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VOLUME I. ! OAKLAND BUSINESS GUIDE. I GROCERIES, etc. Wf ¥. TOTTEN, ww • GKNEUAL MK.KCHANDCSE, ('nr. Main A Aldvr sts. RICHARDSON BROS^ *-*' GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, Canned Goods, Fruit, etc. IOHN (>. MICHAEL, ** GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Second door South Coddington’K Hotel. T \V. BTALNAKER, Grocery anil Provision Store, fourth street, near B. A O. H. R. Co’s Shop. 4 L. OS-BOURN, ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE, General Merchandise. T BUSH & SON. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, (’op. Third A Oak Ufa. AT DWAY .MAN, L * • General Merchandise, Cor. Alder A Main St a. MX ROOKS’ GREAT NEW YORK STORE, General Merchandise, . Agent lor Fertilizers, Depot Building. J\ E. OFFUTT, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Agricultural Machine*, Musical Instruments, Guns, Pistols, etc. 1) H. LOAR, ORIGINAL SISW YORK STORE, !| t eneral Merchandise, Watches, Clocks, Jew- *( elry, etc. A TGWNSHEND, '*GENERXL MERCHANDISE, j Agents Agricultural Machines, Opposite Dailey’s Park- | {’ C. MICHAEL, - y ' GENERAL MERCKANDSISK, Notions, Clocks,Conlect lottery, die., NexJ to ( Addington's Hotel. JJKORGE LEGGE, GENERAL MERCIIAXDOSE, Cor. Second A Oak dfs. |\AVI DELAW DKU, GROCERIES, FRESH MEAT, (tame in season. I() IIN A. Ml LAWI )E 11, ** GENERAL KERCH AN DtSK, Wines, liiquors, etc.. Oak St.-near bridge. SA 1.90 NS. II S. AAM ISON, ’ Wines, Liquors, Oysters, etc, Milliard Table. Opposite Coddlngton’w Hotel. JOHN A. DELAWDER, ** Wines, Liquors A Lager Beer, Calc st.. near Bridge. gP>;<>. \\\ ca rox, U KSTA1 T II A X T. Finie< mu\ frtifcWMll < ystr .'>. Raw on the shell. lEnrn.ilies supplied. HOTELS. JMIOWNING HOUSE, “•* R. T. Browning, Proprietor. Main Street. ■DOWAN WHITE, Oak Street. rt VAKLANi) HOUSE, Geo. N. Sauteuiyer, Proprietor. Cur. Third and Alder Streets. | H>I)DL\ T GTOX\V HOTEL, ”- W. .M. Codrjxgtqs, PropMor, Main St., Opposite .lan: (sou's HilliardSulloon llO.t RISING HOU SES. II lis7 DAVIi> BIIIN EHAIiT, Water Street. (VI US. RALPH THAYER, e** Oak aud Tliird Streets. IA AVIS HOUSE, I -*■* Mrs. M. li Davis, Proprietress. (’or. Oak A Second streets. ]VK\V GLADE HOUSE, ' Mrs. it. J. West, Proprietress. Cor. Third & Alder Sts George bosley’B, Oak Street. CA IIIXETM AK EIIS AND UN- \ DE It TA K EllS. 1 \ 0. BROOKE, Res. adjoining Gazette office. , I ()EL T. WARD; " Shop on Fourth Street. PHYSICIANS. Dlt. E. H. BARTLETT, Office Main st.,op. Dailey’s Park. Du. j. lee mccomas, Office on Main Street. iYr. j. W. ALBRIGHT, U Office on Oak Street. . * MILLS. {MUST AND SHINGLE MILLS, Peter Martin, Proprietor. Water Street OAKLAND WOOLEN M ILLS, Sam’l Lawton,Manager. A TTOIINE T- LA \V. I W. VEITCH, ** • State’s Attorney, <ltfloe on ( hik Street. Tohn m. read, " Notary Public And Com. to take Testimony, (Mtleeon Alder Street. C~-t S. JIAMILL, < HBce in < tffutt’s Building. rn j. PEDDICORD, • Office over Jamison’s Saloon PLASTERER. TAMES ARNOLD, ” Residence on Fourth Street THE REPUBLICAN. | DRUGS AND MEDICINES. {MO. G. STURGISS, Drugs, Medicines, I*erfumery, Toilet articles,Stationery, Tobacco and Cigars. Aider St. BLACKSMITHS^ in HAS. SINCELL, Liberty Street. MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS. TJf L. SCOTT’S Baltimore Store. Millinery, Gents’ Furnishing And Fancy Goods, and Shoes. Main Street, Opposite l)r. McComas’ office. US. M IL DAVIS, Cor. Oak & Second Sts. CON TRACTORS A U UI Lit ERS JOHN M. JARBOE, ” Carpenter, Contractor & Builder, Residence on Liberty St. nearly oppo. Depot. p i. CHISHOLM, • Carpenter, Contractor, And Builder. Residence over Jamison's Saloon. (p EO.Yv. SPEDDEN, Residence opp. School house. JOSEPH M. GRIM, ** Residence on Alder Street. A G. BROOKE, * *-• Res. adjoining Gazette office. It A It nut; SHOP. piiOF. A. W. DILLEN, Barber Shop, Offutt’k Building* Main street. LIVERY STAPLE pHAS. SWEENEY, Near tlie Browning House. MASONS. I| pritghardT Residence on Second St. J LOYD CHAMBERS, Residence Goddington’s Hotel. OHN PORTER, Residence cor. Water A Third sts. SUII VEYORS. 