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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
An American Girls Adventure.

American girls who live abroad un-
chaperoned are often subjected to in
diguities of startling kind. saws the
Berlin correspondent of the New York
Tribune 1t is not usual, however,
that a cahman furnishes material for a
gossipy story, Yet, one Young woman
has had an adventure with a man OF
this class which she will not soon for
get She is the daughter of a promi-
nent politician who has held MANY
offices of distinction, and is spending
the season in Berlin. Calling car
riage. in the early hours of the morn
Ing after brilliant ball. the Young
woman started home. 1t is customary
in Berlin, when sending II girl home in
II cab. to require i ticket which the
jehu is compelled to give, upon which
are his number and the price Of the
trip aud which. in ease "f any accident.
can be used in evidence. The escort
of the American girl tad neglected
this. The Journey led her through a
lonely part of the Thrirgartcn. where.
even in daytime, people seldom walk.
When in the darkest corner the cab
suddenly stopped. the driver descended
from his box. opened the door. and
thus addressed the young lady: miss.
| have often heard that Il kiss from
the high ladies tastes better than ono
from our people. and | am going to
know for mvseif'
With that he stretched out his hands.
covered with thair buckskin gloves,
clasped te girl ab"nt the neck, and
drew her, screaming. toward him. Re-
sistance was impossible. her cries were
unhear,l, and the coachman's lips
touched her own. With tho aggra-
waiting remark. Not Il bi.!' he closed
the door. AMI continued the journey.
assisting his victim to aiight when the
destination was reached. The young
lady rushed into the house. not wait
ing to pay her fare, and spent hours
scrubbing her lips. She had no means
Of identifying the sc"undrel. and he
escaped unpunis ch.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
Rubbed Out.

A little girl five years old was sit
ting down beside her mother on II stool
oMside on the porch. in San Diego.
Cal. the other day-and most beauti-
ful day it was, tO0-with slate and
pencil in hand. She was trying to
draw house. but gave it up after u
good deal of rubbing and cleaning the
slate. Finally. after short pause. the
little girl concluded to draw the San
Miguel Mountains. whose majestic
peak rises east of the city. She had
just completed part of the outlines Of
the mountains, and as she glanced up
for another look. saw high fog pass
ing over the peak, when she ex-
claimed: "Oh, mamma. mamma, Just
look! bod has wubbbed out San
Nigel Mount'n.'-DetroH Free Press.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
Thr G ass of Fashion.

a.. said Nj. >c'urplate grim.v.
as i.- adjusted n's n~ktir, eve 'av i,
put hup with the Il rs IT these socletv
people nai day; tut when evening
comes. me boy, they show wot the
truly grnterl Is by p"ttink on til"
Dir, ~ thai we wrar. al d,N!' "rhat',
So replied Mr.. CrumrIoIh. with y
gray" nod. You ave IL great 'ead.
Tnmmi>; we waters be the real leader,
Of taShiuIl.-LiEt.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
What Did He Mean,

II hope. Mr.. Templer"urt.' SAID the
lady as she rose from the chair whicn
had vibraied with her voice tor an hour
and half. that | haven't taken up
to, much IF vnur valuable time"
Nut III all. Mrs. Chattv, returned
the lawyer. gianring wea'iIy at tho
pile of letters nn his desk; Il assure
to me whatever. Puck
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
HIS Obj :tioi,.

Miss Jr,lvhv-A I'll now that have
saii YES. M, uear C.;,,>ir.
!oh would ASK papa at once, and VIII i.
y"u are about il y"u might say IL w".d
t" mamma, and -er-Aum NJ ry ha.
been $" kind, You know; aud then
Uncle George might Gland"
Pardon me-, Miss Jeilyby; ism, it a ,.t-
tie rough on Il fellow To make him >,.-
cure Il wife on the install imrnL pian?-
Jtd9c,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15

The heirloom in the family of AL
miral Dupont i Il pearl hrra>tpin that
has been woln by ln. brides If the
family at lhcil nu u,,tials for ,uurc t.an y
century.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
Beauty's Charge.

