Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-10-14
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Make arrangements 20 come yourself and
10 bring your neighbor 10 the Democratic
Mass Meeting on the 2Gth instant.
In the Chaptico neighborhood, usually
one a he healthiest in the county, there i.
at present a great deal Of sickness
Owing 70 severe sickness in their families
Mesrs. Dent and Tyler were unable to attend
Tuesdays meeting of the Levy Court
Recently, Walter, son Of Mr. John Mat
tingley, while hauling in fodder, fell from
the cart and had his leg and arm badly
hurt.
The Laurel Free Quill says Mr. Compton
should have an ovation al the polls. We
hope he viii get il and that il will consist
Of votes
Let the partridge alone until the legal
time for cunning them and they will be
more plentiful this season than for many
years past.
Meredack Clark, colored, has purchased
a tract of land in the woods To the north
ward Of the Race track and will soon begin
building home.
Mr.. Alex King has obtained position in
Crooks Shoe Store, AZ n. Eutaw ST, Baiti-
more and would he pleased to receive calls
from his ST. Mary's friends.
Our thanks are returned Mr.. Frank Her
bert for copies Of Richmond papers con-
tanning the proceedings of the General
Assembly of the Knights Of Labor.
In another column We republish an ar
ticle from the Baltimore Sun descriptive Of
Mr.. Pabst's Farm on Breton's Bay and
his Energetic Methods Of Improvement"
The BEACON is indebted to DIR. G. ".
Chancellor, Secretary Of the State Board of
Health, for copy of the Sixth Biennial
Report of the State Board of Health for
1886.
Don't forget Ia attend the Tournament
next Friday. Ii is for Il worthy object and
we hope that for the Ladies and Charity's
sweet sakes that large amount may be re-
allied.
\ chemist has discovered how 10 make
quinine at Il cost of six cents an ounce
This will prove a severe blow 10 the Drug
gists, and will make the drug nearly as easy
T. get as the chills.
The mail due Monday night reached here
next night and Tuesdays mail has not yet
put in an appearance. The carrier says
that when he left Mechanicsville q O'clock,
p. M neither cars nor mail had reported.
Mr. W. Frank Leach sends us lot of
fresh raSpberres which he has just gath
cred. Does the oldest inhahitant' ever
before remember having seen or heard Of
this fruit, fresh On vines. "a late aS October
9Th.
The tournament for the benefit of the
Charleston sufferers will come off rs al
yertiscd and We hope that u large crowd
will attend. II is for worthy cause and
the Entertainment will BE- well worth the
money.
An accident To the :. NJ. II. II. engine,
Tuesday, was the cause of the nun-arrival
Of the mail on that day. The break down
occurred ut Gallant Green and from thence
Ia Mechanicsvile, mail and passengers
travelled on a hand-car.
\ friend of ours was presented by Mr..
Hillery johnson this week with sweet
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81 lbs. Though not the heaviest on record,
il is at least the heaviest we have seen.
And, now, who can beat il?
Mr.. Richard L. Knox, Of Baltimore,
whose discharge aS chief engineer of the
steamer Gov. Thomas, of the tate fishery
force, brought about controversy on ac-
count Of his being an Confederate, has
been reinstatsd in his old position, and has
entered upon his duties.
Instead of landing on -. Georges Island
rs stated by the Annapolis Historian, the
Maryland Pilgrims made their first landing
on -. Clements, now Blakistone's Island
twenty miles higher up the Potomac
Father Whites letters and the traditions of
the county bears out this statement Blak-
istone's Island is situated at the mouths of
Brittan's and 81 Clements Bays.
Mr.. Holmes has published an open letter
{" Mr.. Compton inviting 4 comparison Of
his official conduct with any or all Of his
predecessors in the School Examiners office,
and in regard to the alleged diversions of
the School Fund, charging the Ex-State
Treasurer with being pIrticcps cTin.iAis.
Al the Leonarltown Mass Meeting on the
Goth instant, Mr.. Compton will file his
answer.
/ The rAfal bulls appointing Rev Alfred
\. Curtis Bishop Of Wilmington have been
! received by Cardinal Gibbons and deliver
al Ia the hi>hop-elect. Father Curtis was
formerly clergyman Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, which he len IL enter
4 the Catholic Church ih 1871. He has been
stationed at the Cathedral the greater part
II the time since. He is So years old, was
born in Somerset county and is well known
u many If our readers.
Ns~ Yorker in 80. Mays.