Middletown transcript., 1876-03-11
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CESrREvILLE, Kent Co., Md.

CENTREyILLE, keHt Co.; MI.
| DEAR TRANscRIpT: After an early breakfast
Of hot rolls and coffee and ride of seven
miles OH Friday morning last, your fellow
townsman and enterprising merchant, Mr..
- and my humble self boarded the steamer
Trumpeter at Shallcross wharf at o'clock
for Baltimore, and with your permission
would like to give you short account OF our
trip. If you have never taken this trip it will
pay you now to do so. The Trumpeter leaves
Georgetown, on alternate days, at O'Clock,
for Baltimore, and by the time she makes her
last CALL has generally a goodly crowd on
board The run down the Sassafras river !;
the hills of Hartford on the bay and the views
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, making it
one Of the most pleasant and delightful out
of these waters.
The Trumpeter has just been newly reitted,
painted ard furnished, and her old and ex-
perienced engineer has had her machinery put
into complete order, which facts, together
with the polite and never firing attention of
Captain Cundiff canno: fail to please the most
fasti lious. Indeed, my companion, to whom
referred above, soon made himself quite at
home and in little while, through the solici-
taton of black eyes and curly locks. (de-
lightful company indeed) introduced the in
viting game of euchre, to while away the
time until our arrival in Baltimore, at two
o'clock P. NJ. After run over portion OF
the city visiting many places Of notoriety.
for business, pleasure and profit, we turned
in, somewhere about the 'swee sma' hours"
to bed.
You know, Mr.. Editor, the citizens Of Bal
timore are not noted for very early rising
Nevertheless we were all cap-a-pie, by seven
o'clock, and ready for stroll, before the
time for the boats return to the Eastern
Shore, at lo3 o'clock. Of course our friends
propensity for bargain and sale, being the
most prominent characteristic just now, abb
sorbed so much attention that it was neces-
sary to let out an extra link OF animal speed,
and we arrived at the boat almost breathless,
with heaving chests and streaming with per-
spiration, with the blessed consolation that
we were sjust in time, /" but had twenty hands
TO shake and many good-byes to give to hosts
Of friends, in just so many seconds, when we
steamed out into the Patapsco and then again
entered the bay. On board we found a.num-
ber Of lady and gentlemen friends in the
cabin, among whom were several of our law
makers from Cecil and Kent, returning to
their homes from Annapolis, after a week
Of useful and arduous la5ors for the good Of
the people, and from whom we, of course,
derived much valuable information Ia dish
of politics, the most important being the
Bs-Babcock, Belknap and bribery. And
then dinner, and next euchre, as the order Of
the day.
Mr.. Editor, if you want to travel on a nice,
pleasant, quiet, cheap, safe boat, with an
pleasant and polite captain, atten-
tive employees and good fare at low prices
over route Of beautiful scenery, agreeable
company, and, in fact, diversity of sights,
scenes and incidents and amusements, together
with the invigorating and healthful breezes
from the noble Chesapeake, go thou and do
The pleasure you enjoy will amply
repay you for the loss of time and if you do
not return home better. at least you will
return a wiser man. Adieu, till next time.
March 6, 1876. N.