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The Suns hobby is six tickets for quar-
ter, while that of the Ne,cs is an appropria-
ton of 500, 900 year for the Johns Hopkins
University. Then in unison both sing the
same song-for S40O, 900 to build an armory
for the Fifth Regiment. And in unison, too,
both keep the real truth from the people as
to the incapacity of the Republican majority
in the Legislature to pass wholesome laws,
and never allude to the total unftness of
Speaker Schaeffer OF the House and the total
lack of Republican leadership on the floor.
We venture the assertion that it would have
been almost impossible for the people of Bal
tmore to have selected a more incompetent
sent to represent the city in the House than
they did last November. Ignorance is the
rule in the city delegation, and the best
of the lot is unfit to be a member of the House,
and some from the counties are far from being
statesmen
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Communicated

MEssRs. EDITORS In reply to your last
weeks correspondent wish to say that we
agree with him in regard to the excellent
berry crop around Berret, and think it is quite
fortunate for us to have such an abundance
of the delicious fruit, especially at this time
of the year. The greatest mystery about our
crop is that it lasts the year round, which is
very peculiar in this part of the country, and
this, we suppose, accounts for there being so
many visiting pickers from neighboring COM
munities. We have one from the north, east
and west, and our people thought it very
strange that we did not have one from the
south. But our thoughts were soon changed
a few weeks ago. when a great big southerner
arrived from one of the English settlements
along one of the tributaries of the great Pa
tapsco. He was a strong, healthy robust
looking fellow, and every one thought he
would have great success in gathering the
precious fruit but to the surprise ofall he was
very unsuccessful, indeed He was just in
the act Of commencing picking when he re-
ceived his walking papers and had to walk
home like one of Abraham's lost sheep, but
he was found the next day way down the
valley asleep.
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Desolation in Parts Of Australia.

Dispatches from Vancouver. British Co
lumbia. state that passengers by the steamer
which arrived on Monday from Australia, say
that disaster and desolation beyond de-
scription have overtaken two colonies of
Australia. Passengers arriving by the Aoran-
gi tell startling story of the terrible heat rays
which are whitening up a continent. Water
in the wells sunk into the parched earth,
streams dried up. the rivers visibly sank as in
a falling tide.
Hysterical women proclaimed the end of
the world. Men, women and children gasped
for breath as they prayed to be delivered from
a horrible end. To add to the horror great
clouds of cinders from the burning bush swept
through the cities The mortality is very
large. Besides deaths from heat, typhoid
fever broke ont with a large percentage of
deaths.
In the country matters are much worse.
Miles of farms are burned and in New Zea-
land, as we'll as in Victoria, bush fires have
blotted out whole townships. Settlers are
focking to the towns in hundreds and thous-
ands, half naked and terror-stricken. The
last dispatches state that the flames are now
under control.
Ships cannot move in the smoke, and thous-
ands of rockets are being sent up for ships
that may be feeling their way through the
dense smoke, half a mile high, that settled on
the water
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At the Danville Military Institute.


From the Danville (Va.) Register, March l. 1898.
The exercises yesterday afternoon were
witnessed by many citizens. What might be
fitlv described as soldiers love feast were
the exercises at the Danville Military lnstl-
tute vestesday afternoon, where citizens OF the
town We'd with the faculty and cadets in eX
preston of amity and good will, mingled with
those of sincere regret at the departure of
Lieutenant j. c. Byron, late instructor in
military science and commandant of the in
stitute Substantial tokens of regard were
presented in felicitous and feeling phrase, and
the recipient, overcome with emotion, eVinced
his appreciation more by falterlng voice and
manly restraint than by the mere words OF his
brief responses. The cadets-those warm
hearted, impulsive youths-were visibly over
come, tears unbidden springing from many an
honest, grey -jacketed breast. There has been
no other function at the ID. NJ. |. exactly like
this one; there have been few men iii any
community who in comparatively bret time
could bring it about.
The program was as follows Setting up
exercises by cadet battalion; calisthemcs
drill with arms; battalion drills; music by In
stitute corps band; dress parade; review; trans
ferine command of battalion to Lieutenant
Marshall; presentation of loving cup by
Colonel E. b. WltherS on Dehali OF the GU
zens of Danville; response by Lieutenant j.
C. Byron; presentation ofsilverware by Capt.
Adams of the d. NJ. |. faculty on behalf OF
the faculty and cadets; response OF Lieutenant
Byron. n
David Wilson. of Washington, D. c., former
" of Carroll county, Nd, Mrs. Jenny Wilson
Byron, the youngest daughter of DIR. Wilson,
and wife of Lieutenant Byron, also formerly
of Uniontown, and graduate OF Western
MARYLAND College, Westminster, Md.
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The B. and o. and the @. and o.

