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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30
KEEP ACCOUNTS.
why Every Farmer Should Have = Day
Book and a Ledger,

why Every Farmer Should Have a Day
Book and a Ledger.
The day-book and ledger are +be
business mans guide TO success. 1t is
by these he knows day by day and yeal
by year his exact balance of profit OF
loss, and by these he so arranges hi,
business as to keep out of lines that do
pay profit, or at least that is his inten-
ton and desire. How many farm
ers keep even the simplest reoular
if- ~ A. = Not one in hundred, probab-
ly Why not? Does not the farmer
want to know just what his farm pays,
ana what crops pays best year by yearP
Is there farmer who can not keep in
parallel columns what is received for
produce and what is paid and how? II
not, the sooner he educates his bows
and girls in this direction the better If
will be all round.
Now is your time to turn over q new
leaf Begin by taking an account
OF the value OF the farm, stock.
implements and produce on hand.
Give each price of some kind
and let that price be as near as you can
Judge what you would ask if YOU were
going to sell. This is your stock in
trade-your capital. Then, if you have
anything to buy, put it down in your
memorandum book and transfer it at
night, or at some regular time to your
permanent account book. You will
soon come to be ashamed, perhaps, of
many items of foolish expenditure, and
here will begin q great saving If you
have anything to sell, fix its real mar
ket value and sell it when the price
suits. Get out of the habit of asking
the dealer ''What will YOU give?"
Keep yourself posted on market
values Of the property You have to sell
and never carry load to market
when you must come under the thumb
OF any one ruling man in trade or any
set OF men who monopolize the making
OF prices in town. Go further, or else
organize in neighborhood to cooper
ate and ship to a more distant and
better market, where there is direct
competition in buying and selling. Ii
IS not good plan in any business to let
somebody else set the price both ways.
1t always operates in favor of the man
who sets the price. 1t is enough that
the owner sets the price on goods he
has to sell. When you make a sale the
cash is to be carried to the credit of the
seller. If you seek to buy and the price
is beyond your views, wait, but when
you do buy let tho price go down in
black and white to your debit. Then
at the end of any week. month or wear
you may know just how you stand as
compared with any other week, month
or year. You may know what is the
gain in live stock, implements, build |
Ings, acreage or crops--what are the |
appreciation, wear and tear, and at the |
end Of the year what the profit or loss.
Thus you may change your line of
crops from non-paying to paying ones.
GU may lind certain classes Of stock pay
better than others. If so. increase
hose that pay and lessen those that do
lot. Yes, this is good time to i'm
prove your system of doing business,
out the Improvement must be in action
Is well as in thought Chicago Tr5june.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30
CAROL OF THE CASHIER.

Now, il you wish to rise
IN life to take q prize.
Just listen to the words have to say:
Get into some good bank,
And very soon you n rank
among the great sensations OF the day.
10 DO this you must be
= man of courtesy,
AnC very, very seldom take dram;
Rut wear patent smile
That innocent of guile,
For that's the kind of cashier that SIN!
You must sport costly suit,
a diamond PIN to boot
And move within the best society;
And il in church you might
Become q shining light
So much the better for YOUR game you see
BE always on the lay,
And keep on IN tn $ way.
For people will not think that you're a shsm;
ma never night and day,
Forget to watch and prey.
For tdaIs the kind of cashier that am!
You must keep your books so true,
That nobody but you
Can tell exactly how finances ie
so when the Trustees come
You can fgnre up a sum
or profits that will make their hearts beat
nigh.
And never let your hold
Relax from stolen gold,
But graz on all the Doodle that you can;
Then wildly speculate,
And rehypothecate,
For that's the kind OF a cashier that | am.
And when at last yoiI spy
The time a-drawng nich
When everybody will be onto you.
Just gather in the swag.
= nd pack your carpet bag,
And 90 the same as all defaulters do.
Regard with merry glec
The victims misery,
And for their suffering never care a clam;
But bid your friends alta,
And skip to Canada.
For hats the kind OF cashier that I am!
-ThOs. ". ITcsiideY in JtiIos
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30
a BULKY WILL
Colored Woman Draws Her win on the
Blank Pages of Family Bible

