Smyrna times., 1875-01-27
FARMLAND ITEMS.

Easton's champion horse shoer has put on
500 shoes since Christmas.
The cunning seas,n has ended by the sxpira
tiou of the law ia Maryland.
The st. Michaels Comet has changed hands
again, Rev. w. NJ. Poisal becoming sole owner,
The new Presbyterian Church at Kennedy
vile was dedicated by Rev. DR.. Patton on the
oath inst
George Wheeler will be hanged at Easton
nm the 18th of March for the murder OF Mrs.
Whitman.
On Thursdays, two trains per day are run
over the Kent County Railroad to Chestsrtown;
on other days one train.
An ex-Tax Collector of Talbot county has
thrown thirty-twe tracts of land under the
Aaetieneer's hammer for nonpaymsnt of taxes
The Kent Ne,os records the birth of q
thirteen pound baby near Lambsons station.
The happy parents are MIR. Il Mrs Ezekiel z.
Smith.
A lady and gentleman near Harmony, Caro-.
Zine county, ate philopeua on wager Of
81. 900 pair of diamond bracelets last week.
The gsntl-Raa bss-
The typhoid fever fell upon the family of
William Harding of Caroline county the present
season and swept off of its members. The
whde IL we're SICK
On Sunday week lady in Salisbury was
bsptised by Baptist minister there, in u mill
pond, when the thermometer marked about IL
above zero and the ice FIVE or six inches thick.
The late Dr. Gunby, says the Snow Hill
Messenger bsqusathed $4,000, and perhaps
$l2OOO-dspending upon the construction of
the will-to the Presbyterian Church OF that
place.
The cold spell has almost. stopped oyster
catching and made the supply very scarce
Last week q Talbot county man succeeded in
getting 1000 bushels Co Bakiners, fer Raich
he received $4,000.
Land Sale.-C. H. Baker, Esq., trustee,
sold at Massey's on Wednesday, the b. Z. IL.
Massey farm, near that:place, containing 405
acres, to Dr.. G. H. B. Massey at SIS per acre
making total of $22,275.
"A new disease 10 prevailing among the chill
drsn of Denton and vicinity. 1t appers on the
face by an eruption Of postules that soon dis
charged and forn crust which in some cases
spreads over the entire facO, swelling and
closing the eyes.
Miss Mary A. Jones, daughter Of Capt j.
T. Jones, of Elk Neck, Cecil county, died on
Saturday week from injuries received by falling
on the ico while going home from school, few
days previously. The fall caused inflammation
Of the stomach, from which she died
Miss Dora Register, daughter of Isaac H
Register of Ekton, died in Philadelphia las
week. (She was known in Smyrna Say
the Cecil Democrat Dora Register wa
young, beautiful in person, and lovely il
character With a bright a2d cultivated
mind, she was q welcome guest wherever sh'
went.
TIE physicians of Kent county met il
Chestsrtown last week to organize medlcs
society, and after looking ever some old record
found that there was already, and had bee
for q number of yesrs, az organization or tha
character 10 the esuEty, and that they bad .
been too lazy to keep it up or even keep it i
mm&
A remarkable revival of religion is now i
progress at the Presbyterian Church in Chesa
psake City, of which Rev. e. r. Mallory
pastor. 1t has been going ON for over tOu
weeks. The meetings are in charge of Re,
Mr.. Culliss, OF Philadelphia, who sings tb
the people into repentance. A marked featur
10 he fact that nearly all the converts ar
adults aud persons of staad.sg "a the Com vas
nifty.
Mud Machine on Ne,o Eldn.-Mr Clar
lake, of Cambridge, Md, has taken q contraC
to build a mammoth mud machine, l4O fet
lOag, 81 feet wide and Il feet deep. She wi
work on o new plan. A wheel so fset
diameter with buckets on tks ria. will revolv
in the centre of the boat aud bring up IN q
endless stream the mud from tho bottom. Th
machine will be ready for operation by the Ia
OF April.
Wedding AnnIuersGyg.-O the 18th ins
the officers and teachers OF the NJ. h. Sundi
School of Millington went in body to Il
residence of the Superintendent, Thos Mall
lieu, 10 celebrate his 10th wedding anniverssr
Mr.. NJ was presented with handsome ar
chair and Mrs. NJ. with splendid silver ca
basket, from their children. A handsoH
table xas spaeAd aRdaver Serty szsstsast dOV
to supper.
Episcopal Protrdcted Meeting.-Rsv. NJ
Skinner, Episcopal minister OF Elkton, b
instituted q ''missien" or prOtracted meetin
and it seems he has been accused of cOpyi
after the Msthodists. He thus writes to {
Cecil Democrat Of Saturday: "Whbs L ca
not adopt some of the methods of mode
"Revivas," aud while | am solemnly bou
byquadrupls vows to fight under our own COX
and stand by our own altar; yet am will
to learn even from those with whom differ
whom may believe to have departed from {
4'Old paths" for new ones of mems dlvjsir
True there is nothing new under the sun
and the Revival idea is much, very muC
older than the youthful Methodist Church,
any other religious society of the last I
csnturiss But ii by adopting any OF tn
methods or even borrowing their names. ol
BY using their experience, can do asght
\ Religion and good mSi&ls here. am re)0l'
A to do So"