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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

haitEOhu tOhuuCtoTS heHlOVeu. W
learn from the Washington Star, of Wednes-
dty Of last week, that some time since per-
son, believed to be engaged in the scalper's
business dealing in scalped railroad tickets, J
gave information TO Mr. George w. Boyd as
sstant general passenger agent of the Penn
sylvanla railroad, as to alleged crookedness
on the part Of employees of the road handling
railroad and parlor car tickets. This infor-
nation led to the arrest of several conductor,
on the main line, and it was believed here
that none Of the conductors at this end o the
line were involved. About ten DAYS sin &c
several Of the conductors employed at this end
among them Messrs. O'Neal, Luckett and
Armacost, were ordered to report in Philadel-
phla. They spent several days there, and it
il understood that the result has been that
Mr.. Armacost has been discharged, Mr.. Luck
ct has resigned, and no definite action has
been had in the case of Mr.. 0 Neal Last
Saturday Superintendent Il. H. Carter went
to Washington, and shortly afterwards Con-
ductors John Fisher and Samuel Downes
were removed. The cause of their removal
has not oeen made public, and the officers
there know nothing of it. The men named
have all heretofore been above suspicion, and
express themselves confident Of final vindi-
cation.
o'Neal, Luckett Armacost and Fisher are
well known here, having for long time act
ed as conductors on the different trains on
this end of the road.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
How to pronagata OYsters.-IIow

How to Propagate Oysters. How easy
oyster propagation may be promoted is told
by the Cambridge md. Democrat and Ne,cs,
which says: ''Some four or FIVE years ago
while Captain Thomas c. Eaton was conduct
ing a grain transportation line from the
Choptank to Baltimore he sometimes brought
a return cargo of shells for ballast which we're
used by the farmers near town for kllning
purposes. On one occasion, however, when
large quantity of grain awaited him on his ar
rival from the city he did not have time TO
lard his shells, but took them out on a lear
sand bar near Cambridge and as his vessel
tackei back and forth threw them overheard
without any effort at regularity. Where the
shells were throwa was as clear aud bare
sand bar as can he found on the Chopt.nk at
the present time, but the shells formed a catch.
ing ground for oyster spawn and now dozens
Of soops and canoes are working dalv upon
the oyster beds m Ide from Captain Eaton
shells. II would be safe to saw that tbie ono
oyster bed has been worth $40, 900 to the ovs-
ter trade, and its value is only in the infancy
ofdevelopment. With such convincing proofs
of the value of shells in oyster-raisinr at
home, sustained by the success of northern
planters, no dredger should object to scatter
ing at least one load a year on our barren
bars, where the tide runs swiftly and excel
lent oysters would grow A law to such an
end would be very beneficial"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

store Burned On Tuesday night about
10 o clock, the store house at the Oaks, occu-
pied by yr. W. J Norris (Dan, was destroyed
FIRE. We have learned nothing about the
origin Of the fire. II is reported that sboG;
$500 worth of his stock Of goods was saved
The stock was insured in the Montgomery
Fire Insurance Company. Mr.. Norris hrs
Lately begun business at the Oaks, but during
the short time he has been so engaged, he has
exhibited considerable enterprise and thrift in
hi. business, and this loss will be se' ere
blow to his youthful energy. lie has our
sympathy and best wishes for speedy recov-
ery FROM bis loss.
Since writing the above we have learned
that the fire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendinry. Amount Of policy
$1,000, which will no t cover his loss by $500.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
The Workings of Our Tobacco In.