colored Woman Draws Her win on the
Blank Pages of q Family Bible.
A rather bulky will was filed for pro-
bate in the Orphans Court at Baltimore
in the shape of large gilt-edged family
Bible. The will was written on the
blank pages usually used to record
marriages, births and deaths The will
was that of Winnie Harris. colored.
and was very well written and in per-
fectly legal form. 1t is of date Sep
TENDER 3, 1885, and bequeaths all her
estate. after her things are sold and
her debts paid, to her mother. Katie
Jones, OF Paramount or Clairmount. Va.
Should the mother be dead, then all is
to go to the Second Christian Church,
Dolphin and Etting streets, except
gold chain and locket to A. d. Minds,
aud the Bible in which the will is writ
ten to Rev. d. r. Wilkins, her pastor.
BY codicil written on a separate piece
0I Psoper, Cu5 t1rrUtt M trre NJ I,s,s,-t.ss.
testatriX disposes of certain death bene-
fits from lodges to which she belonged.
She desires Mount Sinai Lodge, No. IS,
of the Order of Moses, to give her de-
cent burial, and if anything be then
due her, the remainder is bequeathed
to the lodge. Whatever is due her
from St. Paul's Tabernacle, No. Ii,
Order of Galilean Fishermen, and from
Queen Esther Court No. 6. Order Of
Nazarites, is to go as the will directs
first to the mother, or, in case she is
dead, to the Second Christian Church
for the advancement of the cause of re-
ligion. A. d. Minds, William +. Allen
and John Mitchell are named as adj
illustrators. The court officials say
that the leaves containing the will can
not be torn from the Bible, but the book
itself must be filed. In that case Rev.
d. wilkins will not receive his legacy.
baltimore SIM.
A scientist now states that a cock
roach has three hundred teeth. From
the facility with which the cockroach
gnaws through everything, from the
tire-clay backing of u range to Il Brus-
sells carpet. the popular impression has
gone abroad that the domestic roach
has five hundred teeth tipped with steel
files. 49, Chicago Inter ocean.
Chicago now claims population
of $50, 900, and the Times of that city
thinks she will outstrip London in 1910
''if the present ratio is maintained "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30
The Republican,
yAs. A. HAYDEN, Publisher.

OAKLAND. GARRETT CO.. MD
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-30

Chicago now claims population
of $50, 900, and the Times of that city
thinks she will outstrip London in 1910
IF the present ratio is maintained "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

The directors of the New York Base
ball Club are getting rich out of the
enthusiasm in that city with regard to
the national game. A New York cor
respondent writes: "Burnet Forbes told
me the other day how friend of his IN
Wall street offered to let him in on the
ground floor at the time the baseball club
was started. The capital to be raised
was So, 900. Four men had already
volunteered to take q piece of 1t at
$4,000. The remaining share was placed
at the disposal of Mr.. Forbes as special
mark of friendliness. He took night
to consider the advisability of making
the investment and in the meantime con-
suited Sheridan Shook, the theatrical
manager, bon vlvant, politician and man
about-town. Mr.. Shook said the enter
prise could be nothing but failure in
New York, where the people were
welded to horse racing and yachting.
There was not cent in it, he said on his
reputation as man who had dealt with
the public as an entertainer for years.
Mr.. Forbes let the golden opportunity
slip. The first year of the club profit
of $50, 900 was divided. Last year $780,
900 was cut up into three slices among
the hackers who bought out the others.
This year heaven only knows what the
earnings of the club will be with it in hot
company for the peunant and the decid-
ing games to be played at home. 1t is
nothing for $4,000 to go into the turn,
stiles at a single game on the polo
grounds"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Barbed wire for fences has for some
time been smuggled into Canada from
Detroit, Mich, and the loophole OF the
smugglers has just been found out. They
would load wagon with barbed wire
carefully tucked away in barrels, and
drive north beyond the city limits and
down into the river as if to fill the bar
rels with water for the neighboring gar
den patches. But the barrels were
quickly sunk out of sight in the river.
When night came, two schooners would
sail out from the Canadian shore and
beat down by where the barrels were
sunk. They were then loaded on board
and the boats would then put back to
some neglected spot on the Dominion
shore to unload. Team after team Loaded
with the wire in barrels had been daily
driven down to the shore in this way;
and the wire afterward fshed up ana
taken to the other shore under the noses
of the custom officers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

