Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-03-25
TUE NEWS.

Is The steamer Howard was burned
e ot- Louis. The Howard was the large
e steamer on the Western rivers, bein
e about three thousand tons burden. Th
!; Grand Duke Alexis of Russia went fror
Y Cairo to New Orleans on her in 1877.
| and 1t IS coincidence that the destruc
2 ton of the steamer and the assassination
OF the Dukes father should occur on tb,
same day.
Delawares militia propose to attenf
the Yorktown celebration going by sea
to the old Virginia village.
Breyet Major General Emory Upton
U. >. A., was found dead in his bed at
Preside, Cal, having shot himself
through the heart some time during the
night.
Lightweight coin, gold and silver. is
hereafter to be stamped denoting its
value and to be circulated at its value.
A small handbill, embellished with
deaths head and crossbones and coffin
was circulated on the streets of ST
Louis, calling a meeting Of ''the friends
I OF progress and children Of the Goddess
+ of Liberty to indorse the Nihilist Soc
lety IN the assassination Of the Car.
The Kansas river is rising rapidly and
has cut into Kansas City, Mo, carving
away six acres of ground and part of
glue factory.
EIbert heck, seven years old, died at
Memphis, Tenn, with fully developed
| symptoms of hydrophobia. He was bit
I ten by a rabid dog last Christmas Sev-
/ dog. '"''
/ 6nsil, Ss.atss & Co., cotton merchants
| OF Mobile, Ala, have suspended, with
| liabilities estimated at 5000, 900.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Tennessee House of Representatives
looking to the impeachment of Judge G.
W. Tyler, of Montgomery county, Tenn,
for neglect of Office, drunkenness, mis-
appropriations and attempted assassina-
ton.
Thieves entered the residence os
Abram i. Simons, New York stationer
and printer, and carried off between
$4,000 and 1900 worth Of iewelry and
unsigned railroad bonds, representing
on their face over = 600, 600.
The Pennsylvania House of Represen-
tatiyes have passed resolution expell-
ing DR.. Palmer correspondent of the
Pittsburg Gazette, for commenting ad-
yersely on the action of the Speaker as
a violation of the privileges of the
House.
Miss Alberta Grey, native of Vir-
ginia, who has been in Washington, ID.
G., about two months, caused the arrest
of Philip Levi, agent, Of No. II West
Eleventh street, on a charge of robbery
and assault. He called to see her at her
/ boarding house, and while alone with
! her IN the parlor, tore from her ears her
| diamond earrings worth $500, and made
| his escape She is the daughter of q
Virginia clergyman.
A census bulletin issued gives the to-
/ tai population of this country as 80, l52,
500. of which 43, 404, SIC are whites and
6.57715l colored. There are 105, III
/ Cinnamon and japanese in the country
The Connecticut Senate passed bill
giving women the right to vote at
school meetings and making them elig-
ible for election upon boards of educa-
ton. No registration is required
The Greenback Central Club, com
posed of Greenhack ward presidents
and leading Greenbackers of San Fran
cisco, adopted resolutions endorsing the
assassination Of the Gar.
The steamship City of Pelin, which
arrived at San Francisco recently
brought 500 Chinese passengers from
Hong Kong.
The cotton compress at Jackson
Tenn, was burned Loss $4,000; in
surance 81, 800.
Nineteen women doctors were gradu
ated from the Women's Medical College
Philadelphia.
A despatch from Monroe, La, says
A serious difficulty occurred on Bayou dc
Sair in which f. L. Ludeling, son oi
ex-chief Justice Ludeling, was almost
instantIv killed w. S. -. JMitchenon
| was dangerously wounded :; T. o. Dink-
| gray was slightly wounded III both arms
The coroner's jury in the case of Gen
eral Upton, who committed suicide a
San Francisco, found verdict of ''sui
eide, due to everlasting the brain anC
the expected failure of a work on whicl
he was engaged"
The first train on the Atchison, TOpe
lla and Santa E'e Railroad to connect a
Deming with the Southern Pacific Rail
! road run through to San Francisco
There were fourteen passengers goin
to San Francisco and points on tn
Southern Pacific Railroad.
A terrible fire broke out at Newbur,
port, Mass, in the Newburyport Mill
which were very much damaged,
: not entirely destroyed. Insured fc
p $350,000.
The Savannah river at Augusta. Ga
q is higher than it has been since 1S6
rising a feet IN twelve hours A po
' ton of the city is flooded.
! Near Florence, S. c., James Best Wi
e instantly killed by stroke of ightniIn
4 which tore up the ground where he ha
/ stood and buried him from sight.
In Sioux City, Iowa, corn is sellln
for fuel at thirty-fve cents per bushe
there being no coal of any kind and vel
little dry wood to be had.
The shooting match between DIR. Ca
g yer and Mr.. Scott for purse OF 81
g hundred pounds, which began on tn
otb instant at the Aquarium, Westmli,r
; ter WINS concluded. and rssnlted "a ~ -
Z following total scores CARVER y 'O'
Scott, 9,735.
e Hon. Edward Phillips, of New Orleans
! who was Gen. Richard Taylor's che
Y ouartermaster during the late war, die
/ last week. He was one of the able'
( LAWYERS in the Southwest.
IS FOREIGN NEWS.
d A Nihilist proclamation has been dl
d covered by the police in St. Petersburg
d which warns the new Gar that the wor
ir of assassination is to be continued.
It duplicate of the bombs by which I'll
Franaror was killed was found on Rou