The Workings of Oar Tobacco In
specti0ns. The annual circular OF Messrs
d. II. Watjeu Co. the leading and most ex-
tensive tobacco house in Bremen, contains the
following, under date January LIST, 1854
"The light kinds of tobacco, i. e., those
which have their principal market in Balti-
more, lose, we are sorry to say, more and
more ground here, We have tried to show
the reasons for this fact more than once in
our monthly reports; the careless and irregu-
lar way of packing and the unreliable inspec-
ton are mostly to be blamed for this outall.
They force our dealers to seek substitutes in
German, Turkish aud other sorts, aud manu-
facturers once accustomed to such substitutes
do not easily return to the former mode -
Thus, business in the Baltimore sorts has,
with few exceptions, during the entire year
been an unsatisfactory one. While prices for
all the other kinds of tobacco have, in 1888,
risen considerably here, our readers will no
tice that we had to reduce our quotations for
Maryland tobacco against those given at the
respective ends of the last four years The
lots out of last seasons crop continue to turn
out so mouldy and full of sand til It sales dur
ing the month of December have only been eff
iecIed by new samples being taken here, aud
every sale that could be effected shows fur
Their decline in prices, holders being anxious
to get rid Of such doubtful tobacco, even at a
loss. The eageruess to buy new ground leaf
remarked in our last report, has also abated
considerably, as the small lots which were
bought at first after good-looking American
samples have not turned out here IN the hogs
heads as well as dealers expected. Sales of
ground le4fonly "a hogshesds for this month.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Inc AWeTlCAh FARMER THE January
18th number of this old farm paper is NH Of
interesting and seasonable m litter Of imm.di.
ate uss and value to the practical cultivation If
the soil. 1t does not discard science h,,
brings the application of science to every d.v
matters within the comprehension Of The
working farmer. It's contributors and al;,or.
are men engaged daily in the branches wbera.
on they advise and they are wild " senaro,ol
numerous and able. Fertilizers, live s,ooL
and the doings Of advanced farmers asso.;,,.
tons, are specialties with lie F.,m., ana
the garden, the poultry yard, and the a.,
also receive much attention, as well a. :
home department always enjoyed BY n. j.,
dies of country homes. None of onr h,.;--
readers should be without this lone a.,,h1'.l
ed agricultural counsellor, whose semi. MI
ly visits will be enjoyable and imn,ov;.a :.
all the members of country households b.
lished by Samuel Sands Il Son, B.lumo.a ~
Sl.5o year, or 81 to clubs Of i've or ,na.9 ~
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

An Accidental accident befell Miss
Mite Wills few days ago in having her
carriage smashed up by a runaway horse.
Mis-. Nittie and one of her sisters were driving
along the main road near Cox's Station, ada
cent the Rail Road, when Unexpectedly a
train was heard approaching from behind,
which frightened the horse and caused it TO
ran Of Before the horse had made much
head way in his run, the ladies jumped out
and escaped unhurt, but the carriage was
shi,ered into tiny Fragments
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Receiver Asked - Eugene Mitkiewicz
through his counsel, Mr. james +. Mathews,
has filed bill in Equity, against the Rock
Point Oyster Company alleging that the COM
rsny is insolvent, and asking that 4 receiver
IL Appoia;ej 20 like charge OF the PERSONAL
Effects Of said company for the benefit of its
creditors. The bill alleges that the indebted
aces Of the concern amounts TO SIT 600 90
aud charges among many other things,
ps n .nlcnt on the part Of Wsggaman, the
treasurer Of the defunct company.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

GLOW old are YOU said an ancient dame
to grnning little tAr-pot. "WeIl il goes
BY what mudder says, is most ten, but if /
goes by de fun Use had, Use most a hundred !"
0 that all could measure thsir years in this
way, but how many measure by long night
watches, and almost fatal coughing spells
which could have been cured by bottle of
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup taken in season.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
A Card From Washington. d. c.

A Card From Washington, ID. C.-l
TAX great pleasure TO inform my friends that
] will hereafter be found at the well known
No. sO9 Pennsylvania Avenue, where will
bO prepared to show you the Finest Stock OF
MEMS and Boys Clothing ever exhibit
ed in the District comprising all the novel
ties in Fabrics, Style and Cut and respect
fully ask continuance of the liberal patron
age which has been bestowed upon me.
Yours, very truly,
W. GRAFTON BATEMAN, with
B. ROBINSON h Co., Clothiers,
sOs Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. G.
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DR.. J. j. CALDWELL.
Ne'erdtagia, Nervous and Brain Dis
eases a Speciotty.

A REGULAR graduate Of the New York
"A MeIlcal College, also graduate Of the
hedleai Legal College Of New York, and a
practitioner Of medicine for 80 years: four
wears New York Hospitals, and four wears
United slaies Army Hospltrl. Practice sffers
his services 70 the puulic. Office hours: IL
A. m. anu ?. M residence, 207 Fulton ave.
~ m. 70 . y. IN, % n. Charles Street. BALI
uaore, Nd. nov 2s-lm
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Big Hog.-Nr. Fred Richmond our thrift
~ and euierprising citizen Of Piccawa1en,
boasts of having killed the heaviest porker
this season. Dir. Richmond reports that bis
hog weighed b75 pounds, the head IS pounds,
ssd sides 200 pounds piece. Come let US
bear from some other successful pork-raiser
aud see II he can equal Of outstrip our English
friend.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Circuit COurt-Judge Stone will hold
eour, here on February 2nd, for the purpose Of
besring the HaIcas Corpus case between W. u.
wenk and J. C.. Wsnk over the possession Of
child Of the former Some other matters
may also come up before the Court on that
day.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
Your Eyes,

s y h Se delighted when you
a uod 10 "a new Winter Suits
and Children. '''"' D'yS
:. y" !, have never had bet
" -, Slyles. We have never
Oe'0re sold them SO low.
o0 a very little money re.
qalred to clothe you hand.
SOmely. W '''''
;.t uleat crowds are pouring
l ~! our Stores as we write
lnle advertisement. Come,
gentlemen, there is room
for all. Aoo'''
n G''at Bargains from nOO til n,
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

