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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

GENERAL WOODFORD, ex-Minister
to Spain, does not believe anybody
need be in hurry to obtain com
mission in the army for fear that the
opportunity to wear shoulder straps
may vanish through an imminent
termination of the war. His knowl-
edge of the Spaniards enables him to
say that they will see a victory in
every defeat, and that they will fight
until they shall have been absolutely
flattened out" Self-delusion is a
characteristic trait of the countrymen
of Don Quoixote, and in their minds
the incompleted or obsolete hulks at
Cadiz and Carthagena will be as read
lily transformed into invincible arm
adas as fiocks of sheep were trans
formed into armies in the disordered
brain of the Knight of the Rueful
Countenauce.
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POLITICAL NOTES.
Judge Stake and the Congressional Nomi-
nation.

Judge Stake and the Congressional Nomi-
nation.
The reported movement by friends
of Judge Edward Stake to obtain for
him the republican congressional
nomination in the district has caused
much interest here. A friend of the
Washington county jurist remarked
appropriately, IF Judge Stake con
templates remaining on the bench
and does not want the nomination he
had better put political lightning
arrester in his congressional telephone
or he will get what he is not seeking
The republican congressional COM
mittee of the Second West Virginia
district met Tuesday at Terra Alta
and decided that the convention be
held in Keyser on August 31st. A
gentleman who was there said that
Congressman Dayton would undoubt-
eddy be renominated and elected by
an increased majority.
Alex r. Hagner and NJ. l.. Keedy,
of Hagerstown, are prominently men
toned for Congress by the republi-
cans. In the event of Judge Stakes
election to Congress, these gentlemen
are mentioned among others to sue
coed him on the bench.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

Admiral Dewey's detailed account
of the battle of Manila Bay, forwarded
to the Navy Department by mail I'M
der date of May 4, is notable for the
modest, concise and perfectly matter
of fact way in which he deals with
deeds which the judgment of man
kind has been swift to declare his
toric; and the quality of modesty in
particular is revealed in the manly
passage in which he says: 81 beg to
state to the department that doubt
if any COMMUNICATIVE was ever
served by more loyal, efficient and
gallant captains than those of the
squadron now under my command
This tribute is accompanied by per-
sonal mention of the notable work
done by various officers-a record of
which the department will not fail
to take due cogizance when the occa-
sion shall arise.
dewey has been likened to Grant
because of his penchant for taking
chances, cutting his cables behind
him and striving for big results. In
the light of his recital of his achieve
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

THE big bull movement in wheat
has come to grief. The price tumbled
in all markets Monday. There was
a break of 81 cents per bushel in Min
neapolis and of % cents per bushel in
Duluth, while the Chicago and New
York markets fell to 10 cents per
bushel according to delivery periods
1t is one thing to force up the price Of
wheat by heavy buying, and, as the
Chicago manipulators have once more
found out to their cost, quite another
thing to hold it up until the pur-
chased grain shall have been un-
loaded. The tempting figures re-
Gently touched on wheat have drawn
out supplies from various sources
where they had previously been sup
posed to have been exhausted. Rus
STA and India have been shipping
heavily to Europe in recent weeks,
and and this country Nature has
broken the corner" by the promise
this year of the biggest yield on
record.
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and affording innumerable lurking
places for isolated hostile detach-
ments. But our regular troops have
fought Indians successfully in the
West, and are not likely to be con-
fused or daunted by any Spanish plan
of campaign involving ambuscades,
surprises and exasperating delays.
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Off for Santiago.

