Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-11-23
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IN - - Ios
Snow fully foot deep covers the northern
half of Maine
At Petersburg, Va. on Sunday Albert Shade
dropped dead in the Ettricks Methodist Church
while about to engage in prayer
Young couple entered Justice Walh 5
court in Brooklyn on Thursday, and the ceremo.
ny making them man and wife occupied but
twenty seconds.
Mrs Romero. who died the other day in Bid
deford, Me, left good sized family Her
own children were ii in number, grandchildren
%, great-grandchildren 3, in all 200
James Cook and wife, living near Spring
field, H., had a quarrel, after which she lef,
him. Cook caught his wife and held her head
between his knees while he cut her throat with
a penkniie.
Abraham Pratt has just arrived at Moose =
head, Oak, after having ridden in wagon all
the way from Herkmer county, n. :, to HUI
ron, distance of ,, 800 miles He was about
fourteen weeks or the journey, and expresses
himself as having had a very pleasant trip.
Friday night band of masked citizens wer
to the drug store of c. c. Sutton, at Romnev
Ind, bound him, and then DESTROYED his stock
%Hd 'ot"iiy uSs'IOytu tue sutton
sold whisky, and the destruction of his proper.
ty was affected on that account
George {. Munroe. prominent citizen OF
Newport, r. l., died suddenly Monday. Jov
at recovering Il verdict against the Aquidneck
Bank about zen DAYS ago it is thought had
much TO do with his death. The case has been
in court since 1868.
Near kingwood, Preston county, West V -
ginia, recently, men working on road IN.
earthed a human skull which measured forty
inches in circumference around the forehei =
No other bones could be found in its vicinity
The skeleton which the skull belonged is sup
posed to have been fourteen feet high.
Harvey Webster, of Montgomery county,
accidentally shot himself in the wrist one day
last week. IL is the sum" old story OF crawl
ing through the bushes, dragging his gun ha-
hind him. The hammer caugh, in "A hush and
discharged the gun. The wound is not seri-
Gus. The shot pouch AT his side was torn 10
atoms.
Near Charlottesville Va, Saturday night
Joe Barbour. colored, cut the throat Of Rev.
mold Jackson; also colorei from ear TO ear,
because jackson asked friend Of his not to
drink any more. The colored people endea Y.
ored TO break into the ill and lynch Barbour
but were repu'sed by a local military com.
pany.
| Saturday night John Kesser. ag.d u wears
OF Cumberlsnd. a aAgmnn on the Pitrshurp
/ Division, Baltimore AID Ohio Railroad. wa:
riding on front Of an engine near Confluence
and IN roundiag carve was thrown off and
crushed under The wheels aud instantly killed
/ l he remains were brought 10 Cumberla nd Mon.
day morning. lie was unmarried
/ The hi striking on, the word male
/ from all election Laws passed the Council o.
/ Washington Territory Legislature, in session
/ AT Olympia, Wednesday, by a vote Of IS |,
passed the lower House several weeks ago by
/ ID to / = majority. Gov. Newell has expressed
the intention 10 sign the bill and there is nc
doubt it "lll become law In the regular time -~
sixty days. The first opportunity the women
VIII have TO vote vii! be At the general election
next Noyember
Just after the sunday school exercises 10
/ Trinity Church, Mobile, last SUNDAY, the sex.
Ton began 10 ring for the morning service 4.
the bell did not sound right be requested the
I boys 10 go out Of the tower room and a Sc, ond
later down came the bell through floor aitsr
[ door, cutting its way "a ne ,tlv as n caunOs
I ball might have done and landing 10 the eel.
lar, hi,y-hve feet below. The sexton lodged
aside just in lime TO save his head The bel
lies mouth up in the CELLAR, and is unir iur,d
but has lost its c|apper
/ boom in early marriages Is pre- falling ia
Georgia Miss Georgia Garrett between Il
and 3 wears old, was married on Thurdsy and
became Mrs. VIM Hecg A sister when a The
same age set the example. hot displayed-srA1
taste in the .elecIion Of her nsw name In
rericgs. Robert Sullivan, aged H. and Miss
Eddie Cobb, aged Ii Years. have heen married
In Berren county. Wm Wrsmi,h and A'ics
Tygsrt succeeded in eioping. and werr married
on The public road in Pine Forest by u Justice
An Illustration OF the ridiculous and annoy.
Jag Way in which a church choir will some
times run together the words Of hmm is af.
fGrded by the remark Of n small boy in onr OF
the front pews Of church in Boston. The
hymn beginning. The Cousveraied cross Id
bear" had jas, been sung. and in the rom-n-
tsry quiet which followed the perpIeIej youth
turned to his father and asked in an earnest
whisper, Say. pa, where DO they keep the
consecraied cross-eyed bear?''
root OF a house in Svrs,use on Tuesday. dis
lance Of Fifty feet. The son fell 90 his father.
and the latter was taken up completely par.l-
ICED, his neck being dlsloCaied. Two sIrong
men seized his feet two more took hold OF his
head, and then they pulled in opposite direc-
lions with all their might, while the doctors
manipulated the bones OF The neck II requir-
ed three hours 10 reduce the jisioeation and
II is now thought he will recover The patient
weighs more than two hundred pounds. and
his son BY falling upon him, escaped injury 10
himself