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VOLUME I
OAKLAND BUSINESS GUIDE.
GROCERIES , etc.
IyWIS & TOWNSHENDy
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Agents Agricultural Machines,
Opposite Dailey's Park.
T\ E. OFFUTT,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Agricultural Machine*, Musical Instruments,
Guns, Pistols, etc.
r' w. LEGGE,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. Second A Oak sts.
T'k 11. LOAK,
ORIGINAL NEW YORK STORK,
General Merchandise, Watches, Clocks, Jew
elry, etc.
JOHN O. MICHAEL,
" GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Second door Soutli Coddington’s Hotel.
T W. STALNAKER,
Grocery and Provision Store,
Corner Third and Oak Street.
A L. OSBOURN,
**-• ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE,
General Merchandise.
¥ BUSH A SON. ”
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Cor. Third iNt Oak sts.
\ r 11. WAYMAN,
■*-’ • General Merchandise,
Cor. Alder A Main Sts.
BROOKS’
GREAT NEW YORK STORE,
General Merchandise,
Agent for Fertilizers,
New Building, near Depot
r. MICHAEL,
Notions, Checks,Confectionery, etc..
Next to Coddington's Hotel,
DICHARDSON BROS.,
GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES,
Canned Goods, Fruit, etc.
HOTELS.
| >IU)\VNING HOUSE,
R. T. Browning, Proprietor.
Main Street.
pODDINGTON'S HOTEL,
' v \V. M. CODDINGTON, Pl'Op’tor,
Main St., Opposite Jamison's Billiard Saloon
IS o a ui> ISO 11 ous ES.
Mils. LA VI I) RUIN Eli A RT,
Water Street.
MUS. RALPH THAYER,
Oak and Third Streets.
Davis house,
Mrs. M. E. ltavis, Proprietress.
Cor. Oak it Second streets.
TVEW GLADE HOUSE,
- ' Mrs. R. J. West, Proprietress.
Cor. Third *t Alder Sts
d ' EORGE BOSLEY’S,
Oak Street.
CA BIN ETMA Ji E Its AMD UN
DERTAKERS.
A C. BROOKE,
' * 1 Res. adjoinin': Gazette office.
JOHN SIIATZKR,
Shop on Fourth Street.
Ell YSICIANS.
BAR. E. H. BARTLETT,
-* * Office Main st., op. Dailey’s Park.
T|R. J. LEE McCOMAS,
Office on Main Street.
MILLS.
AND SHINGLE MILLS,
Petku Martin, Proprietor.
Water street
OAKLAND WOOLEN MILLS,'
' Sam’l Lawton, Proprietor.
PLASTERER.
TAMES ARNOLD,
° Residence on Fourth Street
ROOT AXIS SHOE MAKER.
\\T .M M. \VAGNER,
* ~ Shop Cor. Second & Oak Sts.
(fZJ.EO. F. LOUOHRIDOE,
Leave orders at Express office.
f LUCAS,
* Boot and Shoe Maker,
Shop Cor. Water and Second St*
LIVER Y ST A RLE.
V> T. BROWNING,
At Browning House.
TAILOR.
| F. MOORE,
** • Water street, near Martin’s Mill.
Repairing done neatly and promptly.
STOVES ANI) lIN WARE.
Ga.shirer,
• Oak street, near Second.
A general line of Stove* and Tinware.
SUR VEYORS.
LEX. C. MASON,
(Ittiee over Jamison’s Saloon.
R. HAM ILL,
• County Surveyor,
Office In OfTutt’s Building.
J' OHNTIARNEI).
Address, Post Office.
B. BRANT,
• Office in Offutt’s Building.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
C\EO. C. STURGISB,
* Drugs, Medicines,
Perfumery, Toilet articles, Stationery,
Tobacco aad Cigars. Alder fit.
THE REPUBLICAN.
MILLINERY AND FANCY
GOODS.
|yi RS. M.E. DAVIS,
Oor. Oak & Second Sts.
]¥¥ L. SCOTT’S Baltimore Store.
xTX. Millinery, Gents’ Furnishing
And Fancy Good*, and Shoes.
Main Street, Opposite Dr. McComas’ office.
FLA CKSMITHS.
PHAS. SINCELL,
v - / Liberty Street.
I F. BROWNING,
" * Shop near Browning House.
CONTRA CTORS d IS UILDERS
TOXIN M JARBOE,
*" Carpenter, Contractor A Builder,
Rcsldonci* no Liberty St. iicurl\ oppo. Depot.
p A. CHISHOLM.’
• Carpenter, Contractor,
And Builder.
