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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-29

CHOICE GROCER I E s
as can be found in our city.
NEW RAISINS, CITRON, CURRANTS,
PRUNES, DRIED AND EVAPORATED
FRUITS, MINCE MEAT, PRESERVES,
CANNED GOODS, &C., the best quality.
Choice Teas, Coffees, Syrups, New Orleans
Molasses, and the best grade of Flour con-
stantly on hand at bottom figures.
We pay the highest prices for Wheat, Corn,
Rive, Oats, and all kinds of Country Produce.
Agents for Latin & Rand's Blasting Pow
der. -
FARMERS
Can be supplied with the best quality Of Cot
ton and Flaxseed Meal, Heavy Middlings,
Bran, &C., at lowest prices. Call and see
does E. o. GRIMES & co.
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OUR FALL TRADE.

Our stock, which we are placing our orders
for daily, will surpass all former seasons. and
we will sell
The Greatest Bargains of the Day.
In order to make room, we start the ball
rolling by offering our SUMMER DRESS
GOODS at half price, to close out.
Our SUMMER CLOTHING at half price.
Our DRESS GINGHAMS at 5gc., Gle,
8Ic., surpass all former Ginghams; bargains;
examine them, please.
Our large lot of SILK REMNANTS at the
bargains we are offering go fast; come at once
to get them. Our Remnant Table is chuck
full of bargains.
600 Gross of Buttons at cents per DOZEN;
worth at least 12@ to 25c. per dozen.
PARASOLS REDUCED PSF.
FANS REDUCED 25%.
STRAW HATS exactly half price.
ELEGANT SUITS CLOTHING SIS to $40.
Call and see our
BlIG B GAIL MS
In EVERY DEPARTMENT.
Big bargains in GLASS TUMBLERS and
GLASS JARS, TIN CANS, ICE CREAM
FREEZERS, WATER COOLERS.
GEO. w. ALBAUGH,
iuly25 Westminster, Md.
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| TTENTIoN, FARMERS.

All ask-examine my stock before pur
chasing elsewhere. may 1882-H
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Culprit-'Yes, sab, / tuck de chicken.
| was gwineter make some chicken pie, and
tuck de cook book and read de direc-
shuns, and hit says "Take one chicken. "
Hit don't say buy one chicken, or berry
one chicken, but hit says, take one chicken.
Hit don't say whose chicken ter take, SO [
jess tuck de fust one | could lay my hands
on, I foIlored de direcshuns, sab, in de
book"
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Special attention given to Repairing. All
orders promptly filled and work of every kind
warranted.
gFactory opposite the Montour House,
Main street, Westminster, Md. aug sly
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NOAH WALKER & CO.,
apr4

165 and 167 WEST BALTIMORE STREET.
apr4 Baltimore Md
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ALL.WooL MONS YELLING

And Albatross, beautiful shades.
Six of the beautiful Combination Suitings
left, in stripes and plain, and plaids and plain,
most stylish goods in the market; must be
sold; ask to see them.
Summer Silks at unheard of prices.
Surah Silks, most beautiful silk made; you
can afford one at the prices we are offering
them for.
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25c. Dress Goods for 129c.
Special lot of beautiful patterns in Dress
Goods $780,; sold much higher.
zoe. bargains in Dress Goods, including
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Sidney Smith says he heard of clergy
man who went jogging along the road till
he came to turnpike. "What is to pay?'
ePay, sir, for what" asked the turnpike
man. ''Why, for my horse to be sure"
sYour horse, sir, what horse? There is
no horse, sir" 'No horse?" said he,
suddenly looking down between his legs.
"God bless me I thought | was on horse
back p
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lHE LARGEST VARIETY

