The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-31

The concern was one of the larges
in the State of West Virginia, ant
had heretofore been considered
financially sound.
The following change in sta
route service in Garrett county ha,
been made by the Postofice Depart
ment: "Grantsville to Elk Lick
Leave Grantsville daily except Sun
day 2 p. M, arrive Elk Lick by
p. m; leave Elk Lick daily except
Sunday 4 sop. M, arrive at Grants
vile by $50 p. m.
Here is problem for youthful
mathemat,cians: A lady went il
store and asked the price Of eggs
She was told that the duck egg:
were worth two cents each. goose
eggs three cents each and hen egg;
one half cent each. She laid out
70 cents and said s ne would take q
eggs. How many of each did she
receive?
Knights of Pythias are warned to
be on the watch for man calling
himself George Wagner, who knows
the pass words and signs of the fra
ternity, but who is not a member.
He is about forty years of age,
medium size. gray eyes, dark hair
and mustache and wears a pair of
uniform K. of P. pants.-Path-
finder.
Ar. II. j. Mayors, of Oakland.
Md, says: " l have sold 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 seller it
leads all other preparations on this
market" For sale by druggists.
A petition is now being circulated
among the people of Allegheny
county demanding the circuit court
that trespassers upon the National
pike, who have fenced in portions
of it, in the words of the petition,
encroached, be made to deliver up
the land appropriated by them.
The petition claims that the. naonle
are entitled to width OF slxty-slx
feet and it alleges that in many
places the encroachments have
reduced 1T to twelve feet.
A good story is told on Morgan
town society man who while at Oak
land the other night called upon an
African maiden, who was nearly
white, and did not learn his error
till after he had paid for the ice
cream, gone home with the descend
ant from darkest Africa and met
some Of the young bucks of the town
at the house. Now he thinks IT
was mean trick for the boys to in
troduce him to that kind of society.
Register.
Editor Thompson, Of the Keyser
Echo, is not pleased with Sam Jones.
He went to hear him at Mountain
Lake Park, and this is what he has
to say of him "For unmltlgated
coarseness, for low vituperation, for
slander Of the church, ministry and
membership, for irreverence and
profanity, we never heard his equal
on the platform, and we don't be.
lieve we ever will. If the church is
half as bad as he represents it to be
every decent man and woman IN 1t
ought to get out of it at once"
What might have been very
serious and probably fatal collision
on the b. & o. at Oakland Monday
morning, was averted by the prompt
acton and cool headedness of the
engineer of engine No. $40, which
was attached to the rigger's trair
and employed at the siding here
arranging some logs on cars which
had been improperly loaded. En-
CINE No. 1915, drawing a heavily
ladened train came around the benC
just west Of town at high rate o
speed and collided with engine $40
knocking off the pilots of boil
engines and doing other damage.
The success of Mrs. Annie NJ
Beam, of McKeespOrt, Pennsyl
vania, in the treatment of dlarrhG
in her children will undoubtedly b
of interest to many mothers. Sh
says: '1 spent several weeks IL
Johnstown, Pa, after the grea
flood, on account of my HUSBAND
being employed there. We mad sey
eral children with us, two Of whom
took the diarrhea very badly.
got some of Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and DiarrhGa Remed
from ReY. Mr.. Chapman. 1t cure
J both o. them. l knew Of severa
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