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Maryland Prisoners Aid Association.

The Twelfth Annual Report of the Ma
ryland Prisoners Aid Association, ofwhlch
g. S. Griffith, Esq, is president, has just
been issued, and in it we find much in
formation regarding prisons and prisoners
of great value to the public. After
abiding to the aversion of parents to
having their children learn trades, and
the barrier to encouraging mechanical
industry by trade unions, the presidents
report says that of the 591 conyicts in the
Maryland Penitentiary only AZ had served
out regular terms as apprentices, and adds
that in some manufacturing establishments
in Baltimore nine-tenths of the skilled
workmen are foreigners,
While the population of Maryland has
increased, says the Report, the number OF
convicts in the Penitentiary has decreased.
A few years ago the highest number of
prisoners was 992, and now there are but
547. The Penitentiary is not only self
sustaining, but pays revenue into the
State treasury. The industries prosecuted
in the institution not only serve to keep
the prisoners healthy, but it also affords
convicts without mechanical knowledge
opportunity to learn trades, and when they
are discharged they are better prepared to
battle with the world and gain an honest
living.
The president, in the summer and fall
of 1880, visited some of the prisons of
England Ireland, Scotland, Germany,
Belgium, Switzerland and Italy, and he
says that they do not compare favorably
with the prisons Of the United States. In
England the discipline IS rigid and arbi-
trary, and no kindness, scarcely, is shown
the convicts. Trades are not taught aud
christian workers find it difficult to gain
admission. In consequence Of this, and
the prejudiees existing among the people
against employing or trusting discharged
eonyicts, about one half the prisoners re-
lapse into crime. The average cost Of
English couyicts is about $3.50 per annum,
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Frauds in the Nail Service.

If Postmaster James continues to IN
vestisate the rays Of his department, il Is
cutie probable that be will not long re-
main in tho Cabinet The revelations
lust made Of fraud and corruption which
have been going on in the star route ser
vice. have created stir throughout the
country, and yes reports say that this is
Just the beginning. We publish this
morning list Of star route ecaiFactors,
furnished from official sources, who have
been prOftiug largely by their contracts.
These contractors, thuty-6ve ia number,
had ninety three routes. They contracted
to carry the nails upon them for sIz7s'
Il9, yet they we're paid for the service
S2,S02,2I4, an increase OF Rore than
$1,000. 900 oFer the contract prices.
Second Assistant Postmaster Brady, whose
department had special jurisdiction over
the star route service, has been forced 10
resign, aud many others in the postofhee
department are quite uneasy. If permit
ted, General James, We have no doubt,
sill 60 to the bottom Of all the Irregular
ties and frauds in the department, and
reform and correct all abuses. But, it
seems from a dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record, also published in this issue, in
connection with the list of contractors,
that these contractors who haze been
proftiag so largely have been paying Q
percentage Of their earnings to bolster up
the declining Republican party, and they
threaten to expose some election crooked
ness if they are driven to the wall on the
star route frauds. It would be inferred
from the dispatch to the Record that the
star route contractors furnished some Of
the money which last year carried Indiana
frotn the Democratic to the Republican
columa
The Republican party cannot stand
these revelations, and General james will
probably be asked to cease his investiga-
tons or to resign
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A Mysterious Disease.

Adgices have beea received al Oua~a from
British Columbia stating that strange aud
terrible disease has broken out among the
Cinnamon employed on the Canada AID
Pacific railway works ia that province. The
case of Chinese cook al a place known as
Big Tunnel will serve 10 illustrate the phases
Of the strange malaAy. He sat down, APP
paTently perfectly WE'LL to eat his dinner.
His feet began to swell and the swelling ex.
tended itself up his legs and body, reaching
the vital PARTS in about ten minutes, causing
bis abdomen and chest 20 expand to most
unnatural proportions, and he tqm4!ed down
dead, all in less than fifteen minutes FROM the
lime the disease attacked kis feet. In this
way these people are dying in dozens, and
already more than one hundred have thus
been carried off This condition Of things
is causing alarm among the whites. In some
instances the fogemen are said to have He'd
from the scenes of the raYages Of this mystic
rioas disease, and il would not be strange ii
the Chinese should BECOME panic stricken.
The provincial press are asking the govern
meni for an investigation of the disease,
which is spreading tsFfor among the work
men.
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The President Intention.