4 LEX. C. MASON, Office over Jamison’s Saloon. ]|J IrThamill, County Surveyor, Office in OTTutt's Building. lOIIN IIARNED. ** Address, Post Office. ROOT AND SHOE MAKER. 11/’M. M. WAGNER, * * Shop Cor. Second & Oak Sts. {AEO. fTlo ugj u i jdge", Leave orders at Express office. lugasT . Boot and Shoe Maker, Shop Cor. Water and Second Sts PAINTING <1 PAPER 7/1 AG -ING. AM ES ENLQW, House anil Sign Painter, Residence adjoining Gazette Office. jc l j. frTnger, House and Sign Painter. And Paper Hanger. Leave orders at Bush’s Store. PHOTO(IP. I PH <i. 1 i7IEUyT {I W. MERRILL, ”• Photographs and Ferrotypes Made in the best style. Albums Pict ure Frames Picture Cord for sale. Third Street, Opposite New Glade House PROFESSIONAL CARDS. GIILMOR s. 11 A.mill, I ATTORNEY AT LAW ANI) .SOLICITOR IN Clf ANCERY. Office in Offitts Building, (Lower Flooi.) Part icular attention given to Conveyancing, nvestlgation of land titles and collection of laims. Loans negotiated. Jel4-ly |AS. M. SCHLEY, J ATTORNEY AT LAW, Odmuekland, Mn, Will practice in the Courts of Washington, Allegany and Garrett counties. Agent for sale of 11,000 acres of land in Garrett county, within one and a half to three miles of Ouk liind. JcH-ly p HAM ILL, REAL ESTATE AGENT. Oakland, Garrett county, Md Offiee at residence on Main Street. jel4-ly JOHN M. READ, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Oakland, NOTARY PUBLIC. Maryland. _|el4-ly JW. VEITCH, . ATTORNEY AT LAW A X D SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, Oakland, Garre rr County, Md. Will practice in the Courts of Garrett County ami the adjoining Counties of West Virginia, and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. .1 an. M-tf. __ TIIOS. J. PEDDICORD, ATTORN KY AT LAW SOLICITOR LN CHANCERY, Oak land, Garrett County, Md. Will practice In the Courts of Garrett County and the adjoining Counties of West Virginia, uiul in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. .lan. -tf, Dll. J. DAILY, IfiSiniT DENTIST \V EST BRN PORT, MARYLAND. From one to a full set of teeth Inserted In the most beautiful and substantial manner. ‘' Particular attention • paid to cleaning ami W' ■* f . r ;i filing the natural teeth |f -fe ■ All work warranted 'fif I TwjrM 7JT to give satisfaction, or money refunded. Je2l-ly OAKLAND, MD., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1877. “THEY SAY. 19 They say— ah! well, suppose they do, But can they prove the story true? Suspicions may arise from naught But malice, envy, want of thought: Why count yourself among the “they” Who wrisper what they dare not say? They say —but why the tale rehearse, And help to make the matter worse? No good can possibly accrue For telling what ma.v be untrite: And is it not a nobler plan To speak of all the best you can ? Ancient German Popular Prophecies. The Eclectic Magazine for August, 1850, says the Union town Standard, contains an article from the pen of Professor Gregory, of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the subject of Ancient Prophecies current among the Ger mans. I'iivsc prophecies were han ded down for many generation by tradition. In some cases these tra ditions were traced to books written in Latin and generally in rhyme, some of which are still in existence. Professor Gregory, having spent some months in Germany, in 1849, had taken some pains to gather up these prophecies among the common people, and in some instances traced them to the books which he found in various libraries of convents monas teries. The article from which we propose to make some extracts is the result of his researches. A large number of prophecies, whicli have been fulfilled, we shall omit, confining ourselves to those which refer to only future events. Political and religious convulsions, wars and finally peace and prosperity form the burden of these prophecies. These convulsions and the principal site of multitudinous wars, spread ing over more than a century, are predicted to take place principally on the Rhine and in Westphalia,and all the predictions