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The Press., 1893-01-26
The Sum to Get Married On.

No man has right to get married on less than $1 ,5O0 year. At least that is the conclusion reached the other day at the close of 8 long discussion on this subject. Of course that means if the man is going to take for his bride 8 sweet and lovely young woman, who while being happily provided for at home has not been overindulged in ex- travagances, and who has the sense to know that she can hardly expect a box at the opera and lots of diamonds from the young man who has only so lately firmly established himself in business. And even if the girl is one of those who has known what it is to be out in the world at work for herself, she can hardly be expected to marry fellow who can not do as we'll for her as she did for her self. She has managed to get along beautifully by herself on fifty or sixty dollars 8 month, with plenty of nice, sen sible clothes, trip to the theater every now and then, and every summer, or maybe every other summer, a. nice little jaunt away somewhere, to forget the little unpleasantnesses of everyday office life. And the way this money was to go was very nicely settled too.
 The young man won't be likely to have home of his own to take his win some bride to, and there is the unfailing call of the landlord on the first of the ponth to be met, and that meeting means twenty dollars sure, and maybe more. Sixty dollars will disappear early in the action by the time the butcher and baker and candlestick makers and some other peoples monthly bills have been settled; $150 year is placing the estimate at very modest figures for the wearing apparel of each during the year, and when all this is added up $1 ,260 is cared for, and something must be put away for rainy days and doctors bills and occasional treats to the theater and the lake, and $1,5OO is gone! Still there are others who think they can get along first rate with good deal less than this.-Boston Herald.
The Press., 1893-01-26
w. CT. U. DEPARTMENT,

Little May, the granddaughter of Han nah Whitall Smith, when 8 child five years of age, expressed her disapproval of prayer, because she said she had pray ed that she might catch minnows in the pond; had taken her little silver mug and given them ample opportunity to go in, but they would not go. Upon this, her grandmother explained that we ought not only to pray, but that we ought also to work according to the lines of nature which are the laws of God, in the very best way that we know how; and that the way to catch minnows is to put a worm on & hook and then the little creatures will bite. The child's face frightened as she took in the plan a little, and said with emphasis: "Oh, I see, grandmoth. CT; worms is Heavenly Fathers way
 There is many time when we have felt that the way was as unattractive as the handling of worms in order to catch fish, but as many 8 bright and huge fish has been landed after that manner, so many an fri. descent success has been won by means as seemingly undesirable. We have to study to get into harmony with the laws of nature, and to be obedient to the laws of the Thinker who is behind all thoughts
The Press., 1893-01-26
A misplaoed switch at Alton .tunction,

A misplaced switch at Alton Junction, Illinois, last Saturday morning sent an express passenger train, running at the rate of fifty miles per hour, into collision with 8 standing freight train loaded with petroleum. Few were seriously injured ing in all direction ablaze. The engineer, Waldo Ross, lived to run from his engine through the blazing liquid, but fell and burned to death. A crowd of oplookers had collected, pressing close to the fire. wheE 8 second tank-car exploded. Fully 35, ,OOO gallons of boiling and burning oil were tossed into the air. For those with in the circle of 100 yards there was no es- cape. Their clothing was burned, and literally fell from their bodies. In a moment those who could began running hither- and thither, waving their hands and screaming for help. Some went to the nearest water and others ran into the fields. Panic reigned for 8 short time, until the uninjured recovered their pres ence of mind to care for the afflicted. Two barrels of linseed oil were taken from grocery store and applied to the wounds by several physicians, who hap, 1 pened to be on the ground. Every house in the little village was turned into tem- porary hospital, and every doctor in Alton and it's vicinity was summoned. Seven. teen persons were killed and fourteen fa- tally injured, beside many others seriously l burned or maimod.
The Press., 1893-01-26
Some Famous Ounces.

