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Meeting of Town Council.

The newly elected members of the
Town Council met Monday evening
for permanent organization, present
the Burgess and Commissioned Mi
chaei. Townshend and Durham.
II. Allen Ison was elected Clerk.
The bond of Burgess Gender was
read and approved.
The Board proceeded to the cleo
ton of Bailiff and Collector. Pro-
positions were made by P. A. CHS
holm and H. B. Wolfe. A ballot
being taken Mr.. Wolfe was declared
elected.
Mr.. Rowan White was elected AS
SCISSOR, to make the assessment of
property in the corporation.
The Burgess gave notice that a
special meeting would be held June
Goth, for the purpose of approving
the Collectors bond and the transac-
ton of such other business as might
come before them, and an adjourn
was made until that date.
II. A. IsoN, Clerk.
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Exaggeration.

The spirit of exaggeration is neces-
sary to perfect human happiness. No
man has yet been found from the
beginning of the world who could
tell what happened to him without
increasing the size of the story every
time he told it. If he happens to
have fallen out of the first story OF his
house and to have landed on hay
NOW uninjured he makes the incident
more interesting by rhetorically re-
moving the hay NOW and substituting
a hard brick sidewalk when he relates
it to his neighbor. The next time he
tells it he fell from the second story
window, and after that nothing will
satisfy his own idea of the momen-
teusness of the event except to de-
clare that he fell from the roof of a
four story dwelling into a we'll seven
ty-five feet deep. The old adventures
of the fifteenth century were fond OF
this kind of exaggeration. When
they came back from the odd corners
of the earth they told the most Won
drous stories of what they had seen
and heard, and as there was no one
to contradict them they were natur
ally believed. One Of the most Curl
Gus of their yarns we lately met in a
musty volume. They visited Pata-
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We Ought to Praise Him.

While songstcrs and flowers are sweetning
for men
The mornings and evenings again,
And sunshine and seasons are giving to all
A promise so hopeful for all,
Most grateful petitions should daily arise
From mortals of earth,
To the King who ruleth the skies,
Our Father from birth.
While blessings Of plenty and peaceful con-
tent,
With healthy atmosphere is sent,
And business and churches are building so
fast
All over our country so vast,
Most joyful thanksgiving to heaven snouio
go,
From Christians, at least.
To Jesus who all did forego
To spread US the feast.
While Haunting with glory the Gospel is sent,
BY preachers and laymen with heartiest IN
tent,
To Eations that're thirsty, and hungry for
bread,
With power to raise them, though dead,
With voice of music and spirit of praise,
Gods people should vie
In chanting the glorious grace
OF our God on high.
REV. VIM. SToUDENMIRE.
Oakland, Nd. May "a, 1881.
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A$2O.OO Biblical Prize.

The following Biblical prize is
offered by the publishers of Rutledge's
BriQM Light:
To the person telling us which is
the longest verse in the Bible by June
Goth, 1881. we will give a 500. 900 gold
piece as a prize. Should more than
one correct answer be received the
prize will be divided. The money
will be forwarded to the winner June
18th, 1881. Those who try for the
prize must send 10 cents with their
answer, for which they will receive
the July number of the Bright
Light, handsome, spicy, interesting
monthly, in which will be published
the name and address of the winner
of the prize, with the correct answer
thereto. Address, RUTLEDGE PUB
LISTING COMPANY, 532 Northamp.
ton St., Easton, Pa.
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plant near it. The training will re-
quire attention. The plant will inn
mediately begin to sucker, or throw
out side shoots, just above each leaf.
These must be cut off. and then the
plant will run up vigorously. Tie 1T
to the stake, and do not be afraid to
use the knife. Keep on cutting each
stem that appears in the axil of leaf,
and keep on tying. The first bearing
branches come directly from the body
of the plant. Remember that this
trimming must be continued as long
as the plant bears. Thus trained, the
fruit is superior in size, quantity and
flavor, besides being less liable to rot
or drop off.
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Total Eclipse Of the Moon.

