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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
Business Revival.

The press is noting a revival in business in
all lines. We have no doubt that there has
been considerable improvement, and that
the activity in the dry goods trade exceeds
that of two years ago, at this season, when 1t
was said to have been the most active year
the trade has ever known; we do not doubt
that the shoe trade has picked up, and that
night work in all lines has to be done SO as
to keep up with orders and avoid blockade
in shipping departments. But we have always
been skeptical on the hard times cry and
great depression in trade that the press has
been harping on for the past two years. The
depression has been nothing to compare with
the newspaper reports on the subject. Delay
in passing tariff bill delayed orders in some
lines, and its passage has no doubt quickened
and enlarged demands. But business has
been fairly active as usual everywhere. Last
year there was a stock panic and a few man.
ufacturers did what they could, by shutting
down, to add to the general opinion that the
country was going through great financial and
business throes and to the demnition bow
vows on account of the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land.
The farmers have not gotten as much for
their wheat as they did in previous years, but
prices of other products have about made up
the deficiency. The merchant, wholesale
and RETAIL has done about as much business
as usual. The volume of trade everywhere,
we have no doubt, has been as great last year
and this, as in other years. In same lines
sales have been greater, because population
has steadily increased.
We are no worse off and no better off in
this section than are the people generally.
Trade here is as good as it usually is. Crops
have been about the average and trade the
same. Look about Westminster,-an ice
factory has been built, an electric light plant
is being put up, trotting and pleasure park
has been constructed, some new houses have
been erected and others enlarged and i'm
proved, streets have been paved and graded.
and about $50, 900 have been subscribed IN
the town to build another railroad. Our
merchants and business men have done about
the usual amount oftrade, and we have talked
as much about hard times other communi-
ties. We have absolutely believed times were
hard, and yet evidences on all sides dsproved
it,
In Baltimore there has been no appreciable
depression in business. and none in Philadel-
phia, and along the railroads everywhere you
travel evidences of improvement and progress
are apparent. The hard times the country
has experienced the past two years has ex-
listed mainly in the press, and it is quite en-
coaraging to see that the press is reviving bust
ness aud that it is creating greater activity IN
the dry goods and some other lines than has
been known for some years. 1.-THE good work
it has begun is continued we all may not get
rich, but certainly we will all get to talking of
good times and imagine that we are very
prosperous. Let the press continue, and give
us daily reports of revival in trade- 1t is
pleasant reading.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
The Rise in the Price of Wool.

From the New York Evening Post
We are already beginning to see that free
wool is going to do for wooden manufacturers
in this country what free raw silk has done
for the silk manufacture and free hides for
the boot and shoe industry. The wooden
manufacturers are preparing for better bus
mess than they have known in years, and are
already setting up machinery for weaving
grades of cloth which never before could be
made in this country on account OF the pro-
hibitory duties on the wool necessary to make
them. At the same time, the price OF Amer
lean wool is advancing-it has gone up some
thing like 80 per cent. within the last sixty
days This is the simple business fact which
is too much for the arithmetic of those who
dwell in the shadow of Mckinley and Tom
Reed. The latter's Portland organ does not
deny that the price of American wool is ad-
yancing but asks how that fact can be recon-
ciled with the law Of demand and supply
Bless the innocent hearts OF these theorists,
don't they know that American wool has not
been treated all these years as part OF the
supply at all 1t has been regarded as a
sort of national fetch, to be baled up tenderly
and spoken of only with patriotic quaver IN
the voice, and kept from defiling contact with
foreign wool, but as component part OF a
manufactured product it has not been consid-
cred at all. But at last the WOODEN manufac-
turers have a tariff which is actually going to
enable them to make wooden goods, and the
demand for raw material at once springs up
and the price of wool advances all over the
world The Ohio wool.growers are likely to
put ugIier questions than ever to Mckinley
this fall. 1t will take all the resources OF his
giant intellect to explain to them how 1t is
that, while his increased duties knocked down
the price of wool, free wool instantly means
money in their rockets.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
Cheaper Clothes and Higher Wool
From INC Kew York World.

