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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
Senator Germans Pull.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l4.-Since the
change in the administration Senator
German has secured 143 appoint
ments in the Government Printing
Office. This statement may appear
to be exaggerated, but the records of
that department will confirm it,
Rhere has not been a day when
German was in the city that he has
not paid visit to the public printer,
and he has generally been successful
in securing one or more appoint
ments. Beside this number he is
credited with a great many more in
other departments, so that he has Sc
cured more appointments than any
other ten Senators. OF the people he
has had appointed about two-thirds
are Marylanders, and the rest belong
here. Some of the latter claim resi-
dences in Montgomery county, but
one of these, who owes his appoint
ment to German, acknowledged that
he had no vote, but that his appoint
ment was secured through friend
ship. In payment he induced sever
al Of his friends to vote for Germans
men at the last election.
Germans interference in the Dis
trict appointments has excited the
oSsSE vi some Oh tire cII1zens, He
recommended man for the marshal.
ship, but his claims were ignored,
and a prominent citizen is said to
nave warned the President about
having anything to do with German.
The latter does not receive the cordial
welcome at the White House that
was accorded to him at first, and it IS
thought the President is "drooping"
to his game, as it were.
10 German is given the credit of
originating the scheme of evading
the civil-seryice law, and it develop
ed itself last week. He and Repre-
sentative Compton called at the
Postoffice Department to secure the
appointment of a man, but were told
that it could not be done except I'M
der ciYil-service rules. They then
wanted the man appointed to sub.
ordinate position, and arrangements
nave been made for putting the man
in. The scheme is to keep him there
Tor a week or two, and then put him
into good soft thing, by promotion,
but without examination,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
A Labor Department.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Repre.
sentative Weaver, OF Iowa, will in
trrduce in the House on the first
opportunity till to create a Depart.
ment of Labor, with a Secretary and
Assistant S, cretary, the former OF
whom shall be Cabinet officer. The
duties of the department shall be to
acquire and difiuse among the people
useful information on the subject con-
nected with labor, to ascertain the
causes of discomfort which may exist
between employer and employees, and
to recommend proper methods for
the adjustment of the same. The
Secretary is required to make annual
reports, showing the general condI-
ton of labor throughout the United
States, the evils under which labor.
ers are suffering, if any. and whether
such evils are the result, directly or
indirectly, Of legislation or from the
lack Of 1t and giving q statement Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

Argument was resumed Monday
In the contested election case before
Judge Mckay. of the United States
Court. Counsel for the Prohibition
lists admit that the section of the bill
which permits the sale of Georgia
wine and excludes wine made in
other states is unconstitutional, but
claim that the bill should stand with
out that section. This seems to he
the most important point yet devel-
oped.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
State Of Trade.

NEW YORK, Dec. IL, Special tele-
grams to BrGdStreet's from leading
trade centers throughout the United
States reveal a somewhat better trade
generally. west, northwest and south.
than is reported at the east. This is
shown in an exceptionally solvent
condition Of traders at Chicago, as re-
ported by bankers at that city. The
cold weather there, as through the
region west and northwest of the
great lakes, has stimulated a more
active demand for heavy dry goods.
In fact, the reports from ST, Louis,
Kansas City, from the larger cities in
Iowa, and at points in Ohio and dis.
tributing centers south are fairly in
dicative of rather better demand in
some staple lines, which will tend to
hasten the date when renewed orders
from j0bbers' agents and manufactur.
ers at the east may be expected. As
was to be expected, the demand for
holiday goods at all points is quite
brisk. At the east. however, the de-
mand in wholesale lines has not at
tracted much attention. PhiIadeI-
phia reports that the unreasonable
weather has had some effect, and that
trade is only fair, with no general dc
tivity. At Boston like statement
is made, although there is fair
movement. The business of the past
season is believed to be in excess of
that of 1884.
Stocks are smaller now than then,
and the mills are not increasing their
output. 1t is added that the export
demand alone sustains the NOV.
ment of brown goods. General trade
at Baltimore is quiet. The $4,000, 900 |
feet increase in the lumber cut at
Minneapolis during the year past,
with no gain in stocks, Is significant
indication of the continued growth of
trade in the region tributary thereto. |
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
Hon. B. Grantz Brown died at his