After weeks of careful although hur-
ried preparation, the first considerable
army of Cuban invasion is off for San
tiago to engage in military operations
in that quarter in conjunction with
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet. More than
$1,000 troops-infantry cavalry, artil-
lery, engineers and signalmen-com-
prise this powerful eXpeditionary
force. Such a great movement of arm
ed men over seas has not been wit
messed by modern nations since the
Crimean war. Neither of Lord VOL
seley's two Egyptian expeditions was
as large as that now on the way to
Cuba, and the forces sent by Japan
across the Yellow Sea in the war with
China were meagre and inefficient in
comparison with General Shafter's
splendid army of picked men.
With the exceptions of two regi-
ments of volunteer infantry and two
dismounted squadrons of volunteer
cavalry, the troops composing this ex-
petition are from the regular army.
The men are all experienced soldiers,
no recruiting having been undertaken
for their regimental organizations.
They are armed and equipped with
magazine rifles, smokeless powder
cartridges and all of the latest devices
for carrying on Destructive campaign
in any enemy's country. To have
brought such a force into the field
within period of six weeks, with
ample transport facilities for convey
ing them safely to their destined fight
ing ground, is no slight achievement
on the part of the War Department.
These troops as organized for the San
tiago expedition represent and EN-
body the uttermost possibilities of our
offensive and defensive forces in time
of war. If Spain shall defeat them on
equal terms in the open field her ar
mics will have accomplished a most
extraordinary and unexpected feat of
arms.
The Shafter expedition is in reality
the actual beginning of the necessar-
lily delayed military operations by
means of which Spanish power in the
Western Continent is to be finally
overthrown and destroyed. Imposing
in numbers and equipment as it is,
this vanguard of Cuban invasion con-
stitutes in effect only type of the
mighty military forces of the Repub-
lie. The coast forts are amply garri-
soned, the Federal camps are filled
with men eager for marching orders
and the storm and stress of battle,
and when other expeditions shall have
been determined upon, either for theoc-
cupation of Porto Rico or to strength
EN- our hold upon Cuba. the troops
and war materials will be ready for
word of command. The country lacks
neither military spirit, capable soldiers
nor the capacity for producing NUM-
tions of war; and the fiercer the fight
ing and the broader the field of COM
bat the stronger will be the determi-
nation to achieve victory at every
cost.
How far the methods of modern
military tactics and the traditional
discipline of regular troops will serve
in such campaign as that to be I'M
dertaken by the Shafter expedition
can only be conjectured. Guerrilla
warfare is almost a necessity in East
ern Cuba-a hill country without
roads, covered with dense underbrush
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

No. TO- MILITARY LOT NUMBER THIRTY
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE (3101) loca-
ted in election district No. of Garrett
county, and being the same lot that was
conveyed to Catharine Miller by Thomas
Miller by deed dated December 4th 1888,
and recorded i'll Liber f. Z. T. No. IA,
folio 243, etc, one of the land records of
Garrett county. Said lot contains FIF-
TY ACRES and will be sold to satisfy
and pay the taxes due and in arrear
thereon for the year 1896 as is charged
on the assessment books of said Garrett
county in the name of the said Catha-
rine Miller.
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No. 8. All that part of a tract of land called
"LOCHIEL," CONTAINING NINETY
FOUR ACRES, as is described i'll deed
from John Wilhelm and wife to Elijah
Gould, jr., bearing date November 10th,
1894, and recorded in Liber E. z. T. No.
26, folio 22S, etc, one of the land records
of Garrett county. Said land is located
in election district No. 3 Of said Garrett
county, and will be sold to satisfy and
pay the taxes due and in arrear thereon
for the year 1896 as is charged on the
assessment books of said Garrett coun-
ty in the name of the said Elijah Gould,
ir
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

