Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-21

LOCAL MATTERS.

LOCAL NIATTERS.
| Middletown, or rather Duffield, named
after its generous proprietress, is sad and
desolate-hardly face to be seen even
seldom the cheering one of kind "Miss
Lizzie" The cause: No mail evenings
when it was the wont of friends to meet
there to get the mail and smile of the
female, who always had smile, for every
one-who wanted it. 1t has two com
plants, one against the P. M. General fol
not giving it mail, and the other agains
the P. M. at Port Tobacco for sending from
there such mail bag with the Times sq,teez
ed and tooisted in it, for it likes the Times
(why should it not?) the only paper re
ceiVed, and when received it wishes to ge
it clean and 1,arumpled and antacisted, JUS
as it comes, clearly and smooth, from it,
quiet office. Too bad, Mr.. P. NJ. Genera
and Mr.. P. M. Welsh! You should have
more respect for goodly and patient Duff
field. But, to speak seriously, it seems
Duffield, in regard to the mail, is almost
entirely neglected. We think the people
there and vicinity have a just cause of com
plant. They formerly received the mail
tri-weekly, but now it is stopped at Bean.
town, and the communication between the
two offices being discontinued by order o.
Department, they never get it. Why not
send it by Railroad 0iG Port Tobacco
until the route by Railroad ola White
Plains is put in operation. Friends o.
Duffield, petition.
Reader, have you borrowed this paper
of your neighbor9 If SO lay it down, and
go straightway and subscribe for one fol
yourself. You are fond of reading the pa
per, but you haven't soul enough to pay
for one of your own. You would rather
sponge upon your neighbor and borrow
his. Why don't you borrow the baker,
loaf, or the butchers steak or roast? Yor
might as we'll do either, as to borrow s
newspaper. There would be no newspa
per to borrow if all men were like you
for the printers could not afford to prin
their papers for the benefit of borrowers
and would have to close their offices anc
go out of the business altogether. Wha
should be thought of man who would
make it convenient, every day abou
meal-time, to drop in and seat himself a
his neighbours table, You might as wei
do that, as to avail yourself, every week
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for it. The mail arrives at the post Office
the papers are opened and distributed
and you make it convenient to hang a
round and get hold of the paper and reao
it, perhaps, even before the owner hat
chance to get hold of it. He may be toe
polite to repel you or deny you, but you
may be sure you lessen yourselfin his esti
nation. 60 and subscibe for yourself.
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the
M. E. Church South, after session of nine
days, adjourned on Friday. We are glad tt
see that Rev. Robert Smith has again beer
sent to this Circuit, where he is go general
ly beloved by all who have come under
his ministrations. His labors are arduout
and demand much selfsacrifce; but>he is
cheerful worker in his Masters vineyard
and finds, no doubt, great consolation in
preaching to, and seeing after the spiritual
welfare of his widely scattered congrega
lions. The Rev. S. Townsend, has beer
appointed to the Prince Georges Circuit
which embraces part of Charles county
Charles and Augustus Ingraham, two
white brothers, were arrested on Tues
day and committed to Jail for preliminary
examination on a charge of obtaining
goods under false pretenses. The exami
nation was made on Wednesday before
Justice Boswell, the State being represent
ed by States Attorney Digges, John w
Mitchell, Esq, appearing for defendants
The parties were discharged yesterday
They were from Virginia and temperate.
employed IN this county as timber-getters
A colored man named James Wills wa
on Tuesday last lodged in jail under com
mitment, issued by Justice Burch, to an
swer the charge Of hog stealing.
The bids for the mail contracts to go in
to effect on the 1st of July next, have thi
week been announced by the Department
There were no bids for the route from Dut
field to White Plains Station. The bid
for the route from Port Tobacco to Muir
doch (Salem) Station has been suspended
It is understood, we believe, that the pres
ent contractor, VIM. M. Morris, will b
continued in this service.
wOur facetious Reporter furnishes tn
following "locals:"
1t is said that Bryantown men are tn
handsomest, and Bryantown whiskey tn
best in the county. Before people believ
this, they should look at Aliens Fres
Dick and try his corn juice.
4 A Port Tobacco sprig goes about wit
a pair of eyeglasses dangling across hi
immaculate shirt front. He is sharp-sight
ed youth and has no use for the aforesaid
eyeglasses, except for the purposes of art
istic toying. The charming noncbG1onc
with which he INDUCES the affable affecta
ton is positively stunning.
Bryantown men look over the papers q
and through glasses at one another; a.
immense amount of mutual admiration a
bounds in that neighborhood.
| On Wednesday last a crowd of six O