The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-04
MARYLAND NEWS.

about to have its name changed to
Harlan by the Postofice authorities.
During the week ended Saturday
there We're 3,213 loaded cars haule
over the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Mr.. John Horsey. of Andersen
town, Carroll county, died very sud-
denly on the 25th, while seated at the
supper-table.
1t is understood the Mutual Union
Telegraph Company will shortly run
their wires Though Cumberland from
Baltimore to Pttsburg.
Mr.. Thos. P. Dixon, president of
the board of county commissioners
of kentcounty, died Friday last. He
was one of the leading men of the
county.
A party from Bonaparte, Iowa. is
negotiating with the directors of the
Western Maryland Agricultural So
ciety for the purchase of the fair
grounds, at Cumberland.
Negotiations in regard to the start
ing up Of another glass works at
Cumberland are still in progress, but
definite and final arrangements are
not yet made.
John X. White, of OsceoIn Mills,
Cleartield county, Pa, has leased the
Battle Run" tannery, near Cumber-
land, from Deford & Co., of Balti-
more. and will hereafter run it.
Last week about 800 tons of coal
were being shipped daily over the
Georges Creek and Cumberland Rail-
road, via the Pennsylvania Road, to
points in the East.
The herring were so thick in the
Potomac at Little Falls last Sunday
that some were crowded out of the
water and left dying on the shore.
One boy picked up twenty-nine in
the course of an hour.
William Williams, a colored man
from Shepherdstown, was drowned
in the canal, near that place, on the
2lst instant. He was in the act of
throwing rope from a canal coat,
when he fell overheard.
A leak in the BERN bank of the
canal near Great Falls was discovered
ION the Goth, in time to prevent a
break of great magnitude. The leak
was at the bottom of wall sixty feet
high, but was soon repaired.
The Denton Union calls the depos-
iting of 0,000 young shad in the
Ch0ptank "mere follishness." The
Choptank must be very different
from other streams If the shad once
placed there do not return to spawn
when grown to maturity.
Mr.. B. F. Newcomer, formerly of
Hagerstown, paid all the expenses Of
the trip OF the pupils of the Blind
Asylum to that town last week,
where they gave free concert.
DIR. Robert E. Voc. a well-known
physician of Calvert county, died on
the Goth at his residence, near the
village of Huntingtown. He leaves
wife and three young children.
The Rey. Thomas Guard, of Balti-
more, is advertised, through some
mistake, to lecture both in Cambridge
and at NORTHEAST on the 18th of June.
He has an appointment to speak in
Denton on the 9th of june
The long expected parasite that is
to destroy the potato bug has appear
ed in Cecil county. 1t is a small brown
bug, that covers the potato-bug in
myriads, and sucks the juices out of
their ungainly bodies, leaving their
lifeess carcasses to bleach in the sun.
There will be no camp-meeting this
year at Concord by the Denton circuit
of the NJ. e. Church, but an indepen-
dent camp at that place, by people
of the neighborhood. is talked of.
The county commissioners of Dor
chester county will levy six thousand
dollars for the support of public
schools for the next scholastic year,
and two thousand dollars for the
erection and repair of the school
houses.
A crazy man. calling himself Ed.
Readily, from Savannah, was lodged
in Jail at Elkton on Friday. He is
supposed to be a commercial agent,
though he says he was bar-keeper.
His clothing was good, though wet
and muddy. He had a through
ticket to New York, and got off the
train at Elkton.
In the trial of certain local option
cases in Talbot county the fact was
disclosed that in certain shop where
three men were at work they pro-
procured quart of pure alcohol, and
adding 10 it quart of water, the