Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-09-26
News of the Week.

fording relief TO the business community
---AO>-----
News of the Week.
Cable advices states that the cholera is
raging with great violence in Hungary.
The Democrats have elected majorities
in both branches of the Colorado Terrific
rial Legislature
Richmond is boasting that she was not
hurt by the 'sFinancial Crash" 'Blessed
are those who have nothing to lose"
Under the head of department News u
the Washington Chronicle says: at is ru-
mored that Attorney General Williams is
likely to receive the appointment of Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court"
The Calvert Journal says that the ticket
recently nominated by the Democratic
Conservative Convention of Prince Frede-
rick is a good one, and deserves the sup
port of every true Democrat in the county
DR.. Livingstone has again come to the
surface. Storms, an English traveller, has
arrived in Paris from Central Africa, and
reports that he met DR.. Livingstone last
June and parted from him on the 1st OF
- uly, at which time the doctor was in per
feet health.
The steamer Palisade will be run here
after, on the Potomac river, on the sche-
dule of the i'll fated Wawaset. The Pail
SADIE has been taken from the Norfolk and
Richmond line. She belongs to Mr.. T. w.
FL. White, of Crisfield; is commanded by
Capt. Joseph White, brother of the own
er, and her pilot is Mr.. Henry Norris.
A newspaper at Vienna has been seized
by the police because of an attack upon
the King of Italy while the guest of the
Emperor from which it seems that not on
ly the Emperor, but also the Emperor's
friends are taboo. The Ultramontanes OF
the Court and among the leaders of socie-
ty have left the city to avoid meeting the
assailer of the Church.
The President and his Cabinet, with
General Sherman and Governor Whyte,
have signifedf their intention of attend
ing the fair to be held at Westminster,
Maryland, on The 1st and I'd of October
They will arrive at Westminster at 12 o.
clock on October LIST, and leave on the af
.ternoon of the I'd. The fair promises to
be the best eYef held by the Society.
The telegraph is stillburdened with the
,o1a o4o Of az oil
fever in the stricken city of Shreveport
The disease has taken turn for the worse,
and the remnant of the population are dy-
ing off at the rate oftwenty a day. 1t seems
that it will continue until there are no
more victims for it to seize upon, and that
contingency cannot be much longer delay
ed,
The Texas editors, to the number of a
bout forty, are on an excursion to theNorth-
west. They have been to Chicago, Cincin-
natl, Indianapolis and Louisville, and by
the notices in the papers of those cities,
appear to be having good time, kindly
greeted and Hospitality entertained, and to
be gaining information of Importance to
the South and West.
= The basement of the Baltimore and Po-
tomac depot, at the corner of Sixth and B
streets, has been completed for some days,
and workmen are now busy in raising the
stone work of the first story which affords
an opportunity to see the extent of the
ground plan Of the new building. 1t is
expected that the building will be under
roof this season.
'The Unity of the Republic" is the title
of new lecture which Senator Sumner, of
Massachusetts,, is to begin delivering in a
few weeks He has been engaged prepar-
ing it during the summer, and will de-
liver it at Springfield and then at Boston
October 81. It is stated that from that
time till the meeting of Congress he will
lecture four or five nights in week, should
his strength allow.
Advices from London state that informa-
ton has been received that boats belong
ing to the British navy were attacked by
pirates off the island of Penang, and two
of their officers wounded Penang is in
the Straits of MALAGA, off the Malay PENN
sula, the coast of which from time i'm
memorial has been piratical haunt. The
man-of-war Thalia has been dispatched to
the place with orders to chastise the ras-
Gals.
The good people of Philadelphia were
shocked Wednesday by the news of terri
BILE domestic tragedy. Thomas B. Parker
shot his wife, and then blew his brains out.
1.-THE parties moved il the highest social
circles to which wealth could raise them.
Parker was one of five heirs to an estate of
three millions of dollars, and he had an in
come of fifty thousand yearly. His wife had
been living with him in peace, if not in
happiness, for twelve years, but jealousy
drove him to the bloody act which closed
the career of both upon earth. Whether
the motive had any warrant in fact the dis
patches do not state. The double crime
created much excitement throughout the
city.
Divine Service.