Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-02-08

falls on Friday this year.
Children are brought up on bottles, ov
men are brought down on them.
Fowl evolution When a eockeyed love-
becomes hen-pecked Husband.
Navigation has opened aud the river boat
have resumed their usual trips.
All mems souls are immortal, but the soul
Of The righteous are immortal and divine.
Lent does not commence until the hrst sun
day in March, and Ester occurs forty day
after.
Reads Grand Dutcbess Cologne is To-
sweetest perfumery in America and you
lind the most lasting, it sells for 70 cents Pc
bottle aud is kept at Howard Bros, COX
station. ap 20-lm
Mr.. Willie Miles it is reported will be mar
red to a Pennsylvania lady on the l4th OF tue
present month.
February term of Court will convene here
on the 10th Judge Brooke is expected to
hold the term.
Two new buildings are expected to DC
erected soon in the city of La Plata, and on
its suburbs.
To see Tobacco Inspector, call at thelI
headq uarters in Annapolis. The warehouses
are deserted
Mudd is at present so deep around Coxs
Station, it is said mans horse got mired at
the rack last week.
Miss Nellie Igiehsrt, one of Anne Arun-
dels interesting young ladies, IS sojouEnlng
in this neighborhood.
Gray has seeded from the list of fashiona-
BILE colors. 1t is not as becoming as brown,
which has taken its place in femme affections.
Senator Lancaster preseAted petition on
behalf of Judge Stone, asking that Judges
of the different circuits be released Of appoint
ment of School Commissioners.
Don't think young man, that just because
it is leap year you are going to be snapped up
right away The girls want chance TO look
before they leap.
t'You need better air, " said the doctor to a
poor but proud invalid lady of maiden age.
''Ah, doctor, then please send me around
millionaire"
''Heaps OBJ people," says Uncle Nose,
"blieve de sun rises in de ives jes' kase doy
am TOO lazy to git up in de rnawin' iu time to
fin out for demscvs"
READS three minute headache and neural.
5ia cuye is almost a monarch for the headache
nedra gia, rheumatism or any acute pain
made by W II Read, Baltimore 4 Lighl
Sts., Baltimore, Nd, prnprietorS of Reads
Grand Duchess Cologne. APP 20-lm
The newspapers often print the last
words" Of men, but never those of women. 4
penurious publisher observes that the latter
would take mp too much room, and crowd
out the advertisements
The Rock Point Oys'er Conrpany's affairs
alta stand still. Tie bill in equity asking
tor II receiver Is ex pccted 10 he Withdrawn,
and another more voluminous fled in its
stead The Count on top, we Il bet two to one
BY his advertisement in tile INDEPENDENT,
Mr.. Hsmmy Nealc has succeeded in selling
his pair OF horses for fine price, 10 prosper
GUS farmer in Virginia. So much for printers
ink.
Good for cold: Roast lemon without burn
ing it. When entirely hot, squeeze the juice
into cup on three ounces Of finely powdered
sugar. Take teaspoonful whenever you
cough. 1t rarely ever fails Cut this out
and paste it in your hat.
Mr. B. B. Earnshaw, the well known and
popular grocer of Capital Hill Washington,
has associated with him his brother, Mr.. W.
Z. Etrnshaw of Prince Georges county. With
this new addition to the firm, their good
goods, and extremely low prices, will begin a
new era in their already prosperous business.
The public should pay them their respects.
We have been credibly informed that Mid
dletown district is on the road to improve
ment; that the proof Of this is to be seen in
the progress which two young aspirants for
matrimonial honors are making. Bache-
Tor B. has been for some time engaged in the
Thrashing business. His correspondence there
on has ,tterly become so voluminous and I'M
wieldy that he contemplates having erected
studio, and the employment of an amAnuensis'
1t is furthermore reported that Judge F has
determined to take one of the finest girls in
the neighborhood of Waldorf on bridal tour
to Florida What is the cause Judge Some Of
the glrls must have been tikisg the advantage
of their leap-year privileges, and whispered in
your ear the love notes of Barkis, 81 am will
in" We congratulate oar fortunate friends
of Mddletown, and wish similar. luck for our
longing bachelor Lretheren in other sections.
A wonderful discovery Reads three min
ute headache aud neuralgia cure is tue won
der of the 18th century as hundreds upon
hundreds of our best citizens have been cured
in two minutes ofintents neuralgia and sick
after using everything they could
hear of, and try ing all the doctors in vain.-
Reads three minute headache cure sell for %
cents and is kept at onr friends, Howard
Brothers. ril 2O-lm