The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05

union Odm on the IJtn anu Killed
him. after rough battle. His fellow
citizens propose to give him medal
rs the champion of weather beaten
humanity.
A large chestnut tree, measuring
seven and and a-haf feet across the
stump, was recently cut down near
Mile Green, III Hartford county. Ii
was probably the largest tree of the
kind In that neighborhoSd. A per
ton of the top had been dead for
many years; but the ether portions
never failed to yield crop of chests
nusts.
Mr.. Jas. w. Chapman. of Chester
town, has bought farm near Lynch's
Station, containing $40 acres, for $1S
600. The farm is highly productive
and improved. and contains seven or
eight thousand peach trees.
A newly married couple, returning
home from Elkton In a carriage last
week, were thrown out into snow
bank. In the confusion the husband
lost his better. half, and went home
without her. The fail had broken
her arm, but she managed to join her
husband soon after. prepared to de-
liver the curtain lecture.
The old Meshach Frost mansion. at
Frostburg, is to be remodled into a
hotel for the accommodation of sum
mer boarders. about $13, 900 of the
capital stock of the company has al
ready been taken. and other gentle
men interested in the project will
subscribe the $1,000 still required.
The hotel will have from three to
four acres of land attached for pleas
ure grounds.
I he canal board was in session in
Cumberland on Thursday. and Mr..
Henry Loveridge, president of the
new railroad, appeared and solicited
the influence of the board to effect a
solution of the crossings difficulty.
The board decided to demand from
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad a
connection with its wharves for the
new company.
Mr.. S, G.. Swart, of Crumpton, re
Gently laid claim to mare in pos
session of the Rev. G. p. Smith, of
Sudlersvile, alleging that it was sto-
len from him in October, 1876. A trial
before magistrate resulted in de-
cision in favor of Mr.. Swart, Mr.. B.
Il. Crouch, of Cecil county, who sold
the mare to the Rev. Mr.. Smith. in
tends to take an appeal, and asserts
that he bought the mare at Elkton in
July, 1875.
John Wesley Turpin was sentenced
by Judge GOldsborough, atSalisbury
on the 23d instant, to ten years i'm
prisonment-the Court of Appeals
having rejected the legal points raised
by his counsel against the verdict oil
the jury of murder in the second de
gree. The Judge reminded Turpin
that if the court had decided differ
emily, necessitating a new trial, a
new jury might have sent him to the
gallows. The prisoner said, in reply,
that he hoped the court would never
again he called upon to pronounce so
unjust sentaace.
Mrs. Rebecca T. Viers, sister OF
Mr.. William Bays, formerly OF
Montgomery county. has received
some additional particulars of the
murder of that unfortunate man.
1t states that Mr.. Bays was struck
on the head with pistol on the
l4th of January last at Sidney,
Neb., and he fingered at the Miners
Hotel thirteen days before relieved
by death. The coroner's jury in the
case returned a verdict that the de-
ceased came to his death by the blew
upon the head from a pistol in the
hands of Jessie Dor aldson. The
murdereris in Jail awaiting trial.
A Georgia paper claims a peach
orchard in Alabama, belonging to a
brother of the Irish agitator, Parnell,
a- being the largest in the world, and
yet it covers only $50 acres. The
Chestertown Transcript makes mer-
ry over Alabama contending as to
large peach orchards, fergetful of the
little state of Delaware and the East
ern Shore of Maryland. A few years
ago the Round Top orchard, near
Chestertown. contained 1,000 acres,
though now reduced to 400 acres.
Many other orchards are cited as
containing 800 and 400 acres, and
Kent and Queen Anne's counties con-
tain several others exceeding $50
acres.
Edward II. Coursey, Esq, who
died recently in Queen Anne's coun-
ty, was known as the man of figures,
from his fondness for abstruse calcu
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