The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-12-18
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1886.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BRBv1T1Es.

Trimming churches for Christmas has be-
gun, and church choirs are practicing Christ
mas music.
Mr.. E. ]. Lawyer, of this city, attended the
fifth exhibition of the Baltimore Poultry and
Pigeon Club, at Oratorio Hall, this week.
Hon. Alfred Salisbury, of Delaware, is
guest at Mr.. George C. Grass, near West
minister. Mr.. Salisbury is cousin of United
States Senator Salisbury.
John Geiselman has purchased, for Sc, 900,
from Edward Lynch, the building on Liberty
'treet, this city, now occupied by the Anti
Ticotine Manufacturing Company.
On Saturday last John L. Reifsnider,
mortgage, sold the farm of Jacob o. Harp,
in Middleburg district, at public sale, and it
%was purchased by Benjamin Reaver at S3275
per acre.
On Monday last VIVA. McKellip and e.
Frank Tracy attorneys for Mrs. Mary A.
Keefer, sold acres, l rood and % perches
of land, on the New Windsor road, near this
city, to Charles c. Gorsuch for $3.50.
Mrs. Sallie Emory, widow of the late Ar
thur Emory, and sister of the late Judge EN-
ory, of Baltimore, died in Centreville, Md,
on Monday night, in her I'D year: The de-
ceased was an aunt of Mrs. John w. Wilmer,
of this city, who was IN attendance on her
aunt when she died.
Guessing on the weight of the big hog of
F. E. Cootes, at the West End, closed last
Saturday. The animal was slaughtered and
its weight ascertained to be 6Ol3 pounds.
Chas. Z. Lauver guessed the closest, COL
pounds, and got the contents ofthe guess box.
$43. The hog was fourteen months old.
Quite large number of people met at the
residence of Mr.. James 7. Quinlin, No. 1915
Light street, Baltimore, on Sunday night and
formed congregation of German Dunkards.
Elder Henry Frantz, of New Carlisle, Ohio,
preached the sermon. The new congrega-
ton is a br h of the Meadow Branch
Church, in CT oil county.
The Sunday School of the Church of God,
in Uniontown, will give an entertainment on
Christmas Eve, FRIDAY, Dec. "a The ex-
ercises will consist of Rotations, speeches,
songs, &C., at the close of which the children
of.the school will receive Il Christmas treat.
The entertainment will be free to all who may
wish to spend a pleasant hour.
A division of Sons of Temperance was in
stituted at Union Bridge, last Friday night,
with eighteen members, and the following
officers were elected: Rev. ]. NJ. Brown,
W. P; DIR. j. W. Collins, W. A; John Bish-
op, r. S.; Mrs. Delphy, F. s.; David Ogle,
Treasurer; Joseph Delphy, Chaplain; S. J.
Myers, Con-; Miss Kate Delphy, A. c.; Miss
Fannie Hartman, |. S.; Lewis +. Hartman,
O. S.
Another fall of snow will cause little
more delay in issuing the Directory for West
minister, but it will be out shortly after New
Years Day. Those who have heard the de-
scriptive part of the work read pronounce it
complete and expressed the belief that it will
do much toward bringing Westminster into
notice as a summer resort, as place of resi-
dence and for business and manufacturing
purposes.
Mr.. George W. Albaugh has moved into
his new house, East Main street. This is the
largest dwelling in Westminster, and one of
the handsomest. The interior is finer than
the exterior, being finished in hard wonS1.s'
elegantly papered, with beautiful mantels S &C.
The arrangement is about perfect eor colniore
md convenience. The turni.are, scnie oi
- 7sas 10 orl WI De In k x:
ing with the general eleggahte ofthe dwelling.
a marriage tool place on donday in the
law Office of ~: C. d. Barnitz, who spends
his snmmey.s in Westminster. His Office is
in the. Bible House on North Charles street,
lBalfimore. A couple from Washington
tfCharles P. Sheck and Margaret A. Rocket
called at the Bible House and requested to be
married. As the store was occupied at the
time, permission was obtained, and Rev.
