The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-08

OUTLOOK; one sees all the people that miss
the train"
Gen. Malone, unsuccessful candi-
date for the Democratic nomination as
Governor of Virginia, was wounded dur
ing the war. He weighs little over 100
pounds, and his wife was much dis
tressed when she heard of his misfortune.
Friends assured her it was only flesh
wound. 81 know BETTER" said the wife;
If Billy Malone has been struck any
where on his body by bullet it has
broken bone"
"A lady wears a pair of sweet little
bottines, with heels four inches high.
She suffers agonies, and, which is worse,
the dear heels twist and warp till they
look like a pair of leather cork-screws.
The shoemaker is summoned in haste.
He examines the heels, feels their pulses,
tries auscultation, analyses them, when
suddenly he has an idea. "My griefr'
he cries; 81 know what's wrong with
these boots! You've been walking in
theml"-PariS Paper.
Albert Meyn, of Boston, during twelve
years paid the premiums on $25, 900 of
life insurance. The burden was too
heavy for his business, and was the cause
of his bankruptcy; but he struggled hard
and successfully to make the payments,
believing that by doing SO he was secur-
ing his family against poverty after his
death. Within two years one after an
other of the companies in which he was
insured have gone to pieces, and when
he died, several weeks ago, all his poll
cies were worthless. His wife and chill
dren are penniless.
During a political campaign, the
editor of paper speaks of the local OPP
position paper as "our usually well-in-
formed contemporary" he speaks of a
country paper in the same county as
"our neighbour" he calls the opposition
paper published some 200 miles away
AN organ" an exchange in the next
State is a vile sheet" and his courage
rises to the level of sublimity when he
assails an editor remote some / 800 miles
as ga bloodless liar, an INSCRIPTIONS
knave, the corrupt tool of vicious ring,
a creature too vile to walk erect and
mock the name of manw-HaWk-E Eye.
The credit for the invention of the
steamboat is now claimed for still an
other man, Capt. Samuel Mory, of Yer
mont, who, it is declared, had small
steamboat on the Connecticut River IN
1892, and another afterward on Fairlee
Pond. In 1895 he took out patent, but
the record was destroyed in the burning
of the patent office. Before this, in
1870, he had shown his invention to
Robert Fulton, who offered him a great
price for it, but afterward stole it, and
had it patented in 1903 in his own name
That is the story; but history says that
Fultons first patent was not granted till
1909 Capt. Mory's claim will not be
well received if even assured facts are
misstated.
-" Like" is a part of speech Of complex
mien,
That to be hated needs but to be seen
In phrases such as this ill-sounding one:
He done it Just exactly like done"
Or this" D me! feel like would die.'
Looks like this wind would blow things all
sky-high."
Why cannot folks the laws of syntax heed,
And give this luckless "like'' its place in
deed?
Then might in truth the word become again
Like other good words, for the use of men;
Or a brave adverb-" Fight like men, in
sooth.
What no, Grammarians! let us have a strike,
And Danish from our speech this mongrel
like.
Do as do-Be valiant as say
And, like a dream, this "like" shall pass
away.
Mary z. C. Wyeth, in Christian Union.
The Jewish papers are very sensitive
about its being mentioned that any Of
tenders against the laws is Jew, and
thus neatly turn the tables on the Chris
tians:
ga PRESBYTERIAN ATTACKS AN EPIs-
CoPALIAN.-On Thursday of last week
Maj. Selover, a we'll known Presbyterian
stock broker, assaulted and beat Mr.. Jay
Gould, the prominent Episcopalian Wall
street speculator. Mr.. Gould is the part
ner of Mr. Belden, the Methodist broker,
and had had some dealings with Mr..
Selover and with Mr.. James Keene, a
wealthy Baptist Californian broker; and
it is alleged that Mr.. Gould's duplicity
in his transactions led to the assault
The affair created great excitement in
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and
Episcopalian circles, where the gentle
men concerned are we'll known. Mr.
Russell, rich Unitarian broker, is also
understood to have been concerned in
speculations which were the cause of the
trouble"
1T would not be well for lahorers and
mechanics in the North to conclude that
this is paradise because there are no
strikes. There is very little to strike
against and very few to strike, except in
agricultural pursuits. On the railroads
men are doing long days work for pay
which would make New York Central
trainman laugh. Nine dollars month
for brakemen and trainmen, fifty dollars
for conductors and seventy-five dollars
for engineers are about the average
figures. One of the roads is about five
months behind with its employees, and
all are in arrears, with small prospect of
ever catching up. Mechanics are quite as
badly off. There is little TO do and that
at lower prices than we're ever known.
Country newspapers can get all the
printers they want for their board and
lodging during the summer months, and
twenty-five cents per ZOO ems for tran
sient work is the usual price outside of
Charleston. Agricultural labor is worse
paid than in any civilized country. Six
dollars month and a ration costing
about forty cents week is the price for