The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-21
TRENITFES.

Mr.. Benjamin Levin, of this town, Is
visiting relatives in New York.
Read the advertisement of Messrs S.
Edlavitch & Sons in another column.
Miss Mary w. Merrick, of this town,
is on a visit to relatives in Baltimore.
Mr. Robert B. Seaborn, of Groom, has
resigned his position in No. ) State To-
bacco Warehouse.
Mr. E. Castle, of West Virginia, has
been visiting his brother County Treasurer
! p. p. Castle, at his home in Laurel
Or thanks are due for a copy of the
tw enty ninth annual report of st. Mary S
Industrial School for Boys which is locat-
ed in Baltimore.
The many friends of DR.. Charles {.
Marbury will be pleased to learn that he
has so far recovered his health as to be
able to 90 Atlantic City.
Our thanks are due to Hon. A. T..
German for a copy of the abstract OF
the Eleventh Census, second Edition;
also for copy of the official Congress
sional Directory.
| The American Type Founders Com
pany, of Baltimore, has just issued a com
plete Catalogue and Price List of Print
ing Materials, handsomely bound in scar
let and gold and fully illustrated.
| The engineer corps of the Washing
ton and Chesapeake Bay Railway COM
rany commenced yesterday to run new
line in the vicinity of this town, with a
view of changing the proposed route from
| the course as already laid out.
| Miss Amelia Magrudcr, daughter of
the late John r. Magruder, formerly, of
this county, died last week. She was a
| near relative of the late Mr.. John Henry
| Waring, and had many relatives and
| friends living in Southern Maryland.
Mr. J. Frank Ford, Of St. Mary's
county, the courteous and popular eX-
Clerk of the Court of Appeals, has taken
| the place of the late Mr.. Carpenter in the
firm of Dudley & Carpenter, Commission
Merchants, Baltimore. The old firm
name will be retained.
AT meeting of the TownCommission-
ners held ON January 10th, Messrs. Ma
gruder, Tucker and Griffith, being in at
tendance, Mr.. James r. Tighe, Deputy
Sheriff of the county was appointed
| Town Bailiff and was authorized to col
| lect the dog tax by February 18th.
Maryland postmasters were appoint
ed last Thursday as follows: Lakeland
Prince Georges county, John Richard
Ihrie vice William c. Parker, resigned;
PindelI, Anne Arundel county, r. NJ
Pindell; vice Robert NJ Pindell, Jr., resig
| ned; BToome's Island, in Calvert county,
Reverdy Jones
The Maryland State Fish Commits
| sioners have made a report of the number
of food fishes distributed last year, as fol-
lows: White perch, 44,150,000; yellow
perch, 40,300,0 900: brook trout, 301, 100;
shad. 80, 625 900: lake trout. $4,000; rain
| bow trout, ,905; black bass, 10000; small
mouth bass, JOO: cat -nSh, bUO.
Governor Lowndes has issued proc
lamation announcing that splenetic or
Southern fever exists among cattle in
certain Southern and Southwestern States
Quarantine regulations will be enforced
against those sections, and no cattle from
from points south of given line will be
permitted to enter Maryland.
An amendment to the marriage law of
this state will be introduced at the present
session of the Maryland Legislature by
Senator Crothers and Representative
Writ. of Cecil county, the amendment re-
ferred to providing that party applying
for marriage license shall be personally
known to the clerk or furnish proper
| indentifcation.
We desire our friends to bear in mind
| that every item of neighborhood news
that they send US will aid in making this
paper interesting to themselves and all
our readers. If anything happens out of
the usual order--fires, accidents, weddings,
funerals, or any of the numerous incidents
that 90 to make up life of a county neigh
borhood, make note of it and send it to
us. We will fix it up for publication.
The stockholders of the Citizens Ma
tonal Bank Of Laurel, at their meeting
on Tuesday of last week elected directors
for the ensuing year. An election of
officers of the bank will held at the next
meeting. The directors elected Tuesday
were c. II. Stanley A. G. Thomas, c. F.
Shalrer, Barnes Compton, w. II. Cor
man, Francis Thomas, Lloyd +. Dorsey
c. f. Shatfer .Tr, Robert II. Miller, T. F
Derrick, and G. W. Waters.
We hear that Editor Adrian Posey
of the Charles county "Independent," has
purchased the press and type of the Port
Tobacco Times" (Which has been consol
idated with the "Crcscent'D and will be.
gin, next month, the publication of "A Re
publican newspaper here. We are glaG
20 welcome any enterprise that will bring
prosperity to our town, but as there are
already five newspapers in this county
one of which is Republican, we can not be-
lieve there is room for another The estab
lishment of a good mill here, to utilize oul
splendid water power, would be a better
| move.
Capt. Charles G. Gordon, UniteG
States Army, retired, is furnishing testi
mony in his contested election case agains
Senator William B. Clayett, of Prime,
Georges, of the use of Democratic none,
in the purchase of votes at the last elec
ton in that county. Now, if the othe
side takes similar testimony, the Senat,
will have a hard time deciding which part
is guilticSt in the matter of bribery. |
has been generally understood among pol
iticians that Captain Gordon's pocketbool
constituted one of his chief claims to recog
milton by the Republicans of Prime
Georges :, and he managed after much diff
ticulty. to get on the regular ticket las