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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The yellow fever is making fright
full ravages in number of Southern
cities. Grenada, Miss, has by dean
and the flight of the inhabitants been
reduced from population of 200
whites to 200, with only from thirty
to forty well ones The deaths have
been SO. At New Orleans the totat
number OF eases up to the close Of
last week was 975, Of which 265 had
died. Seventy three new cases and
twenty-seven deaths were ,eported
in the tWenty-four hours ending
with Saturday night. The total
number of cases at Memphis up to
Saturday night numbered 100, OF
whom 26 haye died. There are I'D
wards Of fifty cases il Vickburg.
The New Orleans Hebrew Benevo-
lent Association has appealed to their
brethren throughout the country for
help. AT last reports The population
Of Memphis bad been reduced one
half by the stampede Of frightened
citizens.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Eleven hundred kegs of powder in
a magazine in the outskirts of Potts
vile, Pa, were struck by lightning
on Saturday afternoon, and a terrific
explosion followed that was heard
eleven miles distant. Fragments of
the building came whizzing among a
picnic party not far away, manning
several. Houses were demolished,
cattle injured so that they had to be
killed, and many large windows in
the town itself were shattered. Laf-
fin & Rand's magazine, containing
several hundred kegs of powder was
badly shattered, but the powder was
not ignited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

with the same candidate, or one
equally popular, and a vigorous
campaign, the majority might be
made so decisive that the enemy dare
not attempt to cheat him out of vic
tory. We believe such a man will
be nominated, and such a campaign
speedily commenced. The campaign
committee should send to his aid the
best speakers in the State, and every
dollar of the political fund not abso-
lutely essential for the purposes OF
organization in other districts. Ev-
cry dollar otherwise spent might as
well be thrown in the basin. We
hope our party managers will take a
like view of the situation, believing
that, if they do, Maryland will have
at least one Republican representa-
tive in Congress- Cambridge Era.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
A Democratic Blunder.

The demagOgical and revolution
airy Potter committee, organized and
authorized by the Democratic mem
bers of the House of Representatives,
has already encountered the well.
merited contempt of the whole coun-
try. The proposition to investigate
the acts of the returning boards of
certain States, and refusal to inquire
into the systematic intimidation and
fraud practiced in defeating the Re-
publican vote in the same States. has
opened the eyes of the people and re.
ceived the verdict of unqualifi-
ed condemnation. The sheme, how
ever hopeful of grand results its pro-
jectors may have been, is now con-
coded by many of their party to be
Democratic blunder, the effects of
which will be seriously felt on cleo
ton day. The committee has DIVIDED
itself into sections and is swinding
round the county, taking in the pop
ular watering places, and all at the
public expense.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
HeWittS Labor Committee Election,
eering Capital.

HeWitt's Congressional committee
to examine into the labor question.
has been holding session in New
York city. 1t has examined some
two scores Of witnesses, embracing
honest laboring men, socialists, COM
munists, theorists, and demagogues.
Each witness had a theory and a
creed Of his own, as to the causes of
and remedies for the hard times.
No two held the same views, and in
many cases the opinions expressed
were as opposite as day is to night.
In many cases the views expressed
and demands made were supremely
ridiculous. But as the whole scheme
that led to the organization OF the
committee was to humbug the work
ing classes into the belief that they
have the sympathy Of the Democratic
party, and thus secure their votes,
the nature of the testimony obtained
is a matter of minor Importance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

