Milford chronicle., 1895-05-31
FREDERICK.

Thursday evening lof last week, was the
finest and most Interesting leotureever given
in this town. Chaplain McCabe held the
undivided attention of his audience for two
hours and his remarks ELECTED rounds of
applause. From beginning TO end the lee
ture was one Of patriotic sentiment, inter
mingled with pathos, wit and hunor, as
he spoke of scenes familiar to old veterans
and students of history, a silent prayer of
thanksgiving was offered that the 'boys
in blue" and the boys in gray" were re-
united in one, unbroken family. He called
forth tears or SMILES at pleasure as he pic
tured pathetic or humorous incidents of his
prison life. But it was his implicit trust in
Christ that made lifein that miserable place
one Of brightness, in the darkest hour of
the nation. AT the conclusion of the lee
ture he rendered two selections of song in a
delightful manner. the audience joining in
the chorus of the last one. After the lecture
the chaplain was greeted by many friends
and admirers and although his lecture is
thirty years old with some changes it will
ever be new and interesting to the patriotic
citizens of America
The Frederick bah team was invited to
play in Harrington Decoration Day. but
declined the invitation, prefering to haze a
game at home that day
W. H. Patterson,S. R. Ennis,L. F Cub
babe, and H. Marvel will decorate the
soldiers graves at Postles' farm and Bar
rats Chapel.
Bauett's Chapel cemetery presents a
beautiful sight after Decoration Day" as
notonlyt the soldiers graves are trimmed with
beautiful flowers, but the many loved ones
sleeping there are remembered and sweet
blossoms mark their resting place. 1t is
beautiful custom to thus annually strew the
graves of the dead with flowers and one
we trust that will ever continue with US
The festival held at Banatts Chapel Fri.
day and Saturday evenings was quite
success A large crowd was present Fri
day evening but owing to the rain Satur.
day evening the attendance was not so
large.
The first Quarterly Meeting of the Con-
ference year was held here Sunday Morn
ing, Presiding Elder Adams preached an
eloquent sermon in the morning and the
Rev. H c. Turner an unusually fine one
in the evening.
The Epworth League gave the Presiding
Elder and official board reception last
Monday evening. The board and Mr..
Adams were introduced Individually to the
members of the League and a Methodist
hand shake followed The exeercises were
opened by singing and prayer led by Rev.
H c. Turner The address of welcome
was prepared by Benson Hardesty who
was unable to be PRESENT. was read by Mr.
Mallory Foulk Mr. c. j. Smlthers on
behalf OF the official board responded in a
manner. The Epworth League
battle song Look up, Lift up" was Sung,
led by Mr. A w. Carrow, after which an
address was made by Presiding Elder
Adams An intermission of fifteen minutes
was allowed for social intercourse. Cake
and ice cream were served, Singing closed
the exercises
While two young children of
Mr.. Harry Steiner were playing in the
yard on Monday last Lizzie cut off her
little brothers. finger with a Ratchet All
the physicians were out of town, so that the
service of Mr. Henry Foster, a shoe maker
and tooth puller, were required to fix the
wound up. He placed the severed finger
pack in its place and at this writing the
,hild is doing comparatively well,
One of our citizens, who is a great fox
hunter, was lamenting the supposed death
If an old but valuable fox hound few
lays ago. He had for a number of years
1een accustomed to hearing his musical 1
totes as he chased the willy fox across fields
md through glades, andhe wished to have 6
he dog body so as to give it decent burial {
For three days he grieved and morned and :.
probably shed tears, when he had occasion
o unlock his carriage house, and 10 there
vas Romus as well and as happy as of I
Jore, as big as life and twice as naturalonly t
lis appetite was a little keen as for three u
lays he had tasted in his prison retreat.
Nothing was now too good for him to eat
md the repast spread before him was cal
.ulated to tempt him to manage to be
,ften locked up. Mr. - is happy and
eioiced indeed at the happy ending of his
,ref, his fears, his tears. Romus is even
more loved than before, and he will now l
robably "die in the harness" y
The ball players from your town Of Mil il
ord came up to Frederica on Saturday :
asst and gave our team a good lesson in
he art of playing the great American game. +
'wo of the crack PLAYERS of the old CAM
en- team PLAYED with Milford, however. {
'errv covering first bag and Radcliff, COW /
ring third The first inning, with Milford j
t the bat, one run was secured. Frederick =
anne in and it looked like an easy vic I
)ry for our home club, as they made three a
ms this, the first inning, none of which II
'ere earned, but all on errors, indirectly n
ttributed to Radcliff, who threw the ball :,
Ike bullet away over Terry's head at r
rst, when two runs came home A good y
ROW here would have retired the side, but
lese two runs and another before the side
as out gave Frederick the lead by a score
three to one From this time on the
sitting team kept steadily piling up runs
It'll at the end of the ninth inning they
ID circed the bases an even dozen times
ID not another Frederick man was able
get beyond third. Notwithstanding the
ference in the score the game was an in
-esting one from the second to the sew
tn innings The home team will do bet
next time. They can and do play good