Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-07-18


in stock from 1873 to 1881 has been
145267 head Of cattle, 3,634,GlO head |
of sheep, ll6722 head of swine and
33S,lS0 goats The use of horses in
place Of oxen is becoming more gener-
al. The decrease in the number of
sheep is accounted for by the large
increase in the importation Of wool,
which Las naturally lessened the
profits Of sheepfarming and the number
cf sheep raised
A promising artificial town is Wayne.
fourteen miles from Philadelphia, on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Childs, of
the Ledger, and the Drexels have the
business in hand, and have already
spent $75000O. They bought zoo acres
of land, and are gradually building
kind of model village on it. They
have, in three years, put up forty
nine buildings, including one large
hotel, and have others in progress.
The houses are made with all improve
ments, and given large yards, and cost
all the way from $4,000 to $4,000
each. There is water supply from
the head waters of THAN Creek. The
drainage system was made from plans
by Col Waring, and it is called the
most perfect in America, and street
and other public affairs are the best
possible 1t is intended to eventually
have 900 houses to accommodate a
population of 5000 There are now
about l,2O0 people in the place.
In Russia, as reported by locomo-
tive Superintendent, in charge of a
prominent railway, to London Engt-
,,,o sg. siass sarosllerns of using petrole-
ssE@n locomotives has Leen solved
Its use for power purposes on steamers
In the Caspian and elsewhere had al
ready been a success. The gentlemen
writes that out Of one hundred and
thlrty-One locomotives on the Grazi-
Isaritsln railway seventy-two are
burning petroleum refuse, and by
October, 1884, that all the locomotives
on the line-four hundred and sixty
hVe miles-will be burning petroleum
retuse. This is declared, after a year s
experience, to be the best and most
convenient form of fuel used for loco
motive or marine purposes.
a japanese quack doctor has hit
upon novel mode of self-advertise-
nent. lie not only carries his pills
and potions about with him, but he
Ahiblts photographs of his patients
be has cured. The pictures represent
ne patients in the extreme agonies of
'helrl diseases prior to the administra-
uoh OF medicine. One represents a
child being run Over-Providence hav-
ing evidently arranged that the doc
tGs Photographer was on the spot at
The moment of the accident. Another
rpFesents a lady suffering from tooth
ache; with others the victims of
rheamatism, indigestion, and stomach
ache, There must be something very
APPALLING in the photograph of a per
sOl suffering from a stomach-ache
Apropos of cremation, there are
several interesting reports among the
medical reports of the Imperial Mari
time Customs of China. One states
that children are sometimes cremated
from superstitious reasons. Where
seYgal young children in a family
handied in succession it is believed
that one is cren.ated the next one
boIvill survive. There is only one
Budaist temple in which the inmates
are cefnated. The simple method
consists In placing the body in a stone
seat inside small dome-like building,
in the temple grounds. The interior
Of this structure communicates with
the open air by small door. Around
the body quantity of frewood and
charcoal Is placed; this is set on fire
and The door is closed until complete
combustion has taken place. The
bones are collected and placed in a jar,
which IS kept in a mortuary chapel.
An English company, with capital
of $2,5e0'VOO, not long since purchased
100000 acres of marsh land in south
western Louisiana, and have commenc
ed the work Of reclaiming it by digging
bitches and canals. Already some
five miles of canal have been cut. The
number Of steam plows in the service
is thirtg-two' having a capacity of
ninety acres per day. The object Of
these extensive operations, it would
appear, is to fit the country for a
colony Of small farmers; and the ex-
pectatiOn is that prosperous Europe
an settlement can be planted there
the nucleus of other enterprises which
we are assured will be undertaken
should this one prove success. These
J.. have been 1a,xnal