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TRUSTEE'S SALE
Il OF A VALUABLE FARM

By virtue of decree of the Circuit Court
for Carroll county, sitting as a Court of Equity,
passed in cause No. 1776 Equity, wherein
John F. Burlington and others are complain
ants and Jacob Burlington and Levi Buffing-
ton, executors, and others are defendants, the
undersigned, as trustee, will sell at public
sale, to the highest bidder, on the premises,
ON THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, A. D., 1882,
at l o'clock, p. M, a valuable farm containing
1913 ACRES, 1 ROOD AND 20 PERCHES
of land, more or less, being parts of tracts of
land called Bedford and Addition to Bed
ford. F" The improvements thereon consist OF
comfortable two-story Log
k@s-,G Dwelling House, cased with
,e brick, with back building at
e. sE5sA tached; large bank barn, with
wagon shed attached, built of brick and frame
carriage house and other necessary outbuild-
ings. Water convenient to all the buildings.
There is due proportion of meadow and
wood land; about 30 acres in timber. The
land is in good state of cultivation and is
well watered. There is also a thriving or
ehard of apple and peach trees in bearing
condition on the premises.
This property is now in the occupancy of
Jacob Burlington, is in Middleburg district,
Carroll county, Maryland, is directly on the
Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad,
about . miles from Frederick juno, station
on said railroad, about ] miles from Bruce
vile and about 81 miles from Taneytown; ad-
joins the land of Jacob Sharretts, Charles W.
Winemiller and James w. White; is convent
ent to railroad, churches, schools, mills, &c,
and is worthy the attention of purchasers.
Terms Of Sale :-0ne-third part of the pur-
chase money shall be paid by the purchaser
or purchasers to the Trustee on the day OF
sale or upon the ratification thereof by the
Court, and the residue shall be paid in two
equal payments, the one to be paid in one year
and the other in two years from the day OF
sale, with interest, and to be secured by the
notes of the purchaser or purchasers with Sc
curi;y TO be approved of by the Trustee.
ELIAS O. GRIMES, Trustee.
Joseph NJ. Parke, Smith & MeKellip, Refs
nider 4 Fink, Solicitors. july SITS
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The cotton factories of the Lawrence and
Woodawn Manufacturing companies, at Low
ell, n. c., have been closed. The companies
have made an assignment for 100000.
Both factories are new and are fitted with the
most improved machinery. III.
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A CATFISH THAT SWALLOWED A CALI
About tSo weeks ago Mr.. Smith, livinga few
miles from Calhoun. Georgias ON the Costa.
naula river, lost = yearling heifer about three
DAYS ago, and as il was Of fine stock made
dilligsnt search, but could not End il. A few
DAYS ago party Of young men fishing on the
river were attracted by the smell Of dead
carcass, and upon examining the cause, 70
aud behold, they found monster catfish,
which had swallowed The calf. and the horns
of the calf becoming entangled in the fish
giIls had drowned the fish The FISH measar-
ed exactly twenty three feet and seven inches
in length aud was five feet eight and one.
quarter inches across the head, aud from the
length Of its whiskers supposed 10 be one
hundred and seventeen years old.-Ca3hoaA
TfBtes.
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DRIvATE SALE OF TWO vAL-
IL UABLE FARMS,

The subscriber offers at Private Sale his
farms in Taneytown District Farm No.
contains 1864 ACRES OF LAND, more or
less, about p acres Of which are in choice
Timber. This farm is about three miles west
of Taneytown, adjoining lands of Joshua Null,
Jos. Fogle and others.
Farm No. 2 contains ~ ACRES OF
LAND, more or less, adjoining lands of VIM.
Vaughn and others. The Improvements on
these farms are frst-class, all necessary build
ings, Fruit of all kinds; fencing, water, land
IN good condition, convenient to schools,
stores, postofice. churches, mills, &c, and
two stations on different railroads Any one
wishing to view the farms can do so by calling
upon the undersigned or on n. d. Feezer, re,
siding on farm No. /.
The above properties viii be offered at prl>
waite sale at reasonable terms to suit parchas>
ers until September a0th, 1882, when, if not
sold, they will then be offered at public sale.
may 27-t sep30 JOHN BUSHEY.
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ICE CREAM.

