Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-01-05
saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
LocaIwIse and Otherwise.

DO was the prize number for Lockers
china set and Mr.. George Y. McCullv
won by guessing 3l5.
The holidays passed of quietly in and
around Leonardtown and we have no
accidents to chronicle.
The cold snap arrived Saturday night
on time and attended strictly to bust
ness after IFS arrival.
Mrs. Joseph II. Key, of Tudor Hall,
LeOnardsown, is quite sick. We wish
her speedy congalescence. /.
Go to Levinson's and get your sweet
heart Christmas present He will sell
ySu nice gold watch or ring cheap for
the cash.
The pocketbook containing Ss5s left
at the BEACON Office. was claimed by
Lucy Young. colored, aud has been
turned over to her.
Mr.. James +. Abel and daughters
have moved into the dwelling In Leon
asdtowu reccEtiy occupied by Mr.. A. T..
Fenwiek and family.
In the January distribution of the
Public School Funds st. Mary's received
for white schools, $is63. 81, and for col
ored schools, $157929
II young lady wants pair of beat
tiful made.to-orier Oxford ties In black
or tan, she viii find them at f. o. Nor
gan's store. Leonardtown.
Our local merchants say that their
sales last year just prior to Christ
mas did not amount TO as much as their
sales prior TO the Christmas of 1897.
4 mosaic breastpin has been lost in
the streets in Leonardtowu. The flow
ers on the pin are fOrget-me-nots. Re-
ward IL returned TO the BEACON Office.
Dir. A. F. Fenwick and family are in
Baltimore, where they expect to remain
until the plastering of their new dwell
ing is sufficiently dry TO permit its safe
occupancy.
George w. Cole, eolored, has taken
the Barber Shop at the Drug Store, and
viii be found there at all times. He is
an artist in his line ami understands
his business in all It's branches.-adv.
Sister Mary Lnyola Fens;ck, who has
bscn SO long sick of typhoid contracted
In nursing the soldiers at Chicamauga
and Knoxville, is so far convalescent as
TO admit of her return to Baltimore.
Friday last, Mr. Willie Nelson, of this
district, lost his valuable grey horse,
Hector. The animals head was affected
and il was sick for but short while.
The horse was valued at about 500
December 26th, ultimo. Justice A. K
Love committed TO jail Allen Wallis
charged with being tramp and vaga-
bond. Wallis was subsequently tried,
convicted and sent to the House of Cor
rection.
Death has been busy in this vicinity
during the Christmas holidays. Mr..
Thomas I. Graves died on December 20,
ultimo, and Mr.. Francis F. Graves died
on the end, instant. They were both
respected citizens. Their families have
our sincere sympathies.
If our patrons who change their post
Office address viii notify us both of the
Office they leave and the Office they move
to they viii confer great favor and at
the same time time enable us to punctu-
ally attend TO changing their papers.
II you want cheap and pretty Christ
! mas goods, stylish hats, coats and capes
from 500 up-attraetiye dress goods,
silks, trimmings, furs, nsuffs, feather
boas, novelties of every kind go TO
Mrs. l.. A. Jones at the Brown Store
Hoo. of Sarsaparilla fame, sends out
abeautiful calendar for 1892 Edelen
b'os. also get out a good calendar and
so does zimmerman, the Alexandria coal
merchasssnd John Murphy the Balti-
more publisher We thank them all for
sendineSns one
Steamboats, did thriving business
just before Christmas transporting box
es, barrels, &c, TO city relatives and
friends. II we are to judse by HE num-
Der forwarded from Leonardtown wharf,
every exist. Mary's countian in Baiti-
more and Washington was remembered.
F. 0. Morgan, Leonardtown, is selling
everything in the way of summer gcods
clothing specialty--at a little less
than first cost. Mr.. Morgan is an up-to-
date merchant and is doing shis to make
room for large stock of new Fall goods
r-orders for which he has already placed.
A Farmers Institute will be held in
Leonardtown on January 10th and 18th,
instants. Don't forget TO sttendit. You
may know great deal about farming,
but at the same time there may be some
thing that some one else knows better
than you do. Come together and ex-
change ideas. There is profit in it.
December 30th. ultimo, Lincoln Wood
land, colored, was convicted before JUS
tice r. Johnson Cotton of an assault and
battery upon isaac Brill and sentenced
to confinement in the county Jail for 80
lays. The assault was committed De-
cember 22, and another party was en-
gagged In it who has not yet been arrest
ed. Mr.. Brill was taken from his store
aud badly beaten. Woodland was ar
rested by officer w. B. Long.
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