The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-16
local AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

al a patent for steam boiler.
,I.,srs Albert Hood and Byron Dorsey
N erect residences at Mt Airy this spring
movement is on foot to organize Chap
,-oG the Epworth League at Centenary NJ
: Church, this city.
Snow fell on Friday-yesterday-for sever
,Ibonrs, but melted generally, as it fell Clear
mo weather in the afternoon.
Er John Marsh's well known trotting mare
II, cave birth to another colt on Thursday.
She IS about twenty-five years old.
Ur David D. Bonsack, who left home or
March 22d and went to Florida, returned
hare on Friday evening of last week.
The public schools of Carroll closed on
Thursday with Arbor Day exercises. Some
teachers will conduct subscription schools.
The P. S. C. T., of the NJ. P. Church,
,v;l hold extra Easter exercises under the di-
'.oton of Rev. l.. r. Randall, at 6.30 p. M,
Sunday
Nv the will of the late Washington Booth,
hi. niece. Mrs. Margaret F. Smith, Of North
Charles street, Baltimore, and former resi-
dent of this city, is left considerable sum OF
money.
The County Commissioners of Baltimore
county are worried over the expense of forty
tramns in the Jail, committed for thirty days.
Get up tramp law, like that passed for Car
roll. and published in this issue.
If the weather should be fair on Monday,
Westminster will have the most imp osing pa
rsde ever witnessed in the State outside oil
Baltimore, and there will be more than twen-
~ thousand persons here to viewit.
On Monday next, the banks of Westminster
% ofn he
Offices at the Court House also. The Coun-
~ Commissioners will not meet next Monday,
Int will be in session on Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
Rev. T. H. Lewis and DIR. J. W. Herring
we're chosen delegates by the Maryland An
oual Conference to the General Conference
oftbe Methodist Protestant Church, which
meets in this city next month. The confer
ence is entitled to eighteen delegates.
Among those from Carroll at the large
Cleveland meeting in Baltimore on Wednes-
day night we're Messrs. T. Herbert Shriver,
Robert Sellman, Pinkney j. Bennett, b. +.
Grouse and William P. Gorsuch. Mr.. Shri-
yer was one of the vice presidents OF the
meeting.
Mr.. BENJAMIN Bond, a well-known citizen
of Woolery's district, died on Tuesday, after
alingering illness, in his seventy .seventh year.
A widow and three grown children survive
him-Wesley W. and Benjamin Bond, of this
county, and Mrs. Jacob s. Gorsuch, Of Mount
Carmel, of Baltimore county.
A local freight on the Pennsylvania Line
Railroad had narrow escape on Tuesday
night As it was coming down the steep
grade between Kingsdale and Piney Creek,
one of the trucks on a gondola car broke
down, but the car remained on the track, and
was dragged by the train distance of two
miles.
The ADVOCATE acknowledges the compli-
ment of an invitation from Mr.. S. G. A.
Brown, of Taneytown, to attend the 44th An
nual Commencement of the Hahnemann Med.
ical College, Philadelphia. The commence.
ment exercises came off last Tuesday, and
among the graduates was Mr.. Brown, now
DIR. Brown.
Cardinal Gibbons has placed Rev. NJ. j..
Walsh in charge of Reisterstown, Manchester
and Hampstead. Services will be held as
follows: Hampstead, on the second Sunday
OF each month at $50 a. M; Manchester on
the second Sunday Of each month at 10 M
aud at Reisterstown on the list, Sd, 4th and 9TH
Sundays of each month.
A subscriber at Pittsburg, Pa, in renew
ing his subscription, writes: "Native myself,
alike as several of my ancestral generations
agone; of good old Maryland, my Mary land,
and ENJOYING extensive acquaintance with per-
sons and localities, The ADVOCATE, my pick
and choice of its press, is ever most welcome
and well nigh indispensable harbinger to me
of interesting intelligence concerning my ma
live state
Mr.. VIM. Mehring, secretary, sends us the
following: On the 18th instant the Prohibi-
tionists held a mass meeting at Union Bridge,
in the town hail Rev. E. Barclay, OF Balti-
more, addressed the meeting on the subj ect
Of Prohibition. He also presented the "Mil-
lion Voter Plan," and the plan for county or,
ganzation. Middleburg district subscribed
SIS, and Union Bridge district $50, toward
engaging speakers for the campaign.
Mr.. Hiram Davis, one of CarrolPs aged
citizens, died near Union Bridge on Friday
of last week, April 8. He was native of
Montgomery county, Pa, where he was born
on September 6, 1907. ''Uncle Hiram, as
he was familiarity called, came to this county
more than fifty years ago, and was well known
throughout as an excellent citizen and active
Democrat. For about twenty-five years he
was delegate to every Democratic County
Convention.
Much of our space TO day is occupied by the
publication of local laws for Carroll. Nothing
could be more interesting to our readers. On
the first page will be found the high license
law, the act amending the charter OF Hamp..
stead, the tramp law, the new road law and
the act empowering the Mayor and Council oil
Westminster to purchase the plant of the
Westminster Water Company. On the Sec
Ond page are several more laws, relating to
Westminster, Union Bridge, and Taneytown.
A subscriber to the DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE,
residing in Hartford, Connecticut, under date
of April 10, says:-''Yo GU have gotten up con-
siderable discussion by publishing last week
u chapter Of New England History by Col. j.
Thomas Scharf My youngsters are just in
the midst of history examinations and there
has been some lively discussion as to the cor
RICHNESS of the statements made, but the chill
dren insist upon the Scharf version being Ia
taken, especially as the names Of the authors
he quotes from are given and the statements
can be easily verified
William Wagner, of Double Pipe Creek,
says the Catoctin Clarion, is suffering intense
ly and his life is in danger About ten days
ago, says the Clarion, Mr.. Wagner noticed a
spot on his right arm having the appearance
of the effects of bee sting. The arm began
10 swell and continued despite every appll-
cation of remedies until the present. 1t has
at last report ruptured the skin from the wrist
along the entire arm aud extended below the
armpit The bursted arm is black and the
opening the entire length has been described
to us as deep enough to hold at any point
three fingers of a man. His physician says
that it is erysipelas.
The Westminster Dramatic Association,
embracing some of our best local talent, is
preparing to give an entertainment for the
benefit of the Westminster Club, at Odd Eel
lows Hall on Friday night, April 10Th, at
which they will present the diverting comedy
entitled LEAP YEAR, or The LADIES PRIyI-
LEGE. This play has had unusual success In
the large cities, having run for some three
hundred nights in London and New York.
The ladies and gentlemen Of the association
are working hard to make the entertainment
a success, and they deserve the patronage OF
the community They will be assisted by the
Westminster Orchestra.
Frizellburg Items.
The Sunday school here was recognized on
Sunday last with the following officers: Pres