Smyrna times., 1870-12-21
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The business men Of Salisbury will shortly
petition Congress for an appropriation tor the
purpose OF deepening and cleaning out the
WicOmco river. If Congress grants the ap.
preparation Smyrna ought to get one to- to
widen the creek, and then every town IN the
country that has a navigable stream will want
an apprOprl Itlon.
Thos H. GoldsbOrough has been appointed
postmaster at Centreville.
A man who appeared on the ,tump as a
dcmUcratic speaker, III the last campaign, has
had to leave Che.tertuwn on account oI an at
tempted outrage on cOored girl
Water is scarce in Somerset CO. A train
was recently delayed two hours en the Eastern
Shore K. t., while the locomotive went up
and down hunting water with which to make
steam.
The white boy, Matthews, confined in Snow
Till jail Tor rape on little cOloIed girl, has
obtained bail.
Murytand and DcL,Iware Railroad The
meeting Of stock holders of this road was held
at EANtun un "Wednesday, last 18th inst. G..
w. huntington was elected President OF the
CuHpany and DIR q. w. Gold,borough, the
lIeasurar, with the following directors VIZ
WIN. Slaughter, David knott-, j. A. W. Pow
eIi, j. Z. ManiUve, Samuel Hamueten, DIR. A.
liarucastle, and DR.. u. W. God,DoIough.
Ii was understood that DR.. Gei1SbOi ough would
re'IGn his position as Treasurer III favor OF "a
Mr.. Scott, who Is now general agent of The road
at EastOn.
Rev. +. II. G. Goodwin has resigned the
RsctOrshlp of the Pro- e>Iant Episcopal Church
III ChestcrtOWn. aud accepted call to Gov
ernur'S lslsGd, New York.
A negro named BrScue has beea sent to Jail
tor entering the premises of Mr. Sam j.
Hni, at Locust Grove, in Kent county, and
stealing SIS IN currency aud SAP IN C"nIed-
eIaLc sriIp, tue lattcr UcIng mdrAed anu piac
| ed a. dtcOy.
TLree or four fires took place in or near Sal
i>bury last wssk. A house Uslonglng to lhoS.
Dryden. occupied by negro tamlly, aud the
resluence Vi john Anderson, both on the out
skirts OF tue town, were consumed, anu al'o
the residence of Purueil JUhnsOn, on tue Der
i lIn road, four mIes from town. The loss In
the la ter case was about S3,5OO. n small
hOus, near QuanIicO, occupied 10y two cOsrcu
lam,ies. wa also consumed. OMe OF the la
mates, All Invalid, WAS rescued with much oiI
fuu.ty from the buI ming bull ing, anu an III
IanL wds 80 badly burned that IL explreu III
very short time afterwards.
Clement b. Fletcher, ia, her OF ex-Gov.
Fletcher, of Missouri, aud aatlve Ot Sonerse'
Co., died at his home IN DE oStO, Jefferson
county, Missouri, on the 26tn HltImO, aged 20
years.
Mr.. Lemuel Shovel residing about five
miles from Berlin killed three hogs last week
of an aggregate weight OF 1891 pornd'--avrr
age weight 63O5 pounds. lie killed apsn oi
20 hogs, weighing In the aggregate 7loS.
A farm of 239 acres. near Yorktown Sta
tion, sold at public sale ia Salisbury last week
tor $40, aud another tract OF l3o acres solu
for $500. The sheriff put up II farm the same
day aud failed to ind bidder.
Samuel T. Hoppins has been admitted to
the Talbot bar.
+ A Young Culprit On Sunday week boy
living with Mr.. Armstrong, OF Cecil CO., en'
ticsd little colored boy, about ten years old,
into the hay NOW, and there threw him down
and cut his throat. Fortunately the razor