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The Monetary commission and Jones sill
yer report cost Sl5 600.
Boutwcll's investigation into the eleetio--
of 1875 in Mississippi cost So, SSl
ColoradO's product Of gold ans 1''e' iO'
1877 is said to reach , 80
Col. Vernon, Of Frederlck' pas : been .t APP
no;n Ie surveyor gry Of the Port of Baltimore.
Tho f,tber. and not the husband, of a
p ,,sa;aa woman, has supreme authority over
her
Archie Stirling has been appointed L. S.
District Attorney for Maryland This is
his third term.
The Belknap impeachment trial cost the
Government $l1 ,5S3, of which 1897 was
for telegraphing.
ce""'v. Lancaster has leave to introduce
bill to regulate the catching of FISH in the
Potomac river.
All accounts from Georgia Indicate that
Gen Gordon will have walk over for re-
election to the Senate
The Chinese Commission, which went to
San Franciscan 1876, and from which no
report was ever made, cost 81, SS3
As to his personal appearance the new Z.
s Senator from Maryland may be describ-
ed as being round all over aud thick in the
middle
In New England they pour water over a
tree in skating ring, and form a very
pretty ice berg, which is e,sh;i.hl at night
with an electric light.
Saula, an Abyssinian girl of onsidera-
BILE personal attraction, is astounding Lon
don by her charming performances at
the Westminster Aquarium.
A country editor remarks that ninety
nine out Of a hundred people maze great
mistake when they cut off a dogs tail in
throwing away the wrong end
The present Legislature Of Maryland is
composed of many of her most prominent
citizens, and is regarded as one Of the best
assemblies Maryland has ever had.
A member of the New York Fire De
partment was dismissed from the service for
taking a nap" He should have taken
something more valuable and-been pro-
NOTED.
A little girl aged ten years travelled over
eleven hundred miles alone in order to eat
Christmas dinner with her grandfather in
New Hampshire. She came from Chicago
Of course.
There is a row in the common council oil
Elizabeth, n } The Democrats left the
chamber in body, and the Republican,
remained and cut down salaries $40, 600 il
the aggregate.
Many of the Congressman who wen
home to spend the holidays brought theil
families back with them, to the 10Y of the
hotel proprictors The gaieties If the sea-
son will now begin.
A Spanish illustrated newspaper is threa-
tened with prosecution for publishing a por-
trait of the Princess Mercedes, tie destined
bride of King Alfonso, the portrait being
by no means fattering.
August Kablemann, poor bog of eigh-
teen, receiving So week as druggist S
clerk in ST Louis, has fallen heir unex-
pectedly to the estate of an uncle at San
Francisco which is valued at $500, 600.
The Georgia Supreme Court has COM
pressed an unusual amount of common sense
IN the brief decision that a murderer, 80
be too drunk to form the intent to kill, must
be too drunk to form the intent to shoot :"
Mr. hurry Vandiver of Hartford coun-
y, is justly regarded as one of the most
popular and active members of the present
House of Delegates He is known among
lis intimate friends, as the Hayre de Grace
,lood."
There are over seven hundred vessels
ngaged in dredging for oysters in the Mary
md waters of the Chesapeake Bay and it's
tributaries during the season, and each one
ives employment to captain and crew
f eight men.
Five couples were married At Coston IN
tuesday, last, and came up to Baltimore on
he steamer Pentz the same day reacb;no
light street wharf at about haIenast FIVE
, NJ. 1t proved to be quite a harvest for
he hackmen 90 - 10
The proposition to repeal the law exemnt-
ng mortgages from taxation will he pushed
y Senator Sullivanc of the Eastern shore
I Is very delicate question and has two
ldes' Even the Governor and Comptroller
ion't agree. O''' p'i 0'i''
The formality Of State Legislation L oona
nrough with at Annapolis, but the real
IS done, the put up iobs'' agreed
lpon and all the preliminaries orranged n
Baltimore. Barnums Hotel i ia "a" { So
place of incubation '''' : '''''''
1t is reported at the headouorto.. of a.
american Colonization Society that the de-
ire to emigrate to Liberia is verr a ram w.
lmong the eolored people Of lIississinn;
ixty thousand Of whom would % ;nmaa5f;
Ltely if they had the requisite mems
Prince Iturbide. of Mexico. til, adontod
on of the Emperor Maximilian, aas lust
allied for England to become a military
tudent at Woolwich He is a clever in
elligent young fellow of fifteen, and seems
able to take care of himself.
The majority, by large odds, of the Or
,hans Courts of this State are presided over
~ democratic Judges, yet it is pr9posed in
he Legislature to take from them their iu-
isdiction in the matter of approving Sher-
# s bonds This shows lamentabI, want
If confidence and cut boaoP The bond of
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