Newspaper Page Text
THE REPUBLICAN. VOLUME I OAKLAND BUSINESS GUIDE, GROCERIES , etc . TRAVIS cfc TOWNS 11 END, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Agents Agricultural Machines, Opposite Dailey’s Park. T'k E. OFFUTT, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Agricultural Machines, Musical Instruments, Guns, Pistols, etc. \V. LEGGE, • GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Cor. Second A Oak sts. T\ ~H. LOAli, ORIGINAL NEW VORK STORE, General Merchandise, Watches, Clocks, Jew elry, etc. JOHN O. MICHAEL, ©KNEWTT, MEIK'TrANTUSE. Second door South Coddiugton's Hotel. | W. STALNAKER, Grocery and Provision Store, Corner Third and Oak Street. I A L. OSBOURN, ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE, General Merchandise. | RUSH k SON. * i • GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Cor. Third A Oak sts. ]\r B. WAY MAN, ' • General Merchandise, Cor. Aidtf A Main Sts. "O ROOKS’ 13 GREAT NEW YORK STORE, I General Merchandise, Agent for Fertilizers, New Building. wear Depot f i C. MICHAEL, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Notions, Clocks,Confect.ioner.v, etc., Nt to (‘aldington's Hotel. ]) rTh ARI )S(N 1 mos., *■*' GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, Canned llaods, Fruit, etc. SALOONS. <jn EO. W. CATON, REST A U R A NT. Juried and Stewed Oysters. Raw on the shell. i’amilies supplied. HOTELS. JJROWXING HOUSE, -* 3 R. T. Browning, Proprietor. Main Street. { 101)1)1.XGTON’S HOTEL, W. M. Ooddington, Prop’tor, .Main St., Oppnsita Jamison’s Hilliard Saloon if 0.1 lilt IS O HOUSES. M lts. DAVIi) KHi.veiiart, Water Street. MRS. RALPH THAYER, Oak and Third Streets. ThAVIK HOUSE, Mrs. M. E. Davis, Proprietress. Cor. i)ak <k Second streets. IVEW GLADE HOUSE, Mrs. R. J. West, Proprietress. Cor. Third A Aider Sts f'IKORGE BOSLEY’S, u Oak Street. CAHIXET.it A KEHS AS It UN DERTAKERS. \ U. BROOKE, • Res. adjoining; Gazette office. JOHN SHATZER, ** Shop on Fourth Street. PHYSICIANS. DR. E. 11. BARTLETT, Office Main st.,op. Dailey’s Park. Dr. j. lee mccomas, Office on Main Street. MILLS. qJusT AND SUINGLK MILLs\ Peter Martin. Proprietor. Water Street jfOAKLAND WOOLEN MILLS, Sam’i. Lawton, Proprietor. PL AST E It Elt. TAMES ARNOLD, ** Residence on Fourth Street BOOT A Sit SHOE MAKER. \\ T M. M. WAGNER, ” * Shop Cor. Second & Oak Sts. 4^. EO. F. LOUGHKIDGE, Leave orders at Express office. in LUCAS, Boot and Shoe Maker, Shop Cor. Water and Second Sts LIVER Y ST A RLE. D T. BROWNING, At Browning House. TAILOR. t fT moorf" u • Water street, near Martin’s Mill. Rcpalrtiiß done neatly and promptly. STOVES AND 11NWARE. r A.SHIItER, Oak street, near Second. A general line of StoveH and Tinware. SURVEYORS. 4 LEX. C. MASON, -™- Office over Jamison’s Saloon. 1L HAM ILL, • County Surveyor, Office in OffVitt’i Huilding, JOHN HARNED. Address, Post Office. B. BRANT, * Office in Offutt’s Building. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. fs EO ii. STURGLSS, Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet articles,Stationery, Tobacco and Cigars. Alder St. BLACKSMITHS. f'IHAS. SINCELL, Liberty Street. f F. BROWNING, • Shop near Hrownir.g House. CONTRA CTORS S B UILDERS JOHN Mi JAKBOE, ** Carpenter, Contractor A Builder, Residence op Liberty St. nearly oppo. pepoC D A. CHISHOLM, * • Carpenter, Contractor, And Builder. Residence over Jamison's Saloon. 4UJ.EO. A. SPEUiUfi&V ” * Rcsid< nee opp. School house. TOSEPH M. CIIIM, " Residence on Alder Street. A C. BBOOKE, - *-■ Res. adjoining Gazette office. MILLINERY AND JASCY GOODS. ID L. SCOTT’S Baltimore Store. Millinery, Gents’ Furnishing And Fancy Good*?, and Shoes. Main Street, (>1 m M > t<• Dr. McComaa* office. Mitsl M E. DAVIS, ~~ Cor. Oak & Second Sts. MASOSS. D "PRITCHARD, Residence on Second St. T LOYD CHAMBERS, Residence Coddington’s Hotel. TORN PORTER, ” Residence cor. NYater A Third sts. PA IN TIN G At PAPER HANG ING. npHEt). C. LYNCHi 3 House, and Sign Painter, Leaveorders at Coddington’s Hotel,or at the Stores of I). 10 Oftutt or (. W. W. Logge, I AMES ENLOW, ** House and Sign Painter, Residence adjoining Gazette Office. l,i J. FRINGER, 3 - i * House and Sign Painter. And Paper Hunger. Leave orders at Rush’s Store. SADDLERY AND HARNESS. DELL A BUSH, *-* In Basement of Bush’s Store. 