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Mama
Work Of Three state Convention.
THE MARYLAND DEMOCRATS NOMINATE KoRrn, -

IHs AAkfLAfD DEMOCRATS NOMINATE ROBERT n
h'LANR PoR GOVERNOR
The democratic state convention in Bslt,more
yesterday afternoon nominated Hon Robert M.
McLane on the nrst ballot for governor. Mr. J.
Frank Turner. OF Talbot, was nominated for CON-
troller, and Mr.. Charles b. Roberta OF Carrol for
a.toIney general MT. hcLane addressed the con-
aenlIon at some length, urging the importance OF
united action. The platform adopted arraigns the
republican party for rxtravagancr IN the admins
Iratlon or affairs, and for the growth IN power or
oppressive monopolies; favors the umitaf \ of
national taxation 10 such amounts as ara n.res
LOT .he scono mical administration OF the gov.
=, .nient. iaVors such revision and Amendment OF
Tue federal laws relating 10 shipping and carrisSe
Oh ocean IRE ghts as Will Restore our merchant
Democratic party win continue its efToyt, IN me fSe
line or reform; declares that labornC men have
squai rgma WIN The owners or capital to make
and thanks Gov. Hamilton for his Efforts 10 carry
on. the principles affirmed by the convention OF
TICKET AND PLATFORM OF THE NEW YORK RFprR
LIcANs-ruE ADMINISTER ALTON rNpoRsEp.
The New York republicans In convention M
hichneld Springs yesterday made the following
nominations: For secretary OF state, Joseph "a
Carr; controller Ira A. Davenport; treasurer.
Pilny L. Sexton; state engineer, Silas ssymour.
aO,u,ney general Leslie w. Russell Tn re was
WIS naue and supported by the stalwarts While
Gie haii-oreedS named and supported Ethan Allen
ex,t pe sro On shese nominations close and
nraol
DIookiyh arose and cast IS OF the Kings county
No.es tOr Allen and was followed by Henry Ire.
main, throwing 70 OF the New YORK county votes
tneSane Way, the excitement became very great
as THESE ballots placed Allen far ahead The
country delegates became alarmed at the unanimi.
" OF the New York and Kings county men sus-
pecting job. and broke for sexton who elected
Dy 700 TO 2l5 Tor Allen. Mr.. fireman then moved IN
make tne nomination unanimous, which was done
Tue TWO popular topics IN the convention were
ptolecuon ana President Arthur. The platform
o, uae reduction OF taxation, the protection OF
nome industries, the puricatlon OF the civil ser.
vice. and lndorse the wisdom and success OF Pres.
idrnt Arthur'S administration.
MASSACHUSETTS, REPUBLICANS INDoRsR THE ADMIN.
IsTRAT1oN.
At the republican state convention Mt Boston
yesterday, after the nomination or George ID. Rob.
inson for governor, as mentioned 10 THE sraR the
following additional nominations were made: For
lieutenant governor, Oliver Ames: secretary or
state, Henry b. Pierce, OF Abingdon; treasurer
Daniel A. Gleason, OF MeGford: attorney general
iSar j. Sherman, OF Lawrence: auditor Charles
Laid. OF Springfield. Senator Dawes submitted
the platform. Ii pronounccs for civil service re-
FORM. reduced taxation, and laws to protect ana
develop American Industry. President Arlhur's
administration is indorsed
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AocrDENT-A boy named Beach, employed in
the bureau OF engraving and printing, was caught
IN the machinery this morning, and hts arm was
broken In two places He was taken to Provt.
0oQC0 hOSOital.
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ASSIGNMENT BY GEORGE McCARTHY-George
Mccarthy has made.an assignment OF all his goods.
wares &C., in the premises, COS Pennsylvania ave-
nue.: TO A. A. Lipscomb, for the benefit OF his
$50; s. Frank Wooiman, s72: E. n Mccormick
$3.50: John B. FLOYD. 500. and 4. T. Wright 2I3s
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flHHE lotto" GAS ENGINE
Requires boiler, svoids all expensive attendance
no loss of time handling of fuel and ashes 1t
nsed extensyely Tor running PASSENGER and Freight
Eevators. Sewing Machines Meat ChopperA Printing
and Autographs Presses Coffee Mills RoGsters Pa
PER and RulinG Machinery. Lathes. &C., &c. This
sine runs with extreme smoothne6s and regularity Of
sIeed Possesses the least number Of WORKING para and
great simplicity Of mechanism.
f~ particulars 10 Drlcea. m npf1y r Of6ce Of
washington 6as Lii ht CO. fr1S
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NJ ANHOOD RESTORED.

