The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-26
c,rURDAY, APRIL 26, 1884.
ocAL AFFAIRS
Local Brevities.
I'D last Tuesday morning.

Local Brevities.
:. famed last Tuesday morning.
rAH. Wentz has gotten up scheme
s-sieh person may get nice gold watch
ay terms
n seventeen year locust appeared in 1851,
y " and will appear again during the middle
JIsy in 1885. .
:, sas company has laid pipes on Carroll
JUG his city. Gas will be introduced in the
,,ssnn Church.
S Us ore informed that the council of the
Iran church has decided to complete their
= edifce at once.
I'M Clabaugh has lost about GOO
~ III, If corn at his farm near Taneytown.
, r's perhaps put away too green.
hand of Gypsies, with four or five car
a. and wagons and number of good
9 sas nassed through Westminster on Tues
" Jobn T. Shueey, of near Warfeldsburg,
! a. Washington Territory on Tuesday.
I. ? H. Shaeffer, of this city, has gone
III and will probably locate in Dakota
lsritOry.
p-of C. H. Spurrier, A. W. Buckingham
i George NJ. Batson are conducting SUBJ
D;0t;on School in this city for the remaining
ny Of the school year. The attendance at
sch bis good.
D,vid H. Reindollar having declined the
.ao;ntment of Justice of the Peace for Ia
.sEtowp district, Gov. McLane has appointed
r Orndorff in his stead, and Mr.. Orndorff
I, received his commission.
Mr.. Harry B. Cramer, former student of
Western Maryland College, and an estimable
,ooug man, has been appointed bookkeeper
4 fI t5e Western Maryland Railroad at the
hons at Union Bridge.
Wessrs. W. L. Seabrook and A. H. Wentz,
,ftbis city. took run to Baltimore city on
TIday of last week on their bicycles. They
rars on the road hours and 35 minutes;
riding time hours and 10 minutes.
Mr. H H. Power has sold his fast and
h,ndsome black mare for $500. The mare is
srp Of a lot of young Virginia horses Mr.. G.
grank Beaver brought to this market. He
aid the animal to Mr.. Power less than year
go for Sl45.
At the stock farm of Mr.. r. w. Walden,
near Middleburg, there are nearly one hun
j,sd horses and colts. Mr.. Walden's stable
!, one of the best known in the racing world,
and at every important meeting his flyers are
PARTICIPANTS
VIM. Perry, residing near Union Bridge,
6ed on Thursday of last week of paralysis,
,qed nearly SO years. Deceased has living
6nr children, twenty five grandchildren,
tgenty. nine at-grandchildren and one
geat-great- grandchild.
Door to Virtue lodge No. 4G, A. F. A. NJ.
on Thursday evening next, May LIST. will be
entertained with select readings by Prof.
Merrill of Western Maryland College. Mem
Lers of this lodge and of sister lodges are cor
daily invited to be present.
Mr. James Williams called last week to
settle his subscription account, which he al
ways pays promptly. On the 18th of June
be will enter upon his Goth year. He is not
Only one of our Oldest but staunches Demo
rrais. He is still active and mounts his horse
with ease. May he live to be centenarian.
Robert Sellman, Jr., Alexius V. Keepers,
Chester b. Wentz, Francis L. Birely, Lewis
F. Reese, Pinkney j. Bennett, Andrew j.
Reese and Joseph Wolfe have been excused
as jurors for the May term, and Judge Smith
has drawn in their stead Charles P. Bale,
George c. Grass, Abdiel Bankert, Samuel
Ioop, Joseph J. Gist, David Heltebridle,
Daniel J. Baumgartner and John L. Hinkle.
Everybody is in favor of improving the
treets of Westminster. The plan of doing it
the only subject of controversy. Some
leOpe think public debt is equal to a
cOarge. and some others believe that the
laving bill ought to be passed because it will
be two years before the citizens can again be
TO act Pass the bill, they say, and
he plan and details can be determined here
lher If no proper plan can be arranged the
DOnds will! not be issued. Until the city is
Empowered to issue bonds nothing can be
lone
The tomahawk of the celebrated Indian
thief Tecumseh was sent to the ADVOCATE of
ice recently by Mr.. Thomas b. Bond, of EN-
Md. 1t was taken from the belt of
he chief by cousin of the grandfather of
lr. Bond, after Tecumseh had been shot by
,ol Richard NJ. johnson, at the battle of the
Thames, in Canada, fought October 5, 1913.
The handle of the tomahawk is silver mounted
md serves as a stem to the pipe, the poll of
he instrument being hollow, serving for the
,owl. 1t is supposed that the tomahawk was
resented to Tecumseh by the British gov
The Waynesboro., Pa, Gazette, of We'd
lesday last says: Mr. Edward Lynch sold,
asst week, 10 David Minor 20 acres of land
LCng the old Hagerstown road for S125 per
ere. ltsall going, and soon there will be little
eft Of the Jos. Gilbert farm that few years
go was teeming with the rumble of the pillow
md music of the sickle. A few years hence,
nd the whole farm will be covered with i'm
movements, with madison Avenue, " Park
Avenue, Hamilton" 'John' and whole
OF of streets and avenues and street lamps
md organ grinders and so on. The growth
4 Waynesboro is a wonder and marvel to ev-
y one, aid not less so to our own people
rho are here to see and note the process
Iaily.
The Street.Payius Bill.