Literary history is crowded with in stances of torpid and uninteresting boy hood. Gibbon was pronounced "dread- fully dull,' and the utmost that was predicted of Hume in his youth was that Che might possibly become steady merchant" Adam Clarke, afterward so deeply skilled in oriental languages and antiquities, was pronounced by his father to be ''a grievous dunce," and ot Boileau, who became a model for Pope, it was said that he was youth of little understanding. Dryden was ''a great numskull," who went through course of education at Westminster, but the stimulating properties of Dr. Busby's classical ferrule were thrown away upon the drone who was to be known as Glorious John. '"-London Standard.
The Press., 1893-01-26

petition was so strong that passengers were carried free and given free dinner in the bargain.
 JUDGE LUoIUs QUINTUs CINoINNATUs LAMAR, of the United States supreme court, died suddenly on Monday at his home in Macon, Ga. Judge Lamar was prominent southern statesman before the war, and during the war was in the confederate army as colonel, also was sent on a mission to Europe in behalf ot the confederacy. He was a teacher and lawyer after the war closed, was elected to congress and to the U. s. senate from Mississippi, was made secretary of the interior and afterwards judge of the su- preme court by President Cleveland. He was 68 years of age.
 THE chief industry in Willimantic now is building city charters. That smart borough has never felt easy since Rock vile was made a city. The local press make no more mention of -four village' or "our borough" but carry the legend "city notes" over their local columns, and speak only of ''this city," And this city it will be as soon as charter can be got. Meanwhile every voter is busy in- cubating some form of charter. The young city has about 10000 people within it's proposed limits, supports two daily and two weekly papers, and is rich in le- gal and business talent. It will be suc- cess as a city, having an abundance oi live, enterprising citizens, and people who want to get away from the city can find railway trains at the depot headed in six different directions.
The Press., 1893-01-26
One of Grants Pictures.

The original picture of ''Sheridan'e Ride," painted by T. Buchanan Read
 now hangs in the private office of Presi
 dent Thomas l.. James, of the Lincoln bank. It is about five by four feet in di
 mansions, and is especially notable fol spirited figure of the horse upon which Sheridan is mounted. The picture is the property of Mrs. U. s. Grant, and was sent to the Lincoln storage ware. house pending some alterations in the Grant residence. It was purchased from the artist by 8 few western men and presented to General Grant soon after the close of the war.-New York Times,
The Press., 1893-01-26

PEOPLE who don't like the Columbian postage stamps needn't use them. The old kind are yet for sale. We like the old kind best, but wouldn't for the world throw cold water over the sentiment that sentiment, but it is mighty saving grace for this country
The Press., 1893-01-26
Tracheotomv Advocated.

Some of the most experienced practi- tioners express the opinion that the ex- pected fact that intubation would, on account of it's simplicity, take the place of the knife and add materially to the resources of the profession, has not been fulfilled. It is urged by those who take this ground that the operation necessi- tates degree of manual dexterity which the average physician, with his few op- portunities, is not able to acquire, and the objection made is that the patient is snb- jected to 8 certain amount of exhaustion which can be ill borne in one suffering from diphtheria. New York Tribune.
The Press., 1893-01-26

PHILLIPS BROOKS, the preacher of na- tional fame, whose name did not need the prefix of bishop to give it prominence, died suddenly at his home in Boston, on Monday last, after three days illness of pneumonia. He was great man, of broad views, and beloved by christians of all de- nominations. He was typical New Eng lander, descendant of the Puritan fath- CTS. The loss is a great one-men like Phillips Brooks are lilly spared.
The Press., 1893-01-26

A Southington man estimates that $400, 900 has been literally thrown away in the past few years by capitalists ir that town, by investments in wildcat min. ing and other western stocks which are worthless. Recently an attempt was made to raise few thousand doilars tc retain paying industry in that town and did not succeed. It is just such work as this which is ruining many Connecticut towns and proving truth of the old adage that "A fool and his money is soon part edi"
The Press., 1893-01-26

United States senators elected last week: New York, Edmund Murphy, Jr., {dem. ) i; California, Stephen M. White, (dem.) j; Missouri, Senator Cockerell, (dem.), re- elected; Minnesota, Senator Davis, (rep. ) reelected; Michigan, Senator Stock bridge, (rep.), reelected; Indiana, David Turpie, {dem.), reelected; Tennessee, Senator Bate, (dem.), reelected; Penn sylvania, Senator Quay, (rep. ), reelected; !; Maine, Eugene Hale, (rep.), reelected; ]; Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge, ,(rep.); Connecticut, Joseph R. H8wley, (rep.); reelected.
The Press., 1893-01-26
The Influence of Politicians.

