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NOR THE FALL TRADE.
One of the finest lines of
par FALL SUITINGS, OVER
COATINGS AND PAN
TALOONINGS,

One of the finest lines OF
nag FALL SUITINGS, OVER
COATINGS AND PAN
TALOONINGS,
which will be made up in the latest style and
best workmanship.
Fit Guaranteed or no Sale,
and at prices that defy competition. Any one
in need of
pa A SUIT OR OVERCOAT
CON rest assured they can be accommodated.
I also keep one of the finest and best assort-
ments of
Gents Furnishing Goods
outside of the city, such as
UNDERWEAR. DRESS SHIRTS, BOTH
WHITE AND FANCY; COLLARS,
CUFFS, SUSPENDERS, NECKWEAR,
Hosiery. Handkerchief, and everything per-
tanning to gents first-class outfit. The largest
and best line of Buckskin Gloves ever offered IN
This county. The most perfect fitting; every
pair warranted. Also Kid Gloves, and every
kind that a gentleman would want, and at
bottom figures. The Scratch rocket Snlrt
always on hand in stock, or we will make 1t
to order, either white or colored, and guar
antee il to be the most comfortable and best
fitting shirt, and one of the best made In the
market day. Give me call. 1t will pay you
The ARGosY SUsPENDER still takes the lead.
We keep them at all prices. Every pair guar
anteed for one year. A splendid line of
- GENTS JEWELRY,
SUCH AS
COLLAR AND CUFF BUTTONS, SCARF
PINS, PLAIN, FILLED AND
SOLID GOLD RINGS, WATCHES AND
CHAINS, AND EVERYTHING
TO COMPLETE A GENTS OUTFIT, AND
AT BOTTOM PRICES.
A splendid line of Silk and Alpaca UNI
brellas. As special drive will be sold cheap.
Overalls, Cardigan Jackets, all sizes and
prices, at bottom figures. The best Gum
Goats in the market, and warranted first class,
at prices that cannot fail to sell them. A call
is solicited before purchasing.
Give me call. 1t will be appreciated, and
will save you money and make you happy.
]. T. ANDERS,
sep25 3m Westminster, Md.
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oRNDo RIFFS

Is proud reputation he has gained for honest and r uea
mo srenuously than ever to merit IT,
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Machinery, Engine e. Cylinder Oils.

Our GUARANTEE building that is not
satisfactory after being painted with our Peer
less Mixed Paints, we will repaint at our ex-
pense with such material as the owner may
direct. Our Paint is Pure Linseed Oil
Paint weighing Is lbs. to the gallon, works
smoothly under the brush, has great body,
and its durability, after thorough trial, is es-
tablshed beyond question:
WAITE BRENAN.
Write for samples and prices. n20-6m
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NOTICE
To Those Having Land for Sale

The undersigned offers his services to those
having land for sale, and believes from ex-
perience had he can be of service in dividing
up and putting in shape for sale to advantage
of parties wishing to dispose of lands, espe-
cially near towns or cities.
E. LYNCH,
ian23:tf Westminster, Md.
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OHAS. E. FINK,
mmnD NEv ATT r. w

u ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Recently of the Firm of Reifsnider 4 Fink,
Will attend promptly to all legal business
entrusted to him. Office No. 100 E. Main
street, near Court street, opposite the Farm
ers and Mechanics National Bank, Westmin-
s.er. Nd. oct. %, '86:y
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ORNDI oRFF

INVITES YOU TO VISIT LARGE STORE AND INSPECT HS
STOCK OF NEW GOODS
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III Q &c E.

We take pleasure in announcing to the pub.
lie that we shall continue to keep on hand and
furnish all kinds of Building Lumber and
Coal, at the Old Yards in Westminster, Md,
and hope, that by strict attention to business
and with desire to please, we shall continue
to have our share of the trade.
feb2S, 1s85tf E. LYNCH 4 SON.
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NEILToN sENFT,
DRY GOODS, MOTIONS, OIL

DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, OIL
CLOTHS, &c.
We are still here, our stock and trade in
creasing daily, and
SELLING GOODS CHEAPER
Than we ever did, Notwithstanding some goods
are higher than they were year ago, and we
| have about
Three Times the Amount of Stock
we had last year, and we are satisfied that
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
If you will give us call.
DRESS GOODS.
Our line of Dress Goods is complete. We
will sell you a splendid article at 4c yard.
Plaid Dress Goods at Gle, worth SC yard.
Plain Worsted Goods, all colors, at &c, sells
at Toe.
An elegant Cashmere, all shades, SO inches
wide, at 30c, sold at 45c.
Satin Berber, SO inches wide, at 35e, sold
at SOC yard. These goods are bargains; we
want to close them out.
All Wool Tricot Cloth, SO inches, all shades
at SOC.
Our Black Cashmere, at SOC yard, guar
anteed all wool, 38 inches in width, cam
be beat Come and look at it before buying
elsewhere.
A splendid line of Brocade.
Dl: ~ Eonov Ctr;nad Valveteen from
SOC to $1.OO yard.
Domestic Bingham at &c.
Dress Bingham at 10c.
Indigo Blue and Mourning Calicos at &c
sold everywhere at &c.
All other Calicos at &c, sold elsewhere a
Good Calico at SC.
Red Twill Flannel at 25c.
Best Medicated at soc yard.
Muslin, Canton Flannels, &c.
, Good yard wide Muslin at Age.
A splendid Muslin for 7c, can't be bough
for less than SC.
, Very best Muslin for 7Ic by the piece, 81
by the yard.
Canton Flannel sc yard.
Table Linen zoe to 75c yard.
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STOCK NEW GOODS
opNnoRFF WILL, N OF BE UNDERsoLD.
GRIND oRFF
No. ~ e .sl Rin, for this week only WHOLE SEASON
oRND oRFF
n not i cbromos bu offers you Rare Bargains
oRND oRFF
DOES NOT SELL FOR LESS
PRICES FOR ANOTHER
GRIND oRFF
o;once the kind of goods his
by lung anu ~ and alwaystr please
oRND oRFF
e has gained for honest and dealing shall endeavor
ousyh nIeverom
oRNDo RIFFS
seconds auction JOBS
oo0U' """ ~ egoodslf ndpl n
oRNDO RIFFS
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COACHES, CARRIAGES,
BUGGIEs, JAEGER wAGoNsll
PHAETONS, &c.

Special attention given to Repairing. All
orders promptly filed and work of every kind
warranted.
gD- Factory opposite the Montour House,
Main street, Westminster, Md. ang Sly
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oRND ORFF
oRND oRFF

- xnence in business learned the kind goods
~ ~ nations desire and aw st please
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J. T. oRN DoRFF,
u o R S A L E .
Il
ocl23

A FEW DOORS WEST OF RAIL ROAD, WESTMINSTER MD.
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The quality of our goods tell, the prices sell
Silks. Boucles, Tricots, Hair Line Stripes,
Sc, Brocades and Plaids SC. Our S1.OO
until you see it. Special attention is
Velyeteens and Velvets for trimming.
cold elsewhere at 40c
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We have big lot of Hamburg and Lace
Edges, which we will sell regardless of cost
price. We have too many, and do not want
to carry them over. A big lot of Lace Cur
tains at 122c to 40c yard splendid Cur
tain in patterns, yards long, at ST.; they are
nice and very cheap.
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oRNDoRFF WILL N OF BE UNDERsoLD.

DOES NOT SELL ONE ARTICLE FOR LESS THAN CosrANDCH
PRICES FOR ANOTHER
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PERSONAL.


Lord Houghton CIonckton Milnes left personal
estate valued &C $4,000.
George Jacob HolyOake wants law passed forbiddins
candidates for Parliament to conduct any eanvassing
whatever.
Word comes from Siberia OF the death OF DR.. Weymar
who was once the personal medical attendant OF the
present Car, Tut was sentenced 10 exile for coDa-
plicity in the assassination OF MeZLenen.
The Very Rev. DR.. Milcs McManus. p p, Canon and
par.h priest OF St. GATHERINGS Church, In Meath-st
Dublin Ireland, Is temporarily sojournng at St
STEPHENS Roman Catholic Church In Last twenty ,
eghth-st, as the guest OF the Kew. DR.. edward
MtGynn. -. . 100 o..
A very wicked young woman in Washington says SEN
ator wade Hampton has numbered and named each hair
in his side Mbiskers.
Leopold Won Ranks works steadily at his history from
10 A. M 10 D. IN. and from p. to l a. m daily,
takes TWO hours walk in the afternoon does not smoke
but enjoys glass good wine, sleeps sOonuy keeps
two secretaries busy. and great ~dner OF England
Nine Patti az Vienna received on the stage
Christmas gift In form OF tree, the branches OF which
were nterlaced with golden chain each link OF which
bore In diamonds the OF an OF era III when the
prima donna had appeared
The late DR.. Henry Norman Hudson. the Shake
spearean scholar SAID to have been man OF marked
pecuatitles. He cared nothing for opposing opinions
and would have hcsitated 10 set his CONVICTIONS
against the world.
Eighty-seven years old next month. Simon Cameron
Is hale and hearty. never troubled with dyspepsia or
rheumatism and almost obserysnt OF political affairs
ns cyor ITO will 20 10 Florida presently for tue re-
iuA!nder Of the winter.
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rRAYELLLNG SALESMEN.

