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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

Mrs. Robert Hume, wife of we'll
known English gentleman residing
in Albemarle county, has been sum
moned by cable to London, where
her husband, who left this country a
short time ago on business, is under
arrest charged with murder. He was
found in the room of Annie Harcourt,
at No. st. Bank street, Johns
Wood. The woman was just breath
ing her last from pistol wound in
Der breast. Hume claimed that the
young woman in examining his re-
volver had accidentally discharged
the weapon, killing herself. From
information received here, it is be-
lieved that this statement is true, but
upon examination by the London
magistrate Hume was held for muir.
der, the police officers claiming that
he has made contradictory state,
ments. Mr.. Hume is well known,
and his wife was at Richmond
hotel when she received the news of
her Husbands trouble. Hume is en-.
gagged to some extent in the cattle
trade, and has considerable dealings
in Baltimore. He has also been a
freque't exhibitor Of cattle at the
Virginia State fairs, and is remem
bered as joyial, generous young
man
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
Kind Words from Our Exchanges.

Capt j. A. Hayden disposed of his
Interest in THE REPUBLICAN news
paper last week, to Messrs. f. A.
Thayer, Thos. j. PeddicJrd. and II.
Wheeler Combs. The paper will be
conducted hereafter under the firm
name of F. A. Thayer & Co. We
understand the price paid was $1,000.
We extend our best wishes to the
new firm. = Oakland Democrat.
The Oakland REPUBLICAN has
changed hands, Capt. Hayden retir-
ing and F. A. Thayer q Co. bec0m
ing owners. Mr.. Thayer's associates
are Messrs. II. j. Peddicord and II
Wheeler Combs. of Oakland, two
leading members of the bar of West
ern Maryland.
We welcome the gentlemen into
the editorial guild, and wish them
a happy and prosperous result of
their enterprise. THE REPUBLICAN
is good paper, and has done fine
work for the Republican cause in
Garrett county, and will doubtless
continue in the line of hearty labor
ers in the vineyard. - Ctna6. NetCs.
The Oakland REPUBLICAN has
changed hands, Capt. Hayden retir-
ing and f. A. Thayer & Co. becoming
owners. Mr.. Thayer's associates are
Messrs. It. j. Peddicord and II.
Wheeler Combs, of Oakland.-Au-
nGpo6S Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

WHERE THE FORESTS ARE Go.
ING.-To make shoe pegs enough for
American use consumes annually
100000 cords of timber, and to make
our lucifer matches 800, 1000 cubic feet
of the best pine are required every
year. Lasts and boot trees take 500,
600 cords of birch, beech and maple,
and the handles oftools 500, 900 more.
The baking of brick consumes 1000,
600 cords of wood, or what would
cover with forest about $4,000 acres
of land. Telegraph poles already up
represent 500, 900 trees, and their am
nual repair consumes about 100000
more. The ties of the railroad con-
sumo annually thirty years, growth
of 600 acres, and to fence all the
railroads would cost $40, 100000, with
a yearly expenditure of S15,0O0,000
for repairs. These are some of the
ways in which American forests are
going. There are others; packing
boxes, fer instance, cost. in 1874, S12,
100000, while the timber used each
year in making wagons and agricul.
tural implements is valued at more
than 800, $1,000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
Notice.

Having decided to quit the practice
of my profession in GrantsYille, !
haye placed my accounts in the hands
of Samuel j. Beachy. Esq, for set.
Element. All persons knowing them
selves to be indebted 10 me will
please call and settle at once, other.
wise | will be compelled to collect
by law.
l ask the patronage Of my old
friends for my successor, DR.. 0. G,
Getty, and assure Them he is fully
able and competent to take my place.
253t B. T. KELLER, MD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
THE PENSION MISREPRESENTATION

The PENSION BUSINE sS.-Sixteen
years ago the war which made Grip.
pies and inyalids ceased. In the
natural order of things after such a
lapse of time the number should be
shrinking. Instead of diminishing
the number is rapidly and constantly
increasing. Why is it? Can it be
that the war is still going on, or is
there al unwarrantable laxity either
in the examination of the surgeons,
OF in the construction of the law by
the Pension Bureau? Said physi-
cIan to us recently: 1t would pay
the Government to detail regular
army surgeons to go over every part
of the Union and reeyamine all pen
sioners. These surgeons are paid for
their time, and why not require this
duty of them. Is it not that the
meritorious should be cut off, but that
the frauds should be Topped off. The
pension business, like the banks, is
very likely to have plenty of spuri-
Gus and undeserying resemblances to
the genuine article. The deserving
and meritoriuos pensioners should be
protected against the tricks and de-
vices of the unmeritorious, otherwise
the whole system will fall into dis
repute and money be filched frons
the Government that should 60 tc
paying off the national debt. Mar
ti'as6urg Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
A Paying Occupation.

