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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06

TIA true statement will be any sat.
isfaction to the late Board l will en-.
deavor to give them an exceedingly
carefully prepared statement, which
the public can depend upon is true ::
not one item of which the late Board
can deny.
We submit report of the indebt
edness of the School Board not up to
January, 1884, when VIM. P. Totten
and his associates took control, but
up to July Sth, the uate when they
commenced paying off from the pro-
ceeds of the sale of Bunls and other
money in their hands at that date.
The interest on every separate issue
of due bills outstanding, Jan. 1884,
has been literally calculated up TO
July 8th, 1884. The same has been
done on all notes due P. P. Lohr, land
discounts added to notes held in
Bank from Dec. 1883, to July, 1884.
The due bills issued Dec. 10Th, 1888
are not included in the old indebted,
ness, because they were amply pro.
vided for by funds appropriated dur
ing the fiscal year. The order from
County Commissioners and thejudg-
ment mentioned, included inhibited
ness to the Board from Mr.. Brown
ing as Tax Collector, and, ofcourse,
should be appropriated to payment of
old debt. The Act ofthe Legislature
of 1854 appropriating S2207. 1s express
ly provides that the moneyshould go
towards the "papment of teachers
salaries in arrears, and the surplus, il
any, to the payment of debts hereto
fore contracted.' Consequently, this
amount is added to the proceeds Of
sale of Bonds. We invite a careful
examination of the following. satisfi-
ed that by no possible exclamation
can the late Board defend their course
in leaving as they have upwards OF
four thousand dollars of old due bills
unprovided for.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Persons knowing themselves indebted to-
the old firm of Davis & Townshend are re-
quested to make payment by the first Of
March. After that date you may expect the,
claims to he placed in the hands of an officer
for collection. Our business must be closed
mp.
/ Is DAVIS &. TOWNSHEND
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06

AS reasonably expect oaks from a
mushroom bed as great and durable
profits from small and hasty efforts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
The Sunday Herald

is an eight pLge paper as readable az a liberal
expenditure of money and brains can
make it. What more would you have? 1t
IS The most popular paper published in
thls city. You can get it year by mail
for Sl5U; six months for 10 cents
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
CASH PREMIUMS

For those who uill secure subscribers TO The
WEEKLY HERALD.
ANY ONE WHO WILL SEND US THE
CASH FOR
100 subscribers we give SIS 90 Cash.
q Subscribers we give 1878 Cash.
30 Subscrbers we give $500 Cash.
% Subscribers we give 500 Cash.
10 Subscribers we give so cts. Cash.
These premiums may he retained from the
money. Address all communi-
cations 10 and draw all checks, money orders.
&C., to the order of
THE MORNING HERALD,
10 BALTIMORE, MD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
FOR SALE.
SOLDIER LOTS, SO ACRES EACH.
TITLES OF HEIRS.

NO; 1851, Now occupied by Abraham Moon
Good land, part cleared
NO. MI. On RAILROAD ard River, near Cor.
man Station, part cleared with Mill Sire.
NO. 1877. Wood Lot near Mr. Lees Dwell
No. 1856 Good Wood Lot, east Of Mr.. Thorn
- NO. l63 Wood Lot, miles west Of Blaine.
station. Joins Henry Braes Dwelling,
No. li9. Wood Lot, near Lot No lg3
NO. ISL. Part cleared, Mr.. g. Everett on II.
- NO. 63. Near Frankville, miles s. w OF
Coal and wood.
TERMS-part cash, part time
Enquire of
z. y. TOWER,
Attorney al Law, Oakland, Md.
July 18th ISS5-tf
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06

office we met debt of about SIS, OOO
This we reduced as follows from the
receipts of Bonds, as will he seen from
above statement:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
OFFICE OF THE
OFFICE OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS,
OAKLAND Md, Feb. LIST, 1886.