THE LARGEST VARIETY
AND FINEST LIQUORS
IN CARROLL COUNTY
A. C. sTRAsBURGER's,
Next door to the old Central Hotel,
Westminster, Md.
l name in part-12 grades of Whiskies,
including the well-known
WELTY WHISKY,
10 grades of Brandies-Apple, Peach, Ginger
and Blackberry Brandy; Holland and Domes-
tic Gins, White and Red n E. Rum, Kimmel,
Port. Sherry, Catawba, Claret and Rhein
Wines; imported and Domestic.
CHAMPAGNE, BASS ALE
and Bibberts Brown Stout; Raspberry, Gin
ger and Lemon Syrup.
I Guarantee the Purity Of our Liquors
and the quality of our goods, and will use
every endeavor to give entire satisfaction i'll
regard to price.
l also have a large stock of
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MY BUSINESS INCREASES.
IAN PROUD TO SAY THE HEADING
OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT is TRUE,
AND THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP UP
THIS HONEST BRAG is TO KEEP
DOWN PRICES. [ AM NOT SELLING
GOLD DOLLARS FOR EIGHTY CENTS,
BUT IAN SELLING GOODS AT ROCK
BOTTOM PRICES. THE ONLY WAY TO
FIND THIS OUT Is TO GIVE Me A CALL.
MY STORE. ROOM HAS IN THE LAST
FEW DAYS BEEN VERY MUCH EN-
LARGED, AND THIS ADDITIONAL Ca
pacity in room has enabled me to increase
both variety and quantity of such goods as |
have heretofore been unable to handle salts
factoriIy, which, added to my usual line OF
merchandise, presents to the purchaser rare
opportunities for choice and cheap goods.
E. NJ. MELLOR,
iun27, Amos Sykesville, Md.
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DIAPER HANGING.

take pleasure in announcing to the public
that have opened a store at
No. 500 w. Baltimore ST., BALTIC, Md.
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To Secure Rare Bargains |!

Don't fail to avail yourself Of this grand
opportunity to obtain goods for less than
manufacturers prices.
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OUR LIQUORS
are the finest and best ever offered in this city,
and for medicinal or family use are unsur-
passed. Sole agents for the well known Welty
Whiskey.
Ale, Porter and Beer, by the bottle OF
barrel.
Sole agents for Briggs Bros. world-re.
nouned Garden and Fower Seeds.
The highest market price paid for Country
Produce. 90
feb q, 1879 HAlNES W.
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If you want Good Goods at Fair Prices,
visit the
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MERCHANT TAILORING
FOR SALE
BY A. N. STEPHAN.

The finest stock of Spring Goods ever Of
fered in this market, such as Hames,
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OUR SPECIAL.

CSC. Black Surah, all silk, % inches wide;
sold elsewhere for $l.25.
Have you seen our 81 BlackGros- Grain Silk?
Greatest silk for the money ever shown in
Westminster.
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We cannot enumerate the various kinds of
Piece Goods in stock, but will state that there
never was larger variety or better class of
goods in this market.
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FRANK K. HERR. SAMUEL X. HERR
u K. HERR & BRO,
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CIGARS AND TOBACCO.

also have a large stock of
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PASSENGER TRAINS RUNNING WEST.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
is Cholera Spread by Drinking Water.
Popular Science Monthly

For good health. pure water is as
necessary as pure air, good food, com
Portable quarters, and so forth. ] my
self am an enthusiast in the matter of
drinking water, but not from fear Of
cholera or typhoid fever, bat simply
from pure love of the good. For
the water is not only a necessary
article of food. but a real pleasure,
which | prefer, and believe to be more
healthful than good wine or good beer
When water fails, man may suffer
not only from cholera, but from all
possible diseases. In places where
cholera prevails the water may always
be indicted, for the water-supply is
always a part of the locality, and the
doctrine will frequently hold good,
because the part may be mistaken for
the whole. Where the influence of
the water is held up TO the exclusion
of all other local factors, error is
liable to creep in. In England, where
the water drinking theory is fully be-
lieyed in, two like influences, in which
every other local factor was excluded,
were observed in the cholera epidemic
of 1854 In one case, in street in
London which was supplied by two
water companies, the Lambeth with
pure water, and the Nauxhall with
impure water, it was found that the
cholera was practically limited to the
house supplied by the Vauxhall com
pady. 1 was so much impressed by
this fact, that | endeavored to see
whether the epidemic of 1854 in
Munich could not be explained on a
similar hypothesis. But my researches
led to a negative result. Without
doubling the facts observed in Lon
non, am of opinion that the impure
water of the Vauxhall company did
dot spread the germs of cholera, for
the propagation of cholera was not
effected by this means in Munich, but
that the water increased the personal
predisposltion, since the water would
be employed IN the house and about
the soil. Later on, in 1866, Letheby
doubted the accufacyof the drinking
water theory, and proved that there
had been considerable confusion, so
that house which was registered on
the Lambuth company really drew its
water-supply from the main of the
Vauxhall company, and vice versa
The cholera epidemic OF 1866 was es-
sentially limited to East London. The
London water company supplied this
district with water filtered from the
river Lee Lstheby brought forward
q series of facts to prove that we might
with equal justice accuse the East
London gas company, since the first
case of cholera broke out at the gas
factory.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
The Tr0uqle ut Vassar.

