Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-17

The Electric Street Lighting-Prince Georges
County Notes.
CorrespoEdenc nee of The EveninS Star


County Notes.
Correspoidence of The EvennS Sts-.
LEREL, MD, Nov. 16, 1892
The city council at its session Monday night
signed the contract with the Laurel Electric
Light Company for the erection of 100 electric
lights on the streets Of this town at the price
OF Sl2 per light per year. Under the contract
the lights are 10 burn till / o'clock a. NJ, and
the council reserves the right to have the
lights burn all night by paying 50 per light
extra. The contract is for five years. and the
streets are to be lighted on or before January
3. 1893. Additional lamps may be ordered by
the council at the same rate as that agreed to
be paid for the first 100.
The company is composed OF well-known
citizens end business men of Laurel and Balti-
more, and 1t is promised that the town will
have the best light that can be made by the
latest improved machinery and methods for
generation of electricity.
THE DEMO CRATIC COLONIZATION.
The meeting of the democrats at Flester' 8
Hail to consider the advisability OF celebrating
the democratic victory was adjourned till FRI
day night at o'clock at the same place. The
terrible storm that was raging at the time ap-
pointed for the meeting prevented all but few
from being present.
INVESTIGATING THE WELL WATER.
The comparatively level nature of the land
in that part Of the town near the railroad and
the absence Of sewers to carry of the refuse
and surplus rainfall has long since led physi-
clans TO predict an epidemic caused by impure
well water. Despite these predictions the
wells of the town, which are not more than
twelve or fifteen feet deep. have continued to
furnish an abundant supply of water. which
has demonstrated its purity and its GOODNESS is
attested by the fact that not one family in
twenty ever uses ice in drinking water the hot
test day in summer. This mystery TO physi-
clans is now explained by the geolo-
gists who have been prospecting in
this vicinity. These experts state that
few feet below the surface is vein Of
what is commonly called potter's clay, which it
Ia impossible for the water filtering through the
top soil to penetrate. and even if it does succeed
III getting through the first layer it is resisted
by another and even third vein OF the same
clay. all within eight or ten feet Of the surface.
1t is thus demonstrated that the wells are sup
piled from the water sheds higher up, and pos
sibly up to the very base of the mountains
many miles to the west. This must be the case
since the water is pure, clear and cold. The
discovery creates much satisfaction in the
minds of our citizens, who are assured that if
their wells are contaminated it will be their
own fault and arise from local causes.
NOTES.
There were many democrats in this, the ban
ner democratic district OF the county. before
he election, but Judging from the number of
applicants for Office it would seem that this
number has been increased. Petitions, it is
said. are already iii circulation asking the APP
pointment of several worthy democrats, though
no change can be made before the 4th of March
next, and possibly not for some time after that
date.
The revival jus: closed at the Southern Meth
odist Church resulted i'll the conversion of over
fifty persons.
Revival services will begin at Centenary NJ.
E. Church Thursday night and will continue
as long az an interest in the meetings can be
maintained.
At the session of the city council last night
an ordinance was passed closing Montgomery
street at the crossing of the railroad This is
not new move in railroad matters. a similar
order having been passed five or six years ago
and overlooked or found defective.
shooting match for fortv-fve turkeys will
be held by the local shooters the day before
Thanksgiving on the farm OF Mr.. W. H. Owens
near Laurel. The shooting will be done with
shotguns at O mark and the shot nearest the CEN
ter will take the turkey. and there will be no re-
strictions placed upon the size or quantity Of
shot forming the charge
As predicted in The STAR. the proposition to
increase the levy i'll Howard county to build
district roads and the one to bond the county
TO bulld tho wilkins avenue bridge were both
defeated by heavy ,najorties at the election
held in that county last week. 1t is now pro-
posed to erect bridge across the PatapscQ by
private subscriptions E.P. &.