Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-01
TIE NEWS.

OF John Connor, aged 81, who with bi
wife as his only companion, lives at Cat
fish, Pa, bound and gagged both. com
PEELED the old gentleman to give the
combination Of the safe and stole So.
900 worth of government coupon bonds
: unregistered, and from $4,000 to SO.
900 in cash.
j The postoffice at Bennington. Vt, was
robbed Of $1,000 worth Of stamps and
$500 in money.
A supplement to the Delaware West
ern Railroad charter was introduced in
the Delaware Legislature, providing for
new road through Delaware, to be
built and operated 10y the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company in competition
with the Delaware Railroad This will
probably secure Baltimore much closer
communication with the Eastern Shore
and Delaware.
The headquarters of the Yorktown
Centennial Commission were formally
opened at Richmond, with military and
civic parade, speeches. &C. The "Star
Spangled Banner" was sung for the first
time on public occasion in Richmond
since the war.
There is considerable excitement in
Panama and Bogota over the proposed
establishment by the United States of
coaling stations on the Isthnus. Sfrono
/ opposition is expected to the scheme
The Mexican chief engineer has sur
veyed the Tehuantepec route and II.
ports Capt. Eads ship railway project to
be entirely practicable
A special from Jacksonville, Fla, saws
that Jay Gould has just concluded a
contract by which he is to con
troll every orange grove in Florida
for thirty years. He drew his check
for an enormous sum, and will leave
the State as soon as he has staked out
his alligator farm"
Over hundred men employed by
contractor named Cook, in grading the
new Philadelphia and Long Branch On.
j.. Railroad, have stopped work and are
cunning for Cook for alleged failure to
pay their wages.
A Canadian cattle-shipper has been
warned by his Edinburgh agents not to
expect as high prices the coming sum
mer as last, owing to the greater supply
of cattle in England.
Captain Oglesby's Texas rangers have
captured six stage-robbers near San An
tonic.
Thirteen physicians, sent out by the
Board of Health, began an examination
of the lodging houses and the cellars of
/ New York, with view of ascertaining
the cause of typhus fever, which pre-
walls to an alarming extent in some sec
tions of the city.
There is scandal in connection with
the Wayne, Mich, workhouse, and the
sician, incautiously remarked that "ht
didn't believe there was a virtuous at.
tendant at the poorhouse." This com
! ing to the ears of the women attendants,
thev set upon him with switches, and
gave him severe thrashing.
-Four students of the Syracuse IN. ~
University were arrested on a charge OF
committing an assault upon fellow
student named Ezra S. Triple. Trip
pie was kidnapped, bound and gagged,
and taken five miles in the country,
where he was tied to a tree, his head
shaved, and then abandoned by the
students.
The large packing house of H. S.
Tanfair & Co., Nos. 95 and 81 Thames
street, Baltimore, fell in with large
crash. leaving a complete wreck, An
adjoining tenement house was badly
damaged, and some of the occupants
made a narrow escape. The damage tc
stock was about 5000, and to the
building about $4,000.
A meeting of about 500persons, most
, lv Socialists, was held in Brooklyn tC
! protest against the advance in rents o
which landlords have generally glvel
: notice. Violent speeches We're made
/ denouncing landlords who wanted more
than enough rent for their houses THAI
; was needed to pay taxes and insurance.
The banks which withdrew their cir
! culation during the tendency OF th'
Funding bill have made deposits TO
new circulation, amounting 10 &sas,sf7.
r o5o Other banks, which did not con
: tract their issue, have deposited bond
i for increased circulation, amounting +
Il $7,2I1, 800. The total amount of ban
It circulation now outstanding is $347 1867
is SOL.
a General Patrick, Governor of the So
diers' Home, at Dayton, refused to allo
a James Redpath, the lecturer, to addre
\ the inmates of the Home for the purpo
J. of organizing a branch of the Lar
"a League.
p. The losses by the Home street, Ci
er cinnati. fire amounted to $4,000. WI
lie d. Donaldson, photographer, and Pay
ID & Co., envelope makers, and two lau
e dries, were burned out.
IN The planet Venus has attained h
/: greatest brilliancy. 1t is alleged that
m good eye can now detect the planet
~ TFa fAla
st object increases daily, as the crescent th
le it presents grows larger and narrower
| Elizabeth, N. J., experienced a lar
Id fire, which proved more disastrous
to consequence of the fighting of the fiji
e. men. Loss of half block of building
it and much valuable property.
o. A disastrous flood is devastating t
" Platte valley country. Seventy five mi
Id of the valley are under water sever
ne feet, and loss of lives and property tc
ed large extent is reported. Loss of pl
mt perty amounting to $500, 900 is reporte
on The bank of Rome, Ga, has ST
&C pended.
10 Mr.. Jennings writes to the New Yo
be 'World": cit cannot be disguised al
~ longer that Mr.. Gladstone's strength
nj rapidly breaking up under the mereilC
q pressure which he has been applying
q. himself. He looks weary and i'll, a
va complains himself that he feels eve
le- old"
as The Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Li
er- Railroad has been leased to the Ri
mis- mond and Danville Railroad Compa
for under permanent lease.
sse The liabilities of the suspended Ba
ry- of Rome, Ga, outside of the eapi
ng stock are $165, ,562 10 nominal ass
in 1921, ,500.95, the real value of which
is expected, will prove much smaller
John P L. Daviess, a lawyer of H
cal rodsburg, KY, blew out his brains !
ar suicide was nephew of the late Unit
.he Stateg Senator John b. Thompson.
AL Small -pox has become epidemic at 5
hvville. Del Forty persons are II