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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
From the Baltimore Sun.

Saturday, November 20, 1891.
Lee Heffin has confessed having
murdered Mrs. Hines and her three
children in Fauquier county.
The suit against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company for the
death of Patrolman Zapp was COM
promised for 1880.
Joseph Hackett, colored, was
killed with shotgun by his broth
in-in-low in Brookeville, Mont
gomery county.
An effort will be made to induce
the coming session of the Virginia
Legislature to increase the pensions
10 disabled Confederate veterans.
General Palmer, eommander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, is said to have used very
bitter language about the Confed-
crate flag at banquet in Brooklyn.
cambridge Kelly, colored, was
suffocated during a fire in the cellar
of Cassard & Co.'S, furniture ware
house, on Charles street, between
Baltimore and Fayette streets.
William McCrutchen, promi-
nent ranchman living at Seven
Springs, Texas, was shot and killed
by an unknown Mexican. The
Mexican escaped.
The indications are that the
wreck of the Cincinnati Southern
express train near Chattanooga,
TenA., Thursday night, was DELHI
erateiy planned by persons who
displaced a rail.
7. III. Pitts grocery wagon was
struck by a Baltimore and Ohio
express train at Chester, Pa, Mr..
Pitt was slightly hurt. John Mans
ley, aged nine years, was killed, and
John Kennedy, same age, was
fatally hurt.
The interest in the contest for
the speakership of the House in
creases, and the campaign has now
reached the "private consultation
room" stage. The Maryland dele
CATION will probably hold con-
ference early next week.
Conductor Michael Dryer, of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
way, was accidently shot and in
stantly killed near Denison, Texas.
by his companion, Roadmaster
Wright. Dryer was from Phila-
delphia.
VIM. Stenki, Pole, and his five
year-old daughter were walking on
the track of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, west of Railway, n. j., Thurs
day night, when a passenger train
came behind them and ran them
down. The father was killed and
the child terribly injured.
In Hampshire county, W. Va. a
young woman named Mcbride was
burned 10 death by her clothing ac-
cidently taking fire. Vim. Mckee.
in attempting to put out the fire,
had his hands and arms so badly
burned that it is feared amputation
will be necessary.
a corporal of the second battalion
OF the Prince of Wales's Leicester
regiment, stationed at Aldershot.
Eng, who had by petty tyrannies
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
DIED.

In Baltimore city. on Nov. 9, 1891. LIE
LA. IN her 22nd year, daughter Of Charles
b. Wise, formerly of ST. Mary's county
Requiescat in pace.
On November 2Sth, 1891, at his residence
in Baltimore after painful illness, JERE-
MlAH BLAIR, aged 45 years.
At the residence of his parents, in the
End district, CHARLES BURTEN, Young
est son of George and Jennie l.. Arms
worthy, aged year and 8 months.
Our dear little baby closed his eyes in
sleep TO awake in heavenly home.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
RATIFICATION NOTICE.
Charles A. Hardy and others
vs.
Chapman NJ. Smith and others.

In the Circuit Court for st Mary's county,
sitting as a Court of Equity.
No. .22 NE.
ORDERED, this End day Of December,
1891. that the Auditors Report, in the
above cause, be ratified and confirmed I'M
less cause to the contrary be shown on or
before the 4th Monday of December. 1891,
provided a copy 'of this order be published
in the St Mary's BEACON once a week for
three successive weeks prior to the said
4th Monday in December
]. FRANK FORD, Clerk.
True copy-Test:
J. FRANK FORD, Clerk.
Dec 3 '91-3w
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OLD PioEEER--Young men, old men
and ali know where TO get their furniture.
They know that the Brown Store is the
originator of furniture and low prices are
his motto. Too many homes have been
made bright and cheerful by the presence
of the fine furniture johnson has placed
within their walls, and be reminds you
that he intends TO place more in your homes
if Equality and price will help to do it.-ady.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Orphans Court of ST. Mary's County, Set.
Nov. %, 1891.
Ordered by the Court, That George T.
Hutchins, administrator Of Wm Franklin
Combs, late of st. Mary's County, deceased,
give the notice required by law to the
deceased's creditors 10 exhibit theii claims
and that the same be published once a
week for six successive weeks in the ST
Mary's BEACON
Test: JAMES I. NJ. RALEY,
Register Wills for ST. Mary's county
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
NOTICE

