Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-12-04
Saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.


osOhe 10 turkeys, Tor $ZO.e6 netting
1912.
Friday last, Rev. Charles X. Jen-
kins, $. J., left per Steamer Calvert
for baltimore, where he will spend a
few weeks. We wish him pleas
ant visit.
The attention OF our readers is
called to the advertisements of A.
A. Lawrence, TO be found in anoth-
er column. If you want bargains.
it would be well to give the Captain
call.
The Circuit Court, Associate Jus
tice Crane on the bench, was in SEES
sion Monday and Tuesday last. The
business OF greatest interest was the
hearing in the Britton's Bay Oyster
Lot cases.
People go to law about many queer
things, but the record seems to be
held by Jennie Speisser of Newark,
N. j., who has had her sister jailed
for paltry dispute about the pos
session of sofa pillow.
Charles II. Lucas, OF Compton,
brought US, Monday last, an oyster
shell that his son found in Combs
creek. growing on an empty Ayers
Sarsaparilla bottle, The shell when
detached bore clearly the imprint of
the word Lowell.
Last week Wilmer Railey picked
up a whiskey bottle afl0at in Brit
tons bay containing a prescription
blank Of George Weller's Pharmacy,
Sharp and Hill SITS, Baltimore, on
which was written, I'VE were lost
at sea on a Rock in Beer River Nov.
3, 1900.
An Indiana man has been granted
divorce from his wife because she
smokes cigarettes. Now IL this rule
were reversed and every woman
whose husband smokes cigarettes
sought legal release from the matri-
mOnial yoke the divorce courts would
have TO run over time.
Rev. John B. Gaffney, S. J., is
temporarily at the Leonardtown Mis-
sion. Some years back Father Gaff-
new was stationed in st. Mary's and
during his soiourn here made many
friends, who remember him with
pleasure, and are delighted to have
him again with us. Father Gaffney
is rs years old, and all his long life
pas been marked with love for his
llow-men and zeal in the Master s
lse.
laturday last Zach S. Graves and
omas C. Edwards went in 'Mil-
I'd s" and started and caught the
lmous red" that has used there
Tor years. The Hollywood pack was
not on hand, Mr.. Garner being in
Baltimore and not having received
Zach's invitation to come up and
learn bow to comb q red. :"
Zach says the Hollywood pack is
fine for "greys," but that he usual
ly catches that kind with the Post
masters beagles.
> On November "a, 1902, Capt. Will
liam L. Barnes, of Ewell, Somerset
county, master of the pungy min
nivia Miles, reported to Justice X.
Johnson Cotton that one of his crew
named Thomas Thompson had jump
ed overheard and been drowned.
Justice Cotton went on board the
vessel and after viewing the body
and examining the Captain and crew,
under oath, determined that the
man S death gas accidental and that
an inquest was Unnecessary.
Henry Thomas, colored, died in the
county Jail on the night OF December
ASes AuStAut. iOiAlsAS was SOiLklatb-
ed by Justice Geo. NJ. Bohanan, Au-
gust 9th, ultimo, charged with be-
ing q tramp and q vagrant. The
prisoner was weak minded. A jury
of inquest, summoned by Justice
WIN. NJ. Loker. found that Thomas
died by visitation Of God, and that
his death was FASTENED by being
kept in the county Jail, which was
an unfit place for said deceased, be.
ing a vagrant.
We invite attention to the Finan
cial Statement of Geo. w. Joy, Treas
urer of the Board of School Commits.
sioners, published in another col.
umn. The statement shows that the
finances of our schools have been
carefully handled. And il required
careful management to run the
schools, as they have been run, or
the amount of cash received, the re
ceipts for the last fiscal year being
ga, 2O9.49 as against 81. O1s.39 fol
the year ended July 81, 1901, show
ing falling of i'm the amount re
ceived from the State of 81 .O51 %
The Board is TO be congratulated on
the good showing it has made.