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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
Cheap for Casn..-For Christmas.

Cheap for Cash.. For Christmas.
Large lot of thots to be sold at 50
cents less on each pair than price.
Remnants in ladies' button shoes
very cheap.
Lot of $40 overcoats for $3.50. J1st
think
All wool fiannels ana cloths and
10 cents less per yard.
The great COraline COrsets.
have lots of good goods in broken
lots which l will sell very cheap. You
may find just what you want.
j. A. GRANT.
Ann
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
TRESPASS NOTICE.

Al! persons are hereby warned not to tres
pass in any manner upon the lands of r. s.
McCulloh, lying west of the Backbone Noun
tain.
l222St J. f. BARTLY, Agent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
Yours respectfully
S. P. SPECHT.

We received a letter from Mr..
Benjamin Shepp, who removed to
Kansas few weeks ago, In which he
says they arrived at their dpstina
ton, Lawrence, in good condition,
and were met there by Mr.. S. X.
Hook, formerly Of Selbysport dis
trict, who removed to Kansas about
eight years ago, and were taken to
Mr.. E. B. Hook, and then to his
own home where they remained
two days. Mr.. Shepp says that Mr..
S. X. Hook is one of the first class
farmers in Douglas county. He
gives the following price list of pro-
duce: wheat. 80 cents rye, 40 cents !;
corn, 80 cents; Oats, IS cents butter,
% cents. He also says that furniture
and store goods generally are cheap
er there than in Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22
Letter from Kansas.
LEAvENwoRTH, KANSAS,

December, 18th, 1883
EDITOR REPUBLICAN :-Will you
allow me space in your valuable pa
per for short note, as / left my
friends in Maryland with the prom
Use to let them hear from me. and it
is almost impossible to write to all
of them in reasonable length of
time.
l arrived at Lawrence on Friday,
at 2 p. NJ, and on Saturday went to
Topeka, which place l found to be
quite business city. / spent sever
al days in Topeka and met quite a
number very sociable young people.
On last Thursday morning / took
the train for Leaveuworth. found
it a city of about thirty thousand in
habitants, and doing large business.
l am going into business here to see
what | can do in the west. lam now
about fifteen hundred miles .from
home, entirely among strangers, but
have been received very cordially
and treated well so far. 1 cannot
give my farmer friends Information
about farming and how the farmers
here are getting along. as 1 have not
been in the country yet. Corn is sell
ling here at 80 cents per buSheI. In
coming from Topeka TO this city l
noticed farmers along the railroad
making hay. the weather being re
markabIy fine for the time of year.
will try and write more at another
time, am subscriber to the RE-
PUBLICAN. and will be pleased to see
items from different parts of Garrett
county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22

All persons having open accounts with the
late firm of John Shartzer & Bro. are hereby
notified to come forward and make settle-
ment before January lst 1884.
12Se JOHN SHARTZER & BRO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-22

10000 Toys. at Cheap Johns.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
Fear Held Him.

Novel-writers have tried, with more
or less success, to depict life in Wash
ington: but if the real inside history OF
men and parties there could be given,
it would surpass any picture in wild
improbability.
Take, for example, the following bit
of actual history. During the last gen
Grafton, one of the most familiar faces
on Pennsylvania avenue was that of a
well-known party leader, who was pop
ularly supposed to be an aspirant for
the highest political honors.
He WAS known as II man of great IN
tellectual power and unstained probity.
He had the control of vast national
interests. His personal popularity was
very great throughout the country,
and his ambition was known to be in
satiable
Yet when, time after time, high poll
teal Offices were offered him, he re-
fused to allow his name to be presented
as candidate. The reason for this
was known only after his death, and
then to but few persons.
In his early youth, under strong
temptation, he had committed crime
which, if disclosed in after life, would
have brought irreparable shame and
disgrace upon his children. The facts
were known but to two or three per-
sons III an obscure country village,
where he had once lived.
These persons were not unfriendly
to him, but they belonged to the OPP
posite political party. When, there
60 H., 4,1
didatc for n high national Office, he re-
ceived a quiet intimation from the in
land village that if he came before the
people the story would be made pub
lie.
We know no more dramatic figure in
fiction than that of this strong, ambi-
tious leader, with noble aims and true
purposes in later life, perpetually held
in check by an occasional crack of the
whip from an unseen hand III distant
hamlet. That single crime in his youth
had put yoke upon him, made him
slave, and baked every hope of his
whole life.
Yet hard and pitiable as this mans
fate seems to us, is it not measurably
that of every man who gives way TO
vice or folly in his youth? No matter
how sincere his repentance, or how
pure and helpful his after life, the in
efiaceable marks of that early lapse
into crime remain on soul and body.
The man who frequents vulgar and
vicious society, or is a drunkard,
gambler, or libertine at 20, will carry
the faint with him into old age and the
grave Outh'S Companions
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

