Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-05-22
Our Calvert County Neishbors.

Our Calvert County NeishbOrs.
Our Reporter has lately had an inter
view with former resident of Calvert
county and furnishes the following:
In that peninsula of country lying be-
tween the Patuxent river and Chesapeake
bay, dwell a quiet, unpretending, self
satisfied people. Calvert is the euphoni-
Gus patronymic in which it delights, and
the patronymic is the chief suggestive fea
ture, which implies the relationship of this
primitive people to Maryland's early foun-
der Simple in habit, modest in ambition,
and secluded, by virtue of their geogra
phical isolation, from useful contact with
the cultivated refnements and polite ac-
quirements of the outer world, these unso-
phisticated people lead happy, contented
lives. In olden times they danced and
drank, fought and frolicked, as ordinary
matters of pleasant pastime, and we do not
know that any latter-day advancement,
in the way of improving progress, has
wrought many beneficial results. So tho
roughly impressed is Calvert with duti-
full affection for old styles and ancient GUS
toms, that her people are slow to regard
the humanizing efforts of the day other
wise than as encroachments to be checked,
and unhallowed invasions imperiling the
sanctities they so devotedly love. In this
perhaps Calvert is not altogether wrong,
for all progress is not improvement.
We have been led into this vein of re-
Election by recalling to our mind the ex
periences of former citizen of Calvert, as
detailed to US few evenings since by
himself. His aca uaintance with Calvert
county acceptations extends through a
period of eleven years, and, he says, they
were eleven years of prosperity, fun and
frolic. Nearly twenty years have passed
since he left Calvert and swung his ham
mockthere in Charles. He speaks of Cal
vert with kindly membranes and says
hewould like to visit there once again
He told us many things of interest, but
4 which we need not chronicle here. He
was the first man who ever figured as a
tailor in Calvert, and, when he went there,
was very gorgeously arrayed in hammer
clawed blue cloth coat, decorated with
brass buttons; vest and "6ifurcGtions"
fashionably fitting, and he also sported a
glossy silk hat and patent leather shoes.
Good clothes being a novelty in Calvert,
the wearer was, of course, quite curiosi-
ty. The people gaped and glanced shyly
at him from distance and looked as if
they wondered what it was they saw
After awhile he quit the garment-making
business, and, when the people found out
he would MT hurt them, but was we'll sup
piled with liquors, he received liberal
patronage as the proprietor of a public
house, and also successfully practiced den
tistry. He is now farmer in Charles
Not the least interesting part Of our nara
tors story is the names of localities, of
which we knew not before, and which he
mentioned in the course of his narration
without even a. smile. For instance, on
the road from Prince Frederick or Fight
ersville to st. Leonard's Creek, what is
Port Republic now was Scratch Gravel
then; DEVILS woodward is on the bay
Bug in the Gully is in J Johnny Cake Neck,
3 and Johnnye Cake Neck, Cracklin Neck
and Chitterling Neck beautify peaceful
Patuxent, Those are all Indian names.
i We have never risked our life by going
to Calvert and will not do SO yet awhile, at
Y lAAat MA it is satisfactorily ascertained
what the .Je6ris Oe17sS IS. Not long since
the editer4of the Journal there announced
that he had the '..ffo5ris 0erni'' and Calvert
countians are much perplexed to find out
where he caught tin the air, in the bay,
or in the woods: flesh, fish, or fowl? CAL
verts primitive experts in matters of ami
mated nature are busy on the subject, and
Calvert's most Jealous biologists cannot
classify the animal. o, Mr.. Agassiz, do
go to Calvert for awhile The Journal has
lately said something else-about "jeu
desprit." "What is it 2"