discovered to be less than 10000, and
with the same proportion of unem-
ployed to the whole population, the
total number of those without en-
ployment in the United States would
be $40, 900, instead of three million,
which figure has been asserted as the
correct one, even IN Congress. But
when it is considered that the plan
adopted by the bureau, of accepting
in every case the largest estimate
made of the unemployed, would nat
urally swell the aggregate for the
whole state much beyond its true
proportions, and when the fact is
noted that with one or two excep-
tons Massachusetts has greater
proportion of unemployed than any
other state, because her industries
are so largely artificial, it will at
once be seen that even $4,000 is.a
much larger figure than the truth, if
accurately ascertained, would war
rant. The remarks accompanying
the figures given in the report are
sensible and pointed. The following
is an extract:
1--WE do not wish it to be under
stood for moment that we do not
think the people are poor. They are
poor indeed, but they are not starv-
| ing and we venture the opinion that
they are not suffering for food to the
extent the popular estimate would
lead us to imagine, and that the
number now out of employment is
not much larger than in ordinary
times. The testimony of officials in
very many cases was that a large
percentage of those out of employ
ment would not work if they could,
or would not work for less than the
wages of five years ago. The people
are living on smaller wages, are
learning to live within their means
and trying to adapt their wants to-
the circumstances in which they find
themselves the manufacturer is try
ing to keep his industry alive, is
making every effort to keep his en-
ployes at work. They have been
sick, both employer and employee !;
but they cannot be cured by con-
stantly telling them how sick they
are-certainly not by making them
believe they are sicker than they
really are. We haYe had enough of
industrial hyhochondria, and it is
time the public recognized the facts
in the case and acted accordingly.
The industrial stagnation and depres-
sion has been and is severe enough /;
but every sign indicates sure recup-
Grafton. The people are growing
Stronger every month and while this
country will not jump into prosper
ity, it will find itself farther along
during the next six or twelve months
than it would have believed possible
six months ago. There is no region
but from it come reports of business
. revival"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
Fultz and ClaWsOn Wheat.

AS many of our readers are not ac-
qualnted with these new varieties of
wheat, we will give a brief descrip-
ton of them. We have grown the
Fultz for two years, and it has done
better than any other variety in the
nelghb0rhood. 1t is a smooth wheat.
with short straw, and stands up bet
ter than any variety we haye ever
grown. The berry is not large, but
very plump and weighs we'll. Grown
beside the Michigan Amber this year
1t lacked eight inches of being as tall,
but yielded third more grain to the
straw, and several ushels more to
TIL acre.
We believe tbetrffty bushels to the
acresNne bsS grown of this variety
w IN sIapgefA6f lodging. Clawson
Vanot;on seems to possess the same
tar HingaIities as the Fultz, with the
't,fdisbsnal advantage of being a
white wheat. Its characteristics are
red chatf, bald, white kernel, very
large and plump; does not shell read
lly-may be quite ripe before cut
ting and not shell ; straw stiff at
bottom, and ofmedium height; heads,
before ripening turn down natures
as easily as the Mediterranean not
subject to rust, and hardy so far as
winter and bad weather have tested
it, and because of large heads it is a
larger yielder, having gone as high
as fifty bushels on an acre. AS seed
of both these varieties can be had at
a little advance over the price of
common wheat, we advise farmers to
try them.-Prdctic0L Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

