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DentsvilIe Happenin gs.

Miss Josephine Ward, who hes been VISIT
;rg relatives in Washington, returne ed nome
~ :. NJ Marshall Hancock has improved his
broperty with a nice large piazza.
y MI. Robert Murphy, our accommodating TO-
and energetic merchant lost Valuao'e MORSE
NJ James Cooksey, Jr., has beautliled his
nome with nice enclosure. ,..o
0 The little folks, who have been victims .!
EWbooping Cough so long, are ali well again
and attending school regularly
Mr.. Posey Herbert thrifty and lp lsunc
IONS farmer has planted half OF his TOBACCO
crop. loo, ,p;te sick
ia we are glad to say, improving ,..,;n
Mrs. Dorsey Barber who has been Visiuhl
Ms lanes Ward has returned home:
X Master Ferdinand Cooksey nas oeeh 81
noiuted sexton of Trinity Chapel.
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Destroying stumps.

An exchange suggests the following method
for getting rid of stumps without making
large hole in the ground. We have heard OF
two ways Of getting rid of stumps, when as
thew appeal feasible and expensive, we nope
some reader will try, and report upon. Bore
with two-lnch anger to the heart OF the
stump, fill the cavity thus made with Su'pn~-
nc acid or with crude oil of petroleum. In
the first case the suphuric acid becomes tne
destructive agent within few months IN u,
latter when the stump becomes saturated
with the oil it is fred, and then burn out I
the last particles, Ikea candle.-Ameriea'
Agriculturist.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.
TINE Board of School Commissioners viii
meet at their office In Ia Plata,

Tuesday, 1nG 9TH, 1897.
Or the purpose Of receiving Teachers Reports,
and to transact general business.
Teachers Association, white, Monday,
Nav 3lst
Teachers Association, colored, Friday
May 2Stb.
Teachers Of white schools will be paid on
Friday, July 9Th.
Teachers Of colored schools will be paid on
Thursday, July 9Th.
Teachers eau be supplied with Blank Term
Reports by calling on, or sending to Mr..
Thomas B Farrall.
Teachers must charge themselves in their
Reports with the full amount Of Books pur-
CHASED by them from the Book Depository
I n bah charges for incidentals must be
ceompanied with a voucher. Teachers de-
ring friends to collect their salaries are re-
Qested to send written orders.
| All reports must be made out on blanks
p,pared for the purpose. Every report must be
ARMED, or sworn to before a justice of the
pece or Il member of the board, unless the
teeher has taken the oath of office.
be attention of all teachers is especially
ed tC the instructions recently issued by
th, Board with regard to the attendance Of
teahers at Teachers Associations.
IL certificates shat have expired o. are
about to expire, must be forwarded for re-
negal.
The attention of all teachers is especially
called to the 9th Rule under ''Rules pnd Regu-
lIalona for the guidance Of teachers in the
care and distribution of Free Text books
Teachers not complying with this Rule, their
reports will be returned for completion.
II By order of the Board,
II THOMAS NJ CARPENTER,
IIsy l4-at Secretary.
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nentsyilIe Items.

The many friends of Mrs R. L. MURPHY
wife of our popular merchant Mr. H. I.
Murphy will be glad to learn she has en'ireiy
recovered
Rumor saws we will soon bear the merry
weadinp bells again, and of course we Will
miss one of our fairess women.
Al saws he wants house keeper, Mag. 90
sou think you would like it2
Mr. and Mrs. Cooksey are proud 1.-THE ii''ls
visitor Jim. They have named hum Mckinney
wonder why the owner of the sorrel OF
prvantowu comes down this way SO oi'en
Miss was he on hand Sunday
We are sorry to hear the schools Will CLOSE
VI soon. Miss NJ. are you going to teach TIT
1driver Of the last gray next year
| what mas become of our base bail ooy
Kant YOU get up nine, Della am sure u
/ girls will come out.
J ( Earnest, did you see her Sunday Is yo'
e wheel built for two2
We are glad to learn Mr., NJ. A. Freem'
# has gotten over his hurt.
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Married.

Dr. 4 L. Middleton, Of Prince Georges
and Miss Algine s. Berry OF 'ii-
Gina were quietly married at ST. johns
Church. Fails Church, Virginia, on wed
nasdav last The bride il a daughter oil the
Thomas B. Berry and has many relatives anu
friends in this county. The groom Is wen
known physician of Prince Georges county
The neuly married couple will reside at the
home OF the groom near Pis'ataway oui
congratulations
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Harris Lot Items.