The full moon for this month falls
on Sunday, and gives the rare treat
of total lunar eclipse. 1t can only
occur at the time of full moon, and
on the morning of the 18th the con-
ditions are favorable for grand ex-
hibitiOn of the darkening power of
the earth's shadow. The eclipse be-
gins at 26 minutes after midnight.
The total phase commences at hour
% minutes. and ends at 2 hours 81
minutes. The eclipse ends at 8 hours
so minutes.
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MARYLAND NEWS.

Wheat harvesting on the Eastern
Shore is expected to begin about
June 20. Last year it commenced ten
days earlier than this.
Mr.. Nichols, of Montgomery coun-
ty, has this spring in one shearing OBJ
tanned from 10 sheep 106 pounds of
wool, and has raised % lambs.
The Masonic lodge room at Rock
vile, Md, was broken into recently,
and the jewels of the order and val
liable sword stolen. Loss $3.50.
Miss Mary Douglass, daughter of
Judge John Douglass, of Homecoming,
Md, who started West a couple of
weeks ago for the benefit of her
health, died in Iowa a few days
since.
All the stock of the Denton Nation
al Bank has been taken and the stock
holders will meet in Denton June 80
for the purpose of organizing the
bank.
IT. F. McCardell, of Cumberland, it
is stated, will probably go to Colora-
do shortly in the employ of Mr.. w.
l.. Hoblitzell, who is constructing a
railroad there.
During last week there were about
5000 tons of coal shipped over the
Georges Creek and Cumberland Rail-
road. Passenger trains will begin
running on the road in about a
week.
The tax rate for Washington coun-
for the proximate year is SO cents on
the 500 on basis of 1900, 900,
against ST, 1850 last year.
The cut worms In Hartford county
continue ravaglng the corn and to-
mato fields, and dou't even spare the
tobacco plants.
On the Both ult. jeremiah Fanwell
fell about fifty feet at Goodwin's
quarry, near Westminster, Carroll
county, and was dreadfully injured,
but he is now in a fair way of recov-
cry.
Jennie Smith, whose father lives
on the road between Newark and
Elkton. died on the 29th ult. from
blood poisoning, brought on by an
attack of toothache.
w. w. Hoffman, a prominent citi.
zen and ex-banker of Hagerstown,
committed suicide Saturday night by
drowning himself in the Antietam
near town. His body was recovered
The cause assigned is i'll health.
Oil of some kind has been discoy-
cred at Great Falls, in the branch be.
tween the canal and the river. II
rises and spreads upon the surface o
the river, and company to bore 1
well is talked about.
Since local option went into effec
in Cecil county. there is brisk sale
of liquor every Saturday night a
Lapidum, in Hartford county. The
customers cross the river in boats
and not only drink literally, bu
come with bottles and jugs to fill VI
for continuing their carouse the mex
day.
The people of Sharpsburg are dis
satisfied with the ceremonies at tn,
Antietam cemetery on Decoration
, Day, and the old soldiers there ar,
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Webster's Case.
prosaic.

II will repeat an anecdote which
feel sure that Webster gave at that
dinner, though, as 1 made no note of
1T, it is just possible that he told it in
my presence at some later date. The
conversation was running upon the
importance of doing small things
thoroughly and with the full measure
of ones ability. This Webster illus
trated by an account of some petty
insurance case that was brought to
him when young lawyer in Ports
mouth. Only a small amount was
involved and a twenty-dollar fee was
all that was promised. He saw that,
to do his clients full justice. a journey
to Boston. to consult the law library,
would be desirable. He would be
out of pocket by such an expedition,
and for his time he would receive no
adequate compensation. After lit
tie hesitation, he determined to dc
his very best, cost what it might.
He accordingly went to Boston, look
ed up the authorities, and gained the
case. Years after this, Webster, then
famous, was passing through New
York. An important insurance case
was to be tried the day after his arri-
val, and one of the council had been
suddenly taken i'll. Money was no
object, and Webster was begged to
name his terms and conduct the case.
L told them,' said Mr.. Webster,
that it was prepOsterous to expect
me to prepare legal argument at a
few hours notice. They insisted,
however, that L should look at the
papers; and this, after some demur,
| consented to do. Well. it was my
old twenty-dollar case over again,
and, as [ never forget anything, l
had all the authorities at my fingers
ends. The court knew that had no
time to prepare, and were astOnished
at the range ofmy requirements. So.
you See, l was handsomely paid both
in fame and money for that journey
to Boston; and the moral is that
good work is rewarded in the end,
though, to be sure, ones own self-ap-
provaI should be enough. "-Qui1cy'S
anecdotes.
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gonia, and, on their return to Eng
land, declared that the inhabitants
were all dwarfs, about four feet high,
and that they were characterized by
the immensely of their ears, which
were frequently SO long that when
the people went to bed at night one
ear served as mattress, while the
other was used as a blanket. Thus
1t will be seen, without referring to
our own personal experience, that to
tell a lie is one of the inalienable
rights of human nature, without
which life would become vapid and
prosaic.
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DIR. Oellig 6 Pfoutz Tonic Elixir and
Pills,

