Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-07-25
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Dog days.
Il blows first hot then cool.
Politics are getting red hot.
Cucumbers, crabs, cholera. Look out.
Who will be the 6rst Mayor Of la Plata.
The buzz Of the beautiful mosquito luls us
10 rest after the days labor is Ger.
More lawyers and less legal business, grum-
he the old attorneys.
Society is like pie-the upper crust and
under crust is the best.
Ex-sheriG smoo' will move into his new
house at La Plata early next week.
W. II. Robertson, of Hill Top, boasts Of the
finest melon patch in the county.
The Port Tobacco Farmers Alliance met as
usual on Saturday.
Miss Jsnifer, Of Baltimore county, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. John Ii. Mitchell.
Mrs. Kent, of Pennsylvania, is visiting the
family of Judge Chapman.
The enterprising citizens Of La Plata are in
communication with proper parties looking to
boring an artesian well in that village.
Miss C. G. visiting "Locust Vale" has re-
turned to HughesyilIe and Bob is frequently
seen in tears.
A little whitewash will add greatly to the
looks of the yard fence around the rectory at
La Plata.
Congressman Mudd was in our village on
Taesday last. He is looking well having en-
, tirely recovered from his recent attack OF
+ illness.
: The new tax collectors have been furnished
their transcripts by the Clerk to the Commits
sioners, and in few days they will bs max
ing their calls.
4 The eyes Of the people in the more thickly
settled norton of our country are beginning to
turn this way. The owners Of them will De
h coming, looking for cheap homes, before long
If YOU are tired Of farming, buy the Gross
nroperty in Pomonkey, which will be sold OF
g Tuesday next in Port Tobacco, and you car
|. make a better and easier living.
IS MrB.F. Duval, Deputy Internal Revenue
l. Collector. was in Port Tobacco on ofhcia
If business on Tuesday last. He is a stsuncl
~ and enthusiastic Republican and glories II
the great deeds of the grand old party.
err If YOU want pension write for blanks
h. l.. NJ Switzerland & Co., or call upon theT
AZ .he Independent oe ce on any Tuesday
9 and full instructions will be given.
&c Messrs. Edelen and Dent, the two youn
attorneys admitted to the bar during tn
'y term of court will chang out their shingles
as in Washington, D. G. We wish them success
~ Judge Brooke spent Tuesday night Wit
Sc Colonel Wilmer and Judge Briscoe accepte
er the hospitality of Mr.. John Il. Mitchell IL
~ same night.
~ Mrs. Samuel Turner and other ladies ha'
been actively canvassing for funds to bull
the contemplated new Methodist Church
e. la Plata. They have raised quite sum an
.s- propose soon to begin work.
or The Baltimore and New Haven Clubs a
lid making a gallant fight in the Atlantic ASS
citation for the pennant. Every true Mar
lander. whether he likes ball or not, wish
success to the Orioles.
he The estimated cost Of hauling 100 bushe
IL of grain in a wagon over ordinary count
P's roads il sixty cents mile. This fact lllu
no trates the necessity and money value OF goo
&C. roads. The difference in cost of hauling
immensely in favor of the good road
be Father Harlin, a Professor in Georgetov
ed University, preached on Sunday mosn.asu ., Y