Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-05-13

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some school children were playing mn.
der a small tree in the yard Of w. f..
Haller, eight miles east of Winona.
lightning struck the tree and immedi-
ately killed Mamie and Willie Hamer,
nine and seven years, and Mary High
tower, aged six years.
Over twenty-three thousand dollars
was paid for a herd of Jersey cattle,
consisting of six bulls, fifteen cows and
twenty one heifers, sold in New York.
The Alphea bull, Polonius, brought
alone four thousand six hundred dol
lars.
The wholesale drug and book house
and the First National Bank at Ottum-
wa, Ill, were destroyed by fire, the loss
being estimated at $4,000.
Information has reached st. Louis
that the dyke at Madison levee, about
that city, has been cut by some mali
cious person, and the water is pouring
into the bottom lands.
A fruitless attempt to impeach the
Governor and attorney-ge general of Penn
sylvania was made in the Legislature.
The potato bug alias the Colorado
beetle is reported to be preying on po-
tato vines in the vicinity of Norfolk,
Va, and truckmen predict short crop
A mad dog bit seven children, three
men and one woman in the streets al
Springhill, Pictou county, N. S.
George II. Williams, the only repre-
sentative of the negro race in the Ohio
Legislature, has fallen heir to $50, 900
by which he will be able to retire from
business and politics and devote himseli
to the history he is writing, covering q
period from 1920 to 1880, and entitled,
''Negroe3 as Slaves, as Soldiers and as
Citizens"
The editor of the Lewes Dell Ligb,
appears to have much contempt fol
chromos. He is physician, and instead
of chromos he offers to vaccinate every
new subscriber to his paper.
Government has forbidden negroes
from settling in the Indian Territory.
1t is stated by friends of Col. Thomas
A. Scott that his death is now only a
question of hours. He has had third
stroke of paralysis and has lost con
sciousness. DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, his
physician, has no hope of his regaining
his senses for any length Of time,
Judge Speir, of the New York Supe-
rior Court, decides IN favor of plaintiff
on the motion in the suit of Rufus
Hatch, as against the telegraph compa-
MES, to prevent the issue of $15, 526, ,59C
increase of capital stock.
1t is stated that the President does
not sanction the order of the auiutant-
general modifying the order prohibit
posts by allowing wine, beer and cider.
Joseph S. Lowering, of Philadelphia,
formerly a well-known sugar refiner.
died in Philadelphia Sunday last, aged
tighty-five years. This gentleman failed
some years ago, but was permitted to
continue his business, which proved
successful. He gave a dinner to his
creditors some years afterwards, under
the plate of each guest was found a
check amounting to principal and in
terest
The Yorktown centennial continues tc
give every promise of being a grand
affair, but it seems that in many wavs
already almost innumerable, it is to be
made matter Of profit. All sorts OF
devices for moneymaking on the occa-
sion are being made ready with regular
industrious ingenuity.
The Fort Meigs paper mill at Sous
Toledo, O., owned by the CIahin Paper
Company, was burned. Loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000.
A negro boy, aged eighteen, who adj
mitted that he had outraged an eight
year-Old negro girl and afterward mur-
dered her, was taken from Bienville
parish jail, at Sparta, and shot to death
by party of fifty men, mostly colored.
1t is stated that a panther was recent
ly killed in jackson county, Florida.
measuring fourteen feet in length, and
weighing 125 pounds Twelve hogs
feet were found in its stomach.
In the Fulton county (Ga) Superior
a Young lawyer of Atlanta, was sen
fenced to four years Imprisonment In
the State penitentiary for perjury.
Three Mormon preachers are attract
ing wide spread attention in Banks
county Ga. Their names are Kuler,
King and Carter. The good people
there are much incensed against them,
although they have made numerous con
verts among the very illiterate and ig-
norant.
The Jackson Ga. HeyaM reports that
the people of Newton district, in that
county, are greatly excited over a tiger
which is making its headquarters in that
locality. The district is aroused and
hunting parties have been organized to
catch the "varmint," but up to date
their efforts have proved unayailing.
There is a colored man on Mr.. G. NJ.
Rays plantation, onRockfsh, \. .C.who is a
real wonder to his neighbors. He has
lived with his old master ever since the
war, and has never asked for money has
never missed q DAYS work has never