Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-01-07
the faithful servants in his household
also received 81 900.

also received 81, 900.
A coal famine exists in Dallas, Texas.
There is not pound for sale, and the
roads preclude the possibility Of hauling
wood. The mercury has been down to
zero, causing much suffering.
During the past year twelve white
and fifteen colored men were lynched
in the United States by mobs.
During service to-day the First M. L.
Church, Of Canton, Ohio, was discover
ed to he on fire, and the church, which
cost SAG, 600, was destroyed. Insurance
$25 600.
The hotel at Mount 81. Vincent in
Central Park, N. Y, was totally destroy
ed by fire, the loss being estimated at
over 500, 600. The building was for
several years occupied as a convent by
tho Sisters Of Charity.
The thermometer at Washington, D.
c., ranged at II degrees below zero,
January ], the c1ldest weather ever ex-
perienoed ct that point.
THE calendar-rcom and storehouse of
Martin & w. H. Nixon's paper mills at
Manayunk, Pa, were destroyed by fire.
Total loss between $50. 600 and 500, 900.
During the month OF December o.
097, 265 pieces were coined at the
United States mint in Philadelphia,
their total value being Sc, ss9. .075. 10.
The low-tax democratic members Of
sns ss 1snnssset issss 4essssS any result
/ iolirned. Committees of conference
between the low and high tex democrat
will doubtless be appointed.
Captain r. Fl. English. editor OF tht
Selma (Ala.) Times, and for many year
agent OF ths Associated Press in tina
city, is dead.
Esrly on New Years morning ths
county poorhouse at Charleston, W
Va, was destroyed by fire, leaving its
inmates. eighty in number, without
shelter. A large quantity of bacon,
beef, me1l and -four were also con
sumed. The total loss is about Sl0,'
900, with Ga 000 insured.
General Butler saws that the whole
system of naturalization in vogue foi
years past is Illegal wherever the oatE
is atte s.ed by a deputy clerk and no
signed in the presence of the Judge.
Att A. NJ. January 8, Washington
time, the mercury stood as follows a
the places indicated: Morehead % be
low, fall Of IA degrees; Duluth eigh
,, below, fall II; St. Paul seven below
fall 90; Lacrosse, Wis, three below, faI
%; Vincent, d. T., 81 below, fall nine
Omaha two below, fall IS; Fort Garry
"a below.
Snow has been on the ground
y Auousfa Ga q week which is unpr
! cedented in the history of the cit
u There has been fine sleighing Tor sever
- days-the first in twenty-five years.
IS In the Tennessee Legislature t
ne House was organized by the election
w. ". Ramsey (Pepublican), OF Shell
ha Speaker. The Senate balloted TWEEN
n five times for Speaker without result
ys The two important suits tried befc
y, the United States District court at B
IL timcre sometime since, involving
~ receivership of the Chesapeake a
le Ohio canal, and an injunction by
ID Pullman Palace Ger 90. against I
Baltimore and Ohio railroad compar
s: asking a restraining injunction in the
v OF sleeping cars. we're both denied
ge an opinion of Judge Bond, read
be court Jan, 8, 1891.
I'D A large feet of weather bound v
vels put into New York. many OF thu
a, having been north of Hatteras fourte
al to twenty days, and some having be
n. blown back to Hatteras after havl
ma sighted Sandy Hook Consideral
damage to canvas and rigging was
IL ported, and frostbites were abunda