FROM inc new IOrk Murtu.
Free wool will make cheaper clothes, ben
efting all the people, and will increase the
price of domestic wool, bene6ting the farmer.
This may seem to be paradoxical; it is not.
Under our old time free wool policy focks
increased in numbers and the price of wool
was maintained because there was demand
for wool. Foreign woods are needed for adj
mixture with our own woods in this country,
and when their importation is diminished by
tariff duty the demand for American woods
necessarily falls off. Under high protection
on woods hoeks of sheep have diminished and
prices for wool have gone down. Already
the price of domestic wool has increased in
this country since the passage of the Senate
bill. A month ago American woods sold IN
New York and Boston for from 10 to "a cents
pound, according to quality. Since then
the demand has increased, and the prices now
range from % cents to 81 cents.
Clothes will be cheaper because the tax on
imported cloth and clothing has been reduced.
As wool is free, the old compensatory duty is
abolished. Under the Mckinley law the rate
of duty on cheap wooden cloth was from 100
to 1853 per cent, and on dearer cloth was
from SO to 80 per cent. Under the new bill
it is from 35to so per cent. The duty on knit
goods was from 80 to 100 per cent 1t is now
from So to so per cent. The tax on blankets
was so to 104 per cent. 1t now viii range
from 25 to 40 On fannels the rate was from
IS to l04. tits now from % to so. Women's
dress paid from 81 to 100, cloaks 81 per cent,
and ready. made clothing 80 per cent. All
these will pay so per cent. Carpets paid
from 81 to SO per cent. They nov pay from
30 to AL.
We have been considering WOODEN cloth
worthy of the name. Cheap wooden cloths
are not unknown in this country, but cheap
all wool cloths are not made here. As the
manufacturers could not buy the foreign
woods needed for making cheap clothes, they
were obliged to resort to shoddy and other
substitutes for wool. The consequence is, as
statistics show, that the average American
WOODEN cloth is about half shoddy. More
over, the shoddy business has grown as the
business of raising wool has decreased under
the high protective system. Americans who
have wanted good and durable clothes have
been obliged to buy imported cloth and pay
the tax. There is no reason why honest,
cheap woolens may not be made in this coun-
try with free wool.
In 1893 our wooden goods and carpet man
ufacturers paid tax of $S,l47, 220 on their
raw material. This will be saved 20 them
and the consumer hereafter. In the same
year the consumers of wooden goods and car
pets paid tax of $36, 451, 551. Certainly
one half of this will be saved under the new
bill.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
A Nine-Ounce Baby.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept 7.-George From. an
employee of the Crescent City Railroad Com
pany, is the father of perhaps the smallest
living baby in the world. The child is a boy
perfect in form, with regular features. Its
weight is about nine ounces. From the crown
of its tiny head to the soles of its feet is about
ten inches Its arms are not larger than a
man thumb and its legs in proportion. The
child is in the best of health, and its mother
SAYS can cry as vigorously as other babies,
Mr.. From, the father, is As years OF age
weighing 175 pounds, and is hale and d. hearty
The mother is "A and weighs l25. The eou.
ple have had seventeen children, two OF whom
besides the baby are hlliputians. One OF
them is Frank, l6 years of age, weight 40
pounds, who is with circus company. The
other is a younster of II, who is with his par
ents here, and weighs a little over fifteen
pounds.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
Another General Strike.

MONTREAL, Sept. General Secretary
John w. HAYES of the Knights of Labor, who
has been in Montreal for several days, has
left for home. Mr.. Hayes, during an inter.
view this evening. stated that there would be
another strike, which he belived would be the
last one that would take place in the United
States for long time. Every labor organ
zation in the United States, he declared,
would stop work at the same hour, and block
the wheels of production to such an extent
that the demands of labor would have to be
complied with. He could not say when the
strike would take place, but preparations had
already commenced for it. The strike, he
said, would extend to Canada.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15