No. II. LOT NUMBER FIFTY IN BLOCK
NUMBER /, lying and being in the town
of Loeb Lynn Heights, Garrett county,
Maryland, as recorded in plat book No.
l, folio ., in election district No. T, of
said Garrett county, Maryland, and
being the same lot which was conveyed
by c. j. Rathbun to Joseph c. Anderson
and Brisv:: WEIGH by deed dated April
$, 1895, and recorded in Liber f. H. Il.
No 26, folio 500, etc, one of the land
records of said Garrett county, Mary
land. Said lot will be sold to satisfy
and pay the taxes due and in arrear
thereon for the year 1896 as is charged
on the assessment book of said Garrett
county, Maryland, in the name Of the
said Joseph c. Anderson and Brison
WEIGH.
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ments, so marked by self-abnegation,
the country will readily trace the re-
semblance in character still further;
and it will rejoice upon.this Flag Day
that its flag in the Far East is COM
mitted to the keeping of a soldier
whom Nature cast in heroic mold.
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20. 2. All that piece or parcel of land con-
tanning THIRTY-EIGHT ACRES. stu
ated in election district No. of Garrett
county, Maryland, and described as
follows: Beginning for the same at a
stone pile and stake on the Mason Il
Dixon line and running thence south SO
percheS, north 50 degrees west 1l6 per-
ches, intersecting said line, and with
same to stone pile on the State line to
the beginning, and lying near the head
waters Of Purley Run, being the same
tract of land which was conveyed by
deed dated May 18th, 1890, from Lydia
Warner and husband to Charles Butler
and recorded in Liber E. Z. T. No. IL,
folio 554, one of the land records of said
Garrett county, Maryland. Said land
will be sold to satisfy and pay the taxes
due and in arrear thereon for the years
1896 and 1897 as are charged on the as
Sessment books of said Garrett county.
Maryland, gin the name of the said
Charles Butler.
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No. II. All that piece or parcel OF land CON-
TANNING FIFTY-ONE ACRES, lying
in District No. of Garrett county, Ma
ryland, and being part of the original
tract of land called small Meadows"
and being the same land and from
which a more particular description
can be had from the deed Of conveyance
from Thomas Dewitt and wife to VIM.
l.. Dewitt dated February 25th, 1893
and recorded in Liber E. z. T. No. ~
folio 3S1, one of the land records Of said
Garrett county, Maryland. Said land
will be sold to satisfy and pay the taxes
due and i'll arrear thereon for the years
1896 and 1897, as are charged on the as
sesSment books of said Garrett county,
Maryland. in the name of the said Will
lam L. Dewitt.
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which is described in deed from Henry
G. Davis ct al. to James G. Wilson, dated
December 8, 1898, and recorded in Liber
E. .. T. No. p, folio 542, etc, one of the
land records of said Garrett county,
Maryland. Said land will be sold to
satisfy and pay the taxes due and in
arrear thereon for the year 1896, as is
charged on the assessment books OF
said Garrett county, Maryland in the
name of the said James G. Wilson.
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No. 3. LOTS NUMBERS EIGHT HUNDRED

No. 8. LOTS NUMBERS EIGHT HUNDRED
AND TWENTY FOUR AND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX on the
plat of Mountain Lake Park, in election
distSict No. of Garrett county, Mary
land and being the same lots which
were conveyed by the Mountain Lake
Park Association of Garrett county,
Maryland, to Mary Ii. Harris by deed
dated March 10, 1894, and recorded in
LiDer E. Z. T. No. "A, folio 81, one of the
land records of Garrett county, Mary
land. Said lots viii be sold to satisfy
and pay the taxes due and in arrear
thereon for the year 1896 as is charged
on the assessment books of said Garrett
county, Maryland. in the name of the
said Mary H. Harris.
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No. 4. LOT NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND

10. 4. LOT NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND
SENENTY-SEV EN- on the plat of Noun
tain Lake Park Association of Garrett
county, as recorded in Liber W. II. T.
No. q, folio 500, etc. one Of the land rec
ords of Garrett county. MARYLAND. situ-
ated in election district No. :, of said
Garrett county, Maryland, and being
the same lot which was conveyed by
Sallie Dawson and husband to Mary Z.
Young, by deed dated October 4th. 1882
and recorded in Liber E. Z. T. No 20
folio l29, one of the land records of Gar
rett county, Maryland. Said lot will be
sold to satisfy and pay the taxes due
and in arrear thereon for the year 1896
as is charged on the assessment books
of said Garrett county, Maryland, III the
name of the said Mary E. Young.
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No. ., AL THAT THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF

o. D. ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF
LAND CONTAINING THIRTY ACRES
situated in election district No : of
Garrett county, Maryland. and begin
ming for the same at a stake standing at
the end of the fifth line of a tract of land
called ''Piney Bottom" and running
thence with the sixth line of 'Piney
Bottom" south p degrees west As perch
eS, south p degrees west 2-l0 perches
to a stake, north Il degrees east 50 2-10
perches to given line of tract called
Maryland" ana with it south 49, de
grees east 100 perches to the beginning,
being the same land which was convey
ed by Thomas w. Ashby and wife to
Hannah f. Shaffer by deed dated March
1lth, 1885, and recorded in Liber W. II.
T. No. 10, folio SOL, one of the land rec
OrdS of said Garrett county, Maryland.
said land will be sold to satisfy and pay
the taxes due and in aITear thereon for
the years 1896 and 1891 as are charged on
the assessment books of said Garrett
county, Maryland, in the name of the
said Hannah Il. Shaffer.
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TAX SALES
Real Estate.

