Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-08-28
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

for numbering a child by pouring scald-
ing water down its throat.
Maehinerv Hall, one of the fine build
| ings OF the Centennial exhibition, has
been sold to private parties and pulled
| down.
I The editor wrote 'Womens Wills
but the compOsitor knew better, and put
it 'Woman's Wiles. Poor fellow he
had been the victim of such wiles.
Twenty five OF the principal railroads
of the United States earned $S. .733 .5S2
in the month of July 1879, which was
an increase of $704, ,963 over the sam,
month last year.
An assay recently made in Denver
Col, on sample Of ore from newly
discovered vein Of ore, showed a value
per ton OF 9l3S 1868, which is the richest
product ever fouad.
The state department. is informed that
o"ltz riand is in the habit Of paving the
expenses of confirmed paupers to this
country Ia order to be rid Of them. and
has taken means to stop the wrong.
An idea of the trade in canary birds
IS given by the fact that one New York
house during the past year purchased
$4,000 male and 600 female birds
most OF them beng imported from Ger.
many.
The State of Texas having imposed a
license tax of $500 on commercial trav-
elers, nearly all the large houses ia New
ORR nave recalled their agents. feeling
that submission TO the tax in one State
would lead to it's imposition in Others.
The so-ealIed Indian depredations in
Arizona are the work Of Americans.
Mexicans and Indians. Nearly 200 ami.
mails have been stolen. The raiders we're
followed to South Mule Pass. where
alIee Amencans and two Germans were
killed. '''''' VIZ
" is a common practice for people.
through Ignorance Of the law. when
sending postal cards TO write part of the
iettor on the face of the card. Nothing
but the address should be written there
else i've cents will be collected bv the
postotli2e on delivery.
Florida is now shipping 6 600 head of
cattle monthly to Cuba. win the mos.
|, peo' Tor an increase in the demand. The
shipments Of Texas cattle to Cnba are
also large, giving regular occupation to
several OF the Morgan steamships. and
not'a case of fever among them.
When the California farmers began To
harvest their grain crops it trauspired
mat party of spectators held a corner
y ss, a sx5sitsnt si' fi%r-dh had 10 20
product go TO ruin. 1t il e,stfraafed The
7f'ecui"ters maze q profit OF nearly baIf
2 million. y H"lI
Inc holder Of the franchise for nm -,
ierground railway in New York citv hos
'eiiected arrangements with Parisian
aPl1ansts whereby they will advance
our IAlhon dollars for the work me- anon
) ne secures $500 00O il this c9untyv
, start the work, and thus demonstroto
le validity Of his title. - '''0
Among the English Competitions who
re coming to this COUNTRY 10 nartic;
ate IN athletic sports are Mr. George
no can run mile in f0ur uoinrfos
Venty live seconds, and four milos IL
yentv minutes ffty-one seconds ond NJ
Lr. Ball, who can run onarter Of % a
lle III hi0y7one and one-half seconds.
Superheated starch falling on red
oU stove IN a candy factory in New
ofK causd an explosion; and this, 1t is
ow believed, throws light on the cause
u ~
1bhshment some mouths ago, whereby
number Of lives were lost, and which
ould not be satisfactorily accounted for.
MI. Forbes, the enterprisinR journaI-
Vt who receives $40, coo for reporting
ne Zulu campaign for London paper,
n the conclusion of the last great bat
Q rode 1f0 miles alone in the dead of
light, through the hostile country, in
rder to reach telegraphic communica.
on and transmit his account ahead of
)mpetitoTe.
AS an instance of the impartiality and
fh,iency OF the quarantine in Arkansas,
was stated that Governor Alcorn. who
,me up With his family from Friar's
'oint, Misss., and passed Memphis
ithout stopping, was denied a certif-
ate to 60 to Hot Springs, where his
aughter, who married as0n of Governor
.ector, is now residing.
The following shows the number of
ounds contained in bushel of the diff
srent articles named: OF bran, y; blue
rass, IA; shorts, 1S: dried apples, %;
ats, 49, dried peaches, 3D. hemp seed,
4; timothy seed, As; castor beans, As;
,arley. AS; haxseed, 56 rye, So; shelled
,orn, Sc; onions, 81; wheat, 60; clover
iced, so; mineral coal, 70; salt, 70; corn
IN cob, rs.
Under the stimulus of an Iowa law,
which remita certain portion Of taxes
for five years on every acre OF fruit
and for ten years on every acre of forest
trees planted in the State and kept alive,
a great change has been wrought in the
aspect of the Iowa landscape. Over
thousand acres Of fruit and
forest trees have been put out, and the
remission of taxes resulting amounts to
about 100000.
In 1878 by executive order an area OF
s. .259. 200 acres in Dakota on the north
east border of the Missouri was with
drawn from settlement, to prevent the
whites from pressing too closely upon the
adjacent great Sioux reservation near
Yankton. This tract, however, haVlng pc
come infested with white raiders, who
pillage settlers and Indians alike, was
by executive order, dated August 9th,
re-opened for settlement.
At the close of prayer meeting in
Methodist church at Acton, Ind, Broth
er Hamlin, superintendent of the Sun
day school, announced that the services
on the following Sunday would be held
in grove near by. This was really the
result Of q division in the congregation.
Pastor Weaver said that, on the con-
traiy, the usual services would take
place in the church, aud at once pro-
nounced the benedictiOu. The two then
met in the aisle. duarreled tiereely. and