The New York Gsapbis prints dispatch
from Washington 10 the eject that President
GARFIELD has resolved to cut the knot that has
baea lied by Senator ConkliBg, and 10 assert
his Constitutional rights ia the following man
ner He is to send to tbs Senate all the ad.
ditional appointments which ha considers
necessary, without Withdrawing any that be
has thus far made. and 70 accompany these
Sith notification that be desires the Senate
TO act upon them without any unnecessary
delay. Then, at the end OF . week, II the
Senate does not act apsn the appointments,
he is to withdraw the whole lot, leaving abso
lutely nothing before that body in the shape
Of business, aud to inform it that he will send
no more appointment for its action until
December next. II is held that the Senate
will thus be compelled to adjourn and go
home, having no longer the shadow Of M ex
cuse for remaining at Washington. When
the Senators have gone the President will be
at liberty to act freely, and he can make such
removals ana appointsments as may seem to
hi:a to be advisable. They will hold good
until December, at least, agd as long alter
that as the Senate may neglect or Fetpse TO
disapproye them. That this plan IS ia CON
temptation at the White House is fully believ-
ed, and that it will be carried cut is probable.
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TRUSTEES SALE
ESTATE.
In Freedom district, Carroll county, Md.

TIME undersigned, trustees, under decree
Il passed in the case of Berharr A. Lountz
and VIM. III, Ritter, compliments, aud Will
liam H. II. Grove, defendant, No. 1898
Equity, in the Circuit Court for Carroll coun-
ty, viii offer at public sale, at Woodbine, on
Thursday, the goth day Of Nay, 1881,
at l o'clock, p M, all that parcel of land
lying and being in Freedom district, Carroll
county, in the State of Maryland, called
Bachelor Refuge Resurveyed," containing
about
go ACRES OF LAND,
more or less, aad which was conveyed to
certain Columbus Welsh and William H. Fl.
Grove by Michael Scanlon, by deed dated
May Sth, 1868, and recorded among the Land
Records of Carroll county, in Liber w. A.
Mex, No. IS, folio $40, except about 8
ACRES, more or less, conveyed by said Co.
lumhus Welsh, to Reuben o. Hatfield, by
deed dated April 4th, 1874, and recorded
among the Land Records of Carroll county
in Liber F. I. S. No. "A, folio 30. This
property is situate near Woedbine, on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in Freedom dis
trict.
Terms of sale as prescribed by the decree,
are one-third cash on the day of sale or ON
the day of ratification of the sale by the court;
the balance in tive equal payments of six and
twelve months, secured by the notes of the
purchaser, bearing interest from the day of
sale.
WIN. A. McKELLIP, I r.n.,.a.
J. A. c, BOND, trustees
april S0ts Jos. Berrett, Auctioneer.
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We congratulate the province of Quebec
upon the fact that one of her citizens, c. B.
Hall, carried off the first prize oftwo hundred
pounds sterling from the Art Union of Lon
don-Bdltimore Herald.
On the delivery of the Herald in the
province VIC presume the entire population
went into ecstacy over the 'congratula-
ton" so generously rendered. The head
of every family, no doubt, called his house
hold together and read them the joyful
news that the Baltimore Herald had con-
graduated them upon the fact that one of
their fellow citizens had taken prize,
while their faces were wroathed in smiles
that were childlike and bland.
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Prospect Of a Ute War.

