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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Bad Roads Cost a Human Life.

81 am thoroughly convinced.
said the village doctor, THAT Far
mer Peterson's life could have been
saved il the roads between here and
Burton's Corners had been as good
as they might have been. The dis
lance Is ten miles. 1t took young
Peterson half an hour longer than
it should have taken him to get
here, and me half an hour longer
to drive there, and the hour made
exactly the difference between life
and DEATH
There is no reason to believe
that this case was an isolated one.
Time means not only money, but
often human life as well. Country
doctors are in a great degree de-
pendent upon the condition of the
roads.
1t sometimes happens that the
state of the roads is such that the
physician cannot reach some sick
bed at all, and this not as the result
Of a great natural calamity, such
as a food or great snowfall, but
because the people whose business
it is to build and repair the roads
have not built them in such a way
that they will remain fairly passa-
bic in continued wet weather.
There are matters beside mere
convenience bound up in the ques-
ton Of good roads. A general i'm
provement in them would not only
add greatly to the wealth of the
people, but would make their lives
easier and sometimes no doubt
longer.-Youth Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Sixty New Locomotives,

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company has placed orders with
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of
Philadelphia, for sixty first-class
locomotives, and will contract for
forty more with other large con-
Germs. None, however, will be
built in Baltimore, as the company
can suit itself better elsewhere.
The new equipment will COM
prise two classes of heavy, high
speed passenger engines, and two
classes of switch engines, and all
will be built upon plans furnished
by Mr.. G. B. Hazlehurst. general
superintendent of motive power of
the B. & o., and which have been
adopted by the management as the
standard. An engine which was
recent built after these plans by
the Baldwin Works, and which will
serve as the type of the new passen-
ger locomotives. has developed won
derful speed, having been run for
ten miles, with train of six cars,
at the rate of ninety-two miles an
hour.
A general officer of the Baltimore
and Ohio in speaking yesterday of
the great speed with which the new
engines are expected to draw trains.
said: There is a disposition all
over the country to increased the
speed of railway travel until it can
be made at the rate of one hundred
miles an hour with perfect safety.
The New York Central has an en-
glne with record of ninety-six
miles an hour for ten miles, and
the Baltimore and Ohio does not
propose to get left.
The freight engines have been
designed to meet the requirements
OF general fast freight service.
They will be powerful pullers, and,
at the same::time making fifty miles
an hour without injury to them
selves. They will be used to draw
passenger trains whenever the pas
senger movement is so heavy as to
make their service necessary or de-
sirable.
The new engines are to be deliv-
cred by March or April, and will
be distributed among the various
divisions of the Baltimore and Ohio
system. This represents an outlay
OF nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars .-American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Physical Exercise for BraIn-Workers.


Frequently we read of some
splendid professional or business
man dropping out of life through
nervous prostration. Indeed, the
number who succumb to this grow
ing malady has increased alarm
ingly of late, and the death rate of
those who commit suicide is also
on the increase. Eminent medical
men agree that this is chiefly owing
to overworking the brain and neg
lect of bodily exercise: hence irrita-
billty and sleeplessness through the
inability to stop thinking at night.
Finally if no remedy is sought, the
faculty of the Imagination breaks
away from the will. Mind activity
pushed too far impairs the general
health and endangers the brain,
which. when overworked, is unable
to recuperate by nutrition; then, if
the nervous forces continue to be
pushed, the body breaks down and
the symptoms of nervous prostra-
ton appear, and many 50 afflicted
die of exhaustion, Bright's disease,
&C., who would live to old age if
physical strength were not squan-
dered and vital forces wasted. The
best preventive against the grow
ing malady of nervous prostration
is judicious habitual physical exer-
else. Constant and regular exer-
else is necessary for all brain-work-
ers-the middle-aged as we'll as the
young. Gladstone, the famous
English statesman on whom the
hopes of nation depend, Is alive
to the value of physical training.
BY earnest physical exercise he has
built up strong and healthy body
and keeps it in condition to resist
disease. Exercise aids digestion.
improves physique, clears the mind
and gives grace and assurance.
The fundamental functions of the
body are the functions of the heart
and lungs, and as the welfare of the
body depends largely upon those
functions it is well to use means to
develop and strengthen them,
which can be done by proper physi-
cal exercise; by SO doing better
oxygenated blood is carried to the
muscles and conditions created
which develop the nervous system.
One hour of earnest daily exercise
is necessary for the brain-work, for
a lack of muscular activity entails a
reduced activity of the heart, which
frequently proves fatal.-Christain
Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
A Celebration Turned Into Mourning.

