The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-07-28
nruonp ATTIC ADVOCATE,
SATURDAY, JULY %, 1883.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
Local BreVities.

Local BreVities.
The corn crop of Carroll promises to be
very fine. ,-,- ao,,
lh.. ,ools and several have been quite
\ heavy. D., NJ,
lI I56 amests. 1t is the mountain resort of
the state. ,
~ and several persons have died from
the disease.
Tho Methodist Protestant Sunday School
hold their annual picnic on Thursday III
rrove near town.
rdror Wolfe has bought of Franklin Davis
,.nnerv and fifty acres of land, at Union
FRIDGE. for S., 800.
The evening mail from Baltimore now ar
.;.os Inv the 5.05 train instead OF the 5.34
train. as heretofore.
The Western Maryland railroad employees
.anrS;on TO Colchester Beach last Saturday
numbered about 100.
Mr. John Mering, son Of Mr.. q. L. Mering,
g 4yondale. will leave Avondale on Monday
oayt 10 reside in California.
IN tbe MARYLAND Affairs is an account
Of the drowning vi olNVy IiAi~N PN''O''" $1,000
Baltimore. on Monday night
The festival for the benefit Of st. John S
parochial School, this city, has been well at
tended. and will close tonight.
Master Isaac Oppenheimer, the rising young
,,;onist of Baltimore, is at Dielman's hotel,
Kew Windsor. which is now full OF Summer
boarders.
The quantity of fertilizers sold in this coun-
~ This season will likely surpass any former
one, One agent here has already received
orders for over 400 tons.
Newberry College, South Carolina, has
conferred the honorary degree of Doctor OF
DIVINITY upon Rev. H. W. Kuhns, of the
lutheran Church, this city.
Have the potato bugs departed? There
have been very few this season in this region,
while in some other parts of the state 1t Is
announced that they have disappeared.
meeting was held at Union Bridge last
Saturday to consider the question of new
road from that place to LinwoOd. Opinions
differed. and another meeting will he held
this afternoon.
The wheat crop of Carroll, it is said by
competent Judges, is the largest ever raised in
fine county. Judge l.. P. Slingluff, near New
Windsor estimates that he will get an average
ofthrty-fvc bushels per acre on forty-one
acres.
Never before, perhaps, were goods sold so
cheap in Westminster as at present. For va
rous reasons several merchants are reducing
stock. and many goods are offered far below
cost Boots, shoes, hats, clothing and dress
goods are marked at astonishingly low prices.
The picnic and camp-meeting season is
Il. 10 dow
Saturday. July %, there will be an excursion
from here to Carlisle and Neville, Pa, under
the auspices of the Lutheran congregation of
this city, The attractions of this trip are
many, and the excursion should be well pa
trOnMed.
Whilst the streets are being dug up to lay
water pipes. we suggest that it would be well
10 have the gas-lights burn all night, to avoid
accidents. The expense would be small IN
comparison to the security thus afforded. A
great many people are walking and driving
after III. 80, the hour at which they are now
extnguished
Vennor gives for the 26th, 9th, and 28th,
cooler weather with cool nights in northern
sections. and stormy weather in western and
southern DISTRICTS For the Doth, ''cool
weather with scattered storms and cool
nights THE month will probably termi-
nate with rains in nearly every quarter and
cool weather.
A writer in the Gettysburg Compiler com
ylainS that the Chambersburg umpire (the
same one who performed here) was unfair in
his decisions when the Littlestown club played
the Chambersburg nine last week. The
Chambersburg nine has never been beaten,
We believe, and never will be with their own
man to umpire the game.
On July 2G. 1862, John, son of Mr.. Edward
Lynch, this city, was born. On the morning OF
that day his mother and aunt were engaged
III preserving peaches, and after his birth it
was decided to seal up jar and keep it until
he attained his majority. This event was
celebrated on Thursday last with family
dinner, at which the jar of peaches mentioned
above played prominent part.
The contract FORE building Grace Lutheran
Church, this city, has been awarded to Jacob
+. Elgn. at $4,000. The mason work has
been sub-let to Reigle & Kneller. The foun
dation was staked off on Monday, and the
work will be pushed forward as rapidly as
possible. The plasterers will finish then
work on the parsonage to-day. The painting
and inside woodwork is progressing well, and
the building will be ready for occupancy about
the first of September.
At New Windsor College, used as a summer
resort during vacation, there are over l5C
guests, every room in the house being full OF
engaged. Among them are U. S. Civil En-
glneef A. q. Menocal and family, of Wash,
lngtOn, D.. c.; Paymaster R. w. Allen, U.
). Navy, Annapolis, Nd; Mrs. R. w. Multi
gan and family and C. A. Dubois, Annapolis
Nd. Rev. George Morrison, Baltimore; Geo
H. Chadwick, Washington, d. c.; and Mr..
and Mrc niol-o1, po1t,r,oro Tho n
mainly from Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Washington.
The ADVOCATE desires no controversy with
the Chambersburg, Pa, papers on the recent
match game of base ball between the Cham
6ersburg and Westminster mines. We have
but to reiterate that our account of the affair
was correct in every particular, and to say
that not one Chambersburg paper has giver
a lalr or correct account of it, and to add thai
The Chambersburg nine was cordially received
ny members of the Westminster nine upor
Their arrival and we're paid attention during
The day. The rules alluded to by the ADyo
CATE were the rules of the game, and neither
ule League or Association rules justify tricks
and we refer the Chambersburg papers tc
The decision of Kelly when Fox tried tc
play the foul ball trick on the Cincinnati club
Westminster presents more busy scene
now than ever before in its existence. Some
eight Or ten buildings are being erected, CIV
ing employment to many persons; some sixty
persons per! are digging trenches, laying pipe ane
ah'ng trenches; number more are connect
ang dwellings, and business establishments
with the pipe main, and number more Of
Enea are engaged on other work connected
with the water works. Even half-grown boys
ARE making good wages in digging and filling
Hne trenches. Besides, very many persons
ARE are making good wages at the canning estab
tishments. Altogether this will be most pros
porous year Westminster has known for many
years, and if the wages earned now are prop
@rly used, there will be no need for relief
committees next winter. There is plenty OF
work for everybody who is willing to do it.
The Carollton Mining Company of Bal
!nore City," with capital of $500, 900, has
Ieen organized, with George W. Matthews, oil
ms city, as President, and Isaac S. Weaver,
alSo OF this city, as Vice President. The Di
Teetors are George w. Matthews, Isaac S.
weaver, James Carter, DIR. George S. Wing
ing James W. Haywood, C. H. Unverzagt
ana DIR: W. II. Curry. Four of the directors
are well known to our citizens as practical
business men. Their mine is located in Idaho,