In pursuance of the above order, here
by give notice that have obtained from
the Orphans Court of ST. Mary's county
Maryland, letters of administration on the
personal estate Of VIM. Franklin Combs
late of said county, deceased. All persons
having claims against the said deceased
are hereby notified to exhibit the same
with the proper vouchers attached thereto
TO the subscriber, on or before the 23rd day
of May, 1892, they will otherwise 10y law
be excluded from the benefits of the said
estate. All persons indebted To the de-
ceased are requested 10 make immediate pay
ment TO the subscriber.
GEORGE T. HUTCHINS,
Admin strator
Nov 20 1-Gw
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
rRESPAss NOTICE.

ALL persons ara hereby forewarned
against trespassing with dog, gun or 9TH
erwise on our premises known as we.
field" situated in the 9th district. -,
all offenders the law will BE- ,;c;dTr ms
forced, inquiry eh'
~ ~ PAYNE,
Dec 3-1r
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FOR SHERIFF.

Messrs. Editors You viii oblige the
voters of the 3rd election district and his
numerous friends by announcing through
your columns ]. PHILIP greenwich.
as true and tried Democrat for the Sher-
iffalty, subject TO the Democratic nominal
ton, feeling that his election would serve
the people generally.
Democrat, Third Election District.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

There arrived a few days since a lady
and gentleman at Moore's Hotel, inauiring
the way 20 the Brown Store After buyinc
pair of those solid comfort shoes they
walked 20 miles without any complaint
about cOrns and hurting their feet-adv.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
RATIFICATION NOTICE.
jacob Humbird
vs..
W. II. Vile and wife.

Tnthe Circuit Court for St. Mary's county,
No. 737.. N. f.
ORDERED. this 30th day of Nov. 1891,
that the Auditors Report, in the above
cause, be ratified and confirmed unless
cause to the contrary be shown on or be-
fore the 4th Monday Of Dec, 1891, provi-
ded copy of this order be published in
the st Mary's BEACON once week for
three successive weeks prior 20 the SAL
| 4th Monday in December. r..
j. FRANK FORD, Clerk,
| True copy-Test
j. FRANK FORD, Clerk.
| Dec 3 91--4t 49, 81
S.,hI,..she - ~, r,laIr.,r, p finl,r f,s dln
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

TWO STORY HOUSE and . acre lot
i situate on ST. Mary's Rivers acres of
oyster ground laid off Price, $3.50. Near
Bscon's wharf. Apply to
HARRY j. HOGG or JOHN II. AUD,
Valley Lee p. o., ST. Mary's CO., Nd
Dec Sim. Enterprise please copy)
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
FARMS FOR SALE.

Farm of o acres, fertile, good build
ngs, situate about II miles from Oakville
and four miles from steamboat wharf
Good state of cultivation. Price $4,000
Terms easy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
MARRIED.

In Baltimore city, on the 9th of Novem-
Der, 1891, at ST Martins Church, by the
Rev. Thos. J. Brodyrick, GEORGE b.
CECIL and ANNIE NJ. RALEY.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
FOR RENT.
TRESPASS NOTICE.

LII persona are hereby forewarned
n againss trespassing with dog, gun or
otherwise on my premises known a.
Part of Roundabout and Shanks' Ven
ture," stu ted in the Ord District. Against
all offenders the law will be rigidly en-
forced. CHARLES +. GRAVES.
Nov 10 Oft
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
New Advertisements.


THREE Breach Loading Guns. APP
ply to
p. o. BUDD,
Moore's Hotel.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
RATIFICATION NOTICE
The Washington Loan 81 Trust Company
Henrietta @ Forrest, survivor of Joseph
Forrest

In the Circuit Court for ST. Msry's county,
sitting as Court Of Equity.
No 734 N. Z.
Ordered this 12th day of Nov, 1891, that
the Auditors report i'm the above cause he
ratified and confirmed, unless cause 10 the
contrary be shown ON or before the 2nd
Monday ofDecember, 1891; provided copy
of this order be published in the ST Mary's
BEACON, once q week 70. three SUGGEST ge
weeks, priok TO the said End Monday of
December.
J. FRANK FORD, Clerk.
True conY-Test:
]. FRANK FORD, Clerk.
Nvvt 19-3wE
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03
NOTICE.