At meeting of the Board held
Jan. 10th. committee was appoin-
ted to reply to the statement made in
your last issue by the late Board of
School Commissioners, in regard to
the financial affairs of the Board for
the last two years. In obedience to
said resolution, the following is SUBJ
mitted as fair illustration as to how
much reliance can be placed upon the
estimates given by parties who adj
NIT they had no opportunity to refer
to either hooks or Vouchers in arriv-
ing at their conclusions:
Estimates by late Board as to dis
bursements for Teachers Salaries. s24, 354 90
Interest, attorneys fees and survey
ing 80 w
Printing 100 90
IoLal ..Sz4,oZ5 w
Disbursements taken from the Books
of Mr.. Ludwig, for Teachers Salaries $685. 81
Interest ISIS so
Printing 2S5 00
1oISl..'''''.'.'' ,eIO IL
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
Debts Incurred during The fiscal gear
1888 and 1884.
AUdiLobLe for Adore,

,Uol %
Balance on hand in July, 1884. after
paying all debts 0l0 "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06

rHEos. B. HoRwIrz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

IN his long talk, Monday of last week
at the Tammany celebration, Senator
Vance congratulated the society on the
return of the Democratic party to power.
and admitted that "In the hour of victo-
ry we have had some little demoraliZa-
tion, and we have permitted tendency
toward bureaucratic administration to
appear in what is called Civil Service
Reform" Just so. what is called
Civil Service Reform" is good. The Sen
ator enunciated the good old Democratic
doctrine when he said: "If the spoils do
not belong to the victOrs. to whom do
they belong? De they belong to those
who fight on the other side, or to those
who fight on no side; but lie on all sides !?
1t is unsafe and absurd to undertake to
run Government upon principles OPP
posed to human nature. But although
the Democratic party has been back
slider in this regard, it will retrace its
steps and recover from its demoraliza-
ton" Tammany received these remarks
with enthusiastic applause, which will
no doubt thoroughly delight President
Cleveland, who is so patiently waiting
for the time when the foes of Civil Ser
vice Reform in the Democratic party
shall be much fewer than they are at
present.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

PROBABLY nothing except the fear of
the shotgun or the chain gang has SO
long deferred the colored workmen in
the South from initiating their Northern
brethren in seeking to compel employers
to pay higher wages. But they are be-
ginning to pluck up enough courage to
undertake this method of improving
their condition, as appears in dispatches
from Arkansas. If ever there is justifi-
cation for strikes it can be found in the
condition of the colored laborers in the
South. Wages average from So to $40
month, with ratiOns of about three and
half pounds of meat and peck of meal
week. But the colored laborers, through
the store order system, are cheated out
of the greater portion of even the small
pittance promised them. 1t is no wonder
that thievery is SO common there, as the
wages paid seem to be based on the sup
position that families will be partially
supported in that way. If the shotgun
were not freely used on the slightest in
dication that the colored man is prepar-
ing to try and better himself, strikes
would probably be frequent in the South,
where there is more apparent justifea-
tion for them than in the North.-N. Y.
Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

MANY people do not realize the inti-
mate connection between the liquor but
siness in the United States and Social
ism, Anarchy, and ether shades of i'm
ported madness. A writer in Lippin-
colts Magazine states that personal
Investigation in Philadelphia has con-
vinced him that in that city the Socialists
and Anarchists are encouraged by saloon
keepers and beer garden proprietors who
sell them beer. The average Socialist,
believing that before long the State will
take care of him in some comfortable
way, has no disposition to save money,
and be spends his nickels for beer with
great freedom while they last. And
when meetings are held, the beer is an
important feature every time. There
are precious few total ab5tainers cont
nected with any Socialistic organization,
and intemperance has an intimate con-
nection with Anarchy as with most
other forms of deViltry.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
Uncle Esek7s Wisdom.

