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Weather record for the week.

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26 at ? p. M; clear. December 26-mercury
"a at a. m. and SO at 2 p. M; cloudy.
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at p. M; cloudy, followed by clear weather.
December 28-mercury IL at a. M. and 30
at ? p. M; clear. December 29-mercury
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Der 3o-mercury 81 at a. m. and Al at p.
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Pleasant Valley Items.

The Sunday school had their Christmas
festival on Christmas night The program
consisted Of dialogues and recitations. They
were very suitable foF the occasion and well
rendered. The singing was under the direc-
ton of N H. Banker. aud the orchestra con-
sisted of Harry Wareiime cornet; Louis D..
Wuntz. baritone; Robert Bankert, violin; Ed.
Zepp, organist. About 240 scholars and
officers were present.
Some ice houses have been filed with ice
from six to eight inches thick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Myers visited Mrs. My
ers parents in Lancaster county, Pa, recent
". Mrs. Myers father was i'll and died du-
ring their visit. He was nearly 80 years Of
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-02

In Baltimore Nd. on December q, 1896, Leonora
Amanda Kopp aged % years, daughter of the late
Alfred and Amanda Kopp. Funeral was held at
Manchester, Carroll county, Nd. on Wednesday,
December 80. ~,
On December %, 1886, after short Illness, Elsie
N aged l6 years and months youngest daughter
of the late John A. Brown. of Uniontown, Nj. In
tered at Methodist Protestant cemetery, Union
town. - 80.
Near New Windsor, Nd, on December q, 1896
Isaac Brilliant, aged 43 years and . days
In East Orange, n. j., on December -, 1880, AT
the residence Of her daughter. Mrs. William A.
oliver Eleanor P Gist in the sst year OF her age,
widow of the late Joseph Gist. Inferred ~ fatons
Vile Nd, on Thursday.
At sykesville Nd, ON December al, 1876, MSs
Margaret s. Owfngs, widow of the late Dr. u d.
Owipgs Funeral will take place on this Saturday,
January q at 10 a. m, at St. Joseph's Catholic
Church.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-02

Mr. Levi Hull, on Monday last, while as
sisting at a steam saw mill at Mayberry, met
with severe accident. The belt broke, a
part striking him in the left eye. The lower
lid was cut off aud the upper split. The eye
ball was injured also. DR.. c. W. Weaver, Of
Taneytown, his physician, thinks he will lose
the sight of the eye.
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Another correspondent writes /:

Another correspondent writes:
For fear the fact may be overlooked that
St. Paul's Lutheran Church really exists in
Uniontown, we want to mention few things
which have taken place under Its manage
ment lately.
In the first place, the sermon on Thanks
giving Day in the NJ. P. Church, by Rev. G..
". Baughman, was one of the best Thanks
giving sermons ever delivered in the town.
The drama-"Cricket ON the Hearth, by
the young people of the church, in the public
school house on Thanksgiving night was pro-
nounced by visitors from Washington, Balti-
more, Gettysburg aud Taneytown, as well as
competent persons around home, "Just as
good as it could be-" Besides affording a
most enjoyable evening to the large audience,
under the able management of Mr.. +. u.
Cover, the handsome sum of S45 was Melted
for the lighting of the church, DC. Those
who took part we're Messrs. E. G. Cover, n.
R. Eckard, W. Sittig, A. Sittig and Roy
Singer; Misses Belle Cover, Maggie Cover,
Bette Cover, Miss Florence Weaver and Miss
NJ. Sittig, of Uniontownj Miss Thomas, OF
Washington, D. c., and Miss Anna Motter,
of Taneytown. The parts were all performed
so we'll, it seemed each one was designed for
his or her particular part.
A very fair audience was present at the
Lutheran Church on Christmas Eve. This
entertainment differed from most others as
the 'EInfant Glass, y under the superintendent
of Miss Florence Weaver, took the prominent
part. As their little songs and recitatons
could be heard so distinctly, they reflected
great credit on themselves as well as their
teacher. The choir, with Miss Belle Cover
as organist, gave us the brightest music we
have heard anywhere for sometime.
A surprise awaited US on last Sabbath
morning when Rev. Baughman gave Us to
understand we we were to listen to one Of our
former Sabbath school boys All were pleased
to hear the interesting address from the young
student of Gettysburg, Mr. George Englar.
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ldrenC and No
what they they rs Chlen Coats years.
sold price choice
CHn-DRENS KNEE PANTS SUrrS.-15O Chiiens Knee Pants
Suits, that sold your they
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Morgan Run School Celebration.
Reported for the Democratic Advocate.

