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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1889
Page
4
Accident report from West Patrick street meat shop notes E Derr employee was rehired after a few days. While sawing a bone in meat the blade clipped and cut the first finger of his left hand, causing a minor injury. The incident occurred at a local establishment and was described in brief in the advertisement section.
A baby was found early this morning on a barrel near Gas Esareoe, with the body partly exposed and in critical condition. The infant, described as a full Havaca for scent, was manufactured by Lewis F. Kusemaul. No trick or favoritism used. Death's Work. Mr. George W. Mercier Sr., a prominent Exlicott City citizen, died suddenly aged 71, an M E church leader for fifty years and a former Whig. He leaves two wives and four children. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. George Englar of Linwood, Carroll County, died Saturday and was buried near Linwood.
Democratic primaries were held in twenty one districts with meeting in the Court Bonze basement. Gartion Shafer, Esq., presided at 2 pm. E. O. McSnerry elected chair. secretaries named. delegates to county and state conventions appointed. list of central committee members provided. statewide primary activity noted in Western Maryland with local contests in Oakland Cumberland Hagerstown Ellicott City and Cumberland counties.
A long list of residents and visitors across multiple towns notes mainly social calls, travels, and returns. Names include Juliet Guy, Wm. Davis, Wm. Moberly, Arthur M. Willierd, Ezra Willard, Hamilton Lindsay, Aubrey Lindsay, Faith Lindsay, Edward L. Danner, Harry Stsken, Noah E. Gramer, Jacob Snyder, Lezie Benedict, Baxter Weikert, Dorsey Etchison, Bess Reich, Rose Miller, William Main, Lottie Daughters, Miss Maggie Duvall, Wao P. Denegre, Benj. Reich, John Biser, Albert L. Pestre, Lamar Cingcott, and others. Several attend picnics and battlefield visits. church notes mention Reformed missionary meetings and Knights Templar conclave preparations in Baltimore.
Magistrate Turner hears State vs Benjamin Howard this afternoon for larceny of pants and other items. Siste vs Lucinda Burkhart and Joseph W Smith found guilty. one jailed by grand jury action, the other to the House of Correction tomorrow. Annie Hill fined $2.85 for disorderly conduct at the factory. Mayor Deil releases her.
A sermon by Rev. Eh De Witt Tainage in Quasta on the biblical phrase weighed in the balances found wanting. The address critiques mismeasured weights and worldly success, urging true righteousness over wealth, and warning that earthly balances fail while God’s balance is exact. It argues nations and churches will be weighed by moral measures.
A preacher urges immediate moral weighing of character not creed, as God weighs deeds versus beliefs. He dramatizes scales testing clergy, lay Christians, and wealth, concluding that true salvation rests on godliness, not orthodoxy, and warns that many are weighed and found wanting.
A sermon-like piece urges personal salvation through Christ. It describes weighing souls in God’s scales, with Jesus placing his scarred feet on the Christian side to secure pardon. The reader is urged to accept Christ now, using dramatic biblical imagery and an extended analogy of redemption. It closes by praising Acker's Blood Elixir and a local druggist.
Aged about 35 to 80 year old George H Blessing of Myersville Gil y is reported to have attempted suicide. He is described as unbalanced after attending the funeral of William Hooper and after a knife was taken from him he tried to batter his head against a wall. He requested his wife take the children away and was placed under two attendants. Aiming to be admitted to an asylum, his mind did not improve and doctors plan further care. Mr Blessing is noted as grandson of a War hero. Meanwhile William Zigler a B&O freight conductor died after a crushing accident near Camberiana while awaiting a passing train. He had served thirty years with the company and left a wife and children. His body was moved to Martinsburg for burial preparations.
Charlies E Ridgely and Fannie V E Goodman of this city were united in matrimony Saturday evening about nine o clock at All Saints P E rectory, the ceremony by Rector Ozborne Ingle. A reception followed at the bride's parents home.
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