Smyrna times., 1876-10-11
MARYLAND ITEMS.

uC pldllSClo dlC SOIHS W HOlu d tOuA- |
nament at Cardova, near Easton, on We'd
neslay, the 18th.
DR.. Jones, physician of Easton, whilst
out riding the other day. jumped from his
carriage and fell dead. lIe was with fish
ing party at the time. lie was GS years
old.
Mr.. James II. Powers horse, Whalebone,
of Talbot county, took the first premium at
the Centennial international Exposition, at
Philadelphia, for the best three year-old |
colt.
All the prisoners-thrce negro men
broke out of the Easton Jail one night last |
week. One Of them, Jake Davis, has been
in the penitentiary four times and was
awaiting his trial to be sent there again.
Con,mttted ,Suicide.-Mrs. FARRELL. wife of
Mr.. Robert FARRELL, residing in the upper
part of Caroline county, committed suicide
on Friday by cutting her throat. She had
been suffering from mental alteration, and
committed the unfortunate act whilst thus
suffering.
Jud.ye Spence for Congress II, tie First Dis
'rict.-Judge Thomas A. Spence, for
! Dorchester, was nominated for Congress by
acclamation by the Republican Convention
held in Salisbury last Wednesday. Judge
! Spence was the Republican candidate in
this district in 1872, and made an excelant
run, failingofe election by only G3S votes. He
is now solicitor of the Post Office Department
at Washington. He is a man OF high char
acter and decided ability.
i Great Rec;uaI is now going on at the
NJ. f. Church in the village of Paramount,
Somerset county. Rev. VIM. f. England
is the pastor of the congregation. Over
one hundred have been converted, and
still there are from twenty to thirty inqur-
crs every evening. Old people say they
have never known such wide spread and
deep religious interest in that community.
The influence is chiefly among adults, and
what is remarkable for Methodist meeting
is the absence Of the usual excitement.
CaLtol7;a Qoad IN CtcjL-The Elkton
Wing says that several years ago Hon. j. A.
J. Cresswell received from the Pacific coast
quite number of California quail. They
were a very handsome bird and he hoped
to propagate the species upon his lands.
To this end he liberated them at his resi-
dence. They at once disappeared, and for
: three or four years have not been seen.
Every one supposed that the cold Winter
had annihilated them, until a few days
ago quite large covey of them was discover.
, ed by a gentleman not far from town.
Rev. Walter Graham, young Methodist
Protestant minister, who was charged by
John Bounds with improper conduct toward
his (Bounds') wife, while the Reverend gen.
: tleman was i'll charge of a congregation in
Somerset county, has been fully vindicated
! by Bounds who has publicly withdrawn the
!. charge. Mr.. Graham has brought suit fol
SANDER against Bounds, but as compro
. mise has been effected the case will not bC
" tried. The charge was made last Spring
. soon after Mr.. Graham had married an es
y teemed young lady of Chestertown, wher,
e he had lived. Bounds, conduct was pur,
:, fiendishness.
= Some people in Elkton were touched
= one day last week because a strange youn
Is girl was put off train there because sh
y hadn't enough money to pay her way. Tn
l. girls story was that she was from Wheeling
- West Virginia; that she had been to tn
u Centennial and got lost from her father
that she had given the conductor all tn
le n money she had, which only paid her pa:
w. sage as far as Elkton, and there she wa
" made to get off. The necessary money
Sc and more to, was soon raised for her, an
she was put on the next train. After sll
left some gents who had been so liberal
1G their donations to her were informed thi
ia that was the "kind of girl she was''-
io confidence woman. "Phancy their PHI
~ u. lings."
4 Nan Dies Of tie GIaI,dcrs.-The Elkto
tn papers say that Alex. Scott, a farmer livir
he near Cherry Hill, Cecil co., died of tt
est glanders last week. Mr.. Scott had hor
with that disease, and slight wound c
M hishand commenced to infame while he w
up doctering the horse. Soon fever set in ar
ev. no sent for physician. The physician pr
scribed for intermittent fever having fir
ng inquired about the sore hand, and beii
told that it had nearly healed. The ne
day, however, he found Mr.. Scott suiferii
with a raging fever, and covered wi
"button farcy." The disease was unm
takcably "glanders," and had been comm
'ed ncated from the glandered horse throue
my the break in the skin of the hand. n
nd Scott suffered the most fearful agony al
aid delirium for about thirty-six hours befo
he died
a A Boy Atter CoonS-The Princess An
md True MaryLaNder relates this Lee Pusey,
son Of Mr.. Littleton II. Pusey, and /
so. but thirteen years old, started out hunti
,er for raccoons one night last week. lie h
ice three good dogs and they soon freed.
ce "al'e" uh0ii uay HShL anu iouhu Vhree u
be coons up one tree. lie had gun and
vor one load of powder and shot. With q
sla. he shot and killed one. lie then climb
,cal up the tree and shook one out to the do
tee who seized him at once. When he v
seized he commenced squealing and I
) of raccoon still up the tree, thinking we 81
uor pose, that the young lad was the author
the the coon's misfortunes, attacked him,
onr after being struck in the face with the Ia
law hat, seized it in his mouth and jumped O
n of Leo then came down the tree to the dc
be who had killed the second coon, put tn
,dge on the track Of the third coon, which Il
+ to caught and killed.
who -
ttee WOMEN IN THE ScHooGs.
slowly but surely getting full control Of