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THE REPUBLICAN.
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VOLUME I;
OSKLAND BUSIMIDE.
■ GROCERIESi ekl
TYAVLS <1- TOWNSMEND,
(JKNKRA.L MEUCT
Agents Agricultural Mueliiiuw*-
lHaley’s Parly.
T) E. QFFUTT,
Agricultural Machines, Musieaflnstruments,
Guns, Pistols, (*tc.
<1 W. LEGGE, ’ ~
* GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. .Second fc Uuk sts.
T\ H. I,OAK,
** ORIGINAL NEW YORK STORE,
General Merchandise, Watches, Clocks, Jew
elry, etc.
JOHN O. MICHAEL,
° GEX ERA L -VERCII AXpESE.
-Seeoml, doyy South CockliugUm'slluffel.
T \V. STALNAKEE,
Grocery and Provision Store,
Corner Third and Oak Street.
\ L. OSBOURN,
ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE,
General Merchandise.
T BUSH & SON.
“• GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. Third <k Oak sts.
TV B. WAYMAN,
• General Merchandise,
_ Cor. Alder A- Main Sts.
HOOKS’””
13 GREAT NEW YORK STORE,
General Merchandise,
Agent for Fertilizers,
New Building, near Depot
P C. MICHAEL,
' GENERAL MKKrnAXm.SK,
Notions, Clocks,Confectionery, etc.,
Next to Coddliigton'n Hoti 1.
i> ICHAHDSON BROS.,
GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES,
(banned Goods, Fruit, etc.
SALOONS.
W. CAPON,
RESTAURANT.
tried and Ktcwcil oysters. Raw on the shell.
Families supplied.
IK) TI,LS.
IJROWNING HOUSE,
•*-* B. T. Browning, Proprietor.
Main Street,
{KIDDING T< )N’S HOTEL,
W. M. Coddington, Prop*tor,
Main St., Opposite .la in Ison’s Billiard Saloon
no.ll:inxo houses.
Mas. havii) hhlnhiiaut,
Water Street.
US. HALIMI TIIAYER,
Oak aiul Third Streets.
Davis house,
.Mrs. .M. K. Ha vis, Proprietress.
Cor. Oak A: Second streets.
]VEW GLADE HOUSE,
Mrs. It. J. West, Proprietress.
Cor. Third ft Alder Sts I
ft EG RUE HOSLEY’S,
w Oak Street.
C’A It IXR I M AKERS AM) UN
DER TA K liltS.
t C. BROOKE,
Res. adjoinin'; Gazette office.
|(7hN SIIATZER,
*’ Shop on Fourth Street.
PHYSICIANS.
DB. E. H. BARTLETT,
< Mice Main st., op. Dailey’s Park.
Dlt. J. LEE MuCOMAS,
Offlee on Main Street.
MILLS.
(’ It IST AND SHINGLE MI LLS,
Peter Martin, Proprietor.
Wtttor Strei!t
OAKLAND WOOLEN MILLS,
” Sam’i. Lawton,Manager.
V LAST HUE It.
TAMES ARNOLD,
Residence on Fourth Street
MOOT AND SHOE MAKER.
TlfM. M. WAGNER,
* * Shop Cor. Second <fc Oak Sts.
<riEO. F. L<HJGIIItIDGEi
Leave orders at Express office.
I ’ LUCAS,
v> * Boot and Shoe Maker,
Shop Cor. Water and Second Sts
LIVER Y ST A RLE.
O T. BROWNING,
At Browning House.
TAILOR.
T F. MOORE,
" • Water street, near Martin’s Mill.
Repairing done neatly and promptly.
STO VES AND lIXWA RE.
jp A. SIIIItER,
" • Oak street, near Second.
A general line of Stoves and Tinware.
SURVEYORS.
LEX. C. MASON,
Office over Jamison’s Saloon.
M r. iiamill,
• County Surveyor,
Offlee in Offutt’B Building.
JOHN HARNED.
Address, Post Office. _
JB. iTTiant\
• Offlee in Offutt’s Building.
Ott UOS -ANDrMEDICINES. ,
fJEjCL G., ST.IiTtO ISS,
Drugs, Medicines,
Perfumery, Toilet articles,Stationery,
unit Cigaxs. Alder St.