to commit our new movement to the
abuse and disparagement of individ-
ua!s wheresoever located, whose pre-
yious course has not met our apuro-
val?
Our course, it seems to US is clearly
one that is absorbed in taking care of
the Sixth District. By cones should
be by.gones, while we are trying this
experiment, and if we succeed, there
should be no obstacle placed in the
way of cooperating actively, honest
ly and efficiently with the party in
every section of the State, for its
good outside of this district, and for
this reason we deplore the Grilion'S
attack on Mr.. Mathews. -
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The published abstract from the
tenth annual report of the Massa-
chusetts bureau of statistics, in re-
ference to the unemployed of that
state, is ofespecial value at this time.
Great care has been taken to make
the figures accurate,I or at any rate
not to nnderstate the evil. Where
conflicting reports have been made
of the number of those out of EN-
ployment in town or city, the
highest has been taken without ex-
ception. Its showings acquire addi-
tional Importance from the complete
answer they furnish to the eXaggera-
ted claims as to the number of unem-
ployed in that state and the United
States, which. have been made 50 of
ten that they have come to be aecep-
ted almost without question. In
stead of more than 200, 600 persons
out of employment in Massachusetts,
as currently reported, the number is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Republicanism in South Carolina
is not dead nor asleep. The Repub-
licans of that State have unquestion-
ably a majority Of voters, but a
minority of rifles and skot-guns and
masks for midnight raics. They re-
Gently held convention at Column
bia, and, not having the fear of Wade
Hampton and his mipions before
their eyes, made platform in which
is this plank: 1--WE deem it ineXDe-
dient to nominate candidates for
Governor and other State officers, be-
cause, owing to the condition of af
fairs in this State occasioned by rife
oiu" rurO emu Uwv yvoI7 or Ders5o-
cratic supremacy, it is impossible for
the Republican voters in many coun-
ties, without mourning great personal
danger, to organize for the campaign
or to vote at the election when held"
Thus reafffrming all that has ever
been charged against the rifle-club
Democracy, and declaring that policy
still in force, they adjourned the con
YentiOn without making nomina-
tiOns.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The nomination of A. III. Stephens
as independent candidate, in the
event of his reputation by the dem
ocratic convention, would have led
to an exciting contest in the eighth
congressional district of Georgia.
But the nominating convention OF
the democracy has spoiled the fight
and shown its own wisdom by re-
nominating him as the regular dem
ocratic candidate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
A. G. STURGISS,
AUSTIN SPEICHER,
MICHAEL NATHAN,
Committee.
The Repu6Iical. for the Canspai0,s

to any address within the county,
until the November election, for
twenty-five cents. The money must
accompany the order.
Our Republican friends throughout
the county should aid us in getting a
large list of campaign subscribers.
This will be very exciting contest,
and Republicans should be posted on
the questions of the day, and they
will be if they read THE REPUBLI-
CAN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

TITS ever thus! The carpet Dagger
has been expelled or .annihilated
the negro has been "shut up" and
crushed out, but there seems to be a
little rascality still prevalent in New
Orleans. 1t seems that the virtuous
and high toned editor of the New
Orleans Democrat has just swindled
the State out of Sl4, 900, but it will be
compromised" doubtless, because
of his standing!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The Rochester Union contends that
Grant is ineligible to the Presidency,
and cannot run for third term. He.
is no longer citizen of the United
States. lie lisa foreign subject. He
accepted the freedom of London, al
lowed himself to be declared citi-
zen of that metropolis, and, as the
greater includes the less, he thereby
became subject of Queen Victoria.
He is entitled to vote In the corpora
ton of London and is eligible to be.
chosen its Lord Mayor.
Upon such acceptance and at the
time of its being conferred he signed
his name to the charter, or such in
strument in law as the corporation
provides, for signature upon admis-
sion of new citizens. That he also
took the oath of allegiance to such
corporation, which is but another
form of naturalization under the laws
of Great Britain that he is now, in
fact as in law, a subject of the Queen,
and by such fact has ceased to be a
citizen of the United States, and is.
therefore, ineligible to any position
under our laws until he has passed
the requisite term of years after his
return and has been through the
agonies of naturalization "a term of
years that bars him from the canvass
OF 1850, if not for all time, as to the
Presidency Of the United States.''
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
UNDINE.

