Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-08-28
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II 10 estimated that there are between 4. 900
and 5000 fugitiVes from justice 10 Te1cs.
tia reported that the mental condition OF
lhe eA-Empress Carlotta Is much improved.
WA. B. Astor the other day paid S475 for
table cover and two bedspreads for his Am
bassAdress us M"
The old homestead Of Abraham Lincoln.
at Sangsmon Ill.,, is out OF repair, and is used
us a refuge by tramPs.
telephone Is working successfully between
Petersburg, Va, and Wilmington, n. c.. a
distance Of 726 miles.
Memphis Appeal: the newspaper reporter,
meet but few citizens on the streets after
twelve o'clock at night.
butcher at Des Moinss. Ia. has a list os
regular customers who come periodically TO |
drink blood for their health.
There 10 a tRau down West with q month |
90 large that the dentist gets into it rhsn he |
goes to hAVea tooth taken oat
nsw disease has appeared in some Of the |
towns OF New Hampshire among the cattle |
which babes all attempts 10 Allsy.
Ths pew which ". n. Seward used to &C. |
copy at Auburn has been made into q csp-
board, and is owned By citizen ofth~t TOWN; !
eafrhffn acrevice by her head, hanging over
precipice use feet high She was drawn up by |
ropes. ,,s., -.
Chicago il = lsdy-Ars. Chrls'iHs CLEMSON.
All The furniture in her mouse in her hand
Aark and some Of it is really artistic.
Rev DR. Nelson, OF Annapolis, addressed a
large local option meeting in Cumberland on
Monday evening. permanent organization
Of the frisuds Of local option was effected
Brother Moody was rowing on pond at
Mortified, Mase., and Staging Pull for the
Shore, when over went the boat, and the evan
gelist was compelled to swim for the shore or
drown
The famous solid silver vase two and a.
half feet high and deliberately fabricated. pre-
ssnted by the Wings 10 Henry Clay in is44
il offered for sale at Boston by the great man 3
grandson
Paulina Kunce, an Alsatian girl Ofeighteen,
has been sentenced to three months mprison-
ment for speaking unexpectedly of the
Grand Duke Of Baden, at the sight of his
photograph.
Two Nashville young men fought duel a.
bout young lady, Tuesday night, each hold
ing a candle in their left hand to give the eth
sr good sight at them in the dark. One was
shot in the arm.
London Truth mentions characteristic ru-
NOR as current in Paris to the effect that the
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poleon were no Zulus ut all, but political A.
gents ia disguise.
Mrs. Susan Merriwsather. . dame who had
turned the corner Of century and who is re-
corded as the utterer Of the f rst Protestant
prayer ever heard in the state Of Iowa. died at
dubuque, Monday.
The Chinese legation at Washington went to
a tea party ths other evening and one OF it's
| m ee1 he -
hVe different Chinese instruments ali giving
forth mosrRfal barbsric music.
The sections Of Trinity parish, New York,
including not only Trinity Church but 1--WE
chapels are now uniformed in black gowns.
The gowns are Of black poplin, reaching be-
low the knee, with broad collars Of velvet.
R. F. Willcott and wife, Claremont Now
Hampshire, celebrated their golden wedding
last week. In their family not a single death
has occurred in three generations, and every
member was present at the joyful anniversary
Lightning descended among a flock of ff-
teen sheep at South Sterling, N. j., Thursday,
killing thirteen-One of the number being eve
that boy vas milking while another boy
hurt -A,=i.is.-~e-s-- I~ur w-.-------s-
| Eightesn Algerian Roman Catholic mission
aries have started for Zanzibar to join the Vic
toria Nyanza and Lake Tangary ika mission.
Two Of them, named Stewart and Oswald,
are Scotchmen, twelve Germans and four Bel
gians.
novel case of hydrophobia is reported
from linn, Ohio, where Young man nam
ed Mckttrich, is hopelessly i'll with that
dread malady. The singular feature of the
case is that he was bitten BY a mad dog over
IA years ago.
Memphis Avalanche: W. ar, cooped up, cab
1 prft l,.A ,.Z - -
and regulations of all sorts and sizes, a Ma
tional Board of Health pronuncianento down
to double-barreled shot gun. All right;
Memphis still lives.
On the front Of the house where Lincoln
died, when be was carried across the street from
the theatre, has been placed a marble tablet
giving his name and the date of his death.
The house is now occupied as the office Of the
Washington Sentinel
When Generel Tom Ewing was in Maine he
made speech against Blaine and then spent
the night with the Maine Senator When
Blaine goes to Ohio to speak against Ewing,
| he will be offered the Inequalities of the great
! Greenbacker's house.
son Of Charles Jewell, Of the New York
| police force, who was visiting his grandfather
near Poughkeepsie, while gathering apples in
| an orchard was stung by = number of hornets
and died from the effects of the stings in half
an hour He was ten years old.
John R. Lynch, prominent coored man Of
Mississippi, has been appointed superintendent
Of the censes for that State and the Vicksburg
Herald, Democratic paper, says She is en-
tirely capable of filling the position and we
| doubt not will give satisfaction"
An intellectual member ofthe Arkanaas leg
islature has introduced bill abbreviatng the
season Of Lent from forty to twenty days
tiee plains that every thing else has come down
nifty per cent. since the war, and there should
be no discrimination in favor of Lent.
Two children Of Mr. Montague one eleven
years old and the other eight, who have been
lost in the Jefferson county IN. Y. woods
two days and one night, came out yesterday a
boutsix miles from the point where they enter
ed. They subsisted mostly on berries.
Florida man, who owns $50, 900 cattle
and is richer than any body else in the State
Is recluse, living in shanty which has Meth
er fireplace nor chimney He sells his surplus
cattle in Cuba; he. seldom sees men; and be
hides his money in cans on his land
The Pope has received an anonymous letter
from Baltimore warning him against attempts
10 poison him, but the letter contains so MANY
references to the Popes private life it is be-
lleved it was posted in America merely as a
blind. An investigation is progressing.
Mr.. Sherman has two thousand women en-
ployed in the Treasury Department, and it is
suggested that they can be utilized to aid
the boom. Each enc is the sister, the cousin
or the aunt of some male person. who casts a
vote and can be influenced. -HdVTe Repu6Ii-