Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1867-02-28
News Items.


"A wine merchant who knows low to
advertise. spreads his card over a. whole
page of the London Times.
Peter D. Farhney, of Maryland, was
among the graduates of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine on Saturday.
The Kentucky Democratic State
Convention nominated john L. Helm for
Governor Of the State.
In Western Texas they are beginning
to employ Mexican laborcrs in raising corn
and cotton.
-Thirty-one thousand dollars have
been raised in New York as a Southern
relief fund not 1.-THE of the amount raised
US Southern desolation fund.
Frederick Douglas. was on Friday
admitted within the bar of the House Of
the Michigan Legislature, introduced by
the Speaker aud received with applause.
The remains of General A. P. Hill,
now buried where he fell near Petersburg,
are to be removed to HOLLYWOOD Cemetery
near Richmond. =
A gentleman asked divine which
was the best way of living. THAT which
will teach you the best way of dying"
was the reply.
The Boston Post says, the Wisconsin
legislator who blew out the gaslight and
came near suffocating. was among those
who voted to instruct" Doolittle how
to do his duty.
Howard Fletcher. who shot NJ. Stew
art at Presi lent Johnson's reception in
indianapolis, Ind, last September, has
Just been convicted of murder in the sec.
ond degree, and sentenced to tive years
Imprisonment.
-Brownlow crlls the honest men Of
the Sonth "lordly traitors" Lordly trail
tors will do very we'll to distinguish them
from the sneaks. In this sense Washing
ton was lordly traitor" while "loyalists'
of those days were just about as mean
snsaks as the same class are ut the pres
ent day.
Mrs. Roxina Dwight was lately fined
one cent and costs. at Providence, for
striking Ellen Curtis in the face, because
she put her arms around Mr.. Dwights
neck and asked him to 60 to the theatre
with her.
Hurrah for New Englapdi!
Old Thad. Stevens, after the passage
of his reconstruction measure. was taken
violently i'll. The old devil is again re-
covering Mrs. Sumner sent him boquet,
She ,,,sympathized with his club-foot.
Some women arc great on orna-
ments.
The radicals in the 18th Congressional
district. Connecticut, have nominated p
7. Barnum as their candidate. Humbug
Barnum and Spoony Butler nice Radi-
cal team the greatest humbug and the
greatest rogue.
Twelve years ago Congressional approp-
riations for National expenses were ST..
OOO, 900. The National Intelligence,
thought it would alto gether run up to $75 :
900, 900, and was startled at the cxtrava.
gance. Now the Frccdmen's Bureau alone
costs $25 900, 600, per annum, and the
whole amount $500, 100000. Changing
from National Government. under Dem
ocratc rule. hos been about the most ex.
pensive experiment that ever a nation
tried.
Any one who will reflect moment
must see that every proposed amendment
to the Federal Constitution reveals the
fact that the destructives in Congress and
out of it are dissatisfied with, and hostile
to, the Government a. our fathers mad 9
it. Thsy arc determined to change it es-
sentially if they can. They would make
it local in ideas, and its mode Of operation
as local as New England itself. for whose
benefit all those changes are attempted.
The alterations they would make are far
more radical than those of the convention
at Montgomery. Alabama, iu 1861. The
means they employ are not less question
able.--Aarietd Times.