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THE REPUBLICAN.
VOLUME I
OAKLAND BUSINESS GUIDE.
GROCERIES etc.
IyWISA TOW NS HEN 1),
gbnnral merchandise,
Afentx Agricultural Machines,
Opposite Hailey'* Park.
T) E* OFFUTT,
"• GENERAL MRRCIIAXniSK,
Agricultural Machine*, Mimical Instrument*,
Guns, l*l*tol, etc.
<' W. LKGGK,~
**• URXKKAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. Second A Oak st*.
T\ H. LOAlt,
ORIGINAL NEW YORK STOKE,
General Merchandise, Watches, (.'locks. Jew
elry, etc.
JOHN O. MICHAEL,
** (tKKKUAI. MERCHANDISE.
Second door South t'oddington'M Hotel.
f W. STALNAKER,
Grocery and Provision Store,
Cromer Third and Oak Street.
4 L. OSBOURN,
ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE,
Genera] Merchandise.
T BUSH A SON.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. Third A Oak *t*.
]\T B. WAY MAN,
• General Merchandise,
__ Cor. Alder* Main St*.
Brooks’
GREAT NEW YORK STORE,
General Merchandise,
Agent for Fertilizer*,
New Building. near D*|*r>t
C. MICHAEL,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Notions, (l.wks,Confectionery,etc,,
Next to Coddingtou'K Iltrl.
ICHARDSON 8R05.7
'*■*' G UOCRRIKS, CONFECTIONERIES,
Can net! Gmnis, Fruit, etc.
SALOONS.
EO. YV. CATON,
“ RESTAURANT.
Fried and Stewed oyster*. Raw on the Khell.
Families supplied.
HOTELS.
If ROWNING HOUSE,
" It. T. Browning, Proprietor.
Main Street.
/’ODDI N'GTOX’S 11OT EL,
W. M. Codihngton, i’rop’tor,
Main Kt., Opposite Jamison’* Hilliard Saloon
HO Alt It ISO HOUSES.
M IIS. DAVID RIIINEH ART,
Water Street.
]\*RS. RALPH THAYER,
"■* Oak and Third Streets.
T|AViS HOUSE,
-* ’ Mrs. M. E. Davis, Proprietress.
('or. Oak .t .Second stre.ls.
JVEW GLADE HOUSE,
Mrs. R. J. West, Proprietress.
Cor. Third dt Alder St*
George uosley’s,
Oak Street.
CABINETM ARE US A A’lt UN-
ItERTAK EltS.
\ C. BBOOKE,
lies, adjoining Gazetteoffice.
IOIIN SHATZEK, "
Shop on Fourth Street.
PHYSICIANS.
lilt. E. H. BARTLETT,
_ Office Main st., op. Dailey’s Park.
Tilt. J. LEE McCOMAS,
_ Office on Main Street.
MILLS.
{MUST AND SHINGLE MILLS,
Peter Martin, Proprietor.
Water Street
/ ) AK LA N D WOOLEN MILLS,
Sam’l Lawton,Manager.
PLASTERER.
TAMES ARNOLD,
” Residence on Fourth Street
ROOT AN It SHOE MAKER.
•WmT m. wagneu,
* * Shop Cor. Second <fe Oak Sts.
fJEO. F. LOUOHRIDGE,
Leave orders at Express office.
/’ LUCAS,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
Shop Cor. Water and Second St*
LIVER r STA BLE.
R T. BROWNING,
At Browning House.
TAILOR.
| F. MOORE,
" • Water street, near Martin’s Mill.
Repairing done nearly and promptly.
STOVES AND 7INWARE.
(’ A BHIRER,
Oak street, near Hecond.
A genera] line of Stove* and Tin ware.
SUE VKYoJIS.
1 LEX. C. MASON,
_ Office over Jamison’s Saloon.
R. HAMILL,
- LTl * County Surveyor,
Office in OlTutt’* Rullding.
¥OHN HARNED.