ALL political parties are made up Of
foxes and geese-abOut five thousand
geese to one fox. q
The great beauty of charity is privacy;
there is sweet force even in an anOny-
nous penny.
lam an uncompronising Radical up
to date, but when / reach the other world
can BIZ Conservative, if it is the best
thing to do.
Men of great genius should not forget
that their failiDgs, or vices, are more apt
to be noticed, and even admired, than
their virtues.
All Conservatives have once been Rad
icals, and their virtue consists IN having
found out that a half loaf Is better
than no bread.
My friend, if you must keep pet, let
it be one of the serene kind "a TattleI
snake or swapping turtle, for instance);
this will exercise your caution and
strengthen your genius.
know of nothing that will test
mans true inwardness better than to
feel like the Devil, and be obliged to act
| like saint.
MY UedI UOy, IL 9Od muoS Poie JOA
hair in the middle, get it even, If you
have to split hair to do it.
Independence is name for what no
man possesses; nothing, in the animate
or inanimate world, is more dependent
than man.
1t isn't so much what man has that
makes him happy, as it IS what ne
doesn't want.
There are many comfortable people in
the world, but to Call any man perfectly
happy is an insult.
There is nothing so valuable, and yet
so cheap, as civility; you can almest buy
land with it.
The great mass of mankind can only
gaze and wonder; if they undertake to
think, they grow listless, and soon tire
out. The Century for July.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

To ADD to England's perplexities, war
clouds are again gathering in the East.
The recent address of the Gar to the
Black sea fleet, the massing of troops on
the frontier, the advance of claims to
Afghan territory which are certain to be
resisted, and the menacing attitude to-
ward Turkey, all indicate that Russia is
ready for another fight. The attitude of
Ireland towards the Imperial Parliament
will weaken the Government in case of
war and this may be Ireland's opportu,
nifty. Henry Grattan and the volunteers
once won home rule for Ireland because
the Government was too exhausted by
the strain of the French war to resist
their demands, and history may repeat
itself.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

IF the President were consistent in his
vetoes he might at least win respect for
his good intentions. But he has approx
ed a number of bills for public buildings
in small villages in the South, while he
has vetoed similar measures providing
for buildings in fair-sized Northern cit>
les. There is no doubt that the erection
of public buildings in small places is to
a large degree waste of public money.
But the Presidents veto of the bill to
provide building for Duluth, Mimi,
which is port of entry, is wholly incon-
sistent with his approval of bills for
public buildings in such places as Fort
Smith, Arkansas, and San Antonio,
Texas. But Arkansas and Texas are
"solid" for the Democracy, while Mime
sofa is a safe Republican staten. Y.
Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

Kansas Republicans, on Thursday, re-
nominated John A. Martin for Governor /;
Lieutenant Governor A. P. Riddle and
Secretary of State E. B. Allen were also
renominated by acclamation. 1t was re-
solved that "the present prohibitory law
should be so amended as to provide for
seizure of the offending element, the in
toxicating liquor, by legal action similar
to proceedings against smuggled goods
as now provided for by the revenue laws
of the United States, and by such other
legislation as will insure certain and
complete enforcement of law and pro-
lection Of the lives and property of our
citizens"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

The New York Herald publishes a
sensational story to the effect that the
late Col. Corkhill, who prosecuted Gui-
teau, had evidence showing that we'll
known public men were in conspiracy
with Guiteau and were privy to his as
of President Garfield. This
story which assumes the gross and de-
liberate violation of his sworn duty by
Col. Corkhill is altogether inconsistent
with all the known facts and circum-
stances of the case. There was nothing
of the coDspirator about Guiteau. He
was a monster of egotism and self-suffi
cheney.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
Grains Of Gold.

