Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-10-12

may, al low water, stand on u rock in the riv-
er with one foot in New York. the u
Pennsylvania, an I touch with his
Jersey.
While drawing water fr,m
Handy of G pliai. TcN,s, drew
ed around the bucket ani rops
hi, his cheek. AMI held IN so g.
Handy had to pull il 81.
Al Liberty. VI .sne. sandy, AnhToS
gett, ~oung working on the farN
David Gceclv sho, sni killed + la, Young
daughter OF Gr---lv. lie then shot AID killed
himself. Jeiloadr was the cluse.
An u1successfu attempt vs m ,is on Ssiur-
day night 10 hold meeting in Washington,
ID C. To urge upna Congress the re-estsiish-
meut of suffrage 10 thu Ditrict oaly four
teen person, responded TO the call
Eish;r-oue mi ssioa aries have been appointed
by the Mormon Charch for mission work in
this conatrv aud Europe. Eighteen are Set
apart for work n the Soath, where the Nor
mons claim to be meeting with considerable
success.
wm Street, one Of the oldest policemen of
Huntsville. Ala while trying 10 srres, two
ooiorei thieves Monday xIs held by oae Of
them whilc the other split his head open with
an axe, killing him Instantly.
Georg. VI Rieiu. Of vicks5Gr..- yTT7---- Shi'e
on his way home on Saturday from hask,
vas fred at The ball struck ani imhsd!si
itself in check book which a moment before
he had placed 10 the lef breast Pc, k.t-
New FORK Custom house ofiecrs Nonda,
seized a package containing l32 diamonds 200
sspphires aud - ruhi-s s-nt through the mail
from France to i~welry firm 10 New York
The firm denies that lhcre WAS Any inteuiion 20
evade payment OF duty.
Louis, PETER OF Lancaster. Pa who ia CO
years of age, missed train 10 PhiladeiPhis,
and would not wait for the next ons. She
walked home, seventh miles between Thurs
day afternoon aud Friday evening She kept
going nigh, ani day, resting at the ysids a,
Intervals.
The iafsnt born 20 the Chinese Minister in
Wash, gton during the summer, briag a girl,
has not been allowed 20 leave the house but
once since its birth. II is carried 10 the yard
adjoining the legation. but gets NJ fresh air
10 any way. Her little feet alre idy being
bandsged to keep them small.
At the sale of seat. in New York Wedues-
isy for Mr.. Irving's session OF ~ performances
| 500 a seat 5li out of the $50 seats we're sold
the sales sggregating $50, 600 in cash. IL is
stated that this is the larges, frat DAYS ad-
vance sale for a dramatic Performance on re
cord as it overrops the Beruhtrdt sale by sew
erai hundred dollars.
| Col Murreli. of the Baltimore Taficator,
| aud W. 4 Pledger, OF Georgia had a joint
discussion before a large mass meeting Of coll
ored citizens in Cincinnati Friday night. Muir
! rell for the Independents AMI Pleiger for the
Republicans. Murr-ll in, the opinion of both
parties, carried of all the hon prs, handling
DID, ,.hy.
ncr.
| Miss A bbie VI ,rie Winchester. daughter OF
Ezra H. Winchester, OF San Francisco. was
married at Portsmouth. \. H., Wednesday, to
Wallace Hackett a young LAWYER Of that town
The bride is the heress 10 d million and is
beautiful and accomplished. Her trousseau is
valued at Sl00 900. The wedding gifts are
valued at over $500, 900.
A defective throttle on a freight engine of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad caused it to start OF Monday from
Wilmington without either engineer or FIRE
man. Fortunately, il had clear track. and
ran nine miles before the steam was exhausted
aud il stopped The runaway caused much
excitement during the short run.
The Boston police are looking for man who
| recently started a commission business in Bos-
ton under the name of Scion b Hoigkins and
| to whom, it is sud, Western merchants have
forwarded some $40, 900 worth of -four, for
| which no pay has been recei we'd. Six carloads
of -four CO, signed to Hodgkins have been seiz-
ed by officers but the balance is supposed to
have been disposed of oy the alleged swindler.
Monday night was the coolest thus far this
season, in New York the thermometer falling
as low rs 20 degrees. Saturday morning white
frost covered everything and ice half an inch
thick hal formed. All the crops not killed by
the September frost are now destroyed. Mauv
grapes in the Della ware valley are frosted. The
buckwheat and corn crops are a total failure.
The drought made them late and the frost de-
stroyed them.
Anna Helms an eighteen yearold girl, Tues
day committed suicide ut her mothers resi-
dence, in Terre Haute, Ind by taking arsenic,
and the mother. upon discovering that her
daughter had taken the drug, attempted sui
eide by licking the froth and vomit as it poured
from her dying daughters mouth. The girl
died in fifteen minutes after taking the dose,
but the mother will recover.
The Cecil County Nsws Elkton Nd, re-
ports that on Saturday week Archie Home
wood, II years of age, accidentally killed him
self while cunning with his brothers, near
Newark. He was drawing his gun after him
over fence, when it was discharged, the whole
contents entering his left side just under the
collar bone He lived but few moments his
only exclamation being 81 am shot and dy-
ing"
At Pittsburg, Saturday evening, the brakes
on street car got out of order as the car
reached the top of steep grade, and the car
ran down the hill and colded with passing
freight train. The car was wrecked, and all
the passengers in it, twenty-five in number,
were more or less injured. Four Of them
Charles Menzenheizer, Mrs. Mary Martin, May
Hall, (colored, and Hugh Dunmet-were Sc !,