Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-06-07

m0ther IN quaint uxk fkS I'd
any I had ever seen belafz
Here also are = ~ Il ~
cestors Of colonial fias There re =
few rare pieces ef ga <Isina saved
from the general wreck il steal risk.
and in the dining roos, 4sas IL Cd
family silver. where il e.Il not now
stand but for womaH 4re and inee-
nuity.
Further down the rivss Ii 'sCzefao-
ma" the residence Of sha 3hoaas FAM
lily. where there are 30 Interesting
! relies of .oIden tis4ss = s's Tie
quaintest stairways that1 have ever
seen. %
Then comes "DeLa Brook. the res
idsnce of another branch of the same
family, with many traces of ante bel
lum days. On the bank near may be
found relics of still older times. Ar
row heads, tomahawks and pottery,
once belonging to the Patment In
dians. Passing down the river the
traveller reaches Patuxent Beach,
the residence of Judge Crane. Sol
onions Island, once fillel With large
canning houses, and then on down to
the mouth of the river and round Ce-
dar Point, and down the Chesapeake
to Point Lookout, he ascends the Po-
tomac as far as the st. Mary's River.
Here is
ST. MARY's CITY.
founded by Lord Baltimore in 1884.
1t never fulfilled the expeditions of
it's founder. It is now only very
small place, with one or two houses
and Ladies' Seminary. The old
courthouse, built OF bricks brought
from England by Lord Baltimore, was
torn down some time ago, and the
bricks used for other buildings. There
Is one town in 81. Mary's county,
Leonardtown, and two or three small
villages, Chaptico, Mechanicsville and
Charlotte Hall. At the latter place
is iiourishing military school, which
has been there for one hundred years.
Here are also the famous Cool
Springs, which were much resorted to
i'll the early days. / saw in the Whit
tingham library. at Baltimore, some
time ago. DR.. Aliens MSS, Historical
Church in Maryland, June 4, 1905,
which says: "Mr. Philip Lynes APP
pearing at the board and giving an ac-
count ofsome extraordinary cures late
ly wrought at the Cool Springs, st.
Marys county, and that several poor
people locked thither to recover their
health, his excellency the governor is
to send and give to those poor people
at the Cool Springs ten Bibles, there
to remain. His excellency also orders
that Capt. James Kuck and also Mr..
Philip Lynes do provide some sober
person to read the prayers there twice
day, to whom he will give I'D per
day, and is pleased to lend the person
who reads prayers a book Of Homi-
lies, two books of family devotions, and
book OF reformed devotion by DR..
Theophilus Dorrington, out of which
books he is to read to them on Sun
days. Further ordered that the said
Capt. Kuck acqnaint Capt. Jno. Dent.
who is the owner of said house and
land, that if he be willing his excel
lency will have made a reading desk
and some benches, to be placed in the
new house there, for the use OF the
poor people there gathered together.
His excellency is pleased also to al.
low to the said people every Sunday
mutton and as much corn as will
amount to thirteen shilhngs a week.
Ordered, that the person who reads
prayers take an account OF what per-
sons come thither, who are cured, and
of what distempers." 1t will thus be
seen that these are the oldest known
springs in the State.
THE PEOPLE OF ST. MARYs
are very warm-hearted, always ready
to help any one in trouble, and are
still very hospitable. I have been at
one house on the river where twenty
FIVE guests sat down to the table, sew
enteen of whcm were visiting in the
house. think that ii is one of the
greatest trials of many Of the people
that they cannot entertain as they did
before the war, when money and help
were plenty. A few families have
some of their old servants, but with
most of them it is very hard work to
obtain help at all. The older colored
people nearly all work their own land
or work on shares with some planter,
and the young folks nearly all go To
the city. They are aquaint people
and ara well suited to this quiet and
almost forgotten locality-old st. Ma
ry's.-Adaline P. Atwater in Wash'
lnyton Star.