Morgan Run School, near Shipley, held its
annual Christmas entertainment on Decem-
Der %. The house was filed with patrons
and friends of the school. Following is the
program, which was successfully rendered by
the school:
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897

The date on the Label ON your
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your subscription is paid.
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Unlontown Items.

On Wednesday the remains of Elsie, young
est daughter of the late John A. Doc. Brown,
were brought from Armbrust, Pa, to be in
TERED in the NJ. P. Cemetery on Thursday
morning. Funeral services were conducted
in the NJ. P. Church, where Elsie was q Sun
day school scholar previous to her family
moving to Pennsylvania. She died from
pneumonia, and was sick only "a hours. DR..
Walter Brown, her brother, says heart failure
was really the cause of her almost sudden
death She was a very. bright, interesting
girl, and won many friends wherever she went.
She was about II or Is years old.
Ezra Fell Brown and daughter, Jeanette,
of Towson, were guests of Harrison Weaver S
family few days.
Messrs. Kinley Routson and Clinton Rout-
son, of Baltimore, Morris Routson, of Cham
bersburg, Pa, spent there Christmas holidays
at home.
Misses Mabel LIE Fever aud Bessie Mering.
school teachers of Pleasant Valley and Mt.
Airy, are spending their vacation at home.
Norman Eckard, public school teacher, is
visiting relatives and friends in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Hiltebridle, of New
Windsor, were guests of Elder G. W. Sell
hamer on Sunday.
town this week.
lu6 N6ch VI prayer 40 ouSSSotSS W INC
Evangelical Alliance will be observed in our
town next week. Union services will be held
! in the Bethel Church Sunday evening, Jan
uary S-Sermon by Rev. B. w. Kindley.
Monday evening at the NJ. P. Church-Speak-
ers, Rev. George Englar and Mrs. Sarah Fuss.
Tuesday evening, Lutheraa Chureh-Ad-
dress by Rev. G. W. Seilhamer. Wednes-
day evening, Bethel Church-Addresses by
Mr.. w. n. Zollickoffer and S. E. Weaver.
Thursday evening, NJ. P. Carbohydrates,
Messrs. Jacob j. Christ and j. Wesley Rod
key. Friday evening, Lutheran Church..
P. Garner and Miss Florence Weaver, speak
ers. Saturday evening, Bethel-Addresses
by DR.. Luther Kemp and Charles Sittig.
Sunday evening, January 10, union mass
meeting at NJ. P. Church-Sermon by Rev.
G. W. Baughman. These services begin at
100 each evening.
Rev. b. W. Kindley's family returned from
their visit to Bel Air on Saturday.
Mr.. Ed Fox, of Washington, D. c., was
the guest of DR.. J. J. Weaver's family few
days.
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTIONS AND OTHERS

OFFICE BOARD County,
Westminster Nd October 2sh 1897
GENTLEMEN:
Your attention hereby called provisions of
Itraton Law. which is a slows:
anda have
breach OF the election laws OR ANY INTERFERENCE
Or An ELECTION the the ballots;
OF ALL OFFICERS OF THE
OF ANY JUDGE OF ELECTION making
any Judge shall be protected in doing fully if had been issued to
HIM make such arrest
DEfACED BALLOT and
ton 103 follows
tWHOEVER SHALL WILLFUILY DESTROY DEFACE ANY BAL
LOI shall ballot
before the close of the polls, wfuly delay the delivery ballot who shall
or election official ballot
session by him designed for
polling place within hundred
tickets or fac-simile tickets be tickets either said polling
(S5O) than five hundred dollars S5O0 shall be Jail for
exceeding shall be imprisonment
discretion of the
You will also render all possible made
You are hereby directed carefully the booths polling
places and see that slide ballot from other the ends
You hereby instructed that the Judges who Registers of Voters the
Returning Judges They will
provided
here By
HOWARD +. SCHAEFFER, PRESIDENT,
CHARLES SAPP,
oct30 1t CHARLES V WANTZ.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
For the Democratic Advocate.
N. w. Steele.