THERE win be meeting of the st. Ma
Il rvs County Farmers Alliance In
Leonardtown on TUESDAY, Dec. stb.
proximo, at 2 o'clock, P. NJ. A full atten'
dance is desired.
GEO. Il GARNER, President
St. Mary's County Farmers Alliance
Nov. 29-2t
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

Farm ESQ acres on Brittan's Bay oppo
site LeoLsrdtown. Under high state o
improvement. All necessary outbuildings
Fine place for fruit. Price 5000. Terms
easy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

Farm 10 acres, good buildings, fine sol
and well improved. Suitable for trucking
Price $l,5Dc. Near st. Joseph's Church
Terms easy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

Farm 20 acres on ST. Clements Bay
Fine two-story dwelling. New. Suitable
for cultivation of fruit. Beautiful view
Price 5000. Apply to
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

A small farm, II miles South of Chaptico,
at Cross Roads. Two miles from steam
boat wharf n acres. Common Improve
ments. Good stand for business-mercan-
tile or mechanical. Suitable for fruit.
Price, $500. Terms easy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-12-03

Small tract of land on tributary of st.
Clements Bay. Good dwelling. About
acres. Good for trucking. Price $3.50.
Terms easy
10. F. MORGAN, Attorney
Aug % It'll Leonardtown, Md.
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Subscribe to the Beacon. Only one do.
lar lear.
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can be found in Southern Maryland. /
have now on exhibition everything that is
usually kept in a. frst-class establishment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN.

The experiment tried in the new Mis-
sissippi Constitution professedly for the
purpose of restricting the ignorant and
reckless suffrage is attracting attention.
The Boston Irdoeller refers to the feature
requiring voters to pay poll-tax of 81 per
capita, four months in advance of the an
nual election, as ga plan for getting rid Of
the c6ored vote" which has been sue
cessful, as three-fourths of the negroes Of
the State have neglected the provision and
are consequently unregistered.
So far as this one feature is concerned it
is difficult to see any injustice if it is i'm
partially applied. A provision of that sort
does not differ in principle from the Penn
sylvania provision that voters must have
paid at least poll tax assessed two
months and paid one month before cleo
ton. If any class do not place enough
value on their electoral franchises to COM
ply with known provision of this sort,
as is alleged of the Mississippi colored
people, the inference that they are not
very valuable voters is obvious
A rather different view is to be taken of
the other Mississippi feature of an educa-
tional qualification for suffrage. Here the
theory is unexceptionable. Any State has
the right to require certain degree of
education in its voters, and it is praise
worthy step If the educational standard is
not juggled with. But when it is asserted
by an outspoken Democratic paper like
the New York Ad0ertise7 that the Missis-
sippi qualification is applied so as to rule
out colored voters while admitting
ignorant whites to suffrage, the case against
the fairness and honesty of Mississippi is
rather strong.
The South should learn, and faith in
the progress of the human race includes the
belief that it will, that the solution of the
negro problem lies in giving whites and
blacks an exactly equal. treatment before
the law
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
FATE IN A TEACUP.
sPooning Couples Should Learn All Thefr
Lessons by Heart.


