Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-03-21
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
From Bryantown District.

| nhiAN1OWN, uhd1CA LIZ, 1910.
Mr.. Editor: You requested your friends,
in different parts of the county, to forward
all local news. AS have always been
friend to the Times, it gives me great plea
sure to comply with your request-and, as
l proceed, I will also make some comments
on matters and things generally.
A very important law case was tried
here, few days ago, before his Honor
Judge Dent-about the killing of cat
Puss was very valuable to her owrer-a
merchant-having saved him several hun
dred dollars, and as her nine lives had been
cut short "in all their bloom, the damages
were laid atninety-nined dollars. Mr.. Haw-
kins, counsel for defendant, made spread
eagle speech on the occasion. The case is
still held sub curia.
Your paper has grown wonderfully in
our estimation lately. Our people say you
hauled the Governor over the Goals about
right. We had heard nothing of the spain
full rumors," which made his Excellency so
hot, and were utterly astounded when your
paper mentioned them. After such "dress-
ing" as you gave him, we don't think he
will ever again pardon criminal convict
ed in Charles county without first getting
the permission of our Court.
We are delighted at the "spicy" charac-
ter your paper has assumed. We nearly
split our sides a-laughing about Luke Mar
tin and him of the leather-halter. A pref
ty good hit at our pardoning Governor
Then about the black man in Luke's bed,
who turned out to be white man, after
all Oh it was rich! Query: Suppose
Luke had smashed" his head, would he
have been guilty of an assault and battery3
Clearly not, according to the decision of
our Courts, which is: that it man mashes
another's mouth, under slight misappre-
hension of facts, he is guilty of no offence
under the law.
Heaven and earth Capt. Wells, what is
the matter with the County Commission
ers? Our people here are bursting with
indignation against them! correspon-
dent proves, conclusively, that they made
one hundred dollars out of the contract for
roofing the Court House! And as they
have rendered no account of this money
the conclusion among US is irresistible that
they must have invested it in Credit Mo-
bilier stock. But Peter Trotter says they
can't be blamed for that, as they put it in
the place where it would do the most good.
Then about those mules! Did you ever
hear of such an outrage on poor old col
ored man by the name of Oswald! We are
very glad his attorney made the sparks fly
from our Commissioners eyes. We are
glad, too, that he made suits for damages,
bills for specific performance, to say moth
ing of injunctions, mandamuses and hG6eGs
corpus, dance before their bewildered gaze,
'sin all the mazes of metaphorical confu-
SION" No wonder they should have tele-
graphed electric glances! Query: Did the
! lightning rods, lately put on the Court
House, prove safe conductors on that occa-
sion?
Mr. Editor, one of our prominent citi
zens remarked, after reading the very able
article on ''mules, livery, County Commits
sioners and Sales" that che fully expected
that every acre of Charles county would be
shingled over with Court COSTS" And, sir,
is it not most alarming? Just look at the
state of things! Here we have a Board of
Commissioners who wont follow the opin-
ion of their attorney, and consequently get
into all sorts of difficulties about all sorts
of things How much the above mention
ed suits will cost-"especially if Oswald
wins''-Heaven only knows. And then
the mule livery, still going on at the rate
of fifty cents a day, payable by the people.
How long it will take these mules, at that
rate, to eat up the county, any school boy
can take his slate and pencil and cypher
out in no time.
All of US Bryantown folks are delighted
to hear that the people are going to put on
Republican brogans, and "foot" the afore-
said Commissioners out of Office in No
vember next. We understand that some
of our enterprising merchants, in view of
the above fact, have ordered heavy sup
plies of brogans, all duly copper-toed.-
Query Would it not be we'll for the peo-
pie to buy the aforesaid mules, to assist
them in footing" the Commissioners out
of office? In fact, many of our people are
in favor of abolishing the Board altogeth-
er and letting the county take care OF it
self The cry is ''free schools, free press,
and free treasury !" This is the motto of
a new party shortly to be organized in our
county, but it is time enough to talk OF
that.
We earnestly hope your Mule and Court
House correspondent will, Gin vein OF
pleasantly" continue to chronicle the a
chievements of our Board and transform,
with his magic wand, every opponent into
a "poose,n an ''ass' and "viper." If that
don't settle him, then nothing will; if that
don't exterminate him, then this Court
don't know itself!
Mr. Editor, l should like to say some
thing about your Fiat j1stitia, cepIuna ruot
correspondent. l will only say, that we
Bryantown people were very much exer-
cised as to his identity. But the mystery
has been cleared up. He turns out to be
Lord Iago Angus-and very bad man
too-persecuting, with his admiration
the complacent goddess Truth, and tax
ing ready refuge in the sacred Book.
wonder where this Lord Angus is from
Is he John Bull? But no matter as to
that, the American eagle has screamed
the lie in his very face, and we hope that
the noble lord will now go back to his ma
tive land and never again NEEDLE in ou1
affairs.
: According to brother Colfax, an eminent
divine has said: eff mans foresight was
as good as his hindsight, he would be a
great thing" One of our fellow-towns-
!, men, whose foresight is as good as his
hindsight," will soon erect a steam saw