The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-05-07
SATURDAY, NAY I, 1881.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
Local BreVIties.

ted IN this city.
Several of our tanneries are offering $500
per ton for bark.
Henry Miller, a cigar maker Of Hanover,
has mysteriously disappeared,
The Westminster Gas Light Company has
declared dividend of three per cent.
Two Westminster notes.-the City Hotel
and the Moutour House-are unrehted.
The saint brush and the whitewash brush
are doing much to reAovate Westminster.
The Westminster Band treated our citizens
to some excellent music on Saturday night
last.
On Tuesday at the stock board, in Balti-
more, Western Maryland Railroad bonds sold
at ITO.
Daniel Myers, residing near Pleasant Val
lev, while peeling bark on Tuesday, cut his
left hand very severely.
Mr.. VIM. Warner, blind man, of this city,
sold, between February 2Sih and May 4lh,
334 bushels of peanuts.
Mr.. Chapman L. johnson will leave here
next week for Buford, Bedford county, Va,
to engage in the mining business.
d. B. Alleman, Esq, editor of the Titles
town, Pa, Era, was married en- April q, IN
Fremont, Pa, to Miss Lizzie Ferg.
Rt Rev. Bishop Pinkney will administer
the rite Of confirmation at Ascension Church,
this city, on Tuesday evening next.
A FIRE has been raging near High Rock,
Western Maryland Railroad, for several days.
Much damage to the timber has resulted.
Prof. Ingle, of the Salisbury, Nd, High
School, formerly an instructor IN Western
Maryland College, was quite Ill last week, but
had nearly recovered at last accounts.
The artesian well has been sunk thirty-hve
or forty feet. The woTkmen are now drilling
through solid rock, species of sand stone,
which yields, however, readily TO the drill.
At the meeting of the County School Board
on Monday last, no business Of general i'm
portance was transacted, beyond the appoint
meut of school trustees The appointments
will be found in this issue.
II. Vanderford, Esq, has been chosen to
represent Ascension Parish, this cily, In the
Episcopal diocesan convention, which meets
in Baltimore on May 18th. Douglass d.
Smith, Esq, is alternate
A novel mode Of blowing was witnessed, a
few days since, in half-acre lot, Rear West
minister. A man and a woman we're cult
waiting the lot with small pillow, he pulling
and she holding the pillow and pushing.
Damp, cloudy and cold weather in May is
the very thing for wheat and grass. But 1t
fosters the ent-wsrm in corn. This little ras-
cal needs sunlight to send him northward and
arrest his depredatioRs upon the tender csrn.
The Carroll County Trotting Association
have fixed upon July 10, 20 and Il as the days
for their summer meeting. A contest Tor
three prizes, BY the brass bands of Carroll
county will probably be a special attraction
for one day.
rtf Ha
county is that not many peach trees have
bloomed this spring, bat the apple orchards,
and the pear, plan and cherry trees, are full
of blossoms.
Robert I. Dade, formerly Of this county,
died at his residence in Montgomery county
ON the Sd inst. in the Gath year Of his age.
In 1853, Mr.. Dade, in connection with Thos.
Smith and Josiah Baugher, represented this
county in the Legislature.
A gentleman residing IN Maine, on renew
ing bis subscription to the ADVOCATE, says !;
-'Please confirms to send the paper, as
cannot afford to do without IT, II keeps fresh
in memory my former pleasant relations with
Westminster and its people.
Mr.. Tfllard, an English gentleman, who
has recently purchased land IN this county,
has rsturned home and will hiring his family
here in the fall. He is so well pleased with
this section of the country, thst he will bring
out a colony with him, ii is expected.
VIM. S. Callaghan has commenced a house
2Sx30 feet, on Main street, en- the lot be pur-
chased from Mrs Zollickoffer. IL will be a
brick front, with frame back and sides, two
stories and an attic. with two story back
building. Case Brothers contractors
lis said that there never was an April
without rye head. We were about thinking
that the old saying would act prove true this
wear. when on Saturday last Mr.. Sebastian
Bowers, Of Freedom district, brought us some
stalks pretty we'll headed out. The stalks
were nearly four feet high.
DR.. James Carey Thomas, Of Baltimore,
president of the Young Mems Christian As
socialion, who sailed for Europe on Tuesday
last, was given a reception at the Association
rooms on Saturday night, and among the
speakers on the occasion was Mr.. Clarence
Seabrook, soa of W. l.. W. Seabrook, Esq,
Of this city.
The Marylaad Chassis Of the Reform Church
met in Baltimore on Thursday night. West
minister charge was represented by Rev. j.
G. Moss and Elder Cyrus Feeser; Manchester
charge by Rev. Vim. Rupp and Elder lriah
Brilliant; Taneytown charge By Elder W. d.
Haueh. Rev. j. G. Moss was made seereta-
Application has been made to the Cover
nor for the pardea OF George Everhart, con-
yicted in the Circuit Court Of this county at
the Nav term, 1879, for forgery and sen
fenced To the peniientiary for FIVE years.
The application has been endorsed by the
States Attorney and others. The Governor
will consider the application on the 18th inst.
Hitching. posts have been provided in the
- Al
and vet, persons continue to hitch their horses
TO the fences in the neighborhood and break
them down. For SO doing they are liable to
a fine of five dollars Ascension Church en-
closure is constantly damaged in this way, and
the law will have 10 be enforced to put stop
TO it.
The fashion editress of the Baltimore EreA-
I'M Herald. in an article on Wednesday, after
describing some of the frocks and hats, says
But, perhaps. the most gorgeous hat of the
season was one which was on exhibition at a
celebrated modist's of this city, and which
was intended as part of bridal trousseau fol
a wealthy Westminster belle. | was large
Panama hat, bent at the side, with two long
pink plumes, shaded from light pink to light
ecru on one side. On the other side was a
spray Of pink and cream roses. In the inside
was shirring Of ecru and gold lace.
The conveniences and the advantages Of
advertising in a widely circulating paper, are
not properly considered and appreciated. II
YOU have anything to sell, or if there IS any
thing you wish to buy, make it known through
the newspapers to their thousands of readers.
If YOU want to buy, sell or rent houses Oh
lands, horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, carriages,
wagons, implements, or any other thing, ad-
yertise. Ifyoa want employment, or want to
employ, the way to accomplish It IS to adYer.
tise The newspaper goes everywhere, and
communicates with more people IN one day
than YOU could reach in a month. 1t IS de
signed to be a medium of communication be-
tween the people. Use it, therefore, when
ever you need anything, for you can make
your wants known quicker and cheaper
through that medism than in any other way.
Carroll county is celebrated for its numer
Gus and picturesque towns and villages
Among the most promiHent are Westminster
Manchester, New Windsor, Union Bridge
Taneytown, Silver Run, Unioutown, Melrose
Mayberry, Middleburg, Mt. Airy, Freedom,
Sykesville, Eldersburg, Louisville, Meehan-
icsvilie, FrankliHville. Patapsce, Carroiiton,
HAMPSTEAD, Houcksyille, Alesia, Ebbvale
Stonersville, Mt Vernon, Sans Creek, War
6eldsburg, Winfield, Hoods Mills, Fnzzells
burg. Bachmans Mills, Double Pipe Creek,
MeKinstry's Mills, Harvey, Wakefield Wood
bine, Pleasant Valley and others, nearly. al
of which are Immediately upon or convenient
TO railroads, and are wellkRown summer re
sorts for denizens of the cities, where they
can obtain pure water, pure arr, fresh MILF
and vegetables goiden butter and inVIgOrat