The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-03-14


J. Bernard Shipley has been giving lessons
in vocal music gratuitously every Monday
evening at his own house-a pleasant anc
very useful entertainment-for the benefit o
his own daughters and other young people O
the neighborhood and all who may desire &c
attend as well.
We have experienced that zeroiZed roads
are vast improvement on mud ROADS, anc
often better than the macadamlzed road; and
in comparison with the latter infinitely more
inexpensive in construction. But we have
also experienced that they are durable only
where there is neither sunshine or rain, OF the
latter of which we have been having super
abundance, with some of the former.
George W. Mullinix is tearing down and
building up at his new purchase, the Welsh
property. He has lately demolished n tobacco
house, and is shaping the timbers thereof to
| help build barn, Marcus l.. Pickett's steam
saw mill doing the work. His chief engineer,
Gassaway Rollings, is a tenant at will ON the
premises, and he and some of the hands keep
bachelors hall. In the temporary absence OF
the men a gust of wind turned their tenement
bottom upwards. Gassaway thinks it fortu-
nate that he was bachelor, otherwise he
might have been made u widower by an i'll
wind At the risk of being criticised for being
monosylabieally Pathological, we will say OF
saw, and that that saw that we saw saw will
saw with any saw that We ever saw saw.
VIM. II. Harrison makes a sale on the 10Th
instant, preparatory to removing to Washing
ton, ID. T..
A writer in the Baltimore weekly American
speaks in Justly eulogistic terms OF Carroll
county farming. But then he huddles it all
up into the limestone valleys by saying that
there the land commands full prices, while in
the poor soils it may be bought for s. per
acre. And he speaks of the lands near the
W. NJ. r. r. as if he was not aware that there
was any other railroad in existence. All of
which would seem to indicate that he has led
a hermit life in some limestone cave, and,
hearing the locomotives screaming whistle,
had stepped forth to see if Pluto had burst
the gates of sheol and was passing by; and
when the monster disappeared in the distance
he took in the limestone valley JUSTIN front
of him, and then, glancing beyond, caught
glimpse of some barren rocky ridge, and
asking its use and value, and being told, set
it down that that was valuation for all lands
not in limestone valley on the W. NJ. r. r.
The ideas Of such men in print are very mis-.
leading. A limestone valley farmer told us
long since that he had never seen such results
from lime as he saw in field between Win
field and Woodbne, on tue b. x o. Railroad,
which is neither limestone nor valley land.
The writer reminds us of the woman who
opened a small cake and candy store in n
village comprising her own house, black.
smith shop and log building used as a school
house and church. When asked why she did
not open somewhat more extensive estab-
lishment in the suburbs of Cincinnati, only
few miles away, she answered: "Oh, that
place can never come to anything, it's too far
from here" But the writer must take our
rem arks in a kind spirit, they being so writ
ten; for we ourselves have lived so hermt-like
that we have not seen his five dollar farming
land in Carroll county yet.