The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-19

Communication from ErOStburg
received too late Tor this weeks issue.
Will appear in our next.
DIR. Goldsberough, of Washing
ton, d. c., has purchased the Tyson
cottage. The price paid was $3.50.
ID. E. Offutt, Esq, has purchased
twenty feet front off the lot adjoining
his store building, from Mr.. John
Shatzer. Consideration 5000.
The attention of the citizens of
Grantsvilie and vicinity, is called
TO the professional card of DIR. A. f.
Speicher in another column.
"A car load of U. S. troops passed
trough here on Tuesday morning,
d route for Jefferson Barracks, st.
1ouis. Mo.
Married 9Th, at the
tCorbin House, Kingwood, w. Va,
BY Rev. gJordan, w. Y. Waltz, of
Oakland, to Miss Lizzie Turner, of
W. Va.
-Paymaster Browne, U. S. N, has
purchased from Mr.. A. G. Wotring
the McIEnes property. 1t is reported
that in the near future he purposes
erecting several cottages thereon.
The scarlet fever patients. at Mr..
Robert Porter's noticed in our last
weeks issue, we are pleased to say.
are all conyalescing, under the sue
cessful treatment of DR.. Keller.
Again, on the 9th inst, for the
fourth time in the last few weeks,
the messenger of death" visited the
family of Prof. and Agnes Richard
son, of Piedmont, w. Va. This
time Nellie Lee, aged enc year and
ten months.
We had some weather Saturday
night, Sunday and Sunday night,
which, we suspect, in Western par
lance, would be called "blizzard."
If it was bona fide "blizzard" the
Western people can keep them, and
we won't find fault with the weather
clerk.
Something new, for this place, in
the way of glass ball shooting was
practiced here one day last week. 1t
consisted in casting in the air tive
balls at one time, and the ''shooter"
was expected, if possible. to break
both before they reached the ground,
two misses in succession being sutfi-
cient to exclude the narksman. The
following is the score:
Springer-1l,1l, IL, IL, 10, IL, I'LL.
Thayer-l0, IL, IL, IL, IL, IL. IL. 90.
G. Delawder-l1, IL, OF, IL, IL, 90.
b. Delawder-l1, Ii, IL, IL, 90.
On Monday, 18th inst, as Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson White were returning
from visit to friends in Preston
county, w. Va, when crossing the
stream near Mr.. Lewis Thomps@n's
their horse became frightened by the
loosening of one of the trace tugs,
and in the effort to get loose, upset
the sleigh, throwing Mrs, w, on
piece of timber painfully injuring
her in the side and back. She is now
recovering.
"A public meeting will be held at
the Deer Park Union Church Friday
evening, March 4th, 1881, at which
time steps will be taken toward
building Methodist Episcopal
Church in the town OF Deer Park.
The meeting will be addressed by
Revs. Ison and Jones, of Oakland,
and Rev. N. l.. Baumgardner, of
Deer Park. Prof. Smith, of Keyser,
will entertain the audience with
choice music, instrumental and vocal.
All are invited to attend. Services
will commence at o'clock.
Capt. James A. Hayden, who WAS
editor and proprietor of the REPUB-
LICAN, published at Oakland, Mary.
land, for the last several years, has
severed his connection with that
paper and it is now being conducted
by F. A. Thayer. Z. j. Peddicord
and H. w. Combs of that place. the
latter two being members of the Bar
of Oakland, Maryland. Capt. Hay
den has made the REPUBLICAN a
first class paper and is one of the best
practical printers in the country,
having learned the business in
Uniontown, in the Office of the
american Standard before the war.
His parents live in the southern part
of this county where they have lived
for moe than quarter of a century.
- Uniontos0e Pa Genius Of Liberty.
Personal.
w. HI. Tower, Esq, was in Cum
berland on Wednesday.
Samuel w, Friend, of District No.