The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-10-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LncAL RREYITIES.

..,n sent to us yesterday triple ear OF corn,
ls s;ngular growth. 1t was Of the pearl hominy
variety.
Mr. Hanson I. Bartholow has resigned as
;.i1a of election in Woolerys district, on
y..5gnt of i'll health, and Mr.. Augustus W.
iIsyis has been appointed in his stead.
Mr. Thomas j. Meads will carry his audi
.,ea at Odd Fellows Hall, on Tuesday night
nsyt through an imaginary, yet delightful
md instructive trip, through the Bible lands.
There was touch of fall weather the early
law. of the week, and fires and overcoats
-ere comfortable. On Monday, considerable
Gsl re here, and mingled with it were few
fakes Of snow.
Mr.. VIM. Il. Armacost, of Hampstead dis
tret has declined reappointment as Judge
ofelection for that district, owing to failing
arss;gbt, &c. Mr.. John II. Lester has been
recommended for the vacancy.
Cav Jackson has pardoned Thomas Hyam,
convicted in the Circuit Court for Carroll
cmoty at the May term, 1887, of manslaugh-
tsr and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years from May 20, 1889.
Lima beans have been almost complete
f,ilure in Carroll this year. In New Windsor
district Frank Lambert got but "a bushels
from 5000 poles, W. W. Smelser about 60
Insbels from $4,000 poles, and Thomas J.
Hahn bushels from 1000 poles.
Three hundred and forty seven tickets were
ad at the depot here for the Hagerstown
Fair. and number attended from this city
who travel on 900 mile tickets. The atten-
dance from Carroll this year probably ran
above 900. Thirty-three tickets were sold
for the Frederick Fair.
Some cattle in New Windsor district are
affected with disease of the mouth and
stiffness Of the legs. Mr.. Thomas j. Ham
has three cows sick with the disease. DIR.
Harstone, of this city, says the disease pre-
yals in several districts in Carroll, and that
he has been treating cattle thus diseased for
several weeks.
Mr.. William Meugel, near Bird Hill, has
chestnut tree that bears the largest nuts We
ever seen. sample was left at this office on
Thursday. Twenty years ago Mr.. Perry
Barnes gathered some nuts from the tree to
plant. and placed them in box, but neglected
20 plant them. Recently they were found and
gere in excellent condition.
Officer Matthews spent Wednesday and
Thursday at the Hagerstown Fair, and special
Waterman Andrew Fowler acted policeman in
his place On Wednesday an umbrella member
repaired an umbrella for Mr.. John L. Ecken-
node. on Liberty street, and walked off with
It. Mr. Fowler arrested him, and Justice
Matthew'S sent him to Jail in default of bail
to await the action of the grand jury.
A Prohibition mass meeting will be held in
the Court House, Westminster, tonight Sat
urlay) at 7.30 O'Clock. The meeting will be
addressed by Hons Edwin S. Higgins, Joshua
levering and W. f. Tucker. Meetings will
be held at Eckenrode's Hall, Taneytown, on
Tuesday evening, October Goth, and at Union
Bridge on Friday evening, October 23d. The
same speakers that will address the West
minister meetings will address the others.
The Democratic mass meeting and barbe-
cue at Manchester next Saturday will be an
immense affair, should the weather prove
favorable. Hons. Frank Brown, James G.
Berret, lsidor Rayner and Frank I. Shaw will
be the speakers on the occasion. Mr.. Thos.
r sG-AI.ilg .I.--I-,,.,syei campaign zi,ats-l
will render some of his finest songs, and three
brass bands will furnish the instrumental
musie A l200-pound OK will be roasted, and
plenty Oh lunch will be provided for all.
THR MAGAZINE OF POETRY, for October,
contains an excellent portrait of Rev. DIR.
Ward, President of the Westminster Theolo-
geal Seminary, together with a short sketch
Of him by DIR. j. W. Herring. In this sketch
it is said that DR.. Ward exhibited fondne IS
for poetry at a very early age, and com
menced writing verses when quite boy. a
number of his hymns have been set to music,
says the sketch, and one of them, entitled
"Ihe Meeting Place. is sung in many
churches. Accompanying the portrait and
sketch are four of DR.. Wards poetical com
positions.
The Centaur Cycle Club, of Baltimore,
ned its century run to Hanover, Pa, by way
OF Westminster, Nd, and Littlestown, Pa,
last Sunday. The members, fourteen in mum
Der, left the club house, Pratt street, near
j 'aiterson Park avenue, at 3 A. NJ, and made
their first stop in Westminster. The ride was
then -egumed. The main object in the run
was to break the Baltimore record for day S
run Mr.. John I. Brooks covered l4l
miles and T.. j. Codd, Ir., 13l, thus breaking
the record of Mr.. Leeate, of the Maryland
Club, who had held for a yesS the record OF
l23 miles. Mr.. Eisenbrandt made II! miles.
young couple from York, Pa, drove to
Westminster on Wednesday, determined to
enter the matrimonial state. They applied to
the clerks Office for a license, but the pros
pective groom, unfortunately, was two months
y
license had to be refused 1t was suggested
TO him that if he obtained the written consent
81 his parents the license would be issued,
but the young man replied that he did not
want them to know OF his intention. The
TSould-be bride was pretty girl and nicely
dressed and the would-be groom was a fine
looking young man. 1t was n runaway
couple, but they made the best of the situa-
uon and were chatting and laughing serenely
as they drove by the ADVOCATE Office on their
way out of town.
Mrs Susanna LoOkingbill, an aged and
tighIy-esteeHed resident of this county, died
at her home, at Mt Pleasant, on Sunday
morning. last. in the eighty-seventh year of
her age. She was from early womanhood an
earnest and devoted member of the Reformed
Ghurch. Mrs. Lookingbill's second husband,
Mr. Samuel Lookingbill, survives her. and is
m the eighty-fifth year of his age. Her first
husband was Jacob j. Forsyth. She leaves
three daughters and three sons, namely: Mrs.
Annie r. Mitten, Miss Elizabeth Forsyth, of
Westminster Mrs. Augustus Mitten, Mr..
David j. Forsyth, of Baltimore; Mr.. William
Forsyth, of Merrell, Mich, and Mr.. Samuel
Lookingbill, Jr., of Poplar Bluffs. Mo. Her
remains were inferred at st. Benjamin's Gene
ery, Monday afternoon.
Mr.. A. C. Rabter, for sew eral years pro
pretor of the City Hotel, this city, was beaten
70 insensibility in gambling den in York,
"a. shortly after II o'clock last Saturday
night. Mr.. Rahter is manager of the Wash
inlgion Hotel at York, and went to a gam
'oling den on South Beaver street, near the
centre of the town, kept by J. W. Hedrick,
and Joined in game. Rahter claimed that
ahere was unfair dealing, and a row follow ed,
which he was knocked down and so
Se'aFely beaten that he was unconscious until
sunday night. His nose was broken. and he
was severely cut and bruised about the face
and head, while vicious bull dog bit i'm in
several places. From reports in the York
G5azette it seems several persons and bull
d9og were engaged in the fight. The place
where the fight occurred is said to be low
den, and this occurrence has so aroused pub
nc sentiment against It, that its days are
numbered.
A letter from Gettysburg, Pa, on October
IAN, says: Baron Erwin Won Luettwitz OF
SSehloss Buchanan, Germany, was arrested
i "a night at Littlestown on telegram from
United States Marshal Frey, of Baltimore, as
deserter from the medical corps of the regu-
lar army, in which he had enlisted under the
name Of August Pfuhl. To-day an officer
arrived and eto.4od u,.tt, HE rrieoner for