EDS. ADVOCATE Permit me to occupy a
small portion of your valuable space to vindi
cate the gentleman whose name stands at the
head of this article of false charges laid
against him for political purposes.
This is not puff, but the unsolicited
testimony Of one who has been brought into
contact with the gentleman in various ways.
The writer has been Il member of the
Quarterly Conference of the NJ. E. Church
South for several years and is in position to
know whereof he speaks. In the building of
Oakland Church Mr.. Steele was one among
the largest contributors, and one of the most
active for the welfare of the church and Its
pastors.
Since the completion of said church every
dollar of Indebtedness has been paid, and Mr..
Steele has always been foremost in providing
for the comforts and necessities of the differ
ent pastors.
Apart from this, any one who will visit the
Oakland Mills, of which he. is general man
ager, can see for themselves that a business
man is at The helm. Everything is neat and
in order and an air of thrift pervades the
whole establishment. To my own knowledge
he has been a friend in need to many in that
section. Endorsing for them sometimes at
his own loss and then providing employ
ment whereby they could pay the debt. l
have not word to say about his opponent for
Register, but do say that the voters of Carroll
cannot do better than to elect Mr.. Steele. He
will bring to the Office the same business
methods as seen at Oakland. | trust, and
believe, that he will be elected.
@. G. SHIPLEY, Lisbon, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
odious Game Law.

The odious game law for Carroll, about
which so many persons complained last
year and this, was passed by the Repub-
lican Legislature of 1896 1t was en-
dorsed by the four members of the House
of Delegates from Carroll, and favorably
reported to the House by Dr. Clotworthy
Brine.
The act makes the season for shooting
very short That feature is not so very
bad, perhaps, but the law permits the
shooting of rabbits and squirrels when they
are half grown, and prohibits it when they
are actually worth shooting. No other
county has such an odious law It has
met with very severe condemnation, and
the act imposes severe penalties for its in
fraction.
DR.. BRINE and Charles H. Smith who
supported and voted for the law, are can
didates for reelection IF they are re-
elected they will be in a position to pre-
vent cunning in Carroll at ALL
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
HUMBUG.

Every Democrat, every Re
publican and every Prohibition
ist should vote against the pro-
posed amendment to the Con-
stitution of Maryland.
The proposed amendment is
intended to make life tenure in
office-to keep people in office
for life.
1t is antagonistic to a repub-
lican form of government, and
denies the right of the people
to aspire to public office.
Vote against this foreign i'm
portation, and leave the gov
eminent in the hands of the
people-not fill the offices with
people and keep them in office
for life.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
Note the Difference.

Previous to Republican ascendaney in
Maryland the Democratic ticket was placed
first on the election ballot Now it is
placed second
Turn to the fourth page and observe the
position of the Democratic ticket on the
ballot. The usual Democratic emblem,
Jackson and Liberty, is at the top. To
the right is a square, with the words in
it make your X mark here for the en-
tire ticket. These words will not be on
the ballots that will be used next Tuesday
Where the words appear on the ballot on
the fourth page of this paper, make your
X mark next Tuesday, and be conscious
that you have done your duty to your
state, your county and to yourself.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
WELLINGTON ADMITS DEFEAT

