Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-08-16
Saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.



II. Z. Adams has been appointed pcss-
master at Point Lookout.
Miss Rose Norris, Of Baltimore, Il Wis
iting Mrs. @. w. Foxwell, Leonardtown.
Hereafter the Weems Steamers viii
leave Leonardsown at Q q. m. instead Of
att.
The Orphans Court was In session
Tuesday last and transacted routine bus
iness.
Miss Mamie Harvey, of Washington,
ID. c., Is visiting Miss Lucille Camalier,
Leonardtown.
Miss Evelyn Bowling, Of Bryantown,
Charles county, is visiting Miss Pearl
Love, Leonardtown.
Miss Nettie Knight, of Leonardtown,
is visiting the Misses Ford ct nuns
Oak" Medley's Neck.
Judge Crane was in town Tuesday and
drew the list of Jurors for the ensuing
September term Of Court.
Mrs. II. II. Smith, OF Baltimore, il on
visit to her brother, Capt. Tom Fox
well, ut ''Lawrence's Point"
Miss Nora Melton, of Washington, d.
c.. Is visiting Miss Alma Mattingiy At
"Buena VISTA" near Leonardrown.
Mrs. A. 8. Jones and children, of Bal
timore, are on Q visit to the family of
Mr.. William II. Jones, Leonardtown.
The watermelon season is on in good
earnest. The supply IL very large and
the quality seems TO be Of the highest.
Miss Laura Penn, of Chaptico, has re-
turned home from an extended trip to
Washington, Baltimore and Delaware.
Miss Nellie Gray, of Anacostia, ID. c.,
is spending sometime with her sister,
Mrs. ii. f. Sanderson at Moore's Hotel.
Early Wednesday morning our section
wAs visited by copious rain. We hope
that Il was general throughout the coun-
~.
IL Is reported-that the tobacco market
is on the decline because OF the heavy
shipments now being received in Balti-
more.
Mr.. A. Lee Jones, director of the Fay
cite street NJ. Z. Church choir, Baltimore,
is visiting the family of Capt. Thomas
Bennett, this district.
Mss. Charles L. Goldsborough, Of Bal
timore, accompanied by her friend, Miss
Sara Collision, is visiting her father. Pat
rick Russell, near Morganza.
Lost, between Mr.. ]. J. Grcenwell's
gate aud st. Mary's Academy, black
shawl. No. 10 worked in the corner of
same. Please return to this Office or the
Academy.
Friday last. J. Philip Greenwich, Of
stones wharf, lost his valuable mare,
Nelly" BY some mishap the animal
had one of her hind legs broken and had
10 be killed.
Mr.. Thomas Grason, who spent sever
al days with his nephew at Grason's
wharf, returned Wednesday, accompan-
led by his niece, Mrs. T. ]. George, of
Towson, Md.
On Friday last, Mr.. Dominic Hayden,
OF the 9Th district, lost three sheep by
unknown dogs. From ono of the ewes
lost Mr.. Hayden raised seven lambs in
thirteen months.
Misses Madgie Fenwick, Louise Her.
bert and Mr.. Fenwick Herbert, of Balti-
more, who have been visiting friends
and relatives in st. Mary's, returned
home Sunday last.
On our first page We reprint from the
Philadelphia Record the writings Of an
ex-Confederate soldier on his trip
through Western Maryland during the
war Of 1875. Read 1t.
Saturday last. James Young, colorcd,
of Clements, was tried before Justice
Loker for assault and battery upon Jno.
7. Carter, colored. Young was adjudged
guilty and fined 81 and costs.
A young couple of "Vaughan's Cot
tage," Valley Lee, spent Thursday last in
Leonardtown. They seemed to take
great pleasure in going through the i'm
portant buildings of the town.
Misses Cornelia and George lie Gourd,
of Baltimore, and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Shade and son, of Altoona, Pa, are
among the guests forming house party
at Mr.. Daniel Stevens, Hermansville.
Saturday, Captain Bernard Duke, of
Baltimore, came in Britton's Bay with
his naphtha launch, "The Pleiades," and
on Sunday. afternoon treated some of
his Leonardtown friends to sail down
the bay.
Mrs. Sanderson, of Washington, ID. c.,
mother of III. +. Sandcrson, OF Moore's
Hotel, died here last Saturday morning
after q short illness. Her remains were
taken TO Washington Sunday on the Po-
tomac for interment.
There win be Tournament at Piney
Point, Saturday, August nth. instant.
Valuable prizes wiz be given and Wash.
Williams, the popular host of Piney
Point Hotel, will spare no pains to make
the occasion notable and pleasant one.
T. Il