_ Address, Post Office
■ B. BRANT,
• Office in Offutt’s Building.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES .
pEO. G. STURGISS,
Drugs, Medicines,
Perftitnery, Toilet articles,Stationery,
Tobacco and Uigurs. Alder St.
It LACKS MITHS. ~~
in HAS. BINCELL,
v - / Liberty Street.
I F. BROWNING.
•* • Shop near Browning House.
CONTRA CTO Its A BUILDERS
JOHN M. JARBOE,
Oar|**nter, Contractor & Builder,
Rewideuoe on Liberty St. nearly oppo. Depot.
p a7 CHISHOLM,
* • Carpenter, Contractor,
And Builder.
ResidenceoverJftmiKon , n Saloon.
{JEO. A. SPEDDEN,
X* Residence opp. School house.
JOSEPH M. CRUM,
Residence on Alder Street.
A C. BROOKE,
•**•* Res. adjoining Gazette office.
MILLINERY AND FANCY
GOODS.
\1 L. SCOTT’S Baltimore Store.
Millinery, Gents’ Furnishing
And Fancy Good*, and Shoes.
Main Street, Opposite Dr. McComas' office.
RS. M K. DA VIS,
Cor. Oak & Second Sts.
MASONS.
If PRITCHARD,
Residence on Second St.
J LOYD CHAMBERS,
■*-* Residence Coddington’s Hotel.
JOHN PORTER,
“ Residence cor. Water & Third sts.
PAINTING A PAPER HANG.
ING.
OHIHO. C. LYNCH,
■“ House and Sign Painter,
Leave orders at Coddington's Hotel, or at
tlu* Stores of D. E OfTUtt or G. W. W. Lcgge.
AMES ENLOW, ”
** House and Sign Painter,
Residence adjoining Gazette Office.
P j7 fuTngerT -
House and Sign Painter.
And Paper Hanger.
Leave orders at Bush’s Store.
SAI) I>LEU VAN/) HARNESS
DELL & BUSH,
*-* In Basement of Bush’s Store.
JEWELER.
rp li. FORDYCE,
-*■ * In Win. Stnouse’s Building.
Sewing Machines, Watches and Clocks
Cleaned ami Repaired.
PHOTOQRA PH G A LLER V.
(’ w. Merrill”
Photographs and Ferrotypes
Made, in tlie best style.
Albumii, Picture Frames Picture Cord for sale.
Third Street, Opposite New Glade House
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
CMLMOK S. HAMILL,
T ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
Office in Offutt’s Buildiko,
(Lower Flooi.)
Particular attention given to Conveyancing,
uvestigatiou of land title* and collection of
iuini*. Loan* negotiated. jcM-ly
{AS. M. SCHLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cumberland, Md.
Will practice in tlie Courts of Washington,
Allegany and Garrett counties. Agent for
sale oftt.OOu acres of hind in Garrett county,
withiu one and a half to three miles of Oak
land. _ Jell-ly
J) HAMILL,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
Oakland,
Garrett county, Md
Office at residence on Main Street. JeH-ly
JOHN M. READ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Oakland,
NOTARY PUBLIC. Maryland.
Jell-ly
JW. VEITCH.
• ATTORNEY AT LAW
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Oakland, Harriett County, Md.
Will practice in the Court* of Garrett County
and the adjoining Counties of West Virginia,
au<l in the Court of Appeal* of Maryland.
Jan. HO-tf.
THO&J. PBDDICORD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Oakland,Garrett county, Md.
Will practice in the Courts of Garrett County
And the adjoining Counties of West Virginia,
and in the Court of Appeal* of Maryland.
Jan. 30-tf,
NOTICE.
HO BULLDOZING IN OAKLAND.
OWING TO HARD TIMES mid SCARCITY
of MONEY, I have curtailed my expenses
and will give the advantages to my custom
ers. On and after this date my prices will bo
reduced to the following low rate*:
Mew Shoes, all round SI.OO
Helnß n pruotlcnl mechanic, ax my work
will allcKt, I ntn able to guarantee all work.
