The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-10-11
SATURDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1879.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
sykes,IIle and Ml. Ar, I,em.

Quite number Of farmers have STONED
sowing wheat on account of the extremely
ward weather, fearing the rayages Of the Hes.
sian fly. We find on careful inquiry that the
acreage sown will be fully one.iourth greater
than last year. We notice wheat going up
and lower jaws falling correspondingly.
Tramps are becoming more numerous every
day. An attempt was made il is supposed by
some OF these Williams TO wreck freight train
on the baltimore Ohio Railroad, near Sykes.
vile, on last Sunday night, by placing a lie
across the track. The train was No. ~. en-.
CINE No. 8, in charge of Capt Mosburg. The
engineer did not see the obstruction but felt
a severe jar, and did not find the cause of il
until he reached Gathers Siding, when he
found the tie on the pilot. We hope soon to
have more stringent tramp laws.
A gentleman met two tramps q few DAYS
ago and asked them their business. They
said they were elecioneering. "For who,n
answered"
We were out on political tour this week
and reached Mt. Airy, a station on the Balti
more 4 Ohio Railroad in Franklin district.
Now we have local pride for Sykesville, but
we found more business done there than at
any other local station on the road During
the months of August and September %, 900
bushels of wheat had been shipped. The
fertilizers sold for the same months reached
the enormous amount of Ills tons. Sixty
car loads of lumber were received there for
the year and 800 tons ofcoal. We found that
n tobacco growing country, the shipments
reaching two thousand hogsheads for the year
These figures can be relied upon, and were
cheerfully given us by Mr.. Thos. p. Mullings,
the enterprising agent Of the Baltimore a
Ohio Railroad. We conyersed with Mr.. Bus.
sard, an old and highly respectable citizen of
the place, who had been living there upwards
Of forty ears. He said that the original
track OF the railrond was laid one mile south
of Mt. Airy, but the company finding a better
grade here, 1t was afterwards located on the
present bed. Two stores there appeared to
be doing thriving business, also the general
agency for the sale of fertilizers, grain, agri.
cultural implements aud straw, conducted by
Capt. W. ii. b. Dorsey, who has raised n
Democratic pole in front Of his place Of bust.
ness in the shape Of tall stalk Of corn meas
uriug twelve feet six inches, with two largo
bright yellow ears hanging on il, typical we
suppose Of an increased majority this fall.
Mt. Airy too has constable, Philip j. DE.
trick, who is the happy father Of son who
weighed twelve pounds at birth.
A drive Of one mile south of Mt. Airy
brought us to the dairy farm Of Mr.. Robert
Sellman, jr., one Of the popular candidates on
the DetnocrAtlc uchet LOT the house oil Dele
gates, where we were received and entertain
cd by Mr.. and Mrs Sellman in good old Ma.
ryland style. After dinner we talked politics,
aud in very short time elected the whole
Democratic ticket Weinspected his stables,
found them clean and comfortable and mod.
eled after the plans Of Mr.. Thos. J. Belts,
who has the most complete dairy arrange.
menis in the State. His cows, % in number,
were looking well, but we admired most a
huge yoke Of oxen. They would probably
tip the scale at 1000 pounds. We supposed
that Mr.. Sellman had imported these cattle
from Japan, but vera astonished when he in,
formed us they were ''old field stock, aud
that corn and care had made them what they
are. After walk around the farm we we're
driven TO Par's Ridge, where at point hall
a mile north OF Mt, Airy, it is one thousand
feet above tide water, where beautiful view
can be had of Frederick city aud the fertile
valley Of the Monocacy with the Blue Ridge
mountains in the back ground Here, at Par s
Ridge, on,one side is the head waters of the Pa.
tapsco whose "billowy DASH is made famous
in song; on the other side the Monocacy,
whose banks have echoed the thunder Of can.
mons. We returned pleased with our trip and
the political prospects,.