Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-05-09
NOTES.

II is reported from Nantucket. Mas thu
Charles O'Conor, the great Ne~ York lssyer
is quite i'll.
Chief Judge Oliver Miller. Of Annapolis, is
making preparations for a visit 10 Europe on
account OF impaired health.
A Bedford couaty tobacco planter sold his
crop of leaf tobacco in Lynchburg on Moad.y
at an average of SAL round per hundred lbs ),
including the lags. The highsst.pricsd hogs
head brought SO per hundred
Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept away
BY the crash of 1873 is to-day on. Of the
wealthiest men OF Pennsylvania He has ia
vesiments in iron. coal gold aud silver mines
and railroads reaching far into the millions.
The house OF John Duff. near Indepen iencs
Iowa, was destroyed by fire OF SATURDAY.. A
l3-yesr-od dasgh was burned TO death. an
other child is not expected 20 recover, and both
parents were bsdiT burned.
The six days' walking match concluded in
New York on Saturday was won by Fitzgerald,
who covered clio miles. Rowell. came ia Sec
ond, with a score of 602 miles. Both men bea 1
the best record ever made in six days pedes-
TRAN match
A heavy rain and thunder. storm broke over
ern part of the city ball Of fire fell to the
street and burst with a loud report. a phenono-
men that terrified the residents for miles
around, and particularly those who witnessed
it.
1t is not doubted that the State line steam
ship State OF Florida. which LIFT New York for
Glasgow April IL has been lost. She had on
board IS passengers and 80 OF the crew and
there is so ne hope that these were picked up
and saved BY passing vessel.
Forest fires are raging At various points in
Pennsylvania. Nv jersey and New York Ia
Pennsylvania on Friday the 4 ,mes comnunies.
ted to the TO IN of Brisbia, near Hour iale and
over 25D buildings wsro DESTROYED and more
than one hundred families lief, destitute.
At the FIRE in S~lns brew r,. Union Hill,
New York, on Monday. a gill only eight wears
of age, saved the life Of her infant sister from
an upper room at the risk Of her own life. Pc
lice Officer Edward Clifford had his coat burn
ed of in rescuing another child.
The largest book ever made at the Govern
ment Printing Office in Washington has just
been finished. 1t is bound ia sheepskin and
Russia leather, is one foot and four inches in
breadth, contains $1,000 pages, and weighs
l4O pounds.
TIC hlVcE duu VIII EcpOTt
to the House Of Representatives next Monday
The estimate for an appropriation of 81 900, :
900 for the Potomac river, it is said. will be
duced very considerably, owing, probably, to
the fact that there is unexpended balance
of the last appropriation of over 5000, 900.
The steamer B. S. Ford, belonging to the
Chester River Stea mboat Company. was burn
ed at her wharf ut Chestertown, Kent county,
Nd SATURDAY. morning The fire w which
broke out between the engine room and fire
room, spread so rapidly the crew and hands
had barely time to escape. The Ford was
built in 1871 at cost of S75, 900.
A Del Rio, Texas, special says: IA cyclone
struck this town Saturday evening. The new
Episcopal church and number of small cabins
were swept away. MANY new buildings were
twisted out Of shape. Five persons were Sc
verely injured and one (Charles Setback killed
Loss to the town $40, OOO."
Eddie Schalk, of Waterbury, CT, boy u
years of age. who was seized three months ago
with a craze for Western adventure. has re-
turned to his home. The boy rode and tramp
ed to Indiana, II distance Of nine hundred miles
beating his way on trains, and begging his
food. lie says he his had enough of ira Yelling
John L. Sullivan, the Oh ,mpion was met on
Saturday night b, Enos Philips, aged 10 yrs.
and $50 pounds in weight. Philips endured
Sullivans sledge- hammer blows for two min
utes, and although thrice driven into the wings
fourth time. Sullivan punished him so So
verely that Chief of Police Kerregan took the
boy of the stage by force. William E. Stern,
the local slugger was advertised to meet Sulli-
van Monday night, but he backed squarely
down