Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-09-02

The much aeedej rain came last Non
day night
The Public schools will reopen Thur
day, september 18th.
The Signal Service Bureau assures u &C
the early arrival of cold wave.
Don't fail 10 attend the Democratic pr
mary meetings next Saturday.
Those wanting % rent farms will do well
to overlook our advertising columns.
We invite the attention Of all our readers
10 the advertisements in this issue.
Only early risers, last Sunday, saw thu
eclipse. Ii occurred about sunrise.
Our thanks are due Mr.. Frank Herbert,
of Richmond, for interesting papers.
Tobacco cutting is well under way and
many farmers have housed their crop.
Glasses at the Female Academy in This
village will be resumed Monday next.
The Baltimore market reports indicate
an upward tendency in the price If wheat
Mr.. Norris, Of Charles, brother Of Mr..
l. ID. Freeman, Of Medley Neck, died last
week
The grape crop in our county this season
has been failure, the fruit rottening before
becoming ripe.
Mrs. Bell has had a neat and comfortable
dwelling erected on her recent pur.hase
near thi. village.
Dog fights are becoming popular amuse-
meat in this village and the trouble is that
they all take place after bedtime.
There is an unusual scarcity IF "green-
backs and local news. Either will be-
thankfully received at this Office.
Mr.. Philip Freeman, OF Baltimore, though
still quite sick, was at latest reports very
much better, and thought To- be GONZALES
cling
Capt John IL. lIammett. who died re-
Gently AT his home in Prince Frederick. was
born in - Mary'S, and moved a. Calvert
in 1857
The oyster season for tongers opened
Wednesday, the ist inst Up to the time
of going Ia press 200 licenses have been OBJ
tanned.
Wat, al II year old son of Meredack
Clarke, a worthy colored citizen, Of this
village, died, last Thursday morning, after
brief illness
Reports. from nearly every section Of the
county have been received, showing that
Tuesdays earthquake shock was felt all
over 81. Mary's.
The School Beard held u special meeting
last Saturday for the purpose Of adjudicat-
Ing the trouble in the Sth district between
a teacher and patrons
The Republican primaries will he held
i'll the several districts on Saturday, Sept.
IL. The County Convention meets in
Leonardtown on the following Tuesday.
AIR. Jno. W. Ralry. of st. Clements Bay,
recently sold u part of his tobacco crop, OBJ
tanning therefor an average of cents.
W. \. Padgett X Co, were the statesmen.
Mr.. Albert Jones of this village, has re-
turned from an extended visit To friends
and relatives in Baltimore and Washing
ton.
Sunday, u snake was killed in the Ytting
room of Miss Nellie Haydn's residence. \
friend sees nothing strange in the occurrence,
because sweet things always attract
snakes"
Mr.. Charles Y. Hayden recently sold his
bay gclding, Fired Maddox" To- Mr. Kelly,
of Baltimore county, for $500. Fred"
has been entered for one or the races at the
Timonium Fair
Resources ri the soil do not end ABRUPT
ly at four or five inches in depth, yet there
are hundreds Of farms where all beneath il
terra incngnita because no effort has ever
been made To exp Bre.
J. Templeton Gardiner, of Chaptico, was
last Saturday ordained Priest 10y Cardinal
Gibbons. He celebrated his first Mass last
Sunday, at Woodstock. and his second, at
Leonardtown church on the lSt inst
Mr. Jones, of Washington, pressman in
the Government Printing Office and a
clever gentleman. called 10 see us last Tues
day and gave u some new wrinkles"
in presswork. For which. many thanks.
Mr. II. N. II. Yates. Of this district.
truly in a stream of bad luck Recently,
We reported the death from cholera of all
Of his hogs save two and now. We are in
formed, that he has lost a valuable mare
Last Friday night. the Str Thompson.
brought Sunday School Excursion from
Liverpool Point They stopped ut Moore's
Hotel. and for his efforts Ia make their time
pass pleasantly, the Count Is i've dollars
out and the Society that amount richer.
In its last number the Laurel Recie,c thus
compliments the Steamer Thompson: 1t
would be 4 happy thought for the owners
of the steamer Thompson, Of the Potomac
river, 10 give her pretty general applica-
ton If holyStone, from end a. end, and also
pay little attention to her state rooms,
and a. for the meals served on her--well
they might be relished by convicts'
The lee Book.'
Prom. hs Wt~Lihgto" Post. Aug. l, 1885.
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