Hon. B. Grantz Brown died at his
residence in Kirkwood, a suburb of
st. Louis, Mo-, Sunday, OF pheumo-
mia, complicated with heart disease,
aged SO years, Benjamin Grant,
Brown was born in Lexington, KY,
May %, 1926, He was member of
family of Virginia origin, the son
of Mason Brown and grandson of
John Brown, who was United States
senator from Kentucky. He gradu.
ated at the Pennsylvania University
in 1916 and at Yale College in 1847,
studied law at Louisville, and about
1850 took up his residence in st.
Louis. He was a member of the
Missouri Legislature from 1852 to
1857, and in 1857 delivered a speech
which was regarded as initiating
movement in behalf of emancipation
In that State, In 1854 he established
the Missouri Democrat, which subse-
quently led the Benton Democracy
through all phases of freesoiIism, un-
til it expanded into the Republican
party of Missouri. AT the outbreak
of the civil war he raised a regiment
which assisted in the capture of Fort
Jackson, and he afterward command
ed brigade of militia. He promot-
ed the act of emancipation in 1864.
From 1868 to 1867 he was United
States senator from Missouri. and in
1870 was elected governor of the
State. In 1872 he was nominated for
Vice. President of the United States
on the ticket with Horace Greedy by
the Lineral Republican convention
at Cincinnati and the Democratic con-
ventlon at Baltimore.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

They were resorted to as a means OF
assisting in the reduction of the debt
entailed by the revolutionary war.
The attempt to collect them invoked
rebellion, which caused the expen.
diture of nearly one-half the result
derived from them and the MAIN
tenance Of an army in Western Penn
sylvania for the enforcement Of their
collection. Jefferson denounced the
system as diabOlIcal and said it threat
ened the integrity of the Union. The
fifth year witnessed their abolition.
Internal taxes were again resorted to
pending the war with Great Britain
and were again repealed at the end
OF four years. The existing system
IT internal taxes serves as feeble re-
minder only of the vast system that
was called into existence through the
magnitude of the war for the suppress
sion of the rebellion. AT one time
the system was so inqulsitOrial as to
be almost uncomfortable. and yielded
in single year more than FIVE times
the amount collected last year from
the remnants of the system which
still dIscredits the wisdom of recent
legislation. Again ask why must
any reduction of the revenue that is
70 be made be effected by a reduction
fUsThe customs duties rather than by
the internal taxes, which are bur-
den upon every farmer who grows
tobacco, and every crippled soldier
and soldiers widow, who, but for the
taxes on cigars and the restraints
which prohibit poor people from en-
gaging in cigar making, might earn
money as they did before the tobacco
taxes were imposed.
1.-The President did not content
himself withthe expression am con-
troveriing, but again said: within
these limitations a certain reduction
should be made in our customs reve.
nue. On this point take issue with
him, and say in behalf of the labor
of the country, which he tells us is
the capital of our workingmen, the
reduction should be made from the
internal taxes, especially as those on
tobacco restrain the range of employ
ment for crippleS, woman and chill
dren and add hundreds of percent to
the cost of the one luxury. necessary
perhaps ought to say, of the great
mass Of American workingmen."
Judge Kelley is evidently inclined
to treat the Democratic President
with the utmost fairness. He praises
his good recommendations, but de-
nOunces those which are misconceiv.
ed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
It is Well to Remember

