The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
COMMUNICATIONS.
BLOOMINGTON, Md,
April 10, 1877.


ED. REPUBLICAN Noticing the
numerous communications your val
liable and wide awake paper is re-
ceiving, from different parts of the
county, cannot fail to see the great
interest manifested in the establish
ment Of a republican paper in Gar
rett county. TO the query so often
propounded, why a Republican pa
per could not establish and maintain
itself, there has invariably been but
one answer, 4. e. the want of that en-.
ergy, that management, that human
steam, which carries all our success.
full men from little beginnings to
great BINDINGS.
L hope, Mr.. Editor, that to you
the Republicans Of this county shall
ever remain grateful for your noble,
manly efforts in vindicating and adj
vocating the grand principles of the
most successful of all political insti-
buttons, Republicanism. Well, po-
litically, we are buOyant. President
Hayes policy in the South has re-
ceived the commentator of all our
sensible politicians. TO be sure, we
gave uu with great reluctance the
claims of Chamberlain, but to recon-
ciliate the South, for a reunion of the
two opposing factions, we sacrifice
the interests of the few, for the good
of the many. Anything to wash the
stains out of that bloody shirt. We
gagged little over Fred. Douglass,
but after fair, just, and impartial
reconsideration our political stom-
achs are relieved of all that terrible
| nausea.
In regard to the business outlook
IN our community, we add our cry to
| the universal wall Of "hard times"
we have been waiting patiently for
the tulfillment Of that prophecy, so
generally predicted before the 9Th of
March, A President has been cho-
sen, one has been inaugurated, yet,
we suffer. We notice that every in
dustry, except few, are dead; facto-
ries closing; banks crashing; mer-
camille houses suspending improve
ments checked; wages below a mini
mum skilled artisans in every de-
partment of labor idle and destitute:
in tact, the whole United States one
vast pool Of stagnation. But we are
told we should not fret over that we
cannot help.
Reports say the mines in our vi
entity are about to resume on full
time. This will certainly be oncour-
aging to the many idle men, wander
ing hither and thither, hunting some
thing to do, to keep the gaunt wolf
from the door. We place but little
confidence in these every day re-
ports. Tilden was elected on the
Sth of November. If we would have
taken this for truth, how we would
have been fooled Inauguration day.
The LOchiel Lumber Co., with it's
huge structure of a mill, has at last
made start sometime ago. 1t gave
a man the blues, to visit this great
affair and survey it, numerous work
ing facilities all idle. The huge boil
ers cold and lifeless. The innumer-
able bands, pulleys, wheels, &C.,
eager for trial trip to test their
power and speed. The monster cir
cular saw, with its teeth well shar-
pened, ready to eat its way through
the hardest and toughest of logs, still
and mOtionless. The wonderful
gang, with its twenty saws, ready to
cut the longest timbers into the finest
lumber. hanging pensively to its
bearings without one breath of steam
to set it in motion. The cost of this
mill together with the improvements
on the river, its numerous splash
dams, &C., is estimated to exceed
100000. At the last freshest they
fioated into the dam about 500 logs,
which with previous drive amour
ted to about /, 200 logs They expect
to be about three weeks or a month
cutting this number. When in full
running order they employ about %
hands, and turns out ner day between
thirty and forty thousand feet OF
lumber. For some TIME, people
were apprehensive Of failure, but
lately their doubts have all been dis
PEELED by the assurance that it had