The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-08
The Board of County Commits

consideration OF road case NO. l|U.
On Monday the regular appeal SEES
sion will begin, notice OF which Will
be found in another column of this
paper.
1t is with feelings of great regret
we chronicle the news of the burn
ing of Mr.. Peter P. Lohr'S barn on
his farm at Bittinger, by which he
loses all his live stock, consisting
of number of fine horses, COWS,
fat cattle and sheep, besides all his
grain, hay, farming implements,
wagons, carriages, etc. The fire
was of incendiary origin and occur.
red Saturday night.
A young foreigner at Beaver
Falls, with an unpronounceable
name put on celluIoid collar last
week preparatory to attending
party. He had the toothache and
held his face to an open fire to allay
the pain. The collar took fire and
became a ring of flame. 1t was
entirely consumed before he could
remove it. The flesh was burned
to crisp and the young man may
die.
Rey. B. W. Hutchinson, D. D..
President of the West Virginia
Conference Seminary of the M. E.
church, will fill the pulpit both
morning and evening of St. Paul's
NJ. E. church of this place on next
Sunday. Parents who contemplate
sending their children to a semi
nary or public school teachers who
desire to thoroughly equip them
selves for their work should meet
President Hutchinson.
A great sensation was caused at
Montrose, on the West Virginia
Central, night last week by the
sudden d;,appearance of Miss Was
celona Phillips, who lives with hel
uncle, Floyd Kelley. She was
missed by the family about 6 o'clock
and the alarm was gwen. About
sixty men turned out with lanterns
and secured the hills and fields till
near midnight when she was found
at a neighbor house. She evinced
great surprise over the excitement
her absence had caused.
Farmers in Kent county, Md,
have found that ground planted in
tomatoes yield from s27 to $50 per
acre; and one farmer reported a
yield Of $72 per acre, while the
average of reports received indl-
Gated a yield of "a little less than
S46.50 per acre. All these facts
came out at a meeting of farmers. 1t
was the sense of the meeting that
the landlord should furnish hair
the fertilizer and receive one-third
the return.-New York Sun.
The full name of the Sheriff's s
posse is posse cOmitatus, or power of
the county; the Sheriff being the
chief executive officer of the county,
he and his assistants embody the
power of the entire county. All
male persons except physicians and
clergymen are liable to be sum-
moned to serve on the posse, and
there is no formal warning for duty,
as there is for the jury. The
Sheriff simply calls on the first
suitable men whom he meets to
come with him. bringing arms, and
the men are legally bound to obey
the call. In cities the same power
to limited extent lies in a police
man. and constables in the country
possess it. That IS, they may call
upon the bystanders to assist them !;
and persons so called upon are
bound to answer the call, or be
punished for refusing to do so.
Henry Robinson, boiler maker IN
the Baltimore and Ohio shops at
Grafton, W. Va, met with an awful
accident there Friday night last. An
engine that had just come in off
the road had sprung leak in one
of its boiler fues which Robinson
and a fellow workman were ordered
to repair at once without drawing
the fire. Robinson was standing
in front of the furnace door hold
ing an iron rod against the leaking
hue for the other workman to drive
with a heavy hammer. Almost
with the first stroke of the hammer
instead of closing the leak the fue
gave way and the hot water aud
steam, with over Il hundred pounds
pressure, belched forth striking
Robinson with all its force, carrying
him back into the tender and before
he could be rescued from his awful
position was literally roasted from
his head to his lower extremitics.
Valuable Advice.
Avoid lawsuits and loss by con-