Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-03-09
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The in,5ne Of : n,to- Farwell. Of
illinois, is 500 day 4 few years
ago it was IS month
a project is under consideration to
connect Lake Superior and Lake Michi-
by canal.
The father Of the late Petroleum V.
Nasty, Nathaniel Il Locke, is still living
and is 81 years of age lie was
soldier in the war Of 1872
Col John $ Mosby, the noted Con-
fcderate guerilla, who is now in Wash
irgtou, is sail to have very much aged
Senator Hampton relieves himself of
the wearincss Of listening to the debates
in Congress by making paper spears aud
shooting them across the chamber
Col. Robert Ingcrsoll, the atheist,
keeps copy Of the Bible constantly
lying on lis desk He consuIts it
frequently when preparing his lectures
aud newspaper articles.
Mrs Aver tue widow of the pill
manufacturer, is sill handsome woman.
She is said 10 lie worth SO, 900 900.
in trunk she carries about with her
$3.50, 900 worth OF pearls, diamonds and
rubies Among her diamonds arc eleven
stones worn by Cardinal Mazariu 200
years ago
Tramps are quitting the vicinity of
Jacksonville, Fla, in great haste.
This action is due to a Judge of the city
who, taking advantage Of an old State
law, has ordered the Sheriff to lay thirty
nine lashes ON the bare back Of each
tramp that he catches.
There is a rumor in society that Sec
rotary Blyard and Mrs. Folsom, the
Pres dents mother-in law, are shortly
to be married, and that Mrs Folsom,
who i now III Paris, has gone there for
= sspvrTose of ggsytng- her
trosseau.
Since Congress assembled the number
of bills introduced is over ten thousand
If the members expect to get through
work in season to attend the june con-
ventions, says an exchange, good deal
Of hustling has got to be done.
4 St. Johns Catholic Church, situated
near Forest Glen, Montgomery county,
/ Nd, FIRST built in the time IT Archbish-
Oh Carroll, is to be iorn down and
handsome eldce is to take It's place.
This is one Of the most historic churches
of this denomination in Maryland it
having been the place of the earliest
Ilabsrs Of many ofthe most distinguished
Catholic clergymen in the diocese
|. T. Harper of Victor, Iowa. owns a
St. Bernard dog that stands nearly three
feet high, is sixty-two inches long from
tip to tip, and weighs 230 pounds. The
other day he saw little fodder making
it's way toward two angry boars that
we're fighting, and walking IN front of the
baby be pushed it away. and repeated
this several times until the chiId's
mother came.
It is said that Postmaster General
Dickinson is already seriously ill from
oyerwork The office seekers and their
friends are to blame for it. All those
who had failed to get what they wanted
from MIR. Villas, pouuced upon the new
official. to say nothing of the large mum
her from his own State whe expected
something.
Mrs. Cleveland aroused quite an en-
tl,usiasm among the Florida Southerners
d,rin0 her recent visit TO jacksonville
and s. Augustine. The President
was completely ccllpsel, and many did
not hesitate to declare when he made his
.nnearance, that it was Mrs. Cleveland
they wished to see.
Hester Morris, of Wyoming Territory,
was the first woman in the United States
ever appointed Justice of the Peace
Size was tall woman. with profile
which closely resembed the portraits of
Queen Elizabeth While she was in
office she was a terror so certain class
OF evil doors.
DR.. Seibert, Germ nAmeriean
nhvsican in New York, competent
authority on the subject, holds that
ppenmoaia is a louise disease and is
infectious, but not contagious. lie says:
..In the warm air Of the house the system
is only the producing cause. 1t prepares
the coddled lungs for the pneumonia
poison, which has its real origin in damp
and dirty rooms and cellars. What Is
the cure? Well the steps to the cure
have 1nhappily advanced but little.
But the relief and the prevention arc no
medicine and plenty OF fresh air
"When lovely women stoops to folly,
and goes out ID the snow Slthout her
Indian rubbers, the only art to cure her
cold is to buy one bottle Of DR. Bulls
Cough Syrup at p cents, and take it.
Speak this speech. as | tell you,
trippingly on the tongue" Say that
one of the great benefactors of the age is
4 small bottle Of Salvation Oil, the