The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-13
LOCAL NEWS.
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Patent medlclneS OF all kinds at
E. E. Chisholm's drug store.
Mrs. Haskell is visiting relatives
and friends in Wheeling, w. Va.
Mr.. A. G.. Sturgiss has ''re-
organized" the interior of his drug
store.
Hon. Geo. w. Wilson shipped
600 shook from this station to Balti-
more this week.
"A large stock of writing paper,
pens and ink, &C., at E. Z. CHS
holm's drug store.
200 sacks G. A. Salt for sale at
VIM. p. Totten's Cheap Cash Store,
Oak land, Nd. a26-tf.
The Literary Society meets to-
night. The programme is varied.
All are invited.
Our fishermen are beginning to
oil up. clean and fix up generally
their fishing apparatus for the spring.
VIM. Moody, Esq, of the Balti-
more Custom House, was in town
Tuesday.
Mr.. Procter's condition is inn
proving, and hopes are entertained
of his recovery.
Mrs. E. L. Ison left Oakland for
visit to friends in CIarksburg, w.
Va, Tuesday morning.
Major w. 0. Ison, of the Nor
gantown University, made short
visit home this week.
Hon. Geo. w. Wilson was in
town last Saturday. He returned to
Annapolis the same night.
Mr.. Henry Coddirgton moved
to town this week. He occupies one
of w. III. HALLS houses on Fourth
Street.
The regular Band Of Hope meet
ing will be held at the M. E. church
Thursday evening next.
The county commissioners of
Montgomery county have entered
into a contract with the Sentinel and
AdUOc0te to do the county printing
for Two years at 81 800 FER annum.
Married In the Oakland, NJ. E.
church, March 4th 1880. by Rev. John
NJ. Davis. Rev. S. w. Roberts, of
Doddridge county, w. Va, and Miss
Hattie Ashby, of this county.
Prof. j. w. Wilson, colored,
working in the interest of the col
ored people, lectured in Oakland Fri
day evening of last week and Tues
day evening of this week. His
Audiences were not large.
We were in error last week in
stating that Mr.. Casteel would oc-
cupy the Browning House next
spring. Mr.. Carr, the present pro-
prietor. viii remain in possession
until the first of November next.
A local law will be presented to
the Legislature empowering the
clerk to the county commisSione of
Garrett county, to administer an
oath or affirmation to any person
presenting claim against the
county.
Persons selling sewing machines
and representing them to be genuine
Singers" or buying bogus machines
and leading the public to believe
they are Singers" are infringing
on / he right of the Singer Manufac-
turing Company's Trade Mark, and
shall, "if convicted" be dealt with
according to law. L. w. Slonaker,
Agent.
Mr.. j. A. Wise, from near Fred
erick city, Mo, has removed with
his family to the John Barnes farm
near Oakland. He has leased the
farm for the present. but if satisfied
with our county, will in the near fu-
ture make purchase. We hope Mr..
Wise will remain in our county, for
we believe him TO be a firstScass
farmer, and the county is sadly in
I'd of such men.
Harry Metcalf, a man reputed
to be implicated in many murders,
has been arrested and lodged in Jail
at Keyser, West Va, to be tried for
the murder of a man on Patterson's
Creek in 1865. He quarrelled with
man named H. Smith about horse,
which the latter had in charge and
refused to deliver it to Metcalf. The
latter procured gun and shot Smith
through the body, in the presence Of
four men, yet living in the county,
who happened to be on the spot
when the quarrel occurred. Metcalf
disappeared Immediately after the
tragedy, and all trace of him was
lost up to the time when he sudden
ly reappeared in his old haunts.
Shortly before the affray which re-
suited in Smiths death, four other
murders occurred in the county, and
the prisoner is believed to have been
A. I'll.