A professor in Vassar College says,
that the managers arc really Charmed
by the steady falling off ia pupils
during the past FIVE years The mum
Der now is only a little more than
half Of that Of 1876 The cause isn't
IL any deterioration of the college it
self, said the professor. for it is the
same noble school as ever. The trouble
is that Vassar has become a thing to
poke fun at. Half the new jokes about
the girls are put upon Vassar students
Their doings are ndiculed, exagger-
ated, falsited, and the very name Of
Vassar is a synonym for feminine
foolishness. The consequence is that
girls are beginning to dislike to go
there. | wouldn't be surprised TO see
the doors of the college shut ia FIVE
years more. The newspaper para
graphers viii have done it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
The Earth's Surface.
Demorest's Monthly for january

] EellOftSls floNLuly JOE JtHAal9
Scientific men have been disposed
to attribute the evidence of changes
on the earth's surface to violent cat
astrophes in the operations Of nature;
but Lyall and the more recent geoiog-
lists say that most of the alterations
we witness were brought about by
the slow operation of natural forces,
acting through vast periods of time.
/ The several earthquakes which have
recently visited the northeast quarter
of North America did something to
ward either raising or depressing the
surface of the region affected. 1t is
known that the Atlantic coast between
Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod has
been steadily sinking for centuries,
and it is within the bounds of proba-
blity that before 1900 years have
elapsed the cities Of New York aud
Brooklyn may be under water When
the Dutch colonized Manhattan Island
200 years ago, the Indians told them
that in the time Of their great-grand
fathers it was possible to cross He'll
gate dry shod from one bank to the
other Prof. Guyot estimated that
the lawering of the Atlantic coast
was 2ll inches every century. At
the same time it is certain that the
greater portion of the American con
timent is raising, while the continent
of Russia is as certainly sinking.
Very many island cf the Pacific
ocean were once the tops Of noun
tains on continents afterward sub
merged. The stupendous volcanic
eruption of Krakatau, on Aug. 81,
last year entirely changed the physi-
cal aspect of the Sunda straights. a
part of Krakatau was shot out of the
sea and dropped into the straits eight
miles northwest. The greater portion
OF the island, containing several
thousand million cubic yards of earth
was hurled through the air, over
Yang island, and plunged into the
channel seven miles to the northeast.
These two pieces OF land, which have
been named Steers and Calmeyer is
lands, now appear above the sea
where previously $50 feet of water ex-
tsted. Where the volcano of Krakatau
stood, a sea fathomless by a line of
1, 900 feet now exists.
In the neighborhood of England,
recently, new islands have appeared
composed Of black volcanic rock and
so these mighty changes keep on.
Oceans of vast antiquity are cont
uents today, while the populous
plains will, in the distant ages hence,
be found at the bottom Of the mighty
seas
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05

True enough the doctor put the two
children into the carriage and helped
the mother in with most lover-llke
devotion
"He sort o'does pear affectionate,
scid the Widow Sharpe, looking at
Miss Piper with an exasperating
smile
"Theres no fool like an old fool,
snapped the fair Eudora
"Did you everW asked the president,
as the carriage rolled past, and she
turned from the window and gazed
upon the members.
And the members admitted that
they never did, really, although they
had mistrusted all along.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
AN ECLIPSE OF VENUS.

