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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

No sign of those promised good
times talked so much about by DEM
ocratic papers and orators before the
late Presidential election Instead of
those promised good times we have
discomfort, low wages, and strikes
among working men all over the
country. and the end is not yet and
no one can tell when it will be. The
Administrative is too busy reforming
the country by turning out "offensive
partisans" and putting in Democrats,
to think of the financial condition OF
the country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

The Buffalo, N. Y, Commercial
has Il level head when it says that.
Sin view Of all the conditions of the
case, the Commercial is of the opin-
ion that the only wise course for the
Republican party this fall is to get
its face squarely and resolutely in
opposition to every movement look
ing to tariff reductions. If there is
to be any change let it be in the drec-
ton of an increase rather than de-
crease, so that some life may be
breathed into our languishing indus
tries"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

"Why don't you give such and
such an one thunder through the pa
per" is question frequently address
ed to newspaper men; but when the
scribe answers it by asking: "Will
you stand responsible by allowing us
to bring your name in connection
with the blood and thunder article
that you request US to e?" they
quickly answer, Mop They are
brave when they can vent their spleen
on Others by getting newspaper to
take up their cue and fight their bat
tie while they are standing in the
background safely concealed from
sight, but when dangerappear in the
distance, and they are liable TO be
brought forward and take part in the
contest, their courage oozes out at
their finger ends.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

tically said that there exists no bind
ing agreement between me and the
Government. That capped the eli
max, Consequently, in the best in
terests Of my creditors and the Coy
eminent, l judged it best to call a
halt, pay off my men and surrender
my property to trustees, who could
pay my debts and leave me what
balance there might be for my last
days.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

if she had thrown herself with her
babe off the bridge Of Signs, as thous-
ands had done before.
Men and brethren, society has got
to stop shamming. 1t cannot affect
to be blind to what is going on under
its eyes 1t cannot stuff its ears
against the shrieks of despair. It
cannot refuse to address itself to
wrongs because they are uncIean
wrongs. It cannot refuse to talk about
these things and to do something
about them. They exist everybody
knows it-hOw many are doing any,
thing to flush out with a pure stream
of practical philanthropy the polluted
sewers that flow past their own doors q?
What are we doing in Wheeling q?
If a woman slips she breaks her neck
that is the end of all for her. She
is too foul to touch with the helping
hand. Ifshe has already found her
way into the house of WOefuI reyelry
society never meets her again except
in the strict line Of her degraded bus
mess, in the police court, in prison,
or in the almshouse. Such city as
Wheeling ought to do something bet
ter than this. Wheeling has made a
good record in the foreign missionary
field Wheeljag HtelIigencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

The Civil Service Reform AssOcia-
ton of Maryland now has in course
ofpreparation, and will shortly make
public, a State Civil Service Reform
bill, which will be duly presented to
the next General Assembly of Mary
land, and which is directed to the APP
plicatiOn of the principles and ma
chinery of the competitive system to
the selection of officers to conduct our
local political business. "Fhere is no
State in the Union" to use the forci.
BILE words Of Mr.. Peasants address,
"whose political condition calls more
loudly for the use Of this unrivaled
moral and political disinfeCtant. Its
government is a uSurpation, begOlten
of the spoils system and sustained by
it.n The election for members of the
State Legislature will shortly be up.
on US, and it is the earnest desire OF
the Association by all the means in its
power to make its influence felt in the
constitution of that body. We do
not believe that any occasion will
arise which will make it proper for
the Association to put candidates of
its own in the field, but it is thought
that its large membership will act
with unity and directness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25
SATURDAY, JULY 25. 1885.

