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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18

napolis, and then went to work TO
stow them away in my cart. ! found
the bullet holes in the top of my
vehicle just as expected. They were
in line, about FIVE inches apart, and
had been where | usually sit, two of
them would have hit me somewhere
about the small OF the back and passed
upward, for they were sent with
heavy charge of powder, and his pistol
was a heavy one
On the next morning the sheriff
called upon me and paid me $500 in
gold. for be had made himself sure
that he had got the villain. After an
early dinner / set cut, and am now
ready to lay up for the winter. |
found letter in the office at Ports.
mouth for me from the sheriff of Han.
cock county, and he informed me that
Mr.. Hardhead is now in prison for
life"
So ended the reddler's story. Tn
the morning | had the curiosity TO
look at his cart and / found the four
bullet holes just as he had told US,
though they were now plugged up
with phial corks. Niney came cut
while / was looking and showed me
the prints of the villains feet upon
the cart. They were plain, and must
have been given with great force
Boston Budgt.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18

u IIV "SII.IIVI supporting IIIC TIIIVIFICs u
Democratic Administration,
Published IN Tie City IF Ne1 York.
WILLIAM DORSHEIMER, Editor and
Proprietor
Daily, sunday and Weekly Editions
The Weekly Star, a sixteen page news
paper, issued every Wednesday \ clean,
pure, bright and interesting Family Paper
Ii contains the latest news. down to the
hour If going {" press i. Agricultural, Mar
ket, Fashion, Household, Political, Finan-
cial and Commercial, Political, Humorous
and EDITORIAL:
Departments, all under the direction of
trained journalists of the highest ability
It's sixteen pages will be found crowded
with good things from beginning to end.
Original stories by distinguished American
and foreign writers of fiction.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18

AN IRRESISTIBLE lMPULsE-One
of the strongest OF feminine Instincts
Is to spank. The little girl OF six
spanks her doll, even while the svm.
pathetic tears roll down her che, Ks.
She keeps up the practice when grown
to young ladyhood upon her little
brothers and sisters, il she be fortunate
enough to have any, and from then
on her children and grandchildren. or
somebody elses children or grand.
children, receive the benefits, in
matured form, of an art learned in
infancy, until she goes from hence to
> better land. and even then, perhaps,
wide field for tue exercise Of her
powers is before her amoag the little
angels in heaven.
One day last week a Young nan
sauntering about the National Mu-
scum saw twovery pretty girls exam
ming large terra-cotta vase, which
stood IN one corner of the room devo-
ted 10 exhibits of that ware. In the
bowl Of the vase several unclothed
urchlns were represented as playing,
while one little cherub, with club
by and dimpled form, was leaning
over the edge, evidently attempting
tn reach his companions and innocent
iy Offering an awful temptation to
spanking femininity. The young ladies
stood before the ornament for some
time in apparent admiration of the
excellent workmanship, when sudden
ly thought seemed to strike one of
them. She looked cautiously around
to see If she was observed, and seeing
no one, for the writer was hid behind
a pillar and no one else was in sight.
she smiled happily, took the glove
from OFT her right hand. raised that
member and administered to the little
clay image a most thorough spanking.
If 1t was fair sample Of her skill in
that direction, her future children are
entitled to heartfelt pity Washag-
ton Post.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18
Real Estate Notice.

PERSONS wishing "a buy or sell land in
ST. Mary's county, Maryland. will consult
their true Interests by communicating with
FENWlCK l. HAMMETr at Leonari-
town, ST Mary's county, Maryland, as the
undersigned have made arrangements IA
give this branch "a business prompt and
special attention.
JOHN p. FENWICK.
DANL. q. HAMMETr,
Nov. -, l SSS-tf.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18

II. G COMBS,
Attorney -at-Law,
Leonardtown, Md.
Aug. 12-tf
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STEAMER WEsTMORElAND