able to speak fiuently. "The doctors
tell me i may go at any moment. ]
will not waste n word. have been I'M
conscious until Just now. ! want you
to forgive me if You can, if You will. ]
was jealous of You. | made my mind
up to destroy You if l could The whole
plot was mine. / got n woman TO decOy
your servant away | set fire TO your
house"
And the boy-the boy?' whispered
the father, pale rs death.
as sleeping there. He pointed to q
door leading off the room in which he
lay. 81 used chloroform on handker-
chief with him, and then brought him
here. He is safe. Open the door and
look. / shall never sing the part. /
had better voice than you. but L
wasn't as good man. Forgive me and
let me die in peace with all on earth,
since there is no hope of my gaining
peace hereafter. / have earned dam
nation, but i did not kill the boy.
Mercy !--mercy, James Walford Hark
There is your boys voice. Is it not
sweet enough to your ears this morning
TO take away your anger? Hank That
is not the voice of your boy. That is
the call boy, Monsieur Gratin, the stage
waits Ready
And with this word Monsieur Grattin
answered his Last Call.-BelGrdcid.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
An Aged Cigarette Smoker.

The old chapel is still standing in II
fair state of preservation, used for the
daily services of the San Gabriel par
ish and there are in it's near neighbo"-
hood n few crumbling adobe novels
left, the only remains of the once splen-
did and opulent mission. In one OF
these lives n Mexican woman, 81 years
old, who for more than half century
has washed and mended the priests
laces, repaired the robes and remodeled
the ve-tments of San Gabriel. She il
worth crossing the continent TO see:
all white from head to foot. rs if
bleached by some strange gramarve:
white hair, white skin. blue eyes faded
nearly to white: white cotton clothes.
ragged and not over clean, vet not a
trace of color in theIu; white linen
handkerchief. delicately embroidered by
herself. always tied loosely around her
throat. She sits on low box. leaning
against the wall, with three white pill
lows Mt her back, her feet on a cushion
on the ground; in front of her another
low box, on this lace-maker's pillow.
with knotted fringe stretched on it: at
her left hand battered copper caldron
holding hot Goals to warm her fingers
and light her cigarettes. A match she
will never use and she has seldom been
without cigarette in her mouth since
she was six years old.-"H. H., in tho
CeHflLTU
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
Looking for Her Son.

A woman has Just been hunting
through Connecticut for son whom
she had supposed to he dead for many
years. While living at Hartford many
years ago she quarreled with her hus-
band, who spirited her baby away.
The couple went to the West. and the
mother was told that the child was with
friends and that in few years she
might come for it. Then they sepa-
rated, and the mother supposed the
boy dead until she got chance init
nation that he was alive. The woman
was very poor, but she worked from
this clew until the story was unrav-
eled. The boy was found, when
about months old, under tree, and
adopted by substantial farmer. But
he was really dead when the mother
gained this Information.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
Whist Stories.

There is Northumberland story
of the late Lord Granville's devotion
to whist. Intending to set out Ill the
course of the afternoon for Paris, he
ordered his carriage and four posters to
be at Graham's at 4. They were kept
waiting till 10, when he sent out TO say
that he should not be ready for an hour
or two, and that the horses had better
be changed. They were changed three
times in all, ut intervals of six hours,
before he started When the party
rose they were up TO their ankles in
cards, and the Ambassador, it was re
ported, was a loser to the tune of IS, 900
or 300 About this time there was
u set at Brooks'-Lord Seton, an ex-
cellent player, being one-who played
hundred guinea points, besides bets.
We still occasionally hear of 600 or
$500 on the rubber, but 90 points are
above the average. The spirit of play
absorbs or deadens every other feeling.
Horace Walpole relates that, on
man falling down in n fit before the
bay window at Whites, odds were in
stantly offered to a large amount
against his recovery, and that. on its
being proposed to bleed him, the oper-
alton was vehemently resisted rs being
unfair. When Lord Thanet was in tbe
Tower, for the O'Connor riot, three
friends - the Duke of Bedford, the
Duke de Laval and Capt. Smith
were admitted to play whist with him,
and remain till the lookup hour of IL.
Early in the sitting Capt. Smith fell
back III n fit of apopleXy, and one of
the party rose to call for help.
"Stop," cried another, 1--WE shall he
turned ont if You make a noise! Let
our friend alone till IL; we can play
dummy, and he will be none the worse
for can read death in his face" The
clergy, especially of the West of En-
gland. were formerly devoted to Whist.
About the beginning of the century
there was q whist club in country
town in Somersetshire, composed
mostly of clergymen, that met every
Sunday evening in the back pnrlor of
a barber. Four of these were acting
as pallbearers at the funeral of rev
erend brother, when delay occurred
from the grave not being ready, or
some other cause, and the coffin was set
down in the chancel. BY way of Will
ing away the time one of them pro-
duced pack of cards from his pocket
and proposed rubber The rest
gladly assented, and they were deep in
their game, using the coffin as their
tabl,, when the sexton came to an
nounce that the preparations were COM
plete. Society.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
y OWE NO MAN DOLLAR"
by cHARLIs p. s,uRAs.

