The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20

Col. Forney says that Barbara Fret
chic is a fraud. retf
The Virginia authorities think the
Moffett register is success.
Buckles of small autumn leaves are
novelty for hat ornamentation.
Long, slender sacques will again be
favorite wraps for fall and winter.
What is society, after all, but a
mixture of histories and misseri
--Monograms are now embroidered
upon the backs of gloves and mittens.
"A laborer in Corpus Christi, Tex,
has fallen heir to fortune of $50, 900 in
Europe.
ell. The retention of the princesse style
enables ladies to make over their old
dresses.
The locomotives on the railroads in
New York State have this year killed
thirtytwo tramps.
"A marble statue of the late EXPIRES
ident Andrew johnson is to be set up
near his old Tennessee home.
1t is asserted by the Alta that out of
33, 900 votes cast in San Francisco at the
late election all but 3, 900 were scratched
If you do not want to be robbed of
your good name, do not have it painted
on your umbrella. Turner'S Falls Re
porter.
"A Georgia negro, aged eighty, of
Middlesex, N. j., has been sued for
breach of promise by his cousin, Louise
Gulick, aged thirty seven.
An educated tramp is doing Iowa
City. He only calls on the ministers,
professors and educated men, and makes
his appeals in the Latin and Greek Ian
guages. ...,.. .,....
1t is asserted that many of the bar
rels of -four shipped from Boston to
Maine contain demijohns of whisky, and
that it is to carry the liquor that ship
ments are made.
Samuel Stickney, of Waterloo, Iowa,
Rugged girl so hard that revolver in
his pocket was discharged, seriously
wounding boy who was passing the gate
where the pair stood.
On every well-regulated newspaper
office door in America is the legend:
No peddlers, bcggars, Harvard gradu-
ates or Osman-Pasha kilograms wanted
here. "-Chicago Tribune.
There are five born sisters in Cana
dian convent, all of them professed nuns,
and they have contributed their com
bined fortunes, amounting to 100000,
to the treasury of the nunnery.
Texas has 1,750,000 people and
Louisiana only about 100000. When
the war ended Louisiana was the more
populous State of the two. Three years
from now Texas expects to have twenty
Congressman. ....
Ell. BY keeping the nails of the thumb
and fore finger of the right hand pretty
good length a man may save considera-
bic time at the church door when his
wife requires him to button her gloves.
Whitehall Times.
... Colorado has sensation. A verita-
BILE Cardiff giant" has been discovered
in the southern part of that wonderful
new State. 1t is the petrifed figure of a
man seven feet and five inches in height,
and of huge proportions.
Mature doesn't know much. If she
had made mans head out of cork, see
how nicely he could have foated about
in water, and kept himself from drown
ing in case of shipwreck. Chicago
Journal
@ "A writer in the Raleigh Register in
sists that North Carolina has now more
labor, skilled and unskilled, than it can
possibly use to advantage with its pres
ent amount of capital, and he wants in
tended immigrants to be warned off, un-
less they are capitalists.
" Judge Lord, in charging the jury in
recent case of Simons Us. City of Bos-
ton, cautioned the jury to remember
that the treasury of the city is not a
fountain to be drawn upon by everybody
who has suffered loss or feels that he
has a grievance" u"tO ...
William G.. Bryant will be eighty
four on the Sd of November. His pa
~ per, the New York E0entng Post, is in
its seventy year, and has had but
two chief editors. The first was Will
lam Coleman, who occupied the post for
twenty-six years; and the second, Mr..
Bryant. ....... ........
..,. Col. Ingersoll wants to see farmers
wives dress with more care and better
taste, which would cost no more than
their present style, and above all he
wants to see them pitch their miserable
little cook-stoves out of the window and
get decent range over which they can
cook without cooking themselves.
%, Forty years ago G. NJ. Gillespie, now
of Kansas, courted Miss Ann Wilson. of
Bourbon, KY. She refused him, and he
went West, married and raised a large
family. His wife died and he came back
few days ago and married his still
waiting first sweetheart. He is now
seventy.two and she is sixty-six.
The estate of the late Capt. E. B.
Ward, of Detroit, which was inventoried
at his death at 100000 in excess of
his debts, has, on account of great
shrinkage of values, deprecated to such
an extent that the executor has proposed
to the smaller creditors to settle their
claims at seventy-five cents on the dollar.
When the Chicago "Fidelity" Bank
failed, a few days ago, gray haired,
poorly.dressed woman in the surging
crowd of cheated depositors was observed
crying bitterly. 81 had $3.50 in there"
she said; "it was all l had to depend on
for the winter, and now it is all gone.
have five children. God help us"