The approach of the long winter
evenings calls attention to the matter
Of lamp, for without a good light
half the pleasure or profit is taken
from reading or study. Coal oil is
now in general use for illuminating
purposes outside of cities or large
towns where coal gas is used, and
when proper lamp is used it is the
best substitute for sunlight vet dis
covered. The principle or plan upon
which the Student lamp is construc.
ted may be said to be the best in
use. but the lamp itself has always
had several Objectionable features
which we are glad to see are being
done away with in the new aspirant
fer favor called the "HoME LAMP"
manufactured by the Home Lamp
Co. of Cincinnati. The great Offices
ton to most other. lamps is their LA
bility to be upset, the trouble to keep
them in order, and the poor light
given by them. The New Home
Lamp is Nickle Plated, and almost a
facsimile Of the Student Lamp; it
has a handsome ornamented clamp
by means Of which the lamp can at
ence be easily adjusted to any posi-
ton upon the centre table, piano,
music rest, sewing machine, desk, or
by meanB of a handsome bracket,
which goes with the lamp, can be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

The "dead- lock" in the Tennessee
legislature was broken on Wednes-
day OF last week by the election of
Howell Il. jackson as Senator, to
succeed Mr.. Bailey. A result was
reached on the thirtieth ballot, when
Mr.. Jackson received 70 votes, a
number of Republicans voting tor
him, which fact indicates that among
the Democrats the Republicans had
a choice. and doubtless fell upon a
man with the least amount of Bour-
bonism in his politics, seeing they
could not get a Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
Ground Hog Day.

Candlemas, or more Familiarity
known as "Ground Hog Day." gave
that sagacieus quadruped a chance to
see his shadow. According to the
old proverb we may expect six weeks
more of winter weather, which is
anything but pleasant to us, who
have had such a siege of severe cold.
The day was observed in the Cath
ellie church, where the ceremony 81
blessing the candles was performed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

For the purpose ofdetermihing the
capacity of horse to undergo the
privations incident to state efsiege,
series of experiments have been
made ih Paris. The results show
that horse may hold out for TWEEN
ty.five days without any nourish>
ment, provided it is supplied with
sufficient good drinking water; that
horse can subsist for barely five
days without water; and, thirdly,
that if horse is well fed for ten days
but insutlicieptly supplied with WA
ter throughout this period, it will
not outlIve the eleventh day. A
horse which had received no solid
nourishment for twelve days was,
nevertheless, in condition TO draw
a load Of six hundred pounds on the
twelfth day Of It's fast.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

Preaching in the M. E. Church
Sunday morning at l04 O'Clock, and
at 7 O'Clock p. NJ.
Rev. John Lefever will preach
in the Memorial Church Sunday
morning at IL O'Clock, and at Deer
Park at 4 p. M.
Rev. Stoudenmire will preach at
Dee Park at l | a. m. Subject: 1.-THE
Power of the Keys" and at Oakland
in the evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
Glass Ball Shooting.

AT glass ball shooting match on
Saturday of last week, the follow
ing persons took part: E. III, Ward
well. DR.. Bartlett, P. A. Chisholm,
Thomas Harne, R. S. Jamison, Thos.
Coddington, Sewell Spedden, Nelson
Wilburn, Mr.. Springer, w. S. Wolf,
G. w. Delawder and r. II. Thayer.
Out Of possible 10 Thayer scored
and Springer s. The other partici
pants ranged from 2 to 6 balls each.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage Licenses were granted to
the following parties during the
month of January:
Henry Weitzel-Fannie Stark.
Amos Friend--M. A. Friend.
A. j. Sypult-Maria Teets.
Paul H. Kittle-L. A Shoemaker.
Ward G.. Friend-Jennie Friend.
VIM. II. Steele-M. j. Spears.
J. M. Rice-Olive Wagner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
See card of DR.. B. T. Keller in