Gen. Grant failed to rally from the
exhaustion caused by his ride on
Monday, and exhibited during the
day Tuesday all the symptoms of
approaching dissolution. The men,
bers of the family not present were
hastily summoned by telegraph, and
preparations made for the end. Tues
day night he rallied slightly, but not
sufficient to give hope of prolonga-
ton of life.
AS we go to press we learn that
General Grant died at 8 o'clock Thurs
day morning.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25
Horrible Tragedy,

PITTSBURGH, July 20.-At 1886
O'Clock yesterday morning Patrick
Flaherty, residing on Diamond St.,
McKeesport, after drinking to excess
with several companions, started for
home.
On entering the house he took a
lighted lamp from table and started
upstairs. In some manner the lamp
was knocked from his hand and ex-
p.oded, saturating his clothes with
oil, and setting them on fire. He
started out of the house and ran up
the street for several blocks, when ne
fell exhausted, and slowly roasted to-
death, his screams for help being I'M
heard, owing to the quiet neighbor~
hood.
His body was found at daylight
this morning, and presented a hor-
rible sight, his flesh being burned to
a crisp, and pieces of it, literally roast
ed, were found at his side.
The news of his death was sent to
Mrs, Flaherty and her five children,
and they Immediately ran to the spot
where he was lying. When Mrs.
FIaherty beheld her husbands body
she gave one piercing scream and fell
PROSTATE across the body. When
lifted up life had fled. The scene
presented by the five orphan children
weeping at the side of their dead
parents was heartrending.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

John Roach employed $500 men in
his own iron works and shipyard,
Many more were employed to furnish
him with his raw material. From
the mine and the forest to the COM
pleted ship there was an army Of
toilers disbanded by stroke of the
pen of the Attorney-General of the
United States. John Roach gave
work-the administration of Presi.
dent Cleveland has taken it away,
1t is a clear case of Democratic re-
FORM Wheeling hteLligencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25
Died in his Coffin.

EMMITSBURG, ND, July 14.-For-
ty years ago Mr.. David Gamble, a
wealthy farmer near here, made a
coffin in which he slept every night
without failure. HIS novel bed was
chosen, he said, as constant remin-
der that death is always near. His
desire to impress this fact upon HIM
self was owing to the sudden death
of his wife, at the age of 80 years, by
heart disease. Just before he made
the coffin they had been to a ball, and
after returning home retired to bed.
Fifteen minutes later Mr.. Gamble
found that his wife had died in his
arms. The shock was believed by
many to have unsettled his reason.
He always kept his coffin thereafter
in the corner of his dining room. He
would get into it every night and
pull the lip up until only his face was
exposed to view. One day he had a
travelling photographer take a view
Of him as he lay in the coffin. This
picture he had framed and hung over
the dining room mantlepiece. Last
night he retired to his coffin at the
usual hour, but when the servant
called him this morning it was found
that he was dead. The body was not
disturbed, and will be buried as it
was found, Mr.. Gamble was chart
table man and much liked.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25
SWildiing Wool BUYERS.

The buyers of wool are operating
extensively just now, and among a
good many honorable agents of re-
sponsible houses, there are few ras-
Gals who represent only themselves.
One of these gentry, wearing kid
gloves and gold eyeglasses, has been
buying wool in Pennsylvania, and
giving drafts at thirty days sight.
That means, thirty days after the
draft has been presented for accept
ance. The wool is ordered to be
shipped Immediately, and long be-
fore the thirty days have elapsed, it
may have been sold a dozen times,
and can not lie recovered, Cash on
delivery should be the terms on
which business in produce is done
with strangers, and any receipt,sign-
ed for "A small payment, to bind the
bargain, should be examined, to see
that it does not cover a promisOry
note, - american Agriculto3iSt for
august.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

Sheep men should make an attempt
to realize profit from the feeding
and fattening Of mutton sheep this
coming winter; and if sheep can be
bought as low in the fall as now there
will be money in il.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25
Baltimore Live Stock Market.
From Baltimore American
MONDAY, July 20, 1885.