The Republicans carried Maine on Monday
by larger majority than usual. Always re-
liable for that party special efforts were made
this year. Mckinley, Senator Lodge and
other orators were imported to help along the
cause, and money was sent into the state to
roll up big majority for effect on the No
yember elections. The job was over done.
The extraordinary efforts were too apparent
to effect voters elsewhere, especially as the
Democrats made no effort, preferring TO use
their forces in some more promising field than
Maine
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15

The Republicans are trying to make light
of the detection of Senator Jones of Nevada,
who last week announced himself Populist
The chief reason for his change from the BE-
publican to the Populist party, and in fact
his only one, is the silver question. On this
issue the Republicans have lost some six or
eight Senators, and the Democrats will lose
some if they do not take up the question and
meet the demand of the South and West for
more money. The people want bimettalsm,
and they will have it, under one party or
another.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Is. 1894.
Attention, Democrats.

Pursuant to the action of the Democratic
Central Committee of Carroll county, notice
is hereby given that primary meetings will b.
held at the usual places, in the respective dis
tricts OF the county, on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1894,
for the purpose of choosing delegates to I
County Convention 10 be held in Westminster
on
a.s MONDAY, SEPTEMBER "a.
which convention will select five delegates u
represent the county in the Second Congress
sional District Convention to be held at Tow
son. on Tuesday, October I'd, to nominate i
candidate for Representative in the Fifty
fourth Congress.
The hours for the primaries in the various
districts will be as follows:
Taneytown, district, from to p. M.
Uniontown district, from TO G p. M.
Myers district, from to Sp. m.
Woolery's district, from 2 to p. m.
Freedom district, from to p. m.
Manchester district, from to G p. m.
Westminster district, from 4 to 5 p. M.
Hampstead district, from to p. m.
Franklin district, from to p. IN.
Middeburg district, from to p. m.
New Windsor district, from to p. m.
Union Bridge district, from 6 to p. m.
Mount Airy district. from to p. m.
- ROBERT SELLMAN, Chairman,
Is JAMES H. KooEs, Secretary.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15

Democratic headquarters were opened at
the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, this week,
and the new Chairman, Mr.. Hattersly W..
Talbot, will take charge of the campaign.
He has appointed Spencer Watkins, OF Mont
gomery secretary of the State Central Com
mitiee, and an Executive Committee has been
chosen. As soon as the nominees are all
chosen they will be invited to conference
with the Executive Committee and an active
campaign be mapped out.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15

Two more persons were killed by electric
cars in Baltimore the past week The won
der is that two are not killed every day.
About 200, 600 persons get off and 90 the cars
there daily, and on some narrow streets there
are double lines and frequent cars, that the
public opinion demands shall mo}s rapidly.
Even with rapid transit, many people get oil
and on before car stops, so great IL the de-
sire 10 keep up with the rush.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
The Fires win Make Work for
Many.

From the St Paul Daily Globe.
What is the probable loss from the lire on
nine slumpage throughout the Stateg'' was
asked Of 4 leading logger.
1.-THE loss is in one sense nominal re,
ulied he. "You understand, fire does not
burn the body of pine tree; i only burns on
The bark and foliage. The trunk ofthe burned
tree is as good as ever il was, with this ex.
ception., The tree, after it is burned must
~ snt he suceeedine winter, else it will be-
come worm eaten and worthless.
ssThis fire is blessing in disguise to labor.
Every owner of burned pine stumpage must
90 ID work this coming winter and cut every
foot OF Il. and many Of these owners are forced
TO cut perhaps hundreds Of millions OF feet OF
stun page they would not otherwise have cut
ioT wears to come. They are, you see, forced
10 employ immense crews OF men they would
moi otherwise have had use for
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
Ladies' and Gents Furnish
ings.

