Smyrna times., 1873-04-02
MARYLAND ITEMS.

MARYLAND ITEMS.
Rev. Thomas Numbers has been appointed
postmaster at Millington, in place of VIM. B.
Turbit.
Jonah Kelley, an aged Quaker preacher of
Caroline CO., died last week, aged IS. lie was
greatly beloved.
Turned up Agoin-Jake Babes. who
escaped from the aims house in Caroline coun.
ty some weeks since, was arrested last week for
the theft OF ducks and chickens from the farm.
ers of Talbot. He is now confined in Easton
! jail.
Dro,cned.-On Wednesday last Mr.. Samuel
Benson and Mr.. Way, of Bohemia Man )r. and
gentleman from New Jersey, we're engaged
| IN ducking on Bohemia River, when sudden
wind squall caused their boat to capsize and
Mr.. Benson was drowned.
A little negro boy, whilst trying to rake
marble from under an old office in Trappe
Talbot CO., one day last week, pulled a good
silver watch out of the dirt No owner can be
found for it.
Hdbeds Corpus for BaJy.-The Cecil
Democrat says that in one of the lower dis
trlcts OF the Eastern Shore a baby is the
subject of writ of hdbedS corpus, sued out by
MS mother IN consequence of his being
detained as collateral security for an unpaid
board bill
Sudden Death of a Judqe.-Hon John
Thompson Mason, died suddenly at Elkton on
Friday evening last He went there in apparent
good health to try case in the Cecil court.
and soon after the verdict was rendered. was
stricken down with paralysis and died in about
two hours afterwards. Judge Mason was a
prominent lawyer and a high-toned gentleman.
lie lived in Annapolis
AT recent meeting of the Directors Of the
Dorchester T. Del. Il. R., the pay of ticket
agents on the road was reduced, and several
OF the officers pay decreased Some of them
voluntarily requested the reduction. The
Cambridge Ne,0S says, in speaking of the
reduction, There are men in Dorchester that
would be President of the United States, for a
thousand dollars a year or Governor for five
hundred, but such men are not worth a &C Mt
anywhere.
Sdd.-James Mclaughlin was instantly
killed on boat in Chester river, recently.
under distressing circumstances He was
asleep in the cabin, and boy picked up a gun
and put cap on it, to snap and frighten him,
not thinking the gun was loaded He re.
marked to the captain that "he'd wake him
~" and putting the barrel to his ear pulled
the trigger. The mans face was blown off and
instead OF awaking he is sleeping his everlasting
sleep. Q
What They Think Of Htn,.-The New York
Herald, last week, wrote a review of the II. 8.
Senators who took their seats in the recent
extra session of that body. Here's what il
said about Marylands new one: George r.
Dennis succeeds Mr.. Vickers, from Maryland,
and from all appearances will be quite as much
a success. Vickers was one of those prosy old
men who seemed to encroach upon eternity.
for whenever he got the floor with his legs
firmly planted, huge pile of manuscript on
his desk. his spectacles well down upon his
nose, glass OF water on his right hand, a red
and yellow bandanna on bis left and an untiring
expression upon his placid cOunteDance, the
Chamber would become deserted, and irrever.
ent correspondents would exclaim, 'Vickers (!
Good God end fee the gallery"
arrested for Biganay John |. Scott a
married mao, formerly citizen OF Vermont,
out Tor the last twelve or eighteen months a
resident OF Caroline county, was arrested on
| Monday evening week and lodged in iail in
Denton on a charge Of bigamy. A year or
more ago he purchased a small farm in the
upper part of Caroline county, removed TO IL
ana has since that time resided almost alone.
doing his own work. Week before last. being
weary OF his lonely condition, he took to him.
self another wife of more tender years and one
whose charms were more captivating. But the
honeymoon was of short duration, for on the
next afternoon after the bridal ceremony had
been performed, wife No. !, With three small
children, the oldest of which was twelve years
of age, and lot of trunks appeared at the
farm house and claimed authority over Mr..
Scott $ household. Wife No. 2, was next day
returned to her former home and the faithless
husband, under the escort of an officer OF the
| law lodged within the Drison walls m awai,
trial at the next term of Court Denton Union