Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-01-14

Several trees have fallen across the road
leading from Pomonkey to this village.
We call supervisor Swans attention to
this fact. s.-
Capt. Geo w. Carpenter, OF Nanjsmoy,
lost valuable horse last week 10y having
his head caught between planks in the
barn.
The chimney of the st. Charles Hotel
caught fire on Monday night last and
rails q considerable stir among the oc u
pants Tor awhile, though no damage was
done
| Samuel II. Irwin, of Ute Creek, Colfa1
Co, New Mexico, says lfmy wife would
qui work as she should at her age (6l),
she would live years = monument to The
magic pfuence of the "Only Lung Pad -
See 4ar.
/ S. w. Frisbie, of East Toledo, Ohio,
says:-It afforded my son relief, and dis
PEELED al signs of this dread disease,
which has afflicted him since Childhood.
cheerfully recommend the Only Pad"
to all Asthmatice sufferers See 4dr.
| Vim. Boswell, ESQ, lost some valuable
sheep on Monday last by dogs, two Of
which'were canght in the act and both,
we are glad TO say, were summary dis
patched. On the Sunday night proceed
ing Mr. Cataldus Posey, lost eight from
the same cause. 1t i. supposed that the
same dogs did the work in both focks,
/ At the adjournment of the county com
missioners on Tuesday last, Mr.. Mudd,
the clerk, requested the janitnr to place
the books in his vehicle. but by mistake
they were placed in the buggy of Mr.. II.
d. Tubmau and he drove off without dis
covering the mistake and before it was
discovered by Mr.. Mudd.
4 correspondent Of the Baltimore So"
made . visit TO our count, lastweek, and,
in the course ola 'et'cr to his paper, states
that whiskey is the only medicine we
have in Southern Maryland. SEINE Of our
villagers say that there will not he any
medicine" left in this section. il many
more OF those baltimore chaps come this
way.
On Wednesday afternoon as We were
quietly making our way cut Of town after
Jour days work. one OF the fashionable
sslsighs with which our town has been
eeuented for some weeks past dashed
fgaity along the street by Us. and our US
u.lly orderly steed became 50 deli gl.ied
with either the music Of the bells that
were on the team. or the beauty of the
bellies that were behind 1t, tina, he Became
manageable and began eating up di-
v.rs capsrs, 70 TIVE great rerriment Of the
:, bellies who were inside, Any clumsy man
like ]. g would have been unhorsed. but
We kept our seat handsomely. ike tue
sturdy cavalier that we are,
+ The sleighins parties who come 20 town
vou d do Us great Kindness b, keeping
away from our s,nc;sm, as Sigh; OF their
happs faces causes all the envy q; which
weave possessed o Use up in one mighty
swell. while We are tied down TO the da.i
routine pt newspaper making. Ca last
Saturday evening We were particularly
cnvious Of a sleigh drswn by twn sorrr.,,
which frequently passed our Office The
look OF supreme satisfaction Of ,lm"s'
celestial happiness that beamed from the
countcnarcs Of hoth occupants, led Il. :"
believe that there Va. something more
than the mere fact OF sieighing which pro
ducc,l it
I Mr. Dssliicll. i reporter al he Ia Iimore
.S,fa, who came to the county on Friday
last 70 obtain the particulars "f Judge
Brent's history and death. attempted on
sunday to reach Washington overland in
company with James Mason, of this vii,
lage They reached Natt,womaa swamp
when they found it So much swollen hy
the recent th.ws and rains tia, th.y were
compelled. much Ia Mr.. D4shiell', charrir
who was d..irous If getting hi. r-por, in
he next day's paper, 10 retrace their jour
ney The spiri; and enterprise Of /. paper
which would induce ono Of is employees
10 attempt to ride thirty two mile. in az
open vehicle 90 such a day IS last sun
day. n.ust he grea, indeed