In an interview with reporter of the
Baltimore Herald last Saturday, Senator
Wellington admitted defeat for the Re-
publican party next Tuesday. The full
interview is published on the fourth page
Of this issue.
Senate, Wellington has not denied tbs
ateariese, though it was published in the
Herald last Sunday.
Here is a part of the interview
'Ibelieve that Henry Williams viii
be elected Mayor Of Baltimore by a
large majority.
ct have thought SO from the begin
ming and think so now. As to the
Legislative ticket, that is anybody's
fight as regard the conditions at
present.
1.-The Republicans have defeat
staring them in the face, and the
cause is due to their own willfulness
and incompetency This, of course,
is my individual view of the situa-
ton, but it is nevertheless my candid
opinion.
The Baltimore SMu, according to the
Herald, also comedies Williams election
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
A Difference.

For fifteen dollars, cash in hand. the
ADVOCATE publishes in its advertising
columns an editorial from the Baltimore
SIN, the chief Republican organ of Mary
land, and the most hypocritical, lying
journal of the age. So disguised have
Democrats become with its course of by
pocrisy and deceit, that its dwlndled and
still dwindling circulation in the counties
has become so apparent that the Republ
can State Central Committee has had to
let loose some of its corruption fund, to
which the San has no doubt been a lib
eral contributor, in order to get the views
of its organ before the people by publish
ing them in the Democratic county jour
nails.
It may be possible that the mercenary
old luminary charged the Republican COM
mittee something for writing and publish
ing the editorial, for paper that would
charge commercial body for publishing
resolutions upon the death of the founder
of that journal and the father Of the pro
prietors, is capable Of going any lengths
for cash.
Still, we make note Of the fact that
the ADVOCATE publishes the article to
show the difference between the action of
the DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE and the
.4mericaa Sentinel. Mr. Nicholas w
Steele, the Democratic nominee for Reg
lister of Wills, desired to have published
in the Sentinel several letters from minis
tiers of the gospel eommendatory Of his
generosity and his liberality to several
churches in his section, and was willing to
pay literally for it, but that hide bound
and blind partisan paper declined to pub
lish them 1t would not even give place to
the words of ministers, because those words
were commendatory of Democrat.
The ADVOCATE has no hesitancy IN
publishing as an advertisement for political
opponents an article from its official organ
In such cases a political journal has a right
to criticise and combat any statements in
the article so published, but we shall waste
no words to controvert any utterance of
=
the SIN, for all readers Of, the ADVOCATE
are well aware of its hypocrisy and deceit
and place no confidence in anything it says
against the Democratic party. The paper
is being run in the interest of its proprie-
tor who has personal Crude against Mr.
German, and in its frantic efforts to defeat
him, has undertaken to destroy the Demo-
cratic party, using every unfair means,
hypocrisy. deceit and falsehood to accom-
plish its purpose.
In its calculations it can put Carroll
down in the Democratic column, although
a few persons, masquerading as Democrats,
some of whom have held public office as
such, are assininely talking about "sound
money, their "consciencies and get
ting even. in order to aid the SIM They
will all 90 down with the SIM, however. :
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
Maryland Affairs.

Diphtheria is prevailing in Baltimore city
and Baltimore county.
Country stores, postoffices, dwellings, &C.,
are being raided by thieves in various parts
of the State.
Miss Loula B. Funk, aged 18 years, daugh-
ter of Philip Fl. Funk, died in Hagerstown,
of blood poisoning on Thursday of last week,
resulting from picking pimple on her face.
The 46 national banks of this State, out
side of Baltimore, at the close of business
October 5, had on deposit 81 ,256, 1887;
loans and discounts $40, 267, 1925; surplus
fund ST, COL, $50.
w. +. Benson has grown the largest pear
ever seen in Worcester county. 1t is 164
inches in circumference, and weighs twenty
five pounds and ten ounces. 1t is of the
Kiefer variety. Mr.. Benson gathered ten
bushels of pears from the tree on which this
large one grew.
Stanford Culver, of Wicomico county, has
monster hog which weighs more than one
thousand pounds. 1t is six feet nine and a
half inches around the body, six feet four
inches long and thirty three inches tall w.
S. Lowe has porker seven feet long, forty
inches tall aud ninety-two inches around the
body.
The Isabella Todd farm, in Patapsco Neck,
Baltimore county, containing 260 acres. was
sold at public sale on Tuesday. by the trus
tees to Thomas A. Merritt for 3d. $50 The
farm is known as ''The Cedars, is one of
the finest truck farms in that section, and for
anumber of years was occupied by Benjamin
Todd
Capt. Atwood Blunt well-known resident
of near Granite, on the Baltimore county side
of the Patapsco, died Sunday night from a
complication of diseases, aged 70 years. He
was a native of Montgomery county, bnt
moved to Baltimore county when quite
young man. He leaves a widow and seven
children.
Charles Bidder, aged so years, while en-
gagged in coupling cars at Brunswick, Fred
erick county, Sunday night, was instantly
killed. He was from Virginia, and was EN-
ployed as brakeman on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. He had made arrangements
to reside at Brunswick. and would have re-
moved from Virginia 10 the former place
within the next two weeks
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
Republican reform.