The exhibition at ''our hall' was success
on Tuesday night. Our good Father Wad'
said be was satisfied Though our people are
too poor, or indisposed to pay their very ZOO
old Doctors, they will in their excess ofpiety,
attend every place of amusement, decked out
''in fine feathers" and spend generously
You know the good old preacher said ''Those
who giyeth to the church, lendsth to the
Lord when he wanted TO convert heathens
abroad instead of heathens at homf) II sat
istied with the nvestment-''shell out your
dncats" and they were shelled ont! Ser1
ously the nShadow Pantomine" was exec
lent heard a lady who had been to Loudo
snd visited every city of Importance from
San Francisco to New York, say-that
was the best show she ever saw, for tn
money
Mrs. Mills, = most interesting lady from
Washington is vlsitrg at "Milton Hill" Her
mother, Mrs Richmond nee Calquohn, a dis
tingushed Scotch name, came to Washing
ton a poor widow. with two little boys and
three girls, with no friends-she had lost the
little she had in England. Some Of our VIC
lnen would have drowned themselves, bu'
with brains and education and untiring ener
gy, sSe went to work to provide for her dar
ling ''brood '-made friends and found EN-
ploy ment, one of he: boys is today gettns
$4,000 year, the other profitable positions
whenever be will attend to them; two girls
married well--one whose husband was
phenomenal mine expert, hut died wheG
about to realize fortune, left his wife with
two bright little girls dependent upon her,
and they are today the joy Of their mother.
aud the admiration of their host orfriends J
The baby" of the family got position at
81 a week, and now gets some eighteen har
bred a year, as chief purchasing wour4 =
| Laces, Silks, &c. trusted TO buy at - ~
York for the 'Palais Royal and .s. lLn III
4 nv Mr.. Lister to Paris pc ,-1lteo chech
next wear with An nnIIssg our Mr.. Posey
this thusly, ask ve lae to live on cneese,
studying law =, he may tell you that "a
and wster-s anything stronger, and IS the
Sr;nks s,,,nr county in wealth, as our tax boo
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Orphans Court.

The Orphans Court was in session in this
town on Tuesday Full bench present.
Will of Leri P. Wilcox filed, probated
and ordered to be recorded
Bond of Ernest 2 Wilcox, Guardian to
Everett L. Wilcox, fled and approved
Hearing Of citation of AT. Bealle, post
pored until June LIST.
Court adjourned TO meet June LIST 1897
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sunday school Convention

The Charles County School Convention
,y;u he held at the NJ. E. Church this town
on Saturday and Sunday, Nay 2S'h ana
3otb Mr.. Samuel R Neaye viii preside
over the meetings. The first session q sat
nrdav will be at 2. 30 P NJ. Sunday services
will be at 1890 o'clock A NJ and Z u
These meetings are iuter-denominetional.
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Tobacco Contract.

the French has awarded the contract LOT
furnishing Maryland Tobacco. Henry Lou'z
and Co. has secured the contract ior Two
thirds of the contract and A Schumacher ana
10 the remaining one-third. The number o.
ho,.beads wanted is 10000 The award OF
the contract was made knoTn on Thursday
of last week
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Religious Notice

On Sunday next. May 23rd, Rev. William
L. i3raddock will preach in St. Paul's chapel
At II A. NJ, and in Town Hall in La Plata,
atsPM. Divine service, with Holy Com
mnnion in Christ Church, on Ascension
Day, May 27th, at II A NJ.
J.E. PoINDEXTER, Rector.
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nmicA Ha .steIs.

when YOU buy alway get the best. The Old
po,,ahIe Mccormick Harvesting Company
,,ccbiuery is the best. See the machines
m Al la Plata and you will find they
have no equal. Binder Irvine always OF
hand Best sisaI and Standard Manila al
nays en- hand at lowest market price.
l. NJ. SWITZERLAND, Agent,
LA Plata, Md.
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Cuyler Clay. Jr..