Will leave Pier 9, Light Street, every Sun
day Night at9 p. IN. for Patuxent River
direct, "a far up as Bristol. Returning, will
leave Bristol at IL IN. on Monday, and Mill
stone at q p. m, for Baltimore, calling at no
WharYes below Leitch's, except when sig
nailed from wharves on the river for pas
sengers and perishable freight,
Freight received at Pier 8, Light Street
Saturday, until p. m.
HENRY WILLIAMS, Agent
Office, 142 Light ST.
Sept. Ct
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-18

s4- A young man who wanted to
know which Is correct, two teaspoon
fuls or two teaspoonsful." is informed
by the Boston Post that three fiu-
gers is about the right thing" 1t is
presumed that the editor OF the Post
knows.
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STEAMER THEODORE WEsMs

viii leave Pier 8, Light Street, every Sat-
urday and Wednesday at $50, A. NJ, for
Fair Haven, Plum Poiat. Gosernor's Rnn
and Patuxent River. as far up as Benedict
Returning, will leave Benedict every Mon
day and Thursday at $50, a. m, Milestone
Landing at 10, a. m, Plum Point at I, p.
m, and Fair Haven at 2:30, p. m, for Bal
timOre
Freight received at Pier 8, Tuesday and
Friday, until p. IN.
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TIE DAILY STAR.

TIE DAILY STAR.
The Daily Star con-
tsins all the news Of the day in an attractive
form. Its special correspondence by cable
from London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
Dublin is commendable feature. At
Washington, Albany, and other news cen
tiers, the ableSt correspondents, specially re-
tanned by the Star. furnish the latest news
by telegraph. Its literary features are un-
surpassed. The Financial and Market Re
views are unusually full and complete.
Special terms and extraordinary induce
ments to agents and canvassers. Send for
circulars
Terms of the Weekly Star to Subscribers.
free of postage in the United States and
CanaCea, outside the limits of New York
City:
Per year : l 25
Clubs Of Ten 10 90
Clubs of Fifteen (and one extra TO or
ganizer l5 90
Terms of the daily Star TO Subscribers
Every day for one year Including
sunday 8. 90
Daily, without SUNDAY, one year 90
Every day, six months 3 so
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Address, THE STAR,
20 and 2S North William St, New York.
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OR SR ERlFF.

| eonaris ow n, April 5, SO.
MeSSrs. Edit, rs :-ICu will please an
nounce Mr.. j. l.. CONN.El-Ll rs candi-
daiefor the Sher' 1falty ut the next election
end say that he will be cCAdially support
ell by the public generally.
April \, 'S6-tfn :.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
Military M atters.

The New Orleans States, of the 9Th,
says: Last night Battery B. Louisiana
Field Artillery, were inspected and
mustered at their armory, No. SO Camp
street, by Col. E. G. Fenner, assisted
by Maj. w. F. Pinckard. This splen-
did company, Capt. w. II. Beanham in
command, had seventy-sIx men in line
and made a highly creditable showing.
The inspecting officers next visited
the headquarters of the
LOUISIANA RIFLES,
at the Young Mems Gymnastic Club,
where this crack organization turned
out sixty-six men and three officers for
muster and inspection.
Tonight the Rifles go into quarters
at the gymnasium for the Vlcksburg
and Savannah drills. They have been
assigned to commodious quarters on
the third floor, where they have a
kitchen, mess-room and other apart
ments. Each private has a mattress,
blanket, cup and plate: The Rifles
will undoubtedly make a fine showing
at the coming drills.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
A Queer Tree Down in Georgia.

There's a peculiar freak of nature on
he road leading from this place to Balls
ferry. 1t consists of two large pine
trees, whose bases stand four feet apart,
and which unite about forty feet i'll the
air, to be one and the same trunk. A
few feet above, where the two trees join,
can be traced the two separate bodies,
merging more and more into n another,
until all lines of demarkation is lost, and
there is but one trunk from there up
ward, perfectly round and symmetrical.
1t is reasonable to conceive how two
trees could, from close contact, grow
into each other. But in what manner
did one tree lose its identity as to a topI
-Irwinton (Ga.) Appeal. .
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
Railroad News.