HLA ( /(SMITHS.
(PHAS. SIJfOELL,
■ ,> -Liberty Street.
T F. BROWNING,
** * Shop near Browning House.
CONTRACTORS <t‘ ItCILDERS
JOHN M. JARBOE,
** Carpenter, Contractor & Builder,
Residence on Liberty si. nearly oppo. Jlepot .
O A. CHISHOLM,
* • Carpenter, Contractor,
And Builder.
Residence over Jamison’s Saloon.
fIEO. A. SPEDDEN,
” Itesid' tice o;tp. School hob .-iff
fOSlftOl M. (RIM,
** Residence Oil Alder Street.
A C. BItOOKE,
lies, adjoining Gazette office.
MILLINERY AND FANCY
. ■ ROODS.
VI L. SCOTT’S Baltimore Store.
Millinery, Gents’ Furnishing
And Fahey Goods, and Shoes.
Main Street, Opposite Dr. MeComas* offlee.
Mbs. M.E. DAVIS,
Cor. Oak & Second Sts.
MASONS.
D PB ITCH A ill),
Residence on Second St.
| LOYD CHAMBERS,
Residence Coddington’s Hotel, j
JOHN PORTER,
** Residence cor. Water & Third sts. *
PAINTJXO .( RARER HAND-
I NO.
rjpHEO. C. LYN( IT,
•* House and Sign Painter,
Leave tirders at Foddingtoii's Hotel, or at
the Stores i D. KOfflitt or O. Wi W. Lcgge.
JAMES ENDOW,
** House and Sign Painter,
Residence adjoining Gazette Offlee.
p jI frTnger,
• Li * House and Sign J’uintcr.
And Paper Hanger.
Leave orders at Bush’s Store.
SADDLERY AND HARNESS. |
|>KLL & BUSH,"'
In Basement of Bush’s Store, i
JEWELER.
B. FORDYCE,
-*-* In Wm. Smouse’s Building.
Sewing Machine#, Watches and Flocks
Cleaned and Repaired.
RHOTOGRA PH OA LLEII V.
Q W. MERRILL,
" • Photographs and Ferrotypes
Made in the Best style.
Albums, Picture Frames Picture Cord tor sale.
Third street, Opposite New Glade House
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C1 ILMOR s. HAMILL,
T ATTORN KY AT LAW
AND SOLD’ITOii IN C H ANCKRY.
okfick in Ofkftt’.s Rpildino,
J,>wer Fiooi.i
Particular attention given tot Conveyancing,
uvestigation of land titles and collection of
lainiK. Loans negotiated. jel4-ly
I As. M. SCHLEY.
I ATTORNEY AT LAW,
< -TMHKia.ANP, M n.
Will practice in tlie Courts of Washington,
Allegany and Garrett counties. Agent for
sale nl it.iHMi acres of land In Garrett county,
within one and a half to three miles of Oak
land. jell-ly
p 11 A.M J 1.1.,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
Oakland,
Garrett county. Md
Offlee at residence on Main street, jeit-iy
JOHN M. READ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Oakland,
NOTARY PUBLIC. Maryland,
lelt-ly
JW. VEITCH,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
IIAKLVNU, GaURUTT COUNTY, Ml).
Will practice in the Cotirtsof Garrett (‘ounty
and the adjoining Counties of West Virginia,
and in tlie Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Jan. -’UMf.
THOS. J. PEDDICORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SOLD’ITOII IN CIIANCERY,
Oakland,Gakrktt County, Md.
Will practice In the Courts of Garrett County
and the adjoining Comities of West Virginia,
and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Jan. 30-tf,
NOTICE.
NO BULLDOZING IN OAKLAND.
OWING TO HARD TIMES and SCARCITY
of MONEY, I have curtailed my expenses
and will give the advantages to my custom
ers. On and after tills date my prices will be
reduced to tin* following low rates:
New Shoes, all round SI.OO
Being a practical mechanic, as my work
will attest, I am able to guarantee all work.
BLACKSMITHING IN GENERAL DONE
IN A WORKMANLIKE MANNER.
