The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-04
MARYLAND Items.
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gust, lS49. DR.. |. l.. Adkin has been
president since 1869.
Thirty shares of Hagerstown Bank
stock were sold at auction on Tues
day last of week for S35 80 per share,
the par value being only $l5. This
is the highest price ever realized in
the history of the bank.
The extensive pine forests in the
lower end of Caroline county are to
be converted into charcoal. Charles
w. Sulivane has started the new en-
terprise, and has steady market for
the coal in Wilmington.
The Deer Creek Methodist EpiscO-
pal Church has been presented by Mr.,
Corbin Gragton with building lot
adjoining the present church prop
erty, and the congregation is receiv-
ing subscriptions for the erection of a
new church.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
bridge across the Susquehanna is pro-
crossing rapidly. The Phenixville
Company put in place three hundred
tons of iron in four days during last
week on the span running east of
Garrett Island.
The Easton Leoder calls an express
sion of the new editors of the An
napolis Republican in their salutatorY
article "suspic!ous circumstance
The words used were, 1--WE have lift
ed the veil that covers our mOdesty."
The wheat prospect in Frederick
county is said to be very discourage
ing. Some farmers will not realize
more than eight bushels to the acre,
and the maximum will be about
twenty bushels. The harvest will
commence about the 1st of July.
Mr.. James E. Stewart, who re-
Gently fell thirty feet while painting
a house in Oxford Neck, is still alive,
though fatally injured. The fall caus-
ed a fracture of the d0rsal vertebra,
and his body below the fracture is
completely paralyzed.
Mr.. John LomaX, who died week
ago at the residence of his son, Mr..
Joseph Lomax, at Hanway's factory,
in Hartford county, was in the eighty
ninth year Of his age. He was born
in Manchester, England, and came
to this country in 1859.
George Mengel, stranger, was
taken sick on Saturday while tramp
ing near Middetown, and has since
been cared for at the City Hotel. He
having ,erved in the Fifth and Thir-
teenth New Jersey regiments, and
member of G. A. r. Post, No. y,
Dayton, O.
Master Addison NJ StrOuse, an en-.
terprising youth Of Silver Run, Car
roll county, who in 1881. when only
II years old, started a little weekly
paper called the Nelcs, still continues
the publication. and his establish
NV ~ ~ NiultC NhilllIlNNC buHliINoo-
| like. All the editorial and mechani-
cal work is performed by the young
proprietor.
A gentleman Of st. Michael's re-
Gently swung up hammock in his
back yard, where he spent all his
leisure time. He allowed his horse
to Craze in the yard, and on repair
ing to the hammock on Sunday
| followed his example. and was quiet
Iy resting in it. He had to cut down
the hammock so as to get the horse
out.
The wheat harvest commenced at
Sunnyside farm, near Monrovia,
Frederick county, on Tuesday last,
1t is fully ripe, and filled to perfec-
ton. The crop consists of so acres,
and is estimated to average % BUSH
els to the acre. The general harvest
will begin toward the last OF the
week. TIE corn crop is looking well,
and all vegetation see ms to be thriv-
ing.
J. Fred HeiSse. Of Monkton, Md,
a member CT the junior class at
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, was
awarded the silver medal for excel
lence in oratory. Among the speak
ers at the closing exercises, the fol-
lowing Maryanders distinguished
themselves: Frank Il. Baker, of
HagerStown; j. M. Cummings, of
Baltimore; Fillmore Leakin, of Balti.
more; j. Tome Reynolds, of Port De-
post, and A. G. Strife, of Hagers-
town.
The moulders' strike at Bibb e.
Co.'S iron foundry, at Port Deposit,
which commenced in April. las
come to an end, and the shop opened
to union men, The company en-
plOyed non-uniun men and appren-
tees to keep the works in operation,
and the strikers having now agreed
10 comply with their rules, have
been reinstaled. They have lost their
! time and gained nothing by the
ily tho ,,l,fp.t . 4; nb IL