Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-06-03

Grand Lama be worth were he to be yislhlr
at tea parties of his huanciers2 frtncIs
picked up Titan brush, but he would nsv-
cr bc so degenerate as to stoop for Rothschiid s
portmonuaie. The times are clearly out OF I
~, AGUsT.
Nesos ,5iea"itOs.
FoREtaN. Herr Most editor of the Fre"eH' /
was convicted at the Old Bailey on the 70 ut. /
Of libel and melting to murder. His counsel I
raised an objection, and sentence was deferred.
The punishment is not less than than three 1
wears imprisonment The Jury recommended /
Most to mercy on the ground that he Is Tor
eiguer Prime Alexander Of Bulgaria has
submitted his ultimttion to the people, VIZ, IL
dictatorship for term Of years or abdication.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Rustchuk,
Widdin and Tirnova. The new Russian dip
lomatic agent has arrived and will accompany
The Prince in tour Of the province.-The
Cars scheme for relieving the peasants OF
their arrearagcs, due on account Of the land
made over 10 them from the mobiles ana the
Crown by the act OF Emancipation has been
handed over to experts, ana its execution IN
definitely postponed. --EmigrdtO from the
South Of ireland is decreasing, and the coun-
try is settling down to the observance OF law
and order, except in the districts where eject
ments are being enforced The fisheries are
unusually prolific this year.
The Henley regatta committee have barred
out Cornell on the ground that they have not
complied with new rule providing that for.
eign entries shall be made by March /, ana
ACCOMPANIED with a notlrial certificate as TO
the standing of crew There Is great DIS
order in Greece The people denounce the
Frontier Convention; brlgandage is rife and
prominent officials are said to be implicated
in robbing the treasury.
| A Berlin despatch says: ''The first electric
railway, now working in the vicinity OF Ber-
lin is so satisfactory that a second Is PROJECT
ed TO run to another district OF the su"urps'--
The cost of constr uction is only IT, 500 per
kiometre.'
The Mormon missionaries who have been
trying to make proseiytcs in Germany are 10
be expelled the country.
The new concession to the Mexican South
ern Railway has been ratified by the Mexican
Congress, and General Grant left for home at
once.
A statue is to be erected to the memory of
Lord Belconsfed.
4 Alexander Ill. is so much affected by fear
of the Nihilists that he seldom shows himself,
even to his ministers, and has issued order
prohibiting his ade-de-camp from appearing
before him ottener than twice a week.
Mr. Edwin Booth ana bis family will sail
for New York in the steamer Bothnia from
Liverpool Jane 49, lie expects to return to
London in August 10 fulfil his engagements.
one of tine projects TO heal the woes Of the
British farmer is that he should grow tobacco;
but this is prohibited by law. both in Eng
land and Ireland. In the latter country tobac-
co WAS grown until about 80 ears ago, when
an act Of Parliament put a stop to it.
Mrs Gladstone is benevolent woman and
does many kind things for the villagers of
Ilawirden. She has given them an excellent
cofice-house which is open weekdays aud
Sundays. She has also established near the
castle home tor orphans. Many of the Glad
stone servants have oeen on the estate twenty,
thirty and forty years
! DOMESTIC -Absalom Brown a wldower,
living near Sttesyille, N. c went away from
his home on Monday, leaving his three chill
drcn alone in the house. The youngest, boy
1 three Years old, had long been sekly, and the
Inc .eadsg s. udrep, boy and girl ronea;,,,-5
lied rope around his geek and swung him
up to a post, where he was found Few min
utes later by II coored woman of the neigh
borhood, who happened TO pass by. She cut
the child down, and succeeded in revivng 1t.
ward some time later stopped again at
Brown houcc, when she asccrtained that the
brother and sister had taken the young child
off the bed carried it out behind the garden,
and buried it, She hastily dug the child up.
IL was still living but died the next day from
the shock
Commodore Mutt, whose death has been an
rounced, was rival Of Tom Thumb for the
. ,,T tl,o H.,
tet of dwarfs were on exhibition together The
j Commodore was the most ardent wooer and
might have succeeded, but Tom enlisted Bar
mum on his side ny conserving TO a public
mlrriAgc The shOwmad aided Tom in his
( suit, and a grand ceremonial ut Grace Church
/ New York, followed advertising the dwarfs
and Burnums Museum Two years and a
haf ago the Commodore married Miss Lillian
Eston in California. She is lady of slight
figure thought not much below the average
size She vas devoted wife and as the
dead man lay at the Anthony House. she
sobbcd rs though heart-brozen, speaking of
him as her dear little boy" who had "been
50 good ~
The mass-meetng held at the Maryland In
stitute Thursday night, by Governor Hamilton
and his friends, was well-attended. Two
speeches were made-one by the Governor and
the other by Mr. J. V. l.. Findlay. THE
Democratic State Central Committee met.
cruel blunder was recently made in an
'.,se. The forenoon handed several slips OF paper
o.the clerk of the court, who, opening one read
Of n naa the Vim, not ssl.y tn,
counsel We're shaking hands over the verdict |
the or foreman rem rn said .; You've read the
guilty of murder in the first degree"
watering place on Spencer's Island, Patuxent
river. The island is in a bend of the river on
posite Point Patience, and near Town creek,
famous for its oysters and fish The hotel,
which is new and comfortable, is in charge Of
Mrs. Catharine NJ. Spencer, and is intended as
a quiet resort for families.
The Treasury has received more than $3.50 :
600 600 (the limit set in the call in registered
hves for conversion into three and half per
cents.
The herring were so thick in the Potomac at
Little Falls last Sunday that some were crowd |
cd out OF the water and left dying on the shore
One bog picked up twentY-nine in the course of
an hour.
During the late session of Congress FIVE
senator's resigned their seats-Mesgrs. Blaine.
Window, krkwood, Conkling and Platt.
Alexandra, Va elected Democratic /
mayor and council last week
David Davis is about to visit Boston, and .
the Post warns the authorities to strengthen I
the bridges.
Six cents was all the damages that a jury
yesterday awarded man who wanted salts
faction from the fellow who alenated his
wife's affections If juries are going to be
so stingy, it will be cheaper to make proper
efforts to retain a wifes love than to let some
other man run away with it.
If the volume of European immigration con-
tinues unchecked, we shall soon find timid
people advocating restrictive treaties similar
TO the convention now existing between the
United States and China, to be made applica-