Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-05-27
THE NEWS.

Gen Howard has abolished band mn
SIC at Sunday parades at West Point, be
levlng thot no exercises should occui
on the grounds on Sunday which woulG
ID any way attract visitors from along
the river on that day.
Five hundred thousand dollars OF
four per cent. twenty-year Cincinnati
bonds were sold to Albert Meter. At n
premium of 31S. This is the lowest
rate OF interest on any bonds issued bv
hat city.
Col. Thomas A. Scott. ex-president of
the Pennsylvania and other railroads
died at an early hour on May 2lst at his
country seat near Philadelphia.
II Col. Coles railway combination
embracing the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia, Memphis and Charleston
and other lines-goes into effect, as now
seems certain, trains will be run through
from Knoxville to Charleston next win
ter.
Gen. VIM. H. French died in Wash
lngton after an illness of few hours.
Long lines of express wagons were
backed up in front of the English pub
llsh1ng house agency in New York from
an early hour in the morning, receiving
packages Of the English edition of the
revised Testament, orders for the work
being unparalleled
A Memphis dispatch SAYS that Chan.
color Williams. at Winchester, Tenn.
issued fat sn5oining the state officers
the recent fundfng law of the State
New Jersey farmers are bewaiIing the
reappearance of potato bugs. The army
worm is also creating CONSERVATION,
particularly among the Jersey market
gardners Thousands of early plants
have been destroyed.
In La Sale county, Tex, a squad of
State rangers had desperate fight with
band of thirty outlaws. The latter
were defeated and two of them captured.
One ranger was killed.
Roach's New York and Brazil line of
steamers has been starved ont Neither
the United States nor Brazil would give
it any sustenance in the shape of sub
sides.
A fire in the town of Talbottom, Ga,
destroyed all the portion of that town
west of the public SQUARE, laying in ashes
Ex- Postmaster Boyd, of Houlton, Ne,
has been arrested for robbing the post
office of money letters. He acknowl-
edged his guilt.
Judge NJ. H. Cofer, chief iustic of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals, died at
Louisville, aged forty-nine years.
A dispatch to the Nashville american
from Winchester, Tenn, says: "The
judge who was reported to have granted
an injunction restraining the funding
board from proceeding with the funding
of the State debt has taken no actor
whatever in the matter, and no bin ha
a been fled
The centennial celebration of til
y capture of Fort Galphin, Ca, from tn
British, during the revolutionary wal
by the Americans. under Gen. Henr,
Lee, was grand and noble affair.
quarter of the business portion o
Saline, Mich, was destroyed by fire
= Loss, 100000
a There is much talk over the adjourn
f ment of the Senate without the election
t of president pro. tenn, and discussion
0 as to what course would have to be
a pursued should the President and Vice
S President both die.
a The latest sensation in Georgia is the
. appearance Of clouds of locusts il
e various sections of the state. In middle
n Georgia especially they are very numer
' Gus, and much speculation is INDUCED
s in as to the probable result of the visi
+ tation.
e The investigation set on foot by Sec
( retary Window relative to expenditure,
!, by the superintendent of the treasur,
/ building for furniture, stationery
+ horses, etc, promises interesting dis
t closures. Thus far it is shown tina
I purchases made have been loose an(
; extrayagant
} Adroit thieves succeeded recently il
walking off from the office of ID. Fahne
. stock & Co., Baltimore brokers, Soutl
! street, with negotiable securities valued
y at $4,000.
.f 4. lh:eaReei mrs. Santa Barbara county
8 blown 10 atoms by large bomb. There
4 .s', Tsom,soss me s ;s IN the building at the time
q this is the second saloon destroyed
there by gunpowder.
d President Phinzy, of the Georgi
Q Railroad, is authority for the informa
j. tion that 81, 100000 has been deposited
d as security for the lease of the Georgi
n Road. VIM. M. Wadley, president Q
IS the Georgia Central Railroad, and tn
# Louisville and Nashville Road are tn
n joint lessees.
/ The failure of Creswell, La Lame
II Co, wholesale drygoods dealers, Phila
l. delphia, is announced, with liabilitie
n estimated at $200,000
d 1t is reported at Galveston, Texas
IS that Jay Gould has obtained possession
; of the Galveston, Houston and Hendel
a son Railway.
p A severe hailstorm, two miles in width
i has destroyed all the growing crops an
, fruit in its path near Plano, Texas.
y President Garfield, Secretaries Blaine
Window and Kirkwood, Gov. Kirkwoo
9 and staff, with heads of PennsyIvani
State departments and members of til
y Legislature, will participate in Decora
9 fion Day exercises at Gettysburg. Hor
J. G. Burrows, of Michigan, will delive
the address.
FOREIGN NEWS.
If The war in Tunis is not over. A sc
10 we're fight occurred in which the Frencl
q and natives lost heavily. Turkey ha
d decided not to send any troops to Tunis