Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-03-23

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ville's wharf, Captain w. p Dickerson
proprietor. is doing tolerably brisk bust
ness. The captain il an energetic man
and despite the vicissitudes Of the weaihe
fills his orders promptly.
The Miller brothers are selling muct
merchandise, and their prices are reason
able.
Benville and Company's branch store n
their wharfis kept stocked with articles e
suit the trade Pembroke P. Smith Is the
clerk, and we believe that the post-ofics
Wynne is conducted entirely by him.
The regular trips Of the steamers Tygeri
and Arrowsmiih to Smiths creek Is a great
convenience to shippers of this section
Cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc, are more
or less shipped 10 Baltimore and Washing.
ton twice q week
The new engineer, Ed. Hammett, Of
Powell, West and AbelPs steam saw and
grist mill knows all about high pressure
engine. how many revolutions the appara
tus which regulates the supply Of steam
should make per minute, etc. The lumber
and -four from maize give entire satisfaction
10 those whose judgment is in inverse vari-
alton 10 their former crude ideas relative
to such things.
Fox hunters have been ont early and late
trying 10 catch q poor razor back fox, but
it appears that Ben, Beck and Sal, the lead
ing hounds, availing themselves of their
peculiar instinct prefer to chase other quad
rupeds independently Of the wishes oftheir
masters. John Gray Lilburn and Domi-
nick Raley whoop them up with their
stentorian like voices but alas. they do so
in vain. Our sympathy, and right here
we will add word or two in favor of
mans greatest friend. Dogs have no a6e-
quate conception of what We their superiors
term right and wrong
James Dunbar, Wallace Gray, Tom
Abel, Aleck Tennison and son, Allen
Tyler and the Buyche brothers are com.
paratively happy, inasmurh as business is
not adverse with them. ST Inigo's can
boast of good set Of merchants. We can
vouch for them so far as not putting sand
in their sugar and giving Is ounces for q
pound. As to their liquids of intoxicating
quality We have naught to say, as VIC never
use the article and consequently are I'M
prepared to assert that it is mingled with
the limped productions OF the pump. We
do know that hilarity has decreased re.
markably of late, and the conclusion ar.
rived at is that the purchasers follow the
method of drinking wine in the East-add
little water for their stnmachs sake.
An occasional horse race occurs at the
Pine, notwithstanding the fact that New
Jersey, was shaken by the internal fires of
mother earth few days ago.
A letter from DR.. joel Pearson, of Texas,
who has been on a recent visit TO New
Mexican pictures every thing there in
kaleidoscope colors. The young men
Of this section whose minds are seemingly
blank relative 20 the principle which
underlies the familiar proverb, However
lam dressed, shall still be Sancho Panza,"
u.
We fear that number of our neighbors
will not survive long enough to realize
the fruition of their hopes, for there is not
even a word printed nowadays about a
railroad for st. Mary's. No condition of
life so far as our experience has comprised
is without its disadvantages. Ok carts and
bad roads are bearable with the aid of
patience not threadbare. The strenge
religion 81 Theosophy has not reached
this locality to date. We do not want it
here, neither do we wish to see in our
community the advocates of the doctrine
that humiliation is the summit of bliss.
James Roach C'Uncle Snowy and w.
A. w. Clarke c'Rebel Billy'D, Justices of
the Peace, have an occasional trial, and
we believe that justice is always dispensed.
Measles, Mumps and bad colds prevail.
Strong coffee, and tobacco poultices are
used as effectual remedies for the first two
complaints, and different "yerb" decoctions
are recommended by the old women as
mighty good things for the latter. We
have a number of would be doctors here
about as elsewhere.
Our schools are progressing very well
despite sickness. 1t seems to us that
teachers should stand at an illimitabIe dis
lance above reproach, and that their whole
lives should be given to their noble calling
The perpetual reward of conscious duty
will alleviate the sadness which often in
trudes itself into the heart
We cannot even form an approximately
accurate idea of what kind of a day to-
morrow may be. suffice it we are satisfied
whether il is expurgatory to the feelings
or not. All human conceptions outside of
the weather Bureau are necessarily cir
cumscribed.
Geo. w. WEIGH has moved to the Lang
ley farm near Scotland postorsice. George
Is a good farmer, and the farm which he
has rented for the current year is in a high
state of cultivation.
No deaths TO chronicle, and Cupid IL
seems is devoid of energy just now. We
have every reason. however, to believe that
his essential properties are normll-that Is,
he is an entity.
AzzANA.