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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-03-03
DATIFICATIoN NOTICE.

In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
Estate of Nimrod Gardner, deceased.
FEBRUARY TERN, 1888
On application it is ordered this 18th day of
February, 1888, that the sale of the real estate
of Nimrod Gardner, late of Carroll county,
deceased, made by William P. Gardner and
Elias n. Gardner, executors of the last will
and testament of said deceased, and this day
reported to this Court by the said executors,
he ratified and confirmed, unless cause be
shown to the contrary on or before the Bird
Monday, 10Th day, of March, next; provided
a copy of this order be inserted for three sue.
ceSsiye weeks in some newspaper printed and
published in Carroll county, before the 2nd
Monday 18th day, of March, next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
Two hundred and twenty five dollars (S225.OO.)
GRANVILLE T. Herring,
WILLIAM FRIZELL, Judges.
NEIGHBOUR F. ALLGIRE,
True copy-Test:
j. OLIVER WADLOW,
feb l7-3t Register of Wills.
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TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscriber
hath obtained from the Orphans Court OF
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters of Admin
istration on the Personal Estate of
SAMUEL r. BENNETT,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against the deceased are
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouch-
crs thereof legally authenticated, to the sub
Scribcr on or before the Doth day of August,
1883; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit Of said estate.
Given under my hand this Doth day of Jan
nary. 1888.
WESLEY B. BENNETT,
E.h 2.It Administrator.
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GET THE GENUINE.

1t is made of the best selected crude petro-
leum for family use. 1t has never been known
to cause am accident, and hence can be en-
trusted to the use of any member of the
household 1t burns with pure white and
brilliant fame Does not smoke nor crust
the wick. Has no bad odor. Can be used III
any Kerosene Lamp. Ask your storekeepel
for it, and see that he gets it.
- St$s
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Saw sign in BARRIERS window the
other day, "Boots blackened inside.
Couldn't for the life of us think why any
BODY wants the inside of his boots black
ened. Should think it would ruin fel-
lows stockings.
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NEW STORE, NEW GOODS, AND
~ CHEAP.

HAVE built Store Room next door to
i my old stand, Bowers Hall, and my stock
CERIES AND PROVISIONS, comprising
all kinds of Salt Meats cut to suit, Salt Fish,
Coffee, Sugar, Syrups, Spices, Chip Beet, Bo-
logna Sausage, Flour, Corn and Buckwheat
Meal, and all articles generally kept in good
Grocery and Provision Store, all of which will
be sold low, delivered to any part of the town.
With long experience and by strict attention to
business, | solicit liberal share of the public
patronage.
june IA JOHN. H. BOWERS.
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DATENTS obtained, and all business in
i the L. S. Patent Office or in the Courts,
attended to for Moderate Fees.
We are opposite the U. S. Patent Office,
engaged in Patent Business Exclusively, and
can obtain patents in less time than those re,
mote from Washington.
When model or drawing is sent we advise
as to patentability free of charge; and we
make no charge unless we obtain Patent.
Werefer, here, to the Post Master, the Supt.
of the Money Order Div, and TO officials OF
the L. S. Patent Office. For circular, ad
vice, terms, and reference to actual clients IN
your own State, or County, address
C. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. c.
dee l-tf
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According to southey's poem, the luck
less individual who incurred the 'tCurse of
Kehama, was father who killed a gay
Lothario for attempting to dishonor his
daughter. The famous curse was-that
water should not wet him, nor fire consume
him, nor sleep visit him, nor death release
him.
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feb 33-4t
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscri-
Der has obtained from the Orphans Court
of Carroll county, letters Testamentary on
the Personal Estate of
GEORGE LITTLE,
late Of Carroll county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated, to the
subscriber, on or before the 9th day of Septem-
Der, 1888; they may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 9th day of
February, 1888.
JACOB B. WILDASIN,
feb lott Executor.
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While learning adOrns a man, let us re-
member that truth ennobIss him,
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Select poetrg.
THE AURORA BoREALIs.