Residence over Jamison’s Saloon.
pEO. aTspedden,
Residence opp. School house.
JOSEPH M. CIUM,
" Residence on Alder Street.
4 C. BROOKE,
Res. adjoining Gazette office.
MASONS.
1) PRITCHARD,
Residence on Second St.
T LOYD CHAMBERS,
Residence Coddington’s Hotel.
JOHN PORTER,
•* Residence cor. Water A Third sts.
FAINTING A PAVER HANG
ING.
C V. B. WARD,
HOUSE and SIGN PAINTER
Residence on Oak street.
I AMES ENDOW,
“ House and Sign Painter,
Residence adjoining Gazette Office.
p J. FRINGER,
House and Sign Painter.
And Paper Hanger.
Leave orders at Bush’s .Store.
SADDLERY AND HARNESS.
DELL & BUSH,
In Basement of Bush’s Store.
JEWELER.
rjl B. FORDYCE,
-*-* In Win. Smouse’s Building.
.Sewing Machines, Watches and Clock*
Cleaned and Repaired.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
CMLMOIi S. 11AMILL,
T ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IX CHANCERY.
Office in Offutt’s Building,
(Lower Flooi.)
Particular attention given to Conveyancing,
n vest! gat lon of land titles and collection of
laims. Loans negotiated. Jel4-ly
IAS. M. SCHLEY,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cumberland, Md.
Will practice in the Courts of Washington,
Allegany and Garrett counties. Agrnt for
Male oft,o<>o acres of laud in Garrett county,
within one ami a half to three miles of Oak
land. jcif-ly
p HAM ILL,
REAL ESTATE. AGENT.
Oakland,
Garrett county, Md
Office at residence on Main Street, jell-l.v
JOHN M. READ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Oakland,
NOTARY PUBLIC. Maryland,
jcil-iy _
JW. VEITOH,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW
A N 1)
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Oakland, Garrett County, Md.
Will practice in the Courts of Garrett County
and tiic adjoining Counties of West Virginia,
and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland.
J an. 30-tf. .
Thos. j. peddicord,
ATTORNEY AT I,AW
AND
SOLICITOR IN CIIANOERY,
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. •'!()-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 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.
BLACKSMITH ING IN GENERAL DONE
IN A WORKMANLIKE MANNER.
C. H. SINCELL,
Oakland. Md., March 17th. 1K77.
DR. IF. FONDiNBERG.”
Late Resident Surgeon, New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Has located permanently in in*
City of Cumberland, Md., for the EX
CLUSIVE treatment of all disease* of the
Eye and Ear, including those of the Nosoand
Throat-
Office, No 20 South Centro Street.
apl‘2lyl
DR. J. DAILY,
fiESHIT DENTIST
WESTERN POUT,
MARYLAND.
From one to a full set -j*.
of teeth inserted In the dmTillft
most beautiful and
substantial manner. JbwjßiX. .u
Particular attention
paid to cleaning andi ■
filing the natural teeth Mlf # yJI r -ILL-.
All work warranted w w w .’lw
to give satisfaction, or
money refunded. Je2l-ljr
OAKLAND, MD., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1877,
Butler on Wayne M’Vciigh.
A Boston despatch says that Gen.
Butler has allowed his long threat
ened letter in answer to Wayne Mc-
Veagh, of Pennsylvania, to get into
print. It is a long and extremely
personal letter. His letter to Mar
shal Pitkin was personal. The facts
therein recited were stated specifi
cally to he from information which
he had received from a creditable
source, Then he says, “If you had
addressed me even a printed letter,
or one couched in the ordinarily
courteous language which passes be
tween gentlemen, especially when
the one who uses it, it is rumored, is
expecting employment iu the diplo
matic serviceof his country, 1 should
have very promptly, upon being set
right, made reparation so far as in
my power for any injury arising
from a publication even for which I
was not responsible. I never thought
of charging you with using your own
money, of which you declare you
had none to spare, in paying the
mileage ot the deserting legislators
of the Packard House. You will
observe by reading my letter more
carefully that I did not even allege
that “it was asserted that any money
was paid.” I frankly confess that I
had no evidence then, and have
none now, that you paid any money
to these deluded men, after it had
been promised them. I desire in
the most solemn manner to acquit
you of ever having paid away any
money. I knew, as you say in your
letter, you had “none to spare,” and
I believed if you had you would not
“spare it.”
