Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-11-28
.pt. Page, our station House, &c.

Capt. Page, our Station House, &c.
/ We have received note from our friend
Capt. Fl. G. Page, in reference to what we
said about him in our last issue. With
characteristic modesty he tells us he is not
Superintendent, as we had styled him, but
simply Supervisor. Whatever may be his
official title, we are sure the Railroad Com
pany has in him a most faithful and efh-
cient officer, and we hope to be able soon
to herald his promotion to the office of
Superintendent or some other more lucra-
tive position, as reward for his consci-
entious. discharge Of the duties with which
he is charged; provided he is not removed
from our midst, for we are selfish on this
point
Capt. Page tells. us that we misunder-
stand him in saying that the material for
our Station House was at present being
brought down. He says that the necessi-
ties of the company requiring larger
Freight House at Marlboro, the present
one is being taken down and larger one
erected at that place. And as soon as that
is done the former will be removed down
to Port Tobacco Station and there erected.
We will be thankful even for this much.
We suppose this is all right, and we are
even glad to get the cast-of warehouses of
Marlboro, especially when we reflect how
much more money Prince Georges county
gave towards the building of the Railroad
than we did. Capt. Page further informs
US that the Superintendent has assured
him that we shall speedily have comfort
able Station House for passengers. We
have had this assurance so often, only to
be disappointed, that we had almost given
up the hope of ever seeing one erected.
POstOffice at La Plata.
1t is announced, officially, that an office
is established at La Plata, Charles county,
Md, three miles from Port Tobacco, on
route 1916, Bowie to Pope's Creek, and
Robert F. Chapman appointed Postmaster.
Sudden Deaths.
1t is our painful duty to notice the sud-
den deaths of two of our worthy and re-
spectacle citizens, within the past week.
On Friday morning last Mr.. Charles H.
Wood, while apparently in good health
and in the vigor of manhood, was seized
with sudden illness and died within few
hours afterwards. Apoplexy, it is sup
posed, was the cause of his death. We
give in another column just and feeling
tribute to his memory by friend.
Mr.. Jesse J. Stone, an old and respect
able citizen of the Hill Top district, was
on Sunday evening also seized with sud-
den illness supposed to be paralysis -and
died that night. Mr.. Stone, was about
seventy years of age, and had been in poor
health for a long time. He seemed to
have presentiment that he would not
live until Christmas, and so remarked fire.
queutly to gentleman in conversations
with him some weeks before this last fatal
attack. Having lived bachelors life, he
leaves no family of his own. Hewas kind
to his relatives "a good ne1ghbor, and up
right in his dealings with his fellow-man.
A Liberal Offer.
Capt. Page says that if the County Com
missioners should determine to make the
road up the ravine around Mount Hill and
should want any engineering done, in the
way of stalking out the work, giving the
proper course or direction, locating the
curves and giving the proper grades, so
that the ascent may be regular and gradu-
al, he will procure the necessary instru-
ments, come and do it free of any COST
This is liberal offer and we hope it will
be accepted in the spirit in which it is
rendered.
Southern Maryland Railroad.
The ST. Mary's Beacon says: From sources
of information, which entitle themselves
to the fullest credit, we are pleased to in
form our readers that the grading OF the
Southern Maryland Railroad, from Bran
DIVINE, in Prince Georges, to Point Look
out, in this county, is now rapidly pro
crossing, and that in few months, unless
some unforeseen drawback intervenes, the
whole road will be graded and ready for
the ties. AS it is, over two-thirds has al
ready been completed, not more than TWEEN
| ty miles of the road now remaining to be
graded, and this remainder is through a
section where the labor will be light and
easy and the cost comparatively slight
We are assured by competent and disin-
terested observers that the work thus far
has been well done, and is being pursued
forward, Notwithstanding the present
money embarrassment Of the country.