Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-07-16
Current News.

| Col. Clarke, shot by Captain Brewer, in Bal
timore, is out again. He will not prosecut
his assailant.
! statistically disposed lady publishes til
positive assertion that one in every seventeen
of her sex in this country marres a coniirme,
| inebriate
Colonel John +. Dent, Thomas A. Lynch
r. Johnson Cotton and Thomas H. Bond ar
announced as candidates for the Democratic
nomination for Senator in st. Mary's.
The Connecticut Legislature has chartere,
another insurance company, with novel bu
perhaps useful feature-to insure against losse
by wind as well as fire and water
The London -Ne,rs Paris dispatches reports
that the country between Vile Franche anC
Macon has been laid waste by the floods to thu
extent of forty kiameters. Fine wheat ant
wine crops in many places have been utterl,
destroyed.
The novel spectacle of red men celebrating
the anniversary of American independence tool
place at Atoka, Indian Territory, on the 4th
where three thousand gentle, unSophiSticateC
children of the forest participated on the occa
sion.
Rev. q. Mo1arty, "a distinguished e,srshol
divine, died Saturday afternoon ut Nillanova
Delaware county, Pa, at a ripe old age III
was formerly pastor of ST. Augustines church
in Philadelphia, and was a man of great abilit,
in the pulpit and in letters.
In the French Assembly Monday the Uni
versity Education bill was discussed CLAUSE b,
clause. All the amendments moved by III,
Liberals have been rejected by narrow najori
ties. The Clericals are jubilant, aud congrutu
late Bishop Dupanloup upon their success
The Hon. Montgomery Blair was the Oh.
one of the Blair family who attended the furer.
al of Gen. Frank P. Blair The father and
mother OF the Bairs are at present at their hon,
at Silver Springs, and were too feeble to beai
the fatigue of Il journey 10 Missouri.
The Executive Committee of the National
Grange adjourned on Saturday evening last &c
meet at Louisville in October next. Prepana.
tons are being made by Secretary Kelley bl
the removal OF the headquarters of the Nation
al Grange to Louisville. aud probably tley
will be completed by Saturday. when the Sc
cretary with his clerical force will depart bag
and baggage from Washington.
We learn from the Charleston Free Prs4s,
published in jefferson eouaiy, West Virginia,
that the wife of Hon. Jas H. Grove of tia,
county, formerly of MARYLAND committed sal
eide on Monday nigh, AT the family residence,
Woodbury. by hanging. Her body WAS dis
covered on Tuesday morning suspended To a
tree in tue lawn fronting the house Mrs.
Groves mental faculties had been al ,Ncs
quite seriously impaired, and it was during
one of her fits Of alteration that she pcTpetia,-
ed the fearful deed. Mrs Grove has relative.
and friends in Prince Georges county.
II is understood. saws the Baltimore ffsrt.
cIn, that il no obstacle arises the preliminary
investigation into the charges against Bishop
Nottingham will be commenced hv the Ceur;
appointed by Bishop Smith about the last o;
the present month. The names OF the six cen
members u the Court are still kept secret TIN.
will be the first time in the history af the Eu;s.
copai Church In the United S,atrs that pre-
late has been placed on trial tor violation n
canonicll law. Bishop Whiting ham drirlcc
Is that in the cause OF complain; against hiia
his action was purely discs .tionars, while as
prosecutors claim that it Was mandatory
The State Executive Committee e the Con-
dress. in which they allujc 10 the impor,aace
Of \ thorough organization. IN oTdc- that Nir-
ginia may give no hestta'inZ utterlucc on an
occasion on hiyh the proba OF the next
presidential contest viii be significantly for
east. The committee urge that there bc no di-
vided Counsels, no breaking up OF party lines.
no wandering off into the forbidden paths %
individual ambition Nominations should II
conducted through the medium OF reg llaFly
called aud fairly constituted Conventions. and
there should be no issues made within tbs
party -