The suits for labor claims against the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal have been compro-
missed at fifty cents on the dollar by the bond
holders of 1874. A majority Of the bonds of
1874. we believe, are held by the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad When the West Virginia
Central railroad wanted to buy the canal and
extend its lines to Washington and Baltimore,
the Baltimore and Ohio, as the 1874 bond
holders. procured an order OF court restrain
ING the sale of the canal and allowing the
bondhohers to operate it. Everybody kne
the canal could not be operated at a profit,
and most people believed then and believe
now that the object in operating the canal
was simply and alone to protect the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad from competition from the
West Virginia Central
The order of the Court in allowing the
bondhoders of 1874 to operate the Canal may
have been technically correct but it also pro-
hibted the development Of large section OF
this state by the building of the West Virginia
Central road to tide water at Washington and
Baltimore, and prevented large addition to
the taxable basis of every county thron gh
which it would have been built And this
was done, too, in the interest of a corporation
which pays no tax upon its road bed and sta :
lions and whose president delights to pro-
claim the doctrine of free trade. In this, how =
ever he is like many Others-believes in free
trade for others, but protection for himself
In the bill of complaint. it was alleged that
the bondhoders were not carrying out the
order of the Court in their management OF
the Canal and were fraudu!enty conducting
its business in the interest of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Judge Stake, OF the
Washington county court. decided adversely
to the complainants, and appeal was taken.
The allegations must have been dangerously
near the truth, or an offer of compromise
would not have been made.
The Canal ought to have been sold IN 1880,
and would have been sold except for the
wild howls and threats of the Baltimore SIM,
which was bowling in the interest OF the Bal
tmore and Ohio road. Aud some people do
not believe these rantings were entirely gratis,
for they were absolutely against the state IN
terest. Be that as it may, the state then had an
opportunity to sell and reap some advantage;
now her interest is gone. The Baltimore and
Ohio is bankrupt, and when it went to the
wall millions of Maryland money went with
if. 1t also carried down with it the gre atest
of American Universities, and the state is
asked to make good what was lost by this
mismanaged and political concern
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Advertisements under this head One Cent word
Misunderstanding Salesman TO sell most
complete line Of Lubricating Oils, Greases,
Sppcialties. etc. on the market. Liberal
terms to right party. Address, The Atlantic
Refining Company, Cleveland. Ohio. 3t''
A capable woman to fill vacancy with a
wholesale house Address Vacancy, Advo-
cate Office.
Wanted.-An experienced. married farm
hand as ioreman-muSt be Il hustler. Writ
ten recommendations for honesty, sobriety
and industry required. Wages $500 per
month: house iirewood and provisions Nd
dress box V 513 Sun Office, Baltimore, Md.
To buy II small farm. II to 20 acres, IN
good condition, not too far from Westminster
or W. NJ. Il. X. station. Give full partIcu-
lars OF location. condition of Buildings, NC
Address box 249, Westminster.
4 man to milk and work ON Il dairy farm;
Wages so per month, house rent. fire wood
and garden. Address Harry f. Cn"iey.
Eldersburg. Carroll county, Md. ml2-3t
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Spain and the United States.

Spain ntimated to the United States that
she would like the recall of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee. Consul General at Havana. and that the
supply of provisions, medicine, &C., contrib
uted to the needy in Cuba by the people of
this country, be transported in merchant YES
sells instead of war ships. Both requests were
promptly denied There was no apparent
reason why Gen. Lee should be recalled, but
the Spanish request as to the transportation
of supplies had the appearance of justice.
Spain is well aware that there is much SYM
pathy in this country for Cuba and SO are the
Cubans. Knowing this, the presence of
American war vessels in Cuban ports is an
encouragement to the insurrectionists. and
Spain did not want that encouragement eX-
tended. Besides, the presence of the war
ships unduly eXcites the Spanish residents of
Cuba, and outbreaks are liable and demon
STATIONS against citizens Of the United States
in Havana probable. Under these circum-
stances the request seemed altogether reason
oh
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Six for a Quarter--9O Cent. Gas.