There is serious danger Of Ute war this
spring, aud II una occurs, Is wiN be Que 70
forcing these Indians from thoir homes 10 or
der TO minister to the greed Of whites. The
lftes claim TO have misunderstood The treaty.
Probably their head meu understood It aud
The body OF the people d'd not. But The head
men we're b. iuras caioled and coeEoed.
They we're hsibed with gifts and special
clauses IN Carl SchurG treaty, and were
bulied by gangs Of White men who meHaeed
them on their way to Washington. IL is q
matter Of official record that the Gtes held
their land by title indefeaslblc unless by
their free consent; that they unanimously re-
fused their consent, and thar they oaly yield.
cd il when the Commissioners OF hayes and
Schurz declared that they would not be re-
sponsible tor what might belall them At the
hands Of the settlers The few dollars apiece
which they received for agreeing TO this en-,
forced bdrgaia have already mostly found
their way into the pockets OF traders, Now
they claim that they were only to give up the
miaeral lands in the mountains, aud not the
grazing lands Of the valleys. This rs the re-
suit OF a wholesale spolialiop.
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Age Rate. Maturity Age. Rate. Maturity
Years. Years

Annual dHes are Sl.O0 per thousand insur-
anee.
The advantages of this Society over all
other mutual companies are:
/. 1t secures to its members life insurance
at smaller outlay than any other association
doing business at the present day.
2 The life endowment secures insurance
at ordinary life rates, with the advantages
that if the Insured shall live to an old age, it
shall then become a matured endowment,
and consequently payable.
3. 1t is the simplest, the cheapest, and yet
the safest, more eminently just and apPlica-
Bile to all classes than any contract of insur-
ance ever before offered to the public.
4, The Society is purely mutual, thus af
fording insurance at actual cost.
JAMES BLIZZARD,
Of Westminster, Agent for Carroll Co., Nd.
Ia Local Agents wanted in every district.
ap 303m*
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Local option Is gradually spreading in
this State. To Kent, Caroline, Calvert,
Prince Georges, Cecil and Montgomery
counties prohibition is general, and is par
tial in Somerset, Queen Annes, Talbot,
Dorchester and Baltimore counties, and in
a contracted territory in Carroll county.
After the first of May no liquors will be
sold in NIiddletovn, Libertya Hauyer,
Mechanicstown, townsville, Woodvile and
Lisganore districts, 10 Frederick county;
ard in Williamsport, sharpsburg, Keedys-
vile. Chewsville and Rohrersyille districts
in Washington county.
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BUYlNG Up THE BARs.-A novel expert
meHt in the way of temperance reform Is
about to be tried at the little town Of Berwick,
on the North Branch of the Susqehannah,
Columbia county. Pa. There are large shops
at this place for building cars, and the pro
prietors are often embarrassed by the failure
of many OF their employees to report for duty
at times when they are greatly needed. Some
good mechanics cannot refrain from going on
a debauch after they get their months pay.
As E,atter of course the employer loses the
benefit Of their skin and labor until they have
recovered. The president Of the jackson
and Woodin Manufacturing Cempagy. at
Berwick, has determined TO diminish the op.
portpnides for this kind Of indulgence by
paying the three licensed hotels in the town
ios closing up their bars. The estimated
profits of these three establishments from the
sale of liquors aggregate $4,000 year, and
this sum the president Of the car 4lanatactpr
ing company has agreed to pay. He expacts
to get his mopay back in the increased eff
cheney of bis one thousand w0Fkmen.
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Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sub
IN scriber has obtained from the Or
phans Court Of Carroll county, letters Of
administration ou the Personal Estate of
DAVID CRUMBACKER,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are here
by warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated, to the
subscriber on or before the 26th day of Novem-
Der next; they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit of said estate. Those
Indebted are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 26th day of
April, 1881.
CHARLES A. CRUMBACKER,
an 3O-4t* Administrator.
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NO. 1879 EQUITY.


In the Circuit Court for Carroll county, sit
ting as Court of Equity.
Hiram S. Hiltabridle and others VS. Wesley
j. Hiltabridle and wife
ORDERED this 26th day of April, A. D.
" 1881, that the sale of the real estate
made and reported in the above entitled cause
by j. Oliver Wadlow, trustee appointed by
the decree passed therein to sell The same, be
finally ratified and confirmed, unless eanse to
the contrary be shown on or before the S1st
day Of May, next; provided copy of this
order be inserted once week for three sue
eessive weeks in some newspaper published
in Carroll county, Maryland, previous to the
23rd day of May, next.
The second report Of sale states the amount
Of sale to be S44S.S6l
FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk.
True Copy,-Test:
april S0-St FRANK I. SHAW, Clerk.
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The Port Tobacco Independent says
thar Illegal oysteriog legal oystering hav-
ing ceased ca the 18th inst.) Is 10 full
blast; that at least 6ye hundred vessels
were dredging on the Potomac risss, be
tween Blackistons Island and Pope's
Greek, recently, The Ialepehdeai ad-
yises Gov. Hamilton 70. take command 10
person Of the oyster navy, aad eleas out
these maraaders. He would lind far more
fun in it, than in running amuck with the
abosses, and, VIC may add, with The Leg
stature
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Fcr n, Dyaazratic A.is~lfs
TAKING MORTGAGES.

