Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1875-08-20

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Too Late.
We are sorry to say to our correspon-
dents IN. R. j. and Third District, y
that their favors came to hand too late tor
insertion this week, circumstance we re-
gret very much.
Festival.
We invite attention to the Fair and
Festival of the ladies of Trinity Chapel,
and hope that their worthy enterprise may
meet with abundant success.
Sad Case of Drowning.
We have heard with much regret of the
death from drowning of Francis Price,
aged about Is years, son CT VIM. H. Price,
Esq, of this county, on Friday last. This
sad affair occurred at the wharf at Sandy
Point, on the Potomac, from which he
with several Others had been fishing for
crabs. He left the warehouse into which
the party had been driven by rain, and
when his companions, upon hearing a
noise, went out to look for him he was
seen floating near the wharfin an appar-
emily insensible condition. He took no
notice of any efforts to aid him, and, after
floating off some thirty feet. sank out of
sight. His body was recovered next
morning and inferred at his fathers resi-
dence that evening. He is said to have
been an industrious and estimable young
man.
A Shooting Affair.
We regret to learn that Robert Davis,
a young man in the employment of Mr..
VIM. B. Carpenter, was shot and severely
wounded by Charles J. Sidler on Monday
evening last. 1t is reported that some dis
pute arose between Davis and Mrs. Sidler
about coat, wherein rough words were
used on both sides. Afterwards, as Davis
was returning to his work on a mule,
Sidler stepped into the road and fired at
him with an old musket loaded with shot
upwards of fifty of which took effect a
bout the breast and shoulder of Davis,
some few striking the mule. Davis is un-
der the care Of A. DR.. H. Robertson. A
writ was issued for the arrest of Sidler by
Justice Boswell, and he was committed
for further hearing on Saturday.
Charlotte Hall School.
We are informed that at meeting of
the Trustees of Charlotte Hall School, on
Wednesday, Mr.. Herbert Thompson was
elected Principal, in the place Of Professor
N. F. D. Brown, who resigned in July last
after continuous service of some twenty
five years in the position. Mr.. Thompson
is a graduate of Kings College, London,
and was during the last scholastic year an
associate principal of the Charlestown
Academy, W. Va. Prior to that time he
was a civil engineer in the service of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He will
have charge of the mathematical and
scientific department of the School, and
will also teach French and German. The
School will open about the middle of
September, we learn, and notice will be
given.
Singular.
This has emphatically been a summer
of thunder and storms. Scarcely day
has passed during the last three weeks
without one or more of them. Some of
the freaks of the lightning have been not
only alarming, but very remarkable. One
evening last week during the prevalence
of storm, whilst lighted candle was
sitting on the mantlepiece in the residence
of Mr.. W. F. McGarner, vivid flash of
lightning followed by loud report caused
the candle to flicker and Immediately the
adamantine fell from the wick. No 9TH
er damage was done and no effect of the
lightning was observable further than the
causing the wick to shed its grease. We
hope we may never be called to chronicle
a more severe result of lighting shock
than this one encountered by the unfortu-
nate candle.
The Roads.
If it took $4,000 last year to keep our
roads in order, when the remarkably fine
weather did most of the work, what will
this years appropriations accomplish in
view of the washing rains of the last few
days9 We have not heard from much of
the county but from what we have seen
in the immediate neighborhood of this
town, we will venture the assertion that
our Road Supervisors will find plenty of
work cut out for them. Last year moth
ing was done in the way of permanently
improving the roads. A little dirt was
shovelled here and there, and old bitches
were scooped out Nothing more was
needed then because the weather was ex-
ceptionally good. Now comes a rainy
spell, and the roads show Immediately
the neglect of the officers, for they are
washed in such way as to make it dan
gereus almost to travel in vehicle. But
then, you know, the election is approach
ing and taxes must be cut down, even if
they have to be doubled next year.
Juicy Weather.
Emphatically SO, Mr.. Speaker. We
think it may be confidently asserted that
during the past two weeks every twenty
four hours has averaged five copious show
ers. All this was very fine at first, but
enough is enough and more is too much,
and we are beginning to think that we
have had enough, if not too much We
are sorry to hear from all parts of the
county that the wheat and oats in the field
have been badly damaged, if not mostly
destroyed. Tobacco has also suffered
some, but thus far not much, and that on
high or well drained land is thing of
beauty to behold. We have already heard
of some that has been cut and housed
The heavy rains of the last forty eight
hours have not done it any good and more
will certainly set it back. The corn crop
is probably the finest ever raised in the
county. We will more than make up in
this latter crop what we shall lose in
wheat.
A TOmatOe Story.
A short time ago somebody sent to the
Baltimore Sun stem containing twelve
tomatoes in cluster. This was remarka-
BILE, but doubtless true, for we have now
in our office a stem which contains eleven
fully developed tomatoes of the Trophy
kind, raised near here A few days after
some wag in Baltimore county, determin-
ed to test the credulity of our contempor-
ary, sends to the editor of the Sun whole
bush of tomatoes, whereupon that paper
thus holds forth:
MORE ToMAToEs.-Edward Bishop, who lives
eight miles out from Baltimore on the Hartford
road, beats the biggest yet in tomatoes.
He sends The Sun agricultural editor a speci-
mon of MARYLAND cluSter Tomatoes yei iohino