The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-08-28
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1886.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.


issue of the times and places of their Septem'
Der sittings.
Mr.. Henry L. Shriver has been appointed
teacher in the Sd department at the West
End public school.
Western Maryland College, and the public
and private schools will open on Monday
week, September 9th.
Pay your taxes and save five per cent.
Tuesday is the last day upon which such dis
count can be obtained.
There will be total eclipse of the sun to-
morrow, the Doth, but it will be only as a par
tial one in this section.
Edmund S. N. Smith has been appointed
Justice of the Peace for Taneytown district,
vice William Fisher, deceased.
The robbery of Davidson's store at fancy
Town is fully reported by our correspondent
there, under the head of ''Taneytown Items"
The Linganore Guards team won a shooting
match at Wilson Post camp on Thursday, de-
feating Fifth Maryland Regiment and Wilson
Post teams.
The W. NJ. R. r. Co. will begin at once
the erection of a warehouse and grain eleva-
tor on the site of the burned property OF the
company at Chambersburg.
The Carroll County Teachers Association
meets in this city, at Central Hall School
building, next Friday. The public schools
open Monday, September 9th.
Mr.. George W. Albaugh, of this city, has
decided to retire from the merchandising
business. He has advertised his stores for
rent, and is now running off his stock.
Acknowledgement Roberts and General 7,
Herbert Shriver, together with a number of
other prominent gentlemen, were the guests
of Gov. Lloyd, at Cambridge, last Sunday.
Work has already begun on the branch
turnpike to be built by the Liberty and Pipe
Creek Turnpike Road Company from Daniel
Wolfe's property to Hopewell Schoolhouse.
Democratic primary meetings will be held
next Saturday afternoon. 1t is the duty OF
Democrats to attend and select proper per-
sons to represent them In the county con-
vention.
AT a tournament of the "Jolly Bachelors
club, near Reisterstown, last Friday, Miss
Bette Reifsnider, of Westminster, was
crowned third Maid of Honor by Mr.. Yates
Pennington.
The county commissioners of Carroll and
Howard counties have awarded the contract
for building bridge over the Patapsco river
at SykesviIle to James Hyatt, of Howard
county, for $685.
james Morgan, we'll Unknown sporting man,
was found dead early Monday morning, on
the Dover road, Worthington Valley, Balti-
more county. He was at Emory Grove camp
on the day previous.
The attention of farmers is directed to an
article on the fourth page entitled big
Wheat 1t tells of some experiments in
wheat raising on the Dupont farms, near
Wilmington, Delaware.
The smallpox scare at Uniontown grew
out of case of chicken-pox. For some days,
however, the people of the surrounding coun-
try gave the little town wide berth. There
has been no smallpox in or near the place.
Mr.. John F. Frick, of near Smallwood,
left at this office double cucumbur that beats
the one that was raised by Mr.. Charles A.
Horner. The second one on the latter was
quite small, while those of Mr.. Frick are large
and of equal size.
A trotting match will come off at the old
fair ground track next Friday afternoon at q
o'clock, between Frank Yingling's Flora
Temple, entered by Elias B. Arnold, and
John Biggs' Bounce. Bounce is the favorite,
but the race will doubtless be close.
Eli F. Warner, as executor of John War
ner, deceased sold on Saturday last, farm
of 100 acres, between Lineboro and Man
chester, to Henry +. Warner, for $6, 800;
also an unimproved tract of 43 acres, mostly
woodland, to Jonas Wolfgang, for 1875.
Several aged citizens of Carroll have died
the past week-Jeremiah Singer, at Mayber-
nv, on the Doth, in his 18th year: Frederick
.Spielman, near Linwood, on the 2lst, in his
SD year; and Mrs. Benedict, widow of the
late John Benedict, near Uniontown, on the
-2lst, in her 8lst year.
Samuel Mickey. of Black Rock, Pa, whose
unfortunate accident in this city on Friday OF
last week, which resulted in the breaking OF
his leg necesstating amputation, and which
was reported in our last issue, is at the resi-
,dence of his brother-in-law, Josiah Engelman,
near town, and doing well.
Among the horses being trained at Hal
stead's Driving Park, near Arlington, by
Redmond & Gillespie, is a fine fve-year
old horse of DR.. R. o. D. War6eld, of Frank
lin district. The Doctors horse had beaten
2.40 before being trained, and by judges of
horse flesh he is considered capable of
making very fast trotter.
In base ball match between employees of
the Sun and American Offices, Baltimo ore. on
Tuesday, the Sun side was victorious. The
American did not hear of the game, while the
Sun gave rather full report. Had the tables
been turned the Sun would not have heard of
the match, while the American would have
had full score. B. Mills, late of the ADvo-
CATE pitched for the American team.
Our Fountain Valley correspondent writes:
'iJohn Bemiller has had his dwelling weather
boarded and the roof extended. Calvin
Starner has had corn house built. 1t is is
feet long, 5! feet wide and IA feet high. u.
j. Babylon has finished the addition to his
barn, and Frederick Harver has completed
all his new buildings. Cider making and APP
pile butter boilings are in order now"
James Hackett, an engineer ON the Balti-
more g. Ohio railroad, was struck on the head
by a stone near Sykesville last Monday morn
ing, and Rocked down on the floor of the cab.
rac &c snn -ss T 70 IN inch long and the
tramp. The train was stopped at Sykesville
and Hackett was taken to his home in Balti-
more by the next east-bound train. His
wound was not serious.
The firm of W. H. Shower & Bro, foun-
drymen and machinists, has been dissolved,
by mutual consent and for mutual conve-
nience. VIM. II. Shower will conduct the
Manchester establishment. and John A.
Shower will continue the business in West
hninSter. These young men are skilled
mechanics, and the public will be glad to
know chat the shops are to be continued
here, as 6hey are great convenience.
Mr.. Loxelace NJ. Gorsuch, wealthy citizen
of Frostburg, Allegany county, and broth
er of Mr.. N l. Gorsuch, of Westminster, was
quietly married on Wednesday morning to Miss
Adelaide Z. Brown, of Frederick city. The
wedding took place at the residence of the
BRIDES mother, and was attended only by her
family and Hon. Thomas Gorsuch, of Freder-
lex, who is cousin of the groom. The ceremo-
ny was performed by Rev. L. F. Morgan, D.
d., of baltimore, assisted by Rev. j. P. Wright,
formerly of Frostburg. A wedding dinner
was served, after which the bridal pair left
left for Baltimore, thence they go on an ex-
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