The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Some Little lettings About
People and Things.


frederick Fair on Wednesday
and Thursday.
The third annual reunion of the
MARYLAND Society in Ohio. was
held in springfield last week.
The Misses Haines, Of Garfield,
this county, spent Sunday with
their grandmother, Mrs. Philip
Burger, of Rocky Ridge.
Chief Judge McSherry made a
touching tribute to the memory Of
the late Judge Charles B. Rob
erts. of Westminster, when At
torney General Gather, formally
announced the same to the Court
of Appeals.
Rear Admiral Howison, who
took rank over Sampson during
the exercises in New York in
honor OF Dewey, is now on the re
tired list of the navy, after 45
years of active service.
Rear, Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley was installed as command
er of the Loyal Legion in New
York recently. A banquet was
given in his honor, at which
covers were laid for three hun
bred.
The Treasury Department, in
order to relieve the monetary
stringency, offers to prepay in
terest for the entire fiscal year at
discount. This will release
about s26, 900, 900 if the offer is
accepted.
The State Department is con
Sfdering the expediency of recog-
nizing a diplomatic representa-
tive of the Transvaal. Delicate
questions are involved, and if
Great Britain should object it is
not probable a diplomatic agent
Of the South African Republic
would be received.
The following are the recently
elected officers of the Ministerial
Association of Frederick: PreSi-
dent, Rev. Page Milburn, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; VICE
president, Il. II. Eschbach; secre-
tary, Rev. l.. f. NJ. Myers; treas
urer, Rev. E. L. Mclean; Com
mittee on Topics, Rev. Drs. Esch
bach, Mclean and Luther Kuhl-
man.
The Democratic candidates on
the State ticket, Messrs. Smith
and Rayner, addressed large
meeting at Cumberland and evok-
ed much enthusiasm by their re-
marks. Isador Rayner, as usual,
caught the crowd, and made a
strong speech against trusts.
The candidates are meeting with
most encouraging receptions
everywhere and the outlook is
bright for success.
Rev. DR.. j Z. Boyd, of La
Porte, Ind, says that the world
will come to all end on November
18th, 1899. He says he has read
the signs in the heavans and can
not be mistaken. 1t is rather
kind in the augury which he
seems to understand, to defer the
destruction until after the cleo
ton. One or the other of the pO-
litical parties will have passed
through similar experience by
that time.
The J. Z. Toole Company, of
Baltimore, which closed weeks
engagement at the City Opera
House OH Saturday night, had
their trunks and stage effects at
tached by Officer Brust upon an
affidavit sworn out by James
Young, an ex member of the com
pany, alleging that they owed
him $40. The case came up be-
fore Justice Biser Monday morn
ing last, and was settled by the
company paying SIS.
Under the title of "Chrlstian
Science and the Book of Mrs.
Eddy" Mark Twain contributes
to the October Cosmopolitan what
is the most remarkable magazine
article of the month, if not of the
year. Twain discloses two phases
OF himself-the humOrist and the
Keen, far sighted philosopher
lie handles the cult a bit severely
perhaps, but he has his reasons
ior so doing and sets them forth
most fOrcibly. His statement
concerning Mrs. Eddy's book is
characteristic. OF it he says,
1T is the first time since the
uawn of creation that a voice has
gone crashing through space
With such placid aud complacent
COn1u0ncA and command ~