C. H. SINCELL,
Oakland, Md., March 17th, 1K77.
DR. J.DAILY,
IWm DENTIIT
WESTERN PORT,
MARYLAND.
From one to a full set
of teeth inserted in the ;
most beautiful and
substantial manner. .. ..Js
I*)trM!Ulnr atlcnllon v’”*-'
paid to i-k-aiilnil and AS - ■ •
tiling the natural teeth ISWVtaEdLi- -it-.
All work warranted sNI O"*’! J
toxlve satlKfaction.or
money refunded. Jc2l-ly
OAKLAND, A, SATURDAY* MAY 5, 1877.
rV- I _
V lFrom the Toledo JMfIK
More Trouble at the Cof&^s—Color
Bothers the Saints in almjr Way.
CuXKEDRIT X
(Wich in in the State of Kenjm-k y,) >
Attril |
*We hetl to hev an elecktsliro for a
Just is of the Pet Hit* at iters,
last week, to fill vacancy. lUfffihalet
Boye, who hez filled the to
the entire satisfaeshen of the
that is the white people, for ttift; last
forty yeers, tinelly to
Bascom’s likker and the unepti
stooshul eleekshun of Hayes, and
went to his long home. Peeee to his
ashes! He was a gilelis man, and a
good one. It wuz bis constant boast
thatji^.U> s W. yeers of servis lie all uz
give a verdick for,the plaintiff. “Ef.
the plaintiff wuzn’t in the right wat
in thunder did he sou for?” wuz his
remark. When the unconstooslmel
Fifteenth Amendment wuz passed,
Squire Boyer devotid his entire en
ergies to decidin agin them niggers.
He varied his practis so much that
it didn’t make any diffrens whether
the nigger wuz plaintiff or defend
ant, the verdick wuz invariably agin
him. His rool wuz that whenever
two white men dispoots one of em
must lie rite, hut that it wuz impos
sible tiiata nigger shood be rite un
der any circumstances. When ther
wuz a white map agin a nigger the
verdick wuz agin the niggtr, with
out heerin evidence; and so healthy
and vigrus a prejoodis lied he agin
niggers that I hev knowd him,when
one nigger sood another, to give a
verdick agin both of em, wich wuz
a triumph of joorisproodence. And I
they felt theirselves lucky ef he j
didn’t commit em for contempt of j
court. Good old man! We shel
never see his like agin.
’Squire Boyer hevin gone hentz 1
we hed to elect a Just is to fill his
place, and in the Uonvenshun Dee
kin Pograrn and Abslum Pettus wuz
the candidates, Pettus developed a
good deel of strength, butthe Deekin
hevin invitid the Uonvenshun out to
take suthin, it turned the scale and
he wuz nominated. Pettus swore
he wood never stand that kind of
tactics, and he declared hisself an
independent candidate, at wich we
laft, for tlie Dimocrisy of the Cor
ners are firm bleevers in the sanctity
of regler nominashens.
The Radikels, mostly niggers, |
heditl by Pollock and Bigler, met
and resolved to make no nomiua
slien, and so the contest wuz between
the good old Deekin and this
wretched, disorganizin Pettus, and a
very lively canvass it wuz.
The niggers called a meetin, wich |
perceedin filled us with astonish-1
inent. Sieh a thing hed never hap
pened here before, and we all won
dered wat it mennt.
“Of course this can’t be permitted!”
set! the Deekin.
“Not any,” sez I. “It’s agin na
cher, and must be prevented.”
And so on the idle of tlie meetin,
Issaket, Capt 'McPelter and the rest j
of the faithful went to the hall over
Pollock’s store, where the niggers
wuz in session, and pullin our revol
vers, advised em to git. The nig
gprs didn’t git, for up sprung Pettus j
and about a dozen of his frends, and
made some few remarks.
“Theze gentlemen,” sod Pettus,
“is citizens of the Yoonited States,
and ez sich hev a rite to meet and
consult ez to tlie condishn of our
common country. They are n goin
to do it, or yoo hev me to file, ez
well ez them. This thing is played
out.”
I wuz struck dum with astonish
ment.
