
ship, York county, Pa, died on Thursday of
last week, aged ~ years. She was the hea-
West woman in the county, weighing $50
pounds at the time of her death. Her coffin
was six feet long, twenty inches high inside,
and two feet four inches in width at the
shoulders.
An excursion from Baltimore went over
the Western Maryland Railroad, on Thursday,
at the invitation of the Company to High
Rock, the summit of the Blue Ridge, where
il is proposed to erect by corporated COM
pany large first class hotel, to be known as
''Penmar,h on this lofty peak, which rivals
the Catskills, with the beautiful Cumberland
Valley in full view. Gentlemen we're present
from Baltimore, Westminster, Frederick,
Hagerstown, and other places.
! Tall rye, wheat and oats, have been objects
of special attention among farmers, this sea
son. We venture the suggestion that the
length Of the head is more important than
the length of the stalk. The longest heads
reported this season, were of wheat inches;
| of oats l5l inches. The GeneSee Farmer
succeeded, some years ago, by judicious Sc
lection of seed, in producing wheat the heads
| of which measured nine inches. Let our
farmers try 10 come up to the Genesee
standard.
Stone Roam IrEMs-The most of our far
mers in this vicinity, will finish housing their
oats and timothy hay this week; some have
already finished. Every thing thus far housed
proves 10 be holntifll crop, with the ex-
ception of the oats crop, which is also heavy
crop, as regards the straw, but very light in
the grain. Corn, rs judged from its appear
anee at present, will fall far below an average
yield.
Mr.. Hall Jones, who contemplates making
and burning kiln of brick by the coming
fall, commenced on Monday last.
Mr.. Henry Harnish, residing near Henry
Eck's mill, recently sold his entire stock of
horses, cows, and farming implements, to
William Haulter, of Mayberry, for $500.
Mr.. Harnish will engage in the mercantile
business in Taneytown.
FIRE.-About halfpast nine o'clock, on
Wednesday morning, the cry of "ire - re-
sounded through our streets, and the bell in
the tower of st. Johns Church spread the
alarm throughout the city. The FIRE proved
to be in Marsb's New Central Hotel, and or