Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-03-12
Local Dott1n1s.
FLASHES.
Court begins next Monday.

were in session last Tuesday.
The prospects of a good wheat yield in our
county, is according to farmers, very SLIM
In the Leonardtown markets butter is
selnng for IS and 80 cents and eggs for 90
cents.
Having come in something on the lionine
order, it is to be hoped that March may make
lamb-like exit.
The SUN of Monday last states that oys-
ters are now plentiful in Baltimore and are
bringing good price.
- The Sue made her first call of the sea-
esn at this village to-day. Thereafter her
Its will be regular.
We have been informed that Leonardtown
Wharf will soon be repaired. Tho sooner it
can be done the better.
A. Burroughs, Chaptico, Nd, desires an
experienced clerk. Applicant must have a
good character.
To make room for the Inaugural Address,
we have been compelled to hold over sever
al favors from correspondents.
Nearly all the visitors from this section to
the Inauguration, have returned. They, one
and all, report it as grand affair.
The Jenkins Memorial bell arrived per
Sue to-day, Wednesday. As before stated it
will be blessed on Sunday, the 18th instant.
Read the advertisement Of the Abel Fer
tilzers. The agent, Mr.. B. r. Abel, is one
of our best business men. Give him call.
Read Col. Woods letter on our first page,
and if you want an entertaining. newsy city
weekly, subscribe to the Washington Ga
zette.
Politics are rather dull at present. Every
one seems to be waiting for the develop
ments that March Court is expected to
bring forth.
The roads in the immediate vicinity Of our
village are in moderately fair condition.
We regret that as much cannot be said for
distant sections.
The Hon. B. G. Harris and Count Moore
have Send the democratic company at the
National Capitol so agreeable that they have
not vet torn themselves away,
Read the advertisement of r. j. Baker e.
Co., in this ISSUE Their agent, Mr.. Richard
Reeder, is clever gentleman and we hope
that be may receive a fair share of patron
age.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr.. Ed.
GaIetti, formerly of this village to Miss Lucy
Rogers, of Chestertown, West Va. Mr.. G..
has our best wishes for his happiness and
success.
Animated by Mr.. Haydus success in
shooting ducks---not in getting shot---our
brother and friend last week, tried their
luck on the Patuxent. They worked two
days and got two Dippers.
The brave men who lost a leg or arm bat
Ting for the Lost Cause have our sincerest
sympathy. We, one and all, feel for them.
Those who feel for them in the right place
---feel in their pockets---are invited to give
Mr.. j. Frank Ford's letter careful atten-
ton.
An important eclipse of the sun Of the
annular or ring form, will occur on Monday,
March l6. It will be visible all through
the United States. 1t will begin in this lati
tude at lc:57 in the morning and end at l:46
in the afternoon, and will be most interest
ing spectacle.
"Wack," the Washington correspondent
of the Enterprise," has taken up the idea
of our L. II. +. correspondent and is NOV
ing for increased mail facilities for St. Glenn
ent's Bay, Chaptico, Morganza, etc. 1t is
a move in the right direction and the peo-
pie interested are very willing to "let him
flicker"
The M. e. Conference now in session in
Baltimore elected Rev. Chas. 0. Isaac, OF
this county, to elders orders, Presiding Elder
Deale representing that the character Of the
work Of Mr.. Isaac required that he should be
given such orders Mr.. Isaac was ordained
an elder on Sunday last at High Street M.
a =
L. church.
Monday night last, Frank Woodland drew
his pistol and shot George Green the ball
striking him square in the forehead and
glancing off without inhicting any serious
wound. Both men are eolored and reside in
the Head Of the Bay section of this county.
Woodland must have used very poor piss
tol or else Green has a tremendously hard
head.
The Kent county md. Agricultural Soci-
ETY. last week discussed the cost of producing
bushel Of wheat, and the conclusion was
reached that on an ordinary farm of 200
acres, 40 acres being in wheat, and applying
Sc in phosphate to the acre on corn ground
and - on fallew, with an average yield Of
l6 bushels per acre on corn ground and 20
bushels on fallow, the cost per bushel would
be from As to 80 cents.
The special weather bulletin for February,
recently issued by the signal service depart
ment. states that the ''past winter has been
colder than the average winter in all districts
east Of the Rocky Mountains. In districts
on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the winter
temperature was from two to FIVE degrees
below the average. The fall of rain and
snow differed slightly from the normal at
stations along the Atlantic coast.