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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-27

to resuscitate her was made, but
life was extinct. The unfortunate
lady leaves a husband and eight
children to mourn the sad ending of
a once intelligent, bright and loving
mother.
Fiendish and cowardly "Red Men
have broken loose again in Richie
county. The Harrisville Revie,c re-
ports that few nights ago they Wis
tied the residence of Robert Glover,
who lives near Smithville, Richie
county. They attacked Glover's
house, and failing to induce him to
come out, they threw coal oil upon
the building and set it on fire. The
flames shot upwards, and Mr.. Glover
fearing to remain inside longer rush
ed out and attacked the villains,
making them take to the brush, and
attempted to extinguish the flames.
He came near being successful, but
the Red Men made another dash and
another application of oil, thus max
ing efforts to extinguish the flames
fruitless. Mrs. Glover, fearing that
the stable would take fire, ran out
for the purpose of turning out cow
and horse which were confined there
in. and succeeded in her work. Sew.
eral shots were fred at her rs she
was on this mission, hut none Of them
took effect. Mr.. Glover was struck
in the wrist by shot from one Of
the Red Men, and the ball was taken
out near the elbow. Considerable
firing was INDUCED in by MIR. Glover
and the attacking parties. Mr..
Glover had all his corn, wheat, ba-
con, household goods, DC, slowed
away in his house and was unable
to save anything. Such dastardly
ineanness should be stopped. Some
Of the parties engaged in this nefari-
Gus outrage are known. 1t 10 thought.
If such is the case they ought to be
made to stretch hemp
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-27
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

Congressman Gibson, of West Vir-
GINA, who was not a candidate for
reelection, and is in a position to
express his honest conviction, in
speaking of the recent elections and
the causes for the Democratic losses,
says: ut was not Indifference. 1t
was rebellion. There is no use for
an army to throw down its arms and
undertake to capture an organized,
well-drilled enemy. 1t can't be done.
The Administrator has destroyed
our organization, and two years more
OF such work will not leave enough
to constitute respectable mob"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
Going to Law.

An old author said. more than two
hundred years ago. "TO go to law is
for two persons to kindle a fire at
their own cost to warm others and
SINCE themselves to cinders. A law
suit is like building. we cast up
the cost in gross and under reckon it,
but having begun, we are trailed
through several items, till we can
neither bear the account nor leave
off, though inclined to do so. The
anxiety, the trouble, the attendance,
the hazard, the checks, the vexatious
delays, the surreptitious advantage
taken of US, the hopes deferred, the
talseness of pretending friends. the
interests of parties, the negligence of
agents, and the designs of ruin upon
us, do put US upon combat against
all that can plague poor man. or else
we must lie down, be trodden upon,
he kicked and die. So far law may
be compared to war, that it is last
resort never to be used but when all
the other means fail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

priety, and during the trying period
succeeding the election, while the re-
suit was in controversy, he calmly
awaited the solution. If there was
fraud or collision in the proceedings
by which his right to the high office
was ultimately decided, he had no
part nor lot in it. Although stamped
as the fraudulent President" it is
worthy of note that his bitterest de-
nOuncers have not attempted TO con-
meet him with the commission of
specific acts of fraud and the charges
against him are wholly general and
indefinite. The tribunal whose deci-
sion invested him with the mantle of
Presidential authority was not of his
creation or control, but was devised
by the adverse political party and
solemnly recognized as the arbiter
whose decision should be final and
should be accepted as equitable and
COllCluNlNS' LIS tlllS w TIE Itol-
dency having thus been declared by
the only authority available for the
determination of the issue, he assum-
ed as bounden duty the grave re-
sponsibility thus imposed upon him.
His administration of the Office was
pure, patriotic and faithful, bringing
discredit neither upon himself nor
upon the Government or the nation.
Justice, honor and simple decency
alike demand that he should be per-
mitted to occupy his private station
secure from the shafts of partisan
spite and malevolence. But it seems
this cannot be.-Cun1b. NelUs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

having matured its scheme, had TAX
en- options on three-and-a-halfsq square
miles of land, through which they
have resolved to drive the intended
improvements. The purchase by
the President was part of the scheme,
and the Z4teiiigencer is informed that
Marshall Wilson and Private Secre-
tary Lament were relied upon to
make the President play his part.
His purchase was to give new tone
to the neighborhood, furnish some
sort of pretext for improving the
waste places at least a quarter of a
century before their time, and so
make fabulous gains at the public
expenses for the syndicate.
The latest valuation CT the prop
erty now owned by the syndicate.
will draw from it yearly for the next
three years tax of $1,000. The val
uation itself 100000, is about one
fourteenth of the sum expected to be
spent on the extension of Ma5sachu-
sets avenue alone. All this rural
Improvement has been mapped out
while within the city limits, in
neighborhoods already built up, no
attention is paid to street paving
which the common convenience re-
| quires and public sentiment would
approve.
Congress will certainly be asked to
investigate the real estate pool in
connection with the District Com
missioners. 1t is probable that the
scheme to blackmail Congressman
into making liberal appropriations
for the District-a sort of hush mon.
ey to close the mouths of the police
will be shown to have an intimate
connection with the real estate pool
= Wheeling H1telhigencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
Mortality of the Presidency

