The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-05
MARYLAND NEWS.


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Inc Baltimore and Delta Railroad
Company has advertised for one
hundred and forty thousand cross
ties.
rive colored mel have been drawn
to serve as jurors at the April Term
OF the Circuit Court for Allegany
county.
The Episcepalians of Gaithersburg
have purchased lot of ground, and
and will soon commence the erection
OF church edifice.
The Philadelphia North American
says Robert Garrett is to be the next
president of the Philadelphia. Wills
mlngton and Baltimore railroad.
~. Reese Gray, of Baltimore, was
married on Thursday. in the Metho
dist Episcopal Church at EIkton, to
Miss Lydia McNeal. of the latter
place.
The beautifully located dwelling
and grounds of Horace Resley, Esq,
in Cumberland, will be sold on March
the 18th, by Lloyd Lewndes, Jr.,
Trustee.
The January term of TIE Circuit
Court for Allegany county has closed,
and Judge Pearre has gone to Ha
gerstOwn where Court has been in
session several days.
1t is thought the coming season
will be more active than any the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has
known for many years. Boat build
ing is very brisk in the Cumberland
boat yards.
The Circuit Court for Frederick
county has, upon application, APP.
pointed a receiver fol Mt. St. Mary's
College. The liabilities of the Col
lege amount to 100000. Capt. James
McSherry is the receiver.
Mr.. Ezekiel Cowgirl, of Miles river
neck, who died on the Odd, aged 49,,
has a sister living in Delaware who
is 103 years of age, and still retains
all her faculties.
Smith Barker, a farmer near Lau'
rel. Prince Georges county, is chag.
ed with beating his aged mother
until the blood Owed from her mouth
and nose.
A champion fox hunt between the
packs of Mr.. Edward Sudler and
George b. Chambers, of Queen
Anne's county, is projected, and will
take place in a week.
The grasshoppers are reported as
abundant and lively on the Glazing
farm in Elk Neck, having survived
the intense wrintry cold.
The children of the late Jacob b.
Ash, of Elkten, have received about
So, 800 as arrears of pension due their
father. The two youngest children
will receive regular monthly pen
si0ns.
Three cslored men who hal missed
a train at Hopewell, on the Eastern
Shore Railroad, a few days since,
ran the four miles to Marion, and,
having overtaken the train, pur-
chased their tickets and got on board.
John Diggs, a colored man, while
engaged on Wednesday last in hui
ling c0verseed at New Market. had
his hand caught in the machine and
so torn that he had to undergo am
putation.
It is rumored at E.kton that ex'
Sheriff Wright, of Philadelphia, has
bought out the interest of Hamilton
Disslon i'm the Sevaca Point Club
house and farm, and will hereafter
be the head of that institution.
Mr.. Van. B. Swearingen, of Mid
dletown, has preserved an army
cracker which he obtained from a
member of the First Rhode Island
Regiment, as he passed through that
place in 1862. The cracker looks as
if it had just come from the oven.
The iron ore from the beds on the
farm of Emanuel Geeting. near
KeedysviIle. is of superior quality,
and large quantities are shipped over
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad 10
Harrisburg. A contract for i've hun.
dred tons per month will probably
he made.
Thomas Beauchamp, native Of
Somerset county. WHO was left an
orphan when quite young. went to
Colorado, and is new said to be very
wealthy. He is interested In eleven
claims In Gunnison county, and also
owns several mines in Park county,
Colorado.
On the night of the 22d inst. an
fire caused the destruction
of fine barn on the Kinsale farm,
near Upper Marlboro The farm
hal.--. 4. IoOnh Drott and Wuo