'jeweler. rp B. FORDYCE, ’ • In Win. Sinouse’s Building. Hewing Machines, Watches and Clocks Cleaned ail’d Repaired. PHOTOGH4PII GALLERY. fj W. MERRILL, I’liotograplis and Ferrotypes Made in the best style. Albums, Picture Frames Picture Cord for sale. Third .street, Opposite New Glade House PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C'l iLMOK s. ham ILL, r ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY. OFFICE JN OFFCTT’S BUILDING, (Lower Flooi.) Particular attention given to Conveyancing, nvcfttlgatioii of land titles and collection of I alms. Loans negotiated. jeli-iy I as. .m. Schley! I ATTORNEY AT LAW, CniBEHLAXD, Ml). Will practice in the Courts of Washington, Allegany and Garrett counties. Agent for sale ofti.UOO acres of land in Garrett county, within one and a half to three miles of Oak land. _ Jel4-ly p HAM ILL, REAL ESTATE AGENT. Oakland, Garrett county, Md Office at residence on Main Street, jel l-ly | OHN M. READ, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Oakland, NOTARY PUBLIC. Maryland. lelt-ly JW. VEITCH. . ATTORNEY AT LAW A N1) .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 Appeals of Maryland. Jan. 80-tf. Thos. j. PEDDICORI), ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, Oakland,Gahkett county, Md. Will practice in the Courts of Garrett County and the adjoining Counties of West Virginia, and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Jan. 80-tf, NOTICE. NO BULLDOZING IN OAKLAND. OW ING T() HARI> TIM EH and HOARCITY of MONEY, I have curtailed my expenses and will give the advantages to my custom ers. On and after this date my prices will be reduced to the 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. BLACKHMITHING IN GENERAL DONE IN A WORKMANLIKE MANNER. C. H. SINCELL, Oakland, Md., March 17th, 1877. DR. J. DAILY, EBSIDBNT DENTIST WESTERN PORT, MARYLAND. From one to a full set of teeth Inserted in the most beautiful and substantial manner. -Aft V. Particular attention Cv paid to cleaning and Afca "jytficu’V-f -* - tiling the naturul teeth fsuw All work warranted'■lT /j to give satlNfaetion, or money refunded. Je2l-ly OAKLAND, MD., SATURDAY, MAY 12-, 1877. THE TAKING OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Constantine Defeated by the Turks Over Four Hundred Years Ago— Graphic Account of a Desperate struggle Between the Mohammedans and the Christians. For nearly 425 years Constantino ple has remained undisturbed in the possession of the Turks. On May 29,1453, —the city was then the capi tal of the Byzantine Empire—it was stormed by the Turks, the last By zantine Emperor, ConstantineXlll, losing his life in the defense. The taking of the city is thus powerfully described by Ivirehard Knollen in his “History of the Turk,” published in 1603, and a second odltTWI Irt lfiWr 1 “A little before day the Turks tip proached the walls and began the as sault, where shell and stones were delivered upon them from the walls as thick as hail, whereof little fell in vain, by reason of the multitude of the Turks, who, pressing fast into walls, could not see in the dark how to defend themselves, hut were with out number wounded or slain; but these were of the common and worst soldiers, of whom the Turkish King made no more reckoning than to abate the first force of the defend ants. Upon the first appearance of the day, Mohammed gave the sign appointed for the general assault, whereupon the city was in a mo ment, and at one instant, on every side most furiously assaulted by the Turks; for Mohammed, the more to distress the defendants, and the bet ter to see the forwardness of the sol diers, had before appointed which part of the city every colonel with his regiment should assail; which they valiantly performed, delivering their arrows and shot upon the de fendants so thick that the light of day was therewith darkened; others in the meantime courageously mounting the scaling ladders, and coming even to handstrokes with the defendants upon the wall, where the foremost were for the most part vio lently home forward by them which followed after. On the other side, the Christians with no less couragg withstood the Turkish fury, beating them down again with great stones and weighty pieces of timber, and so overwhelmed them with shot, darts and arrows and other hurtful devices from above, that the Turks, dismayed with the terror thereof, were ready to retire. Mohammed seeing the great slaughter and discomfiture of his men, sent in fresh supplies of his emissaries and best men of war, whom he had for that purpose re served as his last hope and refuge; by whose coining on, his fainting sol diers were again encouraged, and the terrible assault began afresh. At which time the barbarous king ceased not to use all possible means to maintain tiie assault; by name, calling upon this and that captain, promising unto some whom he saw forward golden mountains, and unto others in whom he saw any sign of cowardice, threatening most terrible death ; by which means the assault became most dreadful, death there raging in the midst of many thous ands. And albeit that the Turks