Commercial travellers are on exceptionally
alert, wideawake, energetic class, and they
have stirred up the sleepy atmosphere wonder
fully in many a dull old town and city. There
is breezy vgOr in their ways Of talking and
trading that acts like ozone or electricity on
the stagnant air of placid villages ana dreamy
county-seats. They are scattered all over the
country Every big tram West or East, North
or South, carries some of them. They are
perpatetic timetables, thoroughly familiar
with functions and connections and even
with the little twIgs that stretch
out in every direction from the
branches of the great railway trunks
of the United States. With all the alterations
of travel they are well acquainted, and they
know how to secure every comfort that hotels
can supply. Masters of themselves and of their
business, they accept the incidents and acct
dents of their constant journcying and the
fluctuations of trade with easy philosophy.
Earthquakes don shake their self-possession
and cyclones alright them not.
The development of the system Of selling
goods by samples carried all over the country
by enterprising statesmen has been prOdigiOus.
Tens of thousands there are of these travellers
and small must be the shop and microscopic
the dealings of the tradesman, whether on the
Rio Grande or the PassamaquOddy,
who escapes altogether the visits of the
/" drummer" But some cities in the South,
with a singular blindness to their own inter
ests, have tried to shut HIM out by the exactiOn
of exorbitant license fees Such communities
| deserve to sec their hay crop gathered in their
squares and their main streets bristling with
| Canada thistles They are deliberately shut
! ting themselves of from the inyigOrating touch
of the keen, strong vitality of such great CEN
tres as New York and Chicago The defence
is made that the incursiOns of the dfummers
make the development of wholesale trade in
smaller cities almost impossible and subject
these communities to a degrading dependence
on a few great towns. But there is no
! sense in such an argument. Cities which
draw their supplies directly from the
huge warehouses of NewYork and
! Philadelphia, Of Boston and Baltimore of Chi
cago and st. Louis, get the best of everything
at far smaller margin of profit than any little
wholesale shop in a town of thirty or forty
| thousand people can afford to do business on.
1t is the biggest firms, whose operations are
enormous in the aggregate, that can and do
sell at the smallest percentage of profit.
A bill is now before Congress abolishing re-
strictions against citizens of one State doing
business in another, and it seems to have JUS
tice and reason at its back. Cities which try to
build up Chinese wall around their little
local trade are pursuing narrow and
vicious policy that must injurc them
selves. The freest INSTRUMENTATION
in business between every part of this prosper
GUS Republic without check or obstruction is
best for all 1t is pretended in some cities
that the revenue from the license fees
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crutches After this instance Of thourhtfulness ths
Gladstone crutch will doubtless become popular CON-
modify. A reduction will be made 70 Junior Reform
Clubs taking quantity. Gladstone wooden toothpicks
NAV also be had in bundles of not less than gross APP
ply at Hawarden.-[L London Close.
There is said to be great scarcity of water in cnoin
natl The citizens don't much however, so long a.
they can get beer for three cents a glass.
We understand that an archaoogist has just dug
cuneorm tablets from the ruins Of ancient Ninsveh
They have not yet Abn silly deciphercd but from the
frequent occurrence Of tho words "mother-inaw,"
"plumbingman and "young.couples tng-in-thedark.
1t is supposed that they collection OF ancent
Jokes, belonging to the same era as the solaS
myths and antedating by many centuries the military
era when the Assyr'an came down like wolf on the
fold.
Deacon Savage am disguised with tho whole thing
Mr. Passbocks. The election was farce"
Deacon Passbocks: How does the Rev. htewaies
How doss hoi Did you notice him during the
caucusng g. - A.. ,., = - ,,
out OF the contest" -. . s.s,.,
That's ali right about his hands but he didn't keep
his month out tell you, Mr.. Passb0cks when piety
goes into politics the combination IL lrressiole
Eaqseating sir but irresistible "-lPhiladelphia Call.
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Mr.. HOWELLS AND HIS CRITICS.