Master Car Builder Casey of the
Mississippi Valley car shops, in this
city, is now fitting uptwo hundred and
twenty-five gravel cars with which the
company proposes commencing to
ballast the road with gravel and will
continue until they have ballasted it
from Memphis to New Orleans, when
it will be one of the best roads in the
southern country.
The schedule on the Mississippi
Valley road will be changed one week
from today. The trains north and
south will pass at this point at 1l:45
pm, and the time between Memphis
and New Orleans will be shortened up
something over an hour.
A gentleman from Monroe says it il
a fixed fact that the railroad bridge al
that point will be converted into a foot
and wagon bridge, Major Belknap and
the police jury of Ouachita parish
having agreed upon terms.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
Spread of the wires I'm CHINA.

The telegraph now extends to Langson
in Tonquin, on the Chinese border. On
the Chinese side the telegraph was car
ried during the recent military operations
in TOnquin from Canton to Lungchow,
about thirty miles from Langson. Hence,
with the exception of a short gap of
thirty miles, the telegraph extends in an
unbroken line from Saigon in the south
of the Indo-C Chinese peninsula to Pekin,
where five years ago there was no tele-
graph whatever. The rapidity with
which, since 1881, it has spread all over
China, and has come in general use, is
one of the wonders of modern days.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
The Electric Lights,

A G. II. reporter had the honor at
six o'clock last evening Of touching off
the electric flow which ignited the
cartoons in the electric lamps in the
commercial circuit of the city for the
first time. The light is a steady bright
one, and is in every respect just what
it was represented by Capt. Mattingly
to be. Mr.. Bates, the electrician,
sent here by the Thompson;H Houston
Company to start the works, announced
in the first of the week that he
would turn OF the lights last
evening and promptly at a quarter to
six he telephoned for the G. H. reporter,
announced that he was ready and asked
the reporter to make the connection
which sent the fluid simultaneously
throughout the circuit, upon which
are located thirty.live lamps. A trip
throughout the circuit was made by the
reporter and he found each of
the subscribers well pleased and
the stores filed with admiring
spectors. The following houses on
Washington street have lights:
Weimar's barber shop, Washington
Hotel, Baer & Bro. dry goods store, F.
NJ. McRae's drug store. BloOmenstiel's
confectionery, Rae & Sackson's, Fair"
nickle store. SWitzer, Newwitter &
Co.'S dry goods store (three lights),
Hibou e Feiser's saloon, Woodbine
saloon, w. B. Swords "Mikado" con.
~fectionery, Wachenheim s. Herman's
saloon, Clarke e Co.'S book store, A. G.
Tillman's book store, Ruhman's cigar
store, Peter Guscio's saloon, Joseph
Fox's dry goods store, First
National Bank St. Charles saloon and
G, G. Reynolds & Co.'S. drugstore. The
most attractive place on the circuit
was Messrs. SwitZer, Newwitter &
Co.'S. drygoods store, which was bril-
liantly lighted and with the advanta-
geous display of goods, presented a
grand spectacle. Messrs. Baer s. Bro.
were so well pleased with their light
that they ordered four more lights to
be placed in their store.
The city circuit will be connected
as soon al the poles can be erected,
many of the them are now In place and
the others will be ready in a few days.
There is n point in this connection
which 1t will not be a miss to refer to-.
1t is apparent to our citizens that
twenty lights will not suffice to light
the city and public sentiment favors
the placing Of additional lights at
advantageous points where they will
do most good. The council should
do this now before the circuit is closed,
as it will save Mr.. Bates and Capt.
Mattingly much trouble.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
County Finances.