Having received large supply of Ice,
can now furnish Pie Mics, Sunday Schools,
Excursions, Hotels, Boarding Houses and
Private Residences with the best quality of
Ice Cream and Water lees at reasonable rates.
sEs- Highest Cash price paid for Cream.
JAMES w. BEACHAM.
NAV 6-sin Avondale, Nd
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CAMp MEETING.
ICE CREAM AND WATER ICE.

| can supply the citizens of Westminster
and Carroll county with fISt-class article of
lee Cream and Water lee. Private families
furnished with either By the gallon or halt
gallon. Large orders viii receive prompt at
tention. Orders delivered within the city
limits or at the railroad free of charge.
narSend orders to Harbaugh's Store, Box
As. Those wanting cream for Sunday should
send in their orders by o'clock Saturday at
terpoon. JOSIAH CR0WI..
NAV 0-tf Westminster, Md.
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THr HaasE mar PR ms FooE IL IT,
Th., Rond0st 6asrieT ssys :--A singular ac-
cideui happened 70 horse IN Saagersies, \.
u, the 0thcr day. In performing some act
for his own personal advantage. presumably
removing 4 Is from bis ear, the unfortunate
animal kicked one Of his hind feet into his
mouth. ia such . manner that his owu unAided
Efforts, though vigorous aud prolonged, we're
insufficient 10 extricase t. la this condition
Ne was discovered struggling upon the aoor Of
found to be caught behind his upper teeth aud
Undecided In the roof Of his mouth, from which
blood Was flowing freely. There vas lear that
the animal would break his meek before he
could be released. but he finally escaped with
cot injury. excepting a soro jaw and several
loose teeth.
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ExcELsIoR.


We agree with customers living within one
hundred miles Of Baltimore city, and for
all purchases over Fifteen Dollars, 10 pay
one-half the travelling expenses incurred,
on exhibition of the ticket or tickets vouch-
ing for the same. Make your purchase before
exhibiting your ticket, and thus convince
yourself that we share with you the expenses
of the trip. Excelsior is the only Clothing
Honse IN the United States that makes this
great offerl Bear in mind that our Furnish
ing Goods Department is one of the finest in
che land, and that the lowness of our prices is
a matter Of surprise to all.
Do not forget the cardinal principles Of our
house, the rounds Of our ladder Of success
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A t PRIVATE SALE.
A NDREW 7. BROWN.

IA AT BAER'S TANNERY,
VIII pay the highest cash price for Iron,
Copper, Lead, Rags, Bones, Books and
Paper, Gum Shoes, etc. Win call at your
house when notified te do so. july l5-4t
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U,IRE INSURANCE AGENCY
OF
YINGLING & MATTHEWS.

Insure against Loss or Damage by Fire or
Lightning to Buildings, Live Stock, etc.,
and Loss by Lightning to Stock anywhere
ON the premises, and to other property whether
fire enSues or not.
Office with State Mutual Association, near
Railroad, Westminster, Md.
ian l5-tf
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PrIre shootIng.

The first monthly shooting for prize Of
handsome revolver by the Carroll Rifle Club,
took place on Thursday evening, on their
range az the old fair grounds. The distance
was FIVE hundred yards, and the following was
the score out of a possible 70:
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OUR LARGE AND VARIED STOCK

which comprises larger line than was ever
brought to this town before, but win name a !.
few prices.
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CALL AT OUR DOUBLE STORE

Where we now offer one of
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T. oRNDoRFF
LARGE LOT OF NEW GOODS.
Has just received his Second

We ask everybody to
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-11-04
Speed of Birds.

