Smyrna times., 1868-12-30
MARYLAND ITEMS.

In Limbo.-John Peterson Price, the fast
young man who stole-beg the gentleman's
pardon, borrowed horse and carriage of Mr..
Frank Wright Of Easton, and who subsequent
ly turned up in Richmond, where he passed
himself off as Judge Wickes of CheStertown,
Md, has been arrested, taken back to Easton
and lodged in Jail. If the bogus Wickes is not
already acquainted with the real Wickes, he
will shortly have that pleasure, as that gentle
man is one of the Judges of that Circuit So
says the Cambridge MtelHgencer, to which we
add the following from the Chestertown Tran
script: 1.-The Price spoken of is man who
came to this county some time during the sum-
mer, representing himself as j. Peterson Price,
former citizen of Richmond, who had lost
everything during the war, and he went to
work as a day laborer on the farm of Mr. Per
ry Perkins. 1t became known to one of our
druggists that he had knowledge Of the bust
ness and partly through sympathy for his sit
uatlOn, he was given employment He remain
ed in our town some months, and made him
self known to the larger number of our citi-
zens, and was generally regarded as a rattle
brain, though harmless individual After leav-
ing his situation in the drug store, he engaged
as an agent for one of the Baltimore life in.
surance companies.
The Sassafras River Bridge is completed.
The Prize Fighters are again about, and on
| Wednesday, it seems our sacred soil " was
desecrated by an rruptiOn of vandals of that
sort from Philadelphia and New York to par
ticipate in a conflict near Perryville. in Cecil
county, in which one Hicken of Philadelphia
broke the jaw OF another bruiser named Ma
guire, of New York.-Baltinore tun.
Ffre.-We regret to learn of the destruction
by fire, on Wednesday morning last, of the
dwelling of Mr.. Elias Deputy, on his farm
called Stepney, in Broad Neck, in this coun-
~. The fire is supposed to have been caused
by spark from the chimney; With the ex-
ceptlOn of two feather beds, Mr.. Deputy loses
all of his household goods. His loss is heavy;
and only insured to the amount of $500. Kent
NetoS.
The Oyster La,o.-In reply to a letter of in
qulry by Captain Davidson, commander of the
State oyster police, for the opinion of Attorney
General Jones upon the construction of the
clause in the oyster law, section 10th, forbid
ding dredging for 'Oysters in any river creek,
cove, inlet, bay or sound Cithil the limits of
any county of this State that officer states
that he Is of opinion that i. does not apply to
rivers which form the dividing line between
two counties, and which cannot properly be
said to be tcithil the tmtts of any county.
The Qneen Anne's Rairoad-It appears
that the project of the Directors of the Queen
Anne Railroad to give Centrevllle the gO-by
cannot be carried out, as the charter says they
shall build road from the town of Centre
vile" The road has progressed quite rapidly,
considering the means at their disposal and the
opposition they have encountered. With Cen
treville and its $4,000 stock lone fourth insol-
vent, and those in the vicinity who demand
exhorbitant sums for right of way, there would
be but little sympathy il the road did leave
them respectable distance behind but it is
important to almost every citizen Of the coun-
ty that the road should be carried into that
town, and it would be especially convenient for
those residing in distant parts of the county
having business to transact in Centrevie. 1t
is therefore hoped that the Directors will find
some way of outfanking these barricades of
barbarism, and bring the Car of Progress tri-
umphant into the -Crunlptonian.
The Ne,o Bishop. of the Eastern
Shore papers consider it matter of doubt
whether Bishop Lay now of Arkansas, will
accept the position Of Bishop of the new Dio-
cese of Easton, to which he was recently elect
ed.
| Newspaper Mdtters-Mr. B. r. Dashiell
has retired from the editorship of the True
MaryJdnder, published at Princess Anne, Md.
His successor is not announced j. Edwin
Slemons is publisher of the paper The East
eTn ShoremGn, published at Salisbury, states
that the Ne,o Era, Republican paper pub
lished there, has ceased to be published.
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