Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-01-31
OF "THE TIMEs.''
ALIENS FRESH DISTRICT,

January %, 1873.
Editor Of the Port Tobacco Times:
DEAR SIR,-In your issue of the oath
instant you call upon your friends in the
county to send you the news of occurren-
ces transporting in our respective neigh
borhoods, and I therefore respond to your
call and intend to give you an occasional
letter from my district. And as 1, am a.
novice in newspaper correspondence, you
must make all due allowances for any mis-
takes or short comings that I may make.
There is no special "news" that I am a.
ware of in this particular neighborhood.
The people generally are somewhat alarm
ed as regards the smallpox, more especial
ly as there is now daily communication
with Washington and Baltimore, where
am sorry to learn this terrible disease is
raging with frightful violence, and if we
can judge from the newspapers, the citi-
zens are very justly and rightly exercised
upon the subject In Baltimore, the, au-
thorities are taking strong grounds to See
that all persons are vaccinated, and that: all
bedding and other infected matter. is
burned and destroyed, and the premises
infected properly fumigated and purified,
would it not be well for our County Fa-
theirs to provide some means by which our
poorer class of citizens, who cannot pay,
could be vaccinated free of charge to them.
The county could much more readily pay
few hundred dollars to prevent the spread
of this terrible disease in our midst, than
to have it amongst us.
The old song of "bad roads, is still be-
ing sung, and think the song has. lost
none of its discord and grating upon our
nerves by time, as in many places the roads
are almost impassable-knob, knob, knob
in the morning, mud, mud, mud in the
middle of the day. Now this state of
things ought not to exist.
We have a Railroad, as is a Railroad,
now running daily through our county to
Washington and Baltimore, and, as learn,
with accommodating and polite officers.
This Railroad will become to our people,
in a commercial and agricultural point Of
view, part of our existence, and it will
seem hard indeed, to have the benefits of
this great acquisition to our prosperity,
cut short, and greatly lessened by our ter
rible bad roads. The recent heavy rains
have in many instances SO washed the roads
that in many places they are almost i'm
passable, and are dangerous to teams and
carts in passing them, and as under the
present road system there is no work done
on the public roads during the winter
months, we of course can look for no i'm
provement in them. The taxpayers Of
our county pay some $4,000 for road and
bridge repairs, and certainly with that
outlay our roads should not be in their
present condition and have to remain so
all winter, and at time too when most of
the shipping of tobacco will in future be
done. do not attach the blame to any
one of those gentlemen who have charge
of the roads, (or do not know where the
blame lies), and believe they are all gen.
tlemen and would like to see the roads
good, but the present system certainly is
at fault in some of its workings.
l want to say something more on the
subject of our Railroad, but will defer it
until my next, as have already trespassed
too much on your valuable time.
Yours truly, OCCASIONAL.