BY s. G.
The sunsets glow had passed away;
Night drew her sable garments on;
Each twinkling star, with ftful ray,
From its high station dimly shone.
As fast the twilight shadows closed,
And winds were hushed and sunk to rest
In silence, nature calm reposed
Like infant on its mothers breast
A scintillating ray of light
From polar plains flashed up the skies;
Another, and the brow ofnight,
Grew soft as loving maidens eyes
And others followed quick and fast
With quivering undulating light,
Each one more beautous than the last,
And each one more intensly bright.
From boreal climes, on either side
Long, waving lines swept up the sky,
Like pennons floating far and wide,
Or pin ions plumed to mount on high!
And still, with deeper, warmer glow,
And brighter hues and richer dyes,
And lovelier tints from fields of snow,
Auroral beams swept up the skies!
The northern lights with brilliant rays,
Lit up and made the landscape bright.
And, with their hyperborean blaze,
Illumined all the face of night.
Ne,c oxford, Pa, January, 1888.
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PERFECT LIGHT.
8FlTTIFI-L. SAFE AND RELIABLE.

The great success achieved by the REL
&C" OIL made by the RED "C'' OIL Man
Co., of Baltimore, has induced I'M
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HEAIN g. GEISELMAN,
UNDERWRITERS.

HAVE MADE GREAT REDUCTIONS
:, nr;cos of Furniture for spring of 1888. We
,I,,oo III few articles to show how low our prices
nro "r, We sell all our goods correspondingly
low. We are selling
Cood Cane Seat Chairs. 25f33 doz.
Good Cane Seat Rockers........ l.5O each.
Garnet Seat Folding Camp
pinol,n,. ........................... 90 each.
yydaJ Seat Chairs s.................. 2.25f99 doz.
Wa Full-sized Beds. s............... $50 each.
Ma Rod room Suits...............17.50 so each.
Di,J,d Panel Sideboards. ..... 800 each.
n,,aktast Leaf Tables. ........... 200 each.
WI nds.................. lbs each.
We have the largest stock of HAND MADE
FURNITURE in the state; also large stock OF
Factory Made Furniture at marvelously low
nrices. See our goods before buying and you
wIill be convinced and give us your order, and
thereby save much money. Our stock of Sew
inc Machines, Organs, Oil Stoves, Woven
Wire Mattresses and Bed Springs of all kinds
* complete We also have a large stock OF
ConnS. Caskets, Robes, Shrouds, &c. Hav-
inc two Hearses, we make Undertaking
Specialtv. giving it our personal attention at
all hours, day or night. Soliciting your pa
tronage. we are respectfully yours,
MAIN 4 GEISELMAN,
Successors to Bankert x Daily,
feb 2l-tf Main ST., opp. Montour House.
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CARDS AND CIRCULARS printed at
~ this Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
GENERAL NOTES.

PROFESSOR SWIFT, of Rochester, re-
ports having discovered comet in the
constellation Of Draco.
IT is said that the price of matches has
been reduced nearly One-half within a
few days.
THE Yantic has sailed from ST. Johns
for New York with Lieutenant CARING
ton and party.
THE governor of New Hampshire has
decided not to sign the bill creating the
Southern Pacific Railroad ard Steam
boat company, in the interest of Leland
Stanford.
A BRONZE statute of General Robert
E. Lee, ordered by the city of New
Orleans, has been successfully cast in
New York.
IN the bicycle tournament at Spring
field, Massachusetts,, Higham made
twenty miles in sc minutes q seconds,
beating the record by 724 seconds, taking
a purse of $1,000 and the championship
of the world.
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, president of
the Standard Oil company, states that
concern has an interest in western land
schemes or cattle companies.
NOTWITHSTANDING the decision by
Judge Edgerton that TIE acts of the
Dakota capital commission are illegal,
the people of Bismarck keep one hun
dred men at work on the state-house,
using electric light at night
ALLEGING that the French language
has been used in Alsace-Lorraine to ag-
itate restoration to France, General
Manteuffel has ordered that only the
German tongue shall be used by the
judicial and municipal authorities after
this year.
IT is said that Henry Willard has prlr-
chased the Northern Pacific Coast rail
road, running from San Francisco to
DuncaH's Mills, and intends to continue
it to a junction with his Oregon system.
With other lines which he is said to
have secured, he will have tracks from
Puget Sound to San Diego, fifteen hun
bred miles.
THE Ford boys who slew Jesse James
were Kissed and hooted in a variety
theater at Louisville, and they declare
they will never again go to Kentucky
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
GRIM

