Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-07-20
downtown Locals.
Crops are very promising.


Truckers are very successful this season.
Vegetables of all kinds raised in this lati-
tude are plentiful and cheap with the ex-
ception 10 tomotoes which bring from $3.50
to $500 per box.
Consignments Of peaches are being made
and from 30 cts, TO 500 per box received
shows the difference in the quality Of this
fruit. The Washington market so far is
the better one, that is, up to date better
prices are received by shippers.
Farmers are getting along well with their
crops. Corn and tobacco seemingly vie
with each other in showing their apprecia.
ton Of recent showers, which keep the
earth moist and cool.
Grass is kept within proper limits with
hoe and plow, but to keep it from assuming
the mastery laborers are forced TO bestir
themselves early and late.
One cannot overestimate the cool breezes
which blow from the bay during the early
morning, parting day and at night. Sleep
is refreshing and the whole man is made to
feel just as the wine grows better and better
at grand feast.
Merchants of the district unite in making
a general howl relative to the dullness of
business. When were they ever perfectly
content?
No sickness worth mentioning, and doc
tors Miles and Wayson seem as happy as
an infant rocked to sleep or made quiet in
its mothers arms by sweet lullabies.
Dooly Wood and John Moore, Esqrs.,
have returned from Percostin, Va, with
several fine boats which they purchased
while there. These boats when thoroughly
completed with sails, etc, are worth from
1925 to $50. They are swift and safe
sailing vessels.
Mr. John Gray Lilburn is having large
and commodious dwelling erected near the
site of his old one, and when finished, it
will be monument to the skill of the
contractors.
Marion Hopewell, a respectable colored
woman, of Newtown, near the Pine, died
a few days ago of chronic complaint.
w. 2. Powelrs temperance store is re-
plete with a choice selection of goods, and
from information correctly impaired 10 us,
we gladly state without sacrificing truth to
enthusiasm, that he is doing fair business.
This store is on st. Jerome's creek and il is
not classed with the others of the district:
so we give il separate mention.
Politicians preserve a quietness which is
remarkable indeed and it is with no little
difficulty that gleanings of their actions
may be ascertained. While some Of them
have an overweening vanity, the majority
appear as other noted men-iheir extraor-
binary merits as politicians are not exhib-
tied on unimportant occasions. Their
chief forte is telling action at the proper
time, and the ensuing November election
will no doubt verify the assertion.
Messrs Clarke and Potter, fishermen OF
St. Georges Island, are catching and ship
ping barrels of fish called grunters to Bal
timore from Benville's wharf They get
10 cts, per h., net for them. 4 few Sleeps
head are being caught by Jas Corsey and
Aleck Williams. littoral fishermen. There
seems TO be great difficulty to procure the
proper bait, mananose, as either the hot
water of last Summer or the cold weather
the past Winter has killed them in man :
places.
The comet may be seen about $50 D
m, just about the horizon by looking To
the North, that is, if it be perfectly clear
and ones eyes are in a normal condition
Some Of our friends are little uneasy,
and are asking the knowing ones of the
village if the strange visitor isn't a fore.
runner of evil. or, perhaps, sign that the
Worlds Fair will end disastriously in diff
ferent ways, particularly as q money
making concern.
We have been informed that the teachers
of the primary schools of the district have
been reappointed for the ensuing scholastic
year. They are Misses Raley. Milburn
Hebb, and Baker Herbert, Esqr.
The cooling of doves and the soft, swee,
notes Of the oriole are frequently heard in
the land.
AZZANA.