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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Peculiar EpltaphS.

A writer, speaking of French GEM
Pteries. says: No inscription can be
placed on a tombstone in a French
cemetery till it has been seen and APP
proved by the Mayor. NOtwith-
standing this fact some of the epitaphs
are quite as peculiar as any that could
be found in less careful lands. AS,
for instance, the following from Pere-
Lachaise:
"Died at the age CT So years, Pierre
TOssier, blacksmith. Heaven counts
one angel more"
An epItaph on a French tom bstone
that made no reference to angels
would be looked upon as just no cpl
taph at all; but the author of one
epitaph in Ivry cemetery has far sur
passed all Of his competitors in this
respect. Having given the age ofthe
deceased and the time of his death,
and enumerated a few of his most
prominent virtues, he closes with
these words:
HE was little angel here on earth
what can he be abOve?"
The French have weakness for
specifying all of the persons by whom
the deceased was regretted. Here is
an exact translation of an inscription
in Montparnasse Cemetery:
''Here lies -, who died May
IA, 1877. at the age of nine months,
regretted by her father, her mother,
her grandfather, her two grandmoth-
ers, her uncles, her aunts. her cousins,
male and female, and all the friends
of the family. Little angel, pray for
u.s."
The following inscription from
Montmarte seems worthy of produc-
ton:
'Sacred to the memory of little ].
d., born on the morning of June 7,
1862, died on the afternoon of the
same day. Oh why couIdst thou
not have been born one day later ?"
In the same cemetery we read:
SACRED to the memory of my hus-
band. Passers, pray for his SOULS re-
pose, but pray not loud. He is not
dead, but sleepeth. ,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Church Serviccs--Sunday.

NJ. E. Church-Preaching at 10!
A. NJ. and O'Clock p. NJ. by Rev. S.
Il. Jones.
Lutheran Church-Mem0ria serv-
ices ofIhe Children's Missionary, Rev.
Rowe, who recently died in India,
at lOt O'Clock A. NJ. Preaching at II
O'Clock A. M.,by Rev. VIM. Stouden-
mire.
Memorial Church-Preaching at II
O'Clock A. NJ, by Rev. Leigh Rich
mOnd Smith.
st. Peters, Catholic Preaching
every Sunday at 10f O'Clock a. M,
except the second Sunday of each
month.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Essay on Spring.

Spring is the time for sewing. In
the city women sew shirts at forty
five cents per dozen. In the city,
also, the wicked sow tares and reap
tears. And everywhere in the spring.
time men SOW the wind and reap the
whirlWind. Spring is a season much
sung about by poets. 1t is a season
that moves people-especiaIly about
the first of April.
1t is season for raising things.
The first thing generally raised is
the rent. After that comes spring
radishes and greens.
Insects also come in the spring.
The mosquito cOnSultS his ledger and
makes out his bills for summer.
Earwigs lay in fresh supply of legs.
Domestic and household insects resus-
cltate themselves and crawl and bite
in their little beds. All nature stirs.
Spring also stlrs up the theatrical
combinations and menagries. The
trained beasts and animals Of all sorts
prepare to take the road. The tramp
dreams of fresh fields and pastures
new, and lone farm houses where he
may find the women unprotected
making strawberry shortcake.
Spring comes every year. 1t brings
new clothes to some and new fash
ions to all-if they can afford them.
Usually it brings more clothes than
people can afford to buy, and fashions
than they can afford to follow. Yet
spring brings with it the old clothes
people have worn all last winter, and
possibly the winter previous. These
can be turned and dyed and made
oyer, we will not say into new clothes,
but into the semblance OF the new.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
The Fruit Crop.

The importance of the fruit crop is
swiftly increasing, and the pleasant
ness and the whOlesOmeness of nearly
all kinds of fruit as food are enlarg-
ing the demand for a fruit diet so
much that production is greatly slim.
uIated. The immensely of the pres
ent grape crop as compared with that
of twenty years ago indicates Won
derful growth. The failure of any
important fruit is regarded with in
creasing regret from year to year.
The failure of the apple crop, for
example, is generally acknowledged
to be a serious misfortune, to health
and comfort, as well as to the pocket.
Apples are very scarce in the East,
and the fair yield in the West will not
supply the market sufficiently to en-
able the poor to use much fruit dur
ing the winter. The foreign demand
for American apples also sends their
price upwards. The value of our
apple expectations fuctuates from
year to year, but in 1880 it was more
than million dollars. 1t is believed
that the foreign market can he greatly
enlarged, and the demand for fruit at
home and abroad holds out promise
of abundant reward for fruit growers
in the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Given Away.