See card of DR.. B. t. Keller in
another column.
DIR. McComas left for Baltimore
Friday, 2Sth ult., for brief visit.
MIR. Alfred Daniels, of District
No. 2, paid us visit last week.
Professional business called Mr..
w. p. Townshend to Cumberland on
Thursday.
-At6turgiss' drug store the Their
mome$er registered 240 below zero
Wednesday night.
Mrs. r. B. Jamison and Miss
Emma Brooke, after severe attacks
of illness, are both convalescent.
-Messrs. w. H. Frazee and Jasper
Guard spent few days in Oakland
during the past week.
MIR. John Yelloly, one of our en-
terprising blacksmiths. has removed
from Oak to Fourth street.
Where was the lamp-l lighter
when the moon went out? Respect
fully referred to the Council.
The ten pin alley adjoining the
BIO. r. r. Hotel was crushed be-
meath its burden ofsnow, on Monday.
We would be pleased if our
friends throughout the county would
send us any items of interest that
Aoccur in their vicinity.
i Mrs. D. Ryan, Miss Ella Rasche,
Miss Willie Grace and Mr.. f. A.
Thompson left here for Florida
Thursday morning.
Wanted--A corporation moon of
seventeen candle power; one that
will not go out on cloudy night
preferred.
--Messrs. T. j. Peddicord and II.
Wheeler Combs were in Cumberland
Friday and Saturday of last week
attending to professional business.
The Longfellow Reading Circle
will meet at Mr., fownshend's next
Thursday evening. Byron is the
author elected for the occasion.
-Messrs Lloyd Bell, Edward Wolf
and Lloyd Stahl, left this place last
Tuesday for Baltimore, where they
expect to enlist in the regular army.
There have been several new
lamps introduced in our community
of late. What we want new is an
Improved street Ian. p-seli-lighter
ana cleaner.
Mr.. A. c. Brooke has purchased
from Judge Hamill, agent for DR..
Colardeau, the prouerty on Second
street now occupied by Jas. A. Hay.
den, Consideration, 81 eco.
"A revival in the NJ. T.. Church at
Hileman Ridge, District No. 2, has
been in progress for the last ten days
under the ministrati0r Of Rev. Balin.
There have been more than twenty
accessionS to the ch1rch.
Benz. Green, Esq. of District No.
2, had a nuRtber of fine sheep killed
one day last week by pack of worth
less dogs. Is it not about time the
Legislature should do something for
the protection Of our farmers against
this annoyance?
DE-. Bartlett, School Examiner
made an effort to visit the schools
throughout the county, But owing to
the snow blockade was unable to get
through. At Bloomington he was
compelled to abandon his horse and
took the cars for home.
The Garrett Literary Society
meets this Saturday evening. Pro- \
gram will be as follows: Reading of
Paper, t y the Editor; Essay, w. r.
Townshend Defamation, &. II.
Loar; Selection, A. Woodcock Dec.
lamation. A. Townshend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05
LOCAL u EW g.
A. CARD.

All moneys owing to THE REPUB-
LICAN on subscription are payable
at the office of f. A. Thayer & Co.,
and for all job work and completed
advertising contracts to me.
JAS. A. HAYDEN,
Late Ed. and Prop'r.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

Lord Lansdowne, a prominent
Eng ish nobleman, has achieved un-
enyiable notority in connection with
Irish affairs. 1t has come out that he
exercised the most complete feudal
supervision over his tenants. His
despotisn forbade marriage it for
babe his tenants to harbor peasants
who set at defiance his claims to say
when they should mate; it punished
those under him who even sheltered
IN an out house an unhappy couple.
He pleaded that in thus welding a
mastership which was, if not legal,
beyound all that law ever cohteni.
plates, he was benevolent. He was
preventing improvident matches,
which are the curse of Ireland, and
providing against the settlement of
too many people on estates which
cannot bear additional burden. But
it comes out that while thus taking
care that the tenancies shall not be
overburdened additional weight upon
them, in the shape of increased rents,
has been his object. Three times in
a quarter of century have his rents
been raised-once by rs per cent. at
leap, and this at the very time
when he was trying. as he says, to
prevent poverty by preventing UNI
due multiplication. Furthermore, it
appears that he has re-let to his ten
ants at 8 per cent. the money loaned
at 81 per cent. by the government to
landlords for the improvement of
their lands. He thus makes m0tiey.
out of a benevolence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-05

