The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-04-12
Local Brevitiss.


Tomorrow will be Easter, the close Of
Lent.
-, The public schools of Carroll closed on
Walk talk and naming the winner for Mon.
day next, is now in order.
A number Of new subscribers have been
added TO our list this week.
The Frederick Fair will be held ON The 14tb
OF October, and continue four days.
About this time,n as the almanacs saw.
look out for the new spring bonnet.
The martins did not make their appearance
mere, this season, until the Sth inst
:, Dr. Littleton Maclin, OF near Clarksyille,
day.
Crocns, arbutus, violet, dandelion snow
drop, datiodil and jonquil, are beginning to
awake.
Mr.. j. Frank Hamilton, formerly of this
county, has purchased the Laurel, Nd,
Cleaner.
A new postal route from Gettysburg, via
horners Mill and Harvey, to Taneytown, is
TO be established.
Snow fell on Friday night, the 4th instant,
and on Saturday last There was heavy
frost and some ice on Tuesday.
Mr.. George NJ. Boarman, OF this city, has
been appointed book. keeper and cashier at
the Old Point Comfort Hotel, Va.
Daniel Christ was committed to iail on n
peace warrant, by Justice G.. W. Crapster on
Monday, in default Of $500 security.
1t IS expected that the Baltimore and Han
over Railroad will be completed and in run.
ming order by the first Of August A large
force are at work on it,
The guests Of Keen's Hotel, were treated
to strawberries for dinner yesterday. They
were from Savannah, Georgia, and the first
of the season in this city.
The small boy inwardly yearns for his
Easter Egg, and yociferously shouts "who's
got the bullyT' His first lessons in craft and
cunning were taken at egg picking.
The Jewish Passover, which commentaries
the freedom OF Hebrews after four hundred
years OF bondage, began at sunset on Monday
last, and will continue until sunset to morrow
evening.
An old couplet says-"When April blows
its horn its good for hay and corn.n II it be
so then there is to be an enormous yield OF
both this season, as there was elbow enough
last week TO satisfy all.
Now shut up your hens. Don't let them
out till they can be Of service. Wait tillyour
neighbor has planted seed is his garden, when
they will be found excellent helps to bring
tnings up 10 tue burlhce.
Mr.. Joseph Berlin. died at Abbottstown,
Pa, on the 9th of March, in his 9Ist year.
He had been confined to his bed for upwards
Of eight years. He weighed 200 pounds, not.
withstanding his long confinement.
The election for Mayor and City Council,
which takes place on the first Monday ia
May, begins to excite attention. Back taxes,
relghting the city gas lamps, and like issues,
are the main questions involved.
Mr.. A. jackson Easten, of near Bird Hill,
brought to this Office, on Monday, an Easter
egg which was colored in 1868. The shell
was perfect and maintained its color we'll.
Mr.. Easten challenges the county 10 produce
an older egg.
An election Of Directors of the Frederick
and Woodsboro' Turnpike was held on Mon
day, and resulted in the choice of Jas. Houck
George Markell, Geo. NJ. Potts, DR.. W. r.
Sanderson, y. A. Shriner, G. Winebrenner
and W. J. Norman.
Prof. Dare, who is whole circus himself
including the clown, amused the citizens o.
Westminster yesterday, by slack rope ano
trapeze performances, on a rope stretched
across the street from Wheeler's Hotel to {
private residence.
An examination was held at Hubert
School on the 18th Of March last. Mr.. U. s.
Harner, the teacher, was highly compliment.
ed on his manner Of teaching, and the readi.
ness with which the scholars answered the
various questions called forth the warmest
applause.
Among the entries for the Fall Meeting
Vestal Stakes, one mile and half, at Pimli
co, in 1880, we notice that Mr.. E.A. Clabaugl
has entered black FLY Lucia, by Vauxhall
dam Lucy Haxall Brown filly Dart, By
Harry Bassett, dam Warwickshire. Chestnut
flly Achsah, by Vauxhail, dam Minnie Mac
At the fourteenth annual reunion Of th'
"Union Veteran Association Of Maryland,
on Wednesday evening, in Baltimore anon
the speakers was Col. VIM. +. Maulsby, o
this city, who spoke in a humorous vein Il
"The Private Soldiers, who charged batter
les while their officers kept the regulation
distance in the rear.
Prof j. Mortimer Hurley, Of this city, die,
at the residence Of his mother, in Clarksburg
Montgomery county, Md, on Tuesday after
noon last in the Goth year Of his age. Prof
Hurley was well known throughout the west
ern portion of this State as an efficient must
teacher. He was a son-in.law OF Joseph NJ
Parke, Esq, of this city.