EptroRs AprockTE; The greatest good to
the greatest number this Is The principle
apon which republican Or popular govern
menis base their legislative acts. Tie Dor
rowing or debtor class constitutes the great
majority ia all societies or, "a il Is o'ten
said, The poor are more numerous thsa the
rich therefore a popular government aims
10 leelsiafa for the ''aot- rich, leaving the
rich 10 care Tor themselves. Hid Haf pro-
ieei labor. and paly pr0feos capital. Upoa
this principle are hasrd all asQFy lass I'll
laws taxing laxuriss Al high rate taxes on
securities and 90 incomes this Is the gasaiug
principle spon which the great oai cry aEaiHst
corporations or moaopoi3es IS based sad u
Is this anxiety 20 get At the rich uan . cash
box that is the T0et 81 the movement 20 tax
mortgages on land wholly wjshia this Stale
Bot, has il ever been asked by the ,ormeF,
Rho will pay a mortgage tax VIII the farmer
who borroas. or the man Nho lends few
hundreds or thousands pay this tax Wac will
bear this extra burden ] reply, The farmer,
mh0 i 3 borrower.
IL Is said tie mortgage Ovas lac land Gov
erred hy the mortgage gwen by the farmer, aHd
that the mortgage sh0ald pay the taxes. Il
may he so, grant il 10 be sot, bat tsAo deef
nav the taxes Why the farmer. and BE-
agrees so to do IN the mortgage deed it
would ouly require few lines OF writing 10 in
seri an additional covenant, BY which be woald
agree to pay the mortgage tax.
When the U. 5. revenue laws required
stamp on each mortgage, dad the farmer Or
IaRder pay for that stamp s-ccriaInly the
iarmaF paid that tax.
The recording Ire IS a rcveRue TO the State,
as veil as 3 compensation to the clerk the
farmer, Rot the lender pays thai. " bile
money is worth more than SIX per cent. lysE
the usury laws forbid to take more wh0 bat
the farmer loses? Does he not pay interest in
advance? and the lender, by gaining interest
on tha2 iEteTast, saves himself
Upon what ground en- i be said the farm
er will escape the payment Of thls mortgage
tax; and that the revenue from such tax
will reduce the farmers tax on his farm or
2 per cent? No it will help, perhaps, the
rich leading farmer, but It Is only new tax
on the farmer who is obliged to borrow TO
keep up his farm, or 10 win new ground,
plant new orchards, etc. 1t IS all very we'll
10 bleed the rich man, but il IS prudent TO see
thar the knife has not double edge, or il may
cut You the deephRi "MoRTGAGos.
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Sixteen officials we're discharged from
the Custom House, Baltimore, on Monday
The dismissals we're based on the alleged
fact that Baltimore had larger number
of employees in proportion to the revenue
collected than any other Atlanti. city.
On the other hand it is alleged that the
force was not too large for the amount Of
business. The dismissals have taken place
bowaver
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

How happens it, that as bad as the Ma
ryland tobacco Inspection isreprescnted by
German dealers to be, that France takes
about 50 per cent. of the Maryland esop z
Are the F4epch less fastidious or less ava
ricious
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

TiT FOB Tu-When they get SO far in
South Caroline as TO hang eol0red woman
by lynch law on q mere suspicion or aecasa-
ton of arson, the Senators OF that State at
Washington had better hurry home and save
her Observation-Disclosures Fdper.
Yes, and when they get so far 10 Aassa.
ehusetts as to shoot theological student dead
on the p3sge suspicion that he was going, TO
commit buFgsa4gJ the Senators OF that
State at Washington had better hurry home
and save both her theology ana h6F cyili7a-
tion.-Ne,c HareR Register.
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d BURKE