We said good-by when oil the birds
Flew homeward 10 the SOUTH
Two very unimpOrtant words
Framed in a rosebud month";
I held a slender hand awhile
knew il wasn't right
And when ] missed her sunny smile
II seemed the depth Of night
a very common Incident,
Net when a year had passed,
what or did where'er ! went,
Remembrance held y fast;
] Iongei 10 see her rosy face
Below Ter soft, brown hair
And so sought the charmed pace,
Aud waited for her there
q. where was Eiith-where was she
Who once had graced this spoti
Here was the seat beneath the tree
But Editn-she was not
We stars above that shine 50 pure,
Hear my Apocalypse
NV star was on her wedding tour,
And was In eclipse.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05

deposits, to reappear here, disconnectl
ing the primitive masses of the Sierra
MIA de Fonda and the Sierra Nevada
of whose ancient union the Slerras
Tsjea and Almijara appear to be wit
nesses.
Given this structure and its wide
extension, the two principal coinci-
dences,that this oscillation of the earth
presents to the geologic structure OF
the peninsula are: b'irs5, that the
earthquake OF Dec. % was limited to
the part of the peninsula west of the
mentioned band or fracture; second.
that the maximum of action of the
earthquake Of the 25th, was Ia the
space comprised between the Sierra
Nevada and the Serrania de Ronda,
and precisely in the z3ae that sur
rounds the primitive masses called the
Sierras Teiea and Almiiiara. If in
that part the fold has been broken and
torn asunder, as indicated, by the
slesmetic overturns Of our globe,
exactly there would be the most fra
gile part. There certainly has fallen
TIE maximum of the oscillatory move
ment that has resulted so sadly for
Andalusia; for there precisely stands
Albania, with IFS tottering walls !;
Periana, reduced to a heap of rubbish
only three meters high; Albunuelas,
almost destroyed; Zafarraya, Neria,
Torrox, and other villages, testifying
ia their ruins to the fragility OF the
fracture that dates, it may be said,
from the sllurian epoch, but that,
nevertheless, can rot be considered as
SOlid vet
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
Indian Relics Exhumed in Iowa.

Dubuque Dispatch to the Des Moiues Register.
A very interesting discovery was
made yesterday of some Indian relics
by some laborers engaged ia excavat-
ing for the railroad across the river.
Among them were several wedges
made Of iron, stone, and one of copper.
The former were OF the usual wedge
shape. The latter was near the shape
of a coffin except that it tapered to a
sharp edge at the lower END The
singular characteristic of the copper
wedge is that it is so hard that it will
cut stone These relics were found
about ten miles north Of the city at q
depth of six feet. They will excite
great interest among the aniquarlans
Of the city.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
THE. san MARINO REPUBLIC.
The story Of the Rise and life of the
Smallest Democracy In the world.
Temple Bar