The rates of flight of the different species
of wild birds have not, so far as we know,
been measured, and it is difficult for us to
see how this could be done Various esti-
mates have been made by different authors,
but it must be remembered that these are
merely estimates, and not measurements of
speed. Speaking Of the passenger pigeon
Audubon says :-'Their great power of
flight enables them to survey and pass over
an astonishing extent of country in very
short time. This is proved by facts well
known in America. Thus, pigeons have
been killed in the neighborhood of New
York with their crops full of rice which
they must have collected in the fields of
Georgia and Carolina, these districts being
the nearest in which they could possibly
have procured supply Of that kind of food
AS their power of digestion is SO great that
they will decompose food entirely in twelve
hours, they must in this case have travelled
between three and four hundred miles in
six hours, which shows their speed to be,
at an average, about mile in a minute. A
velocity such as this would enable one of
these birds, were it SO inclined, to visit the
European continent in less than three days"
Writing of the common wildswan, he says:
"When travelling to distance they proceed
at great height, with steady and well
sustained fight, though by no means so
rapid as that of the trumpeter swan, this
difference probably arising from the greater
weight and alar extent of the latter.
A little farther on he quotes DIR. Sharp
less, of Philadelphia, as saying of the same
species :-"The swan, when migrating, with
a moderate wind in his favor, and mounted
high in the air, certainly travels at the
rate of five hundred miles or more an hour.
[ have often timed the flight of the goose,
and found one mile minute common
rapidity, and when the two birds, in change
of feeding ground, have been flying near
each other, which [ have often seen, the
swan invariably passed with nearly double
that velocity
Of the black duck he says that he be-
lieves that it flies at rate of seventy miles
an hour, and of the golden eye that he be-
lieves it "can easily traverse the space of
ninety miles in an hour" Many addition
al citations might be made, but they would
scarcely serve to determine the question:
Forest and Stream,
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The Rapid Increase of Professors.