There is bill before the General Assem-
bly, to compel the street car companies OF
Baltimore to sell six tickets for a quarter, and
the press are interviewing citizens on the sub
ject Nearly all favor the bill, and not one
of them owns cents worth of the stock of
any of the companies. 1t costs nothing to be
liberal with other peoples money, however.
Another bill before the General As sembly
limits the charges of the Consolidated Gas
Company of Baltimore to ninety cents a
thousand feet for gas, and all who are not
stockholders favor the bill.
The citizens of that town, Notwithstanding
they carried it for Mckinley, the gold stand
ard, protection, trusts and monopolies, have
suddenly developed into more extreme IAN
archists'' and 'popocrats" than the support
ers of Bryan. They will want to destroy the
courts next.
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Malster in Complete Control.

The Master slate went through the City
Council on Monday night, every nominee
being confirmed. Among those confirmed
were John V. l.. Endley, for city counselor,
hichard Martin and John I. Carter, both
colored, as superintendent of street cleaning
districts, and R. H. Harris, colored, as con.
ductor of City Hall elevator. Four Master
lite members of the House of Delegates were
rewarded with Office for refusing to 90 into
the Republican legislative caucus. Baltimore
is now not only Republican city, but a
Master Republican city, and the Big Mayor
has about shut out adverse criticism from the
Republican [alleged independent press by
given them city advertising. The pocket
nerve of the alleged independent paper is
always exposed.
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WEEPING NOW.
Baltimore Papers that Aided Repub-
lican Success Regretting Removal
of Democrats.

From the Easton Ledger
The good newspapers of Baltimore city are
much worried because Mayor Master has not
reappointed DR.. Heskell and DIR. McShane.
The good newspapers of Baltimore city have
a habit of being caught in dsappontments.
Possibly even Baltimore city newspapers may
learn after awhile that, to keep Democrats
in appointive offices, it is necessary that Demo
Gratis should be elected TO the offices which
make the appointments.
The two doctors go out because Henry
Williams was not elected Mayor of Baltimore.
What did the good newspapers of Baltimore
city do to help elect Henry Williams? If
echo had the gift of tongues, echo would
answer nothing" 1t is claimed for the two
doctors that they were good officers. And
it is doubtless true. But Mayor Malster has
a right to say-''If the people wanted these
two doctors retained they would have elected
Williams and not me- The trend of thought
to the common mind would be this way =
"These people are not better than their party,
The people put the Democratic party out of
power in Baltimore city, and to complete the
work is the proper business of the Mayor.
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T. n. Sherman, prominent farmer, was
killed on Monday by his cousin, Tom Sher-
man. in law office in Athens, Tennessee.
The killing was the outcome of family teud
which has existed for several years, and in
which number of Shermans have lost their
lives.
John Robertson, prominent paper manu-
facturer, died on Sunday last, at Palm Beach,
Florida. He was member Of the firm OF
John Robertson & Son and the Robertson
Paper Company, of Bellows Falls, Vermont,
and W. A. Cole & Co.. of Putney, Vermont.
Secret Service officers and Deputy United
States Marshals have arrested, at De Soto,
Missouri, Joseph Cature, William Sutton
and William Maffitt, on the charge of making
and circulating counterfeit money. They
were taken to st. Louis.
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Senator Mills, of Texas, while believing in
bimetalism, has come to the conclusion that
this country alone can not maintain it, and
send Judge Culberson to the Senate in his
stead. Free coinage of gold and silver has
not lost any ground since 1896, but the cause
has been advanced in the West and South,
and the free coinage advocates are likely to
elect majority of the next House of Repre-
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Adams County pa Items.

