Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-08-17
Local Brevities.
The nights are cool.

The nights are cool.
Mosquitoes are still plen iiul.
The sumner is rapidly nearing c, mple
ton.
Ii is about time to think of supply Ing
your winter fue!.
Waterme;ohs are plen iiui and pains
under the vest more frequent
J, In II. Mitchell. Esq. was confined al
home on Tuesday 10y igh iLdisposition
DR.. F. b. Adams and wife ale sojourn.
ing with Mr. 5. ". Adams in Nnnjcmoy
The summer sociab'es at Lower Cedar
Point are we'll pa,ronzed and greatly en-
joyed.
Vacation is rapidly drawing TO a close
So renoyate Your school houses for he fall
term.
Clear your premises of weeds if YOU
would avoid sickness during the ial
months.
Judge aid Mrs. Stone will III :cate for
awhile al Saratoga before returning home
from their northern tour.
Bashful young men and anxious young
ladies Should bear in mind hat il is less
than five months before cap year.
Miss Mag sic Cl.sry, OF Washington and
Mss Percy, of l.yHchburg, Va are visi,
ing tn. family of b. q. Ston.syrr.t, Esq
All the young men Of this r,ighborhood
who are Interested in base. ball are request
ed to meet here next Saturday evening.
Teurnamen' will boom from now unit
late in the fail. Notice hose "a ready sd
veItised in our columns.
The smallest yield of wheat We have 81
far heard Of was obtained by Mr. ID.
Sanders tritle over six bushels from on,
of seed.
The tine for holding primary meeting
and county conventions viii soon be an
nounoed. We hope that every voter viii
heed the cal.
Mr. Nenuors gutsses have fallen ia
short this month; If he is not n. ore care
full he will be placed in the sane eatsgor.
with Virgins.
Mr.. Hugh Mitchell and family left b
the steamer Sue on Sunday evening for
short visit TO Mrs. Mi,cheirs father, Co
Jenifer. in Baltimore county.
Kew. c. * Nelson, of Germantown, Pa
is visiting Lis fatherin-luw Major W. i
Matthews. He assisted in the services u
Christ Chg!ch, this village, last Sunday
Rev. G. F. Williams left home his weel
for II short summer vacation. His pulpi
at Piney Chapel will be occupied by tn
Rev. j. NJ. Toad on Sunday.
Richard II. Edelen, Esq sccompanie,
by his brotherin-law, G. E. Hamilton
Esq will leave on Monday for an extend
dtd tour through the North and East.
An OK team is singulary symbolic o
courtship and marriage, for i, begins will
bow, continues with q ring and yoke
PROGRESSES with a tongue and ends by pre-
sentir & to the world the picture of goad
ed pair.
| A steam ihrtsh.r in Talbot county las
week, star ed to run at $50 "a. m., stopped
an hour fer dinner, several other times 70
various causes, and at sunset had a scor
of 1913 bushe Of wheat What tbreshe
in this county has SO far equall,d it.
Geo. W. Carpenter, Jr., was in attend
aLce at tie meeting Of the county com
missiontrs on Tuesday. He is lookin,
somewh hat pale as a result of his recent in
curttIuti' n in jail.
A pItss Of advertising matter this weel
rather limits ,ur news columns. This W
will endeayor to remedy next week, tho
we are sure but few wi object to on
failure in living them the usual amour
this time.
The rain IN last Wednesday, thong
great needed and heartily welcome, in
terfrr,d very much with the festival a
Pincy ar.d shooting m itch at C"x's Sta
ton The festival at PIney has beer pos
poned until next Thursday, the 23rd ms
Last fall Mr.. V. H. Neale sowed a hal
bushel Of wheat on less than half acre :
ground, and few days ago he threshe'
out twenty i've bushes as The yield. Thi
is decidedly the best we have heard o.
: and no doubt Mr.. Neale will put in hi
claim for the hat offered by the Indepen
, dent
We have received a catalogue descrip
tive of the course of studies, cost of tut
ton, etc, of the Johns Hopkins Univel
sity. This is one of the leading institr
:, tions of learning in this country, and a
though comparatively young, has alread
made rapid strides Of progress.