lay dead by heaps upon the ground, yet other fresh men pressed on still in their places over their dead bodies, and with divers event either slew or were slain bv their enemies. In this so terrible a conflict, it chanced Justinianus, the General, to he wounded in the arm, who, losing much blood, cowardly withdrew him self from the place of his charge, not leaving any to supply his room, and ! so got into the city by the gate called Romana, which lie had caused to he opened in the inner wall; pretend ing the cause of his departure to lie for the binding up of his wound, but being indeed, a man now altogether discouraged. The soldiers there present, dis mayed with the departure of their General, and sore charged by the janissaries, forsook their stations,and in haste fled to the same gate where by Justinianus was entered with the sight whereof the other soldiers, dis mayed, ran thither by heaps also. But whilst they violently strive to gether to get in at once, they so t wedged one another in the entrance of tiie gate that few of so great a j multitude got in—in which so groat | a press and confusion of minds 800 persons were there, by them that fol lowed, trodden under foot or thrust to death. The Emperor himself, for safeguard of his life, flying witli tiie rest in that press as a man not regar ded, miserably ended his days, to gether with the Grook ’.empire. His ! d<®*body was shortly after found by tMjßfurks among the slain, and kijjfen by his rich apparel, Whose being cut off, was forthwith Pflßfrted to the Turkish tyrant, by "TF coln,,mntl it was afterward upon the point of a lance, and •••Hfcat derision carried about as a of his victory, first in the ihHL and afterward up and down tiMW&py. Turks, encouraged with the fli®§ of the Christians, presently adWßed their ensigns upon the top of It he uttermost wall, crying vic to®( ;and by the breach entered as if it Ipd been a great flood, which,lmv ingNjflca found a breach in the bank, and beareth down alb before it; so the Turks when they had won the outer wall, entered the city by same gate that was opened for Justinianus and by a breach which they had before made with their great artillery, and without mercy cutting in pieces ail that came in their way, and without further re sistance became lords of that most famous and imperial city. * * In this fury of the barbarians perished many thousands of men, women and children, without respect of age, sex or condition. Many for safeguard of their lives, fled into the temple of Sophia, where they were all without pity slain, except some few reserved by the barbarous victors to purposes more grievous than death itself. The rich and beautiful ornaments and jewels of that most sumptuous and magnificent church—the stately building of Justinianus, the Empe ror—were, in the turning of a hand, plucked down and carried a wav by the Turks; and the church itself, built for God to be honored in, for the present converted into a stable for their horss, or a place for the ex ecution of their abominable and un speakable filthiness; the image of the crucifix was also by them taken down, and a Turk’s cap pu f upon the head thereof, and so set up and shot at with their arrows, and after waid, in great derision, carried about in their camp, as it had been in pro cession, with drums playing before it, railing and spitting at it, and call ing it the God of the Christians, which I note not so much done in contempt of the image as in despite of Christ and the Christian religion.” Getting an Enr cation.— Mr. Whittington Powell, of Somerset county, has lived to be nearly sev enty years of age without acquiring an essential item of that knowledge that does a man a great deal of good, even if it shatters his confidence in human nature into infinitesimal fragments. Mr. Powell is a suffi ciently frisky veteran to go to the circus, and a recent horse opera at Princess Anne did not escape his at tention. Now, if Mr. Powell had confined himself to the delights of the arena and occasional gingerbread and soda water there would have been nothing more to say. But at a moment when his unlucky star was in the zenith his <ye fell upon the blandishments of that enticing little speculation known as three card monte. The aged ruralist was, of course, positive that he could guess which was the named card. His first conjecture was correct, and a disinterested remarked to him that it was a great pity he had not bet a cool hundred on it, as he would have been certain to have won. Then Mr. Powell hauled out his greenbacks to the tune of a hundred and—well there’s no use in dwelling upon the agonizing result. Mr. Powell owed the money, had to mortgage his few I acres