Is beautiful bright BAY about l54 hands
Ugh He will be Eleven years old June 15th,
Se7 Record is not precisely known, but
stated upon information considered relia-
ei at a private trial. to be under 2:4O. Will
tand for the season OF 1897, beginning March
10Th, ending June 18th for Ten Dollars for
zach Mare. Payable at commencement OF
erslce. Insurance Twenty Dollars. Fifty
cents in each case for the groom. Will
stand IN Charles and st. Mary's Counties.
Wy groom is authorized TO make all contracts
to loca! stands, board Of himselfand horse
- No responsibility for accidents 1t will be
seen from the above that CUYLER CLAY,
JR., is hneal descendant OF the best and
most celebrated Hors OF the United States,
lin particul Of George NJ. Patchen, who,
in his day, held the stallion record of the
world, and Rysdyks Hambletonian who has
The record Of having been the greatest sire Of
last trotteTs in the country; and among his
Ianeestry re numbered the siFes and dams
aoi the greatest American Trotters.
aFor further particulars see or Inquire Of
ps groom, Edmond Shiveral, Newburgh,
.harles County, Md. Certificates of registry
d license in groom's possession.
FRANK. W. MATTHEW'S,
FEB. Prem Owner.
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sssN Nightingale club.

The Nightingale Club will give two plays
Comrades and Imogene, at the hall in hughes
vile on the 7th, and 18th, of June at Z. a.
Reserved seats soc. Admission TO the hail 20e'
Dance after the plays free to ali ticket holders
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Dental Notice.

l will be IN my office at La Plata, on
May 25th, and Gotta, 1897.
P. E. SASSBER
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CUYLER CLAY, JR.
e''s.'''s.e - e..s-:..:e - o.....s.-.e .,.,..
TR0TTING REGISTER.
o!''s|-'.S -. e......s..o y. o..-.:..s..e .....

+ e d / c. r e e
BY OUYLER CLAY 2796: VOL. V.P.
70 American Trotting Register.
CUYLER CLAY by CUYLER (lOO;) Guy
EK BY HAMBLETONlAN TO- (Rysdyk's
re OF Dexter, Geroge Wilkes and other
oled Trotters. Hambetonian by Abdallah
size Of dam Of Goldsmith Maid
Dam OF Cuyler. Grey Rose Grey Rose by
iarTis Hambletonian, son OF Imported
lessenger. Dam of Cuyler Clay, Bridget ;
iridget by Geo. NJ. Patchen, be by Cassius
/. Clay out Of Daughter Of Headein, sou Of
imported trustee. Dam OF Bridget Daughter
May LAY sire of May Queen out of Daugh-
e Of Tom Benton son Of Abdallah |. Dam
{ Cuyer Clay, Jr., Kentucky Bell (Vol. 6
american Trottiig Register p. 277.)
Kentucky Belle b. Hamlet 100; Hamlet by
olunteer and he by Rysdyk's Hambletonian
Dam Of Kentucky Belle, Flash, by Ericsson
3d. Ericsson by Mambrino Chief Dam Of
Flash by Long Island Black Hawk he by
andrew jackson Dam Sallie Miller By Nam.
IunO l449.
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AMERICAN TROTTING
REGISTER ASSOCIATION,
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 18th, 1897
........a - e.,.,....:.