That every path hath q puddle.
That the fruit of success ripens
slowly.
That he Is the richest who wants
the least.
That a million dollars will not buy
a ray ofsunshine.
That the greatest of faults is to be-
conscious of none.
That the brightest thoughts some
times come from the dullest looking
men.
That Methuselah, even, never COM
planned of time hanging heavy on his
hands,
That all Of the good things of this
world are Of no further good than as
they are of use.
That newspaper may be sewer,
or stream of pure water. according
to its source.
That the easiest way 10 outwi. the
world is to let it believe that 1t is
smarter than you are.
That what man gets for nothing
he is very apt TO value at just about
what it costs him.
That we often unlock the donf OF
fate with our own hand, and then
throw the key away,
That the compliments and con-
CALCULATIONS cost nothing but pens,
ink and paper or-words.
That there can be no greater mis-.
take than the stopping to worry over.
mistake already made.
That with contentment the lowest
howell is more Of palace than the
lOftiest mansion without it.
That while few are qualified to
shine In company, it is In the power
Of most people to be agreeable.
That our homes are like instru-
ments Of music, of which q single
discor'lant string destroys the sweet
ness.
The tronble with war is that the
people who by no means want 1t to
come have generally to do all the
fighting,
That nine times out OF ten, the
woman who is worth her weight in
gold marries a man who is not worth
his weight in scrap iron.
That the path of life is beset with
thorns, and that they who are not
afraid to encounter them may gather
the rare flowers that grow between
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
Interesting EXPERIENCES.

Hiram Cameron. Furniture Dealer
of Columbus, Ga, tells his expert
ence, thus: For three years have
tried every remedy on the market for
Stomach and Kidney Disorders, hut
got no relief, until 1 used Electric
Bitteis. Took FIVE bottles and am
now cured, and think Electric Bit
tiers the Best Blood Purifier in the
world."- Major A. B. Reed. of West
Liberty, Ky, used Electric Bitters
for an old standing Kidney affection
and says: Nothing has eyer done
ne 81 much good MS Electric Bit.
t4rs," Sold at tify cenIs u bottle Dy
VIM. Nydegger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
The Vanderbilt Fortune.
n. Y. Times,

n. Y. Times,
Mr.. Vanderbilt was worth $780,
000000. IF we say that he was worth
$500, 100000 or 81 600, 900 ,00O, do We
get perceptibIy different impression
about the bulk of his fortune? Most
people do not. To the average mind
the conception ofenormOus wealth is
much the same whether it he reckon
ed in hundreds OF millions or in Wig
millions, The human mind cannot
grasp these great sums or clearly ap.
DreCiate the differences between one
hundred millions and TWO hundred
millions.
Let us try and describe Mr.. Van.
derbilt's great fortune in terms or
linear. square and cubic measure.
ment and ofweight. Everybody IN.
derstands these terms, and they
make a definite impression on mems
minds.
If this sum of 500, OOO. 900 were in
standard silver dollars it would pre-
sent such features as this:
Put lengthwise, dollar after dollar,
it would stretch a distance Of 4, 662
miles. making a silver streak from
New York across the ocean TO Liver
pool.
Filed up, dollar on dollar, it would
reach height of 355 miles.
Laid fat on the ground, the dollars
would cover space of nearly sixty
acres.
The weight Of this mass of silver
would be 1850 tons.
To transport it would require 1853
cars. carrying 20 tons each, tthis Is
the capacity of the strongest freight
cars), making a train Just about p
miles long.
On ordinary grades it would require
IL locomotives to haul this train. On
roads OF steep grades and sharp
curves, Is or 20 locomotives would be
needed.
In One-dollar bills this two.hun-
dred-milliOn. dollar fortune would az.
sumo such shape as this:
The bills stretched Iengthwise
would extend 23.G74 miles, or nearly
the circumference OF the earth at the
equator.
Piled up one on another, close as
leaves in a new book. they would
reach height Of twelve miles.
Spread out on the ground they
would cover 746 acres. or nearly the
whole surface Of Central PARK, i'll
Guiding ponds and reservoirs.
A safe deposit vault to contain
these bills would require to be TWEEN
ly-three feet long, twenty-five feet
wide and twenty feet high.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
SATURDAY. DEC. 10, 1885.
Pay Your Subscription.

