Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-01-14

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ger coaches on his train. Notwithstand-
ing these Efforts, the force Of She coils
ion was such as to wreck both engines,
and the lamps being smashed in the
postal car, set ERE to the mail, destroy
ing il. The iron safes Of the Adam
Express Company were heated to
white heat, and the company may suf-
fer some loss on packages Of money de-
stroyed. These are the particulars of
the collision, and they are sufficiently
ineligible, but what this collision had
to 90 with the non-reception ofthe mail
at Leonardtown on Saturday night last
is mot ineligible and We defy anybody
to make it so. The truth il some post
master between this and the railroad
station negleeted to forward our mail on
the day named, and to this neglect and
not to any railway collision was the nom
arrival of our Saturday nights mail at
tributable.
On Thursday night last, Slate Tobac-
CO Warehouses Nos. l and 2, containing
about 200 hogsheads of tobacco, val
ued at 100000, were destroyed by
fire, with their contents. The origin
of the fire is at present unknown, but
it is supposed to have been the work of
incendiaries. Nearly half of the tobac-
co destroyed was of Maryland growth
and it is thought that this destruction,
coupled with the shortness of last years
crop, will much increase the demand
for our great staple the coming Spring
and Summer. Be this as it may, it
would be well, we think, for our plan
tiers to keep their tobacco out of mar
ket until after the May sweat or at
least until the inevitable scarcity has
been fully felt and appreciated. 1t is
not more than once in a lifetime that
the planter has chance at the speculator
and an opportunity like the present for
fair retaliation should not be overlook
ed. The warehouses and much the
larger portion of their contents were
covered by insurance 1t is question,
whether or not the State will be respon-
sible for the destroyed tobacco. A suit
has already been instituted to test this
question. The insurance companies and
other losers by the fire have our SYM
pathies in their misfortunes. Messrs.
Herbert, Hairston & Co. is the only
house familiar to our people which is
reported to have had tobacco destroyed
by the fire, but we are pleased to know
that these LOSERS are fully covered by
insurance.
The following is the list Of the Grand
and Petit Jurors for the March Term,
1875:
Grand Jury.-John c. Herbert, Fore
man, Thos. o. Spencer, DIR. James War
ing, Thos. II. Springer, Oscar G. Hay
den, Joseph H. Jones, French V. Green
well, Thos L. Freeman, John d. Free
man, Lambert ]. Russell, Jno. F. Combs,
John Palmer, James Russell, Richard
J. Marshall, John F. Dent, John L.
Greenwell, Aquiila Burroughs, Henry
Neal, Charles L. Wise, Richard H. Ben
nett, Joseph II. Hancock, Jas. T. King,
Alexander Bayne.
Petit Jury-Albert Burch, VIM. Frank
Yates, Philip Fl. Dorsey, John V. Cam
alier, Robert J. Bean, Barzilla Jones,
Zachariah Mattingley, VIM. A. Kirk,
Charles E. Cough, Hayden II. NJ. Yates,
George W. Morgan, Joseph F. Shaw,
Giles F. Dyer, James F. Abell, Thos
l.. Harrison, A. T. Martin, Stanislaus
Clarke, Jerome Hayden, H. L. Bur-
roughs, VIM. o. Reeder, Andrew NJ.
Garner, John E. Carpenter, ]. Chew
Burch, Charles ]. Norris, JohnA. Scott
The Supper which came off at Moore
Hotel on Tuesday night last for the
benefit of st Aloysius' Church, of our
Town, was a success, Notwithstanding
the inclemency Of the weather. We
would suppose that a hundred or more
persons were present and participated
on the occasion. The table was most
tastcJnlly decorated, there being. be-
sides the flowers and other ornaments
the greatest variety of good things and
the greatest abundance of them. More.
over, the cooking was excellently don.
and the attention by the lady and gen.
tleman walters every thing that could
be desired. The congregation. of St
Aloysius' is debtor to the ladies having
the affair in charge and SO, also, i.
some at least of the supper eaters, tn,
writer included.
"Alas! how this world is given I,
lyingw Either Gen. Sheridan-witl
all due reverence be itspoken-has mis-
represented in his latest dispatch tn,
condition of affairs in Louisiana or tn,
whole city Of New Orleans, includin;
the clergy. is hopelessly given up to ly
, ing. There is no escape from one O