The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11

seryances in the future. The citizens
had provided lunch for the Hagers-
town military, but the officers were
in such a hurry to leave that the
men We're forced to leave without re-
freshments.
A portion of Washington county is
threatened with an invasion of grass
hoppers. Mr.. w. F. Weaver, while
plowlng grass field, turned up mil
lions OF diminutive insects, which on
examination proved to be young
grasshoppers.
Six Republican candidates for the
sheriffalsy Of Charles county are in
the field. and several districts to hear
from. Matthew S. Proctor, colored,
announces himself as candidate for
county commissioner, and says he
has honest reasons to expect Re-
publican support.
BY the death of Andrew Humrick,
aged IS years, it is said that about
$l6O,OOO insurance money will be
claimed by policy holders in the
neighoorhood of Emmittsburg, Md,
from number of insurance compan-
les.
The>Allegany members of the dem
ocralic State central committee met
in Cumberland, Saturday and fixed
on June Is for holding their pri-
maries and June q for holding the
county convention, to elect delegates
to the Stateconyention, which meets
in Baltimore June %.
Mr.. Robert Atkinson, of Snow
Hill, who lately had an operation
performed for cancer on the tongue,
and was thought to be cured. is again
a sufferer fromthe same disease. 1t
has spread in amore virulent form,
and he can no longer take either food
or stimulants. His condition is now
hopeless, and his wife and six chill
uren are III great ulStTeSS.
A. G. Long and Oliver Wood, of
Baltimore, and d. r. Brewer, of New
York, have recorded al Elkton the
papers for the incorporation of a new
line of railroad between Reading,
Pa, and Perryville, to be known as
the Reading and Chesapeake Coal
and Railway Company. The road is
in charge of the Reading Railroad
Company, who propose to build it as
branch and establish coal station
at Perryville.
The Cecil Wing is responsible for a
story about two prolific hens, who
have been competing with one anoth-
er as to which shall exceed in egg
making: "They began on the 18th
of September last, and every day
since have laid either two or three
eggs each. The rule is two eggs
apiece each day, but every third or
fourth day they lay three for good
measure, averaging twenty-three eggs
a week each, or forty-six to the pair.
Now, this is hard to beat"
A man calling himself the Rev. E.
Randall, and pretending to be an
evangelist, has been fleeing the citi-
zens of Upper Marlboro. He held
an open air meeting, distributed
Scripture texts, begged from door to
door, and, taking advantage of all
who befriended him, left town in a
hurry, neglecting to pay his board
bill. 1t is now reported that several
years ago the same man was convict
ed in Virginia of forgery and sent to
the penitentiary.
About one O'Clock Thursday after
noon of last week, Van S. Cresap,
aged about 81, and son of the late
Michael Cresap, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the
breast with large-sized revolver, in
the barn at the residence of his moth
err, Mrs. Rebecca Cresap. near Rawl-
/ ing's Station, 13 miles from Cumber-
land. He had been in ill-health and
depressed mentally for some time
past, imagined persons were after
him to kill him, etc. He once resi-
ded in Cumberland, where he was
clerk in the Pittsburg and Connells-
Vile freight Office. He leaves wife
and two childred.