Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-09-14

While on a drunken froic in San Francisco
on Sunday. Thomas Mellen placed the muzzle
of his pistol in his m ,uh an | told his compan-
ion, Edward Lacy. to phi tn" trigger. Lacy,
who was also intoxicated. dids,. The weapon
was discharged aal Mica iell I'd.
An apple tree in Mr. county. Ky, is be-
lieved to be ninety wears old anl h Is not failed
to bear fruit every sens n foc sixty years. Five
feet from the grou I'd it measures around the
trunk ten feet nine inches, AMI is believed to be
the largest apple tree in the world
Fifty-twe of the drivers on The Metropolitan
street car line in W ashington struck on S,tnr-
day afternoon because of the discharge of five
other drivers, on account of their membership
in the Knights of Labor. Nearly all the cars
continued running. being mtnnei by stable
men and substitutes.
At l o'clock on Monday John kerchner,
residing near Whitehall, suburb, was fatally
cut with a corn-cuttsr by his son. There had
a pic mic at the kerchner residence on Monday,
and the cid man got drunk on last Monday
and attempted to kill his son and dtuthter-in-
law, when the son slashed him 10 self-defence
Dink Davis is running a faro hank at Coney
Island, hut his phenomena good luck seems to
have deserted him. On Sunday he is said to
have lost So, 900 in his bank during the day,
one of the sports who PLAYED against him hav-
ing won 81 900 and another having taken out
of the house s., 400 as his share of the winnings
Andrew Williams, aged twenty -one wears
living near Greeenridge, Pa, while playing
with a revolver on Monday pointed it at his
sister Maggie, aged eighteen years. 1t exploded
the ball striking her in the head. killing her
instantly. The shooting was purely accidental
The young man is nearly crazed with grief
The three card monte men are trying a new
amusement during vacation. One Of them
chats with the crowd on the piazza and bets
freely on the weight of the strangers that use
the hotel scales Al last his friend appears
encaSed in an invisible lie td jlcket. He looks
lean. the crowd bets freely, and is surprised to
find itself out of pocket
Ex-senator Wm Sh,ron was arrested At S IN
Francisco Saturday Al the instance of Miss Az
gle Hill, who charges him with Illicit relations
under promise of m,rriage She claims mar.
riage contract was drawn up between them,
and that he owes her balance of Sl2 900 on
500 600 loaned him Sh,rons friends say it
is a hackmailing scheme.
Samuel J Randall ex Speaker of the House
of Representatives, ascertaining that his name
had been drawn rs n juryman, but that owing
TO the hotel where he usually lived being clos
sherfs Office on Thursday and asked deputy
to catch him The summons was ,hereupon
served. and he will listen TO the arguments of
his brother lawyers as jurym,n, instead of
before the bar.
Two colored men rot into a dispute On Sun
day night Al a colorei camp meeting in Somsr-
set county, seven miles from Princess Anae
and son OF each Of them took up the quarrel
and one o. them shot at the other twice one
shot went through the mans left arm below
the elbow, while the oih'r hall graz.l the sm al
OF his back, cutting = fIrrow on'y skin deep.
Reports from several point; in Mianesot. and
Wisconsin announce considerable damage to
the corn crop hv the fros's OF FriI night =
In Steele county, MINI. the ea,ire crop ia s1ii
to have been destroyed lee thick "a 4 dinner
plate form u IN taas aud blrre's Ia Eiu Claire
county. Wiz, the corn crop was ruiaei. Snow
fell in Cpler ,dI Oh Thursi,v There was a
black feos, on Saturday At Toledo. OHIO
\ deaf AMI ianh nsxsm,n on the toay L.
Land Rulroti, WIN vas sufferiu, from ~ ach.
ing tooth, the other dsv at J,mica adopted a
novel plan In ril himself the Torment Just
before = tram left III. station he tel a string
around his tooth sni attached 'ae Other eni TO
the rear car. When the train started he ran
along behind it until /, had gathered heid Sav
when he dropped on his knees The train ear
riei the tooth to Long Island city.
Sturdy ai.hi .n1b o. siz,crn IN sk.i mea
forcibiy entered the Yell csaal. all a, D,nvI;ie
,eizet John Cocker AMI Or Fl,oi. took the a 20
the iron bridge across the river ant "a rel then
Cakee was accused OF 10 ,dng in D Al amsus.
esde tn. sheriff : putty in search ~ on laws
several weeks agI in which tao msn were
killed. Fool VAS accused of htrhoriu. The
outlaws Tae ho lies we're discovered "a cut
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