In reply to Mr. MacVeagh’s asser
tion that “it is only a military com
mandant of New Orleans in time of
war who can safely appropriate any
considerable quantity of the property
of others to his own use,” the Gen
eral shoots back in this style: “Do
I understand you correctly, that it
was the want of ability to do it safe
ly that has prevented you from ap
propriating a considerable quantity
of the propertyjof others to your own
use? However, I shall not affect to
misunderstand the allusion which
you thus make, but attribute it to
the apparent loss of your temper,
which makes your writing at once
unjust, illogical and unsperspicuous.
Then, regarding the charges of brib
ery, Gen. Butler says: “I would
suggest to the Senate committee to
ask.certain members of the Packard
Legislature, whose names I will give
whether, after the efforts to demora
lize the Republican members, and
get them to go over to Nieholls by
the Commission acting together had
failed, a selected portion of that Leg
islature were requested by Colonel
Wharton, a friend of Packard, to
meet Wayne McVeagh and did so;
whether he addressed them, saying
that the President would not recog
nize the Packard Government; that
the troops would he withdrawn the
next day; that he had a telegram to
that effect; that if they would go
over to the Nieholls Legislature they
would be recognized and seated, and
get their mileage; but if they did
not do so within twenty four hours
their seats would be declared vacant,
and they would lose ail. If the
committee push their inquiry I
firmly believe upon evidence they
will find what I have suggested to
be substantially true. I read in your
letter that you say Wharton did not
manage or transact any kind of bus
iness for me. Certaiuly not, bless
your soul ? You do not call such
tricks as these business, do you!
They are not business, even if you
should get that foreign mission for
doing them, which I hope you will.
You further say Wharton was a
friend of Packard’s. All the better
instrument, therefore, to get Pack
ard’s friends away from him. It was
well done, and does credit to your
training. You say further, strange
as it may seem to some of them, po
litical results are still attainable in
this country by straightforward and
honest methods. True, it did seem
strange to me for more than thirty
years’ experience in the ways of
Pennsylvania political “methods”
and politicians in bath parties. It
did seem strange to some if this
transaction was either straightfor
ward or honest. You made a good
point on me there, if you believed
what you are brave enough only to
insinuate, because although you were
young and able bodied, 1 fail to re
call the number of the regiment in
which you served in the war for
your country’s safety. Certainly,
you could not, as a managing mem
ber of the State Republican Commit
tee of Pennsylvania, havo invited by
pressing letters, which I now have,-
one. who had appropriated wrong
fully other people’s property to come
to that State to speak on the same
pMltform with yourself, travelling :
toljther many mile 9 to attend ineet
injjj) to instruct your people ou pub
lic affairs. Besides, my dear Mr.
McVeagh, the insinuation was uu
wordiy of you. It is neither novel
or Useful, and therefore not patenta
bla A half-dozen dirty newspapers
hava been enabled to preserve them
selVes from bankruptcy for the last
dozen years by printing the asser
tions about me which yotf only in
sinuate. Every one has his own
4**o in choosing his own way to ac
fufre money, but if I were obliged
to choose one of two ways, either to
“appropriate it as military comman
dant” or to marry into a family
where I was neither wanted nor by
which I could be respected, to get
money to spare I certainly should
choose the former, strange as you
may think it, because I should have
the money after having committed a
disreputable act to get it, and not lia
ble to disappointment as I might be
after I had waited longer for dead
men’s shoes by the other method.
There is another denial of yours of an
assertion that I did not make. I
have not asked the President to ap
point him (Wharton) Marshal. I
never intimated that you had so
done. I have always supposed that
you had never asked President Hayt s
for the appointment of anybody ex
ceot yourself, and my knowledge ot
that idiosyncrasy of vours would
have prevented me from asserting
that you had asked for the appoint
ment of Wharton. Certain it is that
Gov. Packard has not. Who do you
think is so pressing Col. Jack Whar
ton, of the Confederate Army, that
Pitkin, the Republican and good of
ficer, is called upon by a Republican
Administration to resign his office to
make way for the rebel ? What ser
vice has Wharton (a brave man, it is
true,) ever done for the party or the
country to earn high office, except to
help kill some of our gallant soldiers
whose lonely graves we were decora
ting on theday I got your kind note.’
The General concludes his letter as
follows : “For the rest, as to the dis
puted questions of fact relating to
what was said and done by the com
mittee of which you were a member
when in New Orleans, we will re
view ths discussion after a committee
of Congress, of which it may be my
ill fortune to be a member, has made
a full investigation. Then, and not
till then, if you please, we will re
new our correspondence, unless, in
deed, you would like to practice up
on me to educate yourself to formu
late diplomatic notes. I must apolo
gize to you for the seeming ' delay
between the date of this note and
your reception of it. I began the re
ply as soon as I was favored with
yours, but as I reserve matters of
this sort for recreation, I could not
finish it sooner, as I have been away,
hard pressed with professional en
gagements. Pray hold me excused.
