The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-02-04


5 west Main street.
/, The Farmers and Mechanics National
r Bank, of this city, has declared semi annual
|. dividend of p per cent. free of taxes
. During the month of January SO marriage
l licenses were issued by the Clerk of the Cir
:. cult Court, and there were Sc deeds, 20
! mortgages and Is bills of sale recorded.
; The sales day at Calverton Scales, Bali-
more, for beef cattle, hogs and sheep will be
. changed 10 Monday, beginning on the 10th
instant Dealers and others should make a
note of this.
An oyster supper and festival for the benefit
of the N. p. Church, this city, is now being
held in the basement of the church, and will
close tonight. Every delicacy of the season
will be served.
party to his son Arnold on Monday evening,
It being his 18th birthday. There were twelve
of his playmates present who enjoyed them
selves very pleasantly for several hours.
January, 1888, will pass into history as a
month OF disastrous foods. billiards, snow
storms, fires and great loss Of life, both i'll this
country and Europe. In China between one
and two millions of people were drowned by
/; n flood in the Yellow river.
John Collins, Charles Parker and John
Mahanna, trainps, were arrested by constable
Buckingham on Monday, and after hearing
before Justice Crapster were committed to
ljail in default of payment of fine and costs for
being drunk and disorderly.
Frank S. Davidson's comedy company will
play Hans, the German Detective, at Odd
Fellows Hall, ON Friday evening of next
week, for the benefit of the Westminster
Band. The same company were here year
ago and Hans was well received.
Louis Wilson and VIM. Morgan, colored,
DESTROYS of having little fun, fought their
dogs on the street on Monday. They were
interviewed by Justice Crapster, which cost
| Wilson $3.50 for disturbing the peace and
committing an assault, and Morgan, for dog
fighting, $6.l0.
His honor Judge Smith yesterday afternoon
signed decree granting divorce vinculo
matrimonii to Mrs. Ellen ]. Massamore from
her husband, Henry i. Massamore. The
decree gives Mrs Massamore the custody OF
her minor son, and grants her the privilege of
assuming her maiden name. The ground of
! the divorce was abandonment.
On February Dist and 22d the Ora nd Army
/ Posts of Maryland, will hold their annual
business meeting in Westminster. There are
about forty posts in Maryland, and delegates
\ from each one will be present. The West
minister Fire Department will invite the Old
! Veteran Firemen's Association here on the
| 22d, and in conjunction with the Grand Army
will have a parade.
l. A gentleman in the East End of this city
I has thermometer which must have been made
for those CONSCIENTIOUS honest Indian traders
of 20 years ago. During the winter the
mercury rarely ever rises above zero, and on
Saturday morning last it registered about AZ
ibelow that point. In the summer time it
rises SO high that it is almost impossible to
count the degree of heat.
Mercury from 8 above to below zero, c.
cording to the location, was the report on
| Saturday morning last. At the ADVOCATE
| Office it was above, while at Mr.. Francis FL.
| Orendorff s, on the opposite side ofthe street,
| it was 2 below zero. In addition to the low
| temperature violent northwest wind pre-
vailed Friday night and on Saturday, causing
| those who were compelled to be exposed to
use extra precaution.
| The Manchester Building and Loan Associ-
alton of Carroll County has been incorporated.
! The price of the stock is placed at 500, the
number of shares at 1,500, and the weekly
payment at % cents. The incorporates are
| DR.. J. II. Preston, E. G. Sellers, Jacob
Wink, C. j. II. Ganter, Ed. Ourser, Jacob
NJ Wilhelm, E. l.. Dupps, John E. Mason
heimer and VIM. A. Wolfe. Hon. Charles
B. Roberts was elected solicitor.
4 Mr. John Stuller, of Pleasant Valley, call
ed at the ADVOCATE Office on Wednesday.
He is without doubt the largest man in the
county. He weighs 423 pounds, (he has
weighed 42S), is feet, inch high, measures
around the waist GS inches, around the arm q
inches and around the thigh 80 inches. Mr..
/ Stuler is 81 years of age and enjoys excellent
/ health and is one of the most active men in
the county. He has four children, three
! boys and daughter. The boys weigh res
! nj dc nd tba
! daughter 220 pounds Mrs. Stuller weighs
115 pounds.
! The annual report of Deputy Internal Rev
enue Collector H. j. Krise, for the district
comprising Frederick and Carroll counties,
! shows the receipts for the year were $l8,
S66.44, an increase of So, 577.7S over 1886.
| The number of cigars made during the year
was G,457, 100, the number of cigars sold was
1 1856, 200; pounds oftobacco purchased during
the year was l5s, 603, and number of pounds
| sold or returned was 1920. The average
! number of pounds used per thousand was
twenty and two-thirds. There are in the dis
! trict thirteen grain and fruit distilleries,
forty three cigar factories and one brewery.
On Wednesday, Messrs. Warfeld & Rohrer,
| of Baltimore, and Mrs. ID. +. Albaugh, of Lin
wood, this county, by their attorneys, Hon.
| Charles B. Roberts and Messrs. Reifsnider
! Refsnider, filed their petition in the Circuit
! Court against Oliver NJ. Hiteshew, mer-
chant, manufacturer and undertaken, of
! Uniontown, this county, asking that he be
/ declared an insolvent, and that a trustee or
! trustees be appointed to take charge of his
4 estate and administer it for the benefit of his
\ creditors. The court granted 81 order en-
Joining Mr.. Hiteshew from selling, disposing
| of or in any way interfering with his property,
| aud restraining Edward Christ, to whom he
last week mortgaged his real estate, from
disposing of his mortgage or interfering with
the property, pending the decision of the
| question
| On Wednesday last. on motion OF DR..
| Shaw, bill passed the House of Representa-
| tives. by vote of Jog to 2 10 pay the heirs of
/ Francis |. Wheeler, late Of this city, the sum
/ of 1858. the amount advanced by him to
! Charles Benton and Hale Libby, late privates
in the First Regiment of the Potomac Home
( Brigade, on their check. books, in April,
! 1864. The report is as felows
4 Francis l. Wheeler, in 1865, was agent of Adams
] Express Company. at Martinsburgh, W. Va. The
| from newly enlisted soldiers their local bounty
money and other private funds in their possession
and give them instead a check book for the amount
so taken from them promising payment by the first
paymaster who should pay the regiment to which
the men were assigned. 4 number Of these check
| books were in the hands of men of the Potomac
| Home Brigade then at MartinsbuFgh. bDt the GOV.
eminent was short of funds and the paynaster did
! families at home were suffering for want OF the
m6ney Withheld from them. AT the urgent solicim-
ton or officers of the Potomac Home Brigade, Mr..
I wheeler generously advanced the money due ON
sevesa. of these check books at discount of only
! per cent. foT delay and cost of collection
I'm 1865 he was repaid the amount he had adj
yanced several Of the books, but payment was
Withheld ON two Of thenIfioso il tayor of Charles
Benton and Hall Libby. OF the FifsE Potomac Home
Brigade, amounting to S5S, on the ground that B6-
ton and Libby afterwards deserted or were absent
| without leave. The regiment was mustere OUT on
the 29th of May, 1865 few days after the alleged
desertion. The money advanced by Wheeler
while the still with their regiment at Mar
nsburgh and in the presence and at the request of
their officers, The desertion took place some time
after The regiment had removed from Martinst'urgh
Sad Death of Worthy Young Man.
Henry F., son of Samuel A. Tubpan, of
this city, died at the City Hospital in Ralti
more at $50 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon of
this week. For the last six years he bad been
employed in the Office of the Consolidated
Gas Company of Baltimore. On January LIST
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