A Celebration Turned Into Mourning.
Richie CoURT-HoUsE. W. VA.
Nov. 20.-The Democrats of
Richie county gathered at this
place last night to celebrate the
Democratic victory. A salute was
to be fired, and a number of can
mons had been formed from old
drills. One of these was heavily
charged and fired several times.
AS it was being reloaded it ex-
ploded. Fragments we're thrown
in every direction. The body of
Frank Miner, a prominent oil man,
was literally cut in pieces. Chas.
James was terribly injured, and
died in few minutes, while a col
ored boy was badly hurt, and will
probably die. Miners body was
picked up in fragments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
BIackguards, Every One.

Patriotic O. Indiana Democrats
belonging to the Knights of the
Golden Circle have blackguardly
and cowardly manner of showing
their elation at Democratic success.
Their sneaking black hearted van
dalisism in the desecration of the
graves of the heroic dead in that
State, will cast a stigma upon that
order forever. Too pusillanimous
to face a soldier living they empha-
size their cowardice by Decorating
he grave that covered him dead.
The headstoncs and monuments
that marked the heroic soldiers
last resting places were daubed and
disfgured in many Of the counties
IN that State on the night of the
Democratic jollification that was
gifld last week. What punishment
should be meted out to that Sound
erly crew when caught, as caught
they will surely be, would puzzle
the refined methods of the Spanish
lnquisition. Threats of hanging
are freely uttered and there is not
the slightest doubt that these will
DE carried into effect. Not satisfied
with venting their venomous spleen
on a harmless piece of granite they
went further and made themselves
double amenable TO the law, by in
sulting the United States flags
that were over the graves. This
from legal standpoint is the more
serious matter of the two, and ere
long we will be reading accounts
of the trial for treason of these
dastards. -Cumb. News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
A VOTE FOR EXPERIMENTS.
Murat Halstead's Vigorous Sizing Up
of the Situation.

Murat Halstead's Vigorous Sizing Up
of the Situation.
Brooklyn st ndard-Union.
Was not the Harrison admins
tration excellent? Yes.
Is not the country prospecting?
Yes.
AND THEY VOTE FOR EX-
PERIMFNTSl Shall sixty five
millions of people vote to expert
ment with their bread and butter?
That is precisely what the vote for
Cleveland means. We proved that
he had nothing to offer the people.
We proved that the Democratic
party had no principles.
We proved that the Democratic
party is incapable of business.
We showed that Mr.. Cleveland has
fled from his own doctrines.
The defeat of Harrison was IN
the section ruled by the race ques-
tions, held and INDUCED contrary
to the spirit and letter of the con-
stitution, and where is resentment
toward the nationality that quar-
ter of a century ago was triumphant
in arms; in the grea' northern
cities, New York, Brooklyn and
Chicago, and on the wheat plains
and silver mine mountains. What
have these people in common. Sim
ply dissatisfaction. What does
Cleveland and the Democratic party
propose to satisfy them? Nothing.
and therefore, everything. We
proved that the Mckinley policy of
protection was transferring indus
tries from Europe to our own shores.
We proved the country was rap
idly growing rich.
We showed that Cleveland was
not the friend of the old soldiers.
The administration will be a
record of folly and failure. i'm
mense presumption and insignifi-
cant performance. The impracti-
cables will demand of them the i'm
possible. The people who are in
telligent, and believe in the nation,
and who know business, and appre-
bend the tendencies of the times,
will remain; and with the white
light of truth still to shine over all,
and the soil of America under our
feet-vexing the skies with no cry
of calamity, but pushing unfalter-
ingly right on, We shall emerge from
the experiments that will demon
strate the error of the day. and the
nation will be redeemed from the
false position into which it has
fallen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
DEMOCRATS FIGHTING MccoMAs.
The Friends Of Vice-President-El
stevenson Making a USE
less Fight