When lovely womr n stOors to wPHth"r
The stormy blast that sue ps the street,
Beware. young man, her ixe.i umbrella
Twill knock your teeth out if you meet!
PUCK
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15

@2.sx zezas-zzzssssss
County Commissioner:
BENJAMIN NJ. EDELEN, President,
Brydntovn, Md.
GEORGE W. GRAY, Hill Top.
WILFRED COUGH, Newport.
JAMES A. MURRAY, Bryantown.
j. THOMAS HALEY, Pomonkey.
Clerk and Treasurer:
CHARLES F. DALEY, Port Tobacco
Collectors OF Tases.
lst Dis. JAS. A. FRANKLIN, Pisgah.
20 !" 1Hos. b. 0oUGH, Newport.
Sd WINFIELDHALLEY, Pomonk'y
4th ALBERT T. CARRICo,
Charlotte Hal
School Comm tssioners::
Hon. PHILIP A. SCAssER, President
DK. ALEX. D. CoBEY, Port Tobacco
DIR. LEWIS G. CARKICo, Hughesville
Secretary and Examiner:
FRANCIS J. MADDOX, Tompkinsville
Trustees of the Poor:
john e. CHAPMAN, La Plata.
NICHOLAS SToNEsTREET, La Plata.
F:ANCIs P. HAMILTON, McConchie
IEoRGE P. JENKINS, Port Tobacco.
SAMUEL HANSON, Hill Top.
Superintendent Of Almshou:e::
THOMAS NJ WEIGH, Port Tobacco.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-15
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY 70 loan on uerisaGs sn rountry
,-opcrry ADDS
PAUL { BURNETT.
81 Pau ST Baltimore
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
MISCELLANE Gus.

THIRTY THOUSAND Bedouins, who have
hitherto maintained an inoffensiye atti-
tude, threaten an incursion of Egypt.
The cause of the present movement is
the refusal of the Egyptian Government
to grant certain tribal claims in regard
to land.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED people in
Miner County, S. D., are dependent
upon aid from the outside to enable
them to survive the winter. Reports
received from Bottineau County are to
the effect that the settlers there are
subsisting upon bran and shorts Up
ward of three hundred persons in the
latter county are utterly destitute.
The influenza which has been raging
so severely in st. Petersburg, has broken
out in Vienna and Berlin.
A BILL has been introduced in the Ger
man Reichstag proposing to subsidize a
line of steamships between Hamburg
and African ports.
IT is announced that the German postal
lists for 1890 will show that 9,759 news
papers are printed in Germany, 3,7S1 OF
which are printed in thirty other lam
guages, and 6,97S in German.
ACCORDING to passengers on the steam
er Finance, which arrived at New York
on the 18th from Maranham, Brazil,
there was rioting with loss of life at that
place on the announcement of the over
throw of the Brazilian Empire.
AN Englishman has been arrested at
Sebastopol, says the Novoe Vremya, on a
charge of making sketches of the batter
iesand forts of the city. Documents of
a compromising nature were found in his
possession.
TIE opponents of the government
party in England say it is absolutely
without a policy at the present time.
The Tennessee Coal 81 Iron Railroad
Company has begun proceedings in New
York City to recover from John Inman
81, 500, 900, which it is alleged was made
by Inman and associates while in con-
troll of the company, by the purchase of
the Pratt Coal & Iron Company, in
which they were interested.
IT is reported that cholera is raging
fiercely at Bagdad. Business is entirely
suspended and the city is rigidly quar-
antined
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

On the sth George Clemens, an insane

On the Sth George Clemens, an insane
criminal confined in the New York State
asylum at Buffalo, committed suicide by
strangulation.
CHARLES OsTRoM. cashier and book
keeper of the Minneapolis Office of the
st. Paul Pioneer-Press, is charged with
defalcation of 81, 900, and suspected of
setting fire to the Tribune building,
hoping to destroy the books which con-
tanned the evidence of his guilt
FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR fire oc-
Cured in the Finney House in Detroit,
Mich, on the 9th. B. r. johnson fell
from the window of his room on the
fourth floor and was fatally injured.
Many other guests had narrow escapes.
On the night of the Sth James L. Hill
larry, of indianapolis, and Moses Nelson,
OF Warsaw, escaped from the North In
diana penitentiary by scaling the walls
with ladder
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE will of Capt H. Smith, If Hager
town, Nd, was admitted to probate On the
10th. He left about $4,000. The peculiar
provision of the will is that the funeral ex-
penses shall not exceed $50, and that his
body shall be wrapped in cloth, packed IN
q coffin containing unslacked lime, and
that some one shall be paid 50 to pour
water in the lime until his body is con-
sumed.
PARTIES in Nashville stand to win or lose
a cool.million on the next few turns in the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad stock, and
there is much excitement over the news
from New York that Senator Platt, who is
president of the company, has brought suit
against J John II. Inman, a former director,
involving four millions of stock. If Platt
wins, the stock will take rapid advance;
if he loses Nashville will be hard hit.
The Governors of thirty States met at
Washington on the 10th to take measures
for the erection of a monument to signers
of the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of the United States.
A CoLoRED deputy policeman named
Vinegar, while under the influence Of
liuuor, caused a scene of terror in Higgins
Vile, Texas, on the 9th by firing his re-
volver promiscuously into crowd of white
people while they were leaving the opera
house after a performance. One young
man was shot through the head and NOR
tally wounded and others were more OF
less injured.
THE preliminary trial of DR.. j. D.. s
Davis for the killing of DR.. w. L. Chew
was concluded at Birmingham, Ala, Oh
the 9th, and the defendant allowed $780,
600 bond.
THE DYER County Wheel and the Farm
ers' Alliance met at Dyersburg, Tenn.
on the 9th and completed the union of the
two orders under the name of the Farmers
and Laborers' Union.
The thirty.sixth annual session of the
Little Rock Conference of the Methodist
Church closed at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the
9th. The statistics show in that district
172 local preachers and $4,000 members
with church property valued at $4,000.
A LARGE boiler in the saw mill of Lear
& King, at Kings Station, Ala, exploded
on the 9th, killing three men-Jas. Caring
ton, G.. w. Robinson and Frank Palmer
all white and all married men.
EDWIN F. FLETCHER was shot and in
stantly killed in Murfreesboro, Tenn, OF
the 9th by Frank B. Selph, law student
In the United States Court at Waco
Texas, on the 7th, it was decreed that tht
foreclosure of a mortgage be granted il
the case of the trustees against the st
Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroad ct al
The land involved in this suit is abou
100000 acres in Hunt county, tha t Stat
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
Biographical.

