The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-03

has challenged some of his towns
folk to a fistlcuff and invites them
to editorial headquarters to receive
the chastisement. When they ar.
rive, Brother Livengood, just shy
the paste pot at them and they will
leave.
How handy the new word tyro-
toxicon is when ones busted? You
can ask lady if she'll partake of
tyrotoxicon, and she will promptly
refuse. After she looks at her die
tionary aud finds she has refused a
cream she goes and bangs her hair
for spite.
Mr.. George W. Moose has been
appointed ticket agent and tele-
graph operator at Oakland by the
B. & O. Company. This arrange
ment on the part of the company
is accepted by the people here as an
assurance that the office will be
kept open all the year round.
The sale of the bonds Of the town
of Piedmont, West Virginia, will
take place on the 18th of August.
The amount to be sold is $36, 400,
and bear interest at 5 per cent. /,
PAYABLE in not less than ten years
nor more than thirty-four years at
the option of the corporate author
itles.
Foi a lame back or a pain in the
side or chest, try saturating a piece
of flannel with Cham berlain's Pain
Balm and binding it onto the af-
fected parts. This treatment will
cure any ordinary case in one or
two DAYS. Pain Balm also cures
rheumatism. so cent bottles for
sale by druggists.
A successful robbery was COM
mitted in Oakland Monday night.
This time the thieves gained access
to the residence of Constable Steph-
ems, in the eastern part of town, and
secured about $12 in cash and some
eatables. No trace has been found
and there is no clue to the lden-
tity Of the scoundrels.
1t is reported that the insurance
companies propose to rebuild Col.
n. W. Fitzgerald's hotel at Terra
Alta, which was recently burned.
There was 81, 800 insurance on the
building and the companies say
they can rebuild the structure for
much less money. The cause OF
the fire is still a mystery. King
wood Journal.
Rumor has it that some Bloom
ington parties are killing bass by
the use Of dynamite in the river at
that place. Our fishermen should
secure the names of these individ-
uals, and see that they receive the
full extent of the law. The river
is not over-run with bass, as it is,
and if such nefarions work as this
is allowed IN u short time we will
have none at all.-Piedmont hide
pendent
Mr. IL. J. Mayors, of Oakland,
Md, says: Il have soll thirteen
bottles of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy to-day and am literally sold
out. This is the largest sale on
record Of any one preparation in a
day oyer our counters. 1t gives the
best satisfaction of any cough med
icine we handle, and as a seller it
leads all other preparations on this
market" " For sale by druggists.
1t seems to have escaped general
notice that the World Fair has had
something to do with the existing
money stringency. For a year in
Vulnerable small sums have been
withdrawn from circulation and
laid by to meet the expenses Of a
trip to Chicago. 1t is quite prob
able that one hundred million dol
lars-possibly much more-have
been boarded up in this way. This
in itself would be enough to seri-
ously cripple business.
Examiner Hinebaugh has just
completed the work of his annual
examination. There were 81 ap-
plicants for 1st grade certificates
and "a for 2nd grade. A general
average of rs per cent. was required
for 1st grade, and 60 per cent. for
2nd grade. The general average of
the class, taken as whole, was
very good.
DR.. r. r. Frey, of Terra Alta,
narrowly escaped being killed at
Skipnish last Friday evening by the
west-bound accommodation, OF
which train he was a passenger. He
had been to Oakland and took the
above mentioned train for home,
but alighted at Skipnlsh and when