A large number of our patrons are
allowing their subscription accounts
to run from year to year without APP
parently giving this, to us, important
matter, any consideration at all. This
is not right. We are obliged to pay
cash for paper, labor, any many other
things that go to make up news
paper, and sometimes, as at present,
find it almost impossible to meet our
OOilsaVIOiIoi UE-..-- 80 -ne' yer On
thousand dollars standing on the SUBJ
scription account alone, ranging from
$3.50 to $3.50. Don't put off pay.
ment any longer, but come forward
at once and help us.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

the United States, and then dwarf
New York and reduce Philadelphia
to an insignificant country village.
Along the route of the proposed road
and in the country tributary to it,the
people were told that so glazing and
monstrous an innovation as railway
with whistling, snorting locomotive
and cars that would hold twenty
wagon loads, would totally destroy
their live stock and agricultural in.
terests, and the people believed it and
talked and voted so. In every coun-
ty of the State the enormity of the
proposed invasion by foreign mo.
nopoly in the interest of the city of
Baltimore was proclaimed from
house.tops, and with the greatest
success as the election returns clearly
showed.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
were forbidden entering Within the
vacant borders ofthe Commonwealth
with their commercial. live stock and
agricultural MISUNDERSTANDING iron
highway. Pittsburgh alone stood
out for the Baltimore folks, but was
obliged to wait more than thirty
years before her people could go 10
Cumberland and beyond Oh train
of that company. Thus it will hA
feeen-i he fend between the -RsltimnI.
and Ohio and Pennsylvania Comps
MES Is not only of long standing, but
has been bitter from the beginning.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

It is announced that Mr.. George
Gosorn, lately removed from the
Piedmont postofice, will probably
contest the confirmation of his sue
cesssor, Mr.. Rogers. Gosorn was re-
moved as an offensive partisan, and
says he is able to show that Rogers is
a "hustler" at the polls, and more
offensive in the partisan sense than
any other man in town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
Bucklen'S ArniCa SalYe.

The best SalYe in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter. Chap
ped Hands, ChiIbIains Corns, and all
Skin Eruptlons, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price % cents per
box. For sale by w. d. Nydegger,
Druggist, Oakland, Nd,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

Counterfeit butter is a subject the
courts find it impossible to handle.
The Maryland courts have decided
that the Legislature has no authority
to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of it, but the Pennsylvania courts
have just decided the other way, and
affirmed the constitutionality of the
law forbidding the manufacture and
sale Of the article,-&. Louis Repu6-
&cdn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
How the BE- 0. was Kept Out Of Penn.
sylVania Forty years Ago.

| st. Louis Globe Democrat
1t is generally supposed that prior
to the fight to keep President Garrett
from building through Philadelphia
and on to New York the relations
between the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railway Companies
were quite friendly, but that is mis-
take; nor does the trouble date from
the time when the Baltimore com.
pany was refused the use of the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
tracks, which was the first broad hint
to Mr.. Garrett that he would have to
build from Baltimore to New York
if he would make his road a New
York line. The first battle between
these giant corporations. and which
has never been equaled in fierceness
since, was fought over 40 years ago
in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and
ran through several sessions.
In 1912 the Baltimore road was
completed to Cumberland and form
ally opened for business, but the OBJ.
jective point was Pittsburg, and not
long after the Cumberland station
was opened surveyors were sent out
to locate line across to the Yough.
iogheny river and thence down that
stream to destination. But the noun
tains had not yet been crossed by the
surveying party when Philadelphia
was turned upside down by the story
of an invasion of Pennsylvania by a
foreign corporation which, if not
driven back, would injure the agir.
cultural and commercial interests of
the western part of the common
wealth beyond recovery, and then
began an earnest war between two
giant railway corporations that has
ragged more or less fiercely ever since.
Philadelphia saw that if Pittsburg
was made a great railway centre
right at the beginning of the intro
duction of rail lines of comlnunica-
ton and transportation, she would
loom up as the one great commercial
trade and manufacturing centre of
the State, to the everlasting injury
and hurt of the Quaker merchants of
Philadelphia, so all interests at that
point were uot slow in Joining hands
with the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany to crush out the Baltimore com.
pany's project. The Legislature, then
in session, did nothing in the prem
ises, although it would have cheer
fully granted the new Pittsburg en-
terprise all necessary franchises and
right of way had it not been for the
opposition Ct the Pennsylvania rail-
way.
But it was upon the hastings in the
next campaign that the very old Nick
was let loose. The anti. Baltimore
appealed to the pride of
their counties, and importuned voters
Of every political faith to vote against
allowing THAT obnoxious foreign
monopoly" to set foot upon the sa.
cred soil of Pennsylvania. The PEG.
pie were told how it was the aim and
purpose of the Baltimore company
70 build up and make Baltimore the
1ne great commercial metropolis of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

