Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-03-08
I Editorial Correspondence cfthe Beacon.
Letter From Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. March s. Is

BALTIMORE, March D, l3UU.
Death in my family prevented me send
ing my regular letter last week.
The week was notable one political
" and on my return to the capital l
found that the distribution of the pat
ronage had stirred up things and set
them at "sixes or at seyens." Delegates
from almost every Democratic county
looked glum and sour and those from
Republican counties appeared amused
and pleased. His Excellency, the Gov
ernor, made the appointments to suit
his own views and time alone can dis
close the wisdom or injudiciousness of
his course. The Governor says that he
tells no one what he will do in The mat
ter of appointments until he is ready to
do it, and then goes ahead and does il"
Rumor has it that the minor places in
the Tobacco warehouses are to be dis
tributed throughout the counties, but l
have no good authority for the state
ment. If it be done / hope st. Mary's
will get liberal share. Ex-Clerk Jas.
J. Greenwich has been made Chief-C Clerk
to General-Inspector j. Frank Smith.
Mr.. Greenwell's salary is $1,000 year.
St. MarY's local legislation is well on
the way and next week will see it fur
ther advanced. Senator Wilkinson has
remodeled his oyster planting law and
1t is in the Committee on Chesapeake
Bay and its Tributaries. The bill to di-
vide Leonardtown district has been pre-
pared. 1t provides for the division of
said district into two precincts and will
give the voters of the district an oppor-
tunitY to cast their ballots. Last years
election demonstrated that TAI voters
cannot be polled at one place in 900
minutes.
The session is on its last month, and
as | said in my first letters there is little
If any prospect of any drastic legislation
being enacted. The members OF the
Assembly are displaying more than or
binary independence and are disposed
to carefully scrutizize any and all meas
ures and be certain they are right before
going ahead with them.
Miss Bernadette Spalding, daughter Of
Mrs. Emma Spalding and the late DR..
John 7. Spalding, was married at st.
Ignatius' Church, Baltimore, on Wed
nesday, February 2lst ultimo, to Mr..
Harry Edwards, son OF Mr.. Thomas @.
Edwards, of Chaptico. Rev. John A.
Morgan, S. j., performed the ceremony.
To give US additional facilities on the
Potomac, the Weems Company have had
a fine new steamer built by the Neafe g.
Levy Co., of Philadelphia She was
launched Saturday and christened the
Northumberland by Miss Elizabeth Chew
Williams, daughter Of Hon. Henry viii
liams The Northumberland is steel,
single-screw freight and passenger
steamer. She is 200 feet over all, Al
feet beam, and has depth Of hold Of
12i feet. She is supplied with triple
expansion engines and intermediate high
and low-pressure cylinders. These are
fed by two steel boilers, of the gunboat
type, measuring nine feet six inches, by
twenty feet. She will have fifty state.
rooms for flrst-class passengers, and
sleeping accommodation for seyenty-two
second class passengers. In all, she will
have capacity for about 300 passengers.
Located near the staterooms will be a
social hall and smoking room, which,
with the saloons, will be furnished In
hardwood. She is expected to make be
tween fifteen and eighteen knots The
contract for the building Of the new
steamer was let IN June last, and speci-
fed that she must be finished by May
next. 1t is expected she will be deliv-
cred before the time stated. She will
run on the Potomac River route of the
company having been especially design
ed for that purpose.
The Baltimore Sunday American says:
Clerk Robert Ogle, ofthe Superior Court,
received yesterday from Annapolis the
commissions of j. Frank Smith, chief
inspector. OF tobacco, and of Isaac s.
Nutwell, Nathaniel Broome and William
d, Bowie, deputy inspectors of tobacco.
There is a tax of $50 on each of these
commissions. The four gentlemen, in
company with Mr. Murray Vandiver,
came in later, gave the bonds required,
Mr.. Smith bonding to the State, and the
deputies bonding to him, and were sworn
in by Chief Deputy Clerk Major Thomas
b. Gather, of the Superior Court. lay
informed that the Inspectors win begin
to take stock Monday and after that
completed will take charge Of the.
houses to which they have been
as follows No 1, Mr.. Broome; n
Mr.. Nutwell, No. 8, Mr.. Bowie.
FRANCIS V. KING.