Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-01-17


utaries. engrossed bills and organization. is
chairman Of committee on contingent fund
aud is a member Of the special committee on
the expenditures for State House repairs.
1t is said that more than II 900 new
farms were commenced last year in Texas
under the Homestead law alone But this
is not all. There were sold during the year
$40, 9O1 acres for cash. and 49, 800 acres
we're allotted on military land warrants
The Committees authorized BY the House
of Delegates to investigate the management
"f tue Tobacco Warehouses. the expeodi
lures on the House st C ERECTION the al
legged abuses at the House of Refuge, and
the expenditures on the State House, will
do their work in the most thorough manner.
They mean to stir things up in lively style
Mr. John Young Brown has broken an
important link IN Hon Montgomery Blairs
chain of evidence, by showing that he il
and has always been hostile to the Texas
Pacific railroad. Is it in order for Mr..
Blair to amend the Indictment BY inserting
the name Of Mr. Lamar, as indicated bv
Mr.. Blackburn, or had it not better be set
tied
JOHN Rigby, the Irish gunmaker, whose
weapons were used by the foreign teams in
the international contest is not convinced
that American each-oading rifles are su-
perior to his muzzle-loading ones He has
accordingly Challenged the American max
crs TO a contest of 900 yards The chal-
lenge is accepted and the match is to be
shot in the spring
A number of American citizens from
Baltimore who had taken possession Of Mo
rant Keys, dependency Of Jamaica. claim
ing 10 have discovered the KEYS and esiab-
lished Baltimore guano company. in spite
Of the warning of the United States Con
sui and the jamaica officials. have been
driven off by III B. NJ steamship Blsnch
and taken to Kingston.
There IS movement on foot, which Mr.
Hayes is said to favor, TO make heads Of de-
partmcnts directly responsible to Congress,
as in England 10 let them participate in
debates affecting their departments, TO an
swcr interrogafions, and to force charg.
Of the Cabinet whenever il is found that its
members are not in accord with the seuti-
ment of the people as expressed through
their representatives in Congress. This
would practically give to Congress the max
ing of the Cabinet
U. S. Senator Whyte championed Col.
Gilmor and State Senator German cham.
poned Mr.. Milroy for the Police Commits
sionership and Mroy won First blood for
(iorlnan. The next round will be over the
Z. 5. Senatorship Whyte is backing
Denis and German is sponging Groomr =
just wait and We will see. The war has
grown fierce among the party chieftains and
there are many hearts among the rank and
file that ache for fear they will find them
selves on the wrong side
When celebrating mass recently. Cardinal
McCloskey wore, over flowing sontane of
of scarlet silk, and II surplice Of fine lace
belted with scalet silk, ehasuble of cloth of
gold, lined with scarlet silk The encrusta-
ton Of gold devices upon the chasuble made
it almost stlfand weightv. About his neck
was royal collar oferminc Jewels flashed
upon his inter of gold, and in his sapphire
AID diamond signet, protruding through
one Of bis white silk gloves, the back of
which was embroided with a cross of red
.ilk
The command ofthe oyster boat for which
&. IL. Posey now has the commission is be-
ing much sought after Any number of
useful voters who last fall showed in the
'dmmycratic ticket and worked for the.
whole thing square out are anxious and
pressing to serve the State and eat oysters
at the public expense as Poscy's successor.
= Il (ii,o,l,,.a,,'.
thing at Annapolis, hence it is that just now
the Generals office is place of great pop
ular resort. The appointment is to be made
next spring and the Generals leyees will
doubtless continue until then St. Mary'a
county is after it however and, it 10 thought,
will get it.
The New York Times strikes the keynote
of opposition to President Hayes There
is no installing the following language =
president Hayes has so far C osen to neg
lect the party al ogether-to trample on its
traditions, to trife with its principles and
pledges and to leave its future to be de
termined by accident If he expected thus
to weaken partisanship, he made great
mistake. And if he now imagines that By
leaving the party to care for itself, he may
assure to his Administration career out
side of parties, he will by and by discover
that in his eagerness to escape from Repub
llcan dictation he has become dependent
uFon the caprcious and exacting will of
the Democracy" This means open war,
and is likely to be echoed by tie great body
of the Republican press Com. Adcsrtt-
ser
The Annapolis letter of the Marlborough
Gazette under date of January 18th, says
The Legislature is i'll nterregnum and more
than the usual quietness reigns at the State |
House since tn: Court of Appeals is not in
session. The Chambers of the two Houses
have looked for the past few days like de
serted palaces, for little palaces they are
All about their elegance | presume you
nave heard-of the rich Brussels carpets.
The raw silk curtains. the gilded cornices.
he frescoed ceilings, the carved furniture
md the beautiful desks. They are all that
las been said Of them, and probably not
whit better than they ought to be but (and
his but is the jailor, he as has been appro-
orately called, that lets out the unwelcome
,risoncr) ought this rich and elegant fur
llture, these rare and costly carpets, these