of these wars and convulsions, tending to one particu lar location, all end at a final, general j peace. Nothing beyond that peace | is foretold. There all the predictions j terminate. This final great battle is to take | place at a birch tree. This tree has an historical existence for more than a century, and stood near Werl. Having died of age, its place has been supplied by another, planted at the same site, by the peasants of the vicinity. The first in order of these prophets was Brother Herman, a monk of the monastery of Lelniin, who flourished j about the year 1270. His prophecies j are principally in regard to the! House of Hohen Zollern, of which the present Emperor of Prussia, William IV, is the last and the elev enth in succession from Joachim 111, the first Protestant Prince of Bran denburg. Having propheciedof this dynasty at length, he says: “Tandem sceptragerit,qui ultimus j stematis erit.” —“At length he bears the scepter who shall be the last of his race.” This is said of the present King of Prussia, Frederick William IV. The prophet had before said,“this poison” —Protestanism—would last to the eleventh generation,” that is, to . Frederick William IV. From the date of this event, Brother Herman predicts peaceable times. The next prophet in order of time was a man named Jaspers, a simple minded and pious shepherd of West phalia. Before his death in 1834, he predicted as follows: “A great road will be carried through our country from West to East, which will pass through the forests of Bodelschwing. On this road carriages will run without horses and cause a dreadful noise.” The railway from Cologne to Min den has, since his death, been carried through the very district he men tioned, before the first railway was made in Europe, and the shepherds of Westphalia could have heard of such a tiling us a railway. After the making of this railroad a great war ■ was to break out between Christians and infidels, or disbelievers in Chris tianity, which was to come from the east. Professor Gregory suggests that tlie Russians will be an active participator. • Jaspers predicts that “Before this war, a general faithlessness will pre vail. Men will give out vice for vir tue, and honor deceit for politeness. “In the year in which the great war will break out, there shall he so fine a spring tiiat in April the cows will be feeding in the meadows on luxuriant grass. In that year, wheat may he harvested, hut not oats.” Prof. Gregory suggests that tlie war will prevent the harvest of oats —say in the fall. The flowers were out in bloom through England, France and Southern Europe; early in February last. “The great buttle will be fought at tile Eirch Tree , between Unna, Hamm and Werl. The people of half the world will be there opposed to each other. God will terrify the energy by a dreadful storm. Of the Russians few will return home.” Of the future of Prussia, Jaspers maintained an obstinate silence, ouly saying that King Frederick William will be the last. A man named Potteeisser, predicted that Frederick Wilitahi would have no successor— “he disappears.” “There will then be fadt one religion,” says Jaspers. on tlie Rhine will be built, hi which all people will assist. AUwt s shall be unted, only the Jewst-yill retain their old obstinacy.” The} text prophet was Speilbahn, meaning “fiddler.” lie died in 1783. Speaking of what should follow, he s<4d “that it would hardly be p** hfajto distinguish the peasant from the nobleman.” He points to a period when the splendor of the aristocracy should be humiliated to the rank or at least to the maimers of tlie poor, lie continues: “Courtly manners and wordly vanity will reach to a height hither to unequalled. Y r ea, tilings will go so far that men will no longer thank God for their daily bread.” “Human intellect will do wonders or miracles. They will mock at God, because of tiie carriages which shall run through the whole world, with out being drawn by animals.” “And because courtly vices and sensuality and sumptuousness of ap parel are then so great, God will punish the world. A