Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-05-02
NOTES..


single cattle rancho in Texas at the head
of Red river, contains - 900 more acres than
the entlre state OF Rhodc Island
Mrs. Young, of Shelbyvile H., was mar
RED again IN thirty minutes from the time she
received decree OF dl yorce from her first hus-
band
! There is said to be IN IN in Wilcox county,
Ga, who had thirtv-siX nephews in the Con-
federate army. and all except three were killed
IN battle. Fifteen of them belonged to the
same company.
An insane man named Max Michael. aged 40
years, living at 9+5 Lithgow street, Philadel-
phla, on Sunday night set fire to the bed in
which he and his one-year old child were "
ing, and both were burned to death
/ The price of quinine has fallen seventy cents
an ounce, owing to II war between the foreign
and domestic manufacturers of the drug. and
tie reduction in the price of pills should be
considerable if the apothecaries are at all gov
erned by the original cost.
Sadie Reign, the young womtn who plead
ed guilty to having shot and killed Patrick
! Kingsley, waiter at Briggs House, Chicago,
/ Tor defamlng her character, was sent enced To
year and a-half imprisonment in the p"ntrnti.
AIRY on Monday
At Phlllipsburg, \. J . Saturday morning
Mrs. Amelia Barnett. % years of age, while
temporarily insane, cut the throltS OF her two
chi dren, one two years old and the otler FIVE
months, and then cut her own thro It. The
elder child is dead and the mrther and the
baby cannot recover.
Mrs. W. $: Levi residing on a farm near
Mavsville Nv, has been exceedingly Jealous
OF Mrs Frances Dean, n neghho,i ing farmer $
wife. Saturday afternoon they quarreled and
Mrs Levi cut Mrs Dean with a butcher knife
SO that she will probably die
Advices from Western Texas are To the effect
that cattle are suffering and large numbers dv-
Ing tor want OF water and grass the drouth
having been very in that section
Myriads of caterpillars have also appeared and
are destroying all kinds OF vegetation
DR.. Il F. Ghrett Of Altoona. Pa prnmi
nenl physician, died SRniav evening Of spine
disease When the announcement of his death
was made Mss Harvey. aged 20. his sis'er-fs-
aw. who had bean ma invalid and \ member
OF the doctor family tell on her fee and did
. in few minutes
+ The poet Whittier has attempted little liter.
airy work Of late He spends most Of his time
/ in Dtnvers, Ut nj longer interval, h- visits
Boston for couple Of dnv. He has long
/ teen in fr-ble condition ami unless he gains
new strength during the summer he will &c Sc
writing altogether
/ On FRIDAY {. Woods and l.. Nav bad
quarrel about Mas alleged intimacy with
W GODS sister. in-lsw. SATURDAY. nigh, while
NAV was nursing MS suck mother Woods came
W "T' "ens''s ana asked Nav ~ step outside
Tue no"st' NV refused ana Woods drew u
ps"i ana shet MN 'hrough The heart killing
ulh instantly.
! \ terrible cyclone struck jamestown, Ohio
about hve ocock sunday afternoon. Two
thIrds OF the town "as completely ruined SIX
persons were Killed Several persons are badly
wounded iunafeds Of people are turned out
'' "o'nes 10 es''ma'e 81 the damages is po'-
s"'e no" FuF'nf' de'"ii. cannot he gwen al
'"S '"ie'
The Guion steamship s1reCon arrived Al New
York on SATURDAY. evening. having run f,,u,
Queenstown to SANDY Hook in q 5,rs 10 h,r-.
and minutes This IS he quickest passage
vet made across the Atlantic, hcaitng the best
previous record, that OF The Altsks. Of the
same Hne, which : days. II hour. aud :
minutes
At WiIke>bArrr Pa S,turtav Pr,a-,;rk
Wagu-r went into an clubhouse and .,rark i.
match TO light bis pipe. whea terrific ..pIs
sion of gas took place. drmolrshine the house
blo~ing him s~ver,l teet from The spo, and
ohTning h'' body IN frIghtfu' manner. The
cause OF he explosion was a crack in the err,h
ieadlns down to gas deposits 10 the mine he
low.
Capt. John Tr4vnor. the foolh,rdr rnsu-w no
intends 10 eros, she ocean. IN : dnrr thirteen
feet long has reached New York having h-ru
since the SIN instant. making The tfip from
Bath Maine tie Was forr.d 10 land ..r-rsi
times hv the storms he eurouni red "A the
cat h. had with him wss swepi oy-rsA lie
~ l.