The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-02
SATURDAY, JANUARY ,, 1892.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

LOCAL BREVIFIES.
A Happy New Year to all, and may 1S9:
he a wear Of much prosperity.
Dnring December "a marriage Licenses
raTe issued at the Clerk Office.
Mr.. A. NJ. Strouse, of this city, had hant
b.Jy injured on Monday, by being caught il
his printing press
The law partnership existing between Col
Nm A. McKellip and H. NJ. Clabaugh, Esq.
has been dissolved.
The next Semi monthly reception of tn,
Episcopal Church at Sykesyille will be held
an the evening of January 9TH.
ssgrThe date after your name on the labe
m YOUR paper shows the time to which YOU
subscription is paid. Examine it.
The New Year was ushered in amid the
blowing of horns, the firing of guns and
pistols and the racket of fire crackers.
State Senator Bennett had the misfortune
IN sprain an ankle on Christmas day, and has
been confined to his house ever since.
The Baltimore and Reisterstown Turnpike
Company on Thursday declared a seminar
mail dividend Of two per cent. on the capital
stock.
The ladies desire all of the boys of the
BOYS Meeting to be present at Carroll
Hall on Saturday afternoon, January I'd, at
go o'clock.
John Kroh, living on the farm of George
Panebaker, near Manchester, was kicked in
the abdomen on December Goth, and was
seriously injured.
William Trout, carpenter, died at Man
CHESTER on December 10Th, after an illness
Of twenty-io hours. He leaves wife and
four small children.
The Knights of the Mystic Chain. of Har-
pey. will attend the Reformed Church at
Taneytown -Sunday-morning and
listen to a sermon by Rev. II. Ditzler, the
pastor.
The horse of Mr.. Samuel Hughes. near this
ety. ran away on Monday and threw him
from his buggy, injuring him severely. This
is the second accident of the kind to Mr..
Hughes recently.
James S. Hyatt, foreman of the Wariield
Planning Mill, at Sykesvile, had the toes OF
his right foot cut off by n circular saw while
adjusting machinery on Thursday. Dr. d.
B. Sprccker dressed the wound.
Delegates to the Maryland State Farmers
Association, will be entitled to tickets on
railroads at two cents a mile each way, BY
obtaining an order from VIM. B. Sands, DDS
East Baltimore street, Baltimore.
The Reformed congregation at Taneytown
remembered their pastor, Rev. II. Dilzler,
kindly on Christmas day. Among the gifts
presented were n very beautiful study chair,
lap robe and an envelope containing S3G. IS.
This is Leap Year and the girls
May set their caps and braid their curls,
TO catch beau;
This is the custom of the age,
Made up by some well learned sage
Long time ago.
Eighty shares of the stock of the Union
National Bank of Westminster were sold at
public sale last Monday at $50 per share. The
par value is $25. Forty shares were knocked
off to B. F. Grouse and forty to William II.
Vanderford.
On December 20 mad dog was shot by
William Gender, near Manchester. 1t was a
red Irish Setter, and was in Manchester, and
pursued out of the town. A number of dogs
were killed in and near Manchester, to avoid
probabilities of rabies.
Christmas day was foggy and damp, but
the temperature was warm. Had the skies
been clear, the weather would have been
oppressive. The range of mercury was from
G2 to 60. The day before and the day after
Christmas were rainy and disagreeable.
Beginning on Monday next large number
of postofiices throughout the country will be
money-order offices. In the list are Hamp.
stead and Linwood, in this county. Among
those established in Baltimore county are
Glyndon, Owings' Mills, Lutherville. Della
and Phoenix.
Mr. Meshach Baker, former resident of
Carroll, near Denning's, died on December
18th at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Ephraim Haines, near Gushing, Woodbury.
county, Iowa. His age was 81 years,
months and 25 days Mr.. Baker left Carroll
and went to Iowa in 1884.
Jacob Houck, eldest son of John L. Houck
at Carrollton Station, had an eye badly in
ured on Wednesday, by the explosion of q
toy cannon. A piece of iron struck him in
the eye, producing painful wound, and it is
feared his eyesight may be affected. His
mother extracted the bit of iron. and Dr.
Joseph 7. Herring was called in later
William H. Thomas, j. Milton Reifsnidei
and Albert Jones, as trustees, sold the follow
ing property of the late Samuel Il. Grove, al
Ridgeville, on Monday: LIST, two story
frame dwelling and one acre, to DIR. }. E.
Bromwell for 81, $50; I'd, two story frame
dwelling and half an acre of land, to Samue
L. Grove for $3.50; Sd, unimproved lot o
three quarters of an acre, to Robert A. Mel
son for $40.
At Littlestown on Christmas day Patrolman
Krouse. shot and killed Joseph Shade anc
wounded his brother, Frank Shade. The
Shade boys, it is charged, had raised dis
turbance, and Krouse tried to arrest Joseph,
who resisted. The crowd assaulted the officer,
who was struck at with club and finally com
PEELED to shoot in order to save himself. The
coroner's Jury found that Krouse had acted
in lEdefense. His bail was fixed by judge
Mclean at S., 900.
At meeting of farmers at the Court House
on Monday, to select five delegates to the
State Farmers Association, the following
were chosen Thomas L. Shepherd, Louis
P. Slingluff. j. Frank Shipley, Granville S
Haines and Henry Gait; alternates-Jol
Hibberd, l.. NJ. Bushey. Michael Walsh
Thomas Roop and Theodore Tracy. Thomas
+. Shepherd was chairman of the meeting
and J. Frank Shipley, secretary. The STATE
meeting will be held in Baltimore on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday, January 18th, l4tl
and 18th.
A note from Mrs. Ella NJ. Monath, livini
on College avenue, says her home, which ha
been dark and gloomy for the last eight years
was made bright and happy on Christmas eve
by a visit from kind friends, who brough
with them fresh pork, beef, sausage, pud
dings, chickens, duck, preserves, cakes, candy
oranges, apples, potatoes, celery, books, toys
dolls, &C., She is very grateful for the re
membrance. Added to this, is the fact that
her little boy, who has been afflicted from hi
birth, and extremely i'll for the past three
weeks, is improving rapidly.
The Dist annual statement of the Mutua
Fire Insurance Company of Carroll County
Nd. has Just been issued. From it we lear
that the amount of property insured in tn
company is 81, 1904 200; amount of premium
notes, $l9S, 81; interest received on premium
notes, SG,377.77; interest from invested funds
Sl,l6S. So; proceeds of sale of Northern
Central r. r. bonds, $l,172.67; borrowe'
money, S., 1925. Twenty-Five losses by hr'
and lightning, amounting to $11 BILLS, wer'
paid, but So, $50 of the losses occurred prio
to December Is, 1890. The amount of losse
reported. S59300. The losses paid were a
follows: To George A. Miller SIS, Lloyd b
Shipley $500, George W. Miller 5000, Kit
I. Barnes $500, Charles Z. Mitten $40: NJ
2: L. and D. A. Snyder $3.50, Charles +
Wolfe 1912, Joshua p. Hall S567.5O, +. 1
Shipley 1913; Levi T. Lee 1880, A; n
forney 1885, James W. Loekard $50 Jon
K. Rouzer 81 ,077. 25, John B. Nichols S6S0