The heart of fool is in his mouth,th
language of the wise man is in his
heart.
The chameleon, who is said to feed
upon nothing but air, has of all animals
the nimblest tongue.
Gold is an idol worshipped in all eli
mates without a single temple. and by
all classes without single hypocrite.
Some persons would seem to have a
right to spend their lives in trifling, since
nature set the example by tTifiing when
she made them.
One great reason why the work of
reformation goes on slowly is because we
all of us begin on our neighborS and
never reach ourselves.
We are linked to both the past and the
future, and our duty to the former, well
fulfilled, will best fit US to discharge our
duty to the latter.
An idle man always thinks he has a
right to be affEonted if busy man does
devote to him just as much time as he
himself has leisure to waste.
Simple emotion will not suffice to ele-
vate the character or improve the life.
hOAV LAuOO OO OtAOD6bA VI ROuOA
of self-deDial, persevering effort.
The seat of perfect contentment is not
in the heart, but in the head; every in>
dividual being thoroughly satisfied with
his own proportion of brains.
A man without discretion may be
compared to a vessel without helm;
which, however rich its cargo, is in cons
tinual danger of being wrecked.
Wit and gayety answer the same pur-
pose that fire does in damp house,
dispensing chills and drying up mould,
and making all wholesome and cheerful.
Character, Judgment. virtue, unselfsh-
ness, mastery of ones own self-it is
these that tell in the long run, far more
than than the most brilliant qualities.
Hold yourself well in check. The
weakness and inefficiency of the men
and women who cannot hold tight rein
over themselves. in the emergencies of
life are most pitiful.
The proud man hath no God the en-
vious man hath no neighbOr; the angry
man hath not himself. What good, then,
in being man. if one has neither him
self, nor neighbor, nor God?
Christian faith is like a grand cathe-
dral, with divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you see no glory, nor
possibly can imagine any; standing
within, every ray of light reveals har>
mony of unspeaksble splendors.
Along with humility we should culti
vate cheerfulness. Humility has no con-
nection with pensive melancholy or
timorous detection. While the truly
humble guard against the distraction of
all violent passions and inoTdinate cares.
they cherish a cheerful disposition of
mind,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

PEOPLE in Dakota thought the world
was coming to an end on Tuesday of last
week. The wind was like a simeon.
Birds, horses and cattle, apparently be-
came crazy with fright, anticipating
some catastrophe. At o'clock in the
morning people were awakened by a
roaring blast as hot as if from furnace.
Fearing a cyclone, they took refuge in
cellars. The hot wind lasted an hour.
The temperature was 12O degrees. At
midnight it had been 100 degrees. Peo-
pie feared death from hot air, and had
it lasted much longer the fear would
doubtless have been realized.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

THEORETICALLY the Democrats are
strongly in favor of honesty in public
Office, as we'll as of all sorts of reforms,
and they can roll up such an array of
adjectives denunciatory of Republican
sins of omission and commission as
about exhausts the supply. But in prac-
tice the average Democrat goes in for
getting everything there is in politics
when the whirligig of time and circum-
stance puts his party in power. We all
remember perfectly well the bitter de
nunciation bestowed upon President
Grant and other leading Republicans for
their nepotism. and the people were led
to believe that it would be impossible
for any Democrat of high or low degree
to be guilty of the crime of looking after
the interests of his own family aud rel
ativeS. But since the return of the DEM
ecracy to power it has been demonstrate
ed this denunciation applied only to Re-
publicans, that whenever opportunity
offered tie Bourbon leaders could be
counted on to quarter as many of their
brothers, sons, cousins, nephews and
other relations upon the public treasury
as they could find or make places for.
The Hon. Zebulon B. Vance, Senator of
the United States from North Carolina,
furnishes a case in point, Twelve of
his family connexion, including one
brother, two sons, six cousins and three
nephews, are ''subsisting on the enemys
country" drawing salaries ranging from
six hundred to four thousand five hun
dred dollars. 1t may be that the whole
Vance family has now been provided
for, but, if not, the Hon. Zebulon can be
relied upon to find something more OF
less soft for all that are yet out in the
cold.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

