Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-02-18
THE NEWS.

oOoausulp company, running weekly
steamers between Philadelphia and Saw
annah, have decided to close up theil
affairs. The sale OF these steamers will
not Interfere with the carrying trade
between Philadelphia and the South. as
the Ocean Steamship Company of Ssv.
annah, corporation in which the Cen.
tral Railroad of Georgia is interested.
Will begin running its vessels TO Phila.
delphia after March.
The ice IN the Mississippi above st.
Louis is expected TO break at anv time
IN the next "a hours. Fifty vessels in
the harbor are in a perilous position
unless the ice gorge below breaks be
forehand and affords them q means of
safety by flight. Destructive freshets
IN all the streams within radius of 200
miles from Cincinnati are impending.
The steamer Josephine, of the Morgan
line, from Havana to New Orleans,
foundered at sea. The passengers and
crew were rescued in the steamers
boats.
A terrific storm OF wind and rain
from the southwest struck Pass Mau.
chack, La, sweeping away every build
ing in the place, including the depot
ana telegraph office. No lives were
destroyed, but the citizens lost every
thing In the way of household effects.
from GartHs pdsyf 49,,
ceived telegram from Panama an
nouncing the commencement of opera
tons on the canal.
Clarence FL. Clark, of Philadelphia,
has purchased the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Railroad at Richmond for
IS, sos, 900. This sale settles long
litigated question, and will, no doubt.
put new vigor into the corporation Of
activity and prosperity, and with proper
provision for the stockholders.
The warm weather has weakened the
ice all along the Delaware river, and at
some places it has broken up. Fears
are entertained of gorges at various
points, by which terrible destruction of
property would ensue. The Mononga
hela river at Pittsburg, rose rapidly and
damaged the coal wharves to the extent
of $4,000 Great damage to railroad
bridges is reported from Ohio and In.
diana, and fears are entertained of
destruction along the Schuylkill, which
was rising RAPIDLY.
The bill to give the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad the right to run its new
line to New York through this state by
way of Wilmington, passed the State
Senate at Dover.
Smallpox prevails in Jersey CITY to
an alarming extent In one house there
are eight cases, and in another there are
four cases. Both houses are situated
in the most densely populated portion
of the city.
Minnie Lee. the ten-year old child of
Charles I. Lee, who is without mother
and who with three other children in
Newark was bitten by dog five weeks
ago, furnished new and unmistakable
proofs that she is victim of the terri
BILE disease, hydrophobia.
A frightful explosion took place at
P. g. Monser & Go. g coal mine, at the
Robbins mines, at the end of the New
Lisbon, Ohio, Railway. The loss of
life is said to be appalling.
A recent fir n Denison, Texas, burn
ed out the Herald and othor property,
involving loss of 5000.
The Macon and Augusta Railroad
bridge over the Ocmulgee River, was
washed away for the second time within
thirty days.
In the Superior Court, at Chicago,
eight German women who were con
testing a land claim fell to fighting
among themselves. The scrimmage was
lively for time. The lawyers finally
interfered and separated the combat
ants, whose scratched faces and torn
clothes bore evidence of the bitterness
of the battle.
The Fernandina and Cedar Key, Fla,
Railroad has been sold to T.. N. Dick
erson, of New York, and g. d. Willard,
OF Washington city, for S25, 900, the
purchasers assuming the bonded debt
of the road.
Little Minnie Lee. the ten year. old
daughter of Charles f. Lee, of Newark.
n. j.. who was bitten by mad dog
last New Year,, Years sSsssn.ns dies ~
Reports from all places where foods
have been caused by the breaking up OF
the ice are more favorable. In Wash.
ington the water receded so that the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad depot
was again put in use for the arrival and
departure of trains. At many places
along Pennsylvania avenue, where boats
were navigating, the avenue was com.
paratively dry, and boats were left hard
aground, tied to lamp. posts. An ice
gorge formed in the Potomac helou
Georgetown, and hundreds of persons
lined the river bank to witness the IN.
usual spectacle. The portion of the
Long Bridge carried away stranded on
the Virginia shore. Railroad commu
nicatlon with Alexandria is still cut off
and passengers are conveyed from Wash.
lngton IN stages. 1t is estimated that
tne damage to property will not fall
short OF Ito, 900. 0.-Along the Delaware
Susquehauna and SchuylkiIl rivers il
pennsylvania the water has fallen con.
slderably, and all fear of immediate
danger is passed.
The sudden return of cold weather in
the West has seriously impeded bust
ness operations. Heavy snow storms
nave prevailed in nearly all the West
ern and Northern states, and railroad
travel is almost entirely suspended. In
Minnesota the snow drifts are reported
TO be above the telegraph poles. At st.
Louis the opening of navigation has
been delayed, and arrangements for
loau1nB 4OU,UUO DusnelS OF gram loi
New Orleans have been postponed.
An opinion by the Illinois Supreme
Court affirms the right of school board
introduce the study Of the German
language in the common schools of tina
state.
a horrible scourge of small pox, yel
low fever and gastric fever is raging a
st. Thomas, w. |.
At Waterbury Con-, the three an,
half story brick building, 160 by a
feet, known as the button shop of tn
Scoville Manufacturing Company, wa
totally destroyed by fire at o'clocl
this morning. The loss on the buildinI
machinery is estimated at from $i75 90
to $500, 900, with an insurance of $l25,
600.
The roarria0a of Rarnnaas Rnrdekt