Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-09-15
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OF Mill Green, Hartford county, was in progress
few days ago, John Robinson, one Of the
pall-bearers, sudden! dropped dead
Here is another grain Of comfort for lovers
of the weed A Virginia physician says be
never known an habitual consumer Of tobacco
to have the typhoid fever
Congressman Bragg OF Wisconsin is geaerally
acknowledged TO play the ueai,si game OF
poker seen in Washington since the day. OF
Henry Wsuerson
man in T~iggs county, Ga has married
four women doring the pas, fourteen months
The first three are dead. |, viii happen so
sometimes. This man is arenging the wrongs
Of bis sex
While John SaGterbach, living near )! kes-
vile, Carroll eountv, was driving a moving
machine, Tuesday, his..horses became frightened
and threw him in front Of the knives. which
cut one OF bis arms in a shocking manner.
San Antonio, Texas, was visited by terrific
storm on wednesday night, which flooded
many houses and otherwise did much damage
Several bridges in ths vicinity Of the town
were washed away.
The Governor has received an invitation for
himself and the troops Of this State 10 attend
the c~Ieor.,ion OF the Bi-crn,errszf r.! Olz-tv-
day, September ~ 1882.
Thus FAR lss2 has been an extraordinary
years for fires. The estimated lose, in the
lifted States for the eigh, mon;hs foot up
mere than SOL 600, 600, or s. 900, Geo more
than the average for four years.
Mrs Elizabeth Gacker,. living three miles
from Reading, Pa. WAS bitten il the arm by a
dog ten weeks ago The wound heaIed, bu,
on Wednesday morning she when to PhilaIel-
phis on business, ~hea she became mad, and
her death is momentarily looked for
being tried before a magistrate in Chattanooga,
Tenn, on Tuesday for sighting over = violin
Before the Judicial bar they renewed the quar-
rel. For.h-s Was struck Nth a stick, aud re-
,sliated by shooting and killed Ker~in.
The largest body of fresh water 90 the glob,
is Lake Superior. /, is 400 miles long, leo miles
wide a, its greatest breadth, and ha. q rea OF
D. 600 square miles Its mean depth is SAID
10 be zoo feet and its greatest depth about SOC
fathoms It's surface is 635 fee, above the sea
A Bos,on lecturer astsnished hi, audience by
bringing down his fist on the table and shout
ing Nv here is the religiosi,y of the auihro-
poid quadru p IL he thinks we have got
il he can search US We never saw il in II.
world.
The name tar heels was first given Il
North Carolina troops by Gen. Jubal A Early
at Williamsburg. Ii was on the occasion o.
the famous charge made by the Fifth regiment
under Col. ID X. McRse, which he say.
equaled if not ec'ipsed that Of the Old Guard
of France at Waterloo.
Benjamin Z-chmau, whc year ago wa,
found naked in log cabin, eIgh, fee, square,
on the Blue mounl,ins, " here he had beer,
penned up by his brother for u years, died
on Monday in the Rerks county elmshouse,
aged about 45 years. lie never uttered an IN
telligibe word.
Friday the ship-carpenter. employed at the
Camden Dry Dock Company's yard, in Phila-
dslphia, struck in body. On account of the
pifering of chips and pieces of woed, contrary
to the express rules of the COMPANY, stringent
notice was posted up requesting those who
could not resist the temptation to quit the COM
pany's employ. This was taken as an insult
Mr. VIM. b. Seymour, aged about sixty-five
years, committed suicide on Tuesday night BY
hanging himself from tree in the yard of his
farm, Hatton's Gar6e,, near St. Michaels,
Talbot county. He was suffering from tenn
porary alteration of mind. lie came from
Oneida county, New York, and had purchased
some valuable property in st. Michaels. He
leaves a widow but no children.
When John Saunders went from Kentucky
to the West some forty years ago he swore that
his be,rothed, whom he left behind, should
not see him until he became a millionaire. A
few day, since he balanced up his affairs in
Montana, and finding himself possessed of the
desired million, returned to Kentucky, looked
up his old sweetheart, and the twain were
made one. He is SO, she is Ca
John II. Johnston, mayor Of Danville, Va,
evening shot John E. Hatcher, chief
Of police, infiicting what is believed to be a
mortal wound. The parties met casually and
Hatcher demanded an apology for statement
Of Johnston's that Hatcher had not accounted
for fines he had collected. An apology was
refused and a scuffie ensued, during which
Johnston shot Hatcher. Johnston surrendered
himself and was adm to bail in SIS, OO0