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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

In the last issue of BradStreet's is a
comprehensive article containing
statistical tables, showing the number
of men out of employment at the
present time, as compared with the
number employed in 1880, when all
are believed to have been at work
who could or were willing to labor.
1t is the result of answers to several
thousands of inquiries addressed to
correspondents, and it is claimed that
the greatest care was exercised in
gathering and preparing the materi-
al, The returns show that the whole
humber out of work by reason of
strikes, shutting down, &C., is 3l6,-
600, or 10 per cent of the number en-
ployed in 1880, which, according to
the census, was 2,452,749, Maryland
is set down as having the smallest
percentage Ct unemployed 7 per
cent.-and Minnesota the largest-4O
per cent.-and of the cities, New
York has "a per cent, Boston u per
cent, Philadelphia 81 per cent. and
Baltimore but 81 per cent. The re-
turns show clearly that there is wide
spread trouble among the working
classes, but at the same time that it
isnot so very serious as perhaps many
have thought who have been taking
account only of the numbers thrown
out of work, without considering the
great number still employed. 1t is
to be noted that the total number of
idle employees of Maryland in all
lines of work is placed at "not over a
few thousand, probably 5000, as near
ly all manufacturers are running at
least part time"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
A DiscOrdant Voice.

We observe with profound interest
that our esteemed contemporary, the
Hagerstown Mail, which during the
late presidential campaign worked
most industriously in the harness of
an organ of Democratic opinion. has
of late been backing its ears and wal
ling its eyes at Senator German, and
threatening to jump out of the traces.
On Friday last it-so to speak-plant-
ed both its fore feet in the mud and
let fly with both heels. 1t finds fault
not alone with Senator German per,
sonally, but with all his friends and
his "goings on"
1t is our belief that the Mail is the
exponent of phase of Democratic
sentiment that is now gathering
strength, land before the next autumn
will be very much more powerful
than the gay jewellers of the German
banquet Iuay suppose.
The Mail is dissatisfied with the
dimensions of certain canal fees, it is
outraged at the election of General
Frank Bond as superintendent of the
House of Correction, it is exceeding.
ly sour on the bearing of Comptrol-
Ter Turner toward Mr.. Stevens. il
sneers at the appointment of Mr.,
James g, Berret as chief marshal Of
the Inauguration ceremonies, and
calls it reform" and it expresses
the opinion that the Democratic cam.
paign was wretchedly managed, and
indeed, calls the management of Mr..
German and his committee in New
York "a scandal and shame" These
are not detached or creless para
graphs, but each one is an editoria
article written with all the accustom
ed yigor of our esteemed contempt
rary .-Bdlto. american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
The United States Senate passed

The United States Senate passed
Monday for the fourth time the bill
''to provide for commission on the
subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic"
It provides for the appointment of a
commission of seven persons, not
more than four of whom shall belong
to the same political party, nor be
advocates of prohibition. They are
to serve without salary, but are to
have their expenses paid. The work
is not to occupy more than two years,
and Is to consist of an investigation
OF the relations Of the liquor traffic to
revenue and taxation, its general
economic. criminal, moral and scien-
tific aspects In connection with pau.
perism, crime, social vice, the public
health and general welfare of the
people. They are also to inquire as
to the practical results of license and
prohibitory legislation in the several
states. Ten thousand dollars is ap-
propriated to cover the expenses of
the commission.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
Advice to Young Men on Marriage.

From Burdettes Boston Lecture.
Get married, my son? ? Look me in
the eye. If you never do anything
else in the world, get married. Don't
be in too big hurry about it, but
don't be too deliberate. 1t is your
duty. Don't think the girls are all
butterflies of fashion. If you want
to marry laundress, do your court
ing in the laundry; but if you want
wife, marry the girl you love. Be
honest with the world; don't sail un
der false colors. Don't repine over
your poverty it is good for you.
We get most of our Presidents from
Illinois tanyards and Ohio towpaths.
Don't envy any great man, my boy.
The great man, with his weight of
y ears and care. enyies you every time
he passes you by. And ifyou can't be a
leader, double-leaded, n column long,
on the second page, you can be some
thing just as useful. You can be a
little paying fOur.line solid nonpariel
lad" on the inside, down under a
picture of Lydia Pinkham, and that
will help the makeup and fill It's
place in the paper. Be anything in
the world, my boy, that is alive and
useful. Be anything but dead
''ad."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
SATURDAY. DEC. q. 1884.

