Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-12-09

The Orphans Court met Monday and
transacted routine business,
Soon the Christmas Holidays will be on
hand and SO will the boarding school lads
and lassies.
Nearly thirty millions of bushels of
wheat changed hands in New York on
the 4th instant.
December term of Court began Monday.
Owing to the Indictment weather the atten-
dance was very small.
The Port Tobacco Times says that the
Biscoe trial has already cost st. Mary's
about seven hundred dollars.
At Mondays session of the Circuit Court
the Dockets were called and judgments
entered in uncontested cases.
The Beautiful Snow" is here again, and
Judging from its enormous amount it would
seem that it had come to stay.
Hon b. G. Harris has been elected one
of the ce-presidents Of the Maryland
State Agricultural Association.
Mr.. w. A. Locker whose indispostion
was noticed in last weeks BEACON, is, we
are pleased to see, out and about again.
The Dredge Machine is expected to put
in an appearance ere long and to go to work
deepening and improving the channel of
our bay.
The Snow-fa will average nearly if not
quite two feet "The old inhabitant" re-
members nothing equal to it since the
winter of So
Mr. Chas A. Watts has been appointed
Justice of the Peace for the Second Dis
trict, vice Mr. Charles J. Foxwell resigned
and removed to Baltimore.
We invite the especial attention of all
shippers to the notice of the Steamer Sue to
/ be found elsewhere She will discontinue
her trips on the 23rd instant.
A friend informs us that comet is now
visible in the northern heavens at o'clock
in the morning. Perhaps there is, but we
are never out late enough to see it.
In our last paper the downtown" folks
challenged the upper Country to competi-
tive fox-hunt. No back down gentlemen!
Meet at Great Mills and have it out.
| While on his way to attend the funeral
of Mr. John +. Fenwick, Capt. Joseph For
rest, was thrown from his horse and so
severely injured as to require medical atten-
ton.
The short session of the Forty ninth Con-
gress began last Monday, but unless the
present snow fall dminishes it will be long
enough before Saint Mary's gets any news
from it.
Recently, Mr.. Jos. II. Key, ofthis village,
killed 30 hogs which averaged 212 pounds
apiece II of these polkers were little
over year old and the others were last
Springs pigs.
Christmas is but fifteen days off Do
not wait until the last week to lay in your
stock of presents. Give the shopkeepers
who advertise a chance. Those who don't
advertise don't want any.
The latest European news Ia to the effect
that it is seriously proposed to place an
American on the Bulgarian throne. The
only and original General" Bailey is the
man for the place. Leonardtown will
unanimously endorse him.
1t will be called to mind that Prof Fos-
ter predicted the blizzard now on hand.
He was, in the present instance, true
prophet Of plaques His predictions were
reprinted in the BEACON of November,
the 18th
The death of Captain James Aston, aged
81, removes from our midst m old, and
valued citizen. The Captain was true
democrat, was proud Of having voted for
jackson and always polled hickory tree"
ticket. May he rest in peace.
At the recent annual meeting of the Public
School Commissioners, resolutions compli-
mentary Of Comptroller Turner's manage
ment of the Public School Funds were pro-
posed and adopted without dissenting
voice. This was deserved compliment to
faithful official
The pall-bearers for Mr. Felix Fenwick
were Messrs. VIM. F. Greenwell. J. D.
Thompson, d. G. Hammett, Robt G. Cl.nbs,
Phil H. Dorsy, and b. r. Abel. The in
terment was made in st. Johns graveyard
and its consecrated ground covers no better
man or truey gentleman.
Collector Burroughs, Of the 9Th district,
started from his home near Mechancsyille
at oclk, "a. M, to-day, on horse back, and
reached LeOnardtown at 1.30 o'clock, p. m.
He reports the Southern Maryland as run
ming on schedule time. No vehicle can, he
says, travel from Mechanicsyile to this
place.
Mr.. Paul Winchester has bought the
Easton Independent and changed its name
10 the Democrat. Mr.. Winchester was a
member of the last General Assembly and
if he brings as much talent to tho discharge
Of his editorial duties as he did TO his legis-
latiye, his paper will be an excellent one.
We wish him success
Lieut.. Boswell and private T. K Stone
street attended the hop of the Leonardtown
Rifles last week. They returned home on
Friday full of gratitude and thanks to their
comrades in arms for the very pleasant
time they enjoyed while their guests Com
radcs, the Howard Rifles will try, in the