PRICES OF BEEF CATTLE AT THE
MARKET TODAY.
Very best on sale to-day 58(15 &c.
that generally rated first quality 4(9
cts; medium or good fair quality
3iC034 cts; ordinary thin steers, oxen
and cows 23(434 cts; extreme range
Of prices 1908 5 cts; most of the
sales were from 305{.
REMARKS ON BEEF CATTLE.
The arrivals of Cattle during the
week amounted to .S28 head, against
l ,3li last week and 9, 900 head the cor
responding week of last year, and the
sales were 939 head, against 1914 last
week, and ,595 head the correspond
ing week of last year.
The continued warm weather has
had very depressing effect on trade
to-day, and dullr ess has ruled accor-
dinghy on the Hill. The effects Of the
drouth are further seen in the charac-
ter Of the offerings, which consisted
very largely-and entirely too much
of thin stock, which dealers advise
those who have it to hold longer if
they nave any way or doing so, as the
market Is overstocked ana rnlnous
prices haYe to be accepted. Quota
tons Of the best cattle, of which there
We're few offered, show little change
quality considered; but other grades
are on i@8c'' ana IN some instances
&C., as compared WIN quotations last
week. Prices 900 4'oc., with few
at elther extreme,the mostsales rang
Ing from o 10 otc.
THE SWINE MARKET.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

Riches are less wealth than is learn
ing, for wisdom cannot be stolen or
lost it is therefore thy best friend,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

Every man needs II true inward
manhood. All the elements that are
in US are insignificant except as they
stand related to that.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

Correspondents must enclose full name and
address, not necessarily for publication, but
as private guarantee of good faith. Reject
ed communications will not be returned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-25

SlNVI my lllC anu lily lOl tune " IIldt
end, and even in the presence of the
calamity, l am proud of what John
Roach has accomplished"
In regard to his contracts with the
Government, Mr.. Roach said:
81 tell you, my friend, that those
boats were condemned before their
keels were laid. They were con.
demned in Congress. The Democrat
cy dared not oppose the plan of a new
navy, because it had become a very
popular notion. The people as a mass
wanted a navy. But they 1.-THE Dem
ocrats,) opposed the appropriation
because, as they claimed in tneir
Congressional speeches, the money
would not be honestly spent. The
appropriation was made against this
camor, and bids fer the work were
asked for. Mine was the lowest bid,
because | had far greater facilities for
the work than any other ship-b bull.
der. | secured the contracts, and be.
gan the work of construction. In
the meantime, the Democracy had
come into power, and prepared to
prove their prophecy that the APP
preparation was not honestly spent.
The Dolphin, strong, substantial,
excellent vessel, was condemned on
the most puerile technicalities, and,
to add to this injustice, Mr.. Garland
has repudiated the contract and prac.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21

years, and in spite of her physi-
clans assurances she believed herself
hopelessly paralyzed. One night her
grandson got up ghost to scare her, and
the old lady ran half a mile before they
could catch her. The longer hallucina-
ton is INDUCED in the more deeply rooted
it becomes. In many cases it ultimately
develops into monomania or delusional in
sanity. DR. s. Weir Mitchell performs
many of his most remarkable cures OF So
called nervous diseases simply by his Won
derfuI success in persuading patients that
nothing ais them. Few physicians have
the ability to do this, and still fewer have
the discretion to adopt a course of treat
ment adapted to the mental peculiarities
of each particular case. Sometimes per-
suasion is necessary, but frequently little
tonic combined with a good scolding pro-
duces the desired result
"When the delusion is harmless it is often
the best plan to humor it. A relative OF
mine, who was clergyman, lived several
years in my family. He firmly believed
that he could not sleep after preaching on
Sunday night unless he was under the in
fuence Of an opiate Time and again have
/ seen him doze off as soundly as tired
child after taking teaspoonful of sweet
ened water, which ! had prescribed as
morphia' Without this harmless little
dose, however. he would toss about rest
lessly for hours"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21
Growing Old After Death.