“Why this is revolooshen ! This
is anarky ! This is a turnin over of
things! This is a upturn:n and an
upheevle! The idee of a white man
and a Dimekrat a sidin with niggers
and radikels! Pettus, wat do yoo
mean? Set down sir! The Dimo
crutic party holds yoo to your allegi
anse.”
“D--n the Dirnekratic party,”
wuz the reply of this infiddle. “I
want to be Justis and I’m a goin to
be! I perpose to beet that old suc
ker.”
The niggers held ther meetin and
resolved to east ther ballots for Ab
slum Pettus, Esq.
“Will they be allowed to vote?”
askt tlie Deekin, Ills voice quiverin
with emoshun.
“Never!” sed I. “Ef they vote
then chaos conies agin.”
The eleekshun wuz held last Mon
day. Early in the mornin Pettus,
and a dozen or two of renegade Dim
ocrats, with Pollock and that infa
mus Joe Bigler, all of em with re
volvers, wuz on hand when the poles
Wuz opened, with more than a hun
4fed niggers. Instid of hevin Po
gjpftn, Bascom and McPelter for the
wich hez bin the custom for
Mpp>, they insist id upon beiu repre
wiMM theirselves, and ez they wuz
lately in the majority they put a
on tiie Board.
,®lie Dimocrisy rallied but it wuz
they wuz demoralized, l’et-
all day about the rites of
ajfcjcitizens to vote, and ez the nig
gers hed bin made citizens lie swore
they shood vote, or lie’ll know the
reason why, espeshelly ez they wuz
all a votin for him. And Pollock
and Bigler backed him up, and tHe
niggers took heart, hevin support
friin so many white men, and they
c me fn in droves, anil votid ez nat
’.‘■‘rally ez thri tnev lied bin alfuz
yoosed to it.
And ez we hed no chance to do |
the eouutin by ourselves, owin to I
that nigger’s hein on the Board, with j
Pettus and Bigler standiu right be
hind him, tlie ornary cuss wuz de- {
dared electid, and Deekin Pograrn
defeetid, by a large majority.
This is the end of all things. Pet
tus hez declared for the Administra
shen of tlie yooserper Hayes, and
hez changed his liedquarters to Pol- \
lock’s store, and ther he and his min- j
yuns meet every nite, and exult over j
his triumph.
But it doesn’t end here. Issaker j
Gavitt kicked a nigger yesterday and j
the nigger hauld him up afore Squire I
Pettus, and that onfeelin man fined j
Issaker, and when Issaker refoosed ;
to pay the line on the ground that a
Court elected by niggers coodent
possiblv becoonstooshnel, nohow,he
chucked him into tlie calaboose,
where he is now languishin, a niar
ter to prinsipie and a want of four
dollars and a half!
Where will it end? The Lord
only knows. The color line is busted
in the Corners, and the niggers by
tlie treachery of one man, hev the
power. Next full they will elect tlie
county ofiisers, ef some Dimekrat j
wich hez never distinguished hisself
a shootin of em sees tit to lied em,
and some sich will be found. I kin
see wat is goin to happen. Deekin
Pograrn is now greevin that he
didn’t show the black cusses sum
eonsiderashen, and entice em away
from Pettus. He is lamcntin that
lie didn’t treet them cordelly, and
affilyate with era, and yoose em ez
becums voters. “Hed I done this,”
said the good old man, “I mite hev
bin elected.” Good heavens! to
think of the hawty Caucasliun iienil
iu the supple knee to a nigger for his
vote! To this complexion must it
come at last! I see it all. The love
of offis outways the hatred of color.
Sieh is poar human nacher. Ther
ain’t nothin but rooin a hed.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Ex-Reformer.
Colonel Spotted Tail.— A
Washington dispatch states that the
proper reward which should be ex
tended to Spotted Tail for his signal
services to the government in closing
the war is now engaging the atten
tion of the Indian commissioner and
Gen. Sherman. Commissioner
Smith has suggested that he he com
missioned an officer with the rank of
major or colonel, and the suggestion
meets with favor from both Sher
man, Sheridan and others. The War
Department has authority to enlist a
thousand scouts, and Gen. Sherman
has expressed decided approval of a
recommendation that this number of
Indians be enlisted and organized as
a regiment of regular cavalry, with
Spotted Tail and other chiefs having
commands, witli a white officer in
full command and in charge of some
of the companies.
