Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-10-05
COUNTY NEWS.
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise.

The Commissioners Court will
meet next Tuesday, October 10th,
instant.
Notice the article entitled Free
Training for Nurses" printed on
our FIRST page.
DR.. Charles v. Hayden will be
absent from his Office from Sunday,
the 9Th, until Friday, the 18th, in
slant.
Races are advertised for October
10 and 10 over the Leonardtown
Course. Attend and enjoy the
sport.
The Republican County Conven-
ton did not meet Monday last as
advertised, but is called 10 meet
Monday next, the 9th, instant.
Mrs. Parker. OF Worcester County,
Md, is visiting her brother. Fl. B.
de WAL, of L.eonardtown, who is
quite sick. Mrs. Parker is accom-
panied by her little daughter.
A well has been dug and work
men are engaged building a stable
on the lot adjoining st. Peters
Chapel, Leonardtown. A Rectory
for St. Andrews parish is to be
built on the lot.
DR.. ]. T. Bailey, of Memphis,
Tenn, who has been very ill, has
gone TO Denver, Colorado, for his
health. DIR. Bailey is a son of
County Commissioner, James II.
Bailey.
Last week, Herbert Blackstone,
colored, while longing for oysters,
brought up a yeast powder bottle
that had an oyster inside of il. The
oyster had grown so that it had
cracked the bottle.
Sunday last, a colored boy enter
ed the dwelling of Mr.. Fabian Cough,
Leonardtown, while the family were
at church and rummaged Mrs.
Cough s trunk. So far as known he
did not steal anything.
Gen. L. A. Wilmer, of Charles
county, was in in Leonardtown We'd
nesday in attendance upon q meet
ing of the Southern Maryland Arch
deaconry. Gen. Winners many
friends here were delighted to see
him.
A Texas farmer named Bolts, who
has reached the discriminating age
of So years, was married on the 1st
instant TO blushing widow OF IA.
The family of the bride wasopposed
to the match, so the spry couple
actually ran away and were mar
ried.
Monday last Sheriff Freeman, &C.
companied by deputy-sheriff Mat
tingly, left for Baltimore with the
prisoners convicted at the recent
term of Court. 1t was the largest
consignment sent from st. Mary s
for years. There were five convicts
and one insane patient. All were
colored.
Saturday last, large barn on the
Dominic Hayden farm in the Cedar
Point section, caught fire and was
burned with almost it's entire con-
tents. A fine crop Of tobacco, TO-
600 bundles of blade ladder and a
lot of farming implements were des-
troyed. The loss is estimated at
about $1,000. We have not heard
how the fire originated. Mr.. Hay
den is one Of our county's best citi-
zens and has the sympathy of wide
circle of friends in his misfortune.
Friday last, Victor, son of William
]. Hearn, Of Leonardtown, was
painfully hurt by cart loaded with
bricks passing oves his leg aud the
wheel striking him on the breast.
Victor was fitting the cart to empty
the bricks when the steers started,
and falling he was caught under the
wheel. Rev. w. r. B. Turner stopped
the oxen. DR.. Greenwich rendered
the necessary surgical attention,
and the young man is rapidly re-
covering. Il was narrow escape
One night week before last, Mart
Jones, of Rich Neck, heard q commo
ton in his hen house and went out
to investigate. He found one of his
hens wrapped in the folds ofa black
snake, about 4 feet long. Mart. got
an AK aud cut the snake in two and
found the hen "cold dead" HI
says he has lost a good many chick
ems this Summer, but until the abo u
mentioned discovery thought thai
they were killed by a weasel. ID
is now of opinion that all were killed
by snakes.