BLACKHMITHINQ IN GEN ERA I. DONE
IN A WORKMANLIKE MANNER.
C. H. SINCELL,
Oaui-amd, Mn., March 17th, 1877,
DR. J. DAILY,
SKINT DENTIST
WESTERN FORT,
MARYLAND.
From one to a full *et
of teeth Inserted in the
most beautiful and
substantial manner.
Particular attention \ u
paid to cleaning and 'WfT wbhALi&ii-'- iih
tiling tlie natural teeth -4^-,/
All work warranted | ff W flO
to give satisfaction, or
monsy refunded. JeJl-Iy
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OAKLAND, MD., SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877.
Ross Winanß.
The aged machinist and inventor,
Whose long and useful life terminated
Wednesday morning, was one of the
strongly marked men of his genera
tion. He had peculiar traits that
would have made him a conspicuous
character, no matter what calling he
had chosen. We believe that he be
gan life as a farmer, and never served
an apprenticeship to the business in
which he won so much distinction.
When the laying of railroad tracks
and building of locomotives was an
untried experiment, Mr. Winans
devoted himself to the study of what
may be called the possibilities of the
new mode of transportion. At that
time Baltimore was the centre of the
railroad excitement, and Mr. Winans
left his New Jersey farm and came
here to contribute his skill and in
vestive genius to the solution of the
difficult problem.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
had just begun the construction of
locomotives at the Mount Clare
shops, which were then owned by
Hillingham & Davis, when the ju
nior member of the firm (Mr. Phin
eas Davis) was accidentally killed by
the explosion of an engine. Mr.
Wirtans succeeded him in the firm,
and for the next twenty five or thirty
years devoted himself to the study
of mecnanics and the improvement
of railroad machinery. He was a
most laborious.and patient investiga
tor, and when he supposed that he
had discovered the germ of a useful
invention he continued to experi
ment with it until all its capabilities
were exhausted. Although not a
practical mechanic he was a self
taught draughtsman, and took much
delight in elaborating his inventions
on paper. He kept a drawing board
at his home, as well as at his shop,
and when developing some mechan
ical appliance in which he was par
ticularly interested he paid little need
to the flight of time.
Mr. Winans was not the inventor
of the railroad locomotive, but it
grew in his shop from the quaint
looking little motor that might have
been seen standing in front of the
Maryland Building at the Centennial
Exhibition, to the ponderous and
powerful “camel back,’’ the strong
est puller that has ever been put up
on a railroad track. A few of them
are still used for drawing heavy
freight trains up steep grades, but no
new ones are made and this race of
laborious giants, of which Mr. Wi
nans was tiie father, will soon be ex
tinct. He took much pride in his
progeny, and up to his retirement
from business, and possibly to the
day of his death, stoutly maintained
that they were superior to the smal
ler locomotives that crowded them
from the track.
Unlike most discoverers and inven
tors, Mr. Winans was eminently suc
cessful in business. He had a prac
tical turn of mind that saved him
from the usual fate of the thinker
and investigator. Hisshop at Mount
Clare became one of the most famous
in the land, and as many as four
hundred men were employed when
the famous “camel backs” were still
in favor with the railroad companies.
Some of the best machinists in the
country were trained at Mount Clare,
and the proprietor of at least one of
the principal Baltimore founderies
was an apprentice there. When the
“camel backs” fell into disfavor Mr.
Winans retired from the manufactur
ing business, and for the last twenty
years has lived in comparative re
tirement, although he never lost his
love for the mechanic arts, and quite
recently he exhibited a working
model of his own designing, intended
to demonstrate the practicability of
purifying the stagnant waters of the
harbor bv creating artificial currents.
As already intimated Mr. Winans
regarded the freight locomotive in
vented and built by him as the best
railroad motor in existence, and he
never could he convinced to the con
trary. About the year 1856 the offi
cers of the Baltimore and Ohio com
pany began to weigh the heavy cost
of keeping their tracks in repair
against the advantages derived Irom
the use of the powerful“camel 1 nicks”
and reluctantly came to the conclu
sion that it would be more economi
cal to use locomotives of less weight,
•ven at the sacrifice of a certain
amount of pulling power. Mr.