A victim OF early imprudence. causing Nervous Do
billy. Premature Decay. ETC., having tried in vain
every known remedy. has discovered simple means
OF sef-cure. which he viii send free to his fellow
New YORK 1ylO-tu. thks
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LIEUT.. fRERxANs SENrENck-The Secretary OF
the Navy has approved the proceedings findings
and sentence OF the cOurt-mart1al In the case OF
Lieut. Albert T. Freeman, ism, who was
charged with drunkenness on duty and with
scandalOuB conduct tending 20 the destruction or
good morals: The court found him guilty and
sentenced him to three years suspension from
rank and duty ON furiough pay, and to n0tain his
present number on the navy register until the ex-
pkaton Of three yeAra
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The PHTA, which has Just been repaired at
New York. has been ordered to Portsmo nth. N. H,
to test her SEA going qualities
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The SECRETARY CT TIE NAvY has accepted the
resignation Of Ensign Frederick b. Ylnton, who
was tried by cOnrt-martial on charges Of drunken
ness and ungentemanly conduct.
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"A To all who suffering from the errors and in.
dfscreoo OF youth. nervous weakness early decay
loss Of Jnsnh1ed &e win send recipe that Win cure
covered by missionary in South America. Send q
se add essed envelope to the REV. JOSEPH r INMAN
htGd on ID. New York City. o7-s. tn tn ~ Nv
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
Lawyers Fees.

The Supreme Court of this State, on
Tuesday last, decided case on appeal
from a Superior Court of this city, in
teresting alike to litigants and lawyers,
as protective of the former and restrict
i've of the latter in the assessment of
counsels' fees. In this particular case
the lawyers fee bill, presented by the adj
ministrator of an estate, was for S., 075
The Superior Judge disallowed it and
cut it down to $1,000, thus saving to
the minor heirs or other legal inheritors
of the estate $4,075. 1t appears that
the evidence of other lawyers was sub
mitted to the Superior Court in sup
port of the RESPONSIVENESS of the bill for
5000, but the Judge, of his own
motion, disregarded this evidence and
cut down the bill as just stated. Hence
the appeal to the Supreme Court. That
Court lays it down as the law in the
premises that 1.-THE Court below was not
bound by the opinion of professional
witnesses-othe lawyers-as to. the
value of the services rendered by the
attorney for the administrator, but
was authorized to use its own Judgment
as to such value, comparing the same
with the opinion of the witnesses and
make such allowance as should be just. ="
This decision COMFORTS with one recent
ly rendered by a New York Court in a
similar case, where a lawyers fee bill
was cut down to less than one-fourth,
accompanied by severe reflection on
the greed of attorneys in their dealings
with clients. 1t is never difficult for a
lawyer of good standing and practice to
procure plenty of witnesses-his broth
ers at the BARN support of the most
extravagant claims against a client, but
especially in the settlement of estates of
deceased persons, for the. members of
the bar have common interest in these
matters. And it is good reason that
because they are interested witnesses,
the Court should take their testimony
with many grains of allowance. The
decision is just one and the wonder
is that is was not rendered years ago
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
Microscopic Landslide.

A unique sale took place recently in
the Treasurer's office. 1t was like a
slow mule race, each bidder endeavOr-
ing to see who could secure the smallest
portion of certain tract of land which
was incumbered by taxes and a couple
of mortgages. The bidders were t. j.
Pereles and Henry Herman, and the
bidding commenced at a certain num-
Der of feet, and finally finished by being
knocked down to Herman, when it had
decreased to 1000, 900, 900, 900, 100000
600, 900, 900, 000th part of the lot. The
price of the scrap of dirt was 5000
The land was sold for taxes, and the law
governing the matteris found in Section
"a of Chap. Is of the Charter: 1.-The
Treasurer shall sell on the day and at
the place designated in his notice all
tracts and lots, or parts thereof, upon
which the taxes or assessments shall
remain unpaid. The sale shall be the
smallest undivided portion of the lot or
tract which any person will take ana
pay the taxes and charges on the whole
lot or tract. MilWaukee Sentinel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
Bound to Win.

