Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-08-02
NOTES.


Prof. J W. Howell, a well-known edu-
arophohia. He was biten thirteen years
ago by black and tan terrier.
There ere in the treasury wants at h
ineton pretty nearly pint nf dia fls
and other precious stones that We |e-
sented to various Presidents 10y add hg
friends
Two hundred men of Wilson cd ~
Tennessee, have banded together fa he
purpose of driving from the county r.
mon elders and converts who have i6ter-
rupted religious meetings aud used in
sulting language.
The count of the cash and securities in
the United States Treasury incident t9the
transfer of the Office from Mr.. Hyatt tdMr.
Huston, the incumbent, was complete ION
Saturday. The amount reported on md
aggregated over 800, 900 900 in gold i'll
yer and paper.
Specials to the Milwaukee Evening N is
consin from points in Rock and Jeffe$ BON
counties say the tobacco crop in those
sections was completely ruined by haii
storm on Saturday af ernoon. The p1 pts
we're ready to be topped, and the 6ss
is rreparable, Other crops we're mot
much Injured.
4 tramp entered the house of Joseph
Gordon, near Keesyille, n. Y, while the
family was absent and demanded money
from young daughter OF Mr.. Gordon's.
On being refused he choked the girl and
tore her hair and then set fire to the dwell
ing. She crswIed out of the flames in
time to save her lfe.
A towering cloud burs. over Ashland.
Wis. Saturday accompanied 10y terrific
wind. which filed the air with al kinds
of loose matter. Trees were torn up and
twisted from their roots. A house was
carried from its foundation and wreckDi.
The Superior Lumber Company's REF ke
burner was blown down.
A suit for $4,000 damages for the loss
of the life of John A. Little. of Sewick
ley, commercial traveller, who was one of
the victims nf the Johnstown J disaster, has
been entsred against the members of the
South Fork Fishing club. The action was
brought in the Allegheny County Court
ed drummer.
Mrs. Harrison has been asked by mail
if she approves of dancing, whether she
wears hustle. what she thinks Of Mrs
Rives-C Chandler novels. what Is her opin-
ion of Robert Els.nere," how much time
she devotes to her toilet, which Of the
Mckee babies she likes best, and other
questions equally impertinent. This, is in
deed, free country in some respects
Netc York World.
Some time ago some vandals Sc, fire 20
the gas well at Ruthven, which has fiow
of ten million feet per day, and up TO
Saturday nobody has been able 10 sp-
proach within 200 feet of the well. On
Saturday c. II. Marvin clothed himself in
asbestos and performed such work at the
mouth Of the we'll SIS will enable the own
ers TO extinguish the fire. He received
$1,000 for the job
In opening out an avenue on the frat
days battle field at Gettysburg to connect
the cavalry avenue with the infantry on
the line of Cutters brigade Superinten-
dent Wilson's men found tho remains Of n
soldier about thirty yards in from, OF the
old avenue. A Uzion button and piece
u u she'll. which evidently killed the
maa, were found among the few homes left
The remains were placed iu box aud
reieterred.
4 dispatch from Romney, W Va. says
i young man bY the nsne of Prit Daw-
sou, while piowing or the Greenw Gle
furn. tts site Of IN old house, st Rawlings
Station, turned up an old rusty pot, which
was filed with 81 500 in old Spanish and
Mexican coins. The pieces contain dates
between t7i6 and 1900. The oldes, in
habitants there cannot remember when
the house was last occupied Nothing
now marks the site excep, the ruins of an
old chimney"
y strange circumstance occurred at
Rockport. W. Va. IN connection with the
flood disaster. Miss Sheets, daughter of
james Sheets, lost her voice last winter,
aud since then had not been able 10 speak
except in whisper. The night of the
flood the water came up around The house.
In attempting 70 leave ,he house Miss
Sheets stumbled aad fell. She was badly
frightened, Of course, and tried to scream
Tor help. Immediately she recovered Der
voice, and found that she could speak as
well as ever.
The remains of Miss Madge Crawfor 4.
of kittanning, Pa, who died of Roman
fever las; April, arrived in New York on
Saturday from Gibraltar. and were at once
shipped to Pittsburg for intermen'. The
body was secretly removed from Rome to
avoid the law requiring immediate inter
ment OF persons dying of con tsgious dis
ease, emha'med aud placed in a metallic
casket. This was boxed and marked ''val-
usble plate glass" and shipped to Naples
by rail. 1t was passed as such through
the custom house, and at Gibraltar a bill
of lading for corpse replaced the plate
glass man fest