poison shall fall on tlie fields, and a great famine shall afflict the country.” In 1672, a Capuchin monk, of Das seldorf, made this prediction. The Capuchin monks wore theh beards in the prevailing fashion of the pres ent time: “After a dreadful war shall there j be peace; yet there shall be no peace, because of tlie contest of tlie poor | against the rich, and of the rich j against the poor, shall break out.” ! “After this peace shall come a [ heavy time. The people shall have | no longer truth or faith. “When women know not, from | pride and luxuriousness, what clothes ! they shall wear, sometimes short, sometimes long, sometimes narrow, sometimes wide; when men also change their dress, and wear every where the beards of the Capuchins,* then will God chastise tlie world. A dreadful war shall break out in the South and spread eastward and northward. The kings shall be killed. Savage hordesshalloyerflow Germany and come to the Rhine, j | Tney shall take delight in murder j ing and burning, so that mothers, in j despair, seeing death everywhere be j fore their eyes, shall east themselves j and their sucklings into tlie water. ! When tiie need is greatest, a pre server shall come from tile south. | He shall defeat the hordes of tlie J enemy, and make Germany prosper- J ous. But, in those days, many parts j shall be so depopulated, that it will be necessary to climb a tree to look for people afar off.” *This is now the ease in Germany, An old prophecy concerning the i “Birch Tree.” “A time shall come when tlie world shall be Godless. The people shall strive to be independent of king or magistrate, subjects will be unfaithful to their princes. Neither or faith prevails more. It will then : come to a general insurrection, in which father shall fight against son, j and son against father. In that time men shall try to pervert the articles I of faith, and shall introduce new ; books. Tlie Catholic religion shall jbe hard pressed, and men will try l with cunning to abolish it. Men I I shall love play and jest, and pleasures of all kinds, at tiiat time. But then | it shall not be long before a change | occurs. A frightful war shall break i j out. On one side shall stand Russia, j Sweden, and tlie whole north; on j the other, France, Spain, Italy, and the whole south, under a powerful . j prince. This prince shall come from j the south. He wears a white coat, with buttons all the way down, lie j has a cross on his breast, rides a gray I j horse, which he mounts from the left i i side, because he is lame of one foot. ■ j He will bring peace. Great is iiis , | severity, for he will put down all . j dance music and rich attire. He ! will hear morning mass in the church II at Bremen (According to some tra ■ j ditions, he will read From ,! Bremen he rides to the Ilaar, (a ' height near Werl;) from thence he ’ looks with his spy glass toward the > country “of tlie Birch Tree, and ob serves tlie enemy. Next lie rides j past Holtum, (a village near Werl.) j At Holtum stands a crucifix between ’ J two lime trees; before this he kneels ‘ | and prays witli outstretched arms, . for sometime. Then he leads his t j soldiers, clad in white, into the bat , | tie, and, after a bloody contest, he , remains victorious. 4 “The chief slaughter shall take 1 place at a brook which runs from t west to oast. Way! woe! to Bod > berg and Sondern in those days! r The victorious leader shall assemble the people after the battle, and ad -7 dress to them a speech in thechurch.” i Another old prophecy, concerning 1 tlie battle of the Birch Tree. This ! prophecy was printed at Cologne In 1801, in Latin, in a book entitled “A Treatise on the Heavenly Regen eration or Restoration.” “After these days shall dawn tlie sad, unhappy time predicted by our Lord. Men, in terror on tlie earth, shall faint for expectation of the coming events. The father shall be against the son, and the brother against the brother. Truth and faith shall no longer be found After the nations, singly, have long warred against each other, after thrones have crumbled, and kingdoms been over