Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-14
correspondence of the Baltimore Sun
Southern MARYLAND Scenes.

southern maryionu, comprising tne
counties ofPrince Georges $, Anne Arun-
del, Calvert, Charles and ST. Mary's, is
section of the State, hitherto back
ward, in which progress has begun
Neither the click OF the telegraph in.
strument nor the whistle OF the loco
motive has ever been heard in CAL
vert or St. Mary's, although it was in
st. Aary's that the Catholic pilgrims
first settled. The Baltimore and Poto-
mac railroad has done much to devel-
op Prince Georges, Charles and the
upper part Of Anne Arundel, but while
the road runs betwixt the Patuxent and
the Potomac TO Pope's creek, the tele.
graph ends at Marlboro, and there is nc
wire in Charles county, though mail
service is daily nearly everywhere in
the whole section. l have spent near
ly q week in the three counties which
lie between the Patuxent and the Poto-
mac, and write from Leonardtown, a
the pleasantest village have found for
sojourning.
HOW TO LIVE IN PRINCE GEORGES.
Much Of Prince George, now thriv-
ing, was before the railroad q wilder
ness. Marlboro, however, remains in
statu quo, and the traders and nn-keep-
ers complain that the railroad takes
away too much business from them to
the cities. Several years ago an enter
prising German built good-sized inn At
the railroad station, and his neighbors
in Marlboro near by thought he was a
lunatic; but he gave constant personal
attention to business aud is now pros
pering. met this stranger one morn.
ing as he was taking his 'promenation, u
as be called it, and asked him in regard
to some swamps near his house If be
had ever suffered from ague.
"Oh, mol" he answered, in some sur.
prise.
"But every one else has the ague
more or less; how is that 20
II dells you--these beeples dom |
know how to live"
"You mean they don't drink beer =
"No don't mean TO say dot; but they
drinks too much water"
This as such piece of news that
set it down in my tablets, and when ]
met your old friend, Thos. J. Turner, OF
the Prince Georgian, gave il to him for
his paper. l had never heard before
that water drinking was vice in Prince
Georges.
LONG DRIVE.
From Mattawoman Station on the
creek, which is the boundary between
Prince Georges and Charles, drove
81 miles 10 Leonardtown Is q day' . ira.
vel. Then went 90 mikes to st. Ma.
rvs City, from which il Is Is miles tc
Point Lookout, and then leisurely bach
to this point. The present is the mos
pleasant, as well as the busiest season
In Southern Maryland. The woods, in
full LEAKAGE, are at present alive with
the seventeen year locusts. The hea
Of the sun has been moderated by gen
tie winds and the nights are cool ant
quiet. All the farmers are busy plant
ing tobacco and working corn. 1 fre.
quently saw white women in the fields
Wheat is well advanced, and in some
parts Of 81. Mary's the land and farm.
are prosperous, and the wheat crop !.
ss good rs can be grown. Sheep are
plentiful and hogs are abundantly raised
Some new land has been cleared and
saw.milis have been extensively intro
dueed. The roads ere fairly good ant
there are no gates. as in Calvert. Sew
eral Of the schools for colored children
are taught by coloree school marm,
from the North.
NIIrrARy.IocxiNc TOWN.
Like Port Tobacco, in Charles eoun
ty. Lcouardtown il built around cen
tral plaza after the fashion Of garr;sos
town in New Mexico. A Aag-staff rise,
from the ceatre Of the ample plaza o
Leonardtown, aud I caught ayself hook
ing for the eommandant's house, ths
bsrrseks, and the soldiers On dress pa
rade, - il was then toward sunset
The town 10 on Briton's bay. The 10
cality affords good salt water bathing
and . steamboat landing. with oyster
al the year around, and II this sessos
soft crabs and strawberries ara IN plen