HAS opened an Emporium for the sale of
Ii STEEL ENGRAVINGS, CHROM0S,
PICTURE FRAMES, CORDS and TAS-
Sells, and full supply of the best STA
TIONERY. Catholic Prayer Books, Bibles
and Sacred Historical Works furnished.
Subscriptions for the various magazines and
papers will be received. The patronage of
the public is solicited. Store fourth door
west OF the Central Hotel, in the room for
merly occupied by Miss Clara Morritz.
mar 26-ly
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NOTICE.

TIME subscriber, as agent for the Maryland
L Fertilizing and Manufacturing Company
of Baltimore, will furnish the different grades
of Phosphates manufactured by said Compa
ny, to persons, upon the NEST reasonable and
apcomm odating terms, at his residence. in
Westminster. WIN. A. WAMpLER.
april 30St
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

Fhe LaAestopn Era is the oa4c Of a
new candidate for public favor. Il is pub
lished at Littlestowo, Pa, by D. B. Ale
man, Esq, and the first number is well
flled with local and general news.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

Messrs. Banuon and Henkle bad much
to say of the Ring" in their speeches at
Annapolis on Tuesday nisht, but DIR.
Wells turned the laugh on them when he
said that if there were ring" Bannoa
and Henkle we're charter members of it.
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N1NETY-THREE STAR ROUTES.
The Annual Pay Raised Between the Let
tings from $727,l to $2,802,2l4.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The following ia, =,
BILE, showing the increase of annual pay OF
ninety-three "star'' routes out of9, 225, where
by the annual pay of the ninety three routes
was raised, between the lettings of 1878 and
Jan. l, 1880, from 1927, 119 to 81, SO2, PA, Is
furnished from official sources:
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

The Baltimore item of to-day will con
tain a group picture of the Maryland Sen
ators and members of Congress, drawn by
Prof. A. B. Mclaughlin, formerly of this
city. We have received an advance copy
of the group, which is well executed aud
presents a faithful likeness of our aational
legislators.
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Normal instruction.

GEVERAL young gentlemen and ladies,
- proposing to form themselves into Nor
NAL Glass, for the purpose of acquiring a
thorough knowledge of English Grammar,
fully invite others 10 join them. All that is
necessary is, prompt attendance at each meet
ing, from It's beginning to its close, and an
earnest desire for success, which is guaran-
teed, if all the requirements be complied with.
Those who desire to become members of
this class, viii be informed of the times and
place, or places, of meeting, terms, &C., on
application, either personally or by mail, be,
fore the middle of May, to Mr.. George w.
Yeiser, near Union Mills, or to the Secretary
Of the Public School Board in Westminster,
april 3O-3t
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NOTIOE.

THERE will be a meeting of the members
l. of Carroll Lodge, !. o. NJ, and tbs
stockholders of the Hall Company, on SAT-
URDAY, NAY IA, at 8 p. M, in the Hall at
Fnksburg. BY order of the Board
GEO. W. ARMAC0ST,
APP 90-St* Secretary.
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Thomas HarFigan, negro convict Ia the
State prison in Concord, New Hampshire, a
few days ago, adopted desperate means TO
get rid Of hard labor during long term OF
confinement. There is circular saw IN the
shop where be was at work. He quietly went
10 tho machine, set it in motion, took The
fingers of his right hand in his len, and sind
the wrist along the groove until the hand was
neatly amputated He threw the severed
member on the floor, and, walking up TO the
officer in charge, asked that the bleeding
stump be dressed. Harrigan was sentenced
for twenty years three months ago Tor an as
saqlt on little girl in Boston.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-30

TAe regular appropriation Tor star Route
service ior the yeaT eading jane So. lSs5, was
S.. gnu. 600. or this amognt 3, su2.@lt wAs
absorbed by the ainety THREE routes embraced
10 the shove table, leaving S1.u37, T>6 fer the
the remaining y, IS4 roales,