Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-02-11
Saint Maru's Beacon.
COUNTY NEWS.


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We were pleased to receive call, Tues
day last, from Reyds j. w. Chesley and
Levin So;horon.
The Orphans and Commissioners Cousts
were In session Tuesday and there was
quite crowd in town.
We regrs, our inability to accommodate
all Of our correspondents in .his weeks
paper. We hope to clear our files next
week.
Recently Mr.. Leo w. B. Graves, Of Pa
tuxent, and Miss Myrtle Graves were mar
ried. We wish the young couple many
years o: happiness.
We have been esked 10 reprint the com
munication favoring high license which
appeared in last weeks Enterprise. 1t will
be published in our next paper.
In the License discussion now going on
we hope the different advocates will re-
member that "abuse is not argument" and
accord each other the need of honest opin-
ions.
Mr.. f. Waiter Matiingly, formerly of
Mechanicsyille, has removed TO Baltimore,
and is running large boarding house at
321 N. Charles street. Stop with him when
In the city.
Il is go seldom that country newspaper
editors have anything good said ofthem that
we have thought il well to reproduce on
our first page the Baltimore Sun sketches
Of the members of the Maryland Editors
Association.
We hope our representatives in the
General Assembly will speedily get TO
work on the local legislation necessary for
our county. They may find some chaff
in the taxpayers recommendations but
they will also discover not little good,
solid grain.
Mr.. Clifford A. Carberry, formerly of
Brittan's Neck, this county, died suddenly
at his residence in Washington, ID. c.,
Sunday, the It'll, instant Mr.. Carberry
was about 80 years old and has many st.
Mary's relatives and friends to mourn his
untimely death.
MIR. Robert f. GIeenwell, OF Usage Mis-
sion, Kansas, has been on visit 10 his
relatives in our county. His father re-
moved from ST. Mary's TO Kentucky near
the beginning ofthe present century leaving
the house in Leonardtown now occupied
by Mr.. Francis V. King.
The Comptroller's report shows the total
receipts of the St. Mary's Clerks Office for
the year ending September 30, 1891, 10 have
been $2,53S. The amount paid Deputy
Clerks was 5000 The total receipts OF the
Register of Wills Office for the year ending
September 30, 1890, were S57G.
Wednesday last Messrs. Louis p. Combs
and BENZ G. Mckay, of the second district,
hauled a gill seine in = little arm of the
Potomac which makes up into their farms
and caught about 5000 brim and perch.
They shipped about thousand punches
70 Baltimore and realized therefrom about
$500.
Thomas Jourdan, the largest colOrcd
aApalOI III o.. MAI - utCu at hhs 'SeA-
dence in the second district Friday night
of last week, Uncle" Tom was a good
citizen and was held in the highest esteem
by all who knew him. Landlord" Jere.
Jourdan, of Leonardtown, is a son Of the
deceased.
We return thanks to Hon. Marion deK.
Smith for a copy of the Comptroller's Re
port for the fiscal year 1891. We regret To
state that the report shows that though
there is bat one county IN the State with
smaller assessed valuation than st. Mary's
that we lead all the counties in the amount
paid into the State Treasury for Traders's
Liquor Licences. ST. Mary's paid 1923,
and Allegany comes second with 81 $3.50.