Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-08
THE NEWS.

The Connecticut legislature has pass
ed bill decleating cider to be an in
= toxicating beverage and placing its sal
J under the same restrictions as iptoxi
eating liquors.
Judge Wallace of the United State,
court for the Northern district, has ius
rendered decisions in the bank ia,
cases. He gives judgment for th,
plaintiff, finding, as conclusions of law
that the state law under which the tax
was collected was invalid, inasmuch as
the bank was organized under the
United States law, which prohibits bank
capital from being taxed at higher
rate than capital invested in other wavs.
Sarah A. and Susan Leake, mother
and daughter, were arrested at Flush
ing, Il. l., on a charge of numbering the
child of the latter by burying it alive in
a garden. They were committed for ex-
animation.
The old and prominent Charleston.
>. o., firm of James Adger a CO.,
bankers and shipping agents, who sus-
pended in 1879, having settled with
creditors, have resumed business.
VIM. S. Bates, a United States mar
shal, was fatally stabbed in fight near
bar-room on the Southern Railroad, be
low Somerset, Ky. Mr.. Cooper, another
United States marshal, was killed in
Littletown, ten miles distant. Both were
active against the moonshiners.
Ihe ,Ispnessss Senate 5eieeted the
thvee Per cent. interest the vote stand
yeas y, nays 18 motion was made
] to reconsider.
Col j. w. Paramore, of this city,
President of the Texas and st Louis
Narrow gauge Railroad, has just return
ell to st. Louis from New York, where
he obtained $4,000 900 for the construc-
ton of the narrow-gauge road from
Texarcana through Arkansas, to point
opposite Cairo Ill This line is a link
IN the great narTow-g gauge system which
Is to connect New York with the CITY of
Mexico, via St. Louis.
Several passengers on the west bound
express ON the Wabash, St Louis and
Pacific Railroad were robbed of con
siderable property at Fort Wayne, In
diana, while the train was changing en-
gines. John A. French lost $4,000 in
notes. There is no clue to the robbers.
Judge Donohoo, of the New York Su-
preme Bench granted an Injunction on
the application of Charles II. Pond.
John W. Garrett and others, stockhold-
ers of the Atlanta and Charlotte Rail
way, prohibiting the directors from leas-
ing that road to the Richmond and Dan
VILE Railroad and also an order to
show cause why the injunction should
not be continued, pending a suit against
the directors and officers of the A. a. G.
and r. & ID. Railroads, instituted by
Charles F. Pond and others.
The Anti-High Rent League of New
/ York has been formed. Resolutions
We're adopted stating that the organiza-
| tion would use it's utmost endeavors to
4 prevent the proposed increase of rent on
the LIST of May; that the Legislature
/ should be called upon to establish real
estate commission to fix nominal basis
for rents according to the capital invest
ed in the property to be leased, and
warning the legislature and city govern
ment that the association would hold
them responsible for all consequences
resulting from a boundless oppression
of the working classes" Similar meet
ings were held in Brooklyn and Chicago.
Heavy frosts and ice are reported from
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Vegetables are badly damaged, and 1t IS
feared that the peach crop is destroyed.
The failure is announced of II. Con
nerly Il Co.. general stOrekeepers, OF
Vienna, Ala, with liabilities of 100000,
and assets of $4,000 The firm has a
number of creditors in New York.
A tornado visited the town of Clinton,
Sampson county, n. c., demolishlng the
Episcopal Church, and several other
buildings. SO violent was the wind thai
it blew in the window Of adwelling, anC
dashed man and his wife out of theil
bed.
At Evansville, Ind, Geo Schmidt
two years old, died Of hydrophobia afte
thirty hours suffering He was bitter
March 7th.
A war of races has broken out between
the negroes and Chinese in Peru, anC
over two thousand of the latter have
been murdered.
Jewett G. Davatie, editor-in- chief OF
the Columbus (Ga.) enquirer Sun, .
died after brief illness.
The steamship Adriatic, from Europe
to New York, brought S1,2S5, $50 golC
bars, $500,000 of which was to the Banl
of British North America.
In accordance with decree of tn
United States Court the Spartansbur,
and Asheville railroad was sold at Spart
ansburg, S. c., to Joseph Walker rep
resenting a committee of the bondhold
ers, for Sill, 900 Col Coleman repre-
senting the lien creditors bid $4,000
and Dr. A. NJ. Smith bid $4,000 ]
is understood that the sale was in tn
! interest of the Spartansburg, Union an
Columbia railroad.
, The annual report of the Panam
Railroad Company shows a balance afte
i paying all current expenses, for 1880, G
S102,258.
A new society has been started in Ne1
! York entitled "The Society for the Pre-
vention of Street Accidents"
, Railroad Matters.