We cannot help noticing the liber-
al offer made to all invalids aud suf-
fprers by DIR Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. You are request
ed to call at A. G., Sturgiss' Drug
Store, and get a Trial Bottle free Of
cost, if yru are suffering from Con-
sumption, Severe Coughs. Colds,
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Loss
of Voice, Hoarseness, or any affection
Of the Throat or Lungs. 1t will pos
iliyely cure you,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

Milo B. Stevens & Co., the well
known War Claim Attorneys, will
be represented at Oakland, Md,
Monday and Tuesday, Noy. 9th
and 2Sth, by their special agent, j.
p. BeckerIe. Soldiers and others in
terested in claims for Pension, In
crease of Pensions, Arrears of Pay
and Bounty of those charged with
.desertion, or other claims, it is hoped
will give him call. Mr.. Beckerle's
whereabouts may be ascertained at
the Office of the Clerk of the Court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

AN UNTIMELY APOLOGY.-Pat
Maloney kept ferry over one of
the small Western streams. A crank
whooped and halloed one stormy
night for Pat to come and ferry him
over the river. AS the boat neared
the shore he aDologized to Pat for
calling him out such night. "That
is all right" said Pat; II make me
living with this old boat" but,
Pat, l have not a cent Of money to
pay you with" "Oh, and be jabers,
that's it," said Pat, as he quickly
pulled for the other shore "if you
have no money it don't matter which
side of the river you are on"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
WeSley'S Tact.

The following anecdote of the fOun.
der of Methodism has, we believe,
meyer been published. 1t reaches US
from trustworthy source, and it
illustrates in a remarkable manner
the mingled tact and piety of that
eminent man.
Although Wesley, like the Apos-
ties, found that his preaching did not
greatly affect the mighty or the noble,
still he numbered some families of
good position among his followers.
1T was at the house of one of these
that the incident here recorded took
place. Wesley had been preaching,
and daughter of a neighboring gen.
tleman, a girl remarkable for her
beauty had been profoundly impress
ed by mis- exhOrtations. After the
sermon Wesley was invited to this
gentleman's house to luncheon, and
with himself one of his preachers was
entertained. This preacher, ike many
of the class at that time, was man Of
plain manners, and not conscious of
the restraints of good society. The
fair young Methodist sat beside him
at the table, and he noticed that she
wore a number of rings. During a
pause in the meal the preacher took
hold of the young lady's hand, and
raising it in the air, called Wesley's
attention to the sparkling jewels.
"What do you think of this, SIR"
he said "for Methodist's hand 2"
The girl turned crimson. For Wes-
ley, with his known and expressed
aversion to finery, the question was a
peculiarly awkward one. But the
aged evangelist showed tact which
Chesterfield might have enyIed. He
looked up with quiet, benevolent
smile, and simply said, 1.-The hand
is very beautiful"
The blushing beauty had expected
something far different from re-
proof wrapped up with such felicity
in a compliment. She had the good
sense to say nothing ; but when few
hours later she again appeared in
Wesley's presence, the beautiful hand
was stripped of every ornament ex.
cept those which nature had given,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Heartily Recommended.

Don't condemn a good thing be,
cause you haye been decieyed by
worthless noStrums. Parker's Gin.
ger Tonic has cured many in this Sec
ton of nervous disorders, and we
recommend it heartily to such suffer
ers.-NelCs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
FARM FOR SALE.

| offer for sale valuable farm of one hun
drcd acres, on the Oakland and West Union
road four miles from Oakland, improved by
log dwelling house, barn and other outbutld-
ing ;asO young apple orchard now bearing
VIII be sold on easy terms.
For particulars inquire on the premises.
SCI yr. HENRY klLllluS,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

An ingenious Frenchman, perhaps
taking hint from the hunting of
deer at night with a jack lantern,
lowered an electrict light in an air.
tight globe into the sea, attracting to
it thousands of fishes. Boats with
nets closed in and made tremendous
haul,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

Mr.. Blair's vaunted claim that he
would be triumphantly elected must
be queer statement to stare him in
the face just now. The Republican
majority in the District was nearly
doubled, in place Of being wiped out.
-Cnnlb. News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
NOTICE.

vii III persons Indebted to me on book account
LIST, 1883. '''' '"''io 'i' VI "'i''o jan
lO4td G. A SUIRER
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.