It Is pretty generally conceded that
with change of administration will
come change of officials in the vari
Gus departments and Offices great and
small. That the Republicans who
now hold Office will be turned out,
and the various and numerous Offices
under the government filled with
Democrats is pretty certain. Of this
fact our Democratic friends seem well
assured. But whilst this is taken as
true, there is great deal of anxiety
amongst the faithful, for it is not yet
decided who is to have Office. and as
there are more applicants than there
are Offices it is certain somebody will
be left, so to speak. But the question
Is who? This is the question which
is giving many of the faithful great
deal of trouble just now.
In Maryland it is generally under
stood that there are host of appli-
csnts for each Office to be filed, every
one ofwhom has his friends, admirers
and hackers. When the offices are
parcelled out to the applicants it will
not be 80 much question of ability,
but who can bring to bear the great
est weight of political influence. In
this connection it will be important
TO know who among the Maryland
politicians will have the greatest
weight Or influence with the new ad.
ininistration. Who among the faith
full will have the ear of the new Presi-
dent? 1t Is well. known fact that
for several years past the Maryland
Democracy has been torn by discord
and split into factions, each of which
has been struggling for the mastery.
There is the Hamilton faction, the
German faction, the Whyte faction
and number of gentlemen besides
who were anxious to set up political
housekeeping on their own account.
Who among these factIous leaders
will control Maryland appointments?
Who will have the greatest influence
with the incoming administration
We may rot be correct in our sur
mise, but it does seem to US, if we
wanted an Office just now, we would
make haste to get on the right side
of Senator German. If he is not the
largest Democrat In Maryland just
now we are sadly mistaken. Will
the Democracy lay aside its petty
quarrels and follow the lead of Cor.
man or will the several factions COM
pei German to whip them into the
traces. One or the other seems to be
inevitable. at is hard to kick against
the pricks." But if the factions will
kick, 80 much better will 1t be for the
Republicans in the near future, and
we will make it our business to watch
events and take advantage of the
mistakes of our opponents whenever
we can
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

There are 50,0l7 postmasters In
the United States. Clerks, postmas-
tiers, mail superintendent. carriers.
etc, foot up ST.. This is a pretty
large number of Offices to fill, but
thank Heaven. the patriotism of the
glorious old bourtons is boundless as
the horizon and limitless as the sea.
The patriotic ardor of the dauntless
old Democracy will always be found
on tap and ready to respond to any
call for postal service that their coun-
try may demand. Hail, Columbia,
need only beckon, and from the brush
from mountain peak, from the prairie
and from the remotest corners of the
country shall be heard the patriotic
response, "Here am I."-Rdnsds CSty
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

The next Senate will have a Re-
publican majority of six sure, and, if
a Republican successor to Senator
Logan is elected in Illinois, the ma
jority will be increased to eight.
Looking ahead to the fitch con-
gress, there is no probability that the
political complexion of the Senate
will be charged. Upon the check
that the upper branch of Congress
will be to all unwise Democratic leg
islation for four years to come de-
ponds security to the business inter-
ests of the country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

This forecast of the policy Of the
Democratic administration is no new
departure. The platforms of the party
and the utterances of the President
elect are against any wholesale poiit.
ical prescription. If capable and
useful subordinates were to be driven
from their Offices simply for political
reason, the platform of the Democ.
racy would be falsified and the Presf
dent disgraced.-NeaO York World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
From our Regular Correspor dent. ]