When one, not being 8 professional politician, looks at the question widely and considers the penalties of political greatness, one begins to wonder whether politics have that influence on the real life of nation which they are supposed to have, and whether eminent politicians are not merely the puppets of the hour. But that is question on which the fates forbid that we should enter! Probably in no case are the penalties of greatness so irksome as in the case of the eminent politician. the Year Round.
The Press., 1893-01-26

Governor Hogg is likely to represent Texas in the United States senate before great while, if the wind is blowing the political straws in the right direction. He will take to the national capital an inter. esting family, a wife and three children. The governor is a humorist, and so fond of joke that he has attempted to per. petrate three in his household. His eldest daughter he calls Ina, a sweet enough name until one hears the young lady her. self say it-Ima Hogg. The second daugh. ter is Ura Hogg, while the boy is Moore Hogg. The governor is going the whole Hogg or none.
The Press., 1893-01-26

At a meeting of the Connecticut grand lodge of Masons held in New Haven last week Editor B. W. Naples of the Nor walk Hour, was expelled because of un- masonic conduct in causing certain arti. cles attacking the grand master and the grand lodge to be published in his paper The vote by which Mir. Naples was sus. pended stood 122 to 24. This action throws Naples altogether out of Masonry He dearly loves fight, and probably there is more to follow. But his assaults upon the fraternity will do less harm ii made from the outside.
The Press., 1893-01-26

THE hearing relative to the contested seat in the state senate (24th dist.) will open in the supreme court room at the capitol next Monday, at il a. m.
The Press., 1893-01-26

A ghost of ante-bei1um days rises to confront the cabinet aspirations of John Randolph Tucker. As attorney general of Virginia he once ruled that postmasters could not deliver certain northern news papers to their Virginia subscribers.
The Press., 1893-01-26

THIS Paper and The Connecticut Courant weekly) furnished for s2.2O per year.
The Press., 1893-01-26

At the outbreak of the war there were five ex-presidents alive and the same num- Der of ex-vice- presidents. No man who has ever held the office of vice-president is now alive, with the exception of the present incumbent. and to-day Grover Cleveland is the only living ex-president.
The Press., 1893-01-26

MCLAUGHLIN & SON, PUBLISHERS. $1 50 year. If paid strictly in advance, 1.e5.
The Press., 1893-01-26

IN the progress of the senatorial elec- tion contest, it came out that Vim. F. Carroll, representative from Wilmington, who has been voting for twenty five years, was only naturalized in November last. He has been under the impression, no doubt sincerely, that he had acquired cit izenship by army service. He is repub- hcan and probably voted for Senator Keeney, so that his ballot is one of the many on both sides that will be called in question.
The Press., 1893-01-26

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 Hu1g1- xf A STRONG SUIT.
  
 A wrinkle in suits and a suit in wrinkles are two different things. Look out for one but keep clear of the other. You know how quickly some suits will wrinkle. They look first rate for week or two and then the creases begin to appear. Ofcourse I they were never starched, but they soon look as though they had been and as though all the starch had been taken out of them. That's one side of the picture. Here's the other: In lone of our first class made suits, s'either medium or high priced" you could go through trapeze perform t15
 ance, providing you happen to be an athlete, without creating crease or starting a seam, and they cost you no more than cheap made goods.
 Don't forget that we can give you a good bargain in Mems, Youths or Boys Overcoats, and at prices that are as low as the lowest. We have a full line of Gents Furnishings, Hats and Caps to be sold at popular prices
The Press., 1893-01-26