R. Stockett Mathews, Esq, of Bal
timore, Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, is a gentle
man remarkable for the sanguinenesS
of his temperament. At the recent
meeting of the Executive Committee
he declared that the Republicans can
elect three Congressman in Maryland.
In this belief, so far as we are able to
learn, he stands alone. He lays great
stress upon the results of an actively
and vigorously conducted campaign,
which he rightly avows the Repub-
licans have not had for many years.
He, we presume. would lead in the
canvass of the State. No one ques-
lions his ability as a political speaker.
Very probably as an orator he has no
superior in Maryland. But even his
eloquence would prove futile in any
district save the Sixth. The over.
whelming Democratic majorities in
the First, Second, Third and Fourth
Districts, all will admit, who give
the subject moments consideration
are almost impossible to overcome.
The Fifth, it is true, is largely Re
publican, and with a fair election,
would have been represented in Con-
gress by Republican since the en-
franchisment of the colored race.
But that fair election it is impossible
to obtain. The frauGs of 1876 in the
Seventeenth Ward and Anne Arun.
die county will be again repeated.
The Republicans are powerless to
prevent it. Our only hope, therefore,
in our humble Judgment, is in the
Sixth, composed of the counties OF
Garrett, Allegany, Frederick, Wash
ington and Montgomery. The Dis
trict was carried two years ago by
McComas, but, the majority being
small, the Montgomery County Re-
turning Board counted him out. But
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle warns
its fellow Democrats that, ''if they
expect to elect a President two years
hence, they had better pay attention
to all forms of Independentism in
the South" Or, in other words, the
shotgun plan should be applied to
Independents as well as to Republi-
cans.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

"Do you wish the Union preserv-
ed ?" shouted Judge Thurman at
Hamilton, Ohio. eff so, support
Democracy" The Judge should
have stated it more clearly. 1t should
have been stated thus: "If you
want to preserve the Union support
those who endeayored to destroy it,"
This is Democratic logic in a nut
shell,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The Annapolis Record and Freder-
lex Union warn the friends of VIM.
T. Hamilton not to be cheated out of
the Gubernatorial race by running
him for Congress, and thus break
him down. The ring masters are
good Jockeys.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Irrv rvVoU Virginia I1v.uUe.vl,r.,..
Association, composed ofthe teachers
and friends of education in that State,
will convene in Parkersburg on the
9th, inst, and continue in session
several days. Several questions of
importance to teachers will be dis
cuSSed,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The Richie Democrat recommends
for the sutfrages of the Democrats in
the Richie District for State Sena-
tor, man whom, it says, twas
never indicted or charged with any
crime." A recommendation so
startling and unusual in the ranks of
Democracy points to the possibility
of revolution in the body polite.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

There will be no danger of bank
rupting the Treasury by the pay
ment of Shouthern claims should
there be a Republican majority in
Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Banning will not be chairman of
the House Committee on Military
Affairs in the next Congress. His
pardoned penitentlary birds will not
even have the opportunity ofsuffiing
ballot boxes for him,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The neighborhood of Selma, Ala
bama, must be a particularly I'M
pleasant place for the raising of a
Republican voice. Congressman
HARRISON was advertised to speak
there, Whereupon the Selma Times
served this amiable notice upon him:
"We know exactly what we are
talking about, and have weie he'd well
every word we here put in print. You
are in danger, you devil, and before
you know it you will bite yourself
with snake. You cannot longer go
over Dallas county making incedia-
ry speeches to the negroes, and using
every means in your power to create
riot and bloodshed. In doing such
acts you become public enemy, and
liable to be shot by anyone. Now,
while we will not advise anyone to
shoot you, we are free to say that if
you continue in your present course,
and it is done, we shall shed no tears
over your demise. We understand
that you were supplied by the Radi-
cal Executive Committee with funds
to return to this di trict and WhOop
'em up in the style we have alluded
to. If this is so, you had better use
your unexpended balance in getting
away from this county and section.
Your incendiary speeches must be
stopped somehow or somehow else,
DO you understand 2"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Leete, the new Potter witness will
be in great danger when here's back
to Louisiana. Weber, jerks, An
derson, and the other proud spirits
of that sort, can brook no such rival
as he.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

Republicans should support the
party and its grand principles now,
and leave local issues to be settled
hereafter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

A Southern raid on the United
States Treasury for S350,000,0OO is to
be voted for, or against, at the next
nInctiOn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24

The first duty of honest, earnest
Republicans is unity of purpose and
action.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
SATURDAY, AUGUST q, 1878.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES
A n D.
COUNTY CONVENTION.