less Fi&nIs
The friends of Vice-Presldent-
elect Stevenson are determined to
throw every obstacle in the way of
Justice McComas' confirmation by
the Senate, says the Baltimore
american, in revenge for the man.
ner in which the Republicans treated
Mr.. Stevenson. 1t will be remem-
bered that after his defeat for re-
election, Mr.. Clevelend nominated
Mr.. Stevenson, then First Assistant
Postmaster General, to succeed
Justice Arthur Macarthur on the
District Supreme Bench. Mr..
Stevenson was not confirmed.
The action of Senator Edmunds,
then at the head of the Judiciary
Committee, in reporting adversely
on the nomination is recalled in
this connection by the Democrats.
Mr.. Edmunds held that Mr.. Cleve-
land, having been defeated by the
people, had no right to make life
appointments upon the verge of re-
tirement to private life. This posi-
ton was not announced by Mr..
Edmunds until very few days be-
fore the 4th Of March. The nomi-
nation of Mr.. McComas was made
more than three months before the
time when President Harrison will
retire, and the nomination was
made to fill a vacancy, which has
practically existed for months.
1t must also be remembered that
the present chairman of the Sem
ate Committee on Judiciary-Mr.
Hoar-is a warm friend of Mr.. Nc
Comas, and will see to it that the
nomination is promptly reported
back to the Senate with a very
strong recommendation. While the
Democrats may be able to resist
final action on Mr.. McComas' case
for weeks, it will be almost impos-
sible for them to prevent confirma-
ton, unless they can make some
"deal' which will take to them
at least five Republican Senators,
as there can be none but partisan
objections raised to the nomination.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Fifty-Thtrd Congress-.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-A COM
plete list of Representatives in Con-
gress elected last week made up
from the returns received by the
democratic national committee and
compared with those received bv the
clerk of the House agrees substan-
tally with the estimate sent ont by
Associated Press. 1t shows that
the democrats have elected 222
members, the Republicans l25 and
the Populists z, giving the Demo
Gratis a majority of 80. If the
Democrats carry the election for
Congressman in Rhode Island they
will have a majority over all oppo-
sition.
True. the Democratic candidate
IN Idaho, who was defeated by Will
lis Sweet, has filed his notice of
contest, and so has John j. O'Neil,
Democrat, in the eleventh Missouri
district, who claims that illegal
votes were cast for Mr.. Chas. JOY.
the Republican, to whom the GER
ufcate was issued. Although no
notice has yet been fled, it is un.
derstood that Donald McNaughton,
Democrat, in the thirty-first New
York district, will contest the seat
Of John Van Voorhis, and that j.
Maurice Pinn will contest the seat
Of Samuel NJ. Stevenson, Republi.
can, a member of the present
House. The seventh South Caro-
lima district, known % the Black
district, also promises its regular
contest.
The third party or populist vote
vii not be strong in the Fifty-third
Congress. They are given vot.
ing strength of seven, but this will
not be manifested on all occasions.
Hence, the populist elected from
he first district Of Colorado, is a
republican, and so is Francis New.
lands, of Nevada, and generally
they NAV be counted upon as act.
ing with the members of that party.
McKeighan and Ken, of Nebraska,
are third party men in the present
House, and were elected to the
Fifty-third Congress on a fusion
ticket They viii 90 into I ne Dem
ocratic caucus and act with that
party. Davis, Baker and Simpson,
Of Kansas. will, as q rule, be found
n the Democratic column of votes
on all propositions which are di.
vorced from their peculiar notions
u finances.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Mr.. Foster Never Made the Remark

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Secre-
tary Charles Foster desires to have
it understood that he has never
made the remark attributed to him
by correspondent that "there will
be a deficiency of revenues this
year and probably larger one next
year" The Secretary says he has
cautiously avoided discussion of
this question and that he does not
at all like being put in the attitude
of predicting what may or may not
be the result of future legislation
by a Democratic Congress, but he
is willing to put on record as say
ing there will be no deficiency this
fiscal year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Some Political Gossip.
T. Jay in Cumb. News.

As heretofore suggested in this
correspondence there is likely to be
tremendous scr amble for office
under the Cleveland administration
when it shall come into power.
Some who are willing to give Uncle
Samuel the benefit of their time
and experience are already IN the
field. They seem to act upon the
idea. "if you want anything ask
for it," 1t is said an enterprs sing
citizen has petition with about
sixty signers who are anxious to have
the said enterprising citizen APP
pointed postmaster at Oakland.
There are four offices here to be
filled and of course there are not
enough to go around.
The first and most desirable is
the Oakland post Office. In con-
nection with this appointment ]
have heard mentioned the names
of A. J. Harne, +. |. West, Will
liam Hinebaugh, James ID. Hamill,
Godfrey Felty, d. NJ. Mason and
Owen Hart. Whether all these
gentlemen will make a fight for
the place | cannot say, but some of
them certainly will do SO. A great
many people here think James ID.
Hamill has the call for this place if
he is really an applicant for it. lie
was the deputy postmaster under
the last Cleveland administration
and is familiar with the business.
Postmaster Thayer's commission
will not expire until January, 1894,
but whether he will be allowed to
serve his term out is conumdrum.
The Deputy Internal Revenue
Collectorship, now held by Mr. f.
ii. Sincell, will be anxiously sought
for by a number of good party men.
have heard E. II. Bartlett and
John b. Fay mentioned in this
connection. 1t is said by some
that no Garrett county man can ex-
pect to get this place as the bulk of
the business lie in Allegany county
and that a number Of applicants
there who are personal friends Of
Gen. McKaig want the position.
Mr.. Sincell says he is ready TO step
down and out at any moment.
Capt. James A Hayden, formerly
editor ofthe Oakland REPUBLICAN,
holds the position of Statistical
agent of the Agricultural Depart
ment for the State of Maryland.
This is a nice place. 0fcourse the
salary is not quite so large as that
of the postmaster, but then there is
nothing to do. This fact does not
make the Office less desirable in the
eyes Of most people. 1t is thought
that Mr.. G. II. Pritchard would
not object if the states political
plum would fall in his hat.
Nr. George +. Ault is United
States gauger at Miller's distillery
near Accident, this county, and re-
port says a majority of the Demo
Gratis in Accident district wants his
place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
THURSDAY. NOV. "a 1892.
To OUR SUBSCRIBERS: MAY Won
ail enjoy your Thanksgiving turkey.

