The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-10
Lisbon Items.

Corn planting is in order, and the work is
being rapidly pushed. The bulk of the crop
will be planted by the 18th if the weather is
fair. Many farmers in this section plowed
their land while too wet, consequently it has
been difficult to get in order for planting pro-
perly. We have seen several fields laid off
wherein the clods lay thickly the size of musk
melons. The refreshing rain of Tuesday last
came in good season and was badly needed.
Work has been resumed at the paper mill
east of Woodbine. The advance in the price
of straw has caused the sheds and yard to be
moderately well filled. The stock on hand
had been used up prior to shutting down.
Our new merchants at this place opened
on the LIST inst, displaying stock of new
goods.
We have large and fourishing Sunday
school at this places. G. Hood, superinten-
dent; d. Hartsock and j. Patrick, assistants;
G, +. Leech, secretary; Miss Cora Patrick,
organist. We don't boast of the singing
though brag is sometimes good dog-when
we say we have passable choir, several low,
trilling, euphonious, and very few cloud, !"
voices are heard. Rev. Mr.. Watson, the
junior preacher, occupied the pulpit on Sun
day afternoon last.
The old stone church at this place, land
mark of by-gone years, is rarely used and Is
falling into decay Swallows are taking pos
session of the exterior, building their nests
under the caves, while wasps and bats buzz
and fit within. The graveyard adjoining,
though enclosed with substantial fence, bears
evidence in some portions of it of neglect.
Brambles and the sumach tree, or paradise
tree, as some term it, are gaining foothold,
the latter being more of a nuisance than the
former.
Quite a sensation in small way was pro-
duced here on Sunday morning last by the
arrival of Hamlin's Wizard Oil wagon, drawn
by four well matched piebald horses, plumed
and gaily caparisoned, followed by two match
ed part colored dogs. The turn out, to have
been complete, should have been accompa-
MED by Browning's ''Pied Piper of Hamlin. ~
The Day correspondent of the Sentinel
seems to have put his foot in it, according to
your Woodbine correspondents item. The
Progress, of this county, copied last week
| from the SentiReps Day items, among other
things, that "Mr Marshall and family, from
Pennsylvania, Pa, have recently settled in
this vicinity &c. Rather stale article, we
| fancy, as Mr.. Marshall moved to the Price
| farm more than two years ago, and is from
Hartford county. Hiram in the same paper
also kindly informs us that r. I. Lincoln is
to be our next President, and Collector Rob
ertson, of New York, our Vice President, for
which information we return our sincere
thanks, as the question has been matter Of
speculation among thinking minds. But
tHiram'' has settled it. Thanks. The idea
of nominating for the first Office in the land a
man who has nothing to recommend him ex-
cept that he is the son of his father, and in
herited the good looks and innate selfshness
of his mother! Now we fancied, as we wan
dered through the old churchyard the other
day, that we heard the birds twittering Tilden,
Tilden, Tilden while the bees amid the apple
blooms seemed humming the same refrain.
The Democratic nominee is bound to win.