The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-12
Mr.. WIN. Boon. living near Union

Mr.. VIM. Boon, living near e'nloh-
Vile, Frederick county. has a little
boy four years old whe is suffering
from terrible affliction. The med
icines given him for severe cold SAL
ivated HIM. and he has lost every
tooth in his head. 1t is reported
that the jaw bone came out in solid
mass along with the teeth, but this
sounds like an exaggeration.
Captain Rigby l.. Hubbard, who
was recently drowned by the sinking
of the schooner Wolf, WAS the oldest
son of Mr.. John Hubbard, Of Cam
bridge, and his death was the third
fatal accident in the family. A year
ago one of Mr.. Hubbard's sons was
killed in windmill last summer
another was drowned from the
schooner Wolf, and now this ill fated
vessel has gone to the Bottom with
the captain, mate and some of the
crew.
Joseph McCleary, young man
from Pennington, Del, was an invi-
ted guest at the residence of Mr..
Charles Baleson, near AndersOntown,
Caroline county, on the Occas ion of
dance about ten days since. He WAS
taken sick during the evening with
what proved to be typhoid fever,
which ended in his death on Thurs
day last. His relatives and young
lady to whom he was shortly to be
married were present at his DEATH
bed.
On Wednesday afternoon a man
named Lucas, while on the platform
of a car on the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, leaped off, though the train
was moving at the rate of twenty.tiv
miles an hour. in pursuit of his hat.
which the wind had blown off. With
the usual luck of a drunken man, he
escaped with slight injury, and the
train returning for him, he proceeded
on his journey as if such feat was
an everyday occurrence.
Sixty-three OF the Coale collection
of paintings were sold in New York
on Wednesday night, bringing $685.
SIT. The highest price Of the even
ing was S6,750. which was given for
the last painting -Meissonier's
THE Musketee." The next highest
price was $3.50, which was given for
Alfred Stevens "In the Garden"
For Adrian MO:eau's Coming
Through the Rye" $500 was paid.
Inthe case of the litigatioa in New
York invo'ving the identity of Theo-
philus Youngs, Mrs. Youngs indig-
nantly denied on Tuesday that he
was her husband or eyer had been.
She examined his head for a large
scar. but failed to find it. She also
said there were other distinctive
marks on her husbands body, which
the alleged Theopnlus,lo does not bear.
She enled up by calling him IAN
apology for man."
Three burglars blew open the safe
of the Railway IN. j. Postoffice
early on Sunday morning, and walk
ed off with 5000 in stamps and $50
in currency. The explosion was so
terrific as to Wake up half the town.
Just afterwards the windows of a
photograph gallery near by were
broken with loud noise. While
this was being done to dis rdct att
ton from the postoffice, the other
burglars are supposed to have robbed
the broken safe.
A brute at Gatineau, Canada, de-
liberately cut the threats of his horses
the other day and left them dead at
the roadside. The brutal act was
done because the horses could not
keep up to the ether teams on the
road, and he preferred to lose his
horses rather than be left behind.
Mr.. Sherman, a wealthy merchant
and grain dealer of Missouri Valley,
Iowa, got maa the other day because
one of his men refused to work under
a dangerous embankment, and pick.
ing up a shovel went to work him.
self. A moment later several tons
of frozen earth fell upon him, killing
him instantly.
A rencontre occurred on Tuesday
last at Ocean Springs, Miss, between
the Rey. Father John C. Ahren, in
charge of the Catholic church, and
Prof. c. F. Emery, growing out of a
newspaper controversy in the Pascal
gon;a Den,ocrdt-Stor. Pistols were
drawn by both. and the priest fired
on his opponent, and afterwards APP
peared in front OF the profess or's
house armed With a shotgun.
A very young female pasted the
figures % in her shoes The other day,
and, together with her lover, went to
a magistrate to be married. He asked