CADET A. L. BEEBE has been dismiss
ed from West Point for hazinc.
THREE burglars entered a house at
Rldgeway. Virginia, killed Washington
Odell, and carried away s., GOO
LEWIS BROWN, of Carroll county, Tnii-
ana, felt SO disgraced over q charge of
stealing horses that he killed himself bv
climbing forty feet into a tree and leap
ing to the ground
THE people Of Cheyenne ornamented
a telegraph pole with the body of Henry
Mosher, who had killed his conoDani)n
with an ak as he lay asleep. The mayor
and the territorial secretary made a vain
appeal to the vlgllantes, only thirty of
whom out of six hundred We're masked.
A DENTAL swindler has for some TINA
been successfully operating in Peorie
and Montgomery counties, Illinois. He
calls at farm-hoEses and extracts teeth
free for new sets. On his second visit
he does further preliminary work. Sc
cures half the amount charged for the
plate, and is seen no more.
REV. A. +. VEDDER, a Methodist pastor
OF West Milton, New York, was arrested
at the door Of church for procuring an
abortion on Annie Walker, and sent to
Jail. The physician employed was Dr..
James A Patterson, of Albany, who has
been held for trial
L. w. E. CROPSEY, connected with the
Burlington road at Omaha. has been
sued by the government for So. 400 lille
gally retained by him while counsel at
Chemnitz, Saxony.
" w. T. MCKAY, whose adventures with
the Rymal family in Chicago have been
numerous, reappeared at Hamilton, On
tariO, Wednesday. His wife returned
home at midnight only to find him in
her bed in an intoxicated condition. She
at once telephOned the police and had
him arrested, for fear that he would
abduct their child.
REV. JAMES KEMLo, of Newark, New
Jersey, went to visit his mother in
Brooklyn. While there he quarreled with
his wife, and stabbed her in the throat
with a butcher-knif. He inflicted SINH
lar wound upon himself, and Ieaped to
the ground from fOurth-fOor window,
Both will probably die.
A MAN reported at East Tawas, Mich,
Wednesday, that recently he came in
possession of a 6-year-old boy through
the agency of an old woman, who also
possessed a picture of richly dressed
lady whom she represented as the chlld's
mother The old crone muttered some
thing about having had her revenge,
and volunteered the statement that the
child resided in Wabash avenue, Chica-
go. The boy also speaks of his Garden
City Home, and his little playmates,
and his present protector thinks he has
been kidnapedp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

S. S. CONNETT, a pOrk-pacEer of st.
Joseph, Missouri, committed suicide by
leaping from tree with a rope-halter
about his neck
A FIRE at Cincinnati destroyed the
works of the Enterprise Carriage com
pany, valued at $780, 900.
c.. A. CoslLAN, a prominent citizen
Of Boston, died from injuries received
by the explosion Of a carboy of nitric
acid.
Hon. WILLIAM FAXON, who was assist
ant secretary Of the navy under Gideon
Welles, died of heart disease in Hart
ford.
Two men at Camp Point, Illinois, pro-
cured at drug store quart bottle of
bitters, and after drinking freely both
dropped dead. A third man was seized
with spasms.
THE shoe factory Of P Cross, at Brock
ton, Massachusetts, which has been run
ming thirty years, has been closed on an
attachment for large amount.
FLAMES appeared in the basement of
Nos. 537 and $50 Broadway, New York,
and soon destroyed the building. 1t cost
5000, 600 some years ago, and the mercan-
tile firms occupying it report losses ag-
gregating 100000.
By the fall of scaffold at a barn on
the farm of August Belmont, at Baby
lon, Losg Island one workman was kill
ed, one fatally injured, and three seri-
Ously hurt.
JOHN LOHDA, of Fort Atkinson, Wis,
while hunting yesterday, received a Sc
we're wound in his hand by the bursting
of his gun. It is feared he will lose one
Of his eyes.
AT Lancaster, Kansas, while several
children were playing in a house, Mrs.
Rehstein happened to pick upa self-cock-
ing revolver, the result being the in
slant death of the young daughter of a
neighbOr.
EUGENE WEIsENOUR of Sandusky,
Ohio, aged 10 years, mysteriously disap-
peared on the 9TH inst. His body has
been found in the bay about three miles
from here, he having fallen from dock
while fishing.
Two passenger trains on the Kansas
City, ST. Joe and Council Bluffs railroad
collided at Corning, Mo-, Wednesday af-
ternOon. About twenty persons were
wounded, some quite seriously. Fred
Johnson mail agent, had his left ankle
crushed to jelly. He was brought to
his home in Nebraska City. The acct
dent was caused by a misplaced switch.
Both engines were completely demolish-
ed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
FOREIGN.