I am not only “truly,” but very
truly, yours.
Benjamin F. Butler.
Hon. Wayne McVeagh, Philadel
phia, Pa.
The following is the letter of Mr.
MacVeagh, to which Gen. Butler’s is
a reply:
Philadelphia, May 29, 1877.
Gen. Benj. F. Butler:— Your in
formant happens to have told you
the exact opposite of the truth in
every statement respecting me. Col.
Wharton did not aid me at New Or
leans, but was one of the adherents
of the Packard govenuent to the end.
He did not manage or transact any
kind of business for me; he did not
receive any promise from me in re
spect to any office. I have not asked
the President to oppoint iiim Mar
shal. So much for that portion of
your letter. Where lain known I
do not need to deny the silly story
about the use of money, or to declare
it to be, as you well know it to be,
a base and cowardly falsehood. For
those who do not know me perhaps
I ought to add that, apart Horn any
repugnance on my part to the crime
there were two practical difficulties
;in the way of my committing it. I
had no money of my own tospare.and
it is only a miltary commandant of
New Orlaens in time of war who can
safely appropriate any considerable
quanity of the property of others
to ilia own use. The fact is that the
enemies of reconcilliation in Louis
iana wasted their time in trying to
discover or invent some kind of bar
gain with which at once to account
for its success and to discredit it.
Strang as it may seem to some of
them, political results are still at
tainable in this country by straight
forward and honest methods, and (
the country will judge the results we
secured by its fruits in comparison ,
with the fruits of the opopsite (
policy, compare the four years to j
come of honest and lawful government ,
with the eight years just ended of j
hatred, intimidation, outrage eorrup- .
tion, anarchy and murder. There- (
fote, from the bitterness of good .
men missguided and of bad men (
disappointed, I appeal to the gener
ous judgment of tiie American peo
ple, and I wait their decision upon
the subject of our labors in Louisiana
not with misgiving or excuses, but
with confidence and pride
Y'ours truly,-
Wayne McVea h.
MR.MCVEAGH PUTS IN A REJOII DER.
Philadelphia, June 6.—Mr.
Wayne McVeagh furnb bed the
following letter in reply to General
Butler to the press this evening:-
Gen. B. F. Butler , Washington, D. C.:
I fear you have overworked your
inventive faculties, for your long and
labored letter of to-day shows signs
of failing powers, and will go far to
destroy that reputation for effective
scurrility which you have so sedu
lously fostered. The issue between
you and me was at your own seeking
and is so plain that you cannot ob
scure it by any amount of misrepre
sentation. however irrelevant or
vulgar. You deliberately wrote and
publish c mcerning me four sheer
falshoods without a particle of foun
dation for any one of them. There
upon I promptly put you on the na
tional pillory with a very legible
statement of your offences upon your
forehead.
As you have endured your punish
ment for an entire week, and now
virtually confess that every state
ment made by you was untrue, 1
have no objection to your getting
down, but you must not suppose that
I placed you there in resentment
only. My chief purpose was to ex
hibit you as a warning to younger
men by showing them that, in spite
of great ability and energy, you have
become the leper of our politics, by
reason of the general conviction that
you habitully disregard the eight
and ninth commandments. That pur
pose has been fully answered by the
comments of the country upon our
character, and I have no further in
terest in the matter. I will not even
take the trouble to deny any new
falsehood you may think it to your
advantage to indite about me, for
those who know me will not believe
anything you say against me, and
thoes who know you, of course,{will
not believe anything you say against
anybody.
(Signed) Wayne McVeagh.
Intemperance in North Carolina.
Now, if the population of the State
be 1,070,120 souls, our people pay
88,500,960 for liquor, about 81,000,000
for education, and for their religion
8269,830; that is, they think eight
times as much of whisky as they do
of education, and thirty two times
as much of whisky as they do of
Christian faith. This is a most hu
miliating confession for us to make,
and yet we are compelled to admit
its truth, for what people give their
money for they certainly appreciate.
Let us now compare the cost of spir
ituous liquors with some of the great
farming interests of the State. There
are 200,000 bales of cotton grown in
North Carolina annually. These
bales will average 400 pounds ; at 19
cents per pound ttiis cotton will
bring 88,000,000—a1l thecotton grown
in the State won’t pay her liquor
bill by 8590,960. The wheat crop of
the State amounts to 2,254,641 bush
els. At $2 a bushel all the wheat of
the State won’t pay for about half of
our liquor bill. The corn crop,which
is .18,454,541 bushels, at 60 cents a
bushel, will bring but one third
more than is expended each year for
that which impoverishes the State,
increases her taxes and degrades her
people.— Raleigh (N. C.) Observer.
