Smyrna times., 1878-10-23
MARYLAND ITEMS.

$1,000 has been subscribed to rebuild the Easton
Town Hall.
Kent county voters will have the question of local
option presented to them for their decision at the
coming election.
The chills and fever" prevails to greater extent
in the lower part of Kent county this Fall than for
twenty years past.-Chestcrt0UR NetCs.
Barglay.-The store of Stephen p. Jump, at Hills
borough was entered by burglars borein$ through
the door on Thursday night last and robbed.
Dcputy-Sherif Janney, of Elkton, seized a forty
acre field of corn near Cecilton, last Tuesday and is
now occupied with gang of hands in husking the
same.
At the November election the voters of six districts
in Dorchester county will decide whether or not
spirituous and iemented liquors shall De sold in their
districts.
Engshs Hotel at Chincotcaguc with all its fixtures
and about - acres of land was sold a few DAYS ago
for s2I0l The original cost was seven or eight thou
sand dollars
The Salisbury Adrrrcr is of the opinion that in the
course Of years WicOmicO county will be richer
and more thickly populated than any county east Of
the Chesapeake bay.
| The Kent County Mutual Fire Insurance Company
oilers to contribute $1,000 toward the purchase Of
hahd lire engine lor orChcSterlowprOvdcdth the authOr
| ties or somebody else will make up the balance.
number Of houses are in the course of erection il,
fredericksburg ChcstcTtOWn also boasts Ofan unusually
large number of improvements now in progress. six
dwelling houses are also now i'll course of COnStruC-
| ton at CcntrcyillC
! The jury in the case of the bones of two infants
found in the house at Crumpton have rendered a
verdict that they believed them to be the children Of
Mrs Jonas Crew and Miss Sallie Stradly The latter
have not yet been arrested.
! Bicd ?f Grjct-Geo. T. Nelson. living near Kennedy
vile, Kent county, instantly killed by the aCci-
dental discharge Of his gun while climbing fence
Six hours after the of the sad accident reached
his mother and she overcome that she died OF
grief MIR. Nelson was thirty years of age and I'M
! married
Chestcrtown Ncs:-Gunncrs. this fall had better
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hunt after birds and other game. Farmer are coming
to the conclusion that the privilege Of hunting game
on their lands belongs exclusively themselves, and
other persons cunning or hunting upon the premises
are guilty OF trcspass under the law.
C3mmittcdo an u Serious Charge-Vinccnt Harris who
halls from Pennsylvania was on "Wednesday last
| committed by o. :. Hersey justice of the peace OF
Crsicld for an attempted outrage upon Harriet Anne
Jones on the 18th instant Similar attempts il is
| alleged have recently been made by Harris upon
| other females The parties are both negroes.
Muylanders apd Dca,cpre Etirs-The Centerville
O1SgrT in copying an article from the TIMES in rr-
gard to the large number of Maryandcrs who attend
ed our Fairs at Dover and MiddlcOwn, SAYS: The
people of the Eastern Shore always be depended
upon 10 support anything that is worth supporting
| The fairs mentioned were every way crcditaie and
as such received the support of the people of the
EaSOn Shore in common with the people Of fOthcrScc
tOnS If these fairs however, should ever dcgeIe
rate. and become harycstS for gamblers and thieves
then the people over here will drop them at once
We trust this Will not occur, and we do not believe
ii viii"
1 Serious Garge.--On Sunday morning last Mrs
teIton, who lives on 4 farm belonging TO the Hon. j
\. }. Crcswcll, in Cecil county discovered in III,
absence of her son, who had gone from the house ,
man sccreted i'll the wardrobe. She gave the alarm
and assistance arriving, the was found cOnceac,
near the roof of the house having changed his quar-
tcrS after the alarm. lie surrendered and confessed
his object was plunder. He handed over small sun
, OF money which he had taken from Mr. FentunS YES
pocket lie also confessed having started a fire il
some straw near the barn, which fortunately, did u,
damage. The man whose name is John Co6uer wa
committed By Justice Howard for the action Of tn
grand jury.
Beet anil Butchcss-The St Michaels Coaet in notint
the fact that cattle quoted at 3E to Al cts pc
pound the price they sold at before the war when bee
was 10 and l. cts. says: In St. Michacls we can b
some rhnOcerOs like round steaks from Our travpIin
levy pound, but il is generally really too tough
put around grape vines instead of old leather. Gu
resident butchers claim that they cannot reduce tn
price of good beef in cOnSCq quenCc of the prices In
farmers compel them to pay for beef cattle This ma
all be true, but the fact remains that somebody ha
got to come down to lower prices before tie c3!nmu
nifty again uses beef as staple article of food and tn
butcher who, approaching this. first marks down hi
best cuts to ten cents pound, will put money in hi
| purse
4 HVGs ProDcfg-A decision was made in Balti
more recently which may become a legal precedent
heTcaboutS II Is Of interest to two classes therefor
we republish 1t from the Baltimore Sun In the cas-
of Miranda Davldgc by her next friend and husband
Thomas Davdge. against 3. f. Buck in the cir
Court Judge Carey has decided that the furniture @
married woman cannot be taken for rent after il ha
Deen removed from the house rented by her husband
The property of the husband, who rented the house
and moved out owing rent was taken under a dis
tIalnt and Judge Carey sustained the legality of h
dStralnt rs to the husband. The wife repleVied he
portion OF the furniture and the court sustained her
restoring the property TO her and requiring the land
lord to pay the costs The furniture belonged to he
could have been diSaincd the premises rented b,
the husband-hcRt Nc,cs.