Lot Corsets, positively the same as
the R. & g., sold anywhere at roc,
this week at. ............................ QUO
doz. Ladies' and Misses Corsets,
one of the wonders cf this season,
at-.....-............ .................-'..'. zoe
% doz. Ladies' Handkerchiefs, en-
broldered, worth 12ac, this week.. &c
10 doz Samples of Windsor Ties,
extra width and length, plain col
ors, plaids, checks and stripes,
worth 25c to 35c, this week......... l5c
doz Mems White Laundried
Shirts, fine linen bosoms, Dwight
Anchor Muslin, cheap at $l.00,
this week ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. CSC
20 doz Ladies' Vests and Pants, for
Fall and Winter wear, positively
sold before at Soc, as great bar
gain, thrown in this week at........ soc
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
TO CREDITORS.

IN
This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters of adj
ministration on the Personal Estate of
WILLIAM P. GORSUCH,
late of Carroll county, deceased All persons
having claims against the deceased are warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof
legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or
before the 8th day of April, 1896; they
may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 9th day of
August, 1894.
ROBERT 7. DEVRIES,
sept8 At Administrator.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
TO CREDITORS.

This is to give notice that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court OF
Carroll county, in Maryland, letters tesla
mentary ON the Personal Estate of
PETER KUMP,
sons sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated, to the
subscriber, on or before the sth day of
April, 1896; they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 3D. day of
September, 1894.
JOSIAH KUMP,
sept8 At Executor.
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DATIFIcATIoN NOTICE.

IL
In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
AUGUST TERM, 1894.
Estate of Michael Wilson, deceased.
On application it is 'ered this 4th day of
September, 1894, that the sale of the Real
Estate of Michael Wilson, late of Carroll
county, deceased made by Jno. f. B. Weaver,
executor of the last will and testament of said
deceased, and this day reported to this Court
by the said executor, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause be shown to the contrary on or
before the I'd Monday, 9Th day, of October,
next; provided a copy of this order be inserted
for three successive weeks in some newspaper
printed and published in Carroll county,
before the LIST Monday, LIST day, of October,
next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.O0.)
DAVID H. H0FFACKER,
LEWIS CASH, Judges.
ALBERT SCHAEFFER, } ~
True Copy,-Test:
GEO. NJ. PARKE,
sept8 st Register of Wills.
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MO. 3ls2 EQUITY.

"
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County, sitting
in Equity.
Clarence A. Heffenger, VS.. Michael NJ. Chron-
lister, ct. al.
Ordered this 9th day of September, A. d.,
1894. that the sale of the real estate made and
reported in the above entitled cause by Chas.
T. Reifsnder and Chas. E. Fink, Trustees,
be finally ratified and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary be shown on or before the
sth day of October, next; provided copy
of this order be inserted once week for
three successive weeks in some newspaper
published in Carroll county, before the first
day of October, 1894.
The report states the amount of sale to be
BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk
True Copy,-Test:
septS At BENZ. F. GROUSE, CLERK.
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MO. ss4e EQUITY.

MO. s24s EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll county.
Lewis w. Caple, Mortgage, VS.. Samuel S.
Belt, Mortgagor.
Ordered this 9th day of September. 1894,
that the sale of the property mentioned in
these proceedings, made and reported by
Lewis w. Caple, Mortgage, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof
be shown on or before the Sth day of October,
next; provided copy of this order be inserted
in some newspaper printed in Carroll county
once III each Of three successive weeks before
the LIST day of October, next.
The report states the amount of sales to be
s BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk
True Copy,-Test:
septS4t BENZ. F. GROUSE. Clerk.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15
NO. 1859 EQUITY.

In
In the Circuit Court for. Carroll County, sit
ting as a Court of Equity.
Annie Z. Donahoe and husband and others,
Plaintiffs, VS.. Joseph A. Shorb, Defendant
Ordered this 18th day Of September, A. D.,
1894, that the sales of the property-real
estate-mentioned in these proceedings,
made and reported by William II. Thomas,
Trustee, be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown ON or
before the 9Th day OF October, next; pro.
vided copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper printed and published in
Carroll county once in each Of three success.
i've weeks before the lst day Of October, 1894.
The report states the amount of sales to be
BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk.
True Copy, Test:
septS At BENZ. F.. GROUSE, Clerk.
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SPECIAL.