from our Regular Correspor dent.l
WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. %, 1884.
The Senate of the United States is
a sort of close communion body,
whose members nowadays have very
little to say to or about each other
that would tend to give offense. No
body could sit in the gallery through
a session and discover the develop
ment OF particle of partizanship
Mr.. ingalls, may be said to be the
only really aggressive man in the
body, but his shafts of invention are
much oftener hurled at political
friends than enemies. In private in
tercourse among Senators every allu-
sion to politics that is calculated to
stir I'D feeling, is more studiously
avoided in the chamber or clOak-room
than it would be in a private resi-
dence, Indeed there is nothing but
good fellowship here. A custom
that is now, and perhaps always will
be honored by its observance, is the
annual exchange of cards between
Senators. For any Senator to neg.
lect to make at least one call upon
leach of his colleagues in each year, is
not objectionable but is attended
with unlimited apprehension. On a
certain day after the opening of ses-
sion. every Senator sends out just
seventy-f1ve cards to his associates,
which each finds upon his desk the
following morning. This formality
is necessary in order to preserve Sen
atorial decorum, for noting would be
easier than the giving of a verbal in
vitatiOn were if not for the lack of
dignity that follows. And these SEN
atorial dinners are always costly as
well as elaborate, for they constitute
the chief ingredients of a proper
Washington career, The dinner civ.
en- by Senator Edmunds at the close
of the Forty Eighth Congress, was
the example which the other Sena-
tors conceive Themselves obligIng to
follow, and you may be sure the Sen
atorial pocket-bOok experiences the
effect most sensitively.
The Senatorial contest in New
York forms the staple ofas much ex
citement here as it possibly can at
Albany. Talking with one of our
highest public officials here upon this
subject, he said that New York State
had too much good Republican ma
terial to select from to hope to get
the best. Mr.. Evarts he thought
would honor New York, and the
Empire State would honor herself by
putting him in the Senate, but ii
must be remembered that Mr. Eyerts
has long dabbled in politics, and was
member of Mr.. Hayes Cabinet, at
time when New York Republicans
preferred some one else. Mr.. Conk-
ling. he said, still continues mad he.
cause he was not consulted in the es-
tablishing Of the economy of the
universe, is out of the question now
and hereafter in any Republican eau
Gus in New York State, and Mr..
Morton has given out that his claims
for the Senatorship are based upon
the sordid use of a plethoric bank &C,
count. l believe, after all, that Stew
art L. Woodford is the proper man
for New York to send here, because
he is man who comes nearer to the
measure of Mr.. Conkling's transcen.
than any man in all New York.
JUNIUS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

The Pension list of the late war
will not be ended when the last vet
eran dies, says an official of the Unit
ed States Pension Department. The
Revolutionary war closed 10l years
ago, yet many pensions on that ac-
count are still drawn from the Treas
ury by soldiers widows. Last year
they numbered about forty, and may
be expected to expire in three years
from now. I presume the survivors
of the civil war and their widows will
be pensioned on the next century,
and if the same rule is folomed we
shall have paid out our last money
directly on accounl of services in the
year 1869. We have an immense
number of widow pensioners of the
war of 1912. Men late in life marry
young, there frequently being a diff
ference of forty years of age between
them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
Trade Matters.

1IduO ndGOOl D.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Special tele-
grams to Brddstreet'S from the lead
ing business centres point to a slight
improvement in the sales of heavier
fabrics and clothing. At few points
the holiday purchases form a notice
able contrast with the diminished
volume a month ago, yet there are
no advices where such are equaling
the total of sales at like period last
year. The movement of general mer.
chandise continues in restricted vol.
ume, which is likely to be tie case
so long as in New York city and
other money centres the surplus bank
reserves remain so large. The only
favorable features in this direction
are the increased demand for funds
at Boston from cotton buyers and the
shipment of currency from Cincin-
natl to pay for hogs. There has been
some improvement in the boot and
shoe trade of the East, but no special
activity in cotton goods there. In a
few lines at Chicago there is reported
a slightly increased movement, in
part due to the holiday trade, but
mainly TO the settlement Of old debts
by farmers, which put little life in
to trade. Z
Iron is fiat. Anthracite coal is
quiet, domestic sizes are little more
animated under stimulus of the
weather. The companies have nam
ed committee to form a plan for
mining next year. Petroleum has
been excited and higher. owing to the
fire among the oil tanks in the Thorn
Creek region. The industrial situa-
ton. as deliberately reported to Brad
streets, shows over $4,000 fewer EN-
pIoyes in manufacturing industries
in leading lines in the States north
of the Ohio River Valley and east Of
the Missouri River.
The cotton markets have been
quieter, but prices have again ad.
vanced. Dry goods agents at New
York regard both the volume of the
weeks business and the future stiffen.
ing of prices as tending to improve
the outlook for the new year.
Boston, Dec. 20.-The Advertise,
in its week. review of the wool trade
says: Prices remain much as they
have been. Holders will not make
concessions. and manufacturers will
not pay any advance. Some small
odd lots, it is true, have been sold al
some concessions, in order to close uI
accounts, but this is always the &C.
compartment to the close of the year
Medium woods are slow and neglect.
ed, but holders think they will be
wanted before the spring arrives
Medium Kansas is weak and at lower
prices. The demand is limited rather
than the supply excessive. There
continues to be good demand fol
good conditioned and superior, bu
irregular and Western pulled have
no steady market quotation. The
low price of wool is causing a large
slaughter of sheep at the West anC
Southwest, and the supply of pool
pulled is likely to increase. Fine
woods are firm. There is no call fol
No. 8 fleece, except such as runs t.
staple; sale of 10000 lbs Ohio XIX
and above, at 353c., may be consider
ed to have obtained fancy price
What wool there is in the country i:
firmly held, and prices rule high.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
RECEIVERS SALE
OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY /!
AT
Mountain Lake Park Station, B. & 0. R. R.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13, 1885,
At 10 o'clock A. m.

