The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-04-24
LISBON ITEMS.


The Methodist Protestant parsonage, at this
place, was sold on the 10th ult. Quite crowd
attended the sale, and the bidding was spirited.
1t was knocked off to Jas. L. Clark at Sl400.
The circuit, which was large one, has been
divided into two. The lower portion, called
Howard by their representatives ran the
property up on this, now Lisbon, circuit.
Mr.. Clark expressed his willingness to take
the property on his own behalf at the price,
but the 500 will be raised and paid as this is
low the most convenient point for the par
sonage. Rev. j. I. Lassell has been return
ed. He is very popular here, and deservedly
so.
Farmers are busy preparing for corn
planting. The Hedge Fence Company have
i; large force at work on their contracts. The
fence around the Presbyterian church here
has been torn down and the hedge substituted.
When Thos. B. Maynard located here Il
year ago and started marble yard, dealing
in mantels, monuments, head stones, etc., he
was discouraged by many. Now he has
well established business. He has increased
his facilities, yet orders come IN faster than
he can fill them.
The schools in this county will close four
weeks earlier this year than usual. Miss
Dawleys school, at this place, is crowded
there being over sixty on the roll. She has
instituted an arbor day-having the boys to
plant trees, and the girls flowers, in the grounds
around the school house. Recently the boys
of the school presented her with toilet set,
and last week the female pupils presented her
with silk parasol She is held in high es-
TEEN, and governs her school well through
the medium of love and kindness, rather than
the rod.
Hoods Mill, a few miles from this point, is
booming. On recent visit there we found
Quill playing the accordeon-saw gent who
had climbed ''the golden stairs" and also
met party who sent an ox-cart back for his
overshoes, which he had forgotten. Iyrrell
is busy saving lumber, shingles, plaes, &c.
He is making for farmer of Carroll some
thing new to us-maple shingles.
Hammond Bros. are selling goods at prices
that will compete with much bto,eed Sykes
vile, and are not using one-half the gas.
Geo. Ireland is about again, having no fur
Their use for crutches.
In the Baltimore Herald of the I'd inst,
will be found George Alfred Townsend's
letter. wherein he refers to Winters poem,
barbara Fritchie." He goes on in many
words to attempt to prove that fiction his
torical fact, and tries to cast odium on Mary
lands sons for denying its truthtulness. Now
it is well known to Gen. Bradley L. johnson
to all of Jackson's men who were in that
march land there were several from Howard
county, as well as to the residents of Fred
erick city, that Barbara Fritchie was myth.
The poem of itself, is fine one, but we are
surprised at such journalist as Gath in
giving credence to it.
The Quaker poet is said to have gotten his
information from Mrs Southworth, with her
unpronounceable name, who lived so long IN
a realm of fantasy that she was unable to dis
criminate between fact and fiction. In her
cottage on Georgetown Heights. with that
crank, Mrs. Schoolcraft, for a companion, we
fancy she is poor authority on which to base
an article given to the world-the fgment of
a dreamer's brain-to be inculcated on the
minds of the rising generation as fact, and
to be inserted in School Readers.
Like ''Sherdan's Ride''-and Winchester
twenty miles away'' there is more on paper
than was ever performed. Isn't it strange
that no one has written poem on Lew Wal
lace's ride from Monocacy, when he passed
through Lisbon that memorable Sunday morn
in July, l864-and Baltimore twenty FIVE
miles away l''-with horses, reeking with
foam, at a 2 Is gait; and still his cry was
like one of more recent fame-"Go lang y