The reliable preparation so highly recon-
mended by its merits. This medicine is
known by its curative powers from the East
to the West, from the North to the South.
Owing to the purity Of the medicine and the
satisfaction IL has been giving, the demand
is largely increasing. 1t is the great cleanser
and puriies the system: regulates the liver,
heart, lungs, and kidneys; cures dyspepsia;
is invaluable as q tonic; will impart strength
to the SYSTEM restores lost appetite, and is
also certain to remove all obstruction to the
regular course of nature in females. 1t will
also strengthen the weakest cord, restore
down bearing, and is sure remedy fol
Whites pain in the back, in side. or under
the shoulder blades; heaviness on breast, or
belching of wind. This desirable medicine is
manufactured by M. d. Pfoutz, of Waynes-
boro, Franklin county, Pa, and is for sale in
Oakland by A. G. Sturgiss, and at Wilson's
Store by Wilson Bros. Send for circular to
Nj. d. Pfoutz, Waynesboro,. Pa.
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Training Tomatoes.

A letter in the Country Gentleman
says: The season for planting toma-
toes is nearly at hand, and l fear that
all lovers of this delicious fruit do
not know how to grow them sue
cessfully. When the plants are ready
for the garden, make considerable
hill Of COOL compost. Chip manure
is excellent, and a quantity OF chicken
manure is good. After the hill is
made, drive long stake through it.
This may be six feet high. Set the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
Church Etiquette.

Bv a careful perusal of Lord Chess
terrified or any of his worthy COM
peers, we may have well defined
ideas for all our social intercourse.
and thus make all that we do and
say graceful, charming, profitable to
ourselves and all with whom we
come in contact. What a delightful
satisfaction to haye our minds stored
with knowledge such as tells us just
how to salute host or hostess on
entering his or her house. The fact
is, we like to know how to enter the
house of a friend or neighbor, how to
salute the inmates, how to conduct
ourselves in general, with best taste
so as to confirm friendship and make
new friends wherever we move in
society. Etiquette being both natu-
raj and important, most individuals
study it with great success, in regard
to visiting earthly friends and hosts,
but in regard to visiting God the
Great King, our heavenly Father, at
his earthly courts, it IS studied with
i'll success. AS the heaven is high
above the earth so is the etiquette
pertaining to the House of God high
above the etiquette of all other de-
partments of society. How unpar-
donable it Is for guest, having
reached the door, to stand and gaze
or languidly to loiter for haitian hour,
or for even few minutes, while the
inviting home is anXiously welcom
ing him or her to its number! How
ineXcusable to enter without respect
fully saluting the host or hostess |!
Flow insulting care!essly to interrupt
all present by being unruly or mat
tentiye! How green it looks, and
how shocking to fine sensibilities for
one to leave--in naedids, res abruptly,
without at least having good ex-
cuse. Now, friendly reader, do you
know any one who goes to church
and stands at the door and stares in
and around for half an hour, or for
only few minutes. before entering?
Do you know of any one who goes
into the church, the house of God,
and forgets to address the great Host,
God, to salute HIM with a short
prayer, at least Do you know any
one who carelessly, by being unruly,
impatient or inattention interrupts
the worship of God in his holy sane
tuary? Do you know any one who
abruptly, in naedias res, jumps up and
leaves the church as though in a pas
sion? You hand this article to him,
please, and tell him please to study
a little church etiquette, that the eyes
of the people OF God are on him, and
that he is laying Eimsel liable to the
laws of both his country and his
God. That law of our country which
carries men to the Penitentiary for
interruption of religious worship, is
often inflicted upon those who will
not study church etiquette. The
Bible is the best and surest guide to
church etiquette-the choicest rules
it doth impart.
A FRIEND OF GoD.-W. S.
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Bookbinding.