THE ECUMENICAL METHODIST
CONGRESS. The assemblage of min.
listers and lay delegates to the Con
gress of the Methodist Church, in
London, at the old City Road Chapel,
originally built by John Wesley, on
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

The decision in the United States
Court at Fort Smith, Ark, in the case
of the United States VS.. Captain David
L. Payne, was rendered Tuesday. The
opinion, which was very lengthy, and en-
braces a thorough review Of all the laws
and treaties made for and with the In
dams from their first occupation Of the
Territory, declares that none Of the land
in the Indian Territory was subject to
white settlement, the Indians holding the
proprietorship thereof absolutely and
without reserve. a Little Rock dispatch
says the decision is generally accepted as
conclusive, and likely to check further
iuyasions of the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

The Washington correspondent OF the
st. Louis Republican sent that paper a
short but very graphic account of the ap-
pearance of the Senate the morning after
the dead lock was broken. He writes:
Upon the assembling of the Senate to-
day, the appearance of things on the
floor was somewhat amusing to the
spectators who had been witness
ing the proceedings during the
mast two months. The faces of
Democratic Senators betokened COM
placenCy and satisfaction. Whatever
disposition or temptation to exult over
their triumph they may have felt
was not yielded to by the Demo
Gratis. but they contented themselves
with a quiet enjoyment of their signal
success. With the exception of Conk-
ling the Republican Senators appeared
worried and chsgrined over the upshot
of the months struggle Conkling was
naturally elated, not because OF the
break of the dead lock, but because OF
his success in forcing the admin
istratiOn Senators to let Robert
sons nomination rest in peace
within the walls of the Commerce
Committee room. The proceedings of
the Senate in open session were brief and
dreary, consisting chiefly of Dawes dole
full prelude to his motion to proceed to
the consideration of executive business.
What he said was a repetition of his IA
miliar Pickwickian remarks, charging
the Democrats with having INDUCED in
revolutionary methods.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

The ) per cent. bonds embodied in the
one hundred and first call of the depart
ment, issued by Secretary Sherman, are
now being rapidly forwarded to the
Treasury for redemption with interest to
May 81, the date upon which call ma
lures, and in event of the entire amount
of outstanding skies (neariy 1896, 900, 000)
being presented for continuance at 81 per
cent, there will be nearly $4,000, 900
payable by the Treasury Depart
ment by the 10th instant. In addition
to this there is s.. zoo. 900 interest on
fives of 81 which fell due May /, aud is
now being paid by the Treasurer, and
about $14. 900, 600 of bonds under the
101st call remaining unredeemed, which
are payable on presentation at the de-
partment. making in all more than $685.
0OO,O which viii probably be paid out
Of the Treasury on these three accounts
alone the present month.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

Under the heading Crime North and
South" the Norfolk TTrqinian says:
1.-THE New York Times of last Saturday
has an editorial upon crime in the South
and on the freedom the North enjoys
from that evil, in the face, too, of the
fact that on the next page there was a
blood-curdling account of the shooting
of two women in that city, one by her
brother and the other by her husband.
Such accounts are of daily occurrence at
the North, yet if a murder once a month
takes place in all the South, the atten-
ton of the world is called to its criminal
acts. Comment is unnecessary"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

The bonded debt of the city of Hous
ton. Texas. is $500, Isl, with $245, Az
interest due. The total taxable wealth is
reported to be $500, 416. 1t is not easy
to see just how such debt can be paid
out of such resources. This unreason.
able debt seems to have been largely Gre
ated while Texas was in the tolls of mill
tary government, and ignorant negroes
welded large power in the government
of the CITY.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09
P0Iities and the Country.