Just now the people of Baltimore
are in a state of indignation because
the water they are obliged to drink
is so fishy that it is antliing but pal
atable. The cause is stated to be
dead fish in tlie lakes from which the
supply is drawn. Unless the trouble
be remedied before tlie warm
weather sets in much sickness must
be the result.
In Siam they have a curious wav
of deciding law suits by putting
both parties under water and award
ing the victory to the one who stays
the longer, entirely dispensing with
lawyers. Hence the legal term,
“Just as Siam, without one plea.”—
Worcester Prims.
Hanging oil a peg in the Derrick
office is a golden crown studded with
diamonds. It is for the man who
writes an article on trout fishing and
' says nothing about “speckled beau-
I ties.”—Oß City Derrick.
Depression in England.
As a general rule stagnation in
trade cannot be traced to political
causes. Sometimes particular indus
tries in tlie United States may be af
fected by modifications in the tariff,
and no doubt the threat of repudia
tion aggravated the financial troubles
occasioned by tlie issue of an excess
of paper currency: but with those
exceptions there is very little con
nection between business and poli
tics. The laws of trade rise para
mount to party platforms and party
majorities, and are but little affected
by changes in the mode of adminis
tration, or even by the introduction
of new theories of government.
Nevertheless, the condition of trade
and industry that happens to obtain
at the time of an election has a pow
erful influence in derterniining its
result. The business depression that
followed the panic of 1873 nearly de
stroyed the Republican party. There
never has been such a political phe
nomenon witnessed in this country
as the so called “tidal wave” of 1874.
Its effects have not yet subsided, anil
there is no telling what changes may
have taken place in the organization
of existing political parties before its
momentum has been completely ta
ken up.
Intelligent Republican voters were
as firmly wedded to Republican
principles in 1874 as they were in
1872, hut there were hundreds of
thousands of laboring men out of
employment, and they voted against
the Repulic in candidates for Con
gress in the belief that their defeat
would in some manner assist in
driving away the gaunt spectre of
“hard times.” The experience of
the next two years should teach them
that a two thirds Democratic ma
jority in the popular branch of Con
gress was powerless to afford them
relief, and that neither legislation,
nor political theorizing, nor partisan
assaults upon the existing Adminis
tration improved their condition in
the least. The blame was put upon
tlie President, upon the Senate, upon
the hard money men, upon the in
flationists, upon the carpet baggers,
and upon the “bayonet policy" of:
the Administration by turns; al
though the partisan orators filled the
land with promises that new men
and measures would bring relief,
business did not revive, and the evil
genius of “hard times” maintained
bis grip. The consuming blast of de
nunciation whicfi the House of Rep
resentatives turned upon the Admin
istration did not start the fires in a
single furnace or set the wheels of
the smallest factory in motion. The
causes of tlie prostration of industry
were not political, and no political
expedients could remove them.
England is passing through an ex- j
perience precisely similar to the one
that has thrown a dark shadow over
our own land, but nobody pretends
to ascribe it to political causes, or to
parcel out the blame between the.
“Liberals” and "Tories.” There is
suffering in the manufacturing
towns, and thousands of unemployed
laborers have a dreary prospect be
fore them. Mr. Jennings, the cor
respondent of the New York World,
writes that the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer was obliged to acknowledge
in the course of a debate in Parlia
ment the other night that the exports (
were falling off with continuous reg
ularity. When the demand for the
manufactured products of England j
falls off, a period of business depres- i
sion is inevitable. Mr. Jenningsays ,
that the situation is aggravated by
the excessive rains, which have pre
vented the farmers from sowing their
spring wheat. It is predicted that
England will not grow half enough
of wheat this year for home con
sumption. No doubt this is one of
the causes that have occasioned the
alnio* t unprecedented rise in bread
i stuffs in this country. Tlie war in
the East will lie of no advantage to
England, unless, perchance, she takes
part in it herself. It will close up
important markets in which she lias
j heretofore sold her wares, and will
put the price of provisions to a fig
ure that will bring the unemployed
poor to the verge of starvation. This
I is the prospect in England to day,
and yet she has “hard money,”
“home rule,” “free trade,” and all
the other political conditions which
were commended to us as a sever
eign panacea for all our financial and
commercial ills .—Baltimore Ameri
can.