Now we will call your attention in regard
to Fall and Winter Dress Goods, Ladies' ,
Misses and Children's Cloaks, Ladies' Men $
and Children's Underwear. Blankets and
Comforts. White, Red and Blue Flannels, in
fact everything in our line, with the assnr-
ance that by giving us your patronage we will
save you at least 25% on every article yon
may call for.
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IN the circuit court for carrol o0.

I'm the Circuit Court for Carroll Co.
NO. 1851 EQUITY.
James A. C. Bond, Plaintiff, versus Mary f,
Shauek and others, defendants.
Ordered this 4th day of September, A. d.,
1894, that the sale of the property mentioned
in these proceedings, made and reported by
James A. G. Bond, Trustee in the above emit
tied cause, be finally ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 9Th day of October, next;
provided copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper printed in Carroll county
once in each of three successive weeks before
the LIST day Of October, next.
The report states the amount Of sales to be
100000.
True Copy.-Test:
septs At BENZ. F. GROUSE, Clerk.
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IN the Circuit Court for Carroll Co.

NO. s184 EQUITY
Richard Fl. Gill, Plaintiff, versus Daniel p.
Shearer, Administrator, ct. al, Defendants
Ordered this 9Th day Of September. A. D.,
1894. that the sale Of the property mentioned
in these proceedings, made and reported by
Jas. A. c. Bond, Trustee, be ratified and con-
irmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before The 8th day of October,
next; provided copy of this order be in
serted in some newspaper printed in Carroll
county, once in each ofthree successive weeks
before the lst day Of October, next.
The report states the amount Of sales to be
$4,000.
BENZ. +. GROUSE, Clerk.
True Copy, TEST
sept8 At BENs. f. CR0usE, Clerk.
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RATIFICATION NOTICE.
In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
AUGUST TERM, 1894.

~
In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
AUGUST TERM, 1894.
Estate of Henry Sprinkle, deceased.
On application it is ordered this 4th day OF
September. 1894, that the sale of the Real
Estate of Henry Sprinkle, late of Carroll
county, deceased, made by Chas. W. Sprinkle,
executor of the last will and testament of said
deceased, and this day reported to this Court
by the said executor, be ratified and con-
firmed, unless cause be shown to the contrary
on or before the I'd Monday, Sth day, of 0cto-
Der, next; provided a copy of this order be
inserted for three successive weeks in some
newspaper printed and published in Carroll
county, before the LIST Monday, LIST day, of
October, next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
$S42. so.
DAVID H. HOFFACKER,
LEWIS CASH, Judges.
ALBERT SCHAEFFER,
True Copy,-Test:
GEO. NJ. PARKE,
septS 3t Register of Wills.
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A Car Sues a Railway Company

From the Baltimore Sun.
Suit against the Columbia Railway Com
many has been entered for $40, 600 for injuries
to Mrs. Salie NJ. Crown by one of the cars o.
that company.
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THE CITY HOTEL,
Westminster, Md.

VIII be opened today, SATURDAY, SEP.
TENDER LIST, for the accommodation of
transient and permanent guests. New Furni-
ture, Electric Bells in each room, large airy
parlors, in fact everything necessary for the
comfort of guests.
sepl st C. VAN, Proprietor.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-09-15

william Camp. whose parents are said to reside
in London, England, was murdered by highway
robbers at Chicago early Sunday morning
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A PPLICATIoN FOR LIQUOR
N LICENSE.

WESTMINSTER, Nd, Aug. 81, 1894.
| hereby give notice that the following
person has fled an application in the Office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
county for Liquor License, to wit:
TO KEEP A HOTEL OR ORDINARY.
Charles Van, City Hotel, Westminster, Md.
And unless cause to THE contrary be shown
in writing on or before the 18th day of Sept.
next, the license applied for will be
issued, provided the said applicant complies
with the requirements of Chapter -, Acts
of 1894, requisite thereto.
BENZ. f. GROUSE,
Clerk of the Circuit Courtfor Carroll County.
sept1 st