The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-03-05

Hook of wild geese were seen fying south
on Thursday morning
MT Edward Strevig, of Pleasant Valley.
VIII have new residence erected this spring.
The County Commissioners were only on.
Monday 49, '1
William Slttig, of near Uniontown, has ac.
cepted position as conductor on an electric
car in Baltimore.
William Unger, of Linwood, has moved to
Baltimore. Mr. Unger was formerly teacher
ut Park hall school, near New Windsor.
Asbury johnson, of Freedom district. died
suddenly Thursday, aged GO years. Heart
disease is supposed to have been the cause
Miss PAX, native Corean, will deliver an
address in Centenary NJ. Z. Church, this city,
tomorrow Sunday evening at 100 o'clock.
Lieutenant Wainwright, of the Inflated
steamship Maine, is we'll known in New Wind.
sor, having been a guest at the Hotel Diel-
man.
marriage license was issued in Baltimore
on Thursday to Amos r. Schultz, of Hamp-
stead, and Miss Florence Zouck, of Baltimore
county.
Mr.. George w. Albaugh, of Westminster,
has presented 5000 to the Chemical Depart
ment of Western Maryland College with which
to purchase case of books for the use of the
students in that department.
Mrs. Rachel NJ. Manro, widow of the late
Dr. Jonathan Manro, of Frederick, died at the
home of Somerset o. Jones, her nephew, at
Goshen, Nd, on Sunday last, in her 90th
year. She was the daughter of DR.. Richard
Waters, OF Montgomery county, surgeon in
the revolutionary war, and an aunt of DIR.
Somerset r. Waters, of Watersville, this coun-
ty.
Services were held last Sunday night by the
Sunday school of Centenary Methodist Epis-
copal Church of Westminster in relation to
the home and foreign missionary work of the
school. During the last year their work in
this line has been very gratifying. The SER
vices included recitations, readings and sing
ing by the Sunday school scholars and their
teachers. State Senator j. W. Herring was
present and made an interesting address.
Mr.. Edward ireland died at his residence
in Freedom district on Tuesday last, March
LIST, in his list year. He was the son of the
late Edward Ireland, ST., and Deborah Moale,
of Baltimore, and was lifelong Democrat.
He was subscriber to the ADVOCATE since its
foundation in 1865 and reader Of the Balti-
more Sun for forty wears In his last days the
Bible was his greatest comfort. His funeral
took place on Thursday, interment being at
Trinity Church, Eldersburg.
The announced fox chase last Saturday,
from the Central Hotel, this city, brought to-
gether q number of horSemen and hounds,
and many spectators. The first fox was caught
and killed before it scarcely cleared the limits
of the city, the hounds breaking loose a few
minutes after it was liberated. 1t made a
game fight, however, and bit one or more of
the dogs. Mr.. Bowers had another fox, and
half hour later it was liberated. 1t was
given good start, and it sought shelter on the
farm of ex-Sherif Frnger, about a mile and
half from town.
Among the papers of the late John Fisher,
cashier of the old Union Bank Of Westmin-
ster, now the Union National Bank,
certificate that he contributed one dollar Sin
aid of the erection of the Washington National
Monument" This contribution entitled him
ito all the privileges of membership in the
Washington National Monument Society,""
Zachary Taylor. who was President Of the
United States from l849 to 1853, signed the
certificate as President, and George Edward
Wamplcr as Agent. The certificate is in the
possession of Miss Mary Roop.
Senator Herring delivered lecture in An
napolis last Monday night before the students
of st. Johns College, the first Of a course of
university extension lectures. His subject
was practical Thought on Hygiene" The
important external conditions of hygiene were
given, viz, ventilation, the Importance of
proper temperature and light as a life factor.
The lectures also took up Important Sub
jective Conditions of Hygiene" The Office
of Digestion-Its Uses and Abuses, "'Physical
Training Necessary to the Highest Mental
Development ''Suggestions in Respect to
the Preservation and Use of the Voice"
The group of new buildings at Springfield
Hospital, Sykesville, Nd, for the insane, con
sistng of detached cottages or pavillions, with
a service building, have been accepted by the
building committee of the board of managers
and will be put into immediate use. 1t has
been decided to draft fifty of the insane
patients from Bayview, Baltimore, on Tuesday
next, fifty more the week following, and to
transfer one hundred insane persons from the
county almshouses as soon as practicable.
The new buildings are calculated to accom-
modate two hundred patients. The total cost
of the structures was $1S5,00 The buildings
include power house, electric-lighting plant
and water tower, and they have been con
structed on a plan to meet all possible re-
quirements in the future as well as the present.