The lion. Robert C. Wiuthrop has
been talking with the President and
I has become a convert to his policy.
He says that while he voted for Mr
Tilden he is now an enthusiastic
admirer of Mr. Haves.
NUMBER 10.
The Blue and the Gray.
New York, April 27.—The Exec
utive Committee of the Grand Army
of the Republic, appointed to .per
fect arrangements for the celebration
of Decoration Day, recently resolved
to invite tlie co operation of all ex-
Confederate veterans in the cere
mony. In furtherance of the object
of fraternization Mr. J. W. Shorter
called a meeting of gentlemen who
had been in the Southern army, and
last evening there assembled a num
ber of ex-Confederates, among whom
Were Roger A. Pryor, Edward
Woolfolk, Captain Kibbee, William
Caldwell, Amos J. Bates; Joseph W-
Gilder, ex-Senator of North Caro
lina, W. L. Fox, and others. Mr.
Shorter stated the object .of the
meeting, and Mr. Woolfolk said be
felt assured that all Southern men
would be pleased as he was to dis
play a spirit of friendship, and would
be glad to accept tlie invitation
which bad been, extended to them
by the Grand Army. There are a
number of Confederates buried in
the Brooklyn cemeteries, and their
graves had been regularly honored
by the Grand Army comrades. AH
party feeling was now past, and
Southerners resident in Brooklyn
should and would attest their appre
ciation of the courtesy extended to
them by the Memorial Committee
by attending at the cemeteries and
joining in the ceremonies there. Cap
tain Kibbee and others urged tho
appointment of a committee to com
municate with Southern residents,
that they more fully learn their
views in relation to the matter. The
committee appointed is as follows:
Messrs. John W. Shorter, Edward
Woolfolk, Captain Kibbee, W. Cald
well, Roger A. Pryor, J. W. Gilder,
S. D. Lewis and J. C. Brome.
A Tallahassee despatch to the Her
a'd says : The graves of tlie Confed
erate soldiers killed in battle, who
are buried here, were profusely deco
rated yesterday with floral offerings,
but those of Federal heroes were neg
lected.
Senator Gordon puts the question
| of a Southern support of President
i Hayes in a sensible light. In con
versation with a Herald reporter he
says: “My belief is that if the
President will pursue the course I
am very hopeful he will pursue,
looking only to the pacification of
this section—the elimination of the
Southern question from American
politics by giving to the South all
her rights of local seif government,
and I include in that not only the
right to control her domestic affairs
free from Federal interference, but
the right to have Federal law ad
ministered by people wholiuvecom
mon interest among us, and who are
amenable to public opinion in the
i Southern States—l say if this policy
is carried out that President Hayes
will have all the conservative masses
|of this country at his back. This
being true, what need of raising the
question of another party formation?
He will be during bis term on that
basis the most popular President the
country could have, and as he is
committed to one term lie could not
expect a greater reward for his faith
ful Administration of national af
fairs on that platform.”
The Philadelphia Dress prints an
account of a recent conversation with
j Secretary Evarts in which he said:
The F'ederal Government found
no necessity for recognizing either
Government in Louisiana. There
appears to be a fear in the minds of
some people North that tlie President
has abandoned tue colored man to
his fate at the hands of a class who
. are inimical to his interest. There
is no occasion for anxiety on his ac
count. President Hayes now re.arils
the South as standing upon its honor
and believes them to bean honorable
people, who will take special pains
to carry out their pledges In every
respect. The President expects their
pledges to be fulfilled, and if they
are not they will incur thejust op
probrium of the whole country, and
will be the duty of the Government
to secure to all citizens the rights
taken from them through these
broken pledges.”
Tlie reported purpose of Secetary
Evarts to limit the tenure of offlee of
consuls to eight years is said to bo
founded on Thomas Jefferson’s
: observation that a residence of more
than eight years in foreign ports
tends to change the most patriotic
citizen to some extent and to alienate
• him from the customs, thoughts and
tendencies of his own country.