The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-11-04
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1882

Local BreVities

rhoro have been three funerals in West
minister this week
The November term OF the circuit court
commences on the 18th.
Harry Pease's Dramatic Company play at
odd Fellows Hall tonight.
Hon. David Miller is again in the held for
Conoress He has card in this ISSUE
Jobn H. Quill has been commissioned post
master at Hood Mills, this county.
Very little mischief was done on Hallow
Fen. and the general quiet was remarked by
ALL
DIR, H. C. Morrison, of Kansas City, Mis-
sonri. was visiting relatives and friends IN this
county this week.
This is the season when sportsmen are
wornpd AGAINST trespassing with dog and gun
mon the fields of the farmers.
town clock has been put in the steeple OF
Ct Johns Church (Catholic), this city. Its
only being tried as an experiment.
The ADVOCATE received last week number
Of fine egg-pants from Mr.. j. F. Rinker, OF
CarrolIton. for which we return thanks
Daniel Christ was arraigned in the Circuit
Court of Baltimore county at Towsontown, on
Tuesday, for larceny, and plead mot guilty
Rev. H. W. Kuhns, pastor of Grace Lu-
tberan Church, this city, during the year end
inc October 10th, preached sixty-nln SER
mons.
Next Tuesday is election day. Polls open
Of 8 o'clock in the morning, instead OF 3, as
heretofore, and close at o'clock IN the
evening.
Hon. |. Thomas Jones, Democratic candi-
date for Associate Judge, was in Westminster
Yesterday and made fine impression with
all he met
The TAYLOR Manufacturing Company are
preparing to remove to Chambersburg, and
will begin to ship their machinery about the
nth inst.
John r. Mobly, committed to Jail under
the ''cussing BILL was brought before Judge
HAYDEN on Saturday last under writ OF
habeas corpus and discharged.
Mr.. j. Frank Brinkerhoff, of Gettysburg,
was in this city yesterday. Mr.. Brinkerhoff
is very popular here and was busy shaking
hands with his numerous friends.
The Summer weather of this week suddenly
changed Yesterday. On Wednesday the mer-
curry registered 10 in the shade at 2 p. m,
and yesterday morning at G:3O O'Clock 1t reg
iStered 80.
Frank Rollins, while working for William
Pickett who was threshing wheat for II. L.
Shipley, in Freedom district, recently, had
his left arm caught between two cog wheels
and severely lacerated. Fortunately no bones
were broken.
A protracted meeting has been in progress
at Wesley Chapel, near Houcksville, during
the last seven weeks and seventy -four persons
have protested change. The meeting has
been in charge of Rev. Joseph p. Wilson, as
sisted by Rev. w. H. Wheeler.
Henry Dickerson, who was employed in
the Western Maryland railroad shops at
Union Bridge up to last May, has fallen heir
to $4,000 by the death of a relation in En-
gland. He was working in granite quarrles
in Howard county when he received the news.
Col. Cyrus Diler and j. J. Johns, of Han
over, have leased the ore bank on the property
formerly owned by the late John Jones, de-
ceased, near the Littlestown pike, in Myers
district, this county, and are engaged with
force of hands sinking shafts preparatory to
the proper development of the rich deposits
of ore to be found there.
The United States Second Artillery broke
camp at Galthersburg, Montgomery county,
on Thursday, for a march of 100 miles before
going into winter quarters at Fort McHenry.
They go to Sharpsburg and Gettysburg battle
fields, and from Gettysburg they will pass
through Westminster on their way to Balti-
more They will be here about the 18th.
Mr.. Alfred P. Amoss, of Baltimore, died at
his residence, corner of Carrollton and Ed
monson avenues, that city, on Monday last,
and was buried on Wednesday morning. MIR.
Amoss was a prominent merchant and mem
Der of the Corn and Flour exchange. He
was well known in the neighborhood of Sykes
Vile, where his fathers family resided. His
brother, Rev. j. E. Amoss was once pastor
of the NJ. E. Church, this city.