MAYoR-ELECT SANFORD of Long Island City, having got partial backing by the courts, and being undoubtedly elected to the office, has been acknowledged as may or by the police department and has taken possession of the city hall, ejecting ''Pat' town as his by right of ownership. The fire department yet acknowledges Gleason as mayor, and other departments are di- vided or undecided. Gleason will contest to the end.
 THE action of the house at Hartford yesterday in rejecting the nomination by Gov. Morris of Prof. Baldwin to be a judge of the supreme court, was not a wise one. Gum, of New Milford, the democratic leader, bitterly opposed MT. Baldwin, calling him in politics "a repub- lican on a vacation" and assailing his ability. Both republicans and democrats hxeted in opposition to the confirmation, gote standing 97 to 12O, and, on a vote hsider, S2 to 12s
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The Press., 1893-01-26

UTANTEp-Fhre Winders. Apply w to WILLlMANTIC LINEN CO,
 l8d6W Wiliimantfc, Conn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05

thereby, but the old soldiers know
their friends and will stay by them.
These same Democrats also point
with pride to the record made by
the last Democratic Board of County
Commissioners! If this last and
lamented board of commissioners
(who were renominated two years
ago) did so much for the people
isn't it rather strange they should
have been defeated at that election?
Taken as a whole the resolutions
are lot of jumbled nonsense and
it is surprising thing they should
have been adopted by the conven-
ton, for in it there We're many gen.
tlemeu of good judgment and who
knew the things therein contained
was nonsense and that the party of
which they are members cannot be
true to any platform.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
The War on Wool.

In letter to an Ohio man, pub
lished in another column, Mr..
Theodore Justice shows very clearly
what the threat of free wool has to
do with the present price of wool.
His letter is as interesting as it is
instructive.
He makes very strong point
when he refers to the fact that last
year Australia boiled down for their
tallow more than four million sheep
"because they had no value for any
other purpose" Whatever they
may be in free trade in wool Aus
tralia has it to the full.
1t is the Democratic program tc
bring the wool-growers of the
United States into a fiat COMPETE
ton with the cheapest wool in the
world. This is why the manufac-
turer holds back and the wool
grower is discouraged. This is why
the wool market is as tits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
Obituary..

At his home, on the morning of
Sept. 18th, passed away Bowie
johnson, aged fifty years.
These few words conveys but a
faint idea of the shock to our COM
munity as the words passed from
individual to individual as they
met upon our streets. "Bowie
johnson is dead"- stricken down
without a warning, walking our
streets the evening before in his
usual good health, a flmiliar figure
for years, resident Of our county
for twentythree years, and well
known to all our people, it is not
strange that this event produced the
impression that it did.
Mr.. Johnson came to Garrett
county in 1870, and has resided
here since. He married a daughter
of Ralph Thayer, one of our oldest
residents, and leaves a widow and
two children. He was the third
son Of that eminent lawyer, Reverdy
johnson, of Baltimore.
This short sketch tells us who he
was, from whence he came and how
long he had been with us, but it
says nothing of the estimation IN
which he was held. The large at
tendance at his funeral on the
evening of Sunday, Oct. LIST, per-
haps best attests the personal
regard of his fellow townsmen.
Engaged in no business occupation,
naturally averse to political turmoil,
Mr.. johnson was a gentleman en-
Joylng the quiet of private life. The
portals of his heart ever opened at
the call of charity, and the sorrow
ing found in him a kindly sympa-
thizer.
A devoted member of the Episco-
pal church. he had filled place in
the vestry of st. Matthew's parish
for twenty years. In everv relation
OF life. he was true to the prompt
lngs of a noble and unselfish nature.
We Will not attempt to enter the
sacred precincts of his home and
draw picture of the vacant chair:
we will only add, few homes could
lose one, and miss that one more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
Van Allen a StaYer

