Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-08-16

conducted by Mr Thomas and some
Of the ladies Of the family. assisted By
teachers IN special branches. They
are Fniscppalianp. and have . small
pchccl. Amofeeharming spot, more
healthy location, or more desirable.
suciaI Influences under which young
riris can be trained, can nowhere Be
found.
The surrounding country only lacks
labor and capital to make IL equal "a
the best land in the State. Dr..
Bronze IL large landholder and far
mer, and ban Just finished thrashing :
crop Of 4,500 bushels of wheat. BE
has the means and The energy to farm to
advantage. but when the advantages
Of Sc. Mary's become known. the
country ought to be filed with veal
thy and intelligent farmers. using
their capital in cultivating the soil
and earning surer and larger divi-
dends than any railroad pays, not ex-
cepting the ID. and o.
From st. Mary's 10 st. Inigoas' Is
FIVE miles. Don lingo de Loyola be-
came st. Ignatius Of the Jesuits, and
the Ark and Dove, which brought out
the first expedition. were consecrated
before sailing by Father White to st.
Tgnatius. He then became the patron
saint Of Maryland, and his Spanish
name. st. lingo. il preserved in many
places in st. Mary's. st. Inigoes
Manor is the mother foundation Of
the Jesuits. They acquired Malta
pony about the same time as st. Ini-
goes, but they released the former on
the demand Of the proprietary. st.
Inigoes' House stands on a point pro-
jecting into the st. Mary's river, and
alta short distance is the parish church.
The place is marked on the map rs
Priests Point. Just below, command
ing the entrance of the river, is Fort
Point. Here, in 1887, "the fort was
erected. It was armed with long
iron guns, and was garrisoned with
''souldiers" maintained by his lord
chip. The fort was captured by IngIe
February IA, 1914, and retaken by
Leonard Calvert December, 1649.
The "souldiers" thereupon mutinied
because they, were not permitted 70
pillaea Sc. Inigoes' and st. sMary's .,
and Mrs. Margaret Brent, his lord
ships attorney, satisfied them with
his lordship's stock Of cattle. The
fort long ago was leveled and has
disappeared, but many years since,
in sounding opposite the point, some
cannons were discovered, which were
raised, and seven of them are now at
st. Inigoes'. Five of them are used
as boundary posts to st. Inigoes' Man
or and two Of them now lie just be-
hind st. Inigoes' House. They are
eighteen-ponnder carronades, long
iron guns, corroded by water and
time, so as TO be now in The process
Of disintregation. The records of
st. Inigoes' would be Of inestimable
value to the Maryland historian.
They comprised interesting diaries of
the early fathers and letters and "a
pers from probably 1887. But the
house was burnt down within few
years, and all the original papers de-
o troyed.
A Marylander must feel peculiar
interest in all this locality. Old st.
Mary's, st. Inigoes, Fort Point, Trim
ity Church, all TEEN with the most
interesting "reminiscences, and every
inlet, every headland has it's story to
tell. The beauty of the county is net
excelled by any have ever seen. It's
fertility, eVen 1aOl0, after two centuries
and half Of exLausting half cultiva-
tion is surprising. and'half dozen
years Of capital and energy will make
1t the very Eden Of the Continent.
The resources of the country are its
disadvantage; the luxuries Of life are
so easily attainable then is lacking
the stimulus to labor. But / know
no place which offers such induce
Inents to rich people to make solid in
vestrnents where they can enjoy such
advantages of climate, Of soil and of
products.
Mr. Frank Crosby, Of Washington,
with his son, Mr.. Emmett Crosby, and
his wife, have been camped at st.
Georges Point, opposite Rosecroft,
for some weeks. Mr.. Frank Crosby
Is well known as a mineralogist and
geolOgist, and. has several commiss-
ions from a Boston Scientific Society.
He Is hunting for certain shells to
complete a collection belonging to the
Massachusetts, Scientific Society. So
far he has gathered about two hun
dred pounds of the rarest shells and
minerals, which he has found On the
exposed banks along the st. Marys
river. Two miles up the st. Mary's
liver from st. Mary's City is Capt.
Howgate's Island. 1t is not general
ly known that Capt. Howgate, in his
palmy days, purchased this island.
He built on it four handsome cottages.
an ice-hOuse, boat-house and other
houses. His expenditures must have
been ten thousand dollars. The
main cottage is finished in hard wood.
With il all he built wharf, so that
he could land at all times in lis steam
yacht The place now re.linds one
IN some Of its aspects at least of
Goldsmith's deserted village. The
cottages were occupied but one sea-
son, and for the past two years they
have been teDantless. although they
are much finer in construction and
more pleasantly situated than most
Of those in this county. No one seems
70 know who now sosvnn thar, a. e