Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-06-01
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qusite for voting.
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines, in letter to the
mayor of New Orleans, proposes 10 compromise
her judgments against that city for 81 ST., 900.
Three brothers named Smith killed two men
named Cecil and Heenwood at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Sunday. The murders were the result
of an old eud.
The city of Duluth, Minn is greatly excited
over the discovery of gold and silver deposits
within its limits Old miners say that ii looks
like paying lead.
The wheat receipts at SIN Francisco from
July |, 1882, to date show decrease of :, $50
900 centalS, compared with the corresponding
period of the previous year.
Considerable destitution AMI suffering ar
said to exist in the vicinity OF FroStburg caus
ed by an epidemic of measles. Four hundre,
cases of the disease are reported.
Field hands were seen AT work planting j.
Edgefed district. s. C., on Tuesday, 22n
inst, with their overcoats on. Such ii sigh
is remarkable for the last OF May
Roscoe Conkling absolutely refuses TO walk
across the East River bridge. lie has some
doubts whether the structure would hold him.
md has no ambition 10 break it down
Senator Hampton has been anything but idle
since the adjournment of Congress He Ia.
killed no less tn IN nine bears and uumerou,
smaller game on his Mississippi plantation
The Globe tobacco warehouse. said 10 be tn,
largest in the world. was formally opened Al
Cincinnati Monday. 1t is seven stories in
height, and has four and three-quarter acres
81 floor space.
BENZ. Bunker, grandson of the owner o.
Bunker's Hill at the time Of the battle, recently
died in Norwich New York, aged s. His
wife. Hannah Breed, WAS descendant of the
owner of BreedS Hill.
This years missionary contributions in the
Protestant Episcopal Church show a falling Of
as compared with those of last year. For do
nestle missions so, 900 will be needed daring
| the summer months, and for foreign missions
about SS5, 900.
Major McClelland, one Of the staff off ,ers Of
Gen. Robert f. Lee, il a college president a.
Lexington, Nv; Gen Kirby Smith is member
OF the faculty of the University of tn. South
in Tennessee and Gen. J F.. B. Stusrts widow
controls school at Stanton, Va
Chief Justice Waite owns fine building lot
in Washington, and long ago planned to build
house upon it From thi. he is deferred how
ever, by his wife, who, it is said, has Al ac-
couRtable but MOTTO be- got-rid-of fancy that
should he do so he would Rot live to occupyIt
DR.. Graham, of kentucky, father-iu-l4w o.
Representative Blackburn will celebrate the
centennial anniversary Of his birth in October
next, ssd viii be rendered a public dinner and
reception il Louisville He is as hale hearty
and active AS are most men of only half his age
Judge James II. Hnzelrigg. of NJ Sterling
Ky, has asked Gov. B 4ckhurn to send = mill
and ten other persons are confined on a charge
of numbering Vaughan and Hilton. He stys
i've hundred men their wsy frota Men
etee county TO hang the Barnett party
The mystery attached 10 the irappasrauce
OF a boy two and a-hsf wears old from Susqae-
hanna Depot Pa, in November last : been
partially explained by finding his bones in the
woods two miles away. The todv had been
dsvoured hy dogs but the sorrowing mother
identified the bones by the boys h, AMI one
shoe found near by.
Two New York Irishmen. Dtniel DriscoU.
tni VIM. Harris, got drunk Monday AMI at
tackled Italian tenement house in Cherr.
street. 4 genera fight foiowei between the
IriShmen and Italians of the district one of
the worst in New York. and Harris AMI an
Italian woman were sho, asi Souaiei the
latter perhaps fatally
The skeleton Of a man WAS discovered Mon
day in the woods near Tsmaqsa. r., The ~
mains are believed 10 be those OF J ImeS { mp
bell 4 BROOKLYN lswver. who wan Iefci from
home in state Of mcsttl alteration in April
lss2, and was last seen in Ttm,qut where his
wife. who hId come on in search of her has
band, lost all trace Of him.
The tia-plrtr companies Of Pittsburgh have
Joined in movement with those o. Ph,l,is'-
b,v h..
,in-piates II is claimed that the reduction
made br the last Congress has virtually ruined
the industry throughout the country. and that
y cent rate ia necessary 10 prevent those Ia
the business from closing their mills.
Charles Ciavtor aged - wears. an adsptri
son Of Caleb Green Of Florence. y J. Was
found in an intoxicated condition on the
grounds Of Ms. Grubh, AT Burlington. y j.
on Sunday night, and not obeving the order
OF a private Waterman 10 leave the premises
vas shot dad Jacob FREEING the wsiehman
has been arrested an: held for murder
Some years ago Walter H. Smith, the mana.
ger of the Merchants Bank a, S,rnia. Ouiario,
shscondei with So 600. which the Citizen :
Guarantee Comutnv hal TO pay The deiaul-
ter settled in NebrSsks, ana prospered He
died two years ago, leaving considerable
wealih which the guarantee company claims
and is nov suing for IN the American courts
Bill Fox the disSolute vonng fellow who de-
liberate'y murdered W Howard near Nevada
Mo- few DAYS ago for his money. pleaded
guilty in the ST Louis Criminal Court Friday,
saying his life h "a beer a miserable failure
aad he wanted il ended. Jud .e Burton refus-
ed to accept the plea. and ordered one o. not
guilty. entered and appointed two lawyers 10
defend him.
Thomas WEIGH vas fatally stabbed with a
red bot hlvonet in Pittshurg on Sund ~ by his
wife Welch. who had been drinking struck
his wife She grabbed up the bavonet which
was used as poker, and stabbed him in the
left breast. the bsvonet passiay through the
left lung aud coming out at the back The
injured m an is still living, but the physicians
have no hope Of his recovery.
Three mort cages from the Cincinnati Wash
ingt0n and Baltimore R,ilwav Company have
been fled in the recorders Office in Cincinnati.
the FIST for 81 90, 900, to secure the second
mort gage bonds OF the 70 I'd; the second for
81 30 900, 10 secure the third mortgage bonds;
the third. to secure 50, 500, 900 Of first income
nonds and 81 900, 900 OF second income bonds
This is simply carrying out the routine OF the
reorganization OF the road.
Three colored women who cllimed that Dan
Dynes, negro man, had promised to marry
each of them, joined hands and called
Dynes in South Washington Monday night
One Of them struck him in the neck with the
leg Of a stove, while another gashed his fore
head With a razor. 1t was thought he would
die but ut midnight he was thought TO be out
of danger One of the women was arrested
and the other gave herself up.
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at Ash
land was robbed on Sunday mig of last week
of solid gold chalice, ciboreum and mon
STRANGE, valued at 81 900. The small taberaa-
Gle on the large altar, used for keeping the .a-
AIRED host, opened the host emptiei out
and the chalice taken; then he sacristy was in
vaded and the other valuable articles taken.
Certain clues obtained point to number OF
circus followers as the thieves.
When Col. NJ. T. Polk, the thiering treasur-
er of Tennessee, was sndeavoring to get out of
prison on the plea Of ill-health, his physician
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