Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-01

( ExGov. John Letchsr, OF Virginia, died OF
Saturday al his residence in Lex.azioa, Va.
/ ]. x Emmet, the comn,edian has purchase,
for 81, O0e ST. Bernard dog owned BY +. X
/ Hearn, Of Pa.saic, y.
/ Wing Lee, a weIi-known Louisville Chius
man. vas married in that city Mond.v to Mis-
Ne lie Burton, PrePossessing shi'e girl.
| At Johnstown, Pa. Friday night. Ferdi
nand Metzrof, a young Gsrmsn, coanecte,
himself With au eectric wire in the roilin,
mill BY means Of steel rod and 10 nn instan
/ fell Il corpse.
/ AtSyracuse n Y, SATURDAY.. William H
Craft completed he feat Of walking 302 mile
/ in loo hours without stop Crafts condition
at the close Of the wax was critical.
1t Is reported that horses and cattle ives
/ Of the Medina river in Texas are diving b,
hundreds for wan, Of grass Owners are d riv
Ing their stock south.
/ 1t is said Mrs Lengtry has cleared $40 90,
thus far this season over aud above all outlay
including her personal expenses and unles
! unforeseen circumstances occur before tn,
winter Is over she will make from SOS 900 Il
81, 900 out OF her present tour.
! There were steady rains SATURDAY, and We.
terday throughout the middle section of Cal
Norma, materially improving the prospect o
| the grain crop The fruit crop in Southern
California will probably be the be-, ever pro
duced.
! At New Orleans Saturday J,hn Murrsy
aged IL years. hose father $ residence on Pal
myra street took FIRE, carried his little hrothe,
AMI sister out of the house but returned to gel
some cl thing for his sister and was overcome
by smoke and burned to death
John Massey and William Jones. white
walking along he railroad track near Goa
Valley, ". Va. Saturday fired at colore
woman walking in front Of them. Four col
ored men rushed ont of cabin and fred al
the two white men. Massey WAS killed
Miss Winnie Hall, of Temple, Tex, is the
Oldest old maid in America, having just reach.
ed the age of 100 years. The bachelors in tina,
town ieel happy because she says she will no,
take advantage of the leap year prerogative OF
her sex.
A man named Webb became involved in a
difficulty in Jackson county Ala on Monday.
with three brothers named Milhurn, and he
killed two Of them and fatally wounded the
third. The quarrel began about trivial mat
Ter.
The huge vertical boiler Of the Newbern, N.
c., Gasworks exploded at seven O. clock Mon
DAY evening Win terrlnc violence, gong
through the roof and falling within thirty feet
of its original position. The engineer miracu-
lousy escaped injury.
The colored pepul,tion Of the Union in
creases faster than the white. In eightv-oue
years, at the present rate of increase, it will be
larger than our whole popu alton NJ the last
census. In 1880 the colored population of the
republic will be, according to estimates, 1922
900, 900.
A shocking coasting accident occurred in
Waynesboro', Pa, Saturday. Thirteen per-
sons of both sexes were riding down long
hill on Jumper" which, just before i, reach
ed the bottom, struck Young lady who was
crossing the street, throwing her distance OF
ten feet. Diverted from its course the jumper
struck heavy post. TIE unfortunate thir-
teen were thrown from their seats, and all of
them more or less injured. Joseph AddIeber-
ger, aged 80, was seriously, perhaps fatally in
jured Daniel Johnson, aged As, had leg bro
ken; Thomas Springman. aged go. was pain
fully hurt, and Michael Dallson, aged 80, sus-
tanned serious internal injuries.