The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-30
ocAL AFFAIRS


ted |ts pension by the Pension Office.
r,lIector Shaw has appointed Elias N.
MI. of Woolery's district, a laborer in the
'asiOm House.
aI,rk." the well known dog of Mr.. Chas.
Horper, Webster street, died on Thursday,
The age of 10 years.
Tho degree of LII. D. has been conferred
an Judge James Revell, of this circuit, by
Johns College, Annapolis.
Father Sargent has been elected Superior
The Order of the Holy Cross. The cleo
5,r was held on the 10th of June.
Mr. Chas. C. Gorsuch, of Westminster. is
reparing to have new stable built 90 by
let. Harry Case will do the work.
postoffice has been established at Deep
gan. about two and three-quarter miles from
i'nion Mills, with D. j. W. Earhart post
Mr. ]. Oliver Wadlow, of Freedom, has
b.sn appointed one of the board of managers
4 tbe new insane asylum, provided for by
h. recent Legislature.
The Baltimore and Reisterstown Turnpike
Company have declared semi annual divi-
Ind of q per cent, clear of city and county
t.Ies payable after July II.
The Carroll County Reed Band will give
N Open air concert at Earhart's store, Deep
Ran, about two and three-quarter miles from
rDion Mills, Saturday night June 80.
Mr.. Henry Pool, the famous gardener of
Westminster, showed us gooseberry which
assured 81 inches around. From one bush
+ sold "a quarts, at 10 cents quart.
By the will of Miss Emma Jones, who died
Isoe Is, Rev. Peregrine Wroth, rector OF
he Church of the Messiah, Baltimore, and
bnther Of the Misses Wroth, of Winchester
Place, is bequeathed $500.
Auuilla Magee, former gate keeper on the
Baltimore and Reisterstown turnpike at the
lover Westminster gate, has been appointed
srever of the Baltimore gate, and removed
here this week. He has been succeeded by
henry Franck.
Burnett Painter, the colored youth charged
Jiih attempting felonious assault on Bertha
banner, aged years, near Avondale, had
hearing before Justice Moore on Monday,
md was committed to Jail to await the action
dlhe grand jury in default Of $500 bail.
Mr.. John Bernstein, of Westminster, left
al the ADVOCATE office on Monday, Jane %,
Ashluplt VI NOiuC potoSpSo aSioSN
ia his garden They were planted the last
seek in March. One weighed ounces and
The other 6, and both were beautiful in shape.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Clabaugh will go to
their country-seat for the summer, and have
placed their house here at the disposal of the
All Saints Sisters of the Poor during their
sbsence The house has been gratefully
accepted, and some of the Sisters will be here
all summer.
From July LIST the salary OF the postmaster
al Westminster will be $1,000, instead of
$500, as at present. The salary is fixed by
the receipts, and the receipts this year have
iaIlen off several hundred dollars, TO So, $751;
a. The salary will be the same as 1t was
when Postmaster Sharrer took it four years
and three months ago.
Nelson Brown, colored, while working on
The race track being constructed. on the Hoppe
arm, two miles from this city, lew days
$50 dug up a Spanish silver coin bearing
date 1881. 1t is therefore ll3 years old.
The coins largely circulated in this country
before the late war, and were worth l25
cents They were commonly called leVies.
Francis Yingling, of Pleasant Valley, who
is taking a classical course at st. Charles
College, near Ellicott City, preparatory to
Studying theology, this year took trst pre-
MUM, er gg,lo in class of fifty fouT, for
christian doctrine; second premium IN elocu,
lion, in Il class of twenty-six, and received
honorable mention in French and Geometry.
The Jubilee Reunion of Ascension Parish,
Westminster, will be held on Sunday, July
18th, and during the week following. The
two sermons on Sunday will be by visiting
elergymen. On Tuesday. which will be
Reunion Day, there will be an grafton by
Hon. VIM. P. Maulsby, one of the founders
of the Parish, to be followed by an informal
tea at the rectory.
Hicks says that on and next to the I'd and
Sd of July the weather will be very warm,
until it ends in storms OF lightning, ram anu
hail, with tornadoes not improbable Inc
7th to llth is u period in which all CLOUDS o.
any magnitude should be watched; nan WIN
much thunder and cloud bursts prooaole'
This will be followed by sudden change 10
very cool weather.
The Westminster branch of the Flower
Mission will begin its work for the summer
next Thursday, July 5th, at the rooms over
The store of Mr.. Babylon, the former place,
near railroad. 1t earnestly hoped the ladies
who have before given their assistance viii
do so again, and new members are solicited.
can be left between the hours
Of and o'clock.
The consumption of the ice of the lee and
Cold Storage Company is increasing daily
The wagons now deliver about four times as
much as they did in the beginning, and or
he LIST of July there will be a very con
adorable increase in regular takers. Man,
persons, who are not regular takers, send
iirect to the factory for it, and the retail sale
here are considerable.
A festival for the benefit of the Westmin
ter Fire Department opened on Monday
night at their building and will close tonight
On Monday evening the Department, headed
by the Westminster Band, paraded the city
Both floors are taken up with tables, aud thu
rooms are tastefuly ornamented. One o
the attractions is nightly performance by !
colored minstrel troupe.
A letter to the ADVOCATE from Rev. Nj. Z
Elliott, of Parkersburg, W. Va, formerly
Of Westminster, says that the corner stone
bis new church was laid on June 4, and amonI
the deposits in the box in it vas copy OF tn
ADVOCATE. Rev. w. NJ. Strayer spent Tues
day of this week with him, on his return iron
a church dedication al Spencer, w. Va, AM
Mrs. Elliott will visit her father, Mr.. VIM
A. Wampler, this city, next month.
Sixty bonds of the corporation OF fancy
town, issued under an act of the Leglslatnr'
Of 1894, approved by vote Of a majority
the qualified voters of the municipality. haV'
been sold by the burgess and commissioner
Of that town. The par value Is 500 ana TN
rate Of interest per cent. The bonds ar
payable in 80 years and redeemahie az an
lime after 10 years from the date OF th ed
issue. The price realized was$lOS to Slo4' ~
On Friday night of last week horse Te. pc :
longing to Mr.. Chas T. Repp, OF New WIND
sOr, had on a monster appetite, Inc ANNA
had an attack of lockjaw The week previous
during which an awful vacancy occurred = ~
ternally. He improved slowly, ana on Fl.
day night his appetite was at its best. uel
ting loose in the stable he found the corn
and in the morning the cobs found indica:e
that he had eaten 95 ears. bis digesuss
apparatus was equal to the occasion, anu
appeared happy and well after bus Dig mea
Cashier Cunningham of the Farmers an
Mechanics Bank having some BUSINESS
Baltimore on Thursday, mounted hls Dls5c 4
and rode down. He left the bank al III, IL z
P. m. and struck rapid gait at once. "ns
be got to Reisterstown he found be haa mau
aagood run, and as the pike was IN gooa 20.
dition, from Reisterstown to the PARK gal
he quickened the pace, and arrived tnels