o., 10 not envy, my own dear wife,
The wealth of cur neXt-door neighlO.,
Iut id me stu be- stout OF heart,
And Cheeriully follow nay LABOR.
Nou mast know the list OF those little debts,
That have been cur lingering sorrow,
Is paid this night; 80 we II both go f'rth
And shake hands with the world tomorrow
Oh. the debtor is but shameful dog,
With the creditors name on his coilir
While am King and yOu Queen,
For we owe no man dollar.
Our neighbor You saw in his coach to-day.
WITH MS wife and his raunt,ng daughter,
While We sat down at cur chccrlcss board
TO a crust and cup of water,
l saw that the tear drop stood III Your eve,
Though YOU tiled your best 10 conceal II;
know that the contrast reached your heart
Aud YOU could not help but feel II.
But knowing now that our scanty fare
Has isecd my neck from the. Collar
NOull Join my laugh, and help me shout
That we owe no man dollar!
The ncighhor whose show has da2zlcd your eyes
In fac, i n wretchcd debtor:
| itY him Of, from my very heart,
And ! Wish that his lot was better.
Why, the man is the vcriest slave alive;
For his dasGirg wi e and daughter
Win live in style, though ruin should come,
80 he goes like n llmb to the slaU ghtcr.
But ne feels il tighter every ay,
That terrible debtors collar,
Oh. what would he give. could he say WITH ~
hat he owed no man dollar,
You seem amazed, but I'll tell YOU moro:
MI hin two hours | met him
SneaiIng along with frightened air
As ii n iiend had b7set him.
Yet H. lied from n very worthy mln.
Whom | met with the greatest pleasure,
Whom l called by name and forced TO stop,
Though he said he was not NJ leisure.
He he'd my last net! SO held HIM fast
Till he freed my ne k from the collar:
Then / shook his hand a proudly said,
Now l owe no nan dollar,
An, now you smile, for you feel the force
OF the truths I've been repeating;
! knew that a downright honest heart
In that gentle breast was beating!
To-morrOw Ill rise with a giants strength
10 follow my daily labor.
But exc we sleep let Us humbly pray
For our wretchcd nCXt-dOOr ncighbor:
And we'll pray for the time when all shall bC
free
From the W ight Of the debtors collar.
IA IN he who was crushed IN the wise may cry,
Now owe no man a dollar!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
His Reputation Was Spoiled.

Doctor-And how do You feel this
morning, my poor fellow?
Suilerer-Much better in most ways,
but | am AFRAID i won't mend very fast ::
/ worry too much.
Doctor-You have nothing to worry
about You will not lose any of your
limbs, and the railroad company can be
made to pay heavy damages
Suilerer-I know that but just think
of the humiliation
Doctor-The humiliation?
Suf1erer-Yes; l was always consid-
cred man of energy and activity, but
now my reputation is ruined. No one
will want to employ man who was so
lazy as to get run over by an accommo-
dat on train. -PhHod6lpbid call
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

Attorneys and Judges can do more
than any other persons in making our
laws and judicial system respected.
What respect can our people have for
our legal methods and machinery when
they see the ends of Justice defeated by
professional skill and professional
tricks, and those who break the laws
go unpublished? 1t is high time to be-
gin thorough reform in this respect,
and the lawyers have greater opportu-
mites than any other class in the COM
munity to help it along. Harsaw
(I9d.) Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27
Railroads. Ten Miles Apart