COUNTY CONVENTION
The Republican voters of the sew
eral election districts of Garrett
county are hereby requested to assem-
BILE in primary meetings in their e.
spective districts on
Saturday, August 24th, 1878,
AT2 O'CLOCK, Pm,
for the purpose of electing FIVE
DELEGATES from each district, to
attend a County Convention to be
held at Oakland on
Tuesday, August 9th, 1878,
T2O'CL0CK, PM,
for the purpose of electing THREE
delegates to represent Garrett county
in a Convention to be held in Rock
vile, Md, on the 4th day Of Sep
TENDER, 1873, to nominate candi-
date for the next National Congress
from the Sixth Congressional District
of Maryland.
The members of the District Com
mittees in the several districts are
requested to make the necessary ar
engagements for the primaries in
their respective districts.
By order Republican State Central Commit
tee for Garrett County,
A. G. STURGISS,
AUSTIN SPEICHER,
MICHAEL NATHAN,
Committee.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-21
MIssOURI's MONEY.

State Treasurer Charged With Hypothe-
eating Paid But Not Cancelled Bonds
Fears for the Stability of Another State
Depository-Extra Session of the Legisla-
ture Probable.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.-A dispatch from Jeffer-
son City states there is reliable authority for
saving that State Treasurer Gate has hypothe-
Gated with the National bank of Commerce,
New York, $500 900 of old Atlantic and Pacific
railroad bonds as part security for the advance
of 1920, 900 made by the bank to pay the July
interest on State bonds. These bonds, it is as
serted, have been paid but never cancelled,
and if they should remain in the hands of inno-
cent holders the State can be made to pay them
again. 1t is also stated that when the treas
urer was pressed for money to pay the July
State interest he applied to the bank of st.
Joseph, another depository of State funds, for
it could not be paid. Notwithstanding this the
dispatch says whatever money is being received
by the treasurer for taxes and from other
sources is being sent to this bank, aud that
fears are expressed the bank of st. Joseph will
go the same as the Masten bank did. The
dispatch also says the amount of cou.
pons of the State now held by the Ban k OF
Commerce at about $480,000. 1t is further
stated that it has been determined to sue VIM
r. Mercer, State Treasurer Gates predecessor
on his official bonds for $4,000, the amour,
of check on the Western bank turned over by
him to Col. Gates when the latter assumed the
duties of treasurer. 1t is also said calico
session of the legislature may be looked fol
treasury and provide money to meet the State
nh uati oY1s
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-21
.iftea.,lnnn Session.

At 2 o'clock the committee again proceeded
with their work of running through the ac-
counts, taking those for the year 1863. Mr..
Edoerton called the attention of Mr.. Dryer to
a long statement of miscellaneous expenses in
CURED by Rev. Kerr, as treasurer, to the building
committee. The account charged for exchange
to a large amount and Mr. Edgerton wanted to
know why they had to send much money
East. Mr.. Dryer explained that the architect
had recommended the purchase of much of the
material for building in Eastern cities.
Senator Rice had never heard of such charges.
The bill contained many items of queer charges,
which led Senator Drew to remark that all bills
presented by the reverend gentleman would
bear looking into. :,
Two vouchers of Mr.. Kerr, one for six months
salary as treasurer of the BUILDING committee,
and another for Is days attendance upon the
building committee, $45, induced Senator
E5oerton to ask if it was the rule to so charge.
Mr.. Driver thought from the vouchers that
such was the practice.
A voucher from A. ]. Lamberton caused some
amusement. He had charged TOR two pals
81 so, and for u grindstone 5O cents
Senator Rice thought the small charge for the
pr;ndstone made up for the big price of the
pals. ;,
Senator Drew thought "honest John" would
oct ali his charges in all right if they did get
mixed up Il little.
bill from Snyder & Damren for $235.25 fol
fitting windows caused Senator Doran to cal
for the contract of that firm. The contract
stated that the firm were to fix all doors ano
windows according to specifications. DIR. Bart
lett explained that the specifications mentioned