Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-05-06
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NJ. E,tifor: - Knowing you to be a
most accomplished lawyer, and that
large number of our citizens will not
cendone the blunler Gov. Hamilton
-. .,Is -. MO rPP"i"ei"S 49, ol-a-s '--Ae7-
Of our district, may | presume to ask if
there exists any law to punish two class
es of intolerabic people? One class are
everlastingly telling me what ! never
doubt; from November to April, fifty
times day, it was drummel into my
ears, that it was very cold, Or very wet,
or very muddy: was | not frozen, or
drcnchcd to the skin, or holp,essly an-
chorcd upon our dangerous highways.
For the past week the same folks are
yelling to me that it is very warm; that
spring has come, am not melting, fear
ing to change my winter costume; don't
see the fl H., being rapidly carpeted
with grcen--d | hear the birds sing
ing their love songs?
Don't see the squirrels and hares
frisking in pairs, don't everybody know
that green leaves and blossoms, aud
sunny warm weather, and singing and
loving-all come back togctaar?' and
yet these people keep on telling me it is
warm; why dout they tell a fellow some
thing he don't know? Another class are
as annoying, telling me something they
dont kaor, but dream, manufacture,
hear of, hope for. a spiteful set NJ
Munchausen was harmless, Jules Verne
was inter sting, these harmful sinners
guess, IA lEcinucndoes, are mischief max
crs, for even one, whose oath S not worth
the snap Of your finger, finds listeners,
aud soA.e Of tie mud he filings may
stick. Now, if 30 law is extant to hang
the class to which refer, please ask Mr.
Wade or Cox, or whoever our law max
crs may be, to pass some stringent act
or the county may require IA iunatic
asylum Yardstiek, who mas a sore fin
ger and is deveting his leisure moments
to pious rea ling, desires me to give you
few items from 9th district, his brief
reflections. As carriages have had to be
hauled out of the mud by oxen, funerals
unattended. our steam mill without
work, doctors delayed in their visits to
the sick, he thinks that our highway
guardians are not overabundant in brains
and muscle and industry, or that our
road system is failure. The photo
graph tent on his lot is a Barnum to
our curious people, and bonanza to
himself The boys have their own and
girls pictures taken-treat the girls to
candy and themselves to pump-,cutcr-
Doctors have had poor winter and
spring trade; our farmers with fair
prospects for wheat, are nerving them
selves for their tobacco and corn crops
they are very hopeful-labor at fair
prices is as abundant as our lands will
justify us in employing, and fortunately
for our surplus, Captain Coviugton and
Count Miteletzkie give constant employ
ment, at remunerative rates. The oys-
tiers in the Wicomico- have a respite; the
Potomac, as far as the eye can reach, pre-
sents a scene of most active enterprise;
millions Of almost unknown wealth have
been. discovered; and strange that some,
who never would have utilized this
source of comfort to thousands of poor
families, are jealous because some from
over the Chesapeake, and one from far
distant Russia have come with capital
and energy enough to force our grand
old river to lay bare her hidden treas
urers. Why cannot our people appreci-
ate the Importance of welcoming with
outstretched hands and gladsome smiles
every man who comes among us with
capital and vim to employ it. We want
such to develop the advantages we have.
How many of our native rich men have
invested in any public enterprise? In
this district Contee and Maddox are