Mr.. j. j. Van Allen is entitled to
a certain Sort of admiration and a
good deal of it. With his own good
hard cash he bought the Italian
mission from the Democratic party.
The only contingency about it was
the ability of the Democratic party
to deliver the goods.
BY strange freak of the popu-
lar fancy the Democratic party had
that mission at ITS disposal along
with same other plumber. The
obligation had been matured; Mr..
Van Allen had paid for the job at
the time when the Democratic party
would have sold the chance for even
less money; and the Democratic
party, operating through President
Cleveland, chief of its beneficiaries,
kept its word.
Mr.. Van Allen got the nomination
according to agreement. He re-
fuses to be bought off by the return
of his money. If the Democratic
party is IN scrape, that doesn't
bother him. Money is no object to
Mr.. Van Allen. He yearns for
fame and a social position near the
august person of king. So he
will stick and leave the Democratic
party stuck in the mud.
This is the way Mr.. Van Allen is
to be admired. His staying quail
ties are distinctly great.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05

THE Vice-President and the
President are said to be at logger
heads, and all on account of the
question of little patronage.
Tammany Hall is mixed up in it,
and the Tiger amuses his friends at
the grand pow-wows by relating
how it all came about. The Presi-
dent has lost his love for Adlai be-
cause he believes he is training with
elements opposed to himself. The
Vice President wants the tariff de-
molished, but Grover doesn't want
it touched, at least not this session.
And so the quarrel-which is a
very pretty one as it stands.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
Southern Editors.

Governor McCorkle of West
Virginia is catching particular fits
from the Democratic press of his
State and the South generally.
The hide bound editors who are at
lacking HIM on the ground of sell
hshness in his desire to protect any
special industries of his State, for
get that they themselves are enjoy
ing the fruits of Protection in using
protected paper, protected ink, pro-
tected type and protected presses,
all of which they have been able to
buy under Protection, cheaper than
they could in the old free-trade
times. Why should not the coal
miners of West Virginia be pro-
tected equally with the free-trade
editors. The trouble is that these
same editors imagine that they re-
feet the opinions of the people and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
CreIlin.

We breathe with ease again. The
professional talking machine left
on Thursday last for Terra Alta.
We mean Prof. Nc.
The Preston Lumber and Coal
Co. shipped seventy-three car loads
OF lumber during the month of
September.
MISS Allie Wotring, of Brookside,
W. Va, is circulating among
friends here.
Mrs. Lloyd Connewav, of Mark
leysburg, Pa, was Crellin visitor
Tues day. Il
Rev. Faulkner, of aurora,
preached in the school room on
Sunday last at 8 p. m.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Pfogresss
Band showed and iectured in the
school room on Wednesday hight of
last week. The band consisted of
four persons and Il magic lantern.
The views displayed on thd canvas
were the Pilgrims Progrq IS" and
the "lAfe of Christ" The scenes
were magnificent, but thd lecture
was out of sight. The professor.
IN the beginning of his lecture,
talked to our people as Though he
were addressing heathens Ind not
civilized beings. He also poured
the Shot into the Juniors fbr hold
a ball and picnic for the bdneft of
the order. He asserted thht that
was the first time be ever knew the
Jr. 0. L. A NJ. to hold a bali. It
Is SAD indeed that man of the
Professors abllity,should be so far
behind the times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05

ignore the strong sentiment in favor
of Protection that is growing in all
the Southern States. The mean
selfshness of the Southern editors,
themselves enjoying the fruits of
Protection, IN trying to prohibit
their neighbors from receiving SIM
liar benefits, is a gra o-all kind of
sentiment that fortunately only ex
lists among certain set of the
Southern section of the press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
Half Rate Excursions to the Worlds
Fair.

air.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
raod Co. will run a series of special
excursions to the Worlds FAIR for
which excursion tickets to Chicago
will be sold at rate of one fare for
the round trip from Baltimore and
all stations west OF there as far as
the Ohio River. The dates selected
are October 10th. II. and gath.
The special trains will consist of
first-class day coaches, equipped
with lavatories and other toilet con-
veniences, and an experienced Tour
list Agent and train porter will ac-
company each train, to look after
the comfort of passengers. Stops
for meals will be made at meal sta
tons Ell route. The tickets will be
valid for the outward journey on
the special trains only, excepting
that from way points they will be
honored on local trains to the near
est station at which the special
trains are scheduled to stop. They
will be valid for return journey IN
day coaches on all trains leaving
Chicago within ten days, including
date of sale.
Following is schedule of the spec
ial trains and rates from principal
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