Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

Postal Clerk Arrested for Mali Robbery
The numerous complaints from this ant
other sections Of the riling of letters containing
money by some one in the postal service, caus
ed attent ton to be directed TO the matter by tn
postal authorities and the probable thief wa
detected last week in the person of D. w kauff
man, postal clerk between Baltimore and " ash
ington. He was arrested in Washington upoi
coming off his trip and taken to Baltimore b.
special agents Smith and Henderson. He wa
taken before United States Commissioner Rog
ers and charged by Mr. Henderson with taking
secreting and destroying letters and packages
and taking the money therefrom IN bank notes
He was sent TO Jail in default of S., 900 bail, t.
remain until he has hearing, in a few days
or furnishes the bail. Complaints of losses hat
become so numerous enough to indicate con
siderable amount in the aggregate, but the in
vestigation has not gone far enough to sho"
how much. A letter mailed 10 New York from
Southern Maryland via the Pope's Creek Linz
was sent TO the dead-leter Office, with the in
formation that the person to whom it was ad
dressed could not be found. In accordance
with the usage of the dead letter office the let
ter was opened, the writer's name ascertainee
ana the ielteT was Tetul ueu " uliu III ie"
DAYS the letter was returned to the dead-lette
office by the writer, with the statement that i
did not contain all the original Enclosure, ant
was not in the original envelope. This lette
is one that vas sent by Rev. j. Renaad, of St
Thomas Manor, near Cox's Station, Charlie:
county, and was addressed to p. J. Kennedy
New York. 1t contained SIS when mailed. anc
the money was missing when the letter was re-
turned to the writer. The postmaik, which
was verv lndistnct, was Baltimore and Wash
ington Railway Pos office, iss,ead of Cox's
The decoy letters which effected kaufman
arrest were directed to Baltimore, Waverly
Severn, Hsrman's and Bowie's. The latter
contained 81. and the Severn letter 81, 10
These two letters did not reach their destina
ton, and Kaufman was arrested on reaching
VS. si.inSton m MsAaesrias Of lAaa ,Esek---pF
uenig searched the 81 sent TO Bowie could mo-
be found, but the other was. On opening
kauffman's drawer in his postal car an opened
letter was found 1t was from Mary A and
John l.. Derling to Vim. W. Cation, Holy
wood pos,office, ST. Mary's county, Md. There
was also found $50, Is in stamps. In the stove
in the car were a number of charred enve opes
Those employed in t.e postal service wis, nc
doubt, have felt very u easy in regard TO The
matter, since suspicion might have hern cssr
. them, will now breath freer that The real
hief is detected and brought to justice.
Culture and Caring Of Tobacco.
Oar thanks are due to Hon. Barnes Comp
ton tor a copy OF the report on the Culture and
Curing of To5,cco in the Uaited Safes. re-
Gently issued from the Census OH:e 1t is a
large volume of $50 pages, full of useful infor-
matoa relative to the culture and curing OF
I :, Ia y,tl
ing in regard to this section of VI ,ryIand The
first planters in this State were William ClIi-
b orne aud his associates, who emigratsi from
Virginia aud IN ,de the first settlement on keat
under which Maryland was permanently es,ab
tablished was granted by James to Cecilius
Calver., second Lord Baltimore. At one tine
large Quantities of tobacco were raised on the
Eastern Shore, now virtually none AT all. Be-
fore the Revolutionary war 20, 600 hhds. were
raised in the State since " hich time il reached
81 900 hds. in 1860, descending to q 064 in
sos Maryland tobacco has a limited field
for consumption. it is used only by smokers
Of the pipe, who are contenied with a cheap
article and is consumed chiefly by the pessantry
Of Germany and Holland, who cannot afford to
pay for richer tobacco. A marked character
site is its miTdness There are three distract
ty pes grown: Air-cured, Red and Yellow Bar,
aid Spaugled Bay. Air cured tobacco Goa
stitutes fully four ff,hs of the total product,
.Iiis grown in the diErici composed o: S.
Nary * Charles, CalV Prince Georges
a:cs - ndel and How counties The
snow Bay are produced in 49, y!
erick and Carroll. There = ksrie-
which often namsd FRI gpeeuli-
Of groxth. .or.Sp1a1ranes Of the plat p
Broad Leaf. Twist LeafS arrow Leaf, elc. Ths
Narrow Leaf grown in PNnce Georges county
is not very tall; has marts leaves thickiy Sci
on the stalk which are thick ard 6ne and cure
a pretty red. Broad le.fis tall, with the leaves
broad, and not many On the stalk is chady
and rather ligh, in Wight; cures pretty
color, burns easily. aud is liked hy many
planters. The Baden" grown also in Prince
Georges county (sometmes called poor land
TOD iccol, cures II beautiful whitish. yellow but
is liable TO greenish spots or stripes 10 leaves,
which lessen its value Commercial fertilizers
are used on about one-fi'ih OF the tobacco cul-
tivated in Southern Maryland In this county
the effect of fertilizers rarely seen after the
first crop 10 W hich they are applied The yield
Of toba eco has decreased from 10 TO IS per
cent. in Chirles, Calvert and Prince Georges
counties during the past ten years this is attri-
bu:ed 10 he failure of clover for several wears
during the decade Tobacco growers agree IN
the opinion that with proper rotation tobacco
is not more exhaustive than corn or other
crops usually grown upon their lands. 10
S 1uthern Maryland the estimated cost of rails
ing tobacco is placed at 81 so per hundred
pounds. The average hunter of acres planted
10 the hand is acres.