Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-05-06


Yoke geese and black snakes xii:
Set hens; set traps for theiving rats.
Set what you please, but don't sef STILL
Some few garden roses are i'm bloom.
Mr.. William Kirshaw and wife are
guests Of Moore's Hotel. this town.
The oyster season II over, hut the bows
win occasionally slip or down the bay
for n mess.
Tuesday next, May nth, will be the
regular meeting day of the County Com
missioners.
The raw weather of the early Spring
is assigned as the cause of present prev
alcnce of ''chills and fevers.''
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
was formally opened May LIST, instant
The attendance was estimated at $1,000.
We are indebted to Mr.. Charles III.
Meyers for copy of the Fifth Annual
Report of the Maryland Bureau OF Stat
istics.
The BEAcoN's best wishes for O long.
happy and prosperous married life Ii
extended to the young couples recently
married.
That Hon. Sydney y. Mudd Ii cam
didate for the Republican Judicial NOM
ination is the latest political on dc of
Importance.
We are informed that recently some
one went into Mr.. Joseph w. Colds
borough's tobacco bed at night and stole
NIL his cabbage plants.
The st. Mary's County Sunday School
Convention will be held in the Leonard
town NJ. 4. Church, beginning Saturday
night, May 18th.
Some work has been done ON the roads,
and the different district forces are now
all in commission. We trust that all
work done will be well done.
Mrs. William A. Fenwick, OF Hyatts-
Vile, who for some time past has been
staying with her sister. Mrs. NJ. =.
Moore, this town, returned home to-day.
Part OF the lumber for the building Of
q colored hotel In Iseonardtown has been
hauled and work will be begun this week.
The new building will be owned by a
beneficial association,
Bishop Henry Yates satterlee, of the
Washington Diocese, will visit St. An
drew's parish to-day, [Thursday.l The
Bishop viii preach ut Sc. Peters, Leon
ardtown, ut 7:30 p. m, this evening.
Miss Mary Cough has returned from
her visit to Philadelphia aud Ia again at
Moore's Hotel, this town. On her trip
from Baltimore Miss Cough was accom-
panied by Ellen Fenwick, who had been
visiting her mother In that city.
We arc informed that the sale of the
personal property of the late Igns. Z.
Mattingly was very largely attended and
that the things sold well. Auctioneer
Long says there were more people pres
ent than he ever before saw at o sale.
We have received the Fifteenth An
nual Report of the Baltimore Eye, Ear
and Throat Charity Hospital. This Ia
one of the most meritorious charities in
Maryland and does On immense amount
Of good. Last year Alec patients were
there treated.
8. NJ. Payne has been appointed post
master at Clements, this county, vice
John T. Herbert. removed. Sorry for
"Thad !" he II o good man aud was q
polite and an accommodating official
The cause of his removal, no doubt, was
his uncompromising Democracy. We
hope his turn will come again
The old board of Town Commission.
ers for LeonardtGwn were reelected
Monday last without opposition. The
board superintendent the equipment Of
aus fire department and deserves great
credit for It's work. The vacancy In the
old board was filed by the election Of
DIR. l.. Ernest Payne.
March list, ultimo, Mrs J. J. Alvey, Of
Morganza, went to Raltimare to have
her eyes and ears treated. For eight
days after her arrival in the city she
was totally blind and deaf, but aftel
fourteen days treatment by Drs. McCon
chic and Chisholm, both her sight and
hearing were completely restored. Mrs
A. Is now in excellent health.
A cask OF tobacco, shipped by Sc
Mary's planter and stamped with thu
stencil of the Tobacco Growers Associ
alton was recently sold and discovered
to be the worse mixed hogshead sent e
market this season. The buyer has SEN
the name and marks on the cask 20 th'
President of the Association. We az
afraid this packer has done himself Al
injury he viii not soon be able TO undo
The wedding. Wednesday Of las
week, OF Mr.. George T. Mattingly an'
Miss Rosa Elizabeth Abel. Ii said Il
have been one of the prettiest seen II
1t. Aloysius Church for many days
The groom Is q SON of Mr.. James II
Mattingly and IL . prosperous younI
farmer. The bride In q daughter of MI
Henry Abel and Is one Of the pretties
and most attractive young ladies OF TIL
district We wish them much happiness