"Sir!' he began, as he found him at
the Rector-Street station of the Elevated
road " four years ago you predicted
that the wheat crop would fail. l bought
heavily in futures and lost"
Exactly-exactly. l admit that l
was mistaken replied the prophet.
Three years ago you predicted that
oats would go down to twenty cents. i
sold futures and lost again"
$50 you did-exactly. I remember
that | missed it in oats"
1.-TWO years ago you prophecied hard
pan on railroad stocks. waited to buy
and lost opportunities to double my
money"
That's so-that's so. They didn't
go down as had anticipated"
And sir!' continued the accuser, in
solemn tone, last year you prophecied
that there would be general war in
Europe, and L sold securities at a loss. "
"Exactly-exactly!' blandly replied
the speculator, 81 own right up that
I've missed it four times hand-running,
but shall hit sooner or later. l now
predict a great rise in beans for next
fall; buy my beans, sir-buy cart loads
and car loads of beans and hold 'em for
boom of fifty per cent. Good morn
ing, sir. j. Wall Street NeaUs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A movement for Episcopal govern
ment is gaining strength in the Luther
an Church. All the pastors in tbo
Easton Pa.) Conference have declarod I
in favor of bishops.
Sunday is very largely WORKING
day, like the rest of the week, in RE-
hernia, but an earnest movement n
make the first day of the week a dav of
rest has been started there.
The Presbyteries of the Southern
Presbyterian Church have been re-
quested by their assembly to express
their opinion respecting the prohibition,
IN their Confession of Faith, of the
marriage of man with his deceased
wife's sister. '''N
The following excellent compen.
dunn OF what a house of worship should
be is from an English paper: Free
from all draughts, free from all delu.
sions, free from all false doctrine, free
to all men and free from all debt"
So strict are the rules of the Russian
orthodox church that the grand requiem
service on the second anniversary of the
assassination of Alexander II. falling
this year in the first week of Lent, were
postponed until the 18th, no celebration,
solemn or festive, being permitted by
the holy synod during the first DAYS Of
the Lenton fast
-Touro College for Jewish boys and
girls is to be soon opened at Newport.
r. /. 1t will be under the direction of
the Rev. A. P. Mendes and have stat
OF professors selected from the most
learned Jews in the country. The pro-
ject has the support of the most promi-
nent Jewish ministers in the United
States.
The American Tract Society for
warded during its last financial year, to
foreign mission stations $4,920 in cash,
So, 136 in electrotypes and S2,474inpub-
locations printed at the Tract House.
Its valuable publications are issued not
only in English, but also in German,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,
Welsh, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian,
Dutch. Finnish and Hungarian.
"A writer in the Boston Herald
sharply criticises the present common
school system of that city, which he
calls the "new departure. Under
this order of things" he says, 'the
spelling book and mental arithmetic
were banished from the schools. All
ranking by per cent. and classification
was ignored and virtually abolished, a
practice which the most distinguished
teachers, in all time, have found most
essential, under judicious arrangement,
to Intellectual growth and successful
scholarship in their pupils"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-" Kissimmee" is the name of
thriving town in Florida. Young ladies
living there do not dare to name the
place of their residence in the hearing
of strangers.
1t is claimed by some collector of
facts that the first almanac was pro-
duced in the year 1850. And it has
been handed down to the present year
with even its raciest jokes still intact
PechS Sun.
"A dispatch from Orange says: 81.
Jackson, while chopping in the woods
was struck by a falling tree and had his
back broken in three places. His re-
covery is doubtful. We should think
it might be somewhat improbable. 6
The Hartford Post says: ga man
worth 100000 blew out the gas in his
room at New Hampshire hotel the
other night, and was too dead the next
morning to enquire for his boots" 1t
would, we venture to assert, have affect
ed him the same way if he hadn't been
worth five dollars. Boston Post.
"A lecturer, discoursing on the SUBJ
ject of Health" inquired: "What
use can man make of his time while
waiting for doctor?" Before he could
begin his answer to his own inquiry,
some one in the audience cried out:
"He can make his will"
Her comparisons: 'Here I've been
talking for half an hour" exclaimed
an auctioneer, land 1 haven't got an
Offer "Half an hour, indeedr' muir
INJURED an elderly maiden. whats
half an hour to many long years, and
still no hope of an offer. boston
Transcript.
An old bachelor who wanted to in
gratiate himself with a rich widow,
presented her with a lap-dog, saying;
II have trained him so perfectly that
he will eat off your hand" ''Eat off
my handr' exclaimed the widow. 81
don't want my hand eaten off; and you
needn't think of getting it in that
way"
kitty, DEAR" cried the lover, as
he yearned hungrily over the back gate,
'you are the sum total of my hearts
calculation, and though hoped to gain
by your addition, you set me at naught
and leave me but to sigh for"
Just here the old man solved the arith-
metical harangue by footing him up the
alley. Boston Post.
In a New York boudoir-"Of
course you was at the Vanderbilt ball. "
80, yes, of course were" "Weren't
them people horrid?" "Just too hor-
rid for anything. / never did see no
such goings on in our set afore. and !
were orfully ashamed, wasn't youp'
you bet was, but we must be charita-
BILE. All folks amt had no such
edicatorial advantages like we had, you
know" That's SO. Ia, ia. "-PbiIa-
deLphid News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05

