The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-07
LIKE a BANoUErHALLpEsERrEp

LIKE A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
fs the Great 0lades Hotel at Oak
land Now.
The Diversity Of People to be Seen
There During the Season.
Morgantown Dominion.
OAKLAND. Md, Oct. 2l.-"The
harvest IL passed, the summer 10
ended" and this resort has returned
10 almost its usual state of autumnal
lethargy. except for Il few who re.
main to enjoy the glorious feast of
color to be seen In this region after
the early frOsts when banners of
crimson and gold and russet brown
are flung to every breeze, from every
hillside and hollow.
The elderly blonde whose husband
10 s'oRer the seas and Ear away'' still
remains to fiirt with the priestly
looking bachelor. Riding. driving,
walking. talking morning, noon or
night, they are the first to come "and
they the longest tarry."
There has been more than the usual
quota Of gossip Snd sensation. There
was the man who BACKED his wife's
optical organs, and the nice young
man who got too large cargo of cold
tea on board and tried to get into the
wrong room by mistake. Perhaps!
aud there has been the Jealous wife
who made things lively for several
persons. There was the giddy young
girl who "did those things which she
ought not have done and left undone
those things which she ought to have
done" and kept her chaperon in a
state of mind which made her ready
to declare. "There is no health in u.s."
There was the crank, and the luna.
tic, aud the opium eater with her
startling hallucinations and the silly
son Of wealthy sire who welded the
girl Of low degree while here regain.
ing his health, and when all else
failed there was the numerous and
inevitable couple eloping from West
Virginia on matritn0ny intent. Oak.
land has become the Gretna Green
for all such, and few days pass upon
which there is not marriage of that
kind sometimes as many az three in
one evening at this hotel.
Some of them seem blessed with
"thrifty minds" like John Gilpin's
wife and save hotel bills by disre.
gar,iIng the proprieties when they
arrive too late to have the knot tied
the same evening. How very
kuotty?
rrettiest bride was from Clarks.
burg, an ,rtless. childlike little thing
of scarce 16.
The charming wife of an Episcopal
clergyman here took her under her
wing for the time being and every.
thing was done up CONNIE IL .faut in
that ease.
There are now and then new ar
rivals from the city of men, who
come to flush the pheasant and the
quail anu track the timid deer.
Pheasant are quite plenty but deer
are as scarce as the Ornithorynchus.
Shades uf Noah Webster! Do ask
Prof. White if I have spelled that
-cuss word right.
A few days since walked up to
the cemetery which lies on the sunny
slope of hill above the town and
paused beside all that remains to
earth of that brave and noble soldier.
General George Crook.
''He has fought his last fight,
He sleeps his iast sleep,
No sound shall awake him to glory again."
His widow who resides here has
consented to have his remains inter.
red In Arlington and q son of Ruth.
ford B. Hayes and other delegates
from the G. A. r. will arrive in the
near future to superintend the re.
mOyal.
If Mrs. Grant would sink her own
wishes of the nation as Mrs. Crook
has done, she would be more highly
regarded.
The Generals remains still lie In
the little brick oven on a barren hill
top at Riverside park. which has
nothing of park except the name
and to reach which a disagreeable
trip through the most squalid pur.
lieus of Harlem Is necessary.
There is war in the Episcopal wig.
wan here. the vestry being at outs
with their rector. The bishop sides
with the rector. but the law of this
State sustains the vestry and makes
them a self perpetuating body after
once having been chosen by the par.
ish. and vests in them all control
over the property of the parish with
power to call or to suspend their