Republican reform, under the lead
of Sidney Mudd, has been very expensive
in Maryland Tax rates have been in
creased in every county The cost to the
taxpayers of Carroll has been about SIG,
900, and resulted in an increase in the
tax rate of serea cents last year and a5ee
cents this year. How much was squan-
dered at the State Tobacco Warehouses
and how much aetally stolen will not be
known until Sidney Mudd is dethroned
and sent back to the wilds of Charles
county.
A vote for the Clabaugh Legislative
ticket next Tuesday is vote to send
Mudd to the United States Senate and
make Clabaugh Governor.
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A Flin-Flam Game.

1t may not be true, but it looks like the
Ners and SIN are playing a film fam
game, and dividing the proceeds. The
Ne,cs publishes fake in the afternoon
and the matter has to be corrected, at 25
cents a line, in the SIM, whose readers are
the same as the Ners,
Here is an illustration, from the Sim Of
Thursday, how the game works :
The Statement in Yesterdays News TO the
effect that had deposited 5000 or gave a
commission for that amount to be placed on
Mr.. Master in a Baltimore street restaurant
is absolutely untrue, as | am consistent
Henry Williams advocate, and as such in
tend giving him my full support on the sec
ond Of November next. PETER QUINN.
The advertisement cost Mr.. Quinn
81. % and, if the papers are playing a
fim-fam game, the NetcS will get 81, l29g
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30

A vote for the Republican nominees for
the House of Delegates is vote for Sid
ney f. Mudd for the United States Senate.
1t was Mudd, aided by Clabaugh, Nal
ster, Gather and Baker, who conspired
for the overthrow of Senator Wellington.
1t was Mudd' manipulation of the State
Tobacco Warehouse that caused an inves-
tigation to be ordered by Gov Lowndes,
and so corrupt was the management found
that some employees were dismissed
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30

Under the new election law
the Republican ticket is first
on the official ballot and the
Democratic ticket second. A
cross mark (X) in the square
to right of Jackson and the
Hickory tree, and no other, is
a vote for the whole Demo
cratic ticket.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-10-30
1thOShA
of New Windsor District.

The hurricane from the South on Sunday
and Monday was the cause of exceptionally
high tides, the loss of life and heavy destruc-
ton to shipping along the Atlantic coast from
Hatteras to Far Rockaway Beach, n. Y.
But three vessels entered New York harbor
and none came up Delaware Bay beyond the
Broakwater. Summer hotels and cottages at
Ocean City, Maryland, suffered generally.
At Newport News the breakwater was de-
stroyed, and at Norfolk the streets was flooded
The storm was especially severe on the Great
Lakes, hardly vessel away from the com
mercial centres escaping. A disastrous north
east storm ragged all along the New Jersey
coast, and great destruction TO property is re
ported from Cape May, Atlantic City and As
bury Park. Railroad traffic to the lower
Jersey seacoast resorts is greatly interrupted,
there being no train service 10 Atlantic City
or the Five and Seven Mile Beaches.