Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-02-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
FrDm the BtllimOre Sun.

IIIudg, IcOIuaIg ID, 1000.
Tongers are at work through the
ice catching oysters in Talbot wa
tiers, which command 81 80 gallon.
The Easton Gazette office and
the Adams Express office, in Easton
were destroyed by fire and dwell
ing-house damaged.
The republicans and populists of
the North Carolina House Of Dele
gates have split on the g per cent,
interest bill and are saying bitter
things about each other.
Snow fell yesterday in New Or
leans and in many parts of Texas.
At San Antonio the show was six
inches deep, the heaviest ever
known there. 1t was twelve inches
deep at Galveston.
The joint commission Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church on the
constitution and canOns is still in
session in New York, but it is un-
derstood that nothing has yet been
done in regard to transplanting the
primus to Washington beyond the
presentation Of two reports, one by
Bishop Parct adverse to action and
the other by DIR. Hall Harrison in
favor. The division of the Diocese
of Maryland is believed to be very
improbable.
Saturday, February 1G, 1895.
The proposition to purchase the
Appomattox battlefield for nat
ional park is taking form.
Commander Lamberton was mott
fled that Smiths Point lighthouse,
at mouth of the Potomac river, has
been carried away by ice.
Captain Mann of the Atlantic
Transport Line steamer Menantic,
states that the gulf stream has been
DETECTED more than 100 miles to
the westward.
New Orleans was snow bound
yesterday, business being suspend
cd in the streets and on the ex-
changes. The races was postponed
on account of the snow.
Governor Brown has made his
selection to fill the vacant commits
sionership in Charles county, bu.
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the Court Of Appeals decides the
pending case.
The finance committee of the
United States Senate reported
fayorably House bill repeating the
onc-tcnth of cent discriminating
duty on sugar imported from boun-
ty producing countries.
Business was practically suspend
ed in Atlanta and Savannah yester-
day on account of the snow, which
Is the heaviest in the memory of
the present generation. Two child
rem died in Augusta, Ga, from ex-
posture. Cattle are dying of cold.
Early vegetables have been killed.
Monday. February IS. 1895.
,Sevcnty-cight convicts were con-
tirmed in the Protestant faith in
the chapel of the Maryland peni-
Tertiary.
y large stable and an adjoining
building were burned in Easton
and the town had narrow escape
from serious connagration.
Old Plantation lighthouse, near
the mouth of Chesapeake bay, has
been abandoned and has been al
most overturned by the ice.
Reports from various parts of
Maryland. Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania report that many peach trees
have been blighted or killed by the
cold weather of February.
DR.. Y. Z. Clayton, of Columbia,
5. c.. is experimenting with cotton
seed meal as food for human beings.
Mixed with cornmeal, he says, it
makes most palatable bread.
~The Forbestown stage was robbed
three ~miles from Oroville. CAL,
Saturday by-a lone highwayman
armed with shotgun. The treas
ure box was taken and the two pas
sengcrs robbed of S140. In all
about 800 was secured.
Tuesday, February 10, 1895.
The House passed bill to in
crease the pension rate of Mexican
war veterans to SIP per month.
Reports from the Patuxent and
Choptank rivers show that many
vessels are frozen up there in solid
ice.
Five men were killed and six
others dangerously wounded by an
explosion of gas in West Bear Ridge
mine, at Mahanoy Plane, Pa, yes
terday.
The railroad station at Loretto
and the dwelling and barn of John
IL. Shockley were burned in Somer-
set county, the family barely escap-
ing with their lives.
Mrs. Julia c. Blackburn, Mrs.
Zane and Miss Madaline Pollard
are the principal parties in a suit
brought by Washington tailor for
damages on allegation of false arrest.