Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-22
THE NEWS.

AT a meeting in Cincinnati of freight
( agents representing the connections cf
/ the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
1t was agreed to re-establish the old
rates to Charleston and other seaports
IN the Southeast, which amounts to an
increase OF about forty per cent.
DR.. Stuart Robinson, who has been
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church Of Louisville Ky.. for the past
twenty-five years, has resigned on ac-
count OF old age and failing health. He
was the most prominent clergyman con
nected with the Presbyterian Church
South. Mr.. Robinfon was bitterly an
tagonized by the North during the war.
Next day after the great fire in Chicago.
a meeting was calledto aid the sufferers.
The meeting was in favor of appointing
committees to make collections. &c,
delaying the prompt action necessary
Tor immediate relief, when he rose in
his seat said the sufferers were starving
and must be relieved Immediately, and
handed check for one thousand dol
lars, and by two o'clock p. NJ, a car
load of provisions was on the road to
relieve the sufferers who had in the
most bitter language denounced him as
a rebel sympathizer.
The officers and soldiers at Fort
Adam, R. J., have presented Ida Lewis,
the Keeper of the Lime Rock Light
house, with a solid silver teapot, as a
reward tor her bravery in saving two
soldiers from drowning in Newport
I h,trbcr last N4intcr-
aar
/ Jersey, p member Of the Monmouth
4 Battle Monument Organization, reports
/ that $4,000 in subscriptions have been
received which, with $4,000 appro-
pIiated bv the state, swells the fund to
$4,000. An application will be asked
from Congress.
Two sergeants, two roundsmen and
five policemen of the Brooklyn IN. w.
force have been dismissed for neglect Of
duty in failing to discover recent bur
glaries.
] The cremation society recently formed
III st. Louis now numbers among its
members some forty or fifty gentlemen
of high social position, many of them
quite wealthy, and all terribly in earnest.
Hon. VIM. Means, the newly y-ihstalled
mayor of Cincinnati, has issued proc
lamation that he will enforce the laws
forbidding Sunday theatrical perform
ances.
The Wisconsin nti-treating law has
been judicially decided to be imperative
and void.
At Omaha, 81 900 cash has been sub
scribed for the Dakota sufferers, $1,000
more has been promised and $500 dol
lars worth of clothing has already been
shipped to Yankton
The officials of the Second Auditors
Office are investigating a series of swiud
ling trpnsactions in the matter of sol
diers' bounty claims, alleged to hay,
been perpetrated by j. b. Whiting, {
, Southern colored man.
Hugh G. Guthrie, of Barter Rock
Augusta county, a very prominent
wealthy and influential citizen, died al
his residence on Sunday last in the
eighty-sixth year of his age He haC
educated several young men for tie
ministry, was a liberal patron of Hamp
den-Sidney College, and left portion
5 of his large estate to the foreign mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church.
Southern cotton mills have mad,
money while their Northern rivals wer,
! being satisfied at holding their own
! After such experience perhaps the Soutl
will turn her hand to other industries
the raw material of which she has il
6 abundance.
t Rev. G. w. Henning, of the Stat
a Board having in charge the case c
freedmen coming from Southern State
! to Kansas; says that the board has re
e ceived, cared for and distributed owe
Y one hundred thousand of these peopl
h since the exodus began, and has bee
e the means of turning 100000 more int
other States.
Q At Dodge CITY, Kan, man name
i Masterson met A. j. Peacock and J.
e Updegraf, on the public square, and in
X mediately revolvers Were drawn by tn
g whole party and firing began. Updt
graf was killed, and man named An
Z, derson was wounded. The street wa
% full of people. The Mayor and sheriff
e with shot guns, compelled Masterson I
= drop his arms and surrender.
|, A despatch from Camden, Ark, say.
"Nrs. Mutt, while in fit of insanit
j., killed five of her children, by thrown
:, them into well. The oldest was twel,
years and the youngest eleven montl
of age"
V w. j. Stanley, prominent lawyer
Columbus county, n. c., committed 81
1t eide by shooting He leaves wife al
e. six children.
h The steamer W. 7. Wheeless, wi
.e five hundred bales of cotton and Gener
* freight, burned to the waters edge
Savannah. No lives lost
L The liquor law adopted by the Leg
lature of Delaware as a substitute f
! the local option bill proposed, turns o
to be fully as effective and liable to
away at once with a large proportion
the liquor traffic in that state.
- - A strange cattle disease has brok
al out at Denning, Ulster county, NJ
- York. The animals are seized wi
= trembling, begin to bloat sometim
- blood flows from the nostrils. The d
ease is generally fatal
A South Carolina plantation is to !
"a ceive Chinese laborers from San Fra
e cisco by way of experiment.
- FOREIGN NEWS
We France seems in a fair way ger
y; with Tunis and keep the Kroumirs o.
er of Algeria. convicted nihihst co
spiritors, save one, will be hanged
- Further arrests have taken place in Ir
= land.-The reply of Greece acceptil
= the Turkish proposal has been deliver
- to the ambassadors at Athens.-Peta
~ throwing continues in Madrid Pefsi
territory has again been invaded by t
ok Kurds. There is trouble in the Lond
81 College of Physicians because an eclt
r. tic practitioner was consulted in Lo
a; Beaconsied's case.-England will
d represented at the monetary conferenC
but with due precautions against beil
in committed to bi-metallism.
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