Smyrna times., 1877-02-28
MARYLAND ITEMS.

MARYLAND ITEMS.
A chesapeake bay" dog was sold at
Elkton last week for $l75.
Centreville merchants say they never
knew business so stagnant at this season
| before.
A thief recently broke into the iail at
Cambridge and stole some valuable articles
belonging to the sheriff.
Oysters must be a drug on the Crisfeld
market They have been selling in that
town as low as l2 cents bushel.
B. w. Cheer, of Philadelphia, has been
elected principal of Elkton Academy in
place of Rev. DR.. Phebus, resigned.
A donation party gave Rev. Z. B..
| Newman, NJ. E. minister of Chesapeake
city, an elegant set of silverware last week
Confrmatton-Ri Rev. Bishop Law adj.
ministered the rite of confirmation to a
class of ten at Christ Church, Easton, on
Sunday week.
ExGov. James B. GroOme of Elkton,
who has been under medical treatment at
Baltimore for inflammation of the eye, has
returned to his home entirely cured
Messrs. John r. Reynolds, Lewis B.
Frazer, s. T. Wiley and others, of Cecil
| county, are about to remove to Walker
town, Va, where they have purchased
land.
Jas. ?. Dudley, Register of Wills for
Queen Annes CO., and Capt. A. McCabe, one
OF the judges of the Orphans Court, are suf
tering from dropsy, with little hopes for
either.
Sudden Death.-Dr. VIM. H. Dawson, a
prominent young physician of Talbot CO.,
| (Bay Hundred) died very suddenly on
Sunday the 8th, while in his carriage He
was with his brother at the time, and in
his usual health, apparently.
Miss Mary Hawkey, who recently tagged
a train on the Western Maryland railroad,
near Cavetown, where the track was
obstructed, and thus prevented awreck and
probable loss of life, has been presented
with free pass over the road for ten
years.
Jas. A. Grace, travelling salesman for a
Philadelphia shoe house was badly bruised in
Chestertown last week. His horse ran
away with him and upset his carriage. The
carriage was also considerably injured. 1t
belonged to Maxwell, of the hotel at Mid.
dletown.
The religious revivals at the Methodist
Churches in Chestertown are the most ex-
tensive remembered by the "oldest inhabi.
tant." The NJ. E. Church closed last Sun.
day week and resulted in 104 conversions.
At the NJ. P. Church the meeting is still in
progress, and up to Thursday night last 100
persons had united with the Church while
the conversions are considerably above that
number. So says the Kent Ne,os.
LmprOpementat Maryland Watering Place.
lit is said that extensive improvements
are being made at Ocean City, the new
watering place on the Worcester county
beach near Berlin. In addition to
the immense hotel already there, Mr..
Isaac Coffin, it is stated, is putting up a
new hotel at the place, 60 by 100 feet, and
three stories high, and another gentleman,
whose name we have not learned, is also
represented as building, or intending to
build, another large hotel.
Cold C0mfort.-A week or so ago the dra.
matte association of Centreyille rode up to
Millington in a special train and gave a
half minstrel, half theatrical entertainment
for the benefit of the new Episcopal chanel
now under construction there. But Bishop
Lay, OF Easton, has put his foot down in
opposition to the show, and writes the fol-
lowing to the Centreville Record: '"The
young gentlemen enlisted in il, meant. I
am sure, to do a kindness. But let them not
take it amiss if | state my opinion that
amateur theatricals' are not a benefit to
any community, and are not without dan
gers and temptations to those who conduct
them. AS a means of raising money for
religious uses they are not to be tolerated.
The exhibition in question was not author.
lied by any competent AUTHORITY. IL has
the emphatic disapprobation of the Rector
OF the Parish and of the Bishop of the
Diocese"
a Scared Set.-During the terrible gale of
tho !7th of Sept. last the schooner Corson
was driven on Popular Island, in Talbot co.,
where she struck after having lost the
bulk OF the deck load of lumber. Every.
thing about the vessel was pillaged within
forty-eight hours from the time the storm
ceased, by men who aspire to be called
respectable and honest citizens when
ashore, but who have in them the prinoi.
pies OF pirates and the hearts of freebooters,
1t is said that several houses have been
weather-boarded, and one built almost
entirely from lumber from the Corson. But
now the owners of the boat. from Virginia,
haye come after the craft and are going to
hand h'the names of about 25 men to the
U. ). Court at Norfolk for piracy. Conse-
] quently there is set of frightened men in