Henry Tyson was master machinist
for the company at that time and re
ported against the “camel backs,”
and Mr. Garrett concurred with him.
This was tlie beginning of a contro
versy with Mr. Winans that resulted
In his retiring from business. The
Company wanted a dozen or more
freight engines built, and they gave
theiorder to A. Denmead & Son, the
proprietors of a rival establishment.
Mri Winans published numerous
pamphlets and wrote many commu
nications to the newspapers to show
that his locomotive was not only the
most powerful one in existence, but,
rightly managed, it was the
moat economical. He also contended
with great warmth that the order for
freight locomotives of another pat
tern, given to Denmead & Son, was
notice to all the railroads in the
country that the “camel back” was
a failure at home, and that it was
therefore an injury to him which
cofirtd not be measured by the mere
loss of the contract. It was not the
pecuniary loss that troubled Mr. Wi
uan’fe, however, in one of his letters
(6 Mr. Garrett he says: “This is not
a matter of gain with me, it is a
question of science and truth.” Sci
ence and experience was against him
however, and he soon ceased to build
locomotives. When the next Cen
tennial exposition comes around the
“camel back” will be as great a cu
riosity as the little engine built by
Phineas Davis, which the Baltimore
and Ohio Company exhibited last
summer as the pioneer of their line.
Although Mr. Winans directed his
attention principally to the inven
tion and improvement of railroad
machinery, he devised many other
appliances for saving labor and in
creasing the comfort and happiness
of mankind. We do not think,how
ever, that many of them have come
into general use. At the beginning
of the war he was credited with the
invention of a “steam gun” that was
seized by the Union troops on the
suspicion that it was intended for
the South. He was a member of the
historic “Frederick' Legislature” in
1861, and shared in the misfortunes
of that body. After his release from
imprisonment he took but little part
in public affairs, but in local matters
and especially in projects for im
proving the city of Baltimore, he
exhibited the liveliest interest.
There is a large volume of pamphlets
written by him in the library of the
Maryland Historical Society, and
they nearly all relate to subjects in
dicated by such titles as these : “To
Prevent Floods in Baltimore,”
“Hygiene and Sanitary Matters,”
“Jones’ Falls,” “Precautions Per
taining to the Enjoyment of Health,’
etc., etc. He also wrote a number
of pamphlets and two or three books
on theological subjects. Viewed
from the orthodox standpoint, his
theology was not sound, but his life
was pure, and his errors In religious
belief were in some measure com
pensated for by a warm philanthropy
that was constantly exerted in devi
sing measures for the improvement
of the condition of the poor. He
was happy in his domestic relations,
fond of home, plain and unostenta
tious in his inode of living, and made
no display of his wealth. The name
of Ross Winans will a I way- occupy
a prominent ail and honorable place
in the annals of Baltimore.— Balto:
American , April 12.
Governor Hampton.
New York, April 7.—A Columbia
special gives the following as Gover
nor Hampton’s speech yesterday:
“Mr. Hayes, consulting his own dig
nity and respect fr the laws for the
people of South Carolina, and for
myself, asked me to make no conces
sions, to make no terms and pro
posed no conditions, and as long as
he will follow out in good faith the
policy indicated in his inaugural, if
he will do equal justice to all sections
in this country, and see that the laws
are enforced in Massachusetts as in
South Carolina, in Louisiana as in
Ohio; if ho will carry out in good
faith all the pledges he has made and
be a constitutional president, recog
nizing no party, race, or section, so
long will 1 support him. I wish to
say to you, forget for the next four
years everything about politics ; for
get that you are Democrats or Re
publicans, and remember only that
you are South Carolinians. Show
the people of the North that wo have
no proscription in our hearts, that we
welcome him who comes here as a
citizen, no matter what his politics
may be. I say again, now that the
power has been placed in our hands,
here where I took the oath of office
solemnly swearing that I would obey
the Constitution of the United States
and of this State, I say once more
that I intend to carry out every
pledge and to be governor of the
whole people. Therefore I enjoin it
upon you that to reap thefrultof our
victory you must observe the laws.