MR.. HOUELLS AND ms tHIiI'S.
Mr.. Howels has turned upon his critics. III
.hey do not like his theory of the novel the
trouble is that they either too old to accept
fresh idea or too young to think for themselves.
"The critics. he says in the February Harper,
when they are not elders Ossi'icd III, tradition
are apt to be young people, and young people
are necessarily conservative in their tastes and
theories. They have the tastes and theories
of their instructors, who perhaps caught the
truth of their day, bat whose routine LIE has
been alien to any other truth" This Is bold
generalization, ana it would be interesting TO
know where Mr. Howclls got the biographical
facts upon which it is founded. II critics are
usually either too old or too young rarely just
old enough, they represent n phenomenon in
literary history which ought TO be investigated.
In the course of nature they must pass from the
puerile to the senilc, and rs they cannot take
the interval at jump one is curious to learn
what becomes of them during the period of
transformation. Do they spend that brief time
of perfection in writing novels upon the new
principles which are now shaping the literary
expression of every civilized people" and
supersedng the old "truth rs it WAS in Sir
Walter. and as it was in Dickens and in llaw
thornenl
We suspect that If Mr.. IIowells would cx-
plain a little more fully what the new truth Is,
it would be found that the critics complain less
of his principles than of his practice. Some OF
"thesc poor fellows" he says, contend that
human feelings and motives, as God made
"them and as men know them, are not good
"enough for novel readers" We never met
with a poor fellow who maintained any such
preposterous notion. We cannot imagine
lover Of the old truth as ii "a In Sir Walter
and Dickens and Hawthorne who does not prize
those masters for their comprehension OF human
feelings and motives as God made them. The
naturalsm which Mr.. Iowells honOrs rs a new
truth-the principle that all sorts OF human
feelings and motives however commonplace,
however vulgar, however unfit to stir our sensl-
bilitics, however fiat and dull and barren are
worthy subjects of description and analysis-is
not n new truth but an old dtlusion. IL is the
principle that gives us n literature without soul
and an art without imagination, pale characters
and sordid lives in our novels. and precious
portraits of an iron pot in our picture galleries
The painter knows that an object is not fit for
his pencil merely because it exists. IL is in the
selection that he first shows his artistic feeling
The novelist knows that, as a matter of fact
not every exhibition of human feelings, and
motives, and manners, is good enough for
novel-readers, and that selection is the begin
ming of his art, too. Mr.. HOwels would be the
last to deny this but it is because his judg-
ment or his taste IL so often at fault here that
the poor fellows complain. If he were not so
fine a workman they would let him alone. 1t is
because they like his work that they worry
about his subjects.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-24

IN travelling statesmen is indispensable TO
aid in paying municipal expenses. Ihats
nonsense. Throw open your doors, build
up your retail trade, develop your manu-
features, invite settlement by giving the
people within your gates the best chance 10
buy what they want cheaply and OF good
quality. and your town will go forward so fast
that city taxes will soon be lightly felt. Adopt
the policy of exclusion, of shutting yourself up
in your shell, and decay and ruin must be
your portion.
The single forcible argument IN faVo 81
high license fee for drummers comes from
anxious husbands and fathers, cousins anu
wooers in minor cities and towns, vine COM
plain that the smart and fascinating statesmen
from New-York and Chicago turn the heads oil
their women folk. We fear that there Is a
serious basis of truth IN this accusation, and II
is one for our great merchants to bear soberiy
IN mind. The all-persuasive and all-conquer-
ing drummer too often has slippery tongue
which finds too ready listeners among simple
maids and matrons. 1t is much to be regretted
that the majority of employers concern them
selves little about the doings of their statesmen,
provided that accounts are correct and sales
large. Certificates of stainless character are
less in demand than the ability to sell " big
bills But this will right itself IN time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-24