thrown, shall tlie entire Soutli take arms against the North. (Auster consra Aquilonem,) the country,lan guage and faith shall not be conten ded for, but they shall fight for the rule of tlie whole.” “They shall meet in the middle of Germany, destroy towns and villa ges, after the inhabitants have been compelled to fly to the hills and woods. This dreadful contest shall be decided in Lower Germany. The armies shall pitch camps, such as the world has not yet seen. This fearful engagement shall begin at tlie Birch Tree near Bod berg. Woe! woe! poor Fatherland ! They shall fight three whole days. Even when cov ered with wounds, they shall mangle each other, and wade in blood up to the ankles. The bearded people of the seven stars (?) shall finally con quer, and their enemies shall fly ; they shall turn at the bank of the river, and again fight with the ex tremity of despair. But there shall tiiat power ;be annihilated, and its strength broken, so that hardly a few will be left to tell of this unheard of defeat. The inhabitants of theallied places shall mourn, but the Lord shall comfort them, and they shall say, It is the Lord’s doing.” A seer, named Kappleman, living near Werl, prophecied in 1819, as follows, before a whole company: “The times are vet good, but they shall change much. After many years a frightful war shall break out. The signs shall be: When in spring the cowslips appear early in the hedges, and disturbances prevail everywhere; in that year the explo sion does not take place. But when after a short winter, the cowslips bloom very early, and all appears quiet, let no man believe in peaee. “When great wisps of straw stand on the Barenwiese (Bear’s meadow,) then shall the break out.” Taking the whole of these prophe cies together, we can trace the follow ing points, pervading the whole se ries ! 1. A great war after a peace, about this time. 2. It is preceded by political con vulsions, and lesser wars. 3. The East and North fight against tlie Soutli and West. 4. The latter finally prevail, under a powerful prince, who unexpectedly rises up. 5. The great struggle is short, and occurs late in the year. (S. It is decided by the battle of the Birch Tree, near Werl. 7. After horrible devastations and murders, and burnings, caused by this war, peace and prosperity re turn. 8. Priests are massacred and be come very rare; but 9. One religion unites all men. 10. All this takes place soon after the introduction of railroads into Germany. 11. The present King of Prussia is the last. 12. The “powerful prince” from the South becomes Emperor of Ger many. 13. France is, about this time, in wardly divided. 14. The Russians come as enemies to the Rhine, tlie French filter Ger many as friends—without entering into further details. While the balloon was tilling at the park yesterday, a curious young man made himself conspicuous fora f season by asking a rapid series of close questions concerning the art of air navigation. Having secured from Taylor all the information pos sible he accepted an invitation to seat himself on a carboy from which the acid had been emptied, uxeept so much as remained on the top. This trifling remains of acid assimilated itself rapidly with it. Then it took hold of the skin and the young man stood up. It hit again, and he glared wildly around for an instant and started for town. He did not wait for any street car or bus, but he just let himself out, and distanced every one on the road. He seemed in a hurry to see some one, and on busi ness of considerable importance. But when he finally bolted into the first drug store he merely whispered, “Sweet oil. For heaven’s sake,some sweet oil, almighty quick!”