1 do not issue a proclamation, I do
not give an order, but I ask my
friends of South Carolina, the people
whom I have trusted and who have
trusted me and done me more honor
than any people ever did a man, 1
ask them to carry out my wishes. 1
want every man to constitute him
self a conservator of the peace, see
that there shall be no violence, and
go around and tell his neighbors that
f there is bloodshed and violence we
shall lose what we have gained, and
to appeal to them to carry out this
policy of peace. The only difficulty
that seemed to stand in the way at
Washington was the fenr that when
the troops were taken out of the
State House there would be violence.
They asked about it. I pledged my
honor; mark me my friends, I
pledged my honor that not one sin
gle man should go into that State
House unless he had business there;
that I would place two unarmed men
simply to inform the citizens that 1
requested them not to go there ; and
I felt assured there would be no vio
lence or excitement and that the
laws would be obeyed. Have I
promised too much for you ? [Cries
of no.] You have trusted me. Trust
me a little longer. It is important
for you.
It is important for South Carolina
iana and for the whole country that
the troops should not be removed
until I got here. When that order
comes let nobody go to that State
House. Just let it stand until 1
want it, and I will tell you when
that is. Your destiny is now in your
own bands. It is for you to shape it
for weal or woe. You can by im
prudence or violence undo tho labor
of months, and bring back to us all
the scenes of anarchy, misrule and
corruption which have prevailed.
Or if you are prudent and discreet as
you have been, you can soon place
yourselves in a higher and better
plane. I beg the white men to show
to the colored men that what I have
said for 12 years is true, that you are
the best friend they have In tlie
world. I nppeal to tlie colored men
to recognize the government, which
is now firmly established ; to trust us
for a while, and as they are still in
the majority, if the government I
have established does not carry out
the pledges I have made, then throw
out all the men in office at the next
election, and put in anybody you
please.
James Parton’s Baby.
It is stated that “Mr. James Par
ton is rejoicing over his first baby.”
Parton? Parton? Yes, we remember
now. Mr. Parton married Fanny
Fern. Was her third husband. And
wheu she died he married her daugh
ter—his step-daughter. But he could
not endure the idea of being a step
father. It was repugnant to his feel
ings. So he married her, and then
discovered the laws of the states did
not recognize such marriages, and
asked the lawmakers to make a little
low for him but they refused, and he
moved off the premises without no
tifying the landlord,since which time
we had not heard of him until this
baby remained us of these things.
But what bothers us now is to fix Mr.
Parton’s relationship—or rather his
numerous relationship—to that baby.
In the first place, ought we to call
him a father or grandfather? Because
it is his child and his grandchild.
But if that baby is his grandchild
and Parton is its father, bless me Par
ton must be brother to himtelf! That
is quite clear. And if Parton is his
own brother, why, then he must be
uncle to that baby. That follows, of
course. And if he is uncle to that ba
by his wife must be its aunt. Why
there is no end to this confusion. Of
course, Mrs. Parton can’t be aunt and
mother at the some time. The idea
is absurd. We see now where we
were in error. The exact relation
ship may be stated thus: Purton is a
father and—is a half or fourth
grandfather? No matter; call it a half.
Consequently that baby is—is .
Now Fanny Fern took him as her
third huspand, and Parton’s present
wife being her daughter, nnd not his
that daughter’s baby is no kin to him.
