The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-14


marlborough, Prince Georges coun-
", has been completed at a cost of
$4,000 on the plans prepared by
frank E. Davis, the architect, of
Baltimore.
Judge Dickson, who sold his stock
IN the Milford Bay Shore Railroad
Company, has another road for sale
= the Delaware Central running
from Mahon's river to Marvdel. The
road has surplus in bank of Sll.5O.
A great oyster-shucking match
took place at Oxford, Nd, last week.
Ihere were four entries. Moses
Johnson won the champion oyster
knife. He opened one hundred oys-
tiers in five minutes and twenty-five
seconds.
On the 18th ult., John E. Miles,
OF Burkettsville, Frederick county,
hung himself in the kitchen of his
residence. 1t is supposed he commit
tea the act because his family had
decided to go West against his wishes.
On Friday last freight car con-
tanning furniture belonging to Mr..
George A. Abobtt, of Baltimore, and
Quantity of new furniture of Mr..
David w. Brooks. of Frederick, was
crushed to pie.es in consequences of
a defective brake. The furniture was
completely demolished.
David Yingling, who died on the
lst instant near Manchester, had 49,
600 life Insurance at the time of his
death. Applications amounting to
Sol 600 had been made, but some of
the policies had been dropped and
the rest had not been returned.
Mr.. Tillard, an English gentlemen,
who has recently purchased land in
Carroll county, has returned home
and will bring his family here in the
fall, He is so well pleased with this
section of the country that he will
bring out colony with him, it is ex-
pected.
Messrs. JACK and Jeffords, of Phil
adelphia, have leased a track of land
on Elk Creek, and are digging clay for
the manufacture of wares and paints.
Barge loads are sent daily to Phila-
delphia via the canal. The best
quality of the clay lies beneath the
bed of the creek, and a cofferdam is
to be built so as to get at it.
One day last week seven carloads
of tobacco, aggregating tifty-six tons,
were shipped Oh the York and Peach
Bottom Railroad from Delta and
Woodbine stations. This tobacco
was raised in the upper section OF
Hartford county, Nd, and the lower
end of York county, Pa.
Mrs. A. w. Emmons, wife of the
general secretary of the Young Mems
Cristian Association in Cumberland,
died on Thursday at her home in
that city, after patiently suffering fol
nearly twelve years with a disease
that baffled the skill of all the physi-
clans that attended her.
Two children and the mother OF
Mr.. Frank Payne, near Gilpin's
point, on the Cheptank, were taken
i'll last week, and died with symp-
toms of cholera. Mr.. and Mrs.
Payne still continue ill with similar
symptoms. The disease was caused
by drinking water from well that
had caved in.
Miss Maggie Bell Frantz. girl
thirteen years old, died on Sunday
last at Clearsprlng, Washington
county. from injuries received from a
! fall hearty month before. She had
clambered up ladder and fell about
ten feet, striking scraper. which
penetrated her body. Her father is
greatly commiserated, as within a
/ few years he has been bereaved of his
wife, mother and three children.
Henry Sempers, of Easton, who
has been a patient in the Maryland
Hospital, at Baltimore, for more than
year past, returned to his home on
the Sd instant, reporting that he had
been discharged. Soon afterwards
he gave evidence of being as crazy as
ever by buying knife to kill his
son.in-Iaw. and he was lodged in
prison for safe-keeping.
The handsome town of Cambridge
is to be improved this season with
with several church buildings. The
M. f. Church South will build new
edifice at the Southwest corner OF
Main and Race streets. The M. +.
Church north propose building a
steeple upon and otherwise improy'
ing its present place of worship. The
Methodist Protestants have made ar
rangements for building new church
in East Cambridge.
The Laurel Herald reports the
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