Smyrna times., 1868-12-09
MARYLAND ITEMS.

| VIM. Williams, of Caroline co., who has
| been cOnhued to his house ever since 1910,
with lniiamatOry rheumatism, is just deceased.
| The new NJ L. church at Denton was dcdi-
Gated Sunday week, Bishop Scott officiating.
\ new post Office is established at Urevllc
Kent county, Md, and Henry NJ. Ro~on APP
pointed postmaster.
Duck Shooting. The slaughter Of wild ducks
on the SuSquchanna and other rivers in Mary
land commenced about two weeks ago. The first
| day that the law allowed cunning over 1000
ducks were killed on the Susquehanna alone.
The Ed$t,Yu } hDJtn1an is informed by cor
respondent that 2j0 canvas back and red head
ducks and II geese, were killed by one gunner,
on the 9th inst, in the Synepuxent Bav-a
! shouting ground hitherto entirely overlooked
! by the spOrtsmen OF New York, PHILADELPHIA
and Baltimore The shooting on the Bohemia
river has been quite lively this Fall. Two
young gentleman killed G6 in y hours, recently.
The claims of Hon. John A. j. Creswell, of
Cecil, are urged in some Of the Republican pa
pers in Maryland, for seat in Gen. Grant :
cabinet, as representative Of the border
States.
Hogs.-Mr. Isaac Slaughter of Cecilton.
mail carrier between that place and Middle
town, slaughtered a hog few days ago which
weighed 55l pounds. 1t was eighteen months
olG. Mr.. James Brice, Of Chestertown, killed
a hog few days ago which weighed 6I2
pounds-less than twenty-one months old.
The Cambridge Democrat and Herald pro-
poses a canal from the head of Little Black
Water River to Cambridge, seven miles.
Another Spoke IN the Wheel of Enterprise.-
Telegraph Company has Just been organized
IN IN cambridge, under the charter granted by
the last Legislature. Alta meeting one day last
week, w. Wilson Byrn, ESQ, was elected
President, and Thos. w. Anderson. ESQ
appointed Secretary and Treasurer. The new
Company design commencing the work at as
early period as practicable.
Gen. K. e. Crawford has purchased the
late residence, with the grounds attached of
H. L. hambers, deceased, for the sum of So
4Oo. The property is near Chestertown.
Death from occidental .Shootiuu.-AIr. Cl;E
ford Phillips, IT, s. Assessor for the Second
District III Philadelphia, who was accidentally
shot by boy two weeks ago while on a gun
nlng expedition near Berlin, Md, was convey
ed to his home on Wednesday last in special
car We learn that Mr. Phillips died soon af.
ter his arrival home, though he was consider
ed out of danger when he left Berlin.
A Place Where Young Women Thrire.-Tbe
Comet, published at St. Michaels, Talbot co.
says: One day during the current week, five la.
dles-three from the country, and two from
town-were weighed in the store of one of our
merchants, with the following exhibit: $50.
go, l9o, 1856 and 1870 pounds, total of l044.
and an average of POS pounds each. Our
friend who gave us the above item, says that
one OF the ladies went beyond the capacity of
the scales on which she was weighed, and row
waits for the hay scales, in order to ascertain
her correct weight.
The Condemned Mtrderers. The Princess |
Anne HerdM contains the following: The |
death warrants for the three colored murder |
erS, Wilson, Wells and Rounds, were received |
last week, appointing the 8th of January next
Tor their execution. The first two were to have
Deen hung on December 4, but the Governor
has thought best to hang them altogether. The
crime of which the prisoners stand convicted
IS the cold bloOded butchery of the captain
and mate OF the oyster pungy Brdue, and the
robbery OF the vessel. They are desperate fell
lows; the first two named have made several
attempts to break JAIL one of which was sue
ceSstul, but they were subsequently recaptured
Rounds was arrested in Baltimore He made
q desperate resistance, and had to be shot be-
tore he was overcome. Wells was arrested in
Delaware.
A protracted meeting has been in progress
1t the Warwick Methodist Protestant Church,
or five weeks, Rev. DIR. Ewe, pastor. Forty {
'lght persons have been added to the Church, }
n that place, and about sixty have professed :
change OF heart. The meeting is still in pro- . .
,ress.
A meeting is also in progress at the NJ. E. d
Jhurch in Elkton. a
A Big Mortgage was left for record c.
n the Clerk Office, Elkton, on Tuesday after p
oon week, mortgage given by the Columbia :
nd Port Deposit Railroad Company for the II
um of two-and-a-haf millions of dollars, to b
ecure bonds of the Company, the stamps on Il
'hich amount to twenty-five hundred dollars, al
nice little pile OF itself.-CecH Wing. >,