Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-09-12
LOCAL M
A communication signed "Justice" was
received too late last evening for insertion
to-day. 1t willappear in our next.


received too late last evening for insertion
to-day. 1t willappear in our next.
The Board of School Commissioners
were in session last Tuesday.
On Sunday last, while cunning on the
farm of Mrs. Luke Hawkins, near New
town, Jim Adams, colored, accidentally
shot himself. The whole charge of the gun
is said to have passed directly through his
breast near the nipple, coming out near the
shoulder blade, Death ensued in about
two hours after the accident. A colored
boy who was with him states that i'm was
in the act Of getting over fence at the
time. No inquest was held, it being deem
ed unnecessary, as all the circumstances
clearly pointed to the accidental death as
above stated. 81
During the storm Of last week, of which
we heretofore spoke, the chief damage to
crops was in the neighborhood Of Patux-
ent City, Benedict and Hughesville. Near
the latter place on old colored woman was
struck and kflfea by the lightning while
in the act of lighting her pipe. We have
been unable to ascertain her name. Her
son, who was in the house with her, was
at the same time severely stunned but af-
forwards recovered.
Mr.. James A.Mudd and Mr.. B. M. Ed
ellen, Of Bryantown, have recently erected
a fine Steam Saw and Grist Mill near that
village, and are doing a thriving business
in the lumber line. We have never seen
machinery that worked more evenly and
smoothly than this, or which accomplish
ed the difficult Saving Of the hardest logs
with more apparent ease and rapidity.-
Mr. Mudd informed us that since the Mill
began operations, sometime in May last,
they had not been idle day, and the Mill
itself had stood the test of cutting the
toughest swamp'timber without receiving
any breakage or damage whatever. The
entire outfit, boiler, machinery and build
ing, is of the newest pattern and most ap-
proved style, the proprietors, Messrs. Mudd
&c Edelen, wisely concluding, while they
were about it, to put up an establishment
of first class rate in all respects and this
they have most successfully accomplished.
Mr.. Mudd gives the Mill his constant per
sonal attention and requires no profession
al engineer to run the machinery, which
seems to be not at all complicated. There
is a large daily attendance of carts and
wagons fromseYen remote sections of the
county, and the enterprise is proving not
only source of income to its proprietors
but is also Almost sceptable convenience
for supplying tho kta1nsaur citizens
building and H4fucti0n. It gives US
great pleasure always to speak of such evil
dences of thrift and enterprise in our coun-
ty, and we heartily wish for the Messrs.
Mudd & Edelen the success they deserve.
Agreeably to the call, by notice hereto
fore published in the Times, there was a
full attendance of the Officers of Registra-
ton on Tuesday. For some reason or 9th
er, although the registration men were all
in town, no meeting or consultation took
place between them. None of them seem
ed to know who put the notice in the
Times, or for what it was done, so they did
nothing more than chew tobacco, take sew
eral drinks together, wonder "who the
devil put that notice in the paper" and
talk politics. George W., or cold No. 8" as
some call him, was in town and of course
things were lively, but even he could not
find out who wanted ameeting of the reg
istration men and why it was wanted.-I
They all seemed to think some fellow had
hoaxed them. but they took it we'll, using,
generally, little sugar. Jim said ''d-n
politics, give me ny saw mill and my grist
burrs, with Mr.. ohm Nc to take toll
for me, and don tcare darn for peanuts"
The Times man reilly doesn't know which
of our bar men put the call in the paper.
It was sharp thing, however, quite a
speculation. ThGegistration men looked
through glasses tdfind the notice-giving
man.
The Times man vas at Bryantown Church
last Sunday, wheP he saw, as at any other
Church can be sen, a plenty of beauty and
piety. Beauty inpaint and furbelow, and
piety in sackclotH and ashes. A pleasant
trip he had to BBantown, and will long
remember its hopitaole men and pretty
girls. When he left Bryantown the last
thing he heard ringing in the welkin was,
"I'll bet you a quarter ''Well, it's bet,
a quarter on the game md quarter on the
rub" and then they gt mad with the TIA
bic itself and kept hitting it.
The Colorado IOtatO Bug.
LOCUST GRo41, Sept. Cd, 1878.
E. WELLS, Esq.-Dw Sir: I send you
a pair of genuine Coloado potato beetles