The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-07-31

There will be woods meeting, to be con-
Quoted as a camp meeting, to commence at .
O. clock, a. M, tomorrow, Sunday, August
LIST, near Mt. Olive Church. on West Falls
Circuit, under conduct Of Rev. Edward Smith.
The presiding elder will be present, with such
other ministerial aid as may be necessary and
available. On Wednesday morning there will
be a temperance sermon, and the same day.
in the AFTERNOON, q children's meeting. A
large attendance is expected, and all are in
vited to the series of meetings, which is ex-
pected to hold over the second Sunday.
On account of the frequent rains much OF
the corn, like the widows, is in weeds. Oats
are fine, and tobacco promises well, though
some of the more early was damaged by the
random dash of hail tossed here and there
very unsystematically some two weeks SINCE
The traction engine men are going around
giving every farmer they encounter good
threshing, leaving him demurely cogtating
upon the fact that he got less than he deserv-
ed, for the wheat in very many instances is
not full crop.
Albaugh & Newport, at Woodbine, have
supplied long-felt want in erecting on their
premises fve-ton Fairbanks wagon scales,
for weighing grain, hay, lime, stock, DC. The
ACQUISITION to the place necessity to them as
well. lnC OlhCL u SAN H%s-SN 49,
alike keeping pace with the times.
George W. Mullinix, at Day, beats the re-
cord on fast time in raising two tobacco barns
in one day, and we saw next day what looked
to be portico erected on the shady side OF
one of them. That's observation-disclosures.
The Woodbine Paper Mandatory has shut
down for repairs and other purposes, thereby
giving their employees vacation, part OF
which vacation will find place for its empt'
ness beneath purse strings that need not be
drawn to hold it; but men cannot work always.
There has been solemn feast in this neigh
borhood. the participants all being uniformed
in raven colors. There were visitors from
distance, and the sombre ceremonies seemed
to admit of no pastime but circling the heavens
on buzzard WINGS Fresh meats were served,
interspersed with essence of cholera. A very
distant sniff of such a feast makes it seem al
most preposterous that man should german
die upon the same animal, when it may be
infected with septicemia, or contain lmper-
ceptible millions of trichina, both of which
conditions are more likely to exist in the flesh
of animals that will eat flesh. So, young
\men, set it down that your sweethearts aren
fit to eat, however sweet.
The veritable inevitably ubiquitous fertilizer
agents are out in force, and also some manu-,
facturers in person, one of whom we heard
wonder what was to become of them. Get
ting it into our head that he looked upon pur-
gatory as of too modern an invention to be
entirely reliable, we would say for his especial
benefit that there is place, whose tame tam has IS
come down from antiquity, called "Sheoi,
and we guess he need not fear being left out
in the cold, where the poor farmer fears being
left when he is done paying for fertilizers;
At Morgan Chapel, on last Sunday, we had
the pleasure of simply seeing the happy groom,
Frank Buckingham, and his amiable bride,
nee Miss Mills, while we were crowd bound
from an opportunity to congratulate the happy
pair, which reminded us that we had also
failed to get any of the cake or to kiss the
bride