THE newspapers attribute political
motives to Gladstone's visit to Copenha-
gen.
THE members Of the royal family of
Denmark took lunch on board Mr. Glad
stones yacht at Copenhagen, when the
premier sailed for home.
A DETACHMENT Of $50 French sailors
have gone to Toulon to embark for
service on the fleet in the waters on Ton
quin.
The chief nihiliSt organ is still being
secretly printed in ST. Petersburg. The
last issue declares that the days of
Count ToistOl, the hangman, are num-
bered.
ONE of the imperial chamberlains at
st. Petersburg, having been detected by
the czarina in placing nihilistic docu-
ments in her apartments, Immediately
slew himself
The seventy-third anniversary of
Mexican independence was celebrated
Sunday at the capital The procession
of troops and civic societies occupied
four hours in passing a given point,
AT the funeral of Turgueneff. the
Russian novelist. regiment of infantry
will aid the police of st. Petersburg in
keeping order.
MISSIONARY SHAW has arrived at Fun
chal. During the commandments of lama
tave his residence was plundered, and
the French officials threatened to punish
him for not removing the debris.
SEVEN Chinese gunboats are anchored
near the English and French man-of-
war at Canton. Placards have been
posted threatening to destroy the proper
| ty of Europeans, should the govern
ment pay indemnity for losses by the re-
cent riot.
! INSTRUCTIONS have been forwarded
from the Vatican to the Catholic episco-
pate of Prussia in conformity with the
agreement recently effected between the
papal see and Prussia concerning the
application of the new church law
O'DONNELL, the man who dispatched
Informer Carey off the African coast
was taken to London, under guard of a
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Greeley expended so much money in
his effort to convert it into good
ground. Presently the auctioneer.
Israel A. Haight, appeared He owns
a pickle factory IN the town, and is an
old resident. He is a small man. with
torld complexion and stiff gray mus
tache and hair. No one came up on
the trains from the city except report
ers.
Soon after - o'clock Miss Greeley
drove up alone in top buggy, with
spirited bay horse. Miss Greeley
was dressed in deep mourning for her
sister. Her brown hair was brushed
down plalnly over her forehead, and
the healthful color in her cheeks
showed how we'll. her stay for several
months past at Chappaqua had agreed
WIN her. At her feet was a large
ounch OF brightly colored leaves. She
relned up the horse opposite to the
apcuoneer, and spoke to her lawyer.
Mr.. Porter
Auctloneer Haight stood on the
highest OF the three steps OF the stoop
and said the sale would beoin. 4
dozen uTchins deserted their play and
stood near his feet. Mr.. Haiohf read
the long legal description of the prop
erty, which said that the farm consist
ed Of about seventy-seven acres. or
chard, meadow and woodland
What am offered for the proper-
ty2"
Miss Greeley leaned out of the side
of the buggy toward the auctioneer.
and SAID in clear musical voice,
$40, O00.n
Thank you, " said Mr.. Haight
Tina settles it said a dozen
voices; mo one will bid against
her.
No one did bid. The auctioneer
pleaded for $500 advance. $3.50. 500.
$50 and S25, but no one made SIGN.
He dllated on the value of the farm.
said it was going dirt cheap. and call
ed on the bystanders by name to bid
higher, but there was no response.
Then he took short recess and again
offered the property.
Il will take $40 advance he said.
who will bid $1,000 Won't you,
DR.
The doctor addressed examined his
pockets in a spirit of humor, and de-
clined to bid
Ten thousand dollars once; fair
warning. Ten thousand dollars twice.
Ten thousand dollars third time.
Gone. Sold to Gabrielle NJ. Greeley
for $4,000"
Miss Greeley smiled pleasantly, and
said she was glad, as she did not
want the old farm to go out of the
family. She had no plans regarding
it just at present, but would put it in
repair and probably move there next
year.
There are two houses on the farm.
one near the gate and the other on
the hill. The latter is unoccupied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-09-27
HORACE GREELEY'S FARM SOLD.
Nobody to Bid Against His Daughter,
Miss Gabrielle, who Pays $4,000.
From the New York Sun.