1t is interesting to record in con-
nection with the funeral of ex-Presi-
dent Arthur Monday of last week
that no fewer than ten men, who
have been either President or Vice
President of the United States, or
who have been candidates for the
honors of either Office, have died
within the last sixteen months. Their
names are as follows;
General Ulysses S. Grant, twice
President of the United States. from
1869 to 1877, died at Mount McGre-
gor, near Saratoga, New York, of cam
Ger, on July %, 1885.
Gen. George b. Mcclellan, nomi-
ted for President by the Democratic
party in 1864, and afterward Cover
nor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1884,,
died suddenly at his home in Orange,
New Jersey, early on the morning
of October 90, 1885.
Thomas A. Hendricks, candidate
for Vice President in 1876, and cleo
ted to that effice in 1884, died at In
dianapolis, Indiana, on November
26, 1885.
b. Gratz Brown, candidate for Vice
President in 1872 on the ticket with
Horace Greeley, died in st. Louis,
Missouri, on December 10. 1885.
General Winfield Scott Hancock,
Democratic candidate for President
in 1880 died at Governors Island, in
New York harbor, on February 8,
1886.
Horatio Seymour, ex-governor of
New York, Democratic candidate for
President in 1868, died at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling,
in Utica, New York, on February II,
1886.
David Davis, elected President of
the United States Senate ON October
10, 1881, to succeed Vice President
Arthur, died at Bloomington, Hill
n0is, on June 26. 1886.
Samuel J. TiIden. nominated for
President of the United States in
1876, died at his residence, "Grey-
stone," near Yonkers. New York, ON
August 4, 1886.
Chester A. Arthur, President of
the United States from September %,
1881, to March 4. 1885, died at his
home. No. 1913 Lexington avenue,
New York city, of cerebral apoplexy,
on November IS, 1886.
Charles Francis Adams, grandson
of the second President of the United
States and son of the sixth President
and candidate for Vice President on
the ticket with Martin Van Buren,,
in 1913, died at his home on Mount
Vernon street, Boston, on November
81, 1856.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
What Congress Will Not Do.


In spite of predictions to the con-
trary, it is not at all probable that
Congress, at its impending session
will transact much business of nation
al importance beyond passing the
appropriation bills.
1t is quite likely that Mr.. Morri-
son, with characteristic obstinacy,
will again bring up his tariff-reduc-
ton bill, but the scare which the
Democrats received at the late elec-
ton will doubtless have the effect of
making the majority of Democratic
members wary oftinkering with such
dangerous subject of legislation.
There will certainly be no formal
tariff discussion as there was at the
last session, and in no event could the
bill be passed in the House,
The electoral count bill is a meas
ure that should receive prompt atten-
ton, but there are strong party points
involved in the bill, and it is not
probable that the Senate and House
can come to any agreement upon the
disputed sections, The country
stands in urgent need of a general
bankrupt law, and, though all the
great commercial centres have time
and again petitioned Congress in its
favor, there is not much prospect
that it will receive serious considera-
tions. The coast deienses and the
currency and coinage bills may each
come up for a slight share of atten-
ton, but the records of the last ses.
sion leave little encouragement to
believe that anything needful will be
done,
If the report be true that the Pres
ident will in his annual message urge
upon Congress the passage of a tariff
revision bill based upon the we'll
known views of the administration
which are about intermediate be-
tween the Randall and Morrison
propositions, an impetus may be Civ
en- to tariff discussion. But the Dem
ocratic members are in no good hu-
NOR with the administration, and
they may resent such suggestion
from the President by resolving not
to touch upon the subject at all. Any
ADVICE which the President may
tender upon the tariff will have the
color of bid for popularity in the
West and South, and is not likely,
therefore, to receive very serious at
tention.
The chief effort of Democrats and
Republicans alike will be in the line
of keeping on their good behavior,
The session will be more of a pOliti-
cal game than a serious meeting oil
legislators to pass laws. The great
stakes of 1888 are in sight, and the
party leaders know how important
it is at such a time to trim their sails
to the popular breeze. and this they
generally do by pursuing a negative
course and doing nothing, charging
the failure to pass needed laws upo n
the opposition.-Bdlto. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

prompt seizure of every little adj
vantage, and steady application of
educational machinery, can alone
conquer success, and this only slow
Iy. There is a good deal of obstinate
prejudice to overcome and not less
silent or active sympathy with the
saloon. resting on usage and physical
habit. But the dishearteningl ethargy
of the past is no longer the main OBJ
stacle to progress. That has been
shaken if not removed. Public opin-
ion is crystallizing abort healthier
centres. The demand for high Ii
cense and local option indicates the
movement of the currents. In short,
while much remains to do, the tenn
perance outlook is by no means dis
couraging.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
A District of Columbia Job.