That souuds absurd, too, very. Al
lowing it is Parton’s child, to begin
with. Parton is its father, and he is
just as much its grandfather, unlses
it is the intention not to permit the
poor thing to have any grandfater at
all. Now, if it is his grandchild, and
he was Fanny Fern’s third husband,
this baby is the child of her daugh
ter, every time he takes it on his
knee—it could’nt possibly b* a twin,
could it? No that isn’t it. Yet there
does apper to be two generations in
that one baby somehow. Tlie idea
of dandling too generations on the
NUMBER 8.
knee? That is the most ridiculous
idea of all. Why if that child were
really Fanny Fern’s daughter’s child
and Parton was third .fOshand to
Fanny, and father to her daughter
now, it ain’t possible Parton could
pick himsef up'and dandle himself
on his own knee! This is the most
serious matrimonial complicatioo we
ever tried to solve. We are unable
to do more than crack the shell; the
real kei nel appears to be shrouded
in complications as numerous as the
folds enwrapping an Egyptian mum
my. We are afraid to pursue the
subject any further, least the horri
ble suspicion that dawns upon us
that the baby should proveto be Par
ton’s father should be verified. As
it is, we think it ought not to be Par
ton’s father. —Pittxburph Chronicle.
Hawk-Eyetems.
The caving in of the Mt. Cenis
tunnel has induced a great many
people to believe that the tunnel has
Cenis best days.
Nine colored men were recently
sent to the penitentiary in West Vir
ginia, for postal robberies. There’s
blackmail for you, with a vengeance.
About the oldest little game of
draw we know of was played when
Joshua razed Jerico, and the fellows
of the city wished they hadn’t
starved in.
A woman in Omaha was choked
almost to death, and entirely de
stroyed her power of speech, the
other day, by swallowing a gaiter
button. We have said a thousand
times that some serious trouble would
yet come of this custom of Omaha
women unbuttoning their shoes with
their teeth.
Prof. Proctor says the earth is rap
idly growing larger. We are real
glad of it, for now there will soon be
room for Joaquin Miller to stand
without feeling his wild, free genius
cramped by the narrow confines of
one little globe.
There never was a time when the
insurance business was so safe as it
now is. All that a man wants to do
after he gets insured is to die right
quick, before the company does. But
he doesn’t want to be fooling around
living and having a good time.
Dion Boucicault says he is “going
to live in America forever.” Glud
he is so fond of tlie country. Most
of us who were born here, are satis
fied if we can live in it eighty or
eighty five years.
The trouble with Chambahlain,
sah, appears to be sah, that he hasn't
got enough of the swaggah of the
real southern gentleman about him
sail. He didn’t bristle up enough,
and put on more airs than he had
mortgages, as his more chivalrous
opponent did.
One of the attendants in the Brit
ish museum was frightened into con
vulsions the oilier day, because he
thought an Egyptian mummy, four
thousand years old spoke to him.
Mighty easily frightened. The old
est mummies in the world address
the democratic party in America, on
the political issues of the day, every
campaign, and people never think of
being frightened. They get dread
fully sleepy, sometimes.
The widow of “Stonewall” Jack
son says that no man has been more
misunderstood than her husband.
“He is represented she asserts, “as
having been stern, inexorable and
hard natured. He was just the op
posite. He was a demonstrative, as
affectionate and yielding as a wo
man. At home he was tender, play
ful and loving. His whole life hung
around his home. He had no ambi
tion—no love of power—no thought
of place or pomp. His horror of
bloodshed was instinctive and pow
erful. He served his country from a
sense of duty. He was passionately
devoted to children. Our first child
died, and my daughter was born only
a few weeks before his death. He
never took a day’s furlough during
the war; not even to come to see his
child. Just before the battle of
Chancellorsville I took the little baby
and went to see him. You should
have seen what raptures he went in
to over that little girl's cradle. I
have seen him kneel by her cradle
for hours at a time, Just gazing into
her sleeping face.” It was suggested
that the letters to her (luring the war
would give her many interesting
points. “Oh, no,” she said, a char
ming blush stealing over her face,
while soft remembrances put a new
light in her expressive eyes, “they
were all real love letters. Jle had
little room for anything else in his
letters home. And then he was a
very prudent man and never talked
of We plans to any oue.”