That there are tricks in all trades is
pretty well-established fact But it is
little startling to find such an application
of the fact as the following, taken from the
letter of an English newspaper correspond
ent: An artist tells me that he is engaged
in adding year to the visage of a woman
in the picture gallery of rich family
that of Henry Matehewson, who made
fortune in the manufacturing of wooden
goods, and retired from active business not
long age. Mr.. Matthewson lost his vie
about the time he was ready to settle down
to leisure said the artist. He had been
devotedly attached to her, and an admirer
of her beauty. Not long before this por-
trait in oil had been painted of her. 1t
showed her as a handsome lady of forty, in
the sort of evening costume fashionable at
the period. After it had hung five years
on the widower's wall. he concluded that
he did not wish to be reminded constantly
of what she had been so much as to feel
that the picture was a real presence; and,
in the latter view, he conceived the ro-
mantle idea OF having it brought up to
date in the matter of age and dress. Tn
der his direction, an artist carefully added
five wears to the face, and changed the
clothes to those which had become fashion,
able You smile at the oddly of the thing,
but assure YOU that it was done lovingly
and reverently. Mr. Matthewson felt that
the portrait ought to stand for that COM
partnership which death had taken away
from him. BY keeping it like what the
wife would have been if she had lived, it
was a solaoe to him. The job had been re-
peated twice. This is the first time have
done ii, and in 4 week shall have dressed
the lady in the style Of 1884, while the
face will be a matron's Of sixtyn
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The Bearded Oaks of Louisiana.

But to return once more to those yener-
able patriarchs by the rivers bank. These
wonderful Druid oaks have long been Gel
ebratod in song and books Of travel.
cannot say now what famous traveller de
scribes them, but think il was in Bayard
Tavl9rs or Baron Won Humboldt's books
read IF them. but knew them very well.
They are not tall in the least, like the
great trees OF Yosemite, lofty, leafless and
desolate in their gigantic glory, but they
are Lroad-boughed. green and evergreen.
The least one Of this wonderful
avenue would shelter from sun or
storm an army Of thousands. And then
NJ the trunks the ferns have found
their way. And Tar up and far out along
the spreading boughs the ferns grow
rank and green This spot was
one Of tie earliest plantations under
the Spanish regime. The property
aiterward passed into the hands Of
nobleman of France, and only few
wears ago It was purchased by the city of
New Orleans for city park OF certain
French countess. Just who planted these
trees no one can say with precision, |
reckon. But they must long remain the
special pride Of the city and the delight Of
all who behold them Children will hold
their little councils here under their dense
foliage, and all the seasons through, all the
whole day long, find perfect immunity
from sun or storm. Their roots, unlike
the roots of other great trees, seem TO
have pierced straight down into the deep
aluvial land. Black, and loose, and mel
low. this matchless soil here viii never
weary or grow exhausted or hesitate to
nou.ish them. And we wonder when they
viii cease TO grow, and spread, and stand
up here, thousand sturdy witnesses in a
row, to testify to the unexampled fertility
of the soil Of louisiana joaquin Miller.
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Unknown Owners in City of Sacra-
mentO.

Against lott, A and B, Tenth and Eley-
enth streets in city of Sacramento. State
and county tax 26 cents: costs, 81 cents:
total tax and ~
Against lot ,, A and B, Tenth and Elev
enth streets in city of Sacramento. State
and county tax, 26 cents; costs, oil cents:
total tax and u
Against east half of lot S, II and |, TWEEN
tv-tifth and Twenty-siXth streets, in city OF
Sacramento, and Improvements. state
and county tax, 81 So costs, "a cents; total
tax and costs % %
against lot . l and J, Twenty-eighth and
TSenty-ninth streets, in city of Sacra-
mento State and county tax, 81 10; costs, =
sc cents: total tax and costs. IL
against north % of west T21e feet OF lot 4,
] and X Front and Second streets, III city
of sacramento, and improvements state
and county tax SIC so; costs, 81 "a; total
tax and ii
Against west quarter of lot 6, and X,
Fourth and Fifth streets; and east 3 feet of
lot I. and X, Fourth and Filth, In city OF
Sacramento, and improvements. State
and County tax, $50 IS; costs, 81 81; total
tax and "
S-Against east half of lot 8. J and X,
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, in
city of Sacramento. State and county tax,
s. 81: costs 81 cents; total tax and costs~S2 IS
9-Against west half of lot and .. Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets, in city OF
Sacramento. State and county tax, " 70;
costs 76 cents; total tax and costs......:..so VI
IO-Against lot s. o and p, Fifteenth and SIX
tenth streets. in city of Sacramento.
State and county tax SIS 40; costs, ~ cents;
total tax and costs. %
1l-Asainst lot G, O and P. Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets, in city Of sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21
Toothpick Manufactur