The latest District of Columbia
scandal comes uncomfortably close to
the White House. 1t is another real
estate pool manipulated by high Of
ficials at the public expense, II is
not charged, and probably it cannot
be said in truth, that the President
knew anything of the job until it was
forced upon his attention. yet the
property he purchased for summer
residence is to be enhanced in value
by the indefensible expenditure of
public funds, and the men who have
decided upon this expenditure are
the friends and appointees of the
President.
General Boynton, of the Clncin-
natl Commercial Gazette, a Republic
can who favored the election of
Cleveland, who is taking a Lending
part in the exposure, declairs it to be
the most stupendous job ever known
in the District, and adds: 1.-THE
condemnation of the President is
unavoidable, and must be serious and
emphatic for allowing his own officers
to thus use him and thus prostitute
themselves and the powers and re-
sources of their Office with his full
present knowledge, and directly I'M
der his eye" The officers referred
to are the District Commissioners,
who have the spending of the money,
the Register of Wills and the Mar
shall of theDistrict, the Marshall be-
ing an old real estate operator in the
District.
The job is the expenditure ola vast
sum of money for the building of
roads and bridges and the extension
of Massachusetts avenue in the open
country hey ond the city limits as far
out as the Presidents recent pur-
chase. The region is now sparcely
settled, and improvements consist
mainly of small, cheap frame houses.
The land is very rugged, and the
proposed extensions will require
heavy cuts through solid rock and
very deep fills, all at great cost.
The proposed extension of Massa-
chusetts avenue is to be turned out
of the original location to make it
reach the Presidents property. This
at a cost of about S2,000,OO0, Wash
ington avenues are wide, and it costs
money to push them through rough
country. Sometime last year Secre-
tary Whitney bought in this remote
neighborhood at $3.50 an acre. The
President paid at the rate of $3.50.
In the meantime the syndicate,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

The persistency with which GER.
tain class Of newspapers in this coun-
try continue to hound and villify
ex-President Hayes is as wearisome
as is it malevolent. Mr.. Hayes is,
and for years has been, a private citi-
zen. occupying no public station.
taking no active part in political con-
tests, obtruding himself in no man.
ner upon the attention of the country,
but leading quiet, retired life at his
home at Fremont, Ohio. He was a
gallant soldier and an efficient COM
mander in the war for the Union, and
at the close of the struggle returned
to civil life. lie never sought the
Presidential office, and doubtless his
nomination by the great Republican
party brought to no man in all the
world greater surprise than TO Gen
eral Hayes himself. Throughout the
campaign which followed he depor-
ted himself with dignity and pr =
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04


The Suns Hagerstown correspond
ent sends the following to that paper
under date of Wednesday of last
week "Mr. Stephen B. Elkins, in
company with his private engineer,
Mr.. Crawford, visited Washington
county a few days ago, and 1t was
understood that Mr.. Elkins was pros
pecting in regard to the new railroad
that is to be an outlet to the seacoast
from the Elk Garden coal fields,
owned by Messrs. Elkins, Blaine.
Davis, German and others. The
route of Mr.. Elkins and his engineer
was from Cumberland, Maryland. to
Bedford. Pennsylvania, from Bed
ford to Hancock, and from Hancock,
via Chesapeake and Ohio canal, to
Wiliamsport, the western terminus
of the Western Maryland Railroad.
The canal company have already an
outlet from their Elk Garden region
via the West Virginia Central to
Cumberland. and from Cumberland
to Bedford by way of the Pennsyl-
Yania road. Their purpose now is to
build road from Bedford to Han
cock. Owing to a gap in the noun
tains road could be easily built from
Bedford to Hancock, where the new
road would reach the canal and run
down the BERNIE side of the canal to
Williamsport, and thus save the tun-
neling of the mOuntains between
Cumberland and Hancock. The road
would then C onnect with the West
ern Maryland at Wiliamsport, thus
forming complete and uninterrup-
ted line from the Elk Garden coal
fields to the seabOard at Baltimore
city. The reason that the Western
Maryland road does not now carry
on great coal business by means of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from
WilliatnspOrt is said to be that the
L ClIu0S wanna DdIlTOdu HAS control Oh
the Union tunnel at Baltimore, and
the charge on Western Maryland coal
cars through Union tunnel is too
great to make extensive transporta-
ton of coal from WilliamspOrt to
Baltimore, profitable to the Western
Maryland road. If the efforts of this
coal company last winter at Annapo-
lis to lease the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal had been successful, the COM
pany would then have laid their new
road bed along the toWing-path of
the canal, but having failed in this
undertaking, the new road has now
become necessity, and it was in re-
latiOn to its construction that Mr..
Elkins made his recent visit to Wes-
ern Maryland. Extensive surveys
were made in the bottom lands near
Williamsport. The rumor that the
proposed road would be built in the
near future has caused considerable
talk among our citizens, who are now
awaiting further developments"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