AFrench physician, having tested hi
theory, advocates sleeping with the head
lower than the feet. He slept that way
for four years, and finds that his neck is
nearly two inches larger, owing to the
swelling of the thyroid gland. He says
in this way the brain receives a more
plentiful blood supply, and is conse
quently better nourished, while there is
no danger of so much blood passing te
the cerebral structure as to cause con
gestion. This danger is obviated by tht
enlargement of the thyroid gland, which
holds back certain portion of the blood
in its dilated vessels, and which also act.
rs g regulator of the cerebral circulation
by exerting pressure upon the carotids,
and thus diminishing their caliore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

In a Paris theatre the ushers are all ladies.
REMrNYIis is playing his violin in Hindustan
.WILL1AM W. AsToR is reported to be
writing play.
A GRANDDAUGHTER ot Charles Dickens
has gone on the stage.
Mrs. ScoTT-SIDDoNs will make profes
sional iour in this country during the coming
season.
Mr., DION BoUcIcAULT, dramatist and
actor, will return to America In the latter
part Of October.
HERR R1CH1NI, one Of the actors OF the
Vienna Opera House, still appears in panto'
mime at the age Of eighty.
"W1LL" CARLETON, the author OF Betsy
and I Out" is going to lecture anu READ to
English audiences this autumn.
MISS HELEN NJ LEVITT is the richest un'
married girl in the Quaker City. She Is worth
IS, ,OUO, ,0OO and is young and attractive.
MME- MINNIE HAUK is going to return te
this country next month, and during the
coming season will be heard IN concerts ano
opera.
IT is claimed that Mr.. Gillettes new play,
"Held by the Enemy" is the strongest play
with an American motive that has ever Deen
written.
JENNY L1NDS QauSnUeE, WIN ID Soiu w
possess fine voice, though not as marvellous
as that of her mother, is going to visit this
country.
Mr.. JOSEPH WHEELocK is to be the Ma
poleon aud Mrs. D. p. Bowers the Josephine
for drama to be presented this season, deal.
ing with a chapter in the life Of the great
Emperor of the French.
MISS MARGARET MATHER has made the
greatest success of her career in San Fran
cisco. Her Juliet is called "Shakespeate'
IDEAL" and the critics pronounce her the
legitimate successor of Miss Nelson
MISS LOUIS PARKER, young American
singer and pupil Of Nine. de 10 Grange OF
Paris, has been engaged by Colonel McCIull
for his opera troupe. She was educated foT
the Italian stage, and is said to possess On es'
quisite voice
The three greatest tenors in the world,
Gayarre, Masini and Tamag1o, are generally
to be found in Spain. An engagement at
the Royal Opera Of Madrid is regarded as q
higher honor than one at any Of the great
Italian theatres.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

The agricultural statistics of Ireland
for 1885 show that the total acreage
under crop was 4, 957, 1877 acres; of which
1854. 9O3 acres were under corn, beans
and peas; 1876, 1896 acres of potatoes
296, 9s4 acres of turnips; 10S, S47 acres
of fax; 2,O34,76s acres under meadow
and clover grass. The total produce
raised was 1,467, 4ss bushels of wheat
80, s22, sos bushels of corn; potatoes, g.
ITS, 1888 tons; turnips, 1851, ,7s3 tons;
beet roots, 400, 7sO tons; cabbages, S97,-
7Os tons; meadow and clover grass, A.
156. 6.O95 tons.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

China claims lark that outdoes oul
own bird of this name. One OF them was
brought home by the French army from
their eastern expedition. He is larger
bird than his European congener, his
notes are more brilliant and his repertory
is more extensive. But the most notice.
able feature is his wonderful promptness
and skill of mimicry, deserving indeed
in this respect the title of genuine
knocking bird, initiating most natural
sounds which he hears, the notes and
songs of other birds, the eawing of crows,
the Growing of cocks, braying of the don
key, even the barking of dogs. The
Chinese turn this faculty to account, and
train the lark to sing many airs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
CUTTING RELEASED.
Mexico Drops the Case Against the
Imprisoned Editor.