The Importance of little things is finely
portrayed by the facts which wooden
toothpick manufacturer has given to a
New York Tribune reporter, in which he
says: We began to make toothpicks
fifteen years ago, and while another COM
panv now shares the wholesale trade, we
were the sole manufacturers of the article
for ten years. We have a white-wood pick
made of poplar, and a hardwood kind
made of birch. The picks are all made in
Maine, the lumber of that State supplying
the material. Sometimes we flavor picks,
say with cinnamon or wintergreen. What
does the trade amour; TO in wooden picks?
Well, | should say about 1900 cases a
wear, l00s of which are exported to
Europe and Mexico. 4 case contains 100
boxes, ard each box has $500 picks. So,
You sec, there's billions in it. Has the
business increased much? About twenty
FIVE per cent. in the last three years.
Orange-wood picks, imported, are to I've
found in some CLUBS and also a favored
wood pick from Japan. Quilts are wholly
imported. Russia and Sweden furnish the
material, and those countries, with France
and Germany, also manufacture the article
Is we get it. The work is done altogether
by hand. Peasant-folk, after their daily
work is done, sit down with a sharp knife
and add to their 'pin-money' by cutting
these quilts. This aids to their price
here, of course. Perhaps some inventive
American will construct machine some
day that will turn them ont rapidly and
make them as popular as the wooden picks
now seem to be-"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21
Authorizations.

Many diseases and ailments from which
men suffer exist only in the frightened
victims imagination. The Philadelphia
Tines gives these amusing but forcible IL
hstrations of this fact This is singu-
lar case, sure enough" said a young physi-
clan Yesterday, "but there are a great
many diseases which exist only in the inn
aginations OF their supposed Victims The
doctor had been reading the story of man
who thought himself the victim Of heart
disease until his physician discovered that
the "creaking sound" of which he COM
planned whenever he took a deep breath,
was caused by little pulley wheel on
pair of patent suspenders which he wore.
The doctor laughed and laid down his
paber. This is the first case | ever heard
OF where suspenders were to blame" said
he, abut a great deal of what passes for
heart disease is mild dyspepsia. Nervous
ness is an aristocratic name for irritabi!ity
..nd bad temper, and two-thirds Of the So
called malaria is nothing but laziness, A
fellow-practicioner once told me of an old
lady he knew of in Newburyport, Mass.
sSs.as had kept her bed for three
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21

SHEEPsxIN LEArHER-The uses for
which leather made from sheepskins is
employed are almost numberless. Sheep
are raised in large numbers over so great
a portion OF the earths surface that the
supply of raw skins is immense, and,
tanned with either raw bark or sumac, or
tanned with alum, it can, although possess
ing much less strength than the goat
skin, be finished to initiate almost any de-
scription OF light leather. 1t fills large
place for Innings and facings of boots and
shoes; its use for boolbinding far exceeds
that of all other kinds of leather together;
it is almost the only kind Of leather en-
ployed for hat Innings, and for pocket
books, ladies belts, satchels, toilet cases,
furniture coverings, and the thousands of
lesser articles in which leather is used,
sheepskin is more employed than any
other kind, particularly in articles to be
sold at low price Exchange.
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Axc,r,r f-.rs or G;rAss-C,I,ss

ANCIENT Uses OF GLAss.-Glass has
been in use from SO remote a period Of
antiquity and has 50 intimately associated
itself with the progress of civilization
that it is not surprising to find improve
ments in its manufacture as often as the
necessity for them has arisen. From the
paintings found by Wilkinson at Benz
Hassan it appears that the art of glass
blowing was known at least 1920 years
ago. Sometimes new processes in dealing
with the raw materials have produced de-
sirable and sometimes startling results. 1t
Is said that some Anglo-German manufact-
ure.s have recently turned out glass as
hard and tough as cast iron, and that they
intend to make Of this hard and compare
lively light crystal, stairs, street lamp posts
and gas and water pipes. 1t is thought
that they can make these and similar
articles Of glass 80 per cent. cheaper than
they can make them of cast iron.