PersOnal.-If there is a man in this eoun-
v who has not already purchased his winter
clothing, he will make great mistake if be
Ases not at frst opportunity call on US. We
are prepared 10 show you the greatest bar
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Another Pigeon Shootinr.-lr

An0ther PIgeOn Smoothing In Keep
iLr with the spirit of the period, awake to
pleasure aud alive to the wants Of the sports
man, MIR p. Reed Wills will give large
pigeon and glass ball shooting match at Cox's
Station on Tuesday the 10th instant. Match
shooting will be made between Baltimore and
Br!aatown nlarksmen' The Baltimore team
which was worsted in Bryantown a few days
since eau now have the opportunity OF redeem
lug their laurels A wdofspectators viii tie
ia attendance 10 witness the contest and &c
psrticip tie in the pie rsant rivalry.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Worse Than Lyons. Evil thoughts are
worse enemies than lions or tigers for we can
keep cut Of the way Of wild beasts, but
bad thoughts win their way everywhere. The
cup that is full will hold no more Keep
your head aud heart full of good thoughts,
that bad ones may not find room to enter.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

OVHtHUIV hPPVIHItU'-IH TIC OuuHV
Con- nissonsrs on Tuesday appointed Mr..
Douglass Welch constable for this district
Mr. Weleh has gwen bond with Messrs ]. II
Roberts, T. T. Owens. and Ben Welch as
bSndsmen. Such bond is a suff cient guar
aztec oftbe reliability and business capacity of
the man, and We bespeak for him undoubted
success.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

important i-Assignee sale OF boots and
shoes. The entire stock Of T.. IIeilbruns well
Known Shoe House, No. 4o2 18th street, Wssh-
inEten, D. c., must be sold by order Of the
assignee.
PISA good chance for bargains.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25
Usefaitn the Family.

We usually leave it to doctors to recon-
mend medicines, but PArker's Ginger Tonic
has been so useful in our family in relieving
sickness and suffering that we cannot say too
much in its praise.-Salem Argus. jan Am
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limited States Pen.ioners.-Throuab

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the kindess Of Mr.. H NJ. Teller, Secretary Of
the Interior, we have been furnished with a
list Of pensioners Of this couaty on the U s.
Government Pension List, January LIST, 1898
In addition to their names we give their
postotiices and monthly allowance drawn by
each one. Some Of the parties are pensioners
for disabilities incurred during the war, of
1872, and others during the late war;
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

The youthful color, beauty and lustrs are
gradually restored gray hair by Parker's
Hair Balsam. jan Am
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For chills and fevers, biiousness, headache,
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Quite n crowd were in Port Tobacco on
Tuesday. Being the first pleasant Tuesday
for a month or more persons having bushes.
in the county seat awaited themselves Of the
good day. About every other man you met
WAS candidate for tobacco inspector, tax
collector or road supervisor.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Cold weather may be invigorsting ant
hedthful, rs the doctors assert, but for rea
sons too numerous to mention it is not alto
gether desirable when spread on thick.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-25