Mexico Drops the Case Against the
Imprisoned Editor.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas, says:
CAT II 80 o'clock this morning Cutting, the
American editor in custody across the river,
was taken once more before Judge Castena-
das, when the official minutes Of the Chi
huahua Supreme Court, which had ar
rived, were read to him. The document
recited the decree releasing him from
further custody. The decision of
the court is based entirely upon the
fact that Medina, the offended party, had
waived his right to civil suit for damages,
the court holding that this ended the proceed
ings of the State. When released by the
court Cutting replied: "As long as I am not
/ further detained as prisoner, accept my
liberty and I request that copy OF the de-
cree Of the Supreme Court be given me for
my future use"
This the court consented to do in Spanish.
Judge Castenadas sent copy Of the decree
to Mr.. Proviucio, the joe Politic, who sent
back word that he in person would give Cut
ting his liberty. accompanied with some
wholesome advice.
To reporter Cutting said: ~ can't un.
derstand what all this has to do with my
card in tho Ell Paso Herald, for which was
arrested, for four weeks Incarceration, and
was being tried at the time my Government
made demand for my immediate re-
leasan
It is said on the other side OF the river that
the Mexican Constitution, prohibiting the
residence Of agitators and other dangerous
characters in the Republic, will be enforced
against Cutting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Some time ago Acting Secretary Fair
child, of the Treasury Department, in
structed Mr.. Krites, Chief of the Divis-
ion of Abandoned Property, to carry into
effect the provisions of the act of Con-
gress authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to deliver to the rightful own
ers certain articles of jewelry, &C., cap
tured by the United States army in the
course of the civil war and deposited in
the Treasury Department. Mr.. Kr.tes
has prepared rules which will govern the
restoration of all such articles, and has
Just concluded an examination of the ar
ticles on deposit. They are contained in
two boxes, and consist Of silverware,
jewelry, portraits, watches, &C. One of
the boxes contained nearly five hundred
watches, gold, silver and brass. and a
number of jack-knives, pocket-books, let
ters, &C. These were mainly taken from
prisoners of war who died in hospitals
around Washington, Cape Lookout aud
Elmira, and were deposited in the Treas
ury by Gen. Ketcham. Some Of them,
however, belonged to Union soldiers
who died near the places designated.
The other box contained lot of ar
ticles captured by Gen. Sherman's
troops in Camden, S. c., in the early
part of 1865. They consist of family
plate, jewelry, etc., which had been de-
posted in bank at Camden by Mr..
McRae and other wealthy residents of
that region. When the Union army ap-
preached the town IN effort was made
to transfer the articles to a place OF
safety, but it did not succeed, as the
troops came upon the scene while the
transfer was being made. Many of the
principal articles belonging to Mr.. Nc
Rae were restored to him by special act
of Congress in 1882. An inventory has
been made. and it is thought the articles
can easily be identified by their owners.
They will be restored upon application
accompanied by satisfactory evidence
of ownership. The two boxes re-
ferred to contain all the property OF
the character described now in the
United States Treasury, except, possibly,
the presentation swords belonging to
General Twiggs and captured by Gen.
eral Butler in New Orleans. 1t is an un-
settled question as yet whether these
swords can be restor,d under the pro-
visions of the act referred to above. All
the other articles mentioned which have
not been restored by April next will be
advertised, and such as shall still remain
in the Treasury for one year from that
time will be sold by public auction.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Twenty-Five years ago there was prob,
ably not woman in Philadelphia worth
$500, 900, and even man millionaire
was a curiosity. Nowadays estates foot
ing 81, 900, 900 and more are being settled
up almost every week or two, and the
list of women who own millions is by NO
means insignificant. A gentleman pretty
thoroughly acquainted with the financial
standing of Philadelphians whose for
tunes are noticeably large, said: II think
that am pretty safe in saying that there
are not less than fifty women in the city
worth fortunes of s5Oo,Ooo, and I can
count my fingers full of women who are
worth 81, 600, O00."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

