Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-02-26
Local Dott11ngs.
oRIoTxAL AND OTHERWISE.
ne week Of Lent gone.

now only worn TO hide wrinklcd fcreheads
SO far NJ reported, every district of oul
county was represented at the Farmers Con-
vention.
There will DO services at st. Aloysius'
Church, in this village on Wednesday and
Friday nights.
Potomac navigation is completely closed
Our only outlets are per the Patuxent and
the s. NJ. II. r.
Mr.. Ferd. Vile pnyed our village briet
visit last week. His many friends seemed
pleased TO see him.
Politics are quiet ut present, but it is the
lull N fore the storm. March Court will
, 1T . cm ADJOINING"
IN our next paper will appear "Descrip.
iiau of Mount Washington IN Winter
The author is a school-boy friend.
Father jenkins lost. last week, fine
mich cow valued at fifty dollars. We have
not heard the cause Of the death.
From present indications, the chances Of
the Sues calling at our wharf on her pro-
posed trip to the inauguration, are excessive
ly slim.
Mr. John NJ. Lloyd has returned from his
more. He will soon "bob up serenely" in
our county.
The street lamps are sadly in need of re-
pairing, and whatever is done TO them must
he done quickly or there will soon be none
of them left.
Mr.. +. NJ. Neale is on a trip to our coun-
ty. Mr. N. is one of the mos. popular gen.
tlemcn who visit our town and what is bet
ter, richly deserves the high opinion enter
tanned of him.
The idea that the Bay is frozen to the bot
tom is entirely incorrect. Last Sunday, we
experimental and found plenty Of water
not yet CONCEALED.
At Larned, Ka., they charge a quarter OF
dollar to witness marriage ceremony.
At a recent marriage there, nearly twenty
five dollars was taken in at the door.
All of our exchanges bring tilings of the
prevalence of the Postoffice fever. The dis
ease has made sad ravages in our midst and
our young doctor declares it to be epidem-
ic.
Our county has recently turned two youth.
full climbs of the law loose upon Baltimore.
Read their ads. and if you are 50 mfortu-
nate as to need legal advice, give them a
call.
Oysters have become quite rarity, the
ice making it difficult to get at them. Per-
SONS desiring, however, can walk over the
bars and whistle, "Thou art so near and yet
so far"
On Sunday, March the 9Th, and on each
second Sunday Of the month, service will be
held in the Catholic church Mt Mechanics
vile, instead OF on the 3rd Sunday, as here
tofore.
We call the attention of any of our readers
who are in want Of situation 10 the adve
tisepent in another column Of r. G. Chase &
Co., headed Statesmen Wanted" Write to
them for particulars.
Mr. L. J. Wise, of California, has added to
his steam mill one Of Doyers pntent steel
mills for the purpose of grinding chop and
crushing cobs, which will add much to the
convenience OF the neighborhood
The house belonging to VIM. II. Guy, sit
uated on the st Clement Bay road and
1eEnznlg occupiea~as a store, caught fire
Tuesday lasEapd half the roof was burned
Of BY the exc. frus Of Henry Miles and
others the fire was eXtlnguished.
The cockroach is to superscde the bee rs
symbol Of industry, according to New
Jersey editor. En-S-Ts not Y 6ce IS ro-Uc
seen all me winter, while the cockroach is
always up at five O'Clock in the morning,
and never goes to bed ill midnight"
Capt. John Palmer, of Mlestown district,
was in our office last Tuesday to pay his
own and another's subscription. In speak
ing Of our article on the causes of the coun-
tvs want of prosperity the Captain said that
Hnl L., oil ka trt w hnf aal
cd what it was, he replied, "Rum, rum,
rum p
Saturday last, Mr. s. Il. Welt, of our vii
lage found his little boy, Spencer, lying on
the ground and nearly unconscious. Drs.
Spaldng a. Combs were Immediately sum-
moned, rendered the necessary attention and
spence" we are pleased to lear, is fast get
ting all right again We have not heard
the cause of the attack.
The Hampton (Va.) Monitor" remarks
that the fool-killer might find trip through
Maryland, my Maryland profitable. A
newspaper in that section is camorng for
pay from the General Government for the
slaves emancipated by Lincoln's proclama-
ton" This is hard on the Port Tobacco
TINES and others, but if friend Cox can
stand it, we can.
An exchange says that "the students of
St. Johns Academy, Alexandria, number
ing about 1903, will cncanfp this year at
Leonardtown, st. Mary's county. These
cucampments are annual occurrences and
consume generally about two weeks of the
month of June" The students have en-
camped here before, and our people will be
pleased to see them again.
That the TINES is not the only paper be-
ing editorially cOmplinented the following
witnesseth;
1.-The Frederick Examiner says that one Of
the editors Of that paper knocked at the gate
of the City of Woe in a reportorial capacity,
but Satan would not let him in, as be had
one Frederick editor there, so he scaled the
walls aud peeped over, when he bebeld the
editor of the Citizen sin misery and ruin,
down deep in the guIph of despair"
'''lhe editor of the New York World speaks
of the editor Of the New York Sun as "Chas
AnaDias Dana, the able blackguard,' and
says be "has all the attributes Of the degen-
crate Grecian---the attributes which make
the term Greek Synonymous with false
hood, treachery, venality and fraud Dana
don't look like a Greek but he acts like
one"
''The Denver News, in drawing pen pic
ture Of State Senator Eddy, Of Colorado,
says---"Mr. Eddy has Henry Clay head,
with the Henry largely eliminated"