Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-12-24
NOTES.

The Secretary of War on Friday transmitted
u Congress deficiency estimates aggreg4linp
S31, l65 IN the appropriations for The signal
service Tor the current fiscal year. The largest
TENS are 30 ITO for observation aad report of
Storms and $4,000 for military telegraph line.
Sampson Townshend. aged seventy, Of Light.
street, Pa, was III trried al Middletown N Y,
o. Thursday night Of last w..k, to Mrs. Julia
ohi'esp'e. OF that village, agei seventy -four.
fhs bridal party were proceeded to the altar
oI n9oie T. Bryant. six yesr-oid grandson,
ana Grace Mapes. three-yelr old gre4t-gruni
daughter of the bride.
Fer twenty years Joseph Brine ,ri Of Spring
CIV, Pa, who was private ia the Eighty
eigath pennsylvania volunteers. has been trv-
ing to secure pension He needed l., for HI
has been totally blind since the war. and for
fifteen years his legs have been pra'rz.l
NOV, through the Efforts of neighhors his uen
40 AS been allowed. and within a fow lays
'he eran will receive nearly $4,000
horrible tale of prvation and snf.rinq
COZ from North Mount4in Pr. William
a, Young man of IS went ont gnaning
got lost 10 the woods FIR hra DAVIS he
cred around, and on The sixth DIV killed
his og for fool. He lived on dog m at for
tn DAYS. He was found nv two other hunt.
'oo' utuS. i1lb VI Is MI irti were
50 ~ frozen that they win have to he am
pu ed
Louisville. ke.. Saturi,v n;gt Robert
Loty, SON OF the Governor Of VI -.issppi and
Louiebark of Peunsylv,ui f,n rht in
4Tate box at the Masonic Theatre. and the
lattI was knocked down before they c,u'd be
ated. They we're a conmttee from the
al school to present Miss Florence Bid ~,
frsss. with floral design. Lowry made
ssentatiou speech, AMI is said to have
AYE mention L1udebsck's n4ma
Christian Schau. a tailor Of Erie. Pa. at
tempted to murder his entire family Saturday
while in q fit of ungovernsble rage, He sue.
ceeded in killing his daughter Minnie outright
aud usrtallv wOunding Anne. another dangh
ter. He rhoked his wife black in the face
Schau fed, but vas captured ny a policeman
after desperate battle just outside the CITY
The murderer fred several shots at his antago-
mist, but was finally overcome and taken man
scled to the city.
Between three and four O. clock on Saturday
morning the pesple living along West Coal
street. in Shenandoah. Pa, were arou!ed by a
cavern, which extended over fully four acres
Tof the town, upon which stand, upwards of
hfty houses. The surface settled from two to
four feet. and damaged the property TO the x
tent OF from $50. 600 to IS. 900. The cave, in
vas caused bv the robhng of the workings Of
kohiooot coliery, which is located under that
portion OF the town
On Thursday morn ng of lust week after
nidaight. the house of John SIZZLING was
burned down. Inside were Mr. SwilIing hi.
wife and three childrea, all Of whom were
burned 10 death. Frsncis Sanders was arrest
Il. and confessed that be had crushed in the
skulls OF the sleep-rs, saturated the bedclo,hes
With coal oil, applied the m ,tch AMI let Cit.
ir-ns seized The murderer and carried him off
10 iysch him ramor his since reached
here that be was tied 10 a tree AMI burned to
death.
There are h-ee one legged members of the
Senate, hut n visitor ignorant Of the fact wou d
not detect that Senator's Bailer xnd Hampton
each wears cork leg. Senator Butler has a
barely percep,hle limp Senator Berry. Of
Arkansas, los, his leg shove the knee ia the
Confederate ,ervicr and will have to use
cru,ches all hi. life There are nine Senator's
~ho we're ac,u lily general Off GER. in the Con-
Tolerate army. and wh, were ia the 6-li dur
ink the var with their respective comm inds
via: Senators Butler. CockriIl Cplqaitt Ma
hone. Hampton. Msxey, Morgan. RIason and
Waithal1. Senator K-nus wssa private in the
Coafedsra,e army aud J, 81 ,ckhurn sas a cap
tais.
A letter from S.ssk ,w.- Seminole N.tion.
ndian Territory, gives Al account of the .sth
here the 5,h instant Of Mrs Sassnns W-r-
den. Pc hsps the old-s, p~rs'n in the ,,t~d
S,.,es IL not the world She wss horn in the
old town Of ST. Argas,in-. FL, iasfI5p. max.
rag her age i3e years. Sh. was hara = slave
ana uas the property Of Sps,isA mssiess un III.
1918. when she, With other Sptn,.h si.ves
ed froa ih- ,ovH Of Peas ,eals when it was
rakeu bv q -ners, J,cks,a. She livei in the
S~minals coantry from then ua'ii the ss>oni
tresty OF pace with ihe Semnoles. when she
sas r-gsrd>d a. their comm or 'p-rtr and
a removed with them 10 n | ,di,n T ri
tori. She leaves one dsus h'ar living. who re
sjdes Ia Austin, rcxas, and is in her 97'h year
She leaves msny grsni hil iren in ST Louis,
No.. som. Of them nearly 10 years Of age
Gen. r. E CLIFTON. ~ho VS. formerly Col
slos Bsv Of The Egyptian army, -ri At present
he iihrsrisn OF the sur ron general Off 2. is
heea f.stiny since the .7'h d,v o. last nontr, n
period Of "a days Daring ih., tim he h -
aot eaten f.od Ne tsk-s hing but oae tea
spoonful Of a ligni cnnroeion thr-s tine, y
lar. I, tastes like All h.. the color Of port
sine. bu, is composed mainly Of sherry, ~ith
20 inyre,li.It which gives IL the co or OF port
Gen Cols,on says that When he st,rtel To fat
ne thought be would suf-r terribly from the
"a ngs OF hunger hut he h - found il otherwise
Il have desire TO eat he ssvs. "snd. fell
ing that need il. | have triei the Experiment
" going down aad sitting at the table With nv
site and family, thinsinx thai possibly the
.igat OF meat ready YOU q engend-r drsire Ia
eat, Bat it did not. CONES. that " 1rn thu
sasi Of good Soup or rost turkey or some fas
sri,e dish reaches nos,rils il provokes ne
The srseli 1t meet il more prosoki Y ih,d tn
sight of ii. - WI.h.Hytoa Past