The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-23
.,rrRDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1882.
o1AL AFFAIRS.
Local BreyitieS.

an Rr1Qpe HAS uCCH ouPPAAON hhOOCi
n ltyeet lamps, at $500 apiece.
N w. Union Bridge Democratic club ha:
Inc ..d constitution and bylaws, and meets
.a as5T wednesday evening.
' ". Evan McKinstry, of McKinstry's Mills
vi This year 40 bushels of potatoes OF
ralssus onrths of an acre of ground.
'D ~ i said that the newly discovered come
h 70 seen little before sunrise with the
on aS u eve. Its position is little south of the
'' NJ rronrietors of the Union Bridge Inder
a., Inv Gwen months experience, are pleased
hT u the result of their journalistic venture.
T TI'n I i, is a newsy and neat paper.
~ A. tbe sale of the late Job Hibberd, in New
r az district, last week, ten shares of stock
g ,.Ia First National Bank of New Windsor
az FIR Sl2S per share-par value 500.
N n.mocratic Congressional primaries take
Iioe next Saturday, and the County Con-
Pat aon n' on October Sd. The District Con-
whom meets in this city on October 4th.
Tho bouse of Charles Turner, colored, on
c, an1 street, this city, was entered and rob-
Sa5 On Wednesday night of S27, money he
vi his wife had earned at the canneries here.
I'm Friday afternoon of last week, the rail-
mad trestling over the coal bins In MIR.
T yru warehouse, near the depot, gave way,
n:acipitating two freight cars to the floor be-
low.
Rev J. Stewart Smith will return home to-
I.r and will conduct services at Ascension
Tfnrcb tomorrow. Rev. G. II. Mofett, of
paIt;more. ofhciated last Sunday, assisted by
Rev. Mr. Grafton.
The many friends of Prof. Chas. T. Wright,
# Sewartstown, Pa, Academy, formerly of
Western Maryland College, will be glad to
kpowtbat the fall term of his excellent school
opened favorably.
Chas. ]. Yingling, of Tiffin, Ohio, formerly
dthis city, has been elected president of the
Robert Emmett and Forest Creek Silver Min
mg Company, of Idaho. DIR. Geo. S. Ying
linz is one of the directors.
typhoid fever is a product of sanitary de-
acts 1t is the child of the pig pen and the
resspool. Those who die from it are simply
murdered by somebody's ignorance or care
lessness. So says contemporary.
The buildings of the Taylor Works, at
Chambersburg, are being pushed rapidly
ahead. One wing of the building is ready for
the roof timberS, and the whole structure will
Be completed by the middle of November.
Constable Macintosh and Matthews captur-
ed Mrs A. w. Robinson's Circus at Ridge
Vile on Thursday evening. The circus was
travelling without license. Magistrate Jacob
Brown imposed fine of $50, which was paid.
Mr.. J. Ezra Stem, the ADVOCATE active
and energetic correspondent at Sans Creek,
next week will enter Eaton & Burnett's Bust
ness College, Baltimore. The ADVOCATE
readers will miss his weekly letters for few
months.
We notice in our exchanges accounts of
second crops of strawberries, raspberries and
bIackberries. We recently published an ac-
count of some fine large luscious raspberries,
grown in the garden of Mr.. J. Murray Wing
ling, of this city.
On account of an alleged ''libellous and
sanderous article in the Union Bridge Inder,
Charles /. Wilson, of Baltimore, and T. j.
Wilson, of townsville, upon whom the article
effects, have sued Ezra c. Buckley, of Johns
nile, the author.
Union Bridge has another scandal. Jessie
Slack of that place ran away from home to
it is said, to lead dissolute life.
She got into the hands of the police, and her
ather went to Baltimore and put her into a
institution.
Large numbers of cattle are being driven
rom Baltimore through Westminster, to the
farmers to be fed and fattened for
eeves We have noticed three or four droves
day. Droves of fresh cows and calves are
Oing towards Baltimore, where they find a
eady market.
son of Mr.. Henry Warehime, of Bach
mans valley, fastened his horse to post OPP
Osite the Catholic church, this city, last
friday afternoon. The horse became fright
ned at passing train, reared and fell on a
Ointed post, so completely disemboweling
himself that he had to be shot.
As the smallpox is prevalent in Baltimore
md other places, everybody should provide
gainst it by vaccination. Teachers, we be-
eve, are required to exclude all children
rom the public chools who have not been
accnated within reasonable time. The
eachers should strictly observe this require
nent
A FIVE year. old daughter of George A. Hoff,
wing four or five miles south of Union Bridge,
atally burned herself whilst playing with a
an of coal-oil near fire last Sunday morn
1g, The oil in the can caught fire and ex-
,oded, scattering the burning oil over. the
hild who was so badly burned she died Sun
lay night.
A gentleman in Hampstead district, this
Ounty, is the owner of horse forty-one
ears of age, which has rendered him consid
rable service the past summer. The same
eenteman owned goose thirtyseven years
Il age. This venerable fowl was caught and
allied by fox. The age of both horse and
DOSE are fully verified.
A tournament was held at Fountain Mills,
frederick county, on Saturday last, at which
larry Steele, of Watersville, won first honor
nd a handsome saddle; Harry Spurrier, of
It, Airy, obtained fourth honor and pair of
purs. Mr.. Steele crowned as queen Miss
ITertie Spurrier, and Mr.. Spurrier crowned
ass Josephine Spurrier, of New Market, as
bird maid.
The Republican County Central Committee
net IN this city on Monday last and fixed
saturday, September Both, for holding pri-
naneS to select delegates to County Con-
entlon to be held in this city on October 4th,
select delegates to represent the Republi-
ans IN the I'd District Congressional Con-
tenhon, which meets at Havre de Grace on
october 5th.
I'm the 9th of this month, at few minutes
lIer midnight, the moon will show its full
ace. 1t is the beautiful harvest moon, and
, possesses special claims to the distinction.
,Of OWING to the position of the ecliptic In
egard to the equator at this season, the moon
lSes Tor several consecutive nights with only
comparatively small interval between the
uecessive risings.
Inc Hagerstown correspondent of the Bal
more Sun, writing of the Hagerstown fair,
ays; The exhibition this year, commencing
u u Ihe 18th of October, promises to surpass
III previous ones, as Franklin county, Pa,
mo Carroll county, Nd, whose societies have
zen temporarily disbanded, will unite in the
ambition, and their citizens be permitted to
uake entries upon the same conditions as cit
1ens OF this county. In these counties local
yards Of directors with local secretaries, have
zen already organized, and are soliciting and
eeeiVlng entries for exhibition"
New Jersey possesses an equivalent to the
e,1Owned Pakamaran, or Death Valley in the
sand ~ OF Java. A train of cars on the Penn
yiVanla railroad was detained about twenty
mTInutes in New Jersey swamp last week.
Tue weather was warm and the car windows
,Iefe up. And in that brief time number OF
y passengers were poisoned by the exhala-
sO rs, OF some poisonous vine, tree, or shrub
! iaoy OF this town, who was one of the pas,
11eagers, had to keep her room for severa