The bookbinder's craft was at its
zenith just before the invention of
printing it has waned since, because
nobody would care nowadays to give
such prices as were cheerfully paid
for books in the days when it took
twenty-five months of a patient
scribe's work to produce one copy of
the Bible. The bindings of such
costly books were works of art. Mi
Ian first, we are told, acquired a rep
utation for its bindings of Spanish
leather, arabesqued and gilt, which
superseded the old-fashIoned bind
ings of wood, metal, or ivory; but
until the close of the fifteenth CEN
fury the bindings of presentation vol
umes and of the church books used
on the high affairs of cathedrals were
mostly of solid gold or silver. Bruges
has produced some beautiful works
of this description, likewise bindings
in cloth of gold wrought with silk of
many colors. At Yypres, the great
cloth mart of North Europe, were
first made plain bindings of cloth, en-
breidered more or less; but these
were used only for small volumes of
jest and ballads, and for the horn
books out of which the children in
noble families learned their letters.
Venice had a name for its bindings
in ivory and woods from the East 4;
Florence, like Client in Flanders,
abounded in brass artificers and pro-
duced brazen bindings gill or silver
ed, each one the work of a master
craftsman, for meme ventured to make
book-covers who were not skilled
with tools but the most gorgeous
bindings of all that were made before
the invention of printing came from
Rome. Here the guild of italian
goldsmiths had its chief hall; and
there was always a sure sale for rich
bindings of wrought gold, seeing that
the kings and potentates who came
to visit the Papal See invariably gave
and received presents of splendid
books.
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LOCAL N E w g.

The annual levy list will appear
in our next issue.
Senator HI. G. Davis was at the
GIades Hotel last Sunday.
Fresh flowers. strawberries, veg
etables. &C., at Cheap Johns.
Hon. John S. Combs made a
flying visit to Oakland last week.
We will give full report of the
proceedings of the Sunday School
Convention in our next issue.
The Council in the Luth eran
Church of Deer Park will be installed
Sunday morning after appropriate
services and sermon by visiting
brother.
George Bolman, of Shade Mills,
this county, received painful injuries
from the kick of horse, last week.
at Grantsville. His jaw was badly
fractured.
The County Commissioners have
been in session all week engaged on
the annual levy, which was not com
pleted at the time Of going to press.
The tax rate will be about the same
as last year.
--At a meeting of cItizenssof Oak
! land. Monday evening last, held at
Ohutt's Hall, it was determined to
give an entertainment in the near
future, for the benefit of the widow
and children of Marshsll Butler, who
was killed at the recent explosion at
Offutt's saw mill.
Mr.. Michael Mar0ney, one of our
liverymen, last week received from
the celebrated carriage factory of
FOrdyce, of Clarksburg, w. Va, one
of the finest carriages ever brought
to Oakland. The carriage cost $3.50,
and with Mr.. Mareney's fine span Of
blacks, will make q handsome turn
out.
The new city council of Cumber-
land Monday. elected J. w. Cook
president -. w Shuck, city treasurer;
Alexander j. King, reelected police
magistrate, and Hopewell Hebb, re-
elected for the fourth term city col
lect0r, he being the only one ever
holding this Office that long. Mayor
Walton sent in his annual message
and a number of appointments for
policemen.
When a child begins to read it
becomes delighted with a newspaper
because it reads of names and things
that are familiar, and it progresses
accordingly. A newspaper, in one
year is worth quarters schooling
to child. Every father must con-
slider that information is connected
with advancement. The mother of
a family, being one of its heads, and
,aving 81 more immediate charge of
the children. should herself be in
slrueted- A mind occupied becomes
fortified against the ills of life, and
is braced for any emergency. Chill
dren amused by reading or study,
are of course more consolidate, and
more easily managed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
Real Estate Transfers.