In oRDER to observe Thanksgiv-
ing day our paper is issued one day
earlier than usual this week, and
such being the case considerable
news matter is left out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24
Obituary..

Claude Jones, infant son of ".
Z. and c. B. Jones. of Deer Park
departed this life October Is, 1892
OF typhoid fever, aged four years.
eight months and sixteen DAYS.
His father is very prominent bust
ness man of our town.
Little Claude's sickness was of
short duration and he was soon
called to join the happy angels
above. He sleeps well because he
sleeps in Jesus.
It's hard to break the tender corI
When love has bound the heart.
lis hard, 80 hard to speak the words
Must We forever part.
Dearest loved one. we have laid thee
In the peaceful graves embrace.
But thy memory will be cherished
TIL We see thy heavenly face,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24

Cancers and tumors; no cure no
pay; no eating out, no knife
Located at Nicholas Merrill's, one
mile north of Oakland, Nd.
Yours truly,
L. c. MERRILL.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-24

Rpans Tabales cure isznAies.
RipAns Tabales cure hiyoA
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14

New ENGLAND is gaining rather
unenviable notoriety in criminal af-
fairs. During the last few years she
has had a large number of highly
sensational murders, while minor
cases, where human life was taken,
are very large. The murder of Hiram
Sawtelle by his brother, Isaac, was a
most atrocious crime and gave food
to the public mind until it was over
Swallowed by the assassination of Miss
Christie Warden by the all-arOund
scoundrel, Frank Almy. The crime
for which DR.. Graves. of Providence,
r. l., awaits the extreme penalty of
the law, has hardly a precedent. He
killed his victim in the Rocky Noun
tains while himself in Boston. Then
came the attempted killing of Rus.
sell Sage in New York, by Norcross,
New England man, and now the
entire East is astounded by the
butchery of Andrew J. Borden and
his wife in Fall River, Mass.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14

A TORONTO lawyer, said to be one
Of the rebels of 1897, seems to think
the United States are still in their
swaddling clothes. He is so wrathy
over the Presidents retaliatroy meas
ure that he wants the Canadian mil
tia thoroughly organized and equip
ped to repel the threatened invasion
of American paid desperadoes.
After frantically recalling the action
Of the brave Canadians who sprang
to arms in 1872, he closes his absurd
ebullition by shouting that "Britons
and Canadians cannot be slaves" No.
but some of them can be heap DAM
phools," it appears.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14

have their photographs taken as .
means of Identification, their atten-
tion should be kindly called to late
wrinkle of the Worlds Fair manage
ment at Chicago. Newspaper men
who desire to be present at the dedi-
cation Of that institution are to be
requested to furnish the management
with two Of their photographs, one to
be pasted on the ticket and the other
to be kept in gallery for purposes OF
comparison. In view Of this rather
remarkable requirement the Celestial
seems TO have only about half the
basis for a kick that the journalist
eniovS
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14
THAT Kentucky mob which tc

THAT Kentucky mob which took
Logan Murphy, 17-year-old parri-
eide, and hung him because of his
atrocious crimes, introduced unique
feature into their lynching proceed
ure. 1t would have been scarcely
possible to give him the benefit of
clergy, for gentlemen of the cloth are
averse to participating in such at
fairs, but those who officiated at
young Murphy's demise were not en-
tirely lost to the solemn suggestions
Of the occasion. He was given op-
portunity to pray, but frankly con-
fessed an inability to avail himself Of
the favor. In this emergency a man
in the mob knelt down to ask mercy
upon the soul that they were about
to launch into eternity. In terse,
strong language he told what griev-
Gus sinner Murphy had been and how
the law of the land had failed to pun
ish him. He had killed two persons,
one his own father. and a third one
Of his victims lay at deaths door.
He had been horse thief and a gen.
orally wicked boy. unfit to live and
certainly unfit to die. The petition
er evidently had regard for the old
Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a
tooth for tooth. The boy had muir
dered two Of his fellow-men and the
fitting punishment was death. The
laws delay had aggravated the CON-
munity until men who would pray
and listen to prayer at his lynching
hung young Logan until he was dead.
They had just cause to protest and
condemn the slowness of the law, but
they can find no justification for the
extremes to which they were led.
The men who hung Murphy can only
be classified as murderers. They
acted without sanction of law and
can find no apology in morals. The
stringent enforcement of the law
against lynchers is one Of the crying
demands Of the day.