All persons are warned against cutting
down any of the timber on my land on the
Hooppole Road, adjoining the land of Bowie
johnson, about three miles from Deer Park
and six miles from Oakland The penalty
for cutting down timber in Garrett county,
Md, without permission of the owner of the
land, is the same, under the Act of 1880, CHI.
264, as for feloniously stealing goods or chat
tells TO the value of the tree or trees" so cut
down.
THEOS. B. HORWITZ.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
BLACKSMITHING.

am prepared to do all kinds of blacksmith
ing. Farmers work a speciality. Prices as
low as can be had for first class work. shop
near Browning House."
tf24 DAVID LITTLE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Road Petition.

This is to give notice, that the undersigned,
cltlzens or ELECTION district No. 8, Garrett
county Md, will petition the County Commits
siOners of said county. at their meeting next
after the expiration of thirty days from the
first publication of this notice, to locate q
county road, beginning at Frederick Warmers
residence, and running through the lands of
J j. FinSel, j. p. Paul, Johnson Bros, j. d.
Llewelyn and Others, ito interseCt the National
road near the tollgate, west of Frostbutg Il
distance ofabOut three miles.
JACOB u. LLEWELLYN,
JOHN y. Pow ELL,
MICHAEL BURST
92l ) And others.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

1t is needless to say that we offer you these
goods at low figures, as it is well known and
acknowledged that we sell goods lower than
any other house in Western Maryland. Some
may ask howwe can do it. Easily enough:
LIST. We buy direct from the manufacturer
and from the auction rooms. and can save you
the middle mans profit every time.
I'd. We sell strictly for cash and make no
allowance for bad debts. When Smith or
Brown runs off they never owe us anything,
consequently we don't have to add anything
to our prices to make up for bad debts.
Lastly, our Craftsman" is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
Cheapest Line of Women's
and Children's Shoes ever
offered in this Market,

really very little more than wholesale prices,
They are not shoddy goods, such as every
where glut the market, but real genuine first
class goods, that will always give the Wearer
usually kept only in large stores in the cities,
such as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11

r A AYn \ A. A. THOMAS, ST. Cloud Build
1 ing, Washington, ID. c. Practices
IN III ! before the United states General
4l1lvU J Land Office. Contested cases
private land claims, mining, pre- emption and
homestead cases prosecuted before the De-
partment of the Interior and Supreme Court;
and all classes of claims before the Executive
Departments Special attention given to
tOwn-site cases. Land warrants, homestead
floats and all kinds of land scrip bought
and sold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-11
ROAD PETITION.

This is to give notice, that the undersigned
will petition the County commissioners. after
thirty days from the first publication of this
notice for the appointment Ofviewers to locate
a public county road from the Deer Park and
Sand Flat road to the road leading from Alta
mont to the Burnt School House" beginning
at a point on the first mentioned road near
the residence of r. j. Head and running on
the lot lines dividing lots Nos. 3l23 and 1910,
1923 and 1872 3ll9 and 1914. BIZ and 1916, BIS
and 1919 BIB and 3l00, Bill and l76l to the last
mentioned road.
Ri. HEAD,
J. W. ARCHIBALD,
LAMUEL GREEN
92I3 And "A others.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

