The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

Hagerstown is enjoying a business /
boom. So says the Odd Feilo,U.
Three barges ofseven hundred tons
each are to be built at Cambridge for
the agent of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
ROAD Company.
james Dryden, a well.known char.
acter Of Somerset county, died on the
I'm Inst. He was known by the sin.
GUAR cognomen of "Time Enough"
The stock of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. went up to 2O3 ON We'd
nesday last. The heighest figure
ever attained before was 1866.
The business men Of Baltimore,
propose to give Ex-senator Whyte,
banquet as a testimonial Of his
services in behalf of Baltimore
City.
Thepeach trees in Sassafras Neck
ana along the bay and tributaries in
Cecil county have not been injured
by the frest, and there is every pros.
pect OF good crop.
A letter from Hot Springs, Ark,
mentions the location there Of the
firm Of Hollyday & Feddeman, both
OF Whom are from Queen Anne's
county. The firm is prospecting.
iFfsnk Pratt, who was stabbed in
THE ARRAY at Mount Savage on the
[ 18th inst, when his brother Joseph
was killed, is still in a critical condi.
tion.
James Duckworth, employed in
the Maryland Coal CempaDy's mine
at Homecoming, was killed on the 18th
inst, by being run ever by two loads
ed cars.
Governor Hamilton, has appointed
John Richie Esq, of Frederick, to
he Chief Judge of the 9th Judicial Cir.
cult. TO fill the vacancy eccasioned by
the death OF Judge Bowie.
The Cristield Leader predicts a
great scarcity of crabs this spring.
The river shore is strewn with dead
crabs, and it is therefore concluded
that it will be late in the season be.
fore they become plentiful again.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad
has been completed to Luray. A gap
of eight miles remains to be compile
ted between the two ends of the road,
and in about two weeks communi.
cation with Waynesboro'. Va, will
be opened.
William jolly, a colored voter of
Dorchester county, had his name
drawn from thejury wheel last week,
to serve ia place ola white man who
was excused. There is now only the
name of one colored man remaining
in the wheel.
The town election in Cambridge,
Dorchester CT unity, on the 18th in>
slant. resulted in the election of DIR.
5. c. De, Kroft, the regular Republi.
can candidate, who received more
votes than the two other candidates
combined. Democrat and an indie.
pendent Republican.
The measles are prevalent on Tay.
lor's Island. dorchester county. The
disease is not confined to the juven-
lie population alone, but the adult
population is also afflicted with it.
Mrs. Alice Mitchell, the wife of
Hon. John l. Mitchell, the newly
elected United States senator from
Pennsylvania, is granddaughter, of
the late DR.. Robert III. Archer. of
Hartford county.
1t is reported at Cumberland that
there will be no reduction in canal
tolls this season, and that the rates of
last year-fifty one cents per ton to
Georgetown and four cents wharfage
VIII De maintained.
John H. Zevely, formerly of Cum.
berland, but resident of Wheeling.
w. Va, for the last ten years, has
disappeared from the latter place,
and charges are made that he has
committed forgeries amounting to
$500.
The Rev. j. L. Estlin, of Will
nington, Del, has been called to the
pastorate of the Christ Reformed
Episcopal Church of Cumberland, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of the Rev. j. X. Dunn.
An iceberg, said to tower fifty feet
high, passed out of the river at Havre
de Grace on the 18th inst. As 1t
grounded in twenty feet of water, it
must have been at least seventy feet
high. The Republican Is responsible
for this story.
/ Colonel j. H. T. Magrauder. OF
Prince Georges county. lately state
librarian, was recently married to
Miss Eliza Hoxton. The groom is a
youth of rs, and the bride coy
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