The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-16

The Hanover, Pa, Spectator closed lis ss,h
year on Wednesday ofas, week. LISA good
local paper.
Let there be a large turnout at the Demo.
cratic mass meeting IN this city on next Sat
urday afternoon
Some ofthe newly sown gain felds through.
out the county already show fne crop OF n
rich green and vigorous growth.
Jack Dickson, colorcd, was found dead on
SUNDAY evening. in Union Bridge. His death
was caused by doltrium tremens.
Justice e. W. Crapster, on Saturday last,
iiued Fred. Z. Tower one dollar and eosss iur
assault and battery upon VIM. Bloom.
between Saturday morning and Tuesday
afternoon, the Western Maryland Railroad
carried into Baltimore 1900 persons.
Harry llahtcr, Of lltlleslown, Pa, has
given his hotel and $4,000 for the Nunemaker
farm 10 Liberty township, Adams county.
Miss SAllie NJ. Moore and Miss Emma +.
Wise, Of Washington, d. G., are visiting their
friend Mrs Geo. !, Meriug, near this city.
jacob Nclhotn, aged rs years, months
ahd u days, died al New Oxford, Pa, on the
9Th Inst lie was born at McSherrysiown.
j. q. Peiaer's Pilot Boy on Friday last won
The 2;iS race at tho National Fair Assoeia
ton, nj Washington, best time 2:27i. The
purse was $500, aud there we're six starters.
Jesse Bosley, who had been confined in Jail
here since June last, charged with assaulunR
aud eating Harry j. Keefer, escaped from
that Institution on Wednesday last, aud he had
not been captured up 10 yesterday morning.
The Democrats Of Liberty, Frederick CO.,
raised Hancock, English aud Schlsy pole
last saturday, AZ high. Addresses we're
made by Capt. james McSherry and Hon.
John Richie
II hill. "A.
on tuesday a Hancock radish that weighed
3 pounds and o ounces. ID was IL inches
long clear OF the root, aud Is inches ia cir.
eumicrenoe.
On Tuesday Of last week, hule nins.year
Oh daughter Of Mr.. George Richards, living
near Hampstead, had her clothing lolake Ere
from a stove, aud was 20 badly burned that
,hc died on the Thursday following
To accommodate those who may wish to
s,aess the grand illumination in baltimore,
on Tuesday next, special train will leave
lilIcu station, baltimore, q, II o'clock that
night, which will run through 10 Williams
port
Col. 4. II, Webster, Republicans candidate
ipf Congress in this district, was seized with a
sudden illness on the Hartford County Fair
grounds on Thursday afternoon. His physi
can says he will not De able to leave his bed
ior several days.
Westminster has bad a deserted appearance
ell this week, 30 many OF the inhabitants be-
ing 10 Baltimore attending the sesqui,centen.
NAL celebration. One thousand, one han.
dfed and hoy round TIP tickets had been sold
BY yesterday morning
Mr. Jacob MyoFly. uear this city, brought
TO this Office, ON tuesday, an ear Of corn
containing 1910 grains. Also two sweet pO-
hloes, one yellow the other red The yellow
weighed pounds aud ounce, and the red
one q pounds and ounce
The Westminster, NJ. Pleasant, Uniontown,
Silver Run and Union bridge Bands we're in
Bat.morc great parade on Monday, Sew
ersI took their Wagons. aud had them hand
somely decorated with orange and black
lord Baliimore's colnri
The Gettysburg, Pa, Compiler says "N.
] lmmins, ieunn, on Samuel q. Sneering
et's farm, near MeSherrystoWn, raised this
ssasou 1910 bushels Of corn OF Of acres, or
ljit bushels per acre. One ear bad ,2j2
gfnIns. The field was huskcd in Il days by
Y hahds, averaging GA bushels per man per
day
a correspondent writes that Master Sha-
de Robinson, one Of the con,e siants for the
Boud prizes offered TO the farmer boys Of
Hartford county for the best crop Of corn, has
raised on the farm Of Mr.. William u. Wright
Of the tih district, from one eighth Of an acre
OF ground 1883 lbs. OF corn, making at the
nate OF 800 lbs TO the barrel, u barrels, ~
lbs, OF % barrels, i0i lbs, per acre. II is
not known as yet how many, II any OF the
contestants go above this estimate, bu, this
Is sufficient proof that the boys Of Hartford
know how TO raise good corn.