— Utica Herald. Postmaster General Key will in augurate an entirely new system of classifying and awarding bids for j mail route contracts. No bid will be j entertained unless accompanied I either by a guarantee of personal per ! formance of the service by the bidder |or a sworn copy of the contract of which the service is to be performed by the third party. This means death to the straw bidders. NUMBER 4. This is the House that Sam Built, Tlie Republic—This is the house that Sam built. The ballot—This is the malt tiiat lay ill the house that Sam built. The Intelligent Contraband—This is the mouse that liked the malt that lay in tiie house that Sam built. The Bulldozer—This is tlie cat that made an assault on tlie sable mouse that liked the malt that lay in the house that Sam buiit. The Returning Board—This is the dog that was fed by the State, that made the cat hop up on the gate, the quarrelsome cat that made an as sault on the ebon mouse that gob bled tUe malt tiiat lay in the house that Sam built. The Democratic party—This is the cow whose sharp horn ro welled the creole dog till he rose and howled, tiiat dutiful dog that got. in a huff, and drove to the peak of the gable “ruff’ that sputtering cat wjiose principal fault was chasing the mouse that nibbled the malt that lay in the house that Sam built. The Democratic Office Seeker—This is the maid that sat on a harrow and tried to milk the cow that was farrow, the cow that didn’t know what she was at when she tossed the dog that worried the cat that hastened over the fence to the vault to catch the mouse that nibbled the malt that lay in the house that Sam built. House of Representatives—This is tlie priest with the ugly mug that gave the maid an encouraging hug in trying to milk the cow tiiat ap pears to have run dry now some twenty years, that tossed tlie dog till it lost its breath, tiiat fright ened the cat almost to death, the Kuklux cat whose principal fault was teasing .the mouse that nibbled the malt that lay in the house that Sam built. The Senate—This is the cop tiiat put the priest in a cave of gloom be cause he kissed the maid with the milking pail who tugsat theprom isingcow with the sterile dugs that tossed the dog till he yelped “ki yi!” that chased whenever she lin‘ gered nigh the furious cat that made the assault on tlie timid mouse that liked the malt that lay in the house that Sam built. Tlie Electoral Commission—This is the Constitutional law that put its puissant, and ponderous paw on the officer’s arm that caught the priest that kissed the maid tiiat “milked” tlie beast tiiat tossed the dog till it almost ceased to worry the cat tiiat made an assault on the freckled mouse that liked the malt that lay in the house that Sam built. Cronin—This is the man with the stalwart nose that over the land like a beacon glows, that lights his path wherever he goes with a pil lar of fire for friends and foes, and a glare like a gleaming bonfire throws to tlie far off realm where “Gable” grows, that shines on the priest’s and the maiden’s woes, on the farrow cow who for office lows, on the dog that likes to discom pose the querulous eat at her meal of crows who, when she couldn’t get any of those just arched her hack and made an assault on the musky mouse that liked the malt that lay in the house that Sain built. W. A. C. —New York Graphic. The address issued by the Demo crats of tlie House of Representatives does not strike the Nation as likely to change the proverbial bad fortunes of their party. That journal has these comments: “The address ends with a screaming recommendation to follow the eourse most sure to dis gust the public, and again close the political future to tlie party, namely, the pursuit of Hayes with a factious hostility, on the ground that he is not lawfully elected. It is extraor dinary that politicians of the small est experience and sagacity should fail to see that Hayes is now tlie President of the United States, and the only one there is or can be, and that popular confidence and support will inevitably he gathered to him, therefore, in view of the fact tiiat, good or bad, lie represents the nation to the world, all impugning of his title and all heaping of insults on him now on tlie score of ‘fraud’ will very soon touch tlie national pride and cover those engaged in it with an odium which nobody who re members how much national pride has to do witli the success of free government will be sorry to wit ness.” Take a good Republican paper.