The Democratic advocate., 1881-08-20
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1881.
LOCAL AFFAIRS


DR.. r. B. Stewart, NJ D., Of Virginia, has
located in Westminster.
The annual Freedom tournament will take
place on Wednesday, September 7th.
Carroll county peaches we're selling IN TINS
city this week at forty cents peck.
In some parts of this county the latter corn
and potatoes are suffering for rain.
The grain dealers of this city are receiving
considerable quantities of new wheat
Vennor's cold weather, from the 10Th to
the 10th, arrived according to prediction.
The soiourners at the mountain-side and
the seaside, like the swallows, "bomeward
hy."
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Warfeldsburg propose holding camp meet
ing, September 1st.
The Hanover Drum Corps expect to go to
the Yorktown Centennial, with the Eigth
Pennsylvania Regiment.
The Hanover Fire Department will have
an excursion over the B. & H. and Western
MARYLAND railroads to Mont Alto Park next
Friday.
Mr.. Airhart Winters, at Winters Mill, is
adding another story to his residence, and is
otherwise improving and beautiiying his prop
erty.
Our thanks are due Dr. ]. Riuehart, of
Frizzleburg, for a basket of elegant tomatoes;
also to Mr.. John Swartzbaugh, of this city,
for q similar favor.
A carrier pigeon race took place from
Penmar to Baltimore on Tuesday, distance
of seventy miles, the fastest time being two
hours and four minutes.
BENJAMIN Sauirrell colored, aged betweea
81 and SO years, died on Wednesday evening.
His life was insured in several companies Tor
a large aggregate amount.
1t is brick machine shop, 24xo0 feet,
fronting on Green and Liberty streets that
Mr.. Geo. Stouch is going to erect, and not
row of brick dwellings.
The town council of Chambersburg, Pa,
have opened a new street in that town ana
named It, as a compliment, after President
Hood, ofthe Western Maryland Railroad
The Washington county board of school
commissioners have appointed Miss Lizzie
Swarbrick, of Hancock, to the scholarship
from that county to Western Maryland Col
lege.
The registers of voters throughout the
county will sit on Monday, Tuesday, Wed
nesday. Thursday and Friday, September 5th,
9th, 7th, Sth and 9Th, to attend to the duties
pertaining TO their office.
A special dispatch to the ADv0cATE from
The West End. saws that one Of the Croquet
Stags has deserted the club and intends join
ing the Rife Association. At present he Is
practieing at barn door with a pop-gun.
The crop OF elOverseed will be unusually
abundant this season. In the course OF
ride on Tuesday through portions OF West
minister, New Windsor aRd Franklin DISTRICTS
we found the clover everywhere luxuriant.
Rev. David n Gilbert, of the Maryland
Conference Of the NJ. P. Church, died on
Kent Island, on Monday, in his 3lst year.
Mr.. Gilbert was educated at Western Mary
land College, and was known to many Of the
citizens OF this city.
While attending the recent G. A. r. Post
meeting at Gettysburg, western man DIS
covered his own grave IN the cemetery, the
headstone Of which bore his name aRd the
company and regiment in which he had sery-
ed during the war.
The barn on the farm Of Jesse W. Garrett,
four and a-half miles south of Hanover, was
struck by lightning on Saturday afternoon last
and entirely consumed, together with some
rye, hay, harness and farming implements.
Insured FOR $T00.
Samuel Tyler, a brakeman on the Western
MARYLAND Railroad, while unloading lumber
from goudoIa car at Smithburg, on Thurs
day, was caught by the moving Of the train
between q car and telegraph pole, and his left
hip-bone was broken. He elived in Baltimore.
Gov. Hamilton has signed the death war
rant of Felix MunshOEer, convicted IN the
Circuit Court of Frederick County, Of the
murder of his cousin, James L. Wetzell, near
Emmittsburg, more than year ago. The
Governor has named the 2Sd Of September
next as the day for the execution.
VIM. r. Brooks, of the Red House obser-
vatory, Phelps, n. T., announces under date
Of August Is that 'sSchaeberle's comet,
which at the time Of discovery and for some
time after was only visible in the morning
northeastern sky, can now be seen IN the
evening low dewn in the north-northwest-
The Hanover Citizen says :-Diphtheria in
a malignant form has made its appearance in
the family Of Mr. Benjamin Emenheiser, re-
siding about a mile and q half east of lAttles-
town. On July 9th daughter, aged Q years,
3 months and 16 days, died, on Sunday q son
was buried, and we are informed that there
are three more seriously i'll.
Sharpers have been soliciting subscriptions
and collecting money in Frederick county for
several of the Frederick journals. As the
rascals may undertake the same in this coun-
", we state for the benefit of the public that
no one, except our regular correspondents,
who are old residents OF the various districts
and are generally known to the citizens
thereof, is authorized to receive money for
the ADVOCATE.