Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The American consul at Cork says
tnat what ireland needs is coal CRATES
and coal burning stoves from the Uni
I'D States.
In the interior of Africa no native boy
.s allowed to eat chicken. A child that
had eaten one was himself eaten as a
punishment.
Six y-four cities in the United States
have each a population of more than
30 0CO. Twenty years ago the number
of such cities was twenty-six.
"The fools are not all dead yet" was
Penuiman's commentary on remark
of Fogg's. " So it seems, replied Fogg;
may you live q thousand years, Penni-
man!n
The governors of Massachusetts
Michigan, California and Iowa, one
congressman from Oregon and two
from Minnesota are all natives OF
Maine.
Lieutenant Sehwatka the Arctic navi-
| gator, paid pleasant visits to eternal
saeyEs end aaagsa aFas'Ria ish saa9 saa iGss
and hundreds OF ieee in tie slsy and
have his leg fractured by piece of ice
no bigger than his hand on New York
sidewalk.
Captain Isaac Bassett, assistant door
keeper Of the United States Senate, who
was originally made page through the
influence of j tniel Webster, has book
on Fifty Years in the United States
Senate" now in the hands of the pub
fishers. He has seen and known all the
men who have held seats in that body
during fifty years.
The statistical summary OF the Epis-
ccpal church in this country
1881, is as follows: Diocests, AZ;
missionary districts, IS; bishops and
az given By the Church Almanac for
bishops-e,cct, 56 priests and descors,
1886; whole number of clergy, 2.432;
parishes, about 1900; ordinations. 1875;
| priests, 9j; candidates for orders, 375;
church sconsecrated, II; baptisms, 49,
$50; confirm ,tions, IS 652; communi-
eants, 333, 1888; burials, % l42i Sunday
schoo teachers, 81, GA; Sunday school,
scholars 297. 407; contributions, includ-
ing for congregational purposes, S6,72|-
o43 81.
A petition on behalf OF the Indians
which originated in Women's Mission
ary society in Philadelphia was sent
last winter to Congress from fifteen
States. 1t was presented by com.
mittee of ladies to the President at the
White House, and by Judge Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, to the House of Repre-
sentatives. The petition of the present
year has already had extensive signn-
! lures in many States of the Union, and
the pamphlets, leaflets and tracts which
have been published by the association
having this movement in charge have
had a wide circulation. The petition
referred to prays for treaty-keeping with
Indians, but suggests no special policy.
The Australian group has popula-
tion of something over 2,700,t 100. The
people own 1000 600 horses, 5000, 600
j cattle and 65 ,00O, ,0G0 sheep, and last year
raised over 80, ,OOO, 900 bushels of wheat.
i In the last thirty years Victoria alone
has raised gold valued at $975 0C0. 900.
Their imports in 1879 amounted to S25,-
OO0, 900, and their exports TO S205 0Oo, GOO.
They raise revenue ofover SIS, ,O0O,O
a veal, spend nearly S95 600. 900 and have
run up debt of 1885 10000 With
this money they have constructed 1000
miles of railway, laid 25.000 miles of
telegraph wire, and supplied themselves
with sll the appliances Of civilization
in regions which thirty years ago were
practically abandoned TO the convict
! and the kangaroo.