Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-10-16
NO. t6.
ITEMS Of ~GA

The citizens of Selma, Ala, hare
a local tax Of 5000 on commercial travel
| ers.
There are 10000 deaf mutes in the
United States. and fifty places Of
worship where services are conducted in
the sign language.
In Peru there is no school for deaf
mutes. An attempt TO establish one
failed for want of pupils, as there are 50
few Peruvians SO afflicted.
a son Of Attorney General Hardin, of
Kentucky, although only fourteen years
old, is six feet high and weighs one
hundred aud iorty-two pounds.
A debt due the soil is q debt Of honor.
The good farmer viii no more think Of
ove,drawing his account with the earth
than of oyerjrawlng his account IN
bank.
The wife Of New York German
tailor, mother OF m eleven months old
girl, gave birth to twins, whereupon the
father fled from home, and has not sinoe
been heard from.
John Bright was chosen TO present
the English Primitive Methodist pc
tition, three quarters Of n mile long aud
signed by 100, 900 persons, in favor
| OF Sunday closing.
A Boston druggist sold an ounce of
laudanum to a boyg 20 brought written
ysr3er for tincturd Il rhuboTb. and tho
Widow OF the man killed by tue bluuder
has obtained n verdict of $5 20S dam
! ages.
A recent European steamer brought
$50 emigrants bound for Texas 10 settle
| rs farmers. Most OF them were Prus
sians who left the fatherland on account
of tho depressing times aud military
ezactious.
Capital is invested in English railways
10 tho tune Of 1924 900 per mile. while
the 81 $40 miles Of American RAILWAYS
represent an Investment Of only S5S
3I0per mile, which is considerably nors
than the actual cost.
The linen mills in WASHINGTON county.
N. T., have been purchased by firm of
manufacturers from Gulford, Ireland.
who will give employment to seven hun
dred hands. If successful the firm will
transfer their entire business to this
country.
The total imitation of the currency
during the present year, exclusive of
our gold product and coinage, Is 800
010. 600, as follows Gold imports, s33
600, 600 coinage OF silver dollars. S24.
600, 900 issue of national bank notes,
$12, 100000
| Experiments have been begun to test
| the practicabitity of growing the Gin
chone trees, from which Peruvian bark
is obtained, IN California. Several thou
sands of seedlings have been raised 10y
the agricultural department of the
State university, to be distributed when
large enough.
Among the checks sent out last We'd
nosday from the treasury, Ia payment
Of the quarterly interest on the United
States four per cent. loan, was one of $50, y
600 to the order of VIM. II. Vanderbilt,
being the quarterly interest on $50
O00,000 United States four per cent.
bonds registered in his name.
The sultan of Zanzibar is getting very
civilized. he has practically suppress
ed the slave trade, aud with a deter
mined hand. He gives dinner parties
in European fashion, with music from
IA excellent band, decorated menus and
all sorts of luxuries. His highness
drives out in q carriage and four, with
six outriders in scarlet and gold.
The Jacksonville, Fla, S,al. asks :
! VIII sone medical man explain why it is
that the negro is nevet known to sneeze2
Ask any old planter, who owned scores
of servants, and he will tell yOu he
never heard one of his servants sneeze.
Ii may appear q very singular fact.
but it il none the less true and we al
lude to it just to show how unobsergRnt
most people are.
ey, iIii%, ay5a 3.a ,y.f Gaqries Morris
AshviHe. N. q. After considerable
conquettish hesitation she chose Morris
and promised to marry him. The re-
venReful Lydie caught Morris IN the
| woods bound him to tree, and dis
! fioured him with q knife IN horrible
manner. Tor which the fend has been
sentsuced to sixty years imprisonment
The assistant attorneygeneral for the
postoffioe department, upon case re-
Gently submitted to him, has given af
his 0pjnion that letters addressed 70
lottery companies, or to individuals
when addressed to them as agents fol
such companies, are unmallable per sc
+, and that postmasters should refuse t(
j; register letters when 80 addressed. I'M
opinion has been adapted by the de
partment.
Tn the midst of the performance o
!, an extravaganza at Boston theater al
:, old man rises in the parquette and say
d that he is displeased with his seat, as n
l. ia unable to hear well. One OF Tn
d actors invites him to sit in char O
the stage. which he does, and finall
n takes q ludicrous part in the acting
s. IT is not until near the close OF the piece
ID so clever is the imposition, that th
u audience sees the old man is mempe
q OF the company.
te : The British consul at Saigon, China
,e mentions as q remarkable peculiarly O
n the natives of the country that the
,e have the great toe of each Eeo+ - 4
I. ted from the others, like Us ----4-.aaA
n. the hand, aud it can be used in mucl
is the same manner, though not to tn
To same extent. This popularity must b
,ir vely satisfactory to the disciples OF Dar
nj winism, although Chinese annals, z, 81
no wears before Christian era, show tina
nd this remarkable trait was known at tina
lie time as well as now.
c. False hair is being largely used i
ry Paris for the adornment OF childre
belonging to high life. Those soft, flax
en- locks that are seen floating in Tia
20 wind on the beaches Of Trouville an
th Dieppe are, it appears, in many case
he false. The Partisan asserts that a chrC
et- inquer. for whom the grand monde hf
IN no secrets, says that the same ladie
ng already dye their ehildren's hair an
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