From the Gettysburg papers of Tuesday we
take the following:
On Sunday Mr.. Geo. Hesson, the oldest
man in that section of the country, was buried
at Littlestown. Mr.. Hesson was an old time
carpenter and could build house and make
the furniture for it. He worked at his trade
in this county and in Carroll and Frederick
counties, Nd. Part of this time he worked as
a cabinet maker and undertaken.
Mrs. Eppleman, of near Littlestown. was
buried last Wednesday. She was in her 93rd
year.
J. Stewart Witheron, aged 6S years, died in
Fairview last week. He was very popular in
the county.
Mrs. Eliza, wife of the late Jacob Kline, of
Gettysburg, died on Monday, aged So years.
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1t will perhaps never be known, but it
would be interesting to know how much of
the earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road have been expended in playing dog
in-the manger' in operating the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal, in carrying its employees on
free trains to Canton to see Mckinley, in
sending self-consttuted delegates to the In
dianapolis gold bug convention, and in the
campaigns of 1895, 1896 and 1897 1t is
probable the books of the company are so
kept as not to disclose the facts.
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Some of the Opposition.

Here are some of the county Journals that
oppose the 100000 asked for by the Johns
Hopkins University:
The Hartford De mocrat,
The EaStOn Ledger
The Somerset Herald,
The Annapolis Republican.
The True Marylander,
The Upper Marlboro Gazette,
The Kent News,
The Centreville Observer,
The Belair Egis,
The Rockville Sentinel,
The Cecil Democrat,
The Calvert Journal,
The Montgomery Advocate,
The Centrevile Record,
The Cecil County News.
There are others, but they cannot now be
recalled In fact all the county journals that
have spoken at all, that have come under our
notice, oppose the appropriation. If the state
can expend more money for educational pur-
poses they want it applied to public schools.
In return for this 100000 the University
proposes to furnish tuition only for twenty-siX
state students. This is nearly $4,000 for each
student-a right steep price. The appropr-
alton of 100000 is asked for for two years,
or $500, 600 in all, and if the Baltimore and
Ohio is not then in a position to pay dvi-
dends on the stock held by the University flu
ture legislatures will be asked to continue the
100000 a year until the road does pay or
some rich philanthropist, like Enoch Pratt,
leaves large sum TO the Johns Hopkins,
provided the name of the university be changed
TO include his OWL.
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MARRIED..

At the Manchester Md, Lutheran parsonage, on
March , lS!lS. by Rev. G. VI. EySter, Noah d. Maha-
In and Miss Rosie Il. Ham. both of Near Manches-
ter Md
At the parsonage. i'll Baltimore Nd, on March s.,
1895. bT Rev f. FELTON,, Charles NJ. Stouch and Miss
Sarah {. Brothdes, both of Westminster, Md.
At Grace Lutheran parsonage Westminster. Nd.
and Miss Elizabeth Arnold. both of Woolcry's dis
trict this county.
In Westminster, Md. March 10, 1898, at the
residence of L. Macklcy by Rev. VIM \. Grouse,
Edward II. Devilbiss and Miss Emma J. Caple, both
of Westminster.
In Westminster Md, or March TO- 1895, Dora II.
Bowen and Thomas Bruce.
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Fifty Millions for Defence.

Congress has made an appropriation of
500, 100000 to be placed in the hands of the
President to prepare for national defence. 1t
was voted with a whoop. The appropriation
is not regarded as an indication of war, but
as peace measure.
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The body of Miss Annie L. Edwards, aged
As years, who lived alone near Jamison,
Bucks county, Pa, was found Monday last
at her home, with the head crushed. The
murderer is unknown.
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NOR SALE.
MO. 361o EQUITY.

MO. 1919 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
George W. Albaugh, Assignee, Plaintiff, vs..
Benz. +. Gist and Sarah f. Gist his wife,
Defendants.
Ordered this 2nd day of March, A. d., 1898,
by the Circuit Court for Carroll County, sit
ting as Court of Equity, that the sale of
property mentioned in these proceedings.
made and reported by George ". Albaugh,
trustee, appointed by decree of this court,
to make said sale, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 4th day of April, next;
provided copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper printed in Carroll county,
once in each Of three successive weeks before
the 18th day of March, inst.
The report states the amount Of sale to be
S625. 90.
JAS. H. BILLINGSLEA, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
mar5 st JAS. H. BrLLINGsLEA, Clerk.
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ABATEMENT
Showing Condition Of The Carroll
County Savings Bank Of Union
town, at close of business Feb. 20,
1898.
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DIED..