How commonplace is this expression,
Goodbye" and yet what volumes it may
speak for all future timel We never
listen to the sweet words falling from
the loving lips that this thought does
not force itself upon US, let them be ut
tered in ever so gay or light manner.
The lapse of few fatal hours or min
utes may surround or hedge it with hor-
rors, that of all the million words which
a lifetime has recorded these two little
words alone shall seem to be remember
ed. Good-byel the little child has lisped
as it passed to better world than ours;
the lover with his gay dream of to-mor-
rows happiness; the wife and mother,
all the threads of household cares still
in her fingers; the father, with appealing
eve of childhood all unanswered; good
byel that seal upon days past and days
to come. Friends should never part
without bidding each other kind good
bye! All! how many there are who love
each other, aud yet give each other need
less pain, parting from loved one
though only for few hours 1t may be
but parting unkindly, unloyibgly,with
cruel words, with, scornful tones, which
they may never have opportunity to
take back again. 1t is u good rule
for two friends, or two of household.
never to part in anger. There two very
good reasons why we should not. One
is the unnecessary pain We give each
other as we go about our separate ways;
another is the uncertainty of life. We
are never sure of seeing each other
again; and if not. the pain and regret in
our hearts would never cease. We can
never tell for certainty when bidding
each other goodbye, whether it is for
few hours or eternity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
4 Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 m. Young
mems prayer meeting; Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
InRev. w. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, pm. Woman:s Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

No SENATORIAL whitewash, however
thickly applied. can keep that sturdy old
Mossback journal, the Steubenville Gaz-
ette, from affirming and reafirmiDg its
solemn opinion that Pap Psyne's seat
was purchased. 1t backs up that other
venerable Mossy, Lecky Harper, of the
Mt Vernon Banner, in his assertion that
money was spent freely" ."and then goes
him one better by adding:
"Mr. Harper's views are identical with
those of the Gazette, excepting we hold
that Mr.. Payne had guilty knowledge of
the extraordinary efforts in his behalf
before the contamination of the sale of
the Senatorship. But if he were even as
innocent as he looks with benevolent
smile behind those famous gold-bowed
spectacles, none the less is the bar sinis-
ter across his title and it is due the hon
est Democrats of Ohio that the purging
process 60 on, DOT only with the guilty
purchasers, but with the unfortunate
beneficiary as we'll"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

A BILL has been introduced in the
Senate directing the Secretary of War
to have published additional volumes of
"The War of the Rebellion" sufficient to
supply all Posts of the Grand Army of
the Republic not now receiving them,
and to distribute as they are published
from time to time one set to each Post,
under the same restrictions and regula
tions as now govern the distribution of
the work.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

THE Mobile Reporter declares itself
in favor of changing inauguration day
from March 4th to April 30th, not for
the excellent reasons which have been
hitherto set forth, but because that time
will be nearer the Inauguration day
adopted by the Constitution of the Con-
federacy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15

NEAR Princeton, Ind, Theresa Tur
pin, wife OF a farmer, cut the throat of
her seven year old daughter, hanged her
one year old daughter until she thought
the child was dead. placed the bodies in
bed, and hanged herself from a rafter
in the barn. She was undoubtedly in
sane. The younger child is still living.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
Current Anecdotes About the Habits
and Tastes of Public Men.

Ben: Perley Poore, in his reminis
cences of Congressional life, relates a
characteristic story of John Randolph,
of Roanoke. Among the Maryland men,
bers Of the House at the time was Peter
Little. who had in early life repaired
clocks and watches. One day he had the
temerity to move to amend resolution
by John Randolph on the subject of mil
itary claims. Mr.. Randolph rose up after
the amendment had been offered, and.
drawing his watch from his fob, asked
the Hon. Peter what o'clock it was. He
told him. "Sir," replied the orator, you
can mend my watch, but not my motions.
You understand tictics, sir, but not tao
tics.