Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-05-21
Local Brcyities.

The court has had but little 10 occupy
il this week, and 1t is not expected that 1t
vii! last through next week.
Judge Stone opened court on Monday
morning, but lett on ruesd@y morning t.
stfend the meeting OF the Iuri OF Appeals
in Annapolis.
The harvesting machine meu have taken
possession of the public square in front Of
the court house, and their chin music Is
heard above al other connection.
At tue opening OF court on Monday our
Jail contained bu; one prisoner, coior.d
boy charged with lAiceuy. Rather good
showing for Charles couaty, we think.
Spring chickens are selling IN the city
markets at $3.50 per pair. This piece Of
news will cause the glowing ones here 10
spring high i. order 10 escape being cap
tured and sent of.
Governor Lloyd and staff have been in
vittd To- attend the decoration of General
Grants tomb at Riverside Park, New
York, on the 3lst Of May. G5n. John \
Logan Is 10 deliver ths Grafton.
Wheat continues to look vel, and far
iners fee that it is almost useless to ask
the question, what will the harvest be Z"
Provided, however. nothing unforeseen &C
cars to check ITS now rapid progress.
Miss Mamie c. jameson. the attractive
and popular be lie Of Bryaniown, is home
from Baltimore, where she has spent the
winter. Her friends and numerous ad-
ailTers are GLAD To- welcome her again IN
the social circ Of that ncighborhond.
Note the change IN the advertisement
of The LauIenson iobaCCu Fertilizer, sold
by MIR. T.. Phny Martin. oi North Keys,
Irluce ueor.es county. 81 an error. the
pic. ui The fertilizer was stated 10 be 1856
cash, aud S3S, time; as correc ell Ii is S33,
Cash, and $50, time.
Dr.. Henlsy's &c cry, Beef aud Iron
which is not oaly food Tor he brain, but
IS also tonic ~ the blood, atfofdIng
building msteriui to the human system
It's constituent par being daily used by
the leading physicians OF Europe anu
America ~ tLsir practice. Sold by all
druggists.
On Friday the State's At'orrcy was in
structed by the Ccmptrol sr to bring suit
against all the tax collectors " DO are in
default To the State. In accordanUe with
his Instructions Nr. Wilmer promptly
docketed suit against Messis Nicholson,
Mon gomtry, Wright and Owen We I'M
derstaEd that suine have since settled
up
Two happy citizens wLo met h.re on
Tuesday after a long absence, we're So re-
juic.d at seeing each other that An alice
tIopate hug and loving kiss was exchang
ed AT parting. We think that If the wives
Of these two stuid Benedic,s cou d have
witnessed the sigh the amount of aifec :
ton displayed would have caused the IN
paugs OF jealousy.
The lads in No. warehouse seem to be
IL irollt some set, tor already two Of them,
one an old gentleman aud the other
whose familiar face III frequently seen 10
Port Tobacco have already received an0ny-
nous letters Threatening them with sum
mary punishment il they do not Curt their
playful propensities. Grimes, we have "a
great mind 10 report you to headquarters.
W. \. Quick, Esq. Farmwell, Va, says
in the wear 1884 he used 200 lbs. per acre
of fertilizer made from Powell's Prepared
Chemicals on and planted with corn, and
notw outstanding the drought, he made Il
lett II crop team ever got from the tine
land with so and $40 fertilizer Tie
Chrmic 'Is nhiy cost S6 90 per barrel in
sufficient qu nifty to make one halt ton of
c"Inrlst- fertilizer. Blown Chemic Co.,
manufactures, b Gilmore, Md.
Quite numh,r of strangers were in
town on Tuesday. Among the number
we noticed John T. Mason of r. and Ed
win B. Coalr, members of the Bal more
bar; Il. ii. Mitchell, The genial Insurance
agent; ,rrott Champion, of Georgetown
Also A. Y. Gray representing Chipcliase
Bros, and Benny Price, of Thos. G. Price
& Co., commission merchants. Also Jno
NJ. Page, F. NJ. Neale, AMI John Crispian,
of w. A. Padgett & Co.
At the last meeting of the Napjemoy
literary club the question proposed for
debate was rs the the Knights of Labor
an organization to be encouraged 10y the
people of the United States Considera-
bic discussion arose among the members
as to whether this wa grammatical SEN
fence, without, however, any conclusion
being reached. We now lay it before our
readers and hope that some good gram
marian will help them out of the difficulty