No charge for MUridges uDd Deaths. O5i"aI7eS ami
Irl;S6S > ceHtS q line.
At Reese, Md, on March 6, 1895 Nellie NJ, in her
22d year, daughter of 5. A. and the late William y.
Matthews
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Lowndes, olabaugh and Gather
From the Baltimore Americana

From the Baltimore Americana
Among those who did not receive recogh1-
ton due was Mr. George r. Gather, Jr- IL
is true Mr. Gather opposed Mr.. Wellington,
and, therefore, opposed the Governor, at me
Ocean City Convention. Mr. Gather ana me
Governor became very close friends Ill the
senatorial fight, and it was generally supposed
that all their troubles had been settled. ne
Governor refused to reappoint Mr.. Gathers
Lrotbrr. Mr.. John Gather. as tobacco inspec-
Tor. Mr.. George K. Gather never asked the
favor. but il was generally assumed that 1t
would be granted without the asking. Mr.
Gather and Mr.. Harry NJ. CIabaugh may be
said to be basking in the Governors trowns
instead of his smiles They have nothing to
say about the way they have been turned
down, but they are doing great deal OF think
ing. So is State Treasurer Shryock, and so
are many others.
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RESOURCES

state Of Nnylaad. Comfy Of carroll. S.
|. Edwin G. Gilbert. Treasurer OF the
above named Bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best OF my
knowledge and belief.
+. G. GILBERT. Treasurer.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th
day of March, 1898 JOSIAH kOLB. j. p.
Corrpct-Attest:
WI Il. r. R. zo GIfi Directors.
d. FRED. ENGLAR,
We have this 9TH day of March, 1898. de
clared dividend of ) per cent. on Permanent
Deposits, clear of all taxes. and , per cent.
ON Weekly and Monthly Deposits, payable on
and after March r. 1898
EDWIN G. GILBERT,
marl2-3t@* Treasurer.
PosToFF1CE BOX RENTS.
The following letter of instruction from the
Postoffce Department has been received by
me. jos. b. BOYLE, Postmaster,
Westminster. Md.
WASHINGTON. d. C.. March s. 1898.
POSTMASTER,
WESTMINSTER, Mp.
SIR You are hereby instructed to collect
Box Rents at your postofiice at the following
rates. from April l, 1898:
Call Boxes Csc per quarter.
Lock Boxes (smalD 35c per quarter.
Lock Boxes (medium) SOC per quarter.
Lock Drawers 6Oc per quarter.
Your careful attention is directed 10 Sec
tons AS and 446, Postal Laws and Regula-
tons. Edition of 1898. and instructions to
postmasters on PIP. 992-994, inclusive, Of Pos
tal Guide for January, 1898.
Very respectfully,
PERRY S. HEATH,
First Assistant Postmaster General.
mar12 st
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Signor Felice Carlo Cavalotte, Italian poet,
dramatist, pubicist and well known Radical
member of the Chamber Of Deputies, was
killed in Rome, Italy, on Sunday afternoon
in duel with Signor Macola, member of the
Chamber of Deputies, and editor of the Ga
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SPR1Ne OPENING OF
M H. LII = N = R . Y
The public is invited to attend the opening
SPRING and SUMMER MILLINERY
on March 80 and 81.
Will show full line of New York and Bal
timore Millinery. Toques and Large Hats Il
speciality
MAY c. GARDNER.
81 East Main street.
marl2-4t Westminster, Md.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
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
ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMS,
late of Carroll county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated, to the subscri-
Der, on or before the 18th day of October,
1898; they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 9TH day of
March. 1898.
ANDREW J. WILLIAMS,
mar12 At Administrator.
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AT Regina, Northwest Territory, on Mon
day Mr.. and Mrs. Tibbetts, Of Boston. Mas
sachusets, charged with enlightenment, waiv-
ed extradition and left for Boston in charge
of United States officers.
An attempt was made at Westerly, Rhode
Island, Monday, to start the White Rock cot
ton mill, which has been closed for six weeks
on account OF strike. Only 30 of the
strikers returned to work.
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WANT COLUMN.

under this head one Cent word