Cut* for Chicien Cholera,
Mr. Joseph Stout, of Carroll county
gives the following remedy ft>r chick
en cholora, which he considers a per
fect cure:—“Take a hadfwl of white
ork bairk and boil it in a quart of
water to make a strong decoction.
After it cools mix with tire liquid
corn meal to the proper consistency
. to make a dough for feeding, and
give to the fowls. Mix a teaspoonful
of Cayenne pepper to two quarts of
the feed. The fowls will eat this
mixture readly.” Hie theory is that
the cholera is a species of diarrhoea
and the bark and pepper acting aB
astringents cure the complaint.
NUMBER 16.
the Mississippi Murders.
H. V/ Redfield writes as follows ter
the Cincinnati Commercial:
Mrs, Chisolm, in a letter giving'
some of the details of the Kemper
countv massacre, says that the Brit
ish subject, McLellan, who was- kill-*
ed, had always refused to be natural
ized and become a citizen of the Uni
ted States, “because it was hot strong
enough to protect its citizens.” Now
that McLellan is in his grave, butch
ered by the mob at the time of the
general killing, there is grim iron in
the old Scotchman's objection to be
coming a citizen of the Uuited States.-
Living in Mississippi, he had amply
opportunities' ttf sob at what cheap
rate human life is held, and ho had
no inclination to become a citizen.
This man does not appear to have
been especial ly obnoxious to the mob,-
he Was killed because he would not
get away from the jail door and al
low Chisolm and his family to be
slaughtered. Upon being ordered* to
stand aside, he replied that he had
been put there by the Sheriff to guard
the jail, and he would doit with bis
life. Then lie was shot- down like a
dog, and the way cleared for the
massacre of the family. N*ne of the
ether guafds seelft to have made a
show of defence;
Surely the old Scotchman’s objec
tion to becoming a citizen of the
United States seems well taken. The
graves of the Chisolm family is a
monument to the fact that this Gov
erment does not protect its citizens
or attempt to punish murders. It is
a month now since the slaughter and
nothing is done about it. The local
authorities will not do anything and
the General Goverment cannot. It
is contrary to the Constitution, you
know. Can we wonder that Mo Del
ian objected to become a citizen of a
Goverment which neither protects
its citizens when alive, nor punishes
their murderers when dead.
It is said that the British Legation
at Washinton will demand of the
Goverment an investigation of the
manner of MeLellan’s taking off, I
hope they will. Imagine such a
massacre in England and nothing
done about it!
Accident Items.
The blind family performed here
on the evening of the 30th ult,, to
crowded house. Our school house
lias not seen such an aodience for a
long time,
Jno. P. Spiker raised successfully
ids barn on the same day.
That new choir is being placed on
a solid basis by Mr. J. \V. Boyer,
who furnish a room and organ gratis
and has also ordered about fifteen
dollars worth of books. Prof- J. P.
Swauger is leader.
Everybody travelling over the road
between Accident and Oakland com
plain about the condition of the road
between Eckerts’ and Jno.L. Brown
ing’s. A special levy is needed to
be placed in tire hands of some capa
ble man who will have the road
opened about twice the present width
and who will attend to the obstruc
■ tion at the steam saw mill.
Mr. James Sidles is busily at work
on the Accident end of the road, and
it has been suggested that a special
levy in his hands for the Deep Creek
section would be about the right
thing.
It is hoped that your fat contribu
tor from Okotokomo will continue to
edify tire Republican readers with
bis political wisdom.
Mr. E, McMillen sheared seven
teen pounds of wool from two cote
wold sheep last week.
Deduty Collector W, Bruce, of
Cumberland, paid our section a fly
ing visit again last week-
The wheat crop looks very promi*-
ing. Corn and outs not so much so
at present. The bountiful rains of
the last week has improved the ap
pearance of all crops to a wonderful
• degree and farmers are looking up.
There is being an effort put forth
to purchase Dr. E. H. Glotfelty’s
property for a parsonage for Rev. Ja
cob Young, soon to arrive from Get
tysburg, Pa.
The prospects are good for two
church pic-nics on July 4th. No cer
tainty yet.
The Republican gives very great
’ satisfaction to all its readers.
Rocky Glen, June 9th, 1877.
Ed. Republican v— Having again
collected a few notes we concluded
to pen them to your interesting pa
per.
On the 30th of May the teacher
and scholars it the White Oak Grove
school house were very much alarm
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