In this favored land the professor is
running the Colonel a pretty close race,
and the Colonel may just as well under
stand that he has to jump himself or he'll
get shut out at the distancepole Just after
the close of the war the Colonel took such
start that the most sanguine friends of
the professor admitted that he could not
catch up. But the professor is one of the
immortal few that were not born to die,
and while the republic lasts, he will be on
deck. Seed time and harvest may fail,
summer may cease and the winter may not
endure, morning and even time may pass
away, but the professor will be here. This
is the country for him, and while it is de-
finitely settled by the last census that the
Colonel is dying out, and that there is now
but one Colonel to every thirty of
population, the professor is on the increase
and holds all that he gains. The Colonel
differs widely from the professor in that
no reason is ever assigned for his being.
A man is simply called "Colonel' either
because he was Lieutenant in the army
or never was in the army, it is immaterial.
He is just Colonel, that's ALL But the
professor claims his title by reason of his
profession" whether it be cobbling Of
shoes or training of dogs. And as occupa-
tions increase in variety, so the professor
increases in number.
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carved mantel upheld by the mermaids
An occasional lady friend has, in visiting
the place, put a check to the ruin and the
lost by having the rich carpets moved from
beneath the leaks, and securing the silver.
ware found behind books in closets, and
even in the grass on the lawn. Much OF
the furniture has been boxed up and sent
away from Canonchet, and much remains.
One room was not opened until recently
by ex-Gov. Sprague. 1t was the one oc-
cupied by his wife, and when she quilted
Canonchet the door was locked, and her
husband carried the key. When she OBJ
tanned divorce, he packed up her goods
and sent them to her. The room was
known among visitors as the mysterious
chamber" When the Ex-Governor showed
the mansion to visitors he passed this
closed door in silence.
Mrs. Sprague's plans were never com
pleted. She hoped to make it the grandest
villa in America, and it is said that her
early ambition was to establish a political
salon far from all rivals, where her enter
tainments would attract the men of power
and influence in the land, who could help
her in her design to make her father Pres
ident of the United States. When this
ambition was blighted, she is said to have de-
sired to reign as social queen, and she pre-
pared her environment accordingly.
When the first batch of work was finished
on Canonchet, ex-Gov. Sprague, then man
of large affairs, was under the impression
that it had cost about $4,000. One day
his brother Amasa, who had had charge of
the finances, asked him about insuring the
place.
"Weu, put $4,000 on it" said the ez-
Governor.
"Twenty-fve thousand" exclaimed
Amasa "Do you know what it has
cost ?"
''Not over $4,000.
"Well," said Amasa, "here are bills for
100000"
The property which was sold recently
for $62, 2,25O cost nearly if not all of mil
lion dollars. In the whirligig of time it
passes into the hands of the husband of a
descendant of old Gov Atwood Robinson.
Mr.. Francis D. Moulton, it is believed, has
purchased it for speculation. 1t has often
been talked of as grand club house, and
again as a gambling house and cafe for
millionaires. The landscape about it is in
its primitive state. Two hundred acres of
it are made up of salt marsh with an inlet
from the sea- Mrs. Sprague expected that
her husband would build ornamental sta
bles and adorn the grounds, but he never
did. There is not yet setting for the
costly and odd jewel. The future of the
place is apt to be part of the summer life
at Narragansett
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foster mother. The hen allowed the cat to
come at intervals and nurse them. The
hen has never left the kittens, but devotes
to them her whole time, and has always
trusted to food being brought her. She
takes them under her wings, clucks to them,
and works about them with her bill, and
now when they are beginning to move
about, she permits them to climb on her
and amuse themselves, as kittens will. On
the other hand the kittens return to the hen
with the greatest fondness, and seem to re-
gard their real mother as nothing more than
a creature to supply them with food.
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ADvIcETo BoYs.-Horace Mann writes
'sYou are made to be kind, generous, mag
unanimous. IF there is boy in school who
has club foot, do not let him know that
you ever saw it. IF there is lame boy,
assign him part of the game that does
not require running. If there is hungry
one, give him part of your dinner. If
there is dull one, help him on with his
lesson. If there be bright boy, be not
envious of him; for if boy is proud Of his
talents, and another is envious of them,
there are two great evils, and no more tai
ent than before. Ifa larger or stronger
boy has injured you, and Is sorry, forgive
him, and request the teacher not 10 punish
him. An the school win show By their
countenance how much better it is than to
have great fists. )"
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Select Roetrg.
From the Utica, N. Y, Observer.
BIRTHDAYS.