The Richmond Wing has produced
a large-sized sensation in Virginia.
1t charges, editorially, that there is
one law for the rich man and another
for the poor man in that state. And
what is more to the point, it proves
its charges. 1t shows that no rich
thief has been convicted since the
war, and that at the same time the
penitentiary is full of poor devils
who could not escape. One of these
has served twenty-one years for steal
ing a $50 horse. and he has yet fifteen
more years to serve. The Wing is a
Democratic paper, and its boldness is
not undertaken for political capital.
Nothing but good can result from its
outspoken attacks. The only regret
is that it was not made sooner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
We find the following paragraph

We find the following paragraph
in the Baltimore Americans Wash
ington letter, dated Nov. %: About
two weeks ago it was stated in this
correspondence that Senator German
had gone to the White House and
presented the President with his
slate for Maryland appointments.
Last week Joseph K. Roberts was
appointed in conformity with this,
and to-day Secretary Manning made
out the papers for the appointment
of Colonel w. P. Downs. of Caroline
county. lor general appraiser for the
port of Baltimore. The Secretary
cannot work fast. His health does
not permit it. So it was nearly four
O'Clock before the papers in the case
were stamped by the Secretary with
his little hand.stamp and sent to the
White House. 1t got there too late
for the President to act on the APP
pointment, land so it was not announc-
ed to-day. IF he gets time from his
message, it will, in all probability,
be given out tomorrow. as all the
President has to do is to sign his
name to the paper. There was much
surprise among the officials at the
Treasury at the news of the removal
Of Appraiser Combs, for he is con-
sidered one of the best men in the
service. The Treasury Department
has trusted him with the most i'm
portant cases, and he has spent more
time in New York and other large
ports than in Baltimore. because the
department relied upon his judgment
and decisions. The Office is largely
judicial. and requires an able lawyer
to decide the cases that come before
him for arbitration. He is sort of
referee between the local appraisers.
There is little doubt but that the APP
pointment of the local appraisers
will follow that of general appraisers
very soon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
Natural Gas in Washington County.
From Baltimore sun.

From Baltimore Sun.
HAGERSrOWN, Nd, Noy. o.
Col. w. F. M. McCarty, geologist
and engineer, on behalf of a syndi-
cate of Western Pennsylvania CAPT.
talists, has been prospecting in the
mountains just west of Cearspring,
Washington county. Col, McCarty
claims TO have discovered oil and gas
in vast quantities. and he has already
obtained leases from over fifty per-
sons, embracing nearly sixteen thous-
and acres Of mountain land. He
had on exhibition yesterday many
peculiar and interesting fossils, also
some fine specimen of building stone,
which he says will be largely used
for building purposes as soon az its
true value becomes generally knOWn.
Fiue SaN.'!rs ul iron ora, cement and
STATE were gathered hy Nj. MuCAity,
and he say The indications are rHYl
they lie in ineXhaustible quaGri,irS
in the mountain lands, which NE al
ready cnvrttd rs his leases. 1t is
the purpose OF the syndicate to he
gin operations on an extensive scale
in the early spring. Quarries Will
be opened and oil wells sunk. The
idea is to carry the natural gas from
the mountains by way of iron pipes
laid along the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal to Washington, and by the
same means to Baltimore and all the
neighbOrng cities and towns. or
course, if the proposed railroad be-
tween Bedford, Penn, and Williams
port, Nd, is built, the value of these
reported discoveries will be greatly
enhanced, and it is estimated that
the company interested most in the
construction of the new road have
most stock in the oil and gas cUmpa.
ny which Col. McCarty represents.
The area of the land already leased
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

extends from Clearspring to Han
cock, a distance of about fifteen
miles. Leases upon large tracts,
near Cumberland city have also been
obtained, but the prospects there are
not near so promising as in WASH
ington county. Mr.. McCarty says
that most of the farmers leased their
land without any hesitation, but he
has met with a few old mountaineers
who think their fortunes will be safer
and larger by holding on and waiting
for further developments,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04
SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1886.

The Republicans of Indiana claim
a tie of the Legislature and express
the opinion that they have much
the best prospect of electing United
States Senator.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-04

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, 1886-12-04
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