/ asked a wealthy man who is a heavy
STOCKHOLDERS in many railroad lines and
also farmer, if he thought there was
not too much railroad competition com
ing. Said h: 81 have expressed the
opiuion for the last fifteen years that n
State as rich, for example, as Iowa,
where 1 lived good while, could sup
port railroads ten miles apart, and |
see reason every day to confirm my
judgment. l mean that, when the land
is settled as thickly as it should he for
the character of the soil, railroads
ten miles apart can get all the traffic
they want CATH" IN NelC York
Trib1i1le.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

IT has now become fashionable in
Eastern cities TO be married as early as
8 o'clock in the morning. This gives
the brides female relatives time TO say
good-by to her before the evening train
goes.-BoStOU Posi-.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-27

MEN don't like to get into box, but
they hate the worst the one they have
to get into at last.
The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
AMUsEM ENTs,

The 800 people that were present last
evening in the Opera House TO witness the
performance of the "Two Johns" Combina-
tion laughed until tears ran down their
cheeks. The comedy is full of laughable
situations, from the first to the last act. The
principal actors were John, better known as
''Fattie" Stewart and John Hart, who did
their parts in an excellent manner. The
performance was interspersed with entire
acts, which were very good, especially the
DaRell twin brothers the song and dance
men; the st. Felix sisters In duets, songs
and dances, and also Thomas A. Daley, late
of the Tourists" and Miss Lizzie Deriods
in the pleasing little sketch of "That Girl
from Vassar."
This evening the Hess Opera Company
appear in the ever welcome opera of the
Bohemian Girl" The music is always
welcome, and among the much-admired
and frequently-sung solos are "The Heart
Bowed Down." "Then You'll Remember
Me-" 1.-THE Fair Land of Poland"
Dreamt that Dweltin Marble Halls" and
others, while the gypsy chorus is familiar to
all. The Hess Company comes well recon-
mendei as capable of doing effective work
and, inasmuch as the "Bohemian Girl" has
not made her appearance in Wilmington for
a number of years, full house is assured.
The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
MURDERED by HIS PARTNER.
A Young Man Slain in the Presence OF
His Wife and Child.

PITTsBURG, Oct. 5.-John Brown entered
the house of his partner, Henry Weaver, in
Allegheny City this evening, and without
provocation killed him and then beat his
brains out in the presence of his wife and
child. Brown is 20 years of age. Weaver
was two years his senior, married and the
father of one child. They were engaged in
buying and selling horses. A short time
ago Brown became infatuated with Mary
Maginley, young woman of bad reputa.
ton. He took her to Weaver's house. Mrs
Weaver learned the girls true character to-
day and compelled her to leave instantly.
Brown heard of this, and shortly before Z
O'Clock went to Weaver's. house and de
manded a settlement of the partnership ac-
counts, and the payment of $47 which he
claimed to be due. Weaver told him to call
In the morning, but he replied that he was
determined to settle Immediately, aud, with
an oath, drew revolver and fired three
shots at Weaver. Every one took effect and
Weaver iell dead instantly. Brown jumped
on his PROSTATE body, took the money and
valuables from his pockets, and then COM
menced to beat him on the head with the
butt of mis- revolver.
In order that the bloody deed might be
complete, he seized a chair and continued to
strike the head of his victim. He did not
desist until the shrieks of Mrs. Weaver
brought others to the scene. Then he sprang
through window and escaped. His cap
ture is considered certain, and lynching is
threatened.
The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
YELLOW FEVER.
Several Deaths from the Disease at Various
Places in Mexico.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.-The fireman on
the steamer Newbern, who died yesterday
from yellow fever, was buried this morning.
II is the opinion of many that it would have
been better TO have cremated the remains.
SO as to more e6eetually destroy the fever
germs. Second Officer Gatau's condition
has improved, aud the other patients are
convalescent. The Quarantine Officer says
there is absolutely no danger of the devel-
opmeDt of the disease here, and that yellow
fever germs are brought in every day by
rail, but do not develop, the wea ther being
too cold.
A dispatch received to day from Mazatian
announces the death from yellow fever of
Horace Adams, a well-known mechanical
engineer, who resided in this city.
Some excitement has been caused by the
fact that the steamer San Juan, which ar
rived after the Newbern had taken passen-
gers from Mazatlan, was allowed to come to
her dock without being quarantined, her
captain having clean bill of health and
stating that he had not had any communi-
cation with that injected port.
AdVices from Cullacan, the capital of
C1naloa, Mexico, state that the fever is rag
ing there terribly, but no exact details are
obtainable.
GUAYMAs, Mexico, Oct. 5.--Rain fell last
night and cooled the atmosphere. No deaths
nor any new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported to day. Lyons, the foreman of the
machine shops, died last night.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. Ga dispatch
from Nashville reports considerable excite
ment from Mobile to Montgomery over the
yellow fever at Brewton, Ala, IA miles from
Pensacola Junction. There are now II cases
which the medical examiner declares to be
genuine yellow fever.
DR.. jerome Cochran, Health Officer of
Alabama, telegraphed yesterday in regard
to the yellow fever at Brewton, on the Mo
bile and Montgomery railroad, as follows:
"Only one case on hand and that not a
marked one. Am doubtful as to what sort
of fever it is."
A Mobile special to the Register from DR..
Foard, the Health Officer for Escambia
county, to-day says; "My opinion of the
character of the sickness prevailing at Brew
ton, Ala, is unchanged. A diagnosis shows
the disease to be hemorrhagic malarial
fever. There have been no new cases since
September % and no critical case is now
under treatment. The people are in good
spirits"
The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
TEMPERANCE.
SIgners stin Being Added to the Nom
Partisan Pledge.