to pay his creditors, and now he remarks between swears and drinks that, “tilings are cur’us in this world somehow, gol darn it!” The champion fool lias been found in tiie tangles of Florida. He lives |at Monticello. lie is the rector of an Episcopal Church. He refuses to pray for the President. He doubts the legality of Hayes’ election. He should pray for Tilden. It might do Sammy some good, it eould’nt do him much harm. He was predestina ted to be an ass and he is conscien tiously trying to fulfill his destiy, and to make his calling and election sure. He would make a good chap lain for Bishop Wade Hampton. Perhaps a commisssion of 8 and 7 could reconstruct him. He is a Doc tor of Divinity, by human appoint ment, and his name is Harrison. His chrisitan charcter, and brilliant genius deserve a Bishopric. Pass the hat round for a collection and build him a monument when his too early death leaves a world in sorrow.— i W&siminitter Sentinel. - M—i a Jl_' . JA2A. The Value of the Grange. Abolish the grange, and you take away, in the first place, what may be made a powerful inspiration to study and a valuable means of instruction. It is not possible for any man to in vestigate lor himself all the subjects whieh it would be profitable for him to know. Especially is this not jKissi ble for a man whose time is nearly all consumed in the pursuit of some exacting Ailing. Busy’ men have, therefore, much need to co-operate in study; to form societies and divide the work, assigning to one number one field for investigation, to a sec ond another—thus confining each member to tiie kind and quantity of work ho cau do best, and securing to the whole society the results of each member's labors. Hueh a society, the grange might and should be made. Its inquiries should bo directed chiefly to the various deparments of agriculture; hut other sciences and branches of knowledge should receive some attention. Besides directing the investigations, the grange should also furnish some of the tools neces sary for making them. To land and such implements as plows, reappers and planters, most members have easy access; hut no books, whieh are often as essential as land, plows ect., they have not easy access, and should therefore he furnished with them by the grange- Abolition of the granges is, in the second place, the destruction of about the only means farmers have of neu tralizing the evils of living far apart form one another. The granges fur nish them opportunities and occa sions for meeting togetherthat would lie wanting if there were no granges. The custom of visiting is, perhaps, more sedulously observed in the country than in the towns, but there is no running in fora few moments in the country, and hence the farm ingclasses have much less intercourse svitli one another than town pepole have. There is, therefore no danger that the grangers will give farmers too much society; and without the granges, they are sure not to have enough. It appears, then, that, without the granges or similar organizations far mers are not likely to extend their knowledge, or increase their inter course with oneauother; and it there fore becomes a pertinent inquiry wether, since they have the granges, and since the granges have as few incorrigible imperfections as any society is likely to have, farmers can afford to allow the granges to go down. Tiie usual answer will be, we trust, emphatically affirmative.— Grange Bulletin. The day when American ship yards turned out the neatest, fastest, best built ships in the world, and had the civilized nations of two hem ispheres for its customers, need not be considered as gone beyond recall. With gold near par, with coal at a natural rather than a forced price, with iron to equal that of Britain at a cost only com emsurate with its fair value, with ; surplus of skilled labor at ante bellum wages, our origi nal advantages are returning to us. The ship yards of the Atlantic may once again resound with the hum of busy industry, and Clyde built steamers be a thing of tiie past. The American flag may float over Amer ican hulks and American hulks may float under every flag that flaunts the winds of trade on the broad bo som of the deep. On the same level in resources American skill has com peted with that of the old world suc cessful, simply because tree institu tione foster the growth of ambition among mechanics as well as politi cians, anil beget enterprise, energy and activity among those to whom the exercise of these qualities opens up a field for social progress and a reasonable certainty of material and educational advancement for them selves and the generations to come after them. It is for capital now to energise this material. That it will gradually recognize the opportunity and avail of it is a reasonable expec tation, and very soon we may hope to see some of that money that makes the inaro go devoted to mak ing more ships go.