The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-23

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Mr.. Miller, OF Frostburg, is now
engaged in plastering Mr.. Legge's
hall. He will also plaster Mr.. Of,
futt'S new store building.
More than Two Hundred and
Forty-five Thousand bottles of Sell
LERs' COUGH SYRUP have been sold
by the firm of Jno. d. Park & Sons,
Cincinnati.
The. Cumberland CjUiEdn has
heard that most OF the coal c0mpa-
MES will stop shipping coal by canal
about the 25th inst. AT present the
shipments are quite brisk.
-Married-On Wednesday night,
goth inst, at Coddington's Hotel by
Rev. b. Ison, Mr.. Martin l.. Moore,
and Miss Martha Dickens. both of
Doddridge county, w. Va.
Rev. Mr.. Robinson, colored
Baptist minister of Harrison county,
w. Va, preached in the Memorial
church Wednesday night. He had
fair audience to greet him.
Union Thanksgiving services
will be held in the Lutheran church,
on Thursday, 18th inst, at 1O4 A. NJ.
Sermon by Rev. O. c. Miller. A
general invitation is extended.
"A word to the wise. If you are
troubled with a Cough or Cold, pro-
cure a bottle Of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup at once. Its use may save you
from severe sickness. Your druggist
keeps it. Price % cts.
The Garrett Literary Society
will meet this Saturday evening at
Z O'Clock, at the residence of Mr.. ID.
III. Loar. a full attendance of mem
bers is requested, as business Of I'M.
pOrt07ace is to be transacted.
A telegram received at Western
port Tuesday announced that Mr.
Lionel Jameson, son of Mr.. j. S
Jameson, of that place who was ac-
cidentally stabbed with II penknife
at P0ughkeepsie, New York, len
days ago, is out of danger, and will
come home in Il few DAYS.
The contracts for the superstruc-
ture of the bridging of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in Maryland will be
let to the Baltimore Bridge Compa-
ny. The bridges will be substantial
iron structures, and are expected to
be completed by January /. The rails
will be furnished by a Philadelphia
firm, and the work of laying them
will be commenced shortly.
On Saturday 6. w. Mcmillan,
convicted at Cumberland for assault
with intent to outrage Clara M. POr-
ter, was sentenced to five years i'm
pris0nment. James Lancaster, for a
similar offence, received II like ser
tence. w. II. Mason, convicted of
swindling by representing himself as
the agent of a bogus insurance COM
pany, was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
A letter from the Treasurer of
the Howard Association of Vicks-
burg notified the Mayor Of Cumber-
land that a draft for S136.l4 of the
Second National Bank Oh the Impor-
tiers and Traders National Bank of
New York, the amount of yellow
fever contributions, had been stolen,
but the thief having sent it to Col.
umbus, Miss, to be negotiated, its
payment was stopped. A second re-
mittance of $50 sent from Cumber
land has, it is supposed, been also
stolen, as the TreaSur ar says nothing
about it in his letter. Receipts were
received written on a letter-head of
the Howard Association, professedly
signed by w. Ill. Andrews, its Pres
ident.
Joseph Dixon was the oldest man
in this section of country-one of the
pioneers in the Alleghanies and the
patriarch of the Dixons. The fam
lily have no record of his birth and
consequently cannot give his age,
but from incidents he related of his
boyhood, and other facts, he must
have been at least 10S years old in
May last; Mr.. Dixon thought him
self Ill. He was born in Baltimore,
Md, in 1869, therefore, from where
his parents emigrated to Ohio, and
settled not far from the present site
of Wheeling, on the Ohio river, in
what is now Belmont county. Mr..
Dixon often related that when queit
a boy their family had 10 flee to Fort