More than eighty years ago two Ken
lucky boys. born in widely different sociaI
spheres, entered upon still more widely
diverse careers:
Abraham Lincoln, in Hardin (now Larue)
county, and jefferson Davis, in Christian
(now Todd) county; Lincoln born February
y, 1909, and Davis on the Sd f.June pre-
ceding.
No dark sibyl hailed them at their birth
as the coming exponents of an awful strug.
gle. No prophet would have dared predict
in the days of their prominence. that the
rugged Lincoln was soon to fall, while the
defeated, an invalid during third of his
lie, would survive his great antagonist for
quarter OF . century, OUTLYING all the
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL pRoCEEDINGs,

In the Senate, on the 4th, Messrs. Pierce
and Casey, Senators from the new State OF
North Dakota, were sworn in, and the Sena-
tors from the two Dakotas and Washington
were assigned by lot to their respective
classes. Five hundred and five bills were in
troduced-a slight falling off from the past
record of the Senate. OF these bills a large
number had been introduced in the last and
previous Congresses. At p. m. the Senate
went into executive session, and a few min
utes later adjourned..... The House was not
in session on the 4th.
In the Senate, on the 5th, after number of
bills had been introduced and referred, Mr.
Reagan addressed the Senate in advocacy of
his bill for the repeal of SO much of the third
section of the act of 1875 as provides for the
sale of bonds, SO as to produce reserve for
the redemption of legal tender notes. Mr.
ingalls, was elected Vice President pro tenn.
to serve during temporary absence of Mr..
Morton and the Senate adjourned until the
9Th. In the House, the Speaker an
nounced the defalcaton and flight of G. e.
Silcott, cashier of the sergeant at arms, and
a committee was appointed to make an in
vestigation into the matter. Several other
committees were appointed, and the House
adjourned until the eth.
In the Senate, on the 9th, number of bills
were introduced, and after some discussion
as to the proper reference of several of
them, the Senate, at :55 p. m., went into
executive session, and soon after adjourned.
In the House, the announcement of
the appointment of the committees on ways
and means, appropriations, manufactures
and mileage was made, and the House, at
Ills p. m., adjourned until the l1th.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 4th John Maddler and his wife
and child were burned to death at King
ston, Ont While they were trying to
extinguish the flames of their burning
home their means of escape were cut off,
On the 9th Deluca, the Italian, who
shot Millionaire Cunningham, while
poaching on the latter's estate at Mil
ton. Mass. was indicted for manslaugh-
ter
On the 9th Cart Peterson was killed
and Edward Kimball fatally injured by
the falling of chimney during fire in
Carter's machine shops at Buffalo, n. ",
where the men were employed.
THE Silcott Investigating committee
has determined that the bondsmen of
the defaulting cashier are not response
BILE for the S71, 800 taken by him, the law
giving members no right to collect their
money from the treasury through the
sergeant-at-arms' Office. The entire loss
falls on the individual members of the
House.
On the night of the 4th five persons
perished in the snow during the storm
which prevailed at Waag, Western Hun
gary.
BY the burning of the National Line
Steamship Company's dock at Pier 80,
New York harbor, on the 7th, four men
were killed and large number injured,
many of whom will die.
On the 7th the tug Pilot returned to
Port Townsend, Wash, after an unsuc-
cessful search for the British ship Her
mione, reported lost The Hermione
was an iron ship, grain-laden, from Port
land for the United Kingdom.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE German press throw upon STAN
ley the blame for the accident to Emin
and some of the newspapers go SO far as
to hint that the Pasha's death wouldn' t