CHlCAObf Al%S.i -AS." -'s-i @~Sis
.s-.+Ts - s'.-!'s'-:-
rxSBIs promising young Trotting Stallion
will be allowed to serve ll~lted nuns
her of mares for the season OF 1897.
Rinsldo. with months handling as three
vesr old. showed trial in 2.4s. Showed nall
55n;ls In l.l5 last season, on half mile track,
S;,b very little handling Should make
fast horse with handling
He has the elements OF speed ana enuur-
auce in his breeding.
Through his sire he gets strong infusion
Of play, Morgsn and thoroughorea.
Through his Dam he gets the Arabian and
American Star blood.
This combination of blood should produce
great results.
ra- TERMS $1,000 for single mare
win privilege of returning next season II no.
proving with toal'
V. H n eale,
Baltimore, or Harris Lot,
Charles Co, Md
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Ee understand sus- ,.pSIspSei Point has
s glas P' '@ 70 fine houses in Washington
: II. LLOYD, of Piccawaxen, recently
IT oldapair of oxen as Seeves, for Sl26,3o
Mr.. LLOYD knows how to make money out Of
81 90 corn.
.arre dwelling and store, with post-ohce
attached and use of ice house for rent. Terms
liberal. Apply to, W. 7. TiPpett NewbuFg'
Nd.
The entertainment given ny Miss Matte
R,ooke. at Wiconco, last week. for the bene-
fit of the public school library was success
and neat sum realized
Weare much indebted to Captain K W.
Sylvester, of the Maryland Agricultural COL
lege for the substantial gift Of some hne 10
mato and egg plants.
Marriage licenses were issued during tn'
u week to the following persons; Georg'
q saann and Frances Wheeler, James Dyson
and Susie E. Green, all eolored
Shin your wool to Biedler jackson, tn
only Commission Merchants in Baltimore ei'
who are making speciality of wool. 500
prices guaranteed. 1t is thoroughly relaDi
house.
The wolf after the sheep. The higne
market prices paid Tor wool. Sacks iurnist
ed, free quotations received here oall
The Wolf Hurry, for trade leader OF .
prices.
The ladies of La Plata will have ice crea
for sale in the room Of the Ladies a
society in the town hall On Tuesday Of ca
week. The proceeds are to be devoted 70
Episcopal Reetory here
Cards are out announcing the marriage
Miss Maria Hilda Gardiner Of Prince Geo
coppty. TO Mr.. Philip Henisler OF wa
ioo,on city to Ike place al St. Marys Gnu
Piscatssny on Wednesday June End.
The dramatic entertainment entitled Il
GENE or the Witches Secret which wa
have been reproduced by the Nghunl
cnb Al the residence Of Captain Frank Bl
On Fdaav night last, was, owing to IN
mept weather postponed TO tonight
aoop's sarsapalilla has over
III over again proved by its Gu
when all other preparations 1alled'
Il Is the One True BLOOD Purh
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Established IN 1874
Published Ever, Friday Morning.
ADRIAN PosEY, Publisher.

Subscription, 81 agar 3 months, Is cents
months, so cents All subscription in ad-
vance.
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-Four changes allowed to yearly advertisers
without additional charge
All advertisements due and payable after the
first insertion
Obituaries and Personal Communications
will be inserted at ten cents per line.
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WT0OL selling for better prices this sea-
I w son. Wool sacks sent free Of charge
for lots of 200 lbs. or more about May lst.
Order early. No charge for drayage.
J. A. HANCOCK,
1000 Linden Ave, Baltimore.
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Mortgages Sale
OF VALUABLE
Personal Property

DY virtue ola power contained in Mort
ID gage from james K Raley and Law
renee Adams to "rhe Geiser Manufacturing
Company" dated the 18th day Of January IN
the year 1895, recorded in vol 3, folio
SsS &c, one the Mortgage records Of ST.
Mary's County and BY virtue Of power
contained in Mortgage from the said Raiey
and Adams to the said "Geiser Manufacture
ing Company" dated the 3rd day OF July, in
the year 1896, recorded in vol j. g @ folio
l03 &c, one OF the Mortgage records Of said
81. Mary County, and By virtue Of power
contained in Il Mortgage from the said Rsley
aud Adams to the said ''tieiser Manufacturing
Company" dated the l9th day Of january, ia
the year 1897, recorded ia Liter J g. q
No. A, one OF the Mortgage records Of said S.
NarY's County, the undersigned will sell 81
WIUOMICO by Public Auction
to the highest bidder or bidders on
WEDNESDAY, The 0M day Of
/nne, 1897
the following personal property:
One Traction complete; One
Saw Mill and attachments, belts sc /;
One Peerless Separator and appur-
tenances; One Sorrel Mare and One
Yoke of Oxen.
TERMS or SALE.-CAsH.
A. Il. DEARDOFr
Agent named in Mortgage.
ADRIAN PoSEY,
Attorney for the Mortgage.
May l4-dt
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Friday, May 21st, - 1897.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

