Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-01-17
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Barnum's hotel and D Ter centres where
the. politicians are wont 4& &eongregate pre-
sent an animated appeata se.
A st. Louis lady hungdp her stocking.
and a large dog crawled into it and went to
sleep. She was quite disappointed in the
morning.
Sunset Cox after trying his best to do
feat the Paris exposition bill, was the first
to seek one Of the eommissionerships for
friend
Artemus Wards quaint remark about the
Mormonites is again floating over the coun-
try Their religion is singular but their
wives are plural ~
The number of Democratic Patriots in
New Jersey who want Office under Little
Ma" and the new Legislature is about eqaul
to the democratic State majority.
The first year Of the Hampton admins
tration leaves South Carolina absolutely free
from debt upon the operations of the year,
and with handsome balance in the trea-
sury
Last years wheat crop is estipr1ssd at tiffec
Sondred m-I.Iio1srssthaishels,, Mill and is said to
be the st Ger grown in the United
states Of~xAis amount one hundred and
'eu iiiihoh bushels can be spared for ex-
portation
Rev. DR.. Seymour has received informa-
ton that the diocese of Massachusetts, has
confirmed his election as Bishop of the do
cese of Springfield, H., by The unanimous
vote OK thc standing committed
A train wrecker in Virginia has been sent
to the Penitentiary for eighteen years. If
the judges and juries in other parts of the
country would show a little If the same
yigor crime Of this character would soon
come to an end
Mr. Henry NJ. Stanley's return from AZ
rica is sort of trumphal march. At all
the principal points he has touched he has
been honored with the most marked atten-
tions, the latest reported demonstration Of
the kind being at Cairo, Egypt
Mr.. Mitchell's bill to abolish the dis
traint law between landlord and tenant is
measure which should long ago have pass
| ed, as the law in question is one of the few
relics Of barbarism' which hang on to
AarSialfa State laws
The large Manufacturers and the Treas
ury department agree in opposing redue-
ton of the tax on tobacco, but for very
different reasons. The government wants
| the revenue, and the manufacturers do not
want the competition of small dealers
Northern New Jersey has for some time
past been the scene of some very 1nyster-
Gus robberies, which, of course, were set
down to the account Of the tramps The
| discovery tAat the robbers, the sous of re-
spectacle farmer, has made quite sensa-
ton
A careless young business man of Lock
port, n. A., lost bis sweetheart by making
a mistake in forwarding presents for Christ
mas. His brothers wife receve6 from him
a jewel case and note asking her to mar
ry him while the silyer-mounted feeding
bottle went to the girl.
News of a terrible mutiny at Sandy
Point Straits of Magellan, is sent by Com
mander Rodgers. of our navy, who fortu~
nately arrived in time to give valuable as
sistance. The nutinecrs released the con-
viets, the town was robbed and nearly burn
ed down and a large number of people
killed
The Liberian Immigrants who sailed last
week for that country with the light of the
Gospel carried very little besides The
thin calico dresses of the women and the
tatters of the men were not very suggestive
of comfort in the bleak winter wind, butin
the happy land they are going to even these
will be considered quite superhuous
The Palace hotel, in san Francisco. CAL.
is one of the vastcst monuments ever erect
ed to human folly. 1t pays only abeut one
per cent. on the Investment, and is heavily
mortgaged at eight per cent 1t is said
that Senator Sharon, the principal owner
Of the building is endeav0ring to sell it to
the government for use as a postoffice and
military headquarters.
Mr. David Dickinson, a Georgia planter
has computed IA careful census since 1865.
from which he deduces that the negro race
in the South is not dying out; that labor
does not produce 50 much as it dd before
the abolition Of slavery; that, working the
same number Of hands, there is but little
more cotton and not SO much corn and cat
tie raised and that the laborers declare
they work harder than when they were
slaves
John Randolph never gave utterance to
truer sentiments than when he said ITO
young men nothing is 50 important as "a
spirit of devotion, next to his Creator, to
some amable woman, whose image may
occupy his heart and guard it from pollu-
ton, which besets it on all sides. A man
ought to choose his wife, as Mr.. Primrose
hid her wedding gown, for qualities that
wear WELL One thing at least is true,
that if matrimony has its cares, celibacy
has no pleasure. A Newton or mere
scholar may find employment in study;
man Of literary taste can receive in books
powerful auxiliary but man must have
bosom friend and children round him to
cherish and support the dreariness of old
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