Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-01

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ult., preparatory to holding their Festl-
val for the benefit of the Parish Church,
Mr.. John T. Cotton was selected President,
Mr.. NICK. Burroughs Vice President, Miss
Esther Burroughs Secretary, and Miss Bet
tie Morgan Treasurer, of the Ladies Socie-
ty of William and Mary Parish. They
organized their Society and appointed
committee of ladies to solicit contribu-
tions. They contemplate holding their
Festival sometime about the last of Au-
gust, and of the time and place due notice
will be given. 1t is to be hoped they may
be highly successful in their laudable I'M
dertaking.
Our Bryantown Temperance friends APP
pear much exercised about 'that bottle. ~
They say it was vinegar" after all. This
is astonishing, but we guess our reformed
friends know the difference betwixt the
two. We wonder who he was who thought
he could fool Bryantown Temperance
party with vinegar. We guess, if vinegar
it really was, there were some wry faces
when the tasting committee came along.
Sourness must have prevailed as conta
gion when they found it only vinegar
even 0inegar bitters at that. Pshaw who
ever heard 1T called vinegar" before?
[CoMMUNIcATED.1
Mr.. "Times man." I want to say to you
confdentially ofcourse-that "that bottle"
contained vinegar Of about the same de-
gree of acidity as the temper Of your cor
respondent who reports the finding of it.
But wish to tell you further, that the la
dies have designs on that correspondent
We mean to sweeten all such next Satur
day week aug. 81, if they will lend US
their aid so far as to come to our Festival
at Hughesville. My acquaintance with
some of the ladies interested in the Bry-
antown Temperance Society assures me
that the toothsome viands prospective,
when set forth on that occasion will de-
light the eyes and warm the hearts you
know it is said a mans heart is reached
through his stomach) of even the ''harG-
ware" reporter. Just tell all who are not
afraid of the effects of good coffee, rich
cakes, &C., to come and partake of some of
the. good things we hope to present for the
acceptance of the body and mind, for last
but not least we expect some of our Total
Abstinence friends from a distance to air
their views in regard to the various phases
of this great subject. Come, Mr.. "1Snaes
man." come and see, hear and taste for
yourself and extend the same invitation to
every one else. SACCHARINA.
According to previously arranged pro-
gramme the excursion of the poor children
of Washington, to Glymont, came off last
week. An eyewitness to the festivities of
the occasion informs us that there were a.
bout thousand of these waits of the street
on hand when the ice cream and t'Othe7
frias were dealt out. A more ragged,
motley crowd of the city gonaia, he says, it
is difficult to imagine. White and black
promiscuously mingled together in one
common herd, from the little girl in faded,
soiled calico, to the full grown youth in
ragged, striped trousers and the little chaps
in short frocks. Everything, we learn,
passed off quietly, and the crowd returned
to Washington, well pleased with the trip.
These excursions are conducted, we be-
lieve, under the auspices of the "Chronicle
Newspaper Publishing Company" and
will be several times repeated during the
season.
When young men from Baltimore visit
Charles county now they generally come
well provided. The other day one of our
good citizens was visited by welcome
party of these Baltimore young gents who
came formidably fortified with five gal
Ions of the best, key of Lager and ham
per of sparkling Green Seal. Things were
lively, and, there being no Bryantown
temperance men around, no body said
0ineg0r.