Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
NOTES.

Wheat is ,wenty-ts NO inches high in C,ro'ine
county.
Reports from Northwestern Kansas ssrs tn.
heaviest snow-storm Of the year prevailed there
on Friday and Saturday last.
The sportsmens convention IL be held A.
Buffalo in June will be attended by the destruc-
ton of fifteen ID sand birds ia the shooting
contests TO take place.
Saturday was The t~enty-thrd anniversary
of the passage of the Sixth Massachusetts, Regi
ment through Baltimore. md II reunion OF tn.
me mbers was held in Worcester. Mass
4 eve of Mr.. c. r wooters near Csrdo,a.
Talbot county, gave birth TO lamb with eigh,
legs, one head and two bodies Ii was well de-
veloped and seemingly Joined together in the
back.
VIM JET, the party who gave the au;hori-
ties information that led To the capture of
Booth the assassin Of President Lincoln, was
taken to the insane asy .um al " iiiamsburg on
Saturday last.
A mysterious looking box. with no direc-
| ,ions upon it. has been left at Castle Garden,
New York. by an Irish engraut. who inquir-
ed for o Donovan Rossa's residence. No one
dares 10 touch il.
A child recently born in B,ngo-, Ne, is the
Fifth living gener .,ioa of it's Gmily It's great
great grandmother is eightv-6ve. its great
grandmother sixty. its .ranln th-r forty-oue
and its mother twenty wears OF "ge.
| Some Western friends of Blaine think his
nomination all depends Or no, OHIO . .-s
sherman j. 'hpu INT 10 u" fri-nf Z to Bf,ira
and le indication are ihtt The b K : tie
will fall l. line ior either of them TO cpm Jlei-
n nomina ton.
| Twenty one Mormon missionaries md 400
Norman emigrants arrived in New York Sat
urdav night from Europe and left Yesterday
tor Utah Since Saturday sixteen SHIPS with
more han 10 900 immigrants have arrived a.
| New York
! In the county court OF Clark, on Wednesi "
last colored IN IN ntns1 Richard r hury wts
tried, At his own r-qIest, by ury composed
entirely OF colored men on 4 charge Of rorsing
a note for about four dollars They found him
guilty, and Fved the time OF his imprisonm-
10 tn p-nitenfItrY Al two wears
Thongh the m in Du,liing o. h. ca,n.n.
world exposition a. New ORLEANS is tn arg
est ever erected in the country, 1-ias thirteen
hundred and seventy five feet by nine hundred,
it is now thought necessary to construct an
other immense building one tn ,usand feet by
four hundred for the reception OF government,
State and agricultural exhibits.
The Six day Horse versus Bicycle Tourns-
ment-ridRg twelve hours day terminated
in San Francisco at one O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. Anderson had change of fifteen horses,
and John. s. Prince and Miss Armaindo alter
mated on bicycle. The latter two made =
073 miles-the best on record-beatiug the
horses by mile and quarter.
prominent Westerner says that in bis
opinion labor riots and disturbances, like that
which recently took place in Cincinnati, will
drive rich people to Washington for safety.
They will come here just because this is not
manufacturing city, and is free from the rest
less and dangerous element which threatens
property and established authority in most OF
the other great cities of the country.
DR.. Robert Wright died at his residence in
Centreville on Monday morningin his 57th
year. DR.. Wright was the oldest graduate OF
the West Point military school and like wise
the Oldest resident of Queen Anne's county
He held position as door-keeper in the SEN
ate at the late session Of the Legislature where
he contracted cold which caused kidney trou-
BILE, terminating in his death. He was at one
time possessed of considerable property. He
was twice married, leaving children BY both
unions.