Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-02-01
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and threatening in Kent county
The spring meeting Of the NaA,bi
Jockey Club will begin May 7th. b
continue as heretOfore-four DAYS.
Superintendent McAleesc s,vs d
; The new FIRE alarm telegraph systeS
Baltimore is equ'l to any ia the counul
! After twenty years a nan has b.
arrested for = murder committed
Virginia.
Mrs. Harrison and daughter are
New York shopping and paying sOei
calls.
! lands within a circuit Of from 6yei
eight miles Of Norfolk. Va, range
prices from S25 to $500 per acre.
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris. daupbe
of General Grant, arrived in New Yd
on Saturday from England.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont. enter
the House of Representatives "a ye,r
ago.
Major William Preston Graves. 80
Of one of the principals 10 the ce!ebrsal
Graves Cilley duel at Bladensburg, M,
in 1888. is dying at Little Rock. All.
The Woman's Christian Tempera:c
Union Of Baltimore have reported e.
ceipts from the bazaar. held for the pr
pose of erecting building. to be 81, SO.
Congressman Bang. of Mississippi
got drunk last week and struck 81.
friend. Congressman Grain, sevra
times He afterwards apoliglzed.
Governor Beaver and wife Of Pom
sylvania paid visit to Governor J,ck.
sen and wife at Annapolis and renamed
from Saturday until Tuesday.
The remains of Congressman james
n Burns who died suddenly in Wash
ington, were inferred at St. Joseph,
Mo, on Sunday afternoon last.
The remains of Lieutenant CharlesR
Miles. U. S. N, who died of yellow c
yer on the IT, s. S. Yantic, were intr-
red in the Naval Cemetery at Annapolis
with appropriate ceremonies.
Hon. Jacob Tome has had incorpGa
ted manual training school in Port
Deposit and has donated $500, 900 for
its maintainance. He proposes to iu-
crease the donation to $4,000, 900.
Col. W. W. Dudley's suits for ybel
against the New York. Times, and ~.
mercial Advertiser, for publicatiSIaf
and comments upon the blocks a
letter commenced in New YORK st
week.
u. c. Halley who Is aMl
Lagrange. Ky, for robbing q house
there has received letter stating that, biz
father, the mayor of St. Catharhe,
Ontario. had just died him leaving lor-
tune of $60,0O0. :.
Judge Stewart. of Alexandria, Va,
has decided that officer Riley. of Bait
more, is entitled to the $500 reward
offered by the city for the capture Of
Billy Williams recently convicted for
The murder of officer Arnold.
The watchman's office and store house
belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio
at Annapolis Junction were
burned. Nothing but the books were
saved. The loss is estimated at about
$500.
At dinner given in Washington last
week by Senator Stanford to sixteen Of
bis intimate friends, the guests were
served With dollhouse strawberries which
cost So dozen. The diners complain
I'd in whispers that the berrie. had a
iavor of mint.
An association has been incorporated
n Washington which has for its Object
% render assistance to persons of good
moral character who contemplate matr-
nony. Each member when married re-
'e'ves a contribution, made up By asset
nent of members.
General John C. Fremont, the firt
Republican candidate for president. was
knocked down by a truck as he was
'rossing Broadway, New York on SAL
lrday last. Serious fears are occasional
IN account of his advanced age, as he i |
low sevcnty- seven years old.
The striking seamen and 6remeu al
Liverpool boarded the steamer Kansas
oading for Boston. and dragged ashore
light men who refused to participate in
he strike. One thousand strikers lined
he quay and prevented men from shin.
,ing who ATTEMPTED to do SO, assaultine
hem and throwing their kits into The
water.
The State police steamer, Governor
IcLaue, Captain Howard, blew hole
n her boiler on Friday last while re-.
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