Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-05-20
PORT TOBACCO MARYLAND MAY 20. 1851
THE NEWS.

TT daughter were in New Orleans .
que loth instant and witnessed the N,
lie Tening OF the monument to Geno,s ~
'"chson. -
Montpelier, the home of Pros;don
James Madison, in Orarge conntr ''Tsl, W..
|" n July next. " = 'oiu a. auctlol
p Inc electric railway to Liebterfold
russia, has been opened. II was ~, ,
perfect success. ""S
Mr.. Christian Boos. the Norweo.io,
ana swedish consul at New YorL 60 ''l
nrms the report that a steamship Iina
IN Hull, England, has contracted 'itie ~
SanlIs Saails 70 tllls country eighty-thousand
summer AiiHS tne
Sixteen families of foreign immioronts
arrived at Charleston, S. c., by steamer
from New York. There were fiftv-four
persons IN the party, eighteen of whom
were children. "n0Hi
Amid the present activity in all that
! pertains to the iron trade. 1t is stranga
10 near OF the failure of the GEORGIA
Iron Works at Atlanta, which started in
october last with a capital of $3.50. 900
The Niagara Falls paper mill, on Goat
loss 100000, insurance $50 06o 80,
lsnas are thrown out of employnert.
Annie Myrtle, thirteen wears of A.
uieu et. az iSaclne, Wis, from the effects ~
Jumping the rope" She Jumped one
hundred and two times, which SO in
Iured her brain and other internal organs
that she was terrible sufferer until re-
heved by death. Another girl MARY
Faber) is very sick from the same cause. |
DIR. Baumiller and August Rechter.
of Indianapolis. some time since agreed |
to exchange wives, and the doctor went |
to st. Louis with Mrs. Rechter. A few /
days ago the doctor returned and re-
claimed his own legal wife, abandoning
Mrs. Rechter at st. Louis.
In Warrington, Iowa, storm lifted a
barn containing six horses, and carried .
it a distance of half a mile, without in /
jury to the horses. Two barns were
blown distance of two miles. No lives
were lost.
Henry White, bookkeeper of the
Fayette National Bank is under arrest .
for stealinga a box of bonds deposited at
the bank by ?. I. Mcguire. White as
sumed the name of Hardesty, and sold |
the bonds in Cincinnati for $50, coo. The
robbery occurred at Lexington, Ky.
The Atlanta Cotton Exposition has
attracted much more attention at the
Northern cities than in Baltimore,
where they ought to be most particular
in giving encouragement to this enter
Wednesday, July 20th.
1t is stated on authority that the
Western Union Telegraph Company
will absorb the Northwestern COMPANY.
and the management will be the same
as the Central division of the Western
Union, with its Office at Chicago.
Up to date Postmaster General James
has saved 100000 to the department
by the looping off of fraudulent star
route contracts.
The Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
will be at the Savannah river in few
days The bridge is ready for the iron.
The people of Augusta confidently cx-
pect connection with Baltimore via the
Virginia Midland.
The trustees of the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad recently passed a resolu-
ton to advertise for proposals at once
for lease Of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad for twenty-five years, bids to
be opened August Is.
The Mexican congressional committee
on public works has reported favorably
on General Grants railway contract.
The director of the mint estimates
that the total gold circulation of the
United States, including bullion in the
treasury, amounted at the commence
ment of the current month to $520,000,- :
900 dollars. of which about 1854, 900, 900
was held as treasury and national bank
reserves, and 1886, 600, 600 was in actual
| circulation.
The cable steamer Dacia has been
endeavoring to recover the broken Key
West cable near Havana 1t has been
grappled four times, and each time broke
loose, so great is the resistance owing
to the strong currents and the fact that
it is deeply imbedded in sand.
Three colored convicts III Greene
county, Ga, killed their white guard
E. S. Langston, with his gun and got
clear.
The appraisers of the estate of the
late Mark Hopkins, of the Central Paci
fic railroad, have filed their account a
San Francisco, which foots up a tota
/ valuation of $50, 700, 600.
A singular disease has broken on
among the cattle at Ludlow, Mass
! Several have died and many are sick
l The lungs of the cattle that have die
are found to be dark and honey-combe
e and water is found on the brain.
e Lawrence and Martin, of Chicago
known throughout the country in cor
= neetion with Tolu Rock and Rye, failed
S their store and stock being seized b
S the sheriff under judgments and liabil
ties amounting to S30000
The United States Attomey-Generi
decides in regard to the question of IL
e specting exports of oleomargarine an
n butterine manifested as butter, that th
n statutes do not cast upon the collectc
any duty of inspecting exports.
" II Moore y Co. doine. a e<.ners
Ark, made an assignii s1ss.;; .;''.ii s;sii
= Liabilities $50, goo. The creditors ar
= in st. Louis, Cincinnati, New York an
', New Orleans.
FOREIGN NEWS.
D. The marriage of the Grown Prin,