Under and by virtue of the power
vested in the Treasurer of Garrett
county by Sections 81 and 50 of Chap
ter 566 of the Acts of Assembly of
Maryland, 1890, title Garrett Coun-
ty," subtitle County Treasurer"
the undersigned as Treasurer in and
for said county, will, on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

10. ID. All that piece or parcel of land stu
ated and lying in the town of Oakland,
Garrett county, Maryland. in election
district No. of said Garrett county,
CONTAINING SIX ACRES, and being
the same lot of ground which was con-
veyed by Annie Nelson and husband to
Martha Warren by deed dated March
Is, 1891, and recorded in Liber L. H. L.
No. Ii. folio 554 etc, one Of the land
records of said Garrett county, Mary
land; and also PART OF LOT NUMBER
EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY
THREE, lying and being in the town OF
Oakland, Garrett county, Maryland, in
election district No. Z of said county, on
the south side of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, and more particularly
described as follows: Beginning for
the same at a stone marked and stand
ing south 81 degrees east % links, north
% degrees west 10 links, then south p
degrees east 3 percheS and IL links to
stake, north 64a degrees east perches,
north So degrees west perches and 6
links. south 81 degrees west perches
and 81 links. to the beginning, CON
TANNING TWENTY-ONE AND ONE
HALF ACRES OF Ian ID, and being the
same land which was conveyed by
Chauncey stephens to the said Martha
Warren by deed dated November 18th,
1898, and recorded in Liber L. 4. T. No.
81, folio Az etc, one of the land records
of Garrett county, Maryland. Said land
will be sold to satisfy and pay the taxes
due and in arrear thereon for the year
1895, as is charged on the assessment
books of said Garrett county, Maryland,
in the name of the said Martha Warren.
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Then again, let us ask ourselves
what this war is about. By every
congressional declaration, we must
suppose it to be deed of mercy to-
wards suffering and down trodden
people otherwise we certainly
would not have chosen a famed and
limping adversary. Who ever heard of
righteous mercifulness, blowing blasts
of self glorifcation? Boosting! There
is no room for boasting. With the
dignity and thoroughness of true
greatness we are striving to do a good
deed. These violent interpreters of
our doings who would make us to
stink in the nostrils of self-respecting
nations, are like Kings fools at state
funeral-out of place
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-16

For this occasion tickets will be sold
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Cincinnati, to and including October
I'd, 1898.
Owing to the great patriotic wave
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who knows nothing except what has
happened during his own life time.
From Semiramis to the time of our
own late war, there have been dozen
naval engagements that have affected
the map of the world more than this
one will. Allowing that it is the first
decided battle between modern war
ships-though Chill Peru, Brazil,
Japan and China have given us much
knowledge in that direction-yet the
Spaniards were at ourmercy from the
outset. They were caught mapping
to begin with, unequal to us in num-
Der of guns and weight of metal
though outnumbering us in number
of ships, and unprepared with trained
gunners. The last man to over-esti-
mate it as a conclusive test of modern
warfare would be brave Admiral
Dewey himself. Boosting is excluded,
but the thing to be thankful for IS
that his courageous entry of the har-
Dor was made justifiable because the
Spaniards were not even able to ex-
plode their submarine mines at the
proper moment of effectiveness. Had
they succeeded in damaging him
these very same journals of ill-bal-
anced, Inbred, brainless, boy-men
would have held ghost -dances over
the grave of his reputation.
Before we accept the boasting stan
dard as one to rally around, let us
bear in mind that we ARE in combat
with a seventh-rate power, whose
finances are in terrible condition, and
whose unreadiness is extraordinary.
If our gage of battle had been thrown
down in February of this year to
some other European power, whose
ships and men were absolutely ready
for fight, we should undoubtedly
have had to mourn many terrible dis
asters before we were able to rally
effective defense and ultimate tri-
umph. | say ultimate triumph in
no boasting manner, but only because
our resources are so vast that with a
war dragged out to any length we
should undoubtedly win at this end
of the conflict at the last. We have
done wonders in mastering and equip
ping 10000 men and in instituting
effective coast projections in about
month, but it is we'll that they were
not needed within a week after the
war began.
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No. 6. MILITARY LoTNuMRER SIXTEEN

