Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-08

l. .Mr and Mrs Pire- are ia 20 ~, lu,os1D
broken over the marriage Of their daughter 10
Frederick Douglass.
I Before the sseuhlv Investigating committee
IN New York SATURDAY, County Clerk k~saan
said that be ptjd : 500 10 Tsnnaus Hall ior
his nomination. and his gtmpal.n expense
Sere abou, $50 600
William vosrl aged 10. wss found wing in
Myrtle avenue Brookl.n y Y SATURDAY
morning. bleeding from i've sIsbs lie refused
( to tell who had si.bbei him
! Edward Niedsrer. Of Memphis. T-na.. poker
player in the South. died satunisv II. had &C,
cumaiaiei large fortune aai bad al inssr.
ance Of 500. ooO 90 his iite.
! The negro JsG Rogers. who assaulted aud
I brulaliy stabbed Mrs Strjtla in the northern
par; Of Chsmhers county, Al. wss' taken from
the Lafayette jail Saturday wight and hanged
/ The ground on which an Iowa IN m asked for
divorce u tina, his wiie "a a drnuksrd. snd
the peculiarly of the complaint IS its specihca.
tiou bat she acquired the habit of iatemper.
ance while tending bar IN his own saloon.
! Fsuuy Bush the woman who was arrested
! 10 Nanamaksr great store With So worth
I Of rings IN her mouth, which she had picked
up from the jewelry counter. has h..n cunsic
+ ted OF larceny in the Quarter : -ssions, and
sentenced 10 one year Imprisonment
! Capt W L. Marshall, u the United State,
eng neers. in charge Cf river Improvement work
at Lake Providence. La. for the Mississippi
river commission, Claims TO have discovered ey
! idence that the whole bottom OF The Ni>sissip.
| pi river is moving forward like glacier.
/ Mrs. John " Staten. wealthy widow o.
. III ~ Ia 4 lao ,,,. :,
the p.rlor OF her home on Saturday dropped
TO the floor dead Her son was standing be-
side her. and suddenly. without sign or =
word. her fingers ceased 10 move, ard ife wa.
extinct h-for she answered her sons question
as 10 why she stopped.
/ Mr.. James Clark, of Rich Valley. VI, has
quite a curiosity in the shape Of twin chick
en-. The chicken is perfectly black on one side
and perfectly white on the other side. One
side is male, the other side is female The
male side is much larger than the female side
There spurs on one leg the other is per
feetly smooth.
Peter Shinkle sf Covingt0n. XIV, iRhtv-
eight years old, sues his son Amos.for the val
/ ne Of three Years services. The hoy hogan 10
shift for himself when eighteen years old, got
rich and has had his father work for him nd
! live in his house, but the oil man remarked u
while ago and caused disruption which has
ended in the sre's suit to recover all the young
mans earnings before he was twenty-one.
As nine small boys we're coasting on the
Schuy Kill in a large sled with John Hagen. a
! youth of 10, Saturday afternoon the ice broke
and they were all throw into The water. The
event was witnessed Lv hundreds OF people.
and caused great excitement. Hagen, howey-
er, went manfully TO work and succeeded in
saving eight Of boys by heroic efforts -
One, James DonneIly, 10 years old was drown
! ed.
| Clinton county farmer has an ingenious
and novel way OF making his dog pay the ex.
penses of taxes, board, etc. The dog follows
the old man to town when he is hauling grain,
and when The wagon is driven on the scales,
he walks gently on and lies down under it
| As he is quite large dog, he helps the load
out wonderfully When the farmer comes
back to have the empty wagon weighed, the
dog forgets to be there.
A man of the Bob Ingersol type living in
an Iowa town recently applied for an injunc-
ton restraining the reading of the Bible in the
schools of that State, and also to prohibit he
singing of hymns or repeating the Lord 5 Pray
er. In decision rendered last week however
the court held that such selections were intend
ed to inculcate, morality, purity and Honesty
and were, therefore, part of the school sys-
tenn. The court refused to grant the desired
order.
Near Rendeville, Ohio, Saturday night, Peter
Clifford was called to his door by two men and
shot. He fell dying into his wie's arms, say
ing the, "The Hickeys have killed me" The
Hickeys, four in number, and Joe Reddy, their
brother-in law, were arrested. Sunday night
Richard Hickey and Reddy were taken from
Jail by mob, and Hickey was hanged. Reddy
was strung up, but the rope broke; aud he was
spared for trial.