An explosion of fire works in the park at
Philadelphia at the William Penn anniversary
celebration resulted in the death Of eight per-
sons, and large number wounded, six of
whom II was thought would die. The killed
were Mrs. Mary Ann Coakley, aged thirty;
John Canning, aged seventy-ive; Isabella
Scudder, (eolored) Sged twenty-nii e; Howard
Scudder, aged three; Ulysses Tt empson,
(colored) aged nineteen; Dorotha L. Modier,
aged seven. VIM. Summers, aged thirteen,
died from heart disease.
VIM. V. Brown, assistant book-keeper of the
Poughkeepsie IN. " National Bank, who
pleaded guilty to making false entries in the
books and defrauding the institution of many
thousands of dollars, has been sentenced to
five years Imprisonment.
Bob Ford, OF Jesse James notoriety, who
had for about week been on trial at Platts-
burg, Mo-, upon the charge OF numbering
Wood Hite, one OF the James gang, some
months since, was acquitted by the jury after
being out forty-one hours. Ford was arrested
soon after he killed Jesse James upon his own
declaration that he had killed Hite in a quar-
rel
j. {. Tiffany, formerly Indian agent in
Arizona, was arrested in New York, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Government
OF upwards of $4,000, embezzlement' and
perjury. Tiffany says he resigned his position
last July and has been engaged in the steel
business in that city since April last. He said
he had heard of five indictments. but did not
think they would ever be presented. as it would
not do for him to tell of some things that he
knew. He was admitted to bail.
The matinee at the Olympic theater in st.
Louis, given by John Mccullough as a benefit
to the widow and children of Col. Slayback.
Melted between 5000 and $4,000.
Promotions in the army, consequent unon
the retirement of Maj. Gen. Irwin Mcdowell.
have been announced by the President. as fol-
lows: Brig. Gen. John A. Pope to be Major
General, and Col. Reinold s. Mackenzie of the
Fourth Cavalry, to be Brigadier General.
Both promotions take effect immediately.
Rowell, who previous to starting, offered to
bet $4,000 that he would win the pedestrian
race in New York, broke down and was with
drawn after making so miles.
Not the slightest clew has been obtained of
Maggie Hennicke, who disappeared from Nil
waukee, recently. Great excitement prevails
in all circles, as the rumor gains belief that
she has been abducted for foul purpose. Her
father offers $500 reward.
John Heiser, lately a member of the firm of
Carpeles, Heiser 81 Co., trunk manufacturers
of Milwaukee, Wis, has disappeared with
SIS, 900, leaving his family in destitute circum-
stances.
man named Thomas Talbot was fatality
shot by his wife at Cheyenne, w. T, during a
quarrel, his wife claims in self-defense. Tai
bott is about IS years old and has nine chill
dren.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
Report Of the Signal-Service Office.

