The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-30

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Philip Quinton, slave belonging
to parties at Snow Hill, returned to !
that place recently after an absence
of thirty years, which he spent in
Massachusetts and Connecticut. He
means to spend the rest of his days
amid the scenes where he was born.
The widow OF the late Joseph Pom
eroy, of Shippensburg, Pa. who died
recently, bequeathed five hundred
dollars to the Presbyterian Church,
in Emmittsburg. She was formerly
Miss Stewart, and lived near Em-
mittsburg.
L. h. Daner, painter at Cum
berland, fell head foremost off the
house of the late Philip Roman,
distance of 45 feet, on Thursday, and
was instantly killed. He was about
% years of age, and leaves a wife,
three sons and Il daughter.
Col. John Gale dropped dead on
Monday morning in the yard of the
Washington Hotel, in Princess Anne,
of heart disease, He was brother
of DR.. VIM. H. Gale, formerly regis
ter of wills of Somerset county, and
was clerk in the registers Office.
1t is now stated that the engineers
engaged in surveying tho new rail-
road route between Baltimore and
the Susquehanna have adopted Wat
sons Island as the point for bridging
the river. This location would place
the line within a mile of the tracks
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore road.
Joseph Offner, who was in prison
at Chestertown, charged with steal
ing watch and two pistols from
James p. Carothers, made his escape
on the night of the 18th inst. BY
means of poker he broke off his
leg-irons and picked hole through
brick wall. The grandjury brought
in an indictment against him the
next day.
Mrs. Hanes. the wife of Frank
Hanes, the man who eloped from
Frederick with his sister-in-law, is
lying in critical condition. When
she heard of the elopement the shock
was so great that she was compelled
tG resort to a narcotic to induce sleep.
She took dose of thirty drops of
laudanum, which threw her into con-
vulsions, from which she is still suf-
fering.
A correspondent of the Whining
ton Ee,Us describes the courthouse at
ElktOn as a cast-eff barn built just
after the Revolution. The judges
bench has the lock of an auctioneer's
block, and everything is in harmony
with it. The building is called an
eye-sore and a disgrace to the coun-
ty, and totally unfit, from the want
of ventilation, for the assemblage of
large crowds.
For two months past there has
been deadlock in the councils of
Frederick from parties being equally
divided, and the policemen have
been deprived of their salaries. An
application to the court was resorted
to at last, and they obtained a judg-
ment against the city for the amount
of their March salaries. The same
legal process will have to be gone
through with every month as long
as the deadlock continues.
The barn and courthouse on the
farm of Captain j. Fl. Strain, near
Brooksville. were burned OF Saturday
night, with five horses, nine COWS
and two calves. Two carriages and
all his hay and corn were destroyed.
His loss amounts to 81 900. on which
there was $1,000 insurance. The or
igin of the fire cannot be accounted,
for and he had gone the round of his
premises only half an hour before the
fire broke out.
On Wednesday Frank Haine elop-
ed from Frederick in company with
Florence Baker, his sister-in-Iaw, a
girl of sixteen. leavin his wife abso-
lutely without cent, he having pre- =
viously sold his household goods and
pocketed the money. He is man
about thirty-tnree years old, and has
been five years married. The desel-
ted wife is hisjunior by several years.
and is represented as very estim-
able woman, who has been living a
very unhappy life. The runaway
pair left on the o'clock train on
Wednesday morning for Baltimore,
but have prabably gone further, as he
has plenty of money.
On Wednesday Captain Wilson, OF
the sloop Cooke, of Crsffeld, was arr
rested while dredging oysters within
the waters Of Port Tobacco creek.
The offender pleaded ignorance that