NlCKsBURGi April lQth, 1885,
Editor Of Commercial Herald.
Ia an article headed County FL
nances" in your issue Of this date you
have made an erroneous report of
some Of the facts that ! stated to you
in our conversation Of last evening
and l have to request q proper correc-
ton through your columns.
l did not tell you that the county
auditors books Of warrants had not
been properly kept since December,
1884, and that they fail to show the
amount Of the outstanding warrants Of
the county, but l did tell you that the
important book that he Is re-
quired to keep by law with
the various county officials had not
been kept since the date mentioned, as
it showed when recently examined by
me, there not being written in It any
charges for or against any OF our
county oflcers during either the past
or present year. The purposes Of this
book you have correctly stated, and as
it is one of original entry it should
always be written up to date. About
the outstanding warrants Of the
county / do not know anything, nor
do | know anything about the method
the county auditor has Of keep
ing the accounts Of the various
county funds. l do know, how
ever, that there is not any
register in the treasurer's Office to
show what warrants have been issued
or paid for many years, and as such a
register is desirable in my office for
important reasons, it is a matter Of re-
gret to me that the legislature did not
pass a bill authorizing the repatriation
of our county warrants, as 1t is proba-
BILE that such a register can be obtained
only in this way. / did not tell you
that a large amount of fines had been
assessed since December, 1884.
To the contrary / stated that the
amount Of fines assessed for 1885 was
very small compared TO those Of
previous years. Also | told you that
the fines account Of 1885 did not show
from whom the fines were collected IS
did the same account for previors
years. Very Respectfully,
JOHN M. CAMERON,
Treasurer Warren County.
Mr.. Cameron is in error as TO our
accrediting the remarks in regard to
county scrip record to him. AS to the
using Of the word "large" to fines
shown on the t~reasurer's books, it
depends upon what constitutes a large
amount of lnes to determine whether
we were wrong or not. If he draws a
comparison in the fines shown upon
his books in 1884, as against those Of
1885, then we should have said the
fines of the last year were ''small."
The article was not made upon
information received from Mr..
Cameron alone but from many sources.
Let the law be complied with and the
public will be satisfied.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

been there-just for hve Minutes 1wish Ihad him
here!'
"He had also picked up and gummed together ths
fragments OF paper written all over by you in imitas
ton OF your fathers handwriting. A dangerous
bOyI'
u wish ! had him here"
What will you do nowY'
81 won t so home again. said Dick.
"Welly'
oh" cried Dick, "let that dream Of yours come to
something, count. Teach me all you can. and | will
obey lOu and be your servant. or your partner, or
anything you pease. I was a fool no, to tell you
all a week ago and more
ITO Be Continued
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
THE EAST ST. o U RIOT.

An Eye Witness Tells How It
Special to the Times-Democrat.
ST. LOUIS, April Sat 2:30 o'clock
this evening fifteen deputies, in the
employ Of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad, fred into a crowd of men,
women and children at the Broadway
Crossing of the Louisville & Nash
vile road, and killed FIVE men and one
woman and wounded three men and a
child.
The attack was little short Of MUIR
der, and the following are the facts as
observed by The Times Democrat cor
respondent. who was in the crowd
when the fire was received. About a
week ago the Louisville & Nashville
and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroads had the following notice
posted up along their lines
"Wanted-Men to act as deputy mar-
shals at East st. Louis, to protect this
company's property IS a day paid and
board furnished. None but men of grit
need apply. Call on the company's
agent"
The result of this was that all men
with fighting regulations concluded
now was their chances to distinguish
themselves. Winchester rifles and
Colt forty.fves were furnished and the
men were conveyed here to be put on
duty in the yards. The appearance of
these countrymen with their Winches.
tiers over their shoulders was a con-.
slant source of irritation to the strik-
ers, who saluted the deputies with in
sulting epithets and boots.
Wednesday, while the strikers were
raiding the yards, they encountered
these men with the Wlnchesters; and
this tended to increase the hostile
feeling.
AT noon to-day a coal train on the
Louisville and Nashville was stopped
on the Broadway crossing and the
company, hearing CT it. determined to
march their deputies up and clear the
crossing. At 2:30 o'clock the men
approached, and on reaching the trestle
over Cahokia Creek stopped and the
leader, a man named Hewlett. called
on the crowd to dispense ; the order
was received with jeers. At this time
Dyke avenue bridges and the Broad.
way crossing was filled with men,
women and children, passing to and
fro, laughing and chatting. When the
the posse halted three small boys
standing in the crowd hurled severa.
stones at them, striking several
of the men. John Boner, who
was standing at the east side Of
the Dyke enu bridge, stopped tc
pick up a stone. AS he did so a deputy
called "The Cowboy" leveled his Win
chester, and taking deliberate aim fred
Boner fell over, shot through the heart
The other deputies then lowered thei
heads, and bringing their guns to thei
shoulders fred a volley into the Grove
on the bridge.
The people fled panic stricken
tramping the dead and dying under
foot. The posse then turned the guns
on the crowd on Broadway and de-
livered another volley, men dropping
at every fire. The panic increased,
and children were tramped under foot
in the wild flight for life. No com.
mand had been given, and each man
fired as often as he could.
After delivering three volfeys
the deputies ran over Cahokia bridge
toward the big bridge approach, still
holding their Winchesters and firing to
cover their retreat.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

