The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-10-13
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREYITIEs.

LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREvITIEs.
Mr.. Jesse Haines has moved into his new
residence on North Centre street.
THE ADVOCATE Building is being repainted.
Nelson Gilbert is doing the work.
Miss Lottie Gardner, of Washington, d..
c., is visiting Mrs. j. H. Billingslea.
Monday was a real March day. Sunshine,
rain and wind, by turns during the day.
Mrs. Eliza Shreeve and daughter, of this
city, are visiting her brothers in Baltimore
A United States pension has been granted
to Adolphus McCauley, deceased, of Union
Bridge.
Mr.. Jesse c. Sharrer has purchased lot
80 feet front en- Willis street from Mr.. jaime s
A. Diffenbaugh for $575.
Geo. L. Stocksdale, Esq, has removed his
law office from No. 222, to No. 209 east Main
street, in City Hotel building, Westminster.
Hagerstown fair begins on Monday of next
week. A special excursion train will run on
Thursday by the Western Maryland Railroad
Mr.. ]. C. Shreeve, near this city, has beet
which measures 30 inches in circumference
and weighs pounds, and wants to know who
can beat that beet.
The Westminster Savings Institution has
declared dividend OF five per cent on week
ly and monthly deposits, and eight per cent.
on the capital stock.
C. D. Barnitz, ESQ.,, and family, of Balti-
more, who have spent the past summer here,
returned to that city on Tuesday, and will re-
side at 22l0 St. Paul street.
Prof. T. F. Rinehart, of Western Maryland
College, will preside at the organ at the dedi-
cation of Christ Methodist Protestant Church,
at Chestertown, Nd, tomorrow, Sunday.
M. Edward Lynch has a stalk of corn IA
feet high, and the ear is feet from the bot
tom of the stalk. 1t was grown on his farm
near this city from seed procured of Mr.. G.
s. Hairesa Of Union Bridge.
At the close Of business on October 4, the
Union National Bank of this city had on de-
post Sl61, 600. IA; the Farmers and Mechan-
les S64, 0O8. 92 and the First National $751;
l612.22. Total, S4o9,Sll.2S,
On Sunday night last the summer kitchen
was entered and an overcoat, belonging to his
son James, and sponge cake were taken.
Before leaving the person enjoyed good
smoke, also.
DR.. J. W. Herring has been elected super
intendent of the Methodist Protestant Sunday
school of this city in place of Mr.. w. l.. Sea-
brook, resigned. Rev. DR.. I. II. Lewis has
been elected assistant superintendent in place
of DIR. Herring.
The General Wayne Hotel, corner of
Baltimore ard Paca streets, Baltimore, has
been remodeled and re6tted. 1t has been
LEASED by Mr.. Henry Rahter, of the City
Hotel Westminster, who will open it about
the Doth instant.
4 fight occurred at Sykesville on Tuesday
night between Johnsey Elder and Charles
Gibson. both of this county, during which
a portion of the formers nose and the lower
lip of the latter were chewed off. Both OF
the young men were also otherwise badly
used up. Dr. 4. D. Wells rendered surgical
attention.
AT the close of business on September 3Oth,
last, the weekly and monthly deposits IN the
Westminster Savings Institution amounted TO
S7S. 1856, and the special to Sl47, 263.Sl. On
the 9Th instant an election for Directors for
the ensuing year gas held and the following
gentlemen were CHOSEN: E. o. Grimes,
Charles T. Reifsnider, Dr.. Charles Billings
lea, Edw. j. Lawyer, David A. Snyder, j.
Wesley Myers and VIM. II. Starr.
Shortly after p. M, on Saturday last
thunder storm of unusual severity passed over
this city. Telephones were rendered useless
for awhile, and The electrical display at the
railroad and telegraph Offices caused persons
10 leave them. The storm lasted for over an
hour. A short distance below town, on the
turnpike. there was fine shower, while above
town and on the Washington road the rain
fall was very heavy. There was a slight fall
of hail, also.
D, N. Hennng, ESQ.,, of the Westminster
bar. will start out next week on stumplng
tour. aad will speak in every county in this
congressional district. On Tuesday he will
sneak ut Hampstead, and on Wednesday at
Reisterstown. He will then go to Chesa-
peake City, in Cecil, thence to points in
Hartford county, thence to Canton and other
points in Baltimore county. Mr.. Henning is
a close reasoner and an earnest speaker, and
all who hear him will be well entertained and
instructed.
Mr.. James A. Mitchell, of this city, the
patentee and owner of Mitchell's improved
Hedge Fence patent, is now engaged IN ne
sotiations to sell the right to build fences
nndes his patent TO parties in Chester county,
Pa. He has recently sold the right for several
counties ia the Keystone State. and has also
disposed of some county rights IN Maryland
His patent is a valuable one, and the hedge
fence sooner or later must be the refuge OF
farmers in the East, where the timber is
rapidly disappearing.
The Hanover, Pa. Citizen, of Thursday,
saws. While laboring under temporary de,
mentia, on Monday last, Vim. Stick, aged
about 10 years. eldest son of Henry Stick,
residing at Sticks Tavern, in Codorus town
shin. committed suicide by hanging himself IN
the feeding entry of his fathers barn Moth
;n0 uuusai was noticed in the condition OF the
gonng man that morning; he assisted his
father ia loading apples, and vas in cheerful
,oood. hut when the father Eeturped from
T;neboro. about o'clock, where he had
taken the applss, he found his son hanging as
above noted and life was extinct.
Mr. Milton Devilbiss, huckster, near this
o;,y informs us that Mr.. William Ieese, OF
Pachmap,s Valley, raised several large pump
tina this season. One was 8 feet IN clreqm
ference and feet inches long and weighed
131 pounds; on the same vine was announcer
one ) feet 6 inches in circumference ana o
feet inches long and weighing 81 POUNDS;
olco two Others one feet inches IN CIR
enmferenee and weighing 76 pounds and the
other s feet inches in circumference ana
,gs;ghing II pounds. The seed from which
,ho two first mentioned grew was planted on
,he OH of Nav and the pumpkins did not be-
gin TO show until July
Henry w. Diehl, who died near Siarks'
burg. VI. Va, Sept. l3, 1883, IN ms ozo year;
WAS the SECOND son of the late Jacob and
Elizabeth Diehl, Of this county Four broth
ers survive him, John and Samuel, OF this
county: Jacob, of South Carolina, and Jonas,
of Ohio; and an only sister, wioow OF Inc ia'e
tbrsbam CasselI, who died some nine years
900 Mr.. Diehl purchased tract of over
400 acres of choice grazing land in W. Va,
n 1872. and 10 the following spring he settled
on the same, where be resided until his death
which was caused by apoplexy. He was mar
Of sterling integrity and held in high esteem
in the neighborhood where he resided.