Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-07-12
NOTES.

/ II is said that Gen. Rosecraas, register
Of the treasury, will he displaced To make c
room for ex-senator Bruce.
Wm. F. Cody (Buf,lo Bid has bee y
engaged hy the French government Ia
teach 100 calvary officers To ride 10 the
American style,
The hottest place in the country Mon.
day was Huron, u. + where thermometers
recorded 100 and III. people were KEEP,
within door ali the afternoon tor safety.
Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter. OF Brook
Ign, while preaching in the New York
Avenue Presbyterian church. in Washing
ton sunday, tainted in the pulpit causing
much excitement, during which one lady
also tainted.
Columbus, TIA, is excited over pro-
posed duel, growing out Of business
quarrel. hetween X. 7. Hatcher OF Macon
and G. q Jordan. Hstcher's seconds
proposed bowie kuieses in ten foo,
ring. but this was not agreed To.
Friends Of the ate Capt. Dawson. who
was killed by pr. Mellow in Charleston
SAYS that the real name of dead man vas
Reeks, and tha. he called himself Dawson,
his mothers maiden name. when he ran
away from Eng land to Join the forces OF
the Southern Couiederacy.
The Secretary Of The Interior has accept
ed The resignation of the Hon. Joseph Z.
Johnston, commissioner of railroads, and
he has been granted ten days leave OF
absence. Commissioner Johnston tender.
ed his resignation early in March, but &C.
tion upon it was deferred.
Mr. John H. Msginnis. one Of the mos.
prominent merchants Of New Orleans, was
killed in his bath-house at his summer
residence, at Ocean Springs, Miss, on
Saturday. lie was bathing when q tbun-
der storm came up. Lightning struck
he Dathhouse and passed through and
struck Mr.. Maginnis on the neck, break.
ing the bone and killing him instantly.
A press dispatch from Johnstown, Pa.
on Monday, stated that trunk had been
found in the wreck belonging to Miss
Florence Massey, of San Francisco. A
private letter just received here states that
Miss Massey and her father left st. Louis
for New York via the Pennsylvania Rail.
road checking their trunk through. Will,
passing through Ohio they decided to
stop off one day to visit friends. The
Trunk went through on the ill, fated train
The Florida Legislature has passed a
bill intended for the protection of farmers
against impure and worthless fertilizers.
1t provides for a State chemist, at a
salary of $4,000, and six inspectors OF
| e.
ed who are to be paid in fees not to exec, d
$500 per annum. The law provides the
machinery for rigid inspection of all fer
iilizers offered for sale in the State, and
penalties are attached for any violation OF
the law. r.
Our o. d friend, Henry Gander, Esq. now
in his eighty-tourth year, went into the
harvest field last week, and. in order to
show "the boys what he could do" took
his place behind the reaper and bound his
section as quickly as the b. ST man in the
field. He also took his Grad and swung
it with as much skill as he was noted for
sixty years ago. The old gentleman is
remarkably hale and vigorous for one his
years, thoroughly alive to all the events
of the age-Shenandoah (Va) Valley.
Thomas Ewing Sherman. son of Ges.
Sherman, Sunday morning entered the
second stage toward the priesthood of
the Roman Catholic Church. At o'clock
in the morning he was ordained a deacon.
AS was the case Sunday, the ceremony
was performed in the private chapel of
Archbishop Ryan, adjoining the Catbed-
raj. The services were semi-private, only
the immediate relatives of the candidate
and few persons who attend the arch
bishops mass" being present. The cere-
mony was very solemn and impressive.