Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-02-26

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LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Nail .........6.ls A. NJ. Mixed III 25 A. NJ.
Mixed ......l 90 P. NJ. Mail ..........7.l 10 P. NJ
Brief Mention.
We note slight change since the 18th
instant in time table OF our Railroad
The mail train leaves Cox's at COS A. NJ.
instead of 6.15, and arrives at Bowie at
o.1S A. NJ. seven minutes earlier than be-
fore. The mixed train also arrives and
leaves few minutes earlier
Our County Commissioners were in ses-
sion three days this week making changes
and transfers of property. The Board also
made the following appointments: Fran
els Higdon, Road Supervisor in place of
Joseph E. Sanders, resigned, and Richard
Taylor in place of VIM. Burtles, removed.
Another of the public sales of stock, i'm
plements, &C., which are to take place at
Cox Station from time to time. is adver-
tised in this per to come off on the 10th
of March proximo. Farmers and Others
having any thing to buy or sell will find
it to their advantage to attend these sales.
For the want of proper conveyance. we
understand some passengers on the night
train who wished to come to Port Tobac
co. on Wednesday, kept on to Coxs Sta
ton. Have we not enterprise enough to
put upon the road to our Station u good
two-horse covered wagon to convey pas
sengers to and from our town?
We noticed the other day at La Plata
Station that Mr.. r. T. Farrall was making
preparation for the erection of store
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recently purchased from Mrs. Amanda
Matthews on the west side of the Railroad
If competition is the life of trade-and
who says it is not ave shall hear of brisk
times at the Station when another store
shall have been opened there.
The double piazza to the st. Charles.
now in the occupancy of Mr.. T. J. Moore,
is quite handsome Improvement to the
hotel and one that will add greatly to the
comfort of the family and guests therein.
The scarlet fever is said to be prevail
ing to an alarming extent in what is
known as the Forks-o'Patukent neigh
borhood, near Patuxent Station, on the
B. s. P. r. R.
1t is supposed by some that as the
ground has been so thoroughly frozen this
winter the cut worm has Jared badly
We hope this may prove true.
The Postoffice at Beantown, in this
county, has been changed 20 the Railroad
Station, without change in Postmaster.
James. we offer thee congratulations
May he (not James, one day become Pre-
sident of the Z. s.
Thomas Y. Robey has been appointed
Guardian to VIM. Robey by the Orphans
Court.
We publish this week the notices If ad-
ministration on the personal estates of
Tho's I. Gardiner and of Andrew Thomas.
A small house recently occupied by the
family of Hawkins, the negro who was
one of the prisoners that escaped from
our Jail sometime last fall, was destroyed
by fire on Friday last soon after the fami-
ly moved out. The house was on the farm
of Sheriff Cooke, near Newtown.
James Burfey, negro, who escaped our
Jail with Hawkins and others last fall, was
arrested in Washington on Saturday last
and has since been lodged in the Mary
land Penitentiary by Sheriff Cooke to serve
out the term of his sentence of two wears
and six months.
Our faithful mail-carrier, Mr. Houston
Morris. deserves the praise and sympa-
thies too of our citizens. In the discharge
of his duties this winter he has had one
horse killed from being compelled 20 trav-
ell over Mount Misery when covered with
ice, and since the death of that one he has
famed another-the only horse he has left.
Many times he has been compelled to
shoulder the mail and trudge with it thro'
the snow and mud. His duties are always
promptly performed, notwithstanding that
great public nuisance-Mount Misery
has to be encountered twice every night.