sIgners sHn Being Added to the Nom
Partisan Pledge.
To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE: The
list of new names In this weeks Conference
Worker is as follows: A, G. Caulk, Rev.
Peter j. Adams, George l. Hansell, Patrick
McKenna, Richard w. Brown, William
haley, Robert Hitler, G. D. Jester, Charles
G.. Brown, J. r. McCllntock, Joseph Ernest,
Rev. George W. Wilcox, Samuel H. Benson,
|. I. Sufphay, Charles Miller, George Gee,
j. Bayard Pierce, Thomas Worrilow, NJ NJ.
Hill, George w. Elliott, Joshua Taylor, Lea
7. Archer, Amos Irons, d. B. Anderson, Jr.,
Amos Brown, Edward Il. Mason, George
w. Kreer. John s. Benson, John Walling,
j. 7. Smith, George W. Murphey, John Nc
Kinney, james Lank, Albert Lank, Henry
Lank, James Fisher.
Any work on hygiene In our schools that
made no reference to such possible thing
as poison, would be considered iearfully
lacking. In such work the poisonous ex-
halations escaping from drains, marshes and
sewers would be necessarily treated and If
they exhibited in the neighborhood would
be branded as places to be stunned, and the
alarm would be rung out In every school
room and demand made for a thorough
investigation. Now there is poison whose
exhalations hang over our cities and towns
like great, terrible cloud of death; there is
not a corner of our land that does not feel its
evil effect. 1t is furnace whose tongue of
fame licks up its tens OF thousands Of
victims yearly. 1t is the great demon de-
stroying the morals of our nation. 1t brings
hunger, cold and nakedness into thousands
of homes. Is 1t not high time that 1t became
obligatory, that every teacher in our public
schools should warn the poor little victim
of the nature of this poison.
The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
CECIL COUNTY FAIR,
Large and Popular ExhibItiOn--Award
of Premiums.

ELKToN, Nd, Oct. 5.-The attendance at
the Cecil county fair to-day is estimated at
between ten and twelve thousand. Tho
weather of the past few days has been every
thing that could be desired, and the attend
ance o, farmers has been nOticeably large.
The number and quality of the exhibits has
never been excelled ut this fair Hecker's
self-raising buckwheat exhibit and Lever
ing's coffee pavilion are centres of attraction.
Sanders 81 Stayman, of Baltimore, and Stieff
have fine displays ofpianos and organs.
The unfinished 2.37 class race was decided
this morning by Albert France, of Balti-
more, winning the deciding heat in 2.34L
Six horses started in the $50 class race;
Charlie L., of Baltimore, won, with Della
ware Boy, of Newark, second; Belle, of Ok
ford, third; time, 2.41, 2.41, 2.39, 2.3SH
The 234 class was hotly contested and won
by Alice Addison, of Philadelphia, Mamie
KiernaL, of New York, second, Orange Boy,
of Philadelphia, third; tine, 2.40, 2.343I
2.33}5, 2.36K.
Three started in the 229 class race, which
was won by Ike Shultz, of Philadelphia,
Maud second, Mollie Meek third; time,
2.3515 2.37A, 2.351%.