Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-01-19
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meet Tuesday next, the 9Th instant.
Our thanks are returned Hon. ]. FranE
Turner fof copy Of the COmpsroller's Re
port.
Bot few sleighs have turned out thus <ar
the fall Of snow being too light for good
sleighing.
Cold weather and no coal, and several
householiers Of this vicinage are anything
but happy.
The war story now running in the Bal.
timore Herald appears to be eliciting con-
siderable interest and to be very generally
read.
Congressman Compton has introduced n
bill b nay the war claim Of DIR. J. Felix
Morgan, Of Medley's Neck, amounting 70
5000.
l. there, in the State, n single village oi
the size Of LeonartltCwn which docs not
boast Oft social club : Even Port Tobac-
co has one.
Monday nights Temperance Lecture by
Mrs. Black was quite treat and is highly
commended by all who had the good for
tune TO hear it.
We learn with deep regret of the indis.
position Of Hon. Bouj G. Harris and Mr..
John L. Greenwcli and hope that they may
soon lie out and about again.
Mr. J. Marshall Dent is reported TO be
extremely sick Of typhoid fever. lie has
the sympathy Of wide circle Of friends.
DIR. Blackstone is his attending physician.
But two licences TO marry have been is
sued since our last rcport-onc TO Thomas
5. Freeman and Annie NJ. Burroughs the
other to John A. Spears and Mary Lee
colorcd.
Recently, Master Harry Jones, Of this
town, while out cunning witnessed the
remarkable and rare sight Of wild duck
(whistlcrl alighting in a tree. He killed
the duck
We have not yet received copies of the
House and Senate Journals and consc-
qucntly are unable 20 give detailed &C
count Of the doings of our Immediate repre-
scntativcs.
The Annapolis Record and its Laurel
namcsakc are both savaccly after the scalp
Of the Hon. Barnes Compton. The Hon.
Barnes has, however, the Congressional!
Record still on his side.
Mr. Wilkinson has obtained leave to
introduce 4 bill to reimburse St. Mary's
county from the State Treasury, for cxpen-
SEES incurred in the Biscoc case. A petition
10 this end is also being circulated.
II is ever a pleasure for the BEACON to
furnish its friends with back numbers, but
the demand for January editions already
exceeds the supply and consequently we
are unable To obligc parties desiring copies
Of those issues.
The Northwest was, last week, visited
by the most severe blazzard experienced
since January 1864. Over 100 persons are
known 10 have persisted in Dakota, Min
nosota, Nebraska and Montana, and the
reports are not vet all in.
Our thanks are returned kind Omaha
friend for = copy of the Be, and also for
The "Rmksrs' N10hiy," containing a we'll
written anl instructive article on the Pres
iicnt'S Message from the pen oc n former
-. Mary's continuation. Henry w.
Yates.
Monday, Col. Eugene Higgins severed
lis connection with the Treasury Depart
mcnt anil was presented by the clerks in
tie appointment division with y handsome
rim. Tn present was certainly a3pro-
pirate and the Colonel accepted il in feeling
ana Citing words.
Congressman Shaw has appointed Mr..
Charles II. Nandcrford, junior editor Of
the Westminster Adc~c0t,. clerk to the
Committee IN Accounts The selection is
u good ono and Is deserved compliment
to one Of the trucst and staunchcst demo
cratic papers in the State
We have received y copy Of the Election
Law, submitted to the General Assembly
under the instructions Of the last Demo-
cratic State Convention. The dram is such
a lengthy one that we have not yet been
able 10 read it all, and consequently are not
prepared to express an opinion upon it.
TIE Sun Almanac for 1855 is at hand
ana IS fuller and more complete than any
If is predecessors. Il is Invaluable rs
book If reference. For a well prepared,
concise and accurate history Of 1887 il has
no equal. Those pretending to keep up to
the times should subscribe Ia the San and
thus secure its Almanac.
Oar Senator Is chairman Of the Commit
tee IN Inspections and is member Of the
Committees on Finance. Printing and Fx-
pCu>eS of the State Government In the
House, Mr.. Graves is member Of the .Iu-
dietary and Elections Committees, and Mr..
Wilkinson IS on the Committees on Inspcc-
tons AMI the Chesapeake Bay.
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