Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
News of the Week.

The colored farmers of Shelby county,
Tenn, have organized an agricultural as
sociation of their own.
Whitelaw Reid acknowledges subscrip-
lions through him to the Greeley statue
fund of $1O,6s3.
Mr.. Lampley, after searching for the sill
yer for several days, at the spot in the Ba-
sin where Hollohan said he had thrown it,
has abandoned the search as hopeless.
The graduating exercises at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, have been conclud-
ed. Zun Zou Matzmulla, Japanese youth,
was of the graduating class.
Governor McEnery has issued an adj
dress, advising the people of Louisiana to
acquiesce in the Kellogg Government I'M
til Congress meets.
The Contractor for grading the lower
section of Baltimore and Drum Point Rail
road, commenced work last week between
"Mill Mount" and "Drum Point" with a
considerable number of hands.
The Governor has signed the death war
rant for the execution, on the 18th July
next, of Albert Sanders, convicted at the
last term of the Circuit Court of Calvert
county, of the murder of Eugene A. Bur
dell.
In Paris there is an agitation on foot to
abolish postal cards. The innovation is
said to be unsuitable to the Partisan char
acter, aud the evil-doers are so witty and
wicked that they adopt this plan for cir
culating ISLANDERS.
The Lynchburg Neaos remarks that the
common notion that the Southern people,
since the abolition of slavery, exhibit no
sympathy, and make no educational or
charitable provision for the colored race,
is entirely without foundation.
Major Wells J. Hawks, died at his resi-
dence in Charlestown, Jefferson county, W.
Va, on Wednesday, the 2Sth ult, of con-
sumption. Maj. Hawks was one of the
most prominent men of his county, and
highly esteemed by all who knew him, and
filled the position of Quartermaster in
Stonewall Jackson's command during the
war.
The remains of 333 of the Confederate
dead from Gettysburg, which had arrived
by the Richmond, York River and Chesa-
peake railroads, at Richmond, were inter-
red on Wednesday of last week, at Holly
wood Cemetery, in the quarter known as
"Gettysburg Hill" The remains were es-
corted to the cemetery by the stregiment,
the Howitzers and detachment of thirty
policemen.
In New York city, at 6.45 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, Frank FL. Walworth,
aged nineteen years, shot and killed his
father, Mansfield T. Walworth, in the
Sturtevant House. The deceased was an au
thor and boarded at the Sturtevant House.
He did not live with his family, and do
nestle trouble was the cause of the TRACE
dy. Young Walworth, who lives at Sara
toga, directly after the shooting, went to a
police station and surrendered.
A Temperance movement of great
breadth and efficiency is now going on I'M
der the sanction and protection ofthe Cath
Ole Church of this country. Societies have
been formed in all directions, the members
of which promise to abstain from all in
toxicating drinks, to prevent as much as
possible, by advice and example, the sin
of incompetence in others, and to discoun-
tenance the drinking habits of society, and
the clergymen of the various orders are
lending the whole weight of their teach
ings and labors to push on the reform. AL
ready tens of thousands of men have join
ed these societies, and the number is daily
increasing.