Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-08-05
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I Editor q tie Iaacs:
/ The discovery Of several Infcrnsl .s-tchrues
packed IA barrels of cement shipped lrara Nc~
I l ofA 10 L4FefPoaI has created q gs.4t jrt. Of
excitement. NoJe-p1per. mark 3 ssj,h the
name AMI 5us5asss Of q peepvaa L,s :. the
EeI4-A E4.- =
man! suspect thaJ hc had Eysf Il 81. ,u do
with tie saiTmeat what the, vsst ;rr. sua
" ben intended u ue usei u onlt Is matter OF
surmlss- Il IS raE belief jssg lar. atge 10 TIC
exploded at some time ga the House Of Com
nuus when the Irish members ul.- 81. tiat ii Goa
yrnieni to absent themselves Threats of sagh
ontrages have appeared in Fepi "A p peTs for
months past. and subscriptions haze bcvn col.
lected Tor the purpose. Ac;Ive -frts are beng
( taken 10 discover The guilty ones
The Presidents teiaps the oi!e- day incrsscs
his chances OF ultimate recovery. for II wl.l
F keep one the two consulting physicians AZ the
( White House constantly. Why itwes not aeces-
! sary all the riUe since the shooti1- occurred !
am unable TO see. The attending physicians
msy he sktllful but DR. Agntw aud HauilioU
discovered what caused the relspsr. aud nov
that the are 70 he present IL I'll inSufe putlIc
conideaee tina, The old physician Nature IS a,
I least 10 have fair show.
! Following up the example Of Gul'eJu hear
/ of an attempt made 10 shoot Govcruo. Cornell
/ by craZy blacksmith. He appeared al the
capitol al Albany With an old shot gan r his
hand and was about to enter the building y ben
he stopped by the superintendent, "a " HON
/ ne said he was the Adjulant-Geurral of the
State and was commissioned by the highest
power on earth 10 shoot the Gorersur. \
struggle eusued for possession OF the gun. which
would not have been of much use 10 the NO, ldp
I be assassin for il was found 20 re unloadcd
and generally ogt OF order Aud this j. not all q,
/ for this morning news comes Of attempt At the
lie OF Governor Pilsbury, of Minnesota hv Il
wealthy CONTRACTOR made insane ON Guiteau' :
act When is this kind of business 10 cease q?
The railroads are still cutting rats and nov
adopt the rebate system, under which YOU tuy
a ticket giving the regular, fall fare and al the
point of destination the company repay the dill
ference between the full and the reduced rate
Of fare. This is done 10 prevent people from
buying a ticket 10 Chicago for instance wEea
they going only to Buffalo 10 which latter
place the regular fare il more than the reduced
rate TO the former place. \ Gentleman bought
one of these reduced rate tickets the other day
before the rebate system was adopted for Gin
cinnaii and Was going only to Rochester, y T..
( He sent his baggage to the depot and had IL
checked as he supposed for Rochester and arrir-
ing there, he discovered that it had gone TO
Cincinnati. The cheap ticket in this case Wa.
not so cheap after ALL since he had 20 pay the
4 eApTtSSdGc on, ne idLSaEt ioT It's ttthIu
/ At wel-knewn depot for books and paper.
/ | Noticed the other morning. sIurendous pile
ofScrbners midsummer number In the even
/ ing, the pile had disappeared. The next day it
was the same and the next. And no wonder
| The magazine has surpassed itself. The read
/ ing matter, us usual, under the ftstidious eve of
| DR.. Holland, is brilliant, crisp, refined, while
! the illustrations are simply exquisite. The
topics treated are all interesting and the artists
with pen and pencil have cerlninIy.p put forth
| their best efforts. 1t is liberal education to
study Scribners No home Shoul he without
the fresh numbers and no library Is complete
without the bound volumes
The Society for the Prevention of { u.lty TO
! Children have an important psoSt cullon on
hand, and one that deserves more Ia N ordinary
notice. 4 brutal waiter at DemouiCU named
Eissner, Las eleven year old son, whom the
father thinks he can bring up better with the
use of a club than by any other and more hu-
man methods The boy 5 screams the other day
W hen his father was fogging him attracted the
attention OF the neighbors one or two Of " HON
rushed 10 the rescue Of the bov and uegged the
father to stop his brutal work, but it was no
use, and being women they were IoHUTlCss TO
compel him. Finally the police were called in.
| the boy released from the ropes hy = hich he
had been tied, so that the punishment might
| be the more severe, and the brutal father borne
! oil 10 police court where, in Diet nlt OF bail,
| he was locked up. He will he indicted by the
| Grand Jury and tried, when ! trust that the
full measure Of the p,ni!ty vii b. AZ out to
| him
! 1t is el thtt Vanderbilt. t'.r r,ilread
| king, whose iGHrni:,c nj new T. in,r az Filth
avenue is nearly completed, nt'h, : 10 nrchaSc
the lot on the other side of ths avenue just
Q pc SITE and on which nov stand the Roman
Catholic Orr han As, lum, for The purpose of
making it an extensive garden for his own
private use. The price said u have been Of
fered for the property is half million dollars
! IA pretty large amount 10 pay for a flower