New York Advertiserl
Here are a few old superstitions regarding
the ever-friendly cup that cheers: If while
the tea is being made and the lid, which has
been removed to pour in the water, is for
gotten, it Is sure sign that some one will
"drop in to tea''
If single person happens to have two
spoons in his or her saucer, it is prediction
that the fortunate Tor unfortunately drinker
of that particular cup will be married within
year from that date.
1fyou put cream in your cup before the
sugar it will "cross your love- so be very
careful.
If a tea stalk floats in the cup, it is called
"beau," and when this is seen unmarried
women should stir their tea very quickly
round and round and round, and then hold
the spoon upright in the center of the cup.
III the beau" is attracted to the spoon and
clings to it, he will be sure to call very
shortly, If not the same evening, but if the
come.
Examine the tea leaves in your cup if you
are plebeian enough to boil your tea instead
OF drawing it In the refined ana dainty
fashion, for a lot of leaves mean money and
fortune.
If you want to know how many years will
eiapse before you may expect to be mar
ried, balance your spoon on the edge of your
cup, first noting that it is perfectly dry, fill
another spoon partly with tea, and holding
it above the balanced spoon, let the drops of
tea gather to the tip of the spoon and gen.
tly fall into the bowl of the one below.
Count the drops-each one stands for a
year.
1t Is a sign of fair weather if the cluster OF
small air bubbles formed by the sugar col
lect and remain in the center of the cup. If
they rush to the sides it will surely rain be-
fore night.
When the toast is made, three or four thin
slices of bread must lie cut tine whole length
OF the loaf and placed one over the other.
This done. they must all be cut in half with
one sweep of the knife. If this is done by q
young woman, and the slices are not sew
cred clean through to the plate, she will not
De married within the year; if the bread
parts in two even heaps, she might as well
order her trosseau. On no account must she
take the last piece of toast or bread on the
plate, unless she wishes to be an old maid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
A VOICE FROM THE TRIsrs.

The Albany EoeRing journal is making
O persistent though rather belated asser-
tion Of its mistaken loyalty to the trusts
10y referring to the present low price of
sugar as an evidence that the trust is all
right and has never had a monopoly 1t
asserts that the "demagogic outcries" have
led the people TO believe that ''it had mo-
nopolized the sugar refining facilities of
the land, but that Spreckels has always
competed with it. To which it adds ''that
the trust was organized as a reaction
from the excessive competition which had
rendered sugar refining unproftable.'
\ person of very moderate intelligence
would ind no difficulty in asking how, if
the trust did not suspend competition
which forms the essential feature of a mo-
nopoly, it would do any good as a reaction
against the alleged excessive competition.
The inquiry, however, is rendered the less
important from two facts which the trust
organ carefully suppresses in its advocacy
Of the Sugar Trust. The first is that
Spreckels did not compete with the Sugar
Trust east Of the Rocky Mountains during
the period in which its control of the mar
Eet was most absolute and extortionate
His establishment of 4 competing refinery
in Philadelphia was a result of the high
prices which the trust established, and
illustrates the principle, which THE Dis
PATCH has always maintained, that unless
the trust possess, as the Standard Oil
Company has heretofore, some lever for
choking off new competition, they will
bring at once their own remedy and their
own punishment by calling new establish
mentS into existence.
The other fact this champion of the
trusts suppresSeS is no less significant
The article is based on the statements of a
New York telegram with regard to the re-
ductiOn in the wholesale prices of refined
sugar. That telegram states, and the
trust organ scrupulously omits to mention,
that two years ago sugar sold at S4c, while
now it is fraction below &c. The reduc-
tion in duty on the raw sugars used by the
refneries averages about &c. This
leaves the margin of 234c as the extra
price which the trust levied on sugars
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
A SMALL GOLD PREMIUM.

For some time the New York money
market has made a distinction between
loans payable in gold and those payable in
| any class of legal tender. This has at
tracted attention. By charging IL per
cent higher interest on the latter than on
the former a premium is practically placed
on gold. The fact has elected wide COM
ment in the Eastern press, which gener-
ally holds it up as an example of the re-
suits of the agitation for free silver coin
age.
The appearance of an actual though
slight premium on gold is legitimate
argument to show how any disturbance OF
the monetary confidence can create an ap-
probation of the metal which is in uni
veTsal demand for monetary use, OF cor
responding depreciation in the forms of
money which are available for use only in
single country In that light the con-
dition of the money market referred to is
a cogent argument with reference to what
we may expect if free silver coinage is
adopted. But it is certainly premature to
regard it as a result of the agitation in
favor of that measure for two reasons,
either one of which should be sufficient.
If the temporary slight premium is to be
referred to silver measures at all, it is
plainly more referable to the silver legis-
lation actually in effect than to that which
is not an existing condition, but is only
proposition for the future. If the pre-
mium on gold should become higher, it is
plain that those who wish gold can pre-
sent legal tenders at the Treasury and de-
mand specie in payment. But, if the
Treasury under the present law has so
large a share of its reserve in silver that it
is forced to meet these demands with pay
ments in whole or in part in silver coin,
the correctness of the prescience involved
in the premium would be vindicated. That
free silver coinage will create a gold pre-
MUM of Is or 20 per cent is beyond "a
tional dispute. But it is by no means GER
tain that the policy of loading up the
Treasury with S54, 100000 of silver annu-
ally will not more gradually reach the
same goal; and so far as the premium re-
ported from New York has any bearing
on the question, it is most strongly related
to the latter cause.
1t is questionable, however, whether the
silver question has very much to do with
the small and probably transient prefer
ence for gold indicated in the New York
loan market. Impartial investigation will
probably show it to be mainly-due to the
scarcity of gold caused by recent exporta-
tions of that metal, and the efforts of the
banks to strengthen their reserves in ex-
pectation of the fall drain of money to the |
interior
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

