Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-07-17

The Washington and Lee University Of
Virginia has conferred the degree of Ii. d.
on Rev. Samuel Rodgers, of Baltimore city
A tract of land containing 81 acres, I'M
improved, situated near Odenton. Potomac
railroad, was sold recently at IS - per
acre.
L. Victor Baughman. Of the Frederick
Citizen, has been appointed by Gov.
Groome, aid-de-camp upon his staff with
the rank Of Colonel.
The Drum Point Railroad Company is
ready, it is understood, to put the road
| under contract as soon as Anne Arundel
county will subscribe the $500, 300 which
has been voted.
Adjutant General Bond has issued an
order commanding the Fifth Regiment
VI. n. G., Col. jenkins commanding, to 90
into camp at Long Branch for eight days,
commencing on the 2lst of July.
Professor Donaldson has made during
the past week two ascents in q balloon
from Barnum's Hippodrome, in search Of
that celebrated eastern current which was
to have carried himself and Wise, about a
year ago, across the Atlantic. On neither
occasion did Donaldson find what he
sought.
A Spanish court martial at Havana has
undertaken to sentence to death Mr. Doc
kray, an American who was charged with
aiding the insurgents. We are told that
it is hoped the Governor General will
commute the sentence to imprisonment.
but it is quite possible that our Govern
ment may have something to say in the
matter.
The wife of P. II. Smith, living ten miles
east of Kansas City, Mo, while laboring
under temporary insanity Tuesday, gave
heavy doses of stryChnine TO her daughter,
aged six years. and baby aged four
months, and then took a large quantity
herself. The mother and baby died, but
the daughter will recover.
A special dispatch from little Rock says
that all the militia in the city were under
arms on Monday night. One company
went into camp in the State House yard
Governor Baxter has telegraphed to the
country for two companies more. These
movements were made in view of the as
sembling of the State Constitutional Con
vention on Tuesday, but there are no re-
ports of even a threatened opposition to
the body.
| In the United States Court at Alexan-
dria, Va, on the Sth inst, Judge Hughes
decided an action of ejectment in favor of
George w. c. Lee, the devisee of the late
G. w. Park GUSTS. The estate is the mill
property on the Four-mile Run, Fairfax
county, Va, and is a part of the Gusts
estate which was sold during the war by
the United States for taxes. Itwould seem
that this decision may affect the govern
ment title to the entire Arlington proper
ty as the title to the two estates is practi-
cally the same.
| There can be no doubt but that the In
dians are again on the war path. A letter
from the pastor of the Methodist Church
at CimarrOn, New Mexico, gives an account
of several forays made by the Cheyennes
in that vicinity, in which a number of the
settlers were murdered. A train of forty
wagons was captured by band ofCheyen
mes and Kiowas, and the teamsters put to
death. Superintendent Hoag reports that
the Kiowas are divided; portion of them
under Lone Wolf have determined to join
the Camanches and Cheyennes and go on
the war path, while Kicking Bird and
other chiefs have concluded to remain at
peace. Mr.. Hoag blames the 'buffalo
hunters, whiskey sellers and thievish out
laws with provoking the savage tribes to
hostilities.