WASHINGTON, October 81.
The Chief Signal officer of the Army, in his
report, says eleven new stations have been
added, and special reports are made for the
cotton and tobacco-growing regions of the
country, and the means for giving warnings
to cattle-raisers of Texas against the approach
OF ''northers" have been improved. Expert
ments have been made with u view OF increas-
ing the value of the farmers bulletin by the
addition of a weather chart of the United
States, and it is believed that i'm a short time
these charts may be successfully reproduced
on the farmers bulletin. With each year the
popular knowledge OF the uses of this bulletin
enables tho e interested in agriculture to Judge
OF the correctness of forecasts, and with the
addition of the proposed weather-map individ-
uals will be able to make correct predictions
of the weather for localities which it is
impossible to provide for in the brief sentence
which expresses the prevailing weather indf-
cations anticipated for an entire district 1t is
contemplated, as the work of the Office pro-
crosses, to add to this bulletin brief instruc-
uons for the use of instruments which NAV
hereafter be furnished for local observers.
The railway bulletin service has proven of
great value the past year. The system of frost
warnings for the benefit of the sugar interests
in Louisiana has been continued During the
coming year it is proposed to telegraph frost
warnings direct from the Signal Office to all
telegraph offices in the sugar-g owing sections.
1t is proposed the coming fall to establish
a system of frost warnings for the
benefit OF the tobacco-growing interests
OF the country, also similar service for the
benefit OF the orange growers of Florida. A
system of reports for the benefit of the cotton
interests has been thoroughly organized and
successfully perat I'D since September 1881. At
the solicitat on of those interested in the culti-
walton of wheat and other grains in the North
west 1t IS contemplated to establ sh service
similar To that now in operation for the benefit
Iinh 10 fl.fcJ
Office to publish in the journals of the North
west the daily rainfall and temperature, as de-
Ieimlned from a large number of stations.
The cost to the Government of the men who
do the signal-service work is less than $450OO0
year. The cost of salaries alone for the same
number of civilian clerks would amount to
more than 5000 000
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Virginia has 172 tobacco factoriesa
which consume 4S,000,000 pounds OF
the weed annually.
1t is stated on good authority that.
there are IL, 500, 600 horses in this coun-
try, the aggregate value of which ex-
ceeds $500, 600, 900. OF this sum
Robert Bonner alone contributes $685.
900, the value of his horses: - Chicago.
NeUS.
The oldest deed in America is I'M
possession of Major Leland, of New
York. 1t is dated 1910, Is years after
the discovery by Columbus, and con-
yeys Fishers Island, in Long Island
Sound, from certain Indian Chiefs, to-
John Cabot, whose signature it BEARS
m Y. Times.
The City Assessors of Pittsburgh,
Pa. have completed their work, and
announce the following as the amount.
year ended April /, 1882: Iron and
Steel, S24, 1928, 800; glass, S5, sos, GOO.
sundry manufacturers, $50, 28e, 12O;.
general business, SIG, 784,5
According to the report of the Scot
fish herring fishery for 1881, the yield
consisted of 1.111,155 barrels of cured
herrings. This number has only once.
been exceeded-in 1880. when 1,473, 600
barrels were obtained. In 1881, 14,809
boats were employed in the fisheries.
with 4S, 121 men ana boys, being an in
crease over 1880 of So boats and 900
fishermen.
Eight million three hundred and
sixty-six thousand bushels OF salt were
made in the Onondaga reserva-
ton during the fiscal year ended Sep
TENDER 80. 1882, being the largest pro-
duction of any year since 1871, and an
increase over last year of 1872, 900
bushels. The receipt for duties from
the year 1913 to 1882. inclusive, have
been $4, 295, 478.-M Y Sun.
Cincinnati has received about
1900, 600 baskets of peaches this season,
and about 500, 900 went direct to New
England cities. The Baltimore and
Philadelphia Gamers are said to have
used up another million and half
baskets. Eighty evaporating establish
ments have been engaged in Delaware.
and Maryland ever since June fruit has
been ripe. Preservers have taken liber-
ally the large crop, believing it we'll to
provide for possible short supply in
1888 Chicago Tribune.
The number of pieces of mail mat
ter handled during the last fiscal year
by nine of the largest cities was as fol-
lows: Baltimore, 80, 495, 159; Boston,
80, $3.50, 760; Brooklyn, 20, 49,, 154; Chi
cago, ia, S32, 007; Cincinnati, 1885,
207; New York, 23S, 57s, 2O3; Philadel-
phia, LA, 1874, 800; st. Louis, Al, 665, 249;
San Francisco, 23,046,513 Of the 3,115
carriers, 543 are employed in New York
The mail letters delivered in New York
numbered more than 100000, the
postal cards more than 11,0O0,0 600, the
local letters delivered nearly 33, 600, 900,
and the letters collected nearly 75, O00,-
600. N Y. Graphic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-03
THEWORLD'SDOINGS.
A Summary OF the Daily News.


II. p. Keyes, a countryman, blew out the
gas in a Washington %. c. hotel before re-
firing. He was insensible when discovered
and his recovery was extremely problematical.
In response TO blank sent him by the
Auditing Board, DR.. Boynton sent in his claim
for services rendered President Garfield. The
aggregate amount claimed is $500, being
$500 less than any claims for professional
services yet received.
1t is unoficially reported that the Egyptian
Government is about to abandon the prosecu-
ton of Arab Pasha, It is charged that the
action is due to the express wishes Of the
authorities at Constantinople. 1t is also
thought that the entire proceedings against
the rebels awaiting trial may be stopped by a
decree Of exile against the ringleaders and
amnesty TO the others.
The Legislature of Oregon, after repeated
Intellectual ballots during the session to elect
United States Senator, finally, two hours be-
fore adjournment, elected j. n. Dolph, ex-
Senator Mitchelrs forces, who had so long
stood by him, going over to Dolph almost in
body. The Senator elect is Pacific coast coun-
sci for the Northern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny, in which capacity it is said he draws an
annual salary of S27, 900.
Archbishop Croke will be summoned to
Rome in the course of the winter to confer
with the Pope in regard to the state of Ireland.