Thomas Myers took the anxious couple into
Mt. Barnitz's office and united them.
ochre, a valuable pigment or paint, was re-
Gently made by Nj. Kinzie Evans, on the
farm of Mr. Lawrence Zepp, on the pike, near
the residence of Rev. Mr.. Thompson. Mr.:
Evans has painted part of house with it and
several other things, and Mr.. Zepp will have
the true merits of the discovery investigated.
The pigment appears to be abundant, and
grows better as the excavation grows deeper.
It is only about three feet deep, so far.
The beautiful weather of last week was fol-
lowed by cloudy weather on Saturday night
and Sunday, with rain on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, and with snow on Wednes-
day afternoon and night. The snow was not
over three or four inches deep on level, the
first fall melting by reason of the ground be-
ing wet, but it drifted to foot or more in
places. The weather grew colder from We'd
nesday afternoon, the mercury gradually sink.
ing until, on Thursday morning, it registered
100 above zero.
Burns Post, G. A. R., No. ID, of Westmin-
ster, elected the following officers last Satur-
Iay night: Commander, D. Howard Fritz
..zsll; S. V. c., Charles N r. Kuhn; .. V; T.,
Samuel Bringner; Q. NJ, W. S. Drach; chap
lain, s. X. Herr; officer of the day, John M.
Reese; sergeant-major, George c. Hartman;
officer OF the guard, James Baker; adjutant,
WIN. A. McKellip; council of administration,
= K. Herr and Henry Wardenfet; delegates,
WIN. A. MeKellip and o. ii. T. Matthias;
.,alternates, Whitfield Stansbury and Henry
\Wardenfelt.
The net result to the pententiary of this
ts..u of the Carroll county Circuit Court, so
far. has been ten more inmates: John Burke,
lanes Kennedy, Charles, Benjamin and
R:chard Wilson, Lewis Wright, Frank Brown,
~, Cannon. James Smith and Thos. Toop,
,ba latter colored. Joseph H. Duering, alias
Allen and Lewis BollInger have each been
cnnvicted of penitentiary offences, and there
&c ono or two more to be tried for crimes
that will send them there if proven. Toopis
lie only resident of Carroll who has been
cent TO the penitentiary, seven OF the others
he;ne from Baltimore, one from Pittsburg ana
tbe other from Philadelphia, IA. Duerng
IL from Baltimore, and Bollinger IS citizen
of Carroll. About the nearest route 70 tne
nan;tentiary ia via the Carroll County Circuit
Court.
In the House of Representatives last Mon
5,a Penresentatiye Shaw called up the bill
for the relief of Grafton Munroe, ex-.post-
.,,,oster of Annapolis, whose Office was robbed
T. yvas shown conclusivey that he was IN no
n,onner responsible for the mishap, and he
naiad IN Congress to be relieved to the
,tanf of the amount lost. The bill simply
ontbor;zes the accounting officers OF the
treasury to settle Mr.. Munroe.s accounts ana
rive him credit for the sum involved. Inc
House passed the bill at the last session. IL
then went to the Senate, where several
a aroa were added, thus throwing it
into committee Of conference Before the
Goneress adjourned. Upon Mr.. Shaw's mo-
t;on on Monday the House refused TO concur
in the Senate amendments s and oF sba~
Howard and McKenna, conterees on the part
of the House.
Abraham Jones, Catharine Clark, Ella Al
I'd Agnes Frisby, Ann Penn, Sallie Brown,
Elizabeth sylvan and Laura 9O 0sss a. e "
0rsr ON Tuesday, on the charge of disturb
G ;aa religious Worship at the colored Baptist
Church en- this city. They admitted laughing
taking blowing mouth organ By ~ d Gsedsnt,
Mc.' s Das The stammering of deacon,
II. .be n ss5fDes Of members who did not think il
LIE to listen to the sermon, knowing 1t
would be orthodox, and quietly snooze "a away
Nouis~ -. ..o,dontS excIted the riS-