An exchange says newspapers are
a necessity nova days, and man
might as well subscribe promptly as
to put il off on some excuse or other,
and be kicked by his own conscience,
jawed by the old woman, pestered by
the children and laughed at by the
neighbors as the man who borrows
but never subscribeS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19

When any duty Is to he done, II Is
fortunate for you if you feel like do
Ing 1t ; hut, YOU do not feel like il
That Is no reason for NOT doing it,
GLADDEN.,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
Food for Thought.


conscience drives it.
Little sticks kindle the FIRE, bu
great ones put it out.
Expect nothing from him who
promises a great deal.
He that lies down with the dog.
must rise with the fieas.
No man can enjoy a success who
has never made failure.
Dc not allow yourself to lose tenn
per or to speak excitedly.
An obstinate man does not hold
opinions they hold him.
The purse strings are the most com.
mon ties of friendship.
Never take crooked path when
you can take a straight one.
He that will have no trouble in
this world must be born in it.
Piety belongs to the wise, and is a
great promoter of happiness.
Select a worthy object in life and
bend all efforts in that direction.
Happiness, like youth, and health,
is rarely appreciated until it is lost
No great characters are formed in
this world without suffering and self
zeal.
When anger rushes unrestrained to
action, like hot steed, it stumbles in
its way.
Bodily labor alleviates the pain OF
the mind whence arises the happi.
ness of the poor.
The great are in comforting a bene-
fit is to create the least possible obi
cation in doing it.
Some people are born to make life
pretty, and others to grumble that it
is not pretty enough.
A man cannot have an idea OF per.
lection in another which he was never
sensible of in himself.
The vanity of human life Is like a
river constantly passing away. and
yet constantly coming on.
Be courageous and undetermined :;
our heart, and not other mems opin-
ions of US, form our true honor.
There is nothing 80 sweet as duty,
and all the best pleasures of life to
come in the wake of duties done.
All men if they work not AS if in
the great Taskmaster's eyes, will
work wrong both for himself and
you.
The proper function OF a Govern
ment is to make it easy for people to
do good. and difficult for them to do
evil.
Innocence is like a flower, which
" ithers when touched. and bloom
not again, though watered with
tears.
Reason sometimes misleads us,
feeling sometimes misleads us, the
wise man corrects the one by the
other.
"Wealth," is steep hill which
the father climbs slowly. and which
The son often tumbles down "precip.
lately"
On the diffusion of education
'mc6g the people rests the preserva-
lien and perpetuation of our free in.
;titutiOn.
1t is best to know what you want
'ven ify0u don't get it. 1t may keep
you from getting what you don't
want.
1t Is possible that the world owes
very man living, hut his best claim
or what is due, is, that he has earned
t.
There is nothing lower than hypoc.
iSy. To profess friendship and act
is sure proof Of total de-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
DunfOrd'S Grand Prize Distribution

WE WISH TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT
w the Largest Best Line
Salt Lake City, and Purchaser
Rubbes kind will be entitled
take place January ID The consist
Gents sskin Caps and Ladies'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-17

UTAH & NEVADA RAILWAY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-17
WATER! WATER!

WATER! WAITER
Da IN aged by Water!
BARTON & Co. have just received
beautiful line of Boys and Childrens, Cloth
ing, which, having become damaged by
water on the railway, they will sell regard
less Of cost. Now is your time 70 get suits
cheap, for, although the suits are not much
damaged. they must be sold right away.
hobby line of Stiff and Soft Hats opened
to-day Call and see them, as they are the
attest. A splendid gun given away with
some OF the Boys Hats,
Barton ~ Co.. S. Main Street.