This class, in fact corresponds 10 tha1 VI
common laborer among men, and like the ia'ter
il is unprotected by organization, ana almost
from the nature of the case, incapable OF peing
so protected. Men, however, having the paiiot'
and OPPORTUNITIES for open discussion OF their
grievances. do in effect offer comparatively
effective resistance to the crushing power VI
unrestricted competition, and the best PROOF Vi
this Is that their lowest wages nave seldom
sunk below a rate at least double that 10 WHICH
the sewing-women have been forced. Inc con-
dition of these women appeals strongly 10
puTilc sympathy. 1t cannot be denied that
there is something wrong in the Sociai
machinery which makes it possible for human
beings, and above all women, in nomlnaliy
enlightened and progressive country, TO DO
reduced to a way of living which is IN no
essential distingushable from the cruellest
form of slavery.
IF there was any reasonable prospect Of better
things to come the case would not be so
exasperating, but it seems impossible for the
most earnest sympathizers with these poor
people to indicate a prospect of Improvement IN
their circumstances. The only hope Tor them,
according to Commissioner Peck, is to get out
of the line of work in which they are now
enslaved, and into some other which pays better
And this is after all but slender chance OF
amelioration, for nothing is more difficult than
such change to women who are compelled TO
work every minute of the day merely to ward
of starvation. In the past all manner OF
charitable schemes have been proposed for the
relief of sewing women, but most of them have
proved impracticabe, and have been aban-
doned. The number of our white slaves does
not diminish. The increase of wealth In the
centres of population does not better their con-
dition. The constant inhuy of applicants for
work keeps down the price of this labor. The
absence of political influence and organization
alenates legislative sympathy. 1t is hard
case indeed, and so far it has defied all attempts
to deal with it. But it does not follow that 1t
oughtto be given up 1t is not creditable to us as
a civilized people that American women should
be subjected to such hardships pressed down
in such Indulgence, forced to toll ceaselessly, de-
prived Of everything that can make life worth
living. There ought to be a remedy for this,
for it is not among the evils which can be
patiently endured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-24
TILE SONG or TILE SHIT

The report Of Commissioner Peck, OF the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, reminds the public
that no amelioration has taken place in the
condition of large class of Workingwomen
For men in most branches of labor there Is hope.
Arbitration, organization, promise better
relations between employers and employed.
Fair wages and reasonable hours are being
conquered or conceded. But there is an
element of workingwom en-. for the relief Of
whom nothing practical has yet been done, and
whose state Of seryitud8 and misery is lament
able. The Commissioner gives facts about the
women who sew on clothing in this city, which
show that the penury and slavish toll depicted
by Hood more than generation ago in London
exist among us to-day TO quite as great an
extent. The Song OF the Shirt " can be sung
in New York without the alteration OF a line.
Thousands of women labor 81 xteen hours ont Of
the twenty-four for half a dollar and many of
them have to support children on that wretched
pittance. The case of the strect-car drivers
seems bad enough but what is It to this Two
women, by working sixteen hours, can make
one cloak, for which they are paid just one
dollar.
Commissioner Peck does not seem to have
thought his way tn any remedy for this state of
affairs. On the contrary, ali his reflections are
discouraging. He points out that onearoason
why the pay for sewing is so small is that all
women sew, and that therefore when they take
up this occupation as n livelihood they prac-
tically enter into competition with all their sex.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-24
M1NLY BI-METALLISlU.

A writer in The Sun seeks to produce the i'm
preston that Mr.. Blaine while III the Senate,
took non -committal attitude on the phase OF
the silver question then before the country.
Mr.. Blaines public services are historical, but
it is we'll enough to have the record honest ana
straight. The person is foolish who attempts
to show that Mr.. Blaine was ever non-com-
initial on anything. He was prominently the
statesman who always had views and always
dared to announce them.
The very passages from his speech OF feoru-
ary 7. 1873 to which The Suns correspondent
adroitly tries to attach an equivocal meaning;
are all the proof that is needed to show that his
position was clear, explicit and consistent lie
isnot n monometallist. He believes in the coin
age of silver, and favorng the double standard,
he demands the perfect harmony of coinage
values. He opposes an inferior coin whether 1t
be gold dollar that is less intrinscally than
the current silver one, or a silver dollar less
than the richer metal of the same generic
name. That is Mr.. Blaine's attitude, and
very sensible, honest attitude it is. That view
of National money which insists that specific
coin, whether il be made of silver or gold, Shall
be worth all it claims to be worth Will never be
mischievous to business nor helpful 10 lobbies
or iobs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-24

after Mr.. Parnell was released from Kilman-
ham Jail when the Coercion actwas withdrawn,
when Mr.. Forster resigned and when some KIND
of an arrangement was nearly concluded De-
tween the Iiish members and the Liberals
Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Under
Secretary were murdered and Mr.. Parnen was
seriously embarrassed. Considerations OF
right and wrong aside, therefore, 1t is to De
boped for Ireland's own sake alone that any
miscreant who is now planning crime Will DO
Marncd IN time to desist from 1t.