M. HENRI LIroLFF, the well-known musician
and composer, is dead.
MRS MARY MCCORMICK, sister-in-law of Sena-
tor Cameron, died at Harrisburg Thursday.
MRS. ELIZA MERRITT, widow of Daniel Merritt.
died at her home in Middlehope, near Newburg n .
Y. wednesday, aged 81 years. She was one of the
most widely known ladies living in that section
She leaves four children.
r. F. CAMP, ex-Assemblyman of the Third dis
trict of Westchester county. died Thursday at
Purdy,s station, n. Y. Mr.. Camp was 10 years of
age and was one of the oldest stockholders in the
S6oe and Leather Bank, New York.
Ex-GovERNoR SAMUEL b. AxTELL died Thurs
day at the residence of his son-in-law, Charles NJ
Phillips in Morristown, N. j., after a brief i'll
meas He was born in Franklin county, o., Octo-
her IL 1879 and was educated at Oberlin and West
ern Reserve colleges.
John j. COCHRAN, an Assistant Surgeon in the
limited States army. with the rank of Captain died
Thursday at St. Lukes Hospital, New York, after
a lingering illness of typhoid fever. Captain
Cochran was native of Cambridge, Mass, where
he was born in 1858.
MISS DoLLIE SMITH, one Of Names most tai
ented artists is dead, aged 81. She had occupied
studio in New York and Boston. Among the more
notable of her works was the painting from Long
feiow's poem, 'Hiawatha," which occupied a
prominent position in the Memorial Hall exhibition
at Philadelphia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
SOME OF PUCK's FUCKERS.

First Deadly Enemy-The world is wide
enough for us both.
Second Deadly Enemy-Yes; but 1t is not deep
enough for you.
Mrs. Worrys (awaking her lord)-
Charles, get up. think the baby has the Group.
Mr.. Worrys-Hadn't better wait till you are
sure?
"a tough fred at policeman yesterday
with a heavy caliber revolver
''And what did the policeman do? Did he arrest
the tough?''
mo. He arrested the bullet.'
"Papa, what is an agnostic?" askedJ johnny
Cumso.
IAN agnostic, Johnny, is a man who knows very
little and is not sure of that"
Jack (strolling home from the evening
services)-There used to be a law in New England
prohibiting kissing on Sunday.
Maude (coyly)-Well, it isn't IN force now. is it9
(And the moon went behind a cloud to laugh).
Miss Midas-DO you expect to go to col
lege next year. Mr. Cresus?
Young Crnsus-Not much. Father is going to
have them bring IL to me.
"Ah, Jonesy, old man," said Hicks, as he
and Jones walked home from the club; there's a
light in your window for you. You married
men"
by George, so there is!'' returned Jones.
Lets go back 10 the club
Tommy - Mama, should we love our
enemies?
Mama-Yes, darling.
Tommy-And is Katie papa's enemy2
AIama-No; but she's mine, and papa and I are
onel
'T believe in giving the devil his DUE"
said Evergreen.
so do l; and wish he had great many OF his
overdue ~ replied Brightly. bitterly.
Kitty Winslow-Physical culture is quite
a fad of mine: see for instance. how well MI. Van
Nobs stands.
Tom De witt-Oh. yes: he stands better against
dark-blue portiere than he does financially.