70. 6. MILITARY LOT MBER SIXTEEN
HUNDRED AND FIFTY, CONTAIN
ING FIFTY ACRES, situated in election
district No. of said Garrett county.
Maryland, and being the same land
which was conveyed by Edward IL.
Sincell and wife to John L. Simms by
deed dated May 25th 1894, ana recorded
in Liber Il. Z. 4. No. "a, folio Az, etc, one
of the land records of Garrett county.
Maryland. said land will be sold TO
satisfy and pay the taxes due and in
arrear thereon for the years 1875 and
1897, as are charged on the assessment
books of said Garrett county, MARYLAND,
in the name of the said John l.. Simms.
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2O9 to 81.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 15.-The
House this afternoon voted to annex
Hawaii by vote of 209 to 81.
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No. :. MILITARY LOT YTMBER Thirty,

No. :. MILITARY LOT NUMBER THIRTY
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN
AND PART OF MILITARY LOT NUM-
Der THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND
NINETEEN. and beginning for the
same at the south corner OF Military
Lot No. 3ll7, and running thence south
IS degrees west 10 rods, north 70 degrees
west 20 rods, north q degrees east ~
rods, north ~ degrees west % rods,
north IS degrees east - rods, south ~
degrees east 100 rods TO the beginning,
containing in both tracts EIGHTY
NEAND ONE-QU AFTER ACRES OF
LAND, ana being the same land which
was conveyed by James Archibald TO
Isaac Bolyard by deed dated MAY 2lst.
1891, and recorded In Liber Il. 4. +. No.
III. folio 100, one OF the land records OF
said Garrett county, Maryland. said
land is situated In election district No.
OF said Garrett county, Maryland, and
will be sold to satisfy and pay the taxes
due ana I'm arrear thereon for the year
1895 as Is charged on the assessment
books of said Garrett county. Maryland,
IN the name OF the said Isaac Bolyard.
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TERfIS OF SALE. leash on
day Of sale.
The right of redemption extends to
six calendar months from day of sale
by paying to the purchaser the
amount of the purchase money, with
interest thereon, at the rate of TWEEN
ty per cent. per annum, and all costs.
Conveyancing at the cost of pur-
chaser.
THOMAS b. WILEY,
IA Late Treasurer.
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No. 1. All that piece or parcel of land con
tanning SIXTY SEVEN AND ONE
HALF ACRES, situated in election
district No. | of Garrett county, Mary
land. and more particularly described
as follows Beginning for the same at a
stake and stone pile at the end of the
third line Of a tract of land conveyed by
Joseph X. Anderson to b. f. Meyers and
b. c. Meyers, and running north 81
degrees west Is links then with said
third line reversed north 70 degrees
west 30 percheS, south l. degrees west
ll6 percheS, south "a degrees east 57a
perches, north 23h degrees east so per
cheS, north 65k degrees east % perches
to the end of the 4th line of lot con-
yeyed by Joseph X. Anderson to James
X. Harrison and with said 4th line re
versed to its beginning, then north 81
degrees west ia perches to the begin
ming, being the same tract of land which
was conveyed by c. NJ. Miller and wife
to Harland p. Entler by deed dated
January Goth, 1894, and recorded in Liber
E. Z. T. No. "a, folio ga, etc, one of the
land records of Garrett county, Mary
land. Said land will be sold to satisfy
and pay the taxes due and in arrear for
the year 1896 as is charged to the said
Harland p. Entler on the assessment
books of said Garrett county, Maryland.