Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-15

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The monthly meeting of the Maryland Agri-
cultural Association took place in Baltimore on
Thursday week. Hon. A. b. Davis reviewed
the operations of the Society, and stated that
during tile year its membership had increased
| Is per cent. A number of improvements in
| the Fair Grounds at Pimlico are proposed and
the committee on increased facilities of trans
portation thereto was continued. Mr.. Davis
demonstrated the mutual interest of Baltimore
and the several counties in promoting an inter-
est in agricultural pursuits giving statistics in
support of these arguments, remarking that the
| farmer can live without the city, but the city
cannot live without the farmer and there
should be no place for jealousy and ndiffer-
ence.
| The correspondence of the Governor of
i Virginia with the Governor of Maryland and
| the authorities OF Accomdc county, also the
| opinion OF the Attorney General of Virginia, in
relation to recent difficulties in the waters of
| the Pocomoke," have been printed. The Gov
ernor and Attorney General hold that, under
the net Of Assembly approved April Is, 1874,
the privilege of taking oysters and other shell
| hSh Is accorded to citizens of Maryland, equally
with citizens of Virginia, in the waters of the
Potomac well as the Pocomoke, and the
privilege is not limited by the terms of the sta
tute to the tendency of the arbitration of the
boundary line question.
Mr.. James Lyons, of Richmond, who used
his influence to carry Virginia for Grant, has
written a letter to Gov. kemper proposing the
call of Convention of the States, north and
south, for the purpose Of maintaining the Con-
stitution and preserving the liberties of the
| people, in view of the late browning infamy in
New Orleans. He says "Nothing so afro
ciouS has been said or suggested, and nothing
| like il ever done since the massacre of the
II lgenots and the suhjugation of the fair land
OF Poland, and the slaughter of her children
The Baltimore and Potomac Alexandria Id
| " ashlngton, and Alexandria and Ere 1ercls-
burg roads have been created division of the
Northern Central, with Mr. Frank Thompson
As General Manager from Harrisburg to Pope
Creek and Qunntico, and Mr.. George c. VIII
kins will be the Superintendent over this divi-
sion. Mr.. }. N.DuBarry, who has been the
Vice President and General Manager of the
Baltimore and Potomac, and put it in opera
ton on the 22d of July, 1872, will take charge
of the Southern Bureau of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
Lent will begin this wear on the 10th Of
February-much earlier than it has done since
1869. This will bring the high festival OF
Easter this year on the 18th of March, which
is within six days of the earliest period upon
which it can ever possibly occur. On some
years Easter falls as late as the 18th of April
Some years there are as many as nine Sundays
between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, but
this year there will only be FIVE Sundays inter
vening between the jubilee Of Epiphany and
the solemn fast of Lent.--4ler. Gazette.
| On Monday the election for Mayor, at Cum
erlaud, Md. resulted in the choice of John
! iiumburd, Esq the Democratic candidate,
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teated by one hundred and fifty majority. The
late incumbent, ". K. McCulley, was Repub-
! iican, and Cumberland has given a majority
for that party for several years and at the late
! Congressional election gave majority against
Mr.. Walsh. People are becoming tired of Re-
| publican misrule.
| 1t is a funny fact that when the final action
of the House of Representatives came to be had
on John sherman humbug initiation bill, over
one-htth of the members were absent: and OF
these titty-eight ahSentees, forty were Republi-
cans and eighteen Democrats.
1t is consoling TO reflect that at the recent
election the people dismissed from further SER
| vice in Congress nearly oue-halt Of the present
| members of the House.
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SAYS The colored members have been VI
usually quiet and silent this session They
have either found out that the constant agta-
ton OF race questions does not pay, or they
have become satisfied that their rights are safe
IN Virginia"
On Tuesday last Mrs Sophia Murray, a
Colored woman, who resided ut No. IL Elbow
lane, Baltimore died in the ll5th year of her
age. She was born in l760, and has lived in
and about Baltimore all her life. Her mental
faculties were unimpaired up to tie time Of her
| death.
The Alexandria Gazette mentions the death
Of Mrs. Charlotte Jacobs, at Cloud. Mill, in
the ninety-fourth year Of her age. She was
the wife OF the late Thomas Jacobs, we'll
known and highly respected citizen Of Ale1an-
dria.
| When a Dubuque landlord turns a sick
widow out OF doors for non-payment of rent, a
crowd waits upon him and escorts him down
to the shores of lovely pond and insists upon
his taking swim.
! The Baltimore Sun recommends the stopping
Of supplies to the army by Congress if il is 10
be used for such purposes as at present by the
| President
| New Orleans remains quiet. The people
patiently await the redress which can come tC
| them only through the action of the friends Of
| Constitutional government in the North
Brigham Young has sufficiently recovered tc
sit up and be married occasionally.