be an unwelcome event to ''some per-
soDs," whose desire is to reap the sole
benefit and seize the full honor of the
Journey from Emin's camp to Baga-
moyo, would brook no ordinary impedi-
ment.
DON PEDRO says he will return to
Brazil if recalled by the united voice of
the people.
On the 9th Consul Vohsen started
from Berlin for Zanzibar to arrange the
dispute between the Sultan and the
German East Africa Company.
On the 9th the House of Representa-
tives adopted a partial report from the
committee on rules, authorizing the
Speaker to appoint the committees.
On the 9th Henry E. Searle, of Aus
tralia, champion oarsman of the world
died at Adelaide.
FRIENDS of Captain Murrell of the
steamship Missouri, who rescued the
hundreds of passengers from the sinking
steamer Danmark in mid-ocean last
spring, fear that he may lose the sight
of both of his eyes. He will certainly,
they say, be blind in one eye.
On the 9th Justus A. Rathbone, the
founder of the Order of the Knights of
Pythias, died at Lima, O., aged fifty
years. He had been i'll for three weeks.
His remains were taken to Syracuse, n.
Y, for interment beside those of his
wife.
On the 9th the committee on census
reported to the Senate, with favorable
recommendations, the nomination of
Robert P Porter to be superintendent OF
the census.
WILLIAM N. RIDDLE, president of the
Penn B--4l, at Pittsburgh, Pa, at the
time of its failure in 1884, and was at
that time a heavy speculator in oil, died,
on the 9th, at st. Vincents Hospital,
New York City, of dropsy. He had been
engaged in the brokerage business in
Wall street fer the past few years.
THE Swiss Government has refused
the application of ex-Archduke John
Salvador, OF Austria. Tor natura llZatlon
as citizen of Switzerland.
On the 9th, in the French Chamber OF
Deputies, the election of M. Joffrin, the
Labor candidate opposing General Bou-
langer in the recent election, was form
ally declared valid A proposal to
validate the election of Boulanger was
rejected by vote-of $40 to 123.
HARVEY Fl. KENNEDY, a prominent
member of the New York Stock Ex-
change, died at the Union League Club
in that city on the 9th
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

Mr.. OSCAR DICKSON, the Gothenburg
merchant, already famous as a generous
patron OF Arctic exploration, offers to
deffay the expenses of the new expedi-
ton TO the North Pole, if DR.. Frithiof
AanSen' who commanded the recent
greenland expedition, win accept the
leadership. DR.. Nansen is willing to
take command Of a polar expedition,
ou' % as he is an officer of the Norwegian
government he desires that Norway
shall defray the expenses
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

CHICAGO Gas Trust certificates dropped
about thirty per cent. after the recent
adverse decision by the Illinois Supreme
Court Sugar, cotton, oil and other trust
certificates are also on the downward
road. Capitalists who put any Of their
money into the stocks of the com
hines" hereafter will not deserve any
sympathy in their misfortune when the
inevitable collapse sets in.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

Now that the Speaker is elected and
&e ePvesident's message and the report
Of the Secretary Of the Treasury given
to the public, the next matter of SUI
preme political interest is the organiza-
ton Of the committees. This is one of
the most laborious distracting and gen.
orally unpleasant tasks which Speaker
encounters and yet it is the earliest and
most important Of all his duties.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

TuF conference at Brussels in the in
+orest of the suppression of the African
sl.ro.trade has about arrived at the con
cIr,ion that The only way to suppress 1T
!. to suppress it. and that by the use OF
an amount of force that should place the
outcome beyond peradventure.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
FIRE IN DETROIT.
The Finney House Damaged $40, ,0O0-Onc
Man Fatally Injured.