am content
olet the added years
That come to me,
Roll back into the past so far
That memory
Canonly find along the shore
enc nerfect shells and nothing more.
am content
That sea weed, bits of wreck
And pebbles gray,
Drift out of sight into the sea;
For them to stay
Would be to cherish grief and pain
would not, must not feel again.
am content
That none of life
Can ever be
lived DER with self same throb and thrill;
No more to me
VIII former song or book, or toy,
FIJI the new measure of my joy.
I am content
To live all of to-day;
And when dream
Let fancy revel in the light
That hope hath seen
Beyond the present, and afar-
A steadfast, sweetly beck'ning star
am content
For age upon the heart
Can never creep
And when, at last, in stillest night
| seem to sleep,
A birthday comes to me in truth;
The gift it brings-immortal youth.
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In the old times, when people travelled
by diligence in France, one traveller was
killed in every 335, 900 and one wounded
in every 10000. Now, when they travel
by rail, one is killed per 5, ,178, 400 and one
wounded per $50, ,450. Railway travelling
is thus nearly twenty times as safe as trav-
elling by diligence.
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Mahomet says: When man dies peo-
pie ask, "What property has he left behind
him 2" But the angels, as they bend over
his grave, inquire, "What good deeds hast
thou sent before thee?''
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Of the II, 900 grain mills in Holland, 10,
900 are driven by wind. The bulk of
wheat is consumed by the public without
passing through any four-dressing machine.
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Bad men excuse their faults; good men
will leave them.
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A dull proser is more endurable than
dull joker.
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eyes, 1t tsqulte true, or you see, L shouldnt t
have known about it" (Here the fair
vision blushed still more) "Baker puts in
sovereign, half-sovereign, crown piece
he finds these rather difficult to get some
times-half-a-crown, shilling, a sixpence,
a fourpenny piece, threepenny piece, a
penny, a halfpenny, and farthing."
ga very complicated way of keeping
ones money, isn't it ? or, perhaps, compli-
Gated for Baker, said, feeling it perfect
ly impossible to repress smile, though Miss
Dillon's sweet, earnest mouth kept so grave.
"No, it is quite simple when one under
stands, because Baker knows exactly what
a sovereign, Acknowledgment all the
rest comes to- forget what it is-but,
oh, DIR. Merrifeld Baker knew we had
been yesterday to consult new physician,
and in the evening there was only three
penny bit and farthing missing, and So
and so knew-I mean Baker knew-and
he told me that papa must have given you
something by mistake. 1t wasn't the far
thing, l can account for that, and-but
was it the threepenny piece, or-?"
"Pray, dear Miss Dillon, don't distress
yourself about such little matter" said,
hastily. "Any time will"
ooh, no; but papa thinks he paid you,
because he said to me he never gave fee
with SO much pleasure, so now I begin to
think he must have-given you"-Miss
Dillon quite gasped, so that hastened to
fill in her pause, this time feeling quite
distressed at her trouble
"Your father gave me very good ginger
lozenge, Miss Dillon; one of those little mis-
takes which will occur now and then.
Pray, don't make yourself the least uneasy
about it.
"How very kind you are, }" she said, again
holding out her hand, which l took, and
forgot to let go till she had done speaking.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-14
$4,000 REWARD.

Will be paid for the detection and convic-
ton of any person selling or dealing in
any bogus, counterfeit Or irritation HOP
BIrTERs, especially Bitters or preparation,
with the word HOP or HoJs in their name
or connected Herewith, thf' is intended to
mislead and cheat the public, or for aAy
preparation put in any form, pretending
to be the same as HOP BITTEns. The genu
inc have cluster of GREEN HOPS (notice
this) printed on the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth, es-
pecially for Kidney, Liver and Nervous
Diseases. Beware of all others, and of all
pretended formulas or recipes of Hop BIT
TIERS published in papers or for sale, as
they are frauds and swindles. Whoever
deals in any but the genuine will be prose
cuted. Hop BIITERs MFG. Co.,
Rochester, N. Y
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where professions and dress parades were
daily spectacles. There was an almost
perpetual pageantry in the street life of
those days. Frequently a regiment or
brigand would pass through the city on its
way to join some command, the air vibrat-
ing with the stirring strains of the brass
band which always formed an accessory
on such occasions. The pageantry of the
funeral professions was also a common
spectacle with us, and our hearts were Of
ten filled with the sublime strains of fu-
neral requiem, as some heroic form was
being borne to Hollywood to be committed
to the dust. Then we heard enlivening
strains each evening at dress parade,
which was held at one time on the beauti-
full Capitol square and then at the old fair
grounds just west of the city. The parade
ground formed rendezvous for all the
youth, beauty and fashion of Richmond.
There you would see ''the pearl OF beauty
and flower of chivalry'' from every part of
the confederacy. There we're two airs the
band were especially fond of playing on
these occasions 1.-THE Mocking Bird" and
''Twinkling Stars.'
Since then I have never been able to
hear either of these without being carried
back in memory to one of those dress par
AIDES in the beleaguered city-amidst an
array of fair women, ranging from dark
eyed creoles to the loveliest daughters of
Maryland, whilst officers, flashing in gold
lace, lent picturesqueness to the occasion,
and the spirit of romance, vague expecta-
ton and high-wrought excitement en-
gendered by the war, invested the scene
with
The light that never was by land or sea.
Lyrchburg,l Va. MARY w. EARLY.