After the death of Horace Greeley
it:was intended that his farm at Chap
paqua should be sold and the proceeds
divided between his daughters, Ga
brielle and Ida, the latter of whom
was the wife Of Colonel Nicholas
Smith. For some reason this was
not done, and when Mrs. Smith died,
more than a year ago, the farm was
still unsold Colonel Smith, who had
lived on the farm after Mr.. Greeley's
death, removed to Shelbyville, KY,
with his three children, and the farm
was rented in part.
Miss Gabrielle NJ. Greeley recently
brought friendly suit for the sale
of the farm, and it was ordered to be
sold. The time of the sale was fixed
for yesterday noon in front of the
Postoffice on Main street, Chappaqua
The Postoffice consists of little shed
iutting out on the end of a piazza
which runs along the front of a coun-
try feed store 1t is set with small
glass panes bearing the numbers of
the letter boxes, so that a person driv-
ing past can see If he has letters with
out alighting.
At noon about twenty of the vii
layers, farmers and storekeepers who
CHANGED to be in the neighborhood
gathered on the stoop and retailed old
stories about Mr.. Greeley. A few
hundred yards down the road could
be seen the gate of the Greeley farm,
and Immediately in front of the post
Office was the swamp on which Mr.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHiNGTON.

1t is believed that Secretary Folger
will this week call in SIS, 1000, 600 in
bonds.
MR.. HILL, Supervising architect ef
the treasury, has rendered his resigna-
ton to Secretary Folser, to take eff
feet on the appointment of his success
SOr.
SECRETARY FOLGER, yesterday called
in $l5,000,000 more of the 8 per cent.
Government bonds, interest to cease
Dee, 1, next.
Up to this time there has been distrib
uted to pOstmasters throughout the
country 30,793, 800 new 2-cent postage
stamps, 1891, $50 2-cent envelopes, 504,-
900 new 4-ccnt stamps, 22,500 4-cent en-
yclopes, and 9.033, 300 registered enve-
lopes.
DR.. HAMILTON has received a report
from the United States Consul at Glen
fuegOs, Cuba. He reports only one case
Of yellow fever. The city is not in as
good sanitary condition as American
cities usually are, but is in good condi-
ton for that country.
w. S. WHITEFORD, formerly private
secretary of Senator German, has been
jailed in Washington for forging checks
for 500 on the sergeant-at-arms of the
house.
THE announcement comes from Wash
ingtOn that the pension office is unable
to expend the money appropriated at
the last session. Commissioner Dudley
called fer S170,000,0 900, and now finds
that $75, 100000 will suffice. AS a result
a large amount of bonds will doubtless
be called in.
COLLECTOR TARBLE, of Pensacola, has
asked Secretaries Folger and Chandler
for assistance in supplying the neces5i-
ties of the poor on the naval reservation
while yellow fever prevails. The form
er secretary replied that there was no
fund at his disposal with which to pur-
chase rations, and the latter promised to
do all that could be lawfully done.
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4 LOndOner BGfOgged.
Philadelphia Times.

A remarkable illustration of the
fact that it is not always child or a
Nerdant Green who gets completely
lost In great city, is found in the case
of Thomas Taskar, an English Quaker,
born and bred in the city of London,
who arrived by steamer in New York
the first part of this week and started
on to Philadelphia, which was to be
his final destination, in company with
an acquaintance. Arriving in this
city OH Wednesday night he and his
companion, taking between them his
luggage, which consisted of a large
box and several bags and valises, went
to a lOdging-house, where they passed
the night. In the morning Mr.. Taskar,
feeling natural curiosity to see some
thing of his new home, rose at an
early hour and went out for a walk
before breakfast, leaving his compan-
ion still in bed.
After walking for about an hour he
suddenly recollected that it was pro-
badly breakfast time, and turning
back tried to retrace his steps. After
a vain search for his lodging house,
lasting until noon, he gave it up
and applied to the police for assist
ance.
They are unable to help him, as he
does not remember the appearance of
the locality, the name of the street,
the number of the house or anything
about its general appearance, other
than it had white blinds and marble
steps-a popularity of about ninety
nine out of every hundred Philadel-
phia houses. This loss of his entire
worldly goods and all his money,
which was in one of the bags, has SO
Frustrated Mr.. Taskar that he cannot
even remember the names or address
of the friends who were to find him
employment after his arrival, and the
unfortunate man is now staying with
compassionate felloW-countryman,
on Market street, near Fifteenth, and
racking his brain to find some dim
memory Of anything that may help
him out of his present dilemma.