AN interesting field for scientific re-
search has been opened by Professor s.
P. Langley, by the discovery that heat
radiated from the soil is of an almost
totally different quality from that which
comes from the sun. Exchange.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

THE startling statemtn mt is MADE
that "A Cleveland man is thrown out
Of bed by invisible hands," The hands
may have been invisible to the sleepy
mar thrown out; but his wife knew
when 1t was time for him to get up,
and she was quick in her movements.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

general executive committee, and P.
B. Brown, a prominent Knight Of
Lab r, who came here with Hays,
spoke at a mass meeting this afternoon
and made impassioned appeals to the
Knights Of Labor to obey the laws Of
the country and to rigidly regard all
the laws and PRINCIPLES of the order.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

AMONG the many nurseries which
have been supplying plants and seeds
to this section. none ranks higher than
that Of the IDnisfallen Nursery, Of
Springfield, Ohio. Of which Mr.. Chas.
R. Reeser is the manager. Plants or
dered from him always arrive in first
class condition, and his selections are
among the finest to be had, while the
prices are the most reasonable of all.
He sends more flowers to this city than
any other nursery in the country, and
we have never yet heard a complaint
from any Of his customers. Catalogues
will be sent on application.
FRED DOUGLASS and wife will pass
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

THE mails from East Tennessee,
Georgia and the Cardinals have been
delayed during the past eight days, and
exchanges of the first are just begin.
ling TO arrive from those localities.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

White Bosses and Republican Or
gan Try to Choke Colored News
paper Off,
Chattanooga Daily Times.
The project inaugurated by liberal
and progressive colored men of pub
fishing a weekly newspaper in the city
to represent and reflect the advanced
sentiment of their race was INSTRUCTED
and impeded 10 every way possible by
several of the white bosses and the
Repub lean organ of this city. Finding
that the enterprise could not be over
thrown, another COlored weekly, "The
Tribune" was started in order to choke
off the new venture. This paper is
printed at the office of the Republican
organ, and leading negroes of the city
openly charge that it is published by
them also. The Independent is recog-
nized as the representative journal OF
the colored element of the city. 1t is
set up entirely by colored men and is
free of all entanglements and combi-
nations. Such a paper deserves en-
cOuragement.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16

FRED DOUGLASS and wife will pass
the summer in Europe.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-02-06

SO glad, so proud, to help you little In
my humble way"
So they were married. A few weeks
subsequent TO their bridal, Franklin
BARLEY married an helress.
"Its like Bartley," said DR.. Dale.
He always looks out for the main
chance"
At the end of five years, however,
Franklin BARLEY came back to his ma
tive village, a moody, and disappointed
man. His money had all been dissi-
pated In unwlse speculations, his wife
had returned to her friends, minus her
fortune.
"a Young man married Is a young
man marred," he quoted, gloomily.
Except, perhaps, in Dale's case. He
seems to have grown rich by degrees.
And he Is happy, too, even in the OBJ
scurity of a country physicians life."
"Thanks to my helpful little wife,"
said Dale, with a glance Of pride and
tenderness toward Clissy, who sat on
the doorstep with two chubby children
playing about her knee. "Ve have
worked together, Clissy and l, and our
reward has not been withheld from u.s."