Brother G,rdiaer says: Happiness am often
a roostin' on de lower limb, vile VI Am
barkin' our shins pokin bout to FIN it in Dc
ton Oh de tall tree
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-25
HIGHER Education by the State.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
I, with many others 1 know, thank you for
that editorial on 'Inverting the Common
Schools."l There is no use in ignoring the fact
that great restlessness exists among the people
1.-THE tax-payersJ in reference to carrying on the
commonAsohool system Whilst I know of com
paratively few opposed to the States carrying on
the common-sch6ol system to educate all in rudi
inentary education. 50 far as to fit them to be
good citizens, there is large proportion of the
people utterly opposed to its carrying it further
into igh7seheols and universities. The danger
is of these, despairing of reform, joining ulti
nlately with those opposed to all State (even) ele
mentary education, and demolshing the whole
system of State common schools. We may
affect to ridicule this, bat the danger is there
and we had better remove the cause of it in time
Is not the right of the State to tax people to
maintain common schools based on the need of
elementary education to make them capable,
good citizens, for its own perpetuation and
efficiency Has it q right to tax for any other
purpose, or on any other ground, to educate any
further than necessary for this purposei To this
extent it has the right and the obligation is on
it to do so. But where does education
necessary for good citizenship stop2 Is not the
great mass of good citizenship composed of those
who have simply an elementary education! Has
the state any rlghJ TO TAX people TO educate any
further than to qualify for good capable citizen
shipY Any right to undergo such cost for the So
few that avail themselves of its provision2 Are
not they actuated to get this higher education
that they may enjoy it, or that they may make
money by it, Should the people be taxed to pay
for that! High education is most desirable and
important but should the State tax people to ac
complish it, is the question.
There is no danger of its being neglected.
Mercenary motives, and the love of the truth,
and religious motives will carry on higher educa-
ton grandly, and as cheaply to the people. Men
of wealth, and of love for learning will found
academies, and colleges, and universities, and
after truth will be carried on The State will
confne itself to that elementary education
which the people need for qualification for good
citizenship, make it cheaper, and more success
full and avoid the entanglements and dangers to
it attendant on the scheme and effort to compass
higher education. "a .s.I j. A CAMPBELL.
FRANKFORT, Jan. 225s.1l, - Z. 3. L ..s s.ts..s...
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want before asking us to give it to you" he is
silenced by being told that we intend to keep
peggng away for good schools and good roads;
the details of the ultimate law will be reached in
the course of half century, if not all at once.
If schools and roads modelled aftera certain form
in other States please them, they refer to these
and demand something like them; and they keep
at it. The Indiana school system has been more
than fifty years in attaining its present
pre-eminence and it can be improved
considerable permanent advance was made
until its basis was put in the Constitution. That
served as a kind of a ratchet-wheel to hold what
ever we got until we could get more. AS to this
prohibition question, all that is necessary is to
use just the kind of sense in its management
that we do on other questions If you want it,
say so, and keep pegging away, and stop all OF
that but ing Don't wind up every good thing
you say about it with but Now, the truth
is, there has been no serious effort to get prohi-
bition in Indiana for twenty-nine years Men
have talked favorably of it, ''but'-'but you
can't get it; but you can't enforce it if you had
it'-and all such nonsense 1t is these impracti-
cable temperance men that so try my patience.
1t seems to me that they ought to be ashamed OF
themselves. The liquor sellers are scared nearly
to death, because they have sense enough to see
that prohibition is coming. The 323,OO0 voters
in Ohio for absolute prohibition and the 81, 600
for high license in an aggregate vote of $4,000
giving four seventies of the voters against them
and the fact that the people OF
Indiana are even more in earnest
has created alarm in their ranks. They re
mind me of a colored brother-a slave of a man
living between Fort Henry and Fort Donaldson.
The day after the capture of Fort Henry by the
Union troops the master sent Sam to the top of
hill to see if the troops were moving toward Fort
Donaldson Sam soon returned under full gal
lop. "Lod massa! the Yanks is comin'-hun-
bred thousand million of dem, and every fellow
has lightnin' rod on his shoulder" l think the
liquor sellers overestmate the real strength of
the prohibition force. There is no hundred
thousand million of them, but they are coming
all the same, and they have lightning rods on
their shoulders; in other words, they are pre-
pared for a bayonet charge if it must come to
that though they would prefer to fight at long
range with ballots, if that will answer as well.
Moreover, it must be admitted that they are not
all thus armed. A great many who claim to be
the very best of temperance men are moving
onto the enemy 'but" end foremost, as it were.
wish they would quit it, and face about, and,
like Grant did at Fort Donaldson, demand an
unconditional surrender. These are the i'm
practicabes of the temperance work, that come
so near making me say bad words.
7. A. GOODWIN
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A Very Unsatisfactorv Performance.

CHICAGO, Jan. A-The lapses in the presen-
tatiQn of ''Lohengrin" by Abbey's company, at
verse critism this morning, all the papers joining
in the cry that the third act was entirely omitted
owing to the break1do Of Campanini who has
been indisposed all week, and due according to
the. papers, not to creditable causes The
Tribune declares that in an italian theater the
chorus and orchestra would have been mobbed
if they had dared to treat a popular work in the
same brutal manner as the chorus and orchestra
treated Lohengrin" last night The critics in
dividually praise Nilsson and one or two other
artists, but are unsparing against all other
features of the performance. The matter was
deemed of sufficient Importance to be treated at
length in the local columns, as a great audience
was present which displayed markedsigns of dis
approval