Under and by virtue of an order passed by
the Circuit Court for Garrett county in Equity
in cause wherein Ruus Funk is plaintiff
and Lake View Planning Mill and Lumber
Company is defendant, the undersigned Re-
ceiver will offer at public sale to the highest
all the personal property at Lake View Plain
ing Mill, toTITit:
A large lot of Chestnut and Oak lum-
Der.
About 10000 feet of joists and franz
ing lumber, well seasoned.
A lot of first-class heavy poplar.
A very large lot of MouIdings of ari-
Gus patterns and designs.
Doors, Windows, Window Sash, Door
Frames, Transoms, glazed and un-
glazed.
Posts and paifings.
Siding and Flooring.
| Timers Tools, 4-superiorQ Drill Press,
Nails, of different sizes. 2 Clay Mills,
for brick making.
Iron pipe, bracket and other pat
terms, one track, wheelbarrow,
table, stove, work benches, lad
ders, clamps, &C., &C., and many
other articles.
TERMS OF SALE, as prescribed, are On
all sums over S5O.OO a credit of sixty days will
be given, the purchaser to give note with APP
| proved security to bear interest from day Of
sale. Under that amount cash on day of sale.
| No property to be removed until terms of sale
are complied with.
THOMAS j. PEDDICOKD,
IL 20 Al Receiver.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

The Lord of Hosts gave us Blaine,
and threw in Burchard, and raised
up st. John, and sent down the rain
on election day; the devil cOntrihu-
ted Gould and inspired Conkling.
And so, among all hands, good Lord,
good devil, we pulled through some
how, and here we are.-LouisuiISe
Courier, Journal Dems.) J.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

BY an act of the Legislature $500
is appropriated as the per diem and
mileage of the members of the cleo
toral college, payable by the Comp.
troller on the certificate signed by its
president and secretary. 1t has usu-
ally been the custom to divide S400
equally between the eight electors, or
$50 apiece, the balance, 500, being
appropriated for clerical service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

Less than twelve months ago Mrs.
Hugh Blair, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
gave birth to three children, all OF
whom are living and in good health.
On Saturday evening the same lady
gave birth to two boys and girl,
making six children in less than a
year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

TORONTO, ONT, December pa
Frenchman named Paquet, profess
sional infidel, while denying the doc
trine af eternal punishment in dis
cussion with his fellow oarders, was
stricken with paraly,is-the whole
of one side, from head to foot, inclu-
ding the tongue, losing vitality.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

Can anybody explain why it is that
while everybody admits the import
ance of opposing political organiza-
tons, everybody is wont to claim
that the adherents Of the other organ
ization are set of scamps and hypo-
critics Z? Baltimore Day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

The small wits Of the newspapers
who say that this is the first time
that General Grant was ever known
to decline anything are perhaps not
old enough to remember that he de-
clined to take General Lees sword
Providence Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

They are still abusing Tecumseh
Sherman in the Macon newspaper
offices and other sparsely settled por-
tions Of Georgia. People down there
are still telling their children that
Sherman wears pair of horns like a
rams and dimes off pig metal.-PhI.
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27

Try Buckingham's Dye for the
whiskers it is an elegant, safe, and
reliable article, cheap and convenient
for use. and will not rub off.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
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Thursday, September q 1884.
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day. for the pu pose of nominating
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