We agree with our st. Louis contem-
porary, the Republican. that it is q cause
Of great congratulstion that while the
political caldron is boiling furiously in
Washington, and while a resident of that
city during the past TWO months might
probably imagine that the world was be-
ing turned upside down, the excitement
does not extend to the country at large
This latter. it remarks truthfully. is ut
terly unaffected in its real life by the
complicated troubles in the capitalize
mortal quarrel between the President
and Senator Conkling, the stubborn
fight in the Senate between
the Democrats and Republi-
cans, the Malone bargain and
the delayed combinations. OF course
there is a lively interest felt in New York
over the Garfield Conkling rupture, and
in Virginia about the outcome OF Ma
homes tangential experiment; but the
country is at perfect repose. 1t does
not feel a single emotion OF spprehen-
sion. 1t does not give the faintest re-
Spouse 10 the uproar at Washington. 1t
is busy, buying, selling, building, plow-
ing, planting, travelling, conceiving new
enterprises, organizing new schemes OF
production and interchange, substituting
short cuts for long Toctes, reaching the
Pacific at new points. piercing Mexico
by anticipation and spreading the magi-
cal influence Of modern forces over re-
gions hitherto left to solitude and mac
ton.
The country, it reasons further, indeed
feels and exhibits a thrill of animation
and even Of excitement, but it does not
come from the wrangling at the capital;
it Is the thrill Of q new prosperity. There
is improvement perceptible everywhere.
The old causes, real and artificial, of dis
cord between the North and South have
utterly disappeared The sections are
satisfied with one another. The concord
between the States is becoming more
cordial every day. All sections Of the
land are SO prosperous that each
imagines its prosperity to be special and
exceptional. The country is full of
money and rapidly emerging from debts
that have burdened it for sixteen years.
Our exports are exceeding our imports
at the rate Of S23j, 900, 900 a year,
and we have scarcely disposed
Of one enormous crop OF
grain and cotton before new one
equally enormous is promised in the
ocean of emerald now spreading over
twenty-five degrees of latitude A peo
pie are never so happy and contented as
when 50 absorbed in their pursuits as to
forget politics-and that's precisely the
condition Of our people at this time.
This is indeed q gratifying picture. and
the more gratifying because it is true.
We are also specially glad to believe that
the South, Of all sections of the coun
try, is pre- eminently in the happy condi
ton above described. The people are
beginning to realize that politics per S,
is very improbable employment, anc
that with wealth secured, public inhu
ence will follow naturally. So they arr
bending their energies towards getting
rich, and what is more are in a fair way
of accomplishing their object.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

In an article on silk culture in Satur-
days issue, we committed an error in
stating that Columbia county, Florida,
was adjoining TO Thomas county, Geol-
gia. The main point made in the ar
ticle, however, is correct, for though
the counties are not adjacent, both extend
to the line between the two States, and,
as they both enjoy about the same eli.
mate, if the culture of the silk worm can
be successfully prosecuted in Thomas,
we can see no reason why it could not,
equally as successfully, be carried on in
Columbia.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

The proposed Worlds Fair, to be held
in New York IN 1888, is not meeting sui
fcient encouragement from the New
York people, and there is increased dan
ger, now, that the project will fall TO
pieces. AT meeting of the Executive
Committee, recently, no quorum was
present, and nothing was done. The
Hartford Times thinks that if the matter
is allowed to drag along the projectors
might as well give it up as failure, but,
nevertheless, in the event of failure,
the New Workers can fall back on the
obelisk.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09
Tea Culture in Georgia.

Tea culture in Georgia is. at last, an as
sured success. BY reference to our
telegraphic columns this morning, it will
be seen. that number Of representatives
of the leading tea houses IN New York
met together on Saturday and sampled
several specimens of tea grown
in Liberty county, this State,
under the supervision of United
States Agricultural Commissioner LIE
Due. The tea was drawn and, upon be-
ing tasted, was pronounced equal to the
finest Indian tea, while the opinion
unanimously expressed was that the
quality could, with cultivation and ex-
perience, be materially improved.
This offers a new and valuable indus
try to Georgia. With tea culture brought
to perfection in the State an avenue OF
great wealth will be opened up to our
people, for since thousands of tea drink
ers would infinitely prefer what they
knew to be a pure article to the adulter-
ated and much manipulated imported
teas, the demand would, at all times, be
fully equal to the supply.
Truly it seems that the resources of
the South are limitless. Apart from the
production of her great and valuable
staples, and the impetus which manufac-
turing enterprises have received in our
midst. industries such as silk and tea
culture promise in the near future to be
no mean factors in bringing US wealth,
prosperity and power in the country.
All that our people have to do is to i'm
prove their varied opportunities to the
utmost, and in a very few years we may
be able to offer substantial aid in the
development and progress Of those less
favored regions which now speak so
sneeringly and tauntingly of the 'pov-
erty-stricken South.