— Ballo. Bee. The Demociatic presi does not seem especially anxious for the returu of David Dudley Field to congress. There seems to he a suspicion that the party can’t stand much more of his kind of service. Au exchange remarks the “waiting for tiie failure of the President’s pol icy must be pretty dismal business now.” NUMBER 11. Hawk-Eyetemg. You must be blind if you eant’t hear the spring rubbish fires smell from every back yard. Randall has a “high metallic voice.” Gets the metal from his cheeks, as it passes through. Nothing in this bleak world is easier to start and harder to stand than a boil or a daily paper. The Foundry church, where the president worships, is so called be cause the pastor is an ex-pounder. There are so many Chinamen in California that the Christian popula tion will hardly be able to kill them all this summer. Four and a half yard* of cashmere. will make a woman a dress. But it takes eleven yards and a half to build the pocket. Sprinkle, sprinkle, April shower, don’t let up for half an hour ; drip and drizzle, rain and pour, thunder, lightning, splash and roar. General Cr >ok has just got through counting the Indians who surren dered, and the country will hold its breath until tiie democratic party Is satisfied there lias been a fair count. Secretary Evarts seems to be re ceiving the larger portion of Demo cratic attention at the present time. A portion of the press of New York is especially unhappy about him, for no perceptible reasons unless it be because its memiiers were kept away from that reception at Albany by commands of the party leaders. One journal, the Rochester Union, sees the silliness of the whole performance for it says: “We think thejudgrnent of Democrats not quite so ‘leaning/ and not in official livery, will lie that Mr. Secretary Evarts was more hon ored by the absence of men who stand u pon such senseless punctilio than lie would have been by their presence. Such sulkiness belongs to a state of babyhood, and no full grown and life-long Democrat would be guilty of manifesting it especially as the leading Democrats and Democratic officials generally of his party are tiie ones who agreed to anil played the game of eight to seven by which Mr. Hayes became President and Mr. Evarts was made the Secretary of State. Tiie logic that deters from a recognition of Mr. Evarts as a legal ‘official,’ if it bejrationaliy and seri ously held, compels a denial of the validity f any and every act of the Administration, whose premier he is, and leads to revolution. It Is nonsense. Its auflior connot be a two year old in Democracy. The high-tone Democratic states men at Albany have attracted the attention of the country by their “rebuke” of Mr. Evarts last week. The Cincinnati IMmmerekU thus puts in.its tribute of admiration! "We suppose the pool-sellers who drew their bets when they saw that Mr. Tilden hadn’t a sure thing were the head of the social aristocracy that presumed to frown down upon Mr. Evarts. The soeiai posltiou of Mr. Evarts in New York is as high as that of any man iii the city, outside thejsoiemn circles of the ‘Knicker bockers.’ It is a happy thought that the representative of the contracts that have made millionaires out of thieves, and the aristocracy to Al bany that get the money appropri to influence legislation should rebuke Mr. Evarts.” The indications so far all points to good crops this year. The plentiful covering of snow during the winter, followed by refreshing spring rains, has been anexcellent thing for grain. Almost everywhere it is fresh and green, and the yield will i probably lie larger than for several years past, The outlook in all kinds : of business isa matter of importance, | but the foundation of all national prosperity is agriculture, and while we have plenty of groin to feed our pimple nipl to export to distant mar kets, our country at large will still I be comparatively prosperous. Southern papers are making much over the recent condemnation of a white man to death for inurderiug a negro in Georgia, thus showiug how rare sucii condemnation has been for a crime confessedly frequent. In fact, it is said to.be the only case on 1 record in the State. The Tribune says the coolest as sumption of the period is that of the Democrats who claim that they drove the President against his will into withdrawing the troops from the j .South. Gentlemen ad vanring such i pretensions ought to establish land l agencies and sell off a township or so ! of cheek.