The following is list of real estate
transfers filed for record in the office
of w. H. Tower. Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Garrett county, for the
week ending June 8:
Joseph r. Anderson and wife to
Hanson B. burst, part of the tract of
land called "Glen Eyrg;" $3.50.
Asa Savage and Others to Jonathan
Glass, II acres of land in District No.
9; $625.
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Dwelling RoSse and Contents Burned.

The dwelling house of Mrs. Gray
miller, a widow lady residing near
Accident, together with all its con-
tents.~as destroyed by fire last week,
during the temporary absence of the
occupants, who were planting corn
on distant part of the farm. The
fire is supposed to have been caused
by defective f1ue-
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Church SeryiceS--Snnday.

Memorial Church Sunday School
Convention. Sermon by Rev. j. Z.
Moffatt, of Cumberland, at IL A. NJ.
Lutheran Church -Preaching at s
p. M, by one of the visiting breth-
rem at the Convention.
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A Good Farm for Sale.

The subscriber offers for sale his valuable
farm, situated miles south of Accident.
This farm contains $50 acres, about 80 acres
of which are improved and in a good state Of
cultivation, with good fencing. The improve
ments consist of a comfortable two-story
dwelling house, q barn 40 by 81 feet, three
good orchards of all kinds of fruit. The farm
is well watered. Title good.
For particulars and terms apply on the
premises, or address
HENRY FETCH,
Accident, Garrett county, Md
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS

inserted at the following rates: For Mem
bers of the LEGISLATURE and sheriff, $780, For
County Commissioners and Surveyor, $500.
to run till the meeting OF the
Convention. The space allowed
will be six lines or less, and 80 cents per line
will be charged for each line in excess of six.
maid
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FOR SUR VEYOR.

EDS. REPUBLICAN PLEASE convey TO my
friends my thanks for past favors, and an
nounce my name as candidate for the Office
of County Surveyor, subject to the decision Of
the Republican nominating Convention.
John HARMED
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GENIUS REWARDED,
Road Examiners Notice.

Notice is hereby given, that the undersign-
ed appointed by the County Commissioners
of Garrett county, to view the lands through
which the road petitioned for is to pass, viz
Beginning on the Bloomington and Kitzmil
Ter road at the mouth of Laurel Run, and
running thence, through lands of the Empire
Coal Company and others. to intersect the
public road leading from KitZmillersville to
the North Branch River at or near John
Paughs, and examine whether the said petit
toned road should be located, will meet on
the premises, on the I'D day of June, 1881. for
such purpose, and to determine whether the
public convenience requires the said location
of said petitioned road and if so. to locate the
same, and perform their duty in the premises.
JOHN HARMED,
HENRY WARWICK,
q. T. MICHAEL,
52l5 Examiners
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FOR RENT.

A completely furnished Cottage, suitable
for Summer visitors. Apply to
II. WHEELER COMBS.
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Insolvent's Notice.

vs. Circuit Court for Gar
His Creditors. J rett County.
ORDERED, This Goth day of May, 1881. that
the 18th day of September next, at II O'Clock
A. NJ, is hereby fixed as the time at which
said David Enos, insolvent petitioner, shall
appear in the Circuit Court for Garrett county.
to answer such interrogatories or allegations
as his creditors, endorsers or sureties may
propose or allege against him, and that II,
Wheeler Combs, Permanent Trustee for the
benefit of said petitioner, shall, prior to the
said twelfth day of September next, give at
least forty days notice of the day so fixed,
and purport OF this order, by publication in
some newspaper printed in the town of Oak
land, Garrett county, Md.
w. H. TOWER.
Clerk Circuit Court for Garrett County.
True Copy-Test:
w. II. TOWER, Clerk.
H. WHEELER COMBS,
6 4 40ds Permanent Trustee.
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