The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-01-13

The firm of N. |. Gorsuch & Son, West.
minister, on Wednesday received 400 bushels
of wheat.
j. h. Welsh, of Freedom, and Geo. w.
Lamotte, of Hampstead, have secured an.
pointments under the Legislature at Anna
polls.
One OF the tranps sentenced to hard labor
made his escape Thursday, during the heavy
fog. Deputy Sheriff Swartzbaugh recaptured
him during the day, as the tramp was on his
way toward Baltimore. There are fourteen
tramps at work now
The first of the lectures in the mid.winter
Friday evening course at Western MARYLAND
College was delivered on the 9Th instant by
President Lewis. His subject was japan.
and his interesting lecture was well illustrated
with the stereoptcon.
The free prizes offered by W. I. Wilson
were drawn as follows: Doll, by Theodore
Logue, ticket number 293; drum, by John
Roger, ticket 125; vases, by Jonas Yingling,
ticket S44; bowl and pitcher, by William L.
Haines, ticket 591; lamp, by Joseph Helwig,
ticket 5l6
The lectures at the Sunday evening services
at Western Maryland College will be given
this year by various visiting ministers Of the
Maryland Annual Conference The preacher
on the 9TH instant was Rev. A. W. Mather, of
Marion, Nd, and the preacher for the 10th
instant is Rev. w. r. Graham, of George
town, d. c.
Mr.. Samuel Beck, near Linwood, is in bad
health and will relinquish farming in the
spring. lie has purchased some property
from Mr.. Edward Lynch, of Westminster, in
the suburbs of Waynesboro, Pa, and will
move there on the LIST of April. His many
fro 10 70 L. 4 l. al.
and that he proposes to leave Carroll.
Mrs. Jane G. Edwards died in Washing
ton, D. c., on Tuesday, December Goth, at
the residence of her brother, Henry Lock
wood. Mrs. Edwards was a very estimable
lady and prominent member of the NJ. E.
Church. She spent last summer in West
minister with her son, H. A. Edwards, and
made many warm friends in the community
She was in her 10th year.
The County Commissioners on Monday last
appointed E. Benton Ham, of Hampstead
district, Steward Of the Aims House for one
year from March l, 1894, at a salary of $780,
The Board reserves the right to revoke thu
appointment at any time, for cause. The
Board also granted special pension of S.. co
to William Ward, of Woolery's district, in
addition to what has been previously granted
him.
Cardinal Gibbons has appointed Rev. N.
A. Femme present chaplain of Notre Dame
Convent, and former pastor of St. John S
Roman Catholic Church, Westminster, TO be
successor of Rev. Dwight E. Lyman at ST.
Mary's Church, Govanstown. Mr.. Femme
will enter upon the discharge of the duties of
his new charge today. He is forty one years
old, and has been in the priesthood seven
teen years, having been ordained by Bishop
Becker, in Baltimore, in 1876.
Rev. Alexander Bateman preached the
opening sermon in the Lutheran Church,
Taneytown, Sunday evening, January It'll, on
the "Pentecostal Power In the course of
his remarks he said that the Holy Spirit does
three things: 1st He ''purifes." I'd. He
gives Eight" Sd. He is the element OF
''life,'' just as fire does these things, drawing
his remarks to close by speaking of the ne
cessity of an outpouring of the Spirit on the
work Christians have to do. Unless the fire
Of the Holy Ghost falls, our work will be cold
ami dead and lifeIess. The church may have
her officers, pastors, &c, and may be sound
in doctrine, but if the Spirit is not poured out
the work cannot prosper His text was Acts
ch. .: VI. ,, 3, f.