Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-01
NOTES.

American comEittee fnr the Inauguration of
the statue of liberty in New York harbor.
The use of petroleum rs fnsl for railway
engine has been succes sfuilv tried i Egypt and
it is said that even in tn small country a
yearly saving Of $3.50 0aO would or eff .ctei by
substituting it for coal.
Rev Th-o lor. r ed, of St. Marv's comfy,
Nd, has been unanimously elected rector of
Trinity Church, Upper Marlborough, MI, the
parish OF which the late DR.. Levin was rector
He has not MS yet given his answer to the YES.
try.
A Kingston, N. T., newspaper tells of a Marl-
boroug coloret IN IN VIII, having earned $l, 40,
invested 90 cents Of it in three dozen bananas,
tie them all on the spot, AMI then adjourned TO
! a saloon 10 moisen them with dozen glasses
Of beer.
Mrs Samuel warrea, of M.qaoket.. in pro-
hibition Iowa, stepped into saloon where her
husband was driaking, grabbed glass Of beer
from his hand, and captured enough of the
/ beverage to CoRsict the saloon keeper, who
paid $50 and costs.
| The heroic broux' statue of the statesman
John G. Calhoun arrived in Charleston. S. C.,
Saturday, and will be stored Until the monu
ment is completed. The statue is the work Of
Albert E. Hornish, of Rome, and cost $l4, 600.
The monument when completed will cost about
$40, 900.
| DR.. Salmon Of tha Bureau of Animal Indus.
try, who was sent to Chicago to ascertain the
nature Of the disease that has broken out there,
telegraphed TO Commissioner Coleman that
| there is no doubt that the diseasa is peuro-
pneumonia, aHd that $7a 900 worth of cattle
are TO be slaughtered.
At tho Eorws,l ,rots ,ha .,ho. L.. -kuo
five horses were scorine. a rein broke oa one
of them. The trotters were we'll punched and
an accident seemed Inevitable but Billy Brooks,
the driver With the broken rein, jumped from
his suiky to his horse's back aud stopped him
before any damage was done.
Ex-Assembly ymsu Herman D. Busch, one of
the best tkaown German. Ii the State Of New
Jersey. died yesterday at his hotel 10 Hoboken
from fatty degeneration of the heart Mr..
Busch at the time Of his death weighed 4s6
pounds. Ten years ago, when hs was elected
presideat Of the Fat Mems association Of New
York, be weighed 525 pounds.
! A newspaper man in Minneapolis one day
caught young woman a. she was falling 10
the street. few days after he met her st tie
house Of a friend, aud thsy were introduced.
4 few mouths after be asked her to marry him
aud she said Yes" A few hours after they
were married, and not uatil then be learned
that she was Worth $T5, 900.
! In view OF the probability ths, the Chicago
Club will win the League Penuaat sad that the
St. Louis Browns will capture that OF the
American Association. Mr.. Chris. Won der Abe.
president Of the latter club, has seat letter 10
4. u. Spauldisg, president Of tas foruer, ehsl.
lenging him TO play sfier the season Is oyer .
series OF i've, seven or nine game for the worlds
championship.
| The Hon ]. L. N. Curry, United States mia-
=, ;sier to Spsio, in inclosing $50 to Mayor Cour-
tenay. OF Charleston, s. O., for the beneat of
the earthquake sufferers, wrote: 'Ny heart
bleeds for Chrles,on | know your agony
mus, be simos, insupporisble as you look upon
the desolaiion and suferinss in a city you love
so we'll, and whose prosperity and good name,
for sig years or msFs, have called forth your
eeaselessand noblest energies
| Friday night young colorei nan NAMED
John Nelson, living In Atlantic City, Sorfolk
county, Va, on returning home from chsrch.
attempted 10 extinguish q lamp slled ~ith ker-
osene, when an explosion occurred, enveloping
Nelson 10 a shee, OF fame. and burning him
from head to foot. He ran out Of the hou.e,
screaming for hrtp the ~iGi sssning to aisks
the flames burn hereer. Aher running fev
death.
Hon. Frank Hurd. Of Ohio, free trader.
1. |. ffs f.e ss.s
Of including the city Of Toledo. Hs aeai his o
!. pouent, Mr.. N. J. Rnright. fur to one ia
"e delegation Of 90. II vas conceded that %!
o. ton Of toe congressional question would
ia found in Lucas county, the home Of both ca
didates, and the creates, interest vss tskea
81 the primary elections. The vote vss large. q
ed ia some localities vas greater than at .us ST.
:, election.
40 Peter Denny OF Ridgs6sid, hearing ths.
trout 10 veil would kesp tho water cles
OF caught q big one and lowered it inis bis us
en- fes days ago the water began to gss low.
sccoaut Of dry weather, and he noticed ths,
tasted h.ay. Then be hegsn clssning the -
s. eat. When be bad drAva ont most OF the =
A. ter he began to brins up trout 10 the buck,
and be SAYS that he drs~ oct sixty. some
y them as large 40 a pound q half He SAYS d
* trout be pu, into the well three years ago .
% female.
" George ". Bsrthoiomew. president, of I,
Charter Oak Life Insurance Company of H.r
! ford, Conn. and Of the Heivoke Mass. J Wat
y Power Company, and holding ether impor,al
~ trusts. has shsconded. leaving . de6cieacy
IN over half = million 10 his accounts. The Ia
mediate caase OF the expose vas the emheys'
- msut recently by fhoGss Plunksst. who b
also disappeared, Of the fonda Of the Hastfo
Silk Company. BArthoiam-w vas heavily il
At volved in Plunkett's affairs ard the latter
m crime exposed that Of the former
- Late informal ton received at the A gricaitur
e, Department regarding the condition Of hogs
that in Illinois and Indiana cholera pre..i
~ generally. n the forme, State heavy loss
=: are reported in several counties. 10 Ohio ar
=. Michigan the cond ton Of the animal is f.i
10 some paris Of wisconsin the farmers are
D. fraid TO keep hogs 90 account of cholera, q,
b reports from Iowa are Of similar character
i, some cases. Cholers, pink eye. and measl
are reported from Missouri. aud 10 Nebrasi
. the condition 10 considerably below an AYERS
N Kansas aud Kentucky hogs are generally
i. good condition.
r 70, some weeks people living ia the vicini
OF Huntington St Rochester, n Y have hex
mysti6ed and excited by singular ocru rene
ic at the residence of WilIism westveer, q prom
in nent citizen. About Eve weeks ago bis &C
>, Army, boy twelve years old. was attacked
III jumping spells. and it was impossible for hi
le to control the actinn Of his limbs After ie
y days the attacks become more violent asd al,
increased in frequency. Previous to that tin
Do the family had heard mysterious knoekiugs q
q. about the honse-on the walls, on the doc
= and under the 6oor-which they could not a,
count for. After he began to have these junl
% ing spells tbs boys struggles becam me so violeI
q when he was under their influence that thr,
l. strong men could not hold him in the cha
Then the tables and chairs began to Hy abou
the rooms the pictures and looking glasses
"a fall from the walls and the whole house was
confusion. The centre table, which weigh
!" fully eighty pounds, was overturned, and thei
g is not an article Of furniture in the house tbs
n was not thrown about. His parents had I
take all the furniture out of the room 10 whic
', Army sleeps and have made bed for him O
r. the floor When the boy has these jumpin
= spells bis arms and legs twitch and his body
twisted into all sorts Of shapes. When the fuu
j. Biture fies around and tails over he is al waS
ri quiet, that is be is not uuder the influence {