The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-09-19
Locnl Rrevitles.

Local Brevities.
Democratic primaries will take place thu
afternoon.
William A. Goulden, Esq, of Harrisburg
Pa, bar, paid the ADVOCATE Office visit OF
Thursday.
G.. Frank Beaver arrived home last Sunday
from Southwestern Virginia with 2l3 head O
sheep and 30 heifers.
Mr.. Frank l.. Yinton, and family, of Cam
den, New Jersey, and Mrs. See, OF Philadel
phia, are visiting relatives in Westminster.
Mr.. r. Charles Matthews has sold 407 ,O0(
bricks this season. A kiln of $4,000 were
finished last Monday, $4,000 of which are
sold.
Registers Of Voters will meet in Westmin
ster on Monday next, at 10 o'clock In the
morning, to prepare notice for October SIT
tngs.
Don't forget that twenty five cents viii pay
for the ADVOCATE from now until and includ
ing the issue of November 18th. Send in your
names. -
DR.. J. P. Sheahan, of Dennysyille, Maine
arrived in this city on Thursday afternoon.
He is visiting his father-in-law, Francis Shrl
ver Esq.
Dr.. d. D. Wells, of this city, left on Wei
nesday for Florida. He will return next
week. but expects to spend month ortwo in
the Land of Flowers during the winter.
Thirty four tickets were sold at Nestmln-
ster for the excursion to Luray on Thursday,
and 121 on the whole line of the railroad.
The day was delightful and the trip pleasant
The members of the new Democratic Cen
stral Committee, for Carroll county, formed by
tho State Convention on Wednesday, are DIR.
+. I. Shaw, George w. Manro, Samuel
Cover.
Messrs. VIM. B. Thomas and George E.
Sbarrer. of this city, went to W1lliamsport, on
the Potomac, on Monday evening on fishing
excursion. and returned Thursday with %
pounds of bass.
A running race will come off at Hampstead
this afternoon at 2 o'clock, between Ezra
Starner's Roam Tom and Samuel Stansbury
Young mare Jennie. Purse 5000; 600 yards,
two best in three.
The DAYS have been growing shorter since
June Dist. On Monday, the 21st, the day
and night will be equal The days will con-
tinue to shorten until December 2lst, when
they will begin to lengthen again.
The county commissioners OF Howard co.
on Tuesday reported favorably on petition
from taxpayers of Howard and Carroll coun-
ties for the building of bridge over the Pa
tapsco river at Gathers Siding.
Mr.. Curtis Ecker has commenced the toun-
dation of double house on Carroll street be-
yond Grace Lutheran Church. Only the
foundation will be built this fall. The work
will be resumed and finished next season.
Two deaths occurred at the Aims House
recently. Miss Polly Shilling, Of Woolery'
district. died on the Sth, aged 81 years: and
Reuben W. Stem, of Westminster, a former
deputy sheriff and constable, died on the
a-od about SO
At the Democratic State Convention on
Wednesday Carroll county had representa-
ton on the two committees, as follows:
Samuel Cover, on credentials and permanent
organization, and George A. Shower, on res
olutions.
The first annual fair of thu Hanover, Pa,
Agricultural Society, will commence on Sep
TENDER 90 and continue four days. The Bal
timore county fair at Timonium, will be held
on the same days. On September y, - and
a the Trotting Association of Gettysburg,
Pa, will have series of races.
Our Eden correspondent writes: Farmers
are busy seeding, and the acreage will be large.
Corn is an average crop, but still remains
green. which will make the seeding OF stalk
ground very late. Politics has quieted down
since the withdrawal of Miller, for whom TINS
section was very strong.
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pany. will take party of gentlemen from this
county to Frederick, on next Wednesday, to
show them some samples of hedge constructed
BY the Dayton Hedge Company. This will be
move in the right direction as it will enable
our farmers to better judge the merits OF the
fence.
A Reisterstown correspondent OF the Baltl-
more Sun says: Many farmers in this section
are now cutting corn, which promises gener-
ally to be the largest yield here for years Ii
is said that on Mr.. Lisle's farm, near Glen
Falls Station, and on one other farm neal
Finksburg, Carroll county, twenty barrels Of
corn per acre will be raised.
DR.. John S. Matthias brought to this office
sample of corn grown on his farm adjoining
this city. The ears measured from II to Il
inches in length, and were filled out to the
ends, and were splendid specimens. The
Doctor has twelve acres in corn, and gooc
iudges estimate the field at from fourteen tC
sixteen barrels to the acre.
There were three funerals at st. John s
Catholic Church, this city. on Wednesday
First, that of Judge VIM. N. Hayden; theT
that of James Sullivan, who died at the age
of II near Patapsco, then that of Reuben
Stem. 1t was the first time during Father
Gloyd's pastorate here that he has been call
ed upon to officiate at three funerals in ono
dav.
The Bijou Theatre Company will appear at
Odd Fellows Hall next Monday night. This
company is an excellent one, and one of the
best on the road. 1t is remembered here by
many, as n company of talent and merit
VIII c. Hays is the manager, and Harry
Pease and wife are with the company also
Miss Dorritt Ashton, young and brilliant
actress.
Persons having fish ponds, or desire tc
raise fish. can secure German carp by apply
ing to Congressman F. I. Shaw, this city
The fish have been propagated at the govern
ment fish Matching establishment, and will be
for them must be filed by the LIST. The carr
should not be put in ponds with flesh eating
fish, and it would be well to devote fish pond:
entirely to carp.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Daugherty, whose first
charge was in Westminster, died in Baltimore
on Tuesday at the parsonage of the Hanover
street NJ. E. Church, of typhoid malaria
after an illness of ten days. He was grad
uate Of medicine before he entered the min
istry, and had considerable reputation as
surgeon. At the time of his death he was
professor in the Baltimore Medical College
as well as preacher.
There was game of base ball on the Asso
citation grounds last Saturday between thu
GuiplOgcS Vi buG AHJt-IlCOIlut GlSdT ldCtOI.
and cigar makers from other factories. TIT
agreement was to play seven innings, and tn,
score stood-Auti- Nicotine II; Nicotine Is
No hands were out on the Anti Nicotine sid
when the game closed. Bob Gist and Johi
Bankard were the battery for the Anti-Nico
tine club and James Sheets and w. Eckenrod
for the Nicotine. Base hits-Nicotine s; Anti
Nicotine u.
The fourth annual reunion of the Sixt
Maryland Regiment, composed in part b
Carroll countians, was held at Mechanicstowl
on Friday of last week, about one hundre
survivors being present. Officers were electe
as follows President, Col. w. A. McKellir
of Carroll county; first vice-president, job
o. Grant, Cecil county; second vice-president
Geo. w. Grove, Frederick county; recordin
secretary. John H. Mitten, Carroll county
corresponding secretary, Alex. Leeds, Orator
w. Va; treasurer, John R. King, Howar
county. Miss Mary B. Shellman, of this cit,
attended the reunion and read an origini
poem.