See announcement of Mr.. F. B. Matthews, in
another column.
Mr.. Pearl Padgettr is spending few days
in Washington City.
Mr.. Willie Brawner, of Washington, lie
visiting friends in the county
Miss Ellie Murray was the guest of Miss
Mona HUNT during the week.
Mr.. Edgar Boarman, of Washington is
visiting friends in the county.
Miss Ella Davis has returned from an ex-
tended visit to friends in Baltimore.
Mr.. Richard Mitchell, of Baltimore spent
few dsys in the comfy during the week.
Rev. Father Chester, ofBaltimore was in
the county on business during the week.
Mr.. s. Cox attended the Episcopal Conven-
ton held in Was 4ington during the week.
Miss Pauline Freeman has returned from
pleasant visit to friends in Washington city.
Mrs. J. f. Poindexter is visiting her
mother, Mrs. B. G. Wallace, Fredericksburg,
Va.
Mrs. John E. Hamilton, who has been visit
ing friends in Baltimore, returned home
yesterday.
Miss Lula Goode, of St. Mary's county, is a
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Charles R. Clark,
Newburg
Rev. LIZ. Poindexter attended. the Epis-
copai convention held in Washington during
the week
Mr.. Alexander Hamilton, of Washington,
spent several days with friends in the county
during the week
Mr.. and Mrs F. D. Howard, have return
ed from their wedding trip and are now at
home in Benedict
Bishop Satterlee is strongly in favor of
moving the Episcopal church from Port To-
\ bacco to this town,
Mr. VIM. 7. Tippett. has improved his pro-
< perty at Aliens Fresh by the erection Of a
new store house.
Miss Rosie Sanders returned home on
Monday, from pleasant visit to the Misses
Gibbons, near Hill Top.
States Attorney C. Hammett, of St
Mary's County, was among the visitors tt
court during the week.
The entertainment given in the Harris Lo
hall on Tuesday night last was quite sue
cess, both socially and financially.
Mrs Morris Wolf of La Pata, spent few
days last week with Mr.. and Mrs, j. L
Edlavitch Marlboro Gazette.
E. B. Ouval Co., of Baltimore, have ap
pointed Mr. VIM. NJ. Howard, of Bel Alton
AGENT for Fire Insurance in this county
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GUARANTEED ANALYSIS.

100 pounds Of Nitrate Of Potash mixed
! with 100 pounds Of earth will give
mixture containing s per cent Ammonia !
and % per cent Potash in its most availa-
) bic form. 100 pounds mixed with 800
pounds Of soil will give 4 per cent Of !
} Ammonia and IL per cent Of Potash.
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Terms for Adve Using Transient Rates
advertisements Of oae square or less, and not
exceeding three insertions; win be inserted for
81 50, or Is cents Tor each subsequent insertion
longer ones in the same proportion. A space
equal to eight lines of BREWER makes square.
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and delicate than those briefly referred
to is desirable. Several bearing such
names as "nicrOseismoscope" or "ni-
croseiSmometer" have been invented
The desideratum in this line of scien-
tlfic invention has been to find a mode
OF suspension which is at once astatic.
or superior to the influence Of the
earth's magnetism and as nearly fric-
t1onleSS as is possible. The crossed
line suspension device as readily real
ICES this as anything that has been de-
vised up to date
This microseismometer consists Of
two hobs separately suspended at right
angles to each other, one above the
other, in cast iron case. To the ton
OF the case is fixed a microscope. Its
thermometer eye piece is focused on
a hair stretched transversely across a
vertical tube in the upper bob. This
measures horizontal motion in the
plane of the drawing. Motion at right
angles to this is shown by the lower
bob, which carries similar transverse
hair. A tense which is fixed between
the hobs reveals an image of the lower
hair in the plane Of the upper hair. so
that both appear crossed in the mi
cfoscope. Both components Of horizon
tai motion can thus be observed to-
gether
1t is in Prof Mines scheme to have
C6HlTdI odrlHQudke SCauOn in Eng
land. 1t may be either located on the
Isle Of Wight or at Greenwich. This
central station would have Instruments
to record not only the slower pulsatory
motion Of the ground, but also to regis
ter the more rapid vibrations. To oh
tain complete record Of some earth
quakes a minor record is required of
the premonitory symptoms eliminating
in it's birth, the magnitude and freq
uency Of the vibrations, constituting its
life, and the spasmodic tremblines
which are sequent upon the relief of the
seismic strain.
The aggregate Of the sums annually
spent by civilized nations upon the OBJ
servation Of movements in the heavens
in the atmosphere and upon inland and
ocean waters is enormous Whilst ali
this labor, study and expense goes on
we ourselves, and the suppositiously
ste tionary locations of the instruments
used to record such changes. are FREQ
uently moved back and forth-in some
parts Of the world altogether for hours
during every year,. The people of the
United States, especially those on the
lower Pacific coast region, where earth
movements are frequent, and the in
habitants Of the Carolinas, with whom
their realistic earthquake is still a liv-
irg. sad and serious memory. will
watch with interest FOR the installation
of Prof Mines isystem and his seis-
mographs