The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-09-19
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1891.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

from now until after the election.
Counterfeit half-dollars, quarters and nick
els are in circulation. Look out for them.
Republican primaries will take place today.
The county convention will be held on Mon
day
Bishop Paret has fixed December Sd as the
date of his next visit to Ascension Church,
this city.
The great Democratic picnic at Uniontown
will be held today-the 19th-commencing
at 10 o'clock, n. m.
The musical picnic ofthe Manchester Band
takes place today. Several brass bands and
singing societies will participate.
Forty HoursDevotion at st. Johns Catho-
lie Church, this city, will commence to-
morrow Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
The parish school of Ascension Parish
opened on Monday last with twenty seven
pupils, an increase over the attendance last
year
At the tournament at the Baltimore County
Fair on Friday of last week, George p. Beas-
man. of Freedom district, took third prize,
$3.50.
Calvin B. Taylor, graduate of Western
MARYLAND College, class of 1882, has been
appointed school examiner Of Worcester
county.
The Carroll County Reed Band furnished
music at the Hanover Fair on Tuesday, the
opening day, and the Taneytown Band on
Wednesday.
In the Baltimore county Circuit Court, on
Monday, the Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank Of this city obtained Judgment for
SlOI.7G against Emily j. and Joseph Lloyd.
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hauled out of Westminster this week. On
tuesday Main street was lined all day with
wagons loaded with fructifyers of various
brands.
The barn of Capt. Southey Miles, of Som
erset county, father of Messrs Joshua F. and
Alonzo l.. Miles, well known this city, was
burned, together with its contents, on the
night of the 9TH.
Monday, the 2lst, is the autumnal equinox,
when the days and nights will be equal.
From then to the 2lst of December the days
will grow shorter, the Dist being the shortest
day in the year.
Frederick Koors, who has been employed
at the City Hotel here, has accepted posi-
ton at the National Hotel at York, Pa.
Charles Koors, formerly of this city, is also
engaged at the National.
Mr.. William W. Mace, prominent citizen
of Dorchester county, and father OF Mr.
Irving w. Mace, we'll known in this city,
where he attended Western Maryland College,
died ON Monday night last, aged "A years.
Coal is toSbe advanced from ten to twenty
five cents ton on October LIST. This is the
result of an agreement among the agents of
the coal companies in New York on Wednes-
day-a combine to extort upon the punlic-
At the depot here on Thursday 80 whole
and half tickets were sold for the Washing
ton excursion, and twenty-five or thirty per-
sons had to board the train without tickets,
being unable to get them. This is large
turnout for Westminster.
William H. Smith, of j., by John E. r.
Wood, his attorney, has filed a bill in equity
in the Circuit Court at Frederick, asking for
a divorce mensa thoro from his wife, Min
ME S. ii. Smith The parties until recently
lived at Watersville, this county.
Owing to the death of Ephraim Friman,
of Manchester, the sale Of his property, by
Chas r. Reifsnider, trustee, advertised to
take place September 10Th, has been postponed
until Saturday, October 10th, proximo, by
Mr.. Reilsnider, as administrator.
The coored people of Westminster are
preparing to have an emancipation celebra-
ton. and have fixed on October 23d as the
time The committee expect to have Fred.
Douglass as one of the orators, and plenty OF
music and good time generally.
The members Of the Democratic County
Central Committee and the nominees of the
Democratic party, are requested TO meet al
the Court House, this city, on Monday, Sep
TENDER 2Sth. Officers Of the Central Com
mittee are to be chosen and the work of the
campaign mapped out.
The sale of the real estate of Peter Pickett,
in Franklin district, sold by James II. Ship
lev, assignee of mortgage, has been ratified
by the court, the objection to the ratification
OF the sale having been overruled. George
l.. Stocksdale, Esq, represented Mr.. Ship
ley and Col. Maulsby represented Mr.. Pickett.
A large crayon portrait has been made OF
the late Rev. p. A. Long by John b. Hege,
Of Marion, Pa, and presented to Mrs. Long
as a testimonial Of regard from the members
of the Grindstone Hill charge, where he was
last pastor. Mrs. Long is the daughter OF
Mr. Abram N. Hess, near TaneytOwn, this
county.
The alliance has issued million circulars
to farmers in the Northwest, advising them to
hold their wheat and predicting the price
will be dollar and half bushel shortly.
Let the farmers of Carroll hold also. The
price will not likely be lower. The impress.
sion prevails that spectators have depressed
the price.
The game of base ball which was to have
been played at the college on last Saturday,
and was postponed, will be played today (Sat-
urday) at 3 D. m. Hill and Fyantz, of the
Baltimore club, and Davis and Manning, OF
the Westminster, will be the opposing bat
teries A good game is expected, as the
Matthews and Warner club ranks among the
first in Baltimore.
An exchange says-'The farmers in the
Palouse country, Washington, have straw
roads, which are pronounced excellent. They
take the straw after it is threshed and scatter
it over the roads, and, after while, when il
is settled down, it makes road like papier-
mache, smooth and dustless.' This is not
expensive, and might be tried on some road
in Carroll, to test the plan.
Information has been received here oil 4
painful accident TO Raymond, the nine-year-
old son of DR.. George Trumbo, of Linden,
Va, formerly of Westminster. The little
fellow had been fishing, and in throwing the
line accidentally caught the hook in the corner
of his eye He walked two miles to his
home, and then waited two hours for surgical
assistance. He may lose the sight OF his eye.
lut cOHtrlDulOrS 10 liS IlOnSt -A'a,t""
this week we're Mrs. Dr. Shipley, Mrs. VIM.
A. Cunningham, Mrs. c. J. Shellman, Mrs.
Henry Morelock, Mrs. Augustus Ensor, Mrs.
Samuel Skunk, Mrs. G.. W Matthews, Mrs.
Maggie McGirr, and Misses Mary Engard,
Belle and Laura Nigren. Gertrude Baer,
Lena Reaver. Receivers for next week,
Misses Pauline Trumbo and Maggie Huber;
packers, Misses Lockard and Blanchard.
A letter from Frederick, of September -,
says:-"The little village of Bridgeport, this
county, near Emmittsburg, is stirred up over
the strange and sudden disappearance Of j.
Newton Coshun, a farmer residing near there,
who left home on Saturday morning, Septem-
Der 9th, with the intention of going to fancy
town, and has not yet returned. He was
seen late in the day on which he left home
going in direction opposite to thatin which
he started, and man answering his descrip-
lion was noticed in the vicinity of Greenmountr
but there all trace of him has been lost.
Concerning the railroad developments III
THIS section, a letter from Gettysburg, on ;hc
10Th inst, says :-lt is understood here now
that engineers have commenced the survey