Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-10-26
downtown Locals.
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The sountl of the steam engine il dali,
heard here about The coarse whistle O
Benville and Company's canning factory
and the shrill one OF Abell's mill keeps one
alive to the fact that there is life in the land
despite the allure of Colonel Best to give
us the song OF steam from the iron horse
Latter pot atoes are being dug and they
are large an perfect. Good yields will
generally be realized Tobacco is housed
and it is of excellent quality. Corn il
being sh'acked and it will require plenty
of room to accommodate it. Few inferior
ears are seen, and those who generally buy
"shoirt" corn to use in fattening their hogs
will have to add few more nickels and
get. the best with which TO consummate
their purpose.
Merchants are getting considerable cash
from oystermen. They give value received
end both seller and purchaser are satisfied.
The Pine takes the palm in supplying
the neighborhood with tender beef, fresh
butter, domestic and foreign fruits, and
last but not least, rum, gin, brandy, wines,
Mountain Dew and other brands of whis.
key.
The saw and hammer are more or less
heard. What was wilderness few years
ago is now cleared and neat cottages dot
the same all of which are principally owned
by Afro-Amer;cans. Education is working
out the vexed problem, "what Is going to
become of the negro?" Let the skeptic
travel down this way and we think that
we could convince him that the State has
not legislated in vain in giving her citizens,
irrespective of class or color, the advan-
tages OF good primary education. Cor.
rect education is great eiEilizer and this
is what the collective wisdom of the State
has essayed to do in giving us the present
admirable system of schools.
They say down in Georgia the 'possum
and coon hunters horns are heard every
night. Well, VIC do not hear the merry
notes of horns and conchs, but varments of
the ma rsupial kind may be bought at rea-
sonable figures. Hares are plentiful, too,
and may be had for ten cents apiece.
A large area has been put in wheat up
to date, and still preparations are being
made to sow more abundantly. There
must be some money in it, Gssuredly so,
otherwise the crop would not be counten-
anced among the staple productions.
The roads are in tolerable good travelling
condition throughout the district. We hear
OF no break downs and consequent threats
to sue the county for damages. That good
roads are blessing TO any community is
so clear to the observing mind that all
attempts to support the assertion by argu-
ment must be deemed superfuous.
Few barreled oysters are being shipped
just now. Later on and The wharves and
warehouses will be burdened with this
delicious appetizer and pocket-book re-
plenisher.
Mr.. Geo. W. Drury, one of our young
farmers, says that he has made enough corn
to serve him. His tobacco is excellent, all
housed, and his wheat sowed. Mr.. d. is a
fair sample of the young farmers of the
district.
Several horses have been entered for the
races which.are to take place at Woodlawn
farm on LIST, End and 3rd November en-
suing. Purses from $25 to 800.
The nights are cool but when the sun
spreads his orient beams on herb and tree,
butterflies white, brown, yellow and varie.
gated may be seen slipping the sweets from
flowers which, uncultivated by man, beau
tify our roadsides, fields, hills and dales.
Unlike -Eso2 who commissioned by Cresus
to consult the oracle Of Delphi, we give it
as our individual opinion that if the dem.
ocrats keep vigilant victory will be theirs
when the polls are closed on the 7th of
November, A. D., 1898.
AzZANA.
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