The little republic Of San Marine is
inclosed in the kingdom of Italy. 1t
is bounded on the north. east and
south by the provinces Of ForG. and
ON the west by that of Pesaro. It's
territory covers about twenty two
square miles The population mum
bers s, 500 souls, and the capital, San
Malino, has 200. 1t is perched on
the summit of a mountain called
Mount Titan, or the Giant, which
sometimes leads to the little state be
I ing termed the Titanic republic It's
origin dates from the fourth century,
and for heraldic bearings it has the
following Argent, three strong tow
ers, azure, on three rocks of the same
three curved flames, gules, issue from
the towers and crown them. The
motto is 'Libertas. The escutcheon
is surrounded by flags and surmoun
ted by crown, indicating a sovereign
state. The republic has an order of
chivalry, created ia 1898, under the
name Of Order of San Marine. II
consists of a Greek cross, with towers
at the four angles, and in the center
a medallion with the arms of the re.
public, srmounted by priucely
crown, closed, and suspended by a
striped blue and whi!e ribbon. These
are the national colors.
/ In 1895, after detecting the Aus
TRANS, sent the celebrated mathemat-
ician, Mongo, to compliment the
1 free m0UntaIneers aud make them
offers of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but they
very politely and very prudently de
clined. When Italy became a king
dom Napoleon desired to preserve
this little state intact. ut is rare
sample of republic to reserve, said
the emperor Ia 1S49 Garibaldi
driven from Rome nv Gen, Oudinot,
took refuge IN San M8rino, forbidding
his soldiers to do harm to the inhabi-
tants. Victor Emanuel not only
respected the liberty of the institu-
tons OF this little country, but always
showed it great sympathy, especially
ON has visit to Bologna at the time OF
the Inauguration of the Auc0na rail
way in 1861, in 1862 a treaty of Gus
toms and commerce was concluded
between Italy and the republic.
San Marine owes its foundation to
a herpit of that name. born ia Dial
: malta In the fourth century, and who
+, went 70 Italy to work as a mason at
the rebuilding of the walls Of Rimiui,
harHo afterward took refuge in the
mlds, of the woods ON Mount Titan,
and constructed there q cabin In
which he ended his days. The place
/ where he expired soon became the OBJ
. Ject of Flgrimaees, and houses were
/ quilt there, wh.ca ultimately formed
me town of san Marine. The fete O
the SAINT Is celebrated on the 4th o
September,
Several New York beer saloons neal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05
Cause of the Disappearance of White
fish.
From The Detroit Post.

The rapid disappearance of whiteish
in the great lakes is believed by the
fishermen of the Straits of Mackiaac
TO be due to the small siz9 OF the mesh
permitted in the nets, and a memorial
has been addressed to the Michigan
Legislature, asking for the passage of
a law prohibiting the use of nets with
meshes of less than four inches from
knot to knot The importance Of the
whitefsh industry, both commercially
and in its relation to the food supply,
should lead to the enforcement OF
stringent regulations against the tax
ing of FISH so small as to be useless for
the market.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05

Some fishermen who visited the
Charity Islands in Lake Michigan,
last week, say that when the keeper
of the station on the island saw them
he ran down to greet them. and ms
first question was who's elected
PfesidentY He had had no mail or
communication with the rest Of the
world for three months, and yet there
will be a scramble for his position af-
ter March 4.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05

London was lately the scene OF a
very extraordinary anti-yaccinatlon
demonstration, which attracted great
attention as it passed through Cheap
side and other city thoroughfares.
An open hearse with a child's ooftin,
preceded by band playing tue Dead
March in saul. and followed by a
number OF vehicles displaying piac-
ards setting forth the object OF the
demonstrations formed the process
sion
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-05

Several New York beer saloons near
the Brooklyn bridge arc selling
twenty-five promenade tickets for
cents as an indictment to draw Gus
tom.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-07-30
Ssnnss work 4 Ola Orchards.

June and July Is : good time 10 remove
superhuous shoots. Old trees have nc
ssp and vitality % waste on superAuoua
branches. Bearing trees want their vigoI
encouraged ard directed; they must mol
- heavily prunsd 10 Enthusiastically rnb
Of The watsr sprouts and shoots 10 excesl
before they attain much size; but when I
tres lacks vigor and has considerable top,
reduce II 10 October or March; that will
infuse lie into bearing branches, espsc-
tally II supernumsraries are supplied n
above suggested. Don't be greedy; be
content with good yield. Don't allow
generous trees TO cripple themselves 10
your service BY overbearine. This will
not often occur Il che top il kept ia prop.
or limits BY fall and late winter pruning,
and the ground Is we'll fertilized and
mulched or we'll cultivated. But il very
often occurs thAt trees checked in their
growth by want Of cultivation or susie
tsnance. tuFn most 81 their buds into fruit
buds, and cripple themselves for life.
This shonId BE- looked 70. though unfor-
tunatsly il seldom is -AmvioDs Rurdi
HOeNo. Mr
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