They even gossip about the Queen in
conservative England. Her dislike for
Gladstone is said by the 81. Stephens's
Gazette to date back to the passage of
the Irish church disestablishment bill in
1868. The Queen expressed to Glad,
stone ner aversion to the essential prin-
riple of the bill, and he replied: "But,
madame, you must sign" The Queen
flushed and rejoined with indignation
''Sir, do you know who am9" "Yes,
madame, the Queen of England. But
does your Majestry know who ama
am the people of England"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Everything is done on large scale on
the Pacific coast, according to the dwell
srs thereon. But the biggest load ot
sawlogs ever hauled over road in Wash
ington territory recently arrived at Seat
lie. There were eighteen logs, ranging
from twenty four to 120 feet in length
The longest ones are intended for yes
sells masts, and one has diameter Of
thirty-six inches, and another forty-eight
inches in the middle. The latter con-
tains $4,000 feet of lumber, and the total
measurement is about 100000 feet
Their gross weight is about $4,000
pounds, and they are to be shipped to the
Atlantic coast.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Atvalcartier, Canada, recently, blaz-
ing meteor, probably ten feet in circum-
ference, descended from the sky. After
touching the earth it assumed strange
appearance, creating terror to the mind
of the country people, many of them
conjuring up the worst fears and look
ing forward to the speedy dissolution OF
the universe. Just previous to this oc-
currence the sky lowered and the beasts
of the field sent up distressing cries,
bringing credulous persons readily to
their knees in a supplicating posture.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
MANDALAY INUNDATED.
Estimated Loss of 1000 Lives in
the Capital of Burmah.

Estimated Loss of 1000 Lives in
the Capital of Burmah.
One Of the emtaukmeuts of the Irrawaddy
River burst in Mandalay, Burmah, a few
days since The break was 500 yards in
length, and 80 rapid was the flow Of water
that in few moments the whole district
was flooded from four to twenty feet
deep. Engineers at once cut the
dam south of the city in order to allow the
water to subside. But the result of this
maneuvre is as yet unknown. The damage
done by the food amounts to over s., 600, OOO.
Fifty thousand persons were rendered home
less in the city, their houses and possessions
having been either submerged or destroyed
The flooded district had within its territory
many of the food supply stores, and all these
we're swept away. The reult will be an ap.
proach to famine among the homeless popu-
1ation. The river will not fall sufficie ntly to
permit any attempt at reconstruction Of the
broken embankment until November. The
British military operations are seriously in
terferei with by the overflow.
It is estimated that one thousand persons
lost their lives in tie food.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Frightful Disaster to q Passenger
Steamer on the River VolSa.

Frishtful Disaster to a Passenger
Steamer on the River Volga.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says thas
the passenger steamer Vera, plying on the
river Volga, In Russia, was burned near
Saratov, aud 200 lives were lost The steamer
belonged to the Samolet Company, and was
boand from Astrakhan up the river. The
fire was caused by the fall of hanging-lamP
in the saloon. The woodwork was ignited,
and all efforts to Quanch tie flames were un-
availing.
The Passengers, all Of whom were in BED Ia az
the time the fire broke olt, rushed 10 INC
deck as soon as the alarm was gwen, ano
many Of them, panic stricken, sprang over
board. The Captain ordered the vessel 70 %
run ashore. This was done, but while tne
bow became imbe lded in the bank the stern
remained in deep water, aud the passengers
were still obliged to swim ashore.
Many persons lost their lives oy pelng
struck by tables and chairs which were
thrown from the vess 4 to aid the struggling
swimmers in the water.
Owing to O failure to stop the engines the
water was chu ned up by the vessels
wheels, rem lering more difficult the task OF
the rescue-s who put out from shore to save
the drowning as'ensers-