so are all the rest of us; money that
Will make our old place an Eden, and
educate the boys as well as all the Sir
Guy Temples that were ever born!'
Maria" said Mrs. Dilloway, in a
sepulchral voice that came from the
depths to which she had fallen in her
new despair: 81 can't believe word
you say!''
~ yes, you can, mamma. The
Colonel has made us all rich-reallv
rich. The Colonel, you know, is Brooks
mine. L was so interested in it all-it
was SO enchanting-but didn't dare at
ilrst to tell you very much about him,
for fear of disappointment And when
| found from your letters that you were
taking my casual mention of Sir Guy
Temple with such roseate ideas. T
thought would just lead you along to
pass the time till we found out where
we were."
Maria! A child of mine"
'If we PANIED out poorly meant to
let you down gently, and you would
have been beguiled of some melancholy.
you see, any way If otherwise, YOU
wouldn't need any letting down. And
he has, mamma, oh, the Colonel
has"
"Maria, don't understand you. How
am L to believe thatP You are now civ
ing me to understand that Brooks little
mine has lifted us out of poverty and
distress. This morning you gave me to
understand that you were to marry Sir
Guy Temple"
Il never did, mamma. You gave
yourself to understand SOL
when you said you were going back
to England with Sir Guy Temple as his
wife?"
81 never said so, mamma. Mrs. Cecil
said he was going to take wife back
with him when he came up from Ari-
IONA. 1 didn't say it was l. And 1
didn' tsay it was Miss Arundel, although
she did But Mrs. Cecil is humbug,
and think she was playing off on me-
"And what did you mean about we'd
ding?" gasped Mrs. Dilloway.
go, that was something you took for
granted, you see. But when l give you
Brooks word for it, in check signed,
sealed and delivered, that he has sold
out his interest in the Colonel mine for
more than half a million dollars and
has divided it, share and share alike,
among us all, you'll believe that? So
you thought to see me in the haunted
diamondsP I'll tell you what, mamma"
fitting back her mothers chin and kiss
ing her thin lips, mo more tears in
those eyes, remember! I'll tell you
what, I'll haunt Mrs. Byrnes if she
doesn't sell me back grandma's cash
mere shawl! Sir Guy TempleP For my
part-do you remember what Mrs.
Prigg said to Mrs. Camp about Mrs.
Harris, mamma? 4 don't believe there's
no SIGH a personn "-Harriet Prescott
SpOford, IN the Continent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE.

AS the little white hearse went glimmering by
The man on the coal cart jerked his lines,
And smutted the lid of either eye,
And turned and stared at the business signs
And the street-car driver stopped and beat
His hands on his shoulders and gazed up street
Till his eye on the long track reached the sky
AS the little white hearse went glimmering by
AS the little white hearse went glimmering by
A stranger petted ragged child
In the crowded walk, and she knew not why,
But he gave her a coin for the way she
smiled
And bootblack thrilled with a pleasure
strange
AS customer put back his change
With kindly hand and grateful sigh
As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
AS the little white hearse went glimmering by,
A man looked out of a window dim,
And his cheeks were wet and his heart was
dry
For a dead child even were dear to himl
And he thought of his empty life and said:
"Loveless alive, and loveesS dead
Nor wife nor child in earth or skyI"-
AS the little white hearse went glimmering by.
j. W. Riley, in Indianapolis Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-05-05
A Hard Witness.

'Do you know the prisoner wellP"
asked the attorney.
Never knew him SICK" replied the
witness.
mo levity," said the lawyer, sternly.
''Now, sir, did you ever see the prisoner
at the bar?"
''Took many drink with him at the
barr
ANSWER my question, SIR" yelled
the lawyer. ''How long have you
known the prisonerP
From two feet up to five feet ten
inches"
"Will the Court make the"
81 have, Jedge," said the witness,
anticipating the lawyer; 81 have an
swered the question. 1 knowed the
prisoner when he was boy two feet
long and man five feet ten"
"Your Honor
cts fact, Jedge, I'm under oath, :"
persisted the witness.
The lawyer arose, placed both hands
on the table in front of him, spread his
legs apart, leaned his body over the
table and said.
''Will you tell the Court what you
know about this case?"
That amt his name," replied the
witness.
"What amt his name?"
Cease"
"Who said it WASP"
''You did. You wanted to know what
l knew about this case. His names
Smith"
"Your Honor" howled the attorney,
plucking his beard out by the roots,
Twill you make this man answerp''
Witness" said the Judge, ''you
must answer the questions put to you. ~
Land O. Goshen, Jedge, hain't !
been dom itP Let the blamed cuss fire
away. I'm all ready"
"Then," said the lawyer don't beat
about the bush any more. You and the
prisoner have been friends?"
"Never," promptly responded the
witness.
"What! Wasn't you summoned here
as a friend?"
mo, sir; was summoned here as d
Presbyterian. Nary one of us was ever
Friends. He's an old-line Baptist,
without drop of Quaker in him."
"Stand down, yelled the lawyer, in
disgust.
"Heyp"
''Stand down."
Cant do it, I'll sit down or stand
up
"Sheriff, remove the man from the
box"
Witness retires, muttering: "Well,
if he amt the thick headedest cuss /
ever laid eyes on. ~ Utica Observer