Smyrna times., 1877-11-28
MARYLAND ITEMS.

Sela Nutter, a colored woman living at
NantlcOke, Somerset county, is reliably
known to be ll3 years old.
Salisbury has resolved to have a fire
engine and a hook -and-ladder company in
consequence of two churches having been
burned there recently.
The next session of the Wilmington NJ.
+. Conference will be held in Chestertown,
commencing on March 18th. Bishop
Foster, Of Boston, will preside.
One day last week Woodland Jones, of
Princess Anne, killed and bagged fifty.two
partridgcs. That is more than a halfdozen
sportsmcn would get in day in this
county.
Ch,rch Dedicatto,-Th new NJ. +. Church
at Ridsely, ON the Md. & Del. r. r., will be
dedicated on Sunday the 10th of Dec.
Rev. VIM. B. Chapman, of Baltimore, will
otticiate on the occasion.
John Webb has been confined in Dor.
chester county Jail for thirty days, and
chained to the prison floor, on charge of
nOnpayment of the road tax and resisting
the officers who arrested him.
J. ). Pointer, of the Baltimore detective
force, spent last week in Talbot county,
endeavoring to work up the Fitziarrell
double murder case, but his efforts seem to
have amounted to little. The whole affair
appears to be involved in mystery.
Lost Ills Seed UHeaL-A Mr. Daniels, a
farmer near Cpcilton, seeded, this fall, over
two hundred acres of ground, using twenty
tons of phosphate. at thirty five dollars per
ton, but the grain failed to come up. The
wheat was damaged by heating in the
garner.
john Messick, of Somerset county, left
Nanticokr, November s, on a Aathoat. with
oysters, for Baltimore. The boat was
caught in a storm and sunk. Mr.. Messick
was drowned, and "a colored man named
! Henry Smith, who was with him, is also
supposed to he drowned.
Working up Religious IntcresL-Rev. 7.
l.. TOmpkinson, pastor of the NJ. +. Church
ut Easton, is holding meetings in school
! houses in the neighhorhood, and also cot
tage prayer meetings among the residents
of the country, and is said to be working
up quite religious interest.
The democratic central committee OF
! Caroline county has published a card disa.
vowing all countenance Of and sympathy fol
the disturbances at the polls of the fourth
district OF that county at the recent election
and declaring the democratic party to be
decidedly devoted to law and order
Second Grocth.-John j. Friel, near Cen
trevlle, has a second crop Of apples The
trees upon which these apples grew bios
| somed last spring but produced no fruit
About twO-thirds of the orchard hlossomeo
the second time and the trees are filleG
with fruit, but too late in the season tc
mature, the Centreville Record says.
young Elkton girl really got married
last week without anybody in the towr
knowing or even thinking of such tlini
until the wedding took place. Her name
was McKinsey; is now Pike. She married
a gentleman from Iowa. When she made
purchase of miliner few days ago, and tolC
her that it was for her wedding outfit, tn,
dealer in ribbons shrugged her shoulder
and took it as one of her pleasantries
Even when she told friend that she ex
pected to pass the winter in the West, sale
friend failed to ''see it, and so it happened
that there wasn't a soul to say, " | knew i
all the time
A Ne,o Kind Of Methodist Clarch has beer
started at Elkton, known as the Free
Methodist Society. They have purchased
an old schoolhouse and fitted it up for
church, and a minister named Travis, O
Phila., is to preach for them next Sunday
Tho Cecil Wing is requested to say "tha
this is not a schism, as represented, but
society fully endorsing the teachings O
John Wesley, and who do not believe tha
the much-talked-of advancement of tn
world has altered the Bible. Their ann i
, to mind their own business and to hell
| s,.aIa Ill,
build up great ecclesiasticism to obtail
secular power. The government is thor
oughly democratic--the preachers and lay
men being on an equality in all delibera
tive bodies"