The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-02
GENERAL,

Some of the big wholesale bor,.-
have quit drumming and gone to aJuse
Using, and they report it as a profita aer,
change. '"Oie
A Georgia farmer, removing to Al
ALBANIA, took his COW with him ~ az
other day the COW wandered back 70 ine
old home in Cobb county, a. distance o =,
ninety miles. Vi
AT Morrisville, Madison County N
T., pet dog was permitted to Ian ~ ~
face of girl sick with scarlet fever a rus
the dog has since been killed becanse ~
symptoms of hydrophobia. VI
Mrs. Cassie Watson, of New Vol
wife of Albert Watson, law clerk snaS
Hermann M. Meyer to recover 81 G 0Oo
for stolen kiss. She made ont o'"
and the jury awarded her six cents dare
ages. N"ii'
North Cardinals outlaw ohio.
Henry Berry Lowery, man of m av,,
romances, recently was reported doaj
The Robesoata'a, published in that Stato
now says Lowery is alive; that he Iof,
the mountains and North Carolina abont
the time of his reported death. HEN"
carried in a tool-chest through CbaEs
lotte and across the border. He won,
West, enlisted, and is now LEADING tba
quiet life of a Sergeant in the United
States Army. 1-'0u
The Salem Mass.) Gazette is 40
years old, and very sedate, but it tell.
the following story: ga Salem motba,
has daughter who so closely resembls'
her that the one is frequently taken ~,
the other. The other day the mother
walked up to her own reflection in
large mirror in q dry-goods store. and
putting forth her hand, said sWhv,
Maria, when did you come homep I
thought you were to stay at yourunele,s
a week?' A broad smile rippled round
the store as the mystifed lady touched
the glass"
"A correspondent of the Manchester
IN. H. Mirror asserts that the crow il
discriminating the singing birds of New
England. He saws, ''Few are the nests
that escape his vigilant search. and
fewer still the young birds that do not
go to satisfy his ravenous appetite and
fill his capacious NAV. l have watched
and cursed them for years. have seen
them pounce upon the nest of the lark
and of the plover; | have seen them
leaving the nest of the robin with the
young in their beaks. For several years
| had watched the return of a pair of
robins to an old apple tree near my
house, where they had built their nest
and reared their young. One morning
| heard the piercing cry of the old birds,
toreboding danger and distress. | ran
to the window just in time to see a crow
fly from the tree with a young robin in
his mouth. In less than five minutes
the crow returned, dived into the tree,
and this time the last OF my four half
grown pet robins was borne away"
Old Nell Giles is negro fortune.
teller at Augusta, Ga. She lives in
cellar, in the midst of weird things, and
is hideous bag. The negroes believe
she is veritable witch. Joe Stevens
went to her from Edgefeld to get cure
for his rheumatism. She performed
some mummery over him, anointed his
rheumatic arm, and the pain ceased.
She assured him that he had been soon
Jured" by some secret enemy, and that
he could not be permanently cured until
he shed some of that pefsafs d1ooa
Her directions to Joe for discoyefNMySNe
guilty one was to shake hands with an
his acquaintance, noting whose hand
he held when twinge came into his
arm. Joe went to church, and did a
great amount of hand shaking before
the services began. His arm gave the
warning when Andy Richardson shook
it. Joe went home, procured a long
knife, hid it in his sleeve, returned to
the church, and plunged the weapon in
to Andy's heart. Whether this would
have brought about the cure promised
by Old Nell cannot be determined, for
the patient has been hanged.
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