Man dtaIIy 1HJ uTtu.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 9.-This morn
ing at five o'clock fire started on the
second floor of the Finney House, which
spread rapidly to the upper floors. b.
r. Johnson, clerk in Traub Brothers
jewelry store, clung to the window sill
of his room in the fourth floor until
overcome by the smoke, when he
dropped. He sustained compound
fracture of the thigh and internal in
iuries and will die. Other guests had a
narrow escape. The telegraph and cleo
tric-light wires hindered the frenen in
raising ladder in time to rescue john
son. The damage to contents Of the
building is $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance. The building is damaged $1,000.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

THr railroads Of the country and OF
NJ West in particular are doing high
u satisfactory amount of business, in
m,nv cases being only limited by the
onartity of available rolling-stock.
There il a conspicuous degree OF i'm
nvement III the traffic Of the Southern
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

JUDGE LAIDLAw. of California, who re-
Gently appeared on the street in an in
toxicated condition, administered to
himself scathing rebuke from his
place On the bench, and wound up by inn
posing upon himself a fine of fifty dol
lars, which the clerk promptly recorded
and collected
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

porsrnryr AND GENERAL MANAGER
= cr,pKE of the Mobile & Ohio rail-
"a ., bopan railroading by ramming dirt
lO+L nJor cross-ties at fifty cents a day.
,rla,o TlI, is no limit in this country to the
a,.ibilities Of a man with level head,
l,o,cv and perseverance.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

rrDer GGovr, Of the Michigan su-
re Court. has decided that there IS
p.L .1;rg n the Constitution to prevent
l''-9 irn0ramus or an idiot being sent to
S..sress. a. and that it is no libel for a
'OH'., ..ror 70 call the candidate and
- him 10 be such.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

quarter of a century ago
r.Ance. Anos at nod from the United
flo. fflro'' found it advisable to evacuate
S,aso oo 10 European power will at
AeAl.' 70 interfere in the affairs OF the
"-i ll1ic of Brazil.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
Died.

New YORK, Dec. 9.--Harvey FL. Ken
nedy, prominent member Of the Stock
Exchange, died at the Union League
Club at nine o'clock this morning.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

,pra 'O'al collections Of internal rev.
,,ss, IOF the first four months of the
ae,s.a. su. nseal year were SIG, 1888. $50. an
ts eoIIa aTs u S4'c59'354 as compared with
Nh objections during the corresponding
i,s,,,.s u last year. The increase has
rs 'ssa ss over Sl,OOo,OOO a month. and
opsppa' pp,II'c'paIIy due to the increased
aeD,ea ip.ioh :: OF spirits, tobacco and fer
ale1s i u. liquors. The increase on spirits
Octobarr r"S 1ssa y 59S'l6O. The receipts for
Vatober, 1883 siea'er 'han
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14
VOL La,

c--x1rv has arrived at the coast all
SlANLD VI sonnd. but some of the men
saie a. rtod N to rescue him are still
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

IlE amount offered by the Govern
c Te9' lor the alleged Indian title to the
vlgFoAee y i,, Strip is S7,113, $40, which would
!a sea, at five per cent. interest, over
'o'VVoo year. No better offer can be
sApec'ed' :. and the Cherokees would seem
% . Do making grave mistake in declin-
sis3 .+s' OF neglecting, to accept the propo-
..;, ,t,VH' me lands inquestion will GER
m-ul5 n. oe opened to settlement in the
tSar ~" Iutare-if not with the consent of
ue Indians, then without il
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

,.li 1nhEE are seventeen contests for
Sa aS Il ne House Of Representatives.
,san ,snv q them, perhaps, have little to
,TrId UIlnend them, but the majority prob
,,o q nave lave oeen begun in good faith and
T3io,I yD'eU on reason. But, whether
Sar avulous Or the reverse, the sooner
I,.; NJ aFe settled the better. 1t is an in
ss s~4ve' both to the contestant and the
ntI Y,,ee, ne TO let these cases drag along
sm 1' near near the close of the second ses-
la, ottoo 4 = Iet them go over altogether, as
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

Fes =; .5ment .h running through the
Sfelkers s ,ne country that eight ex-
iatao, n, aIe living is an error. The
appter LUST ruse have had Robert NJ. T.
n ao,a n ), mind. Hunter has been dead
'oQpilers %H ', TWO years, although the
not Seem ! = the political ANNALS do
OILY ssvav : nave discovered this fact,
Iaey are Pgf1-Speakers are still alive.
ZIP. Bsngo Eo0eTt y c. Winthorp, Nathan
6 tBaipel E. Galusho A. Grow, James
IN Eeifer samuel aa5 J. Randall, j. War
and John G. Co,.1:-,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-14

briei sddraS,I STANLEY, in the course Of
srtish maDsof rsof delivered on board the
= ~ said bo blOi,|ar o Turquoise at zanzi-
zones nan+,s uc Considered that Living no.
sollders; tbat nad fallen upon his
aeed and al, fbat ms work had only COM
.''''' Of his life 5s to DGald IT. devote the