Smyrna times., 1878-10-16
MARYLAND ITEMS.


The Chesapeake shores are swarming with
ducks
New corn is selling in Dorset at 81 a
barrel.
The colored Methodists of Cambridge, |
are building $1,000 church.
Captain Joseph Boyd reports seeing
large whale in the Chesapeake last week.
The Salisbury Hotel, at Salisbury, has
been purchased by Ulman Il Bro, for 50, $50.
Cambridge will have an Agricultural
Fair on the 22d, 23d, 24th and 2jth Of this
month.
The Methodist brethren of St. Michaels
are thinking Of having a course of lectures
during the winter.
Hog and Ant-Uog-The town commits
! sioners of Easton have passed an ordinance
prohibiting the raising OF hogs in town next
year.
| The Easton building association has de-
clared semi-annual dividend of 3! per
cent, and the Centreville association one of
per cent.
Bilious fever has been very fatal in
| Queenstown this season. The undertaken
Of that little village furnished nine collins
in two weeks.
Nearly all the horses entered for the
Salisbury Fair races to take place on the
10th, 18th and 18th insts., belong to par
ties living on the lower Peninsula.
Bro. Joseph II. johnson, editor of the
Cambridge Democrat Ne,cS, advertises for
wife, in the last issue of his paper. lie has
also subscribed for $1,000 worth of stock in
the proposed Cambridge bank.
A tournament for the benefit of the yell
low fever sufferers will be held at Easton,
on the 23d Of October. Senator Bayard, Of
Delaware, has accepted an invitation to
address the knights on that occasion.
The Easton Odd Fellows, who lost their
hall the Town Commissioners. who lost
the market house. and the Town Hall
Company, who lost their hall, are having
their old bricks cleaned, preparatory to re-
building
Some scamp attempted to fire VIM. II.
Seth's store, at Oxford, few nights ago, by
kindling fire on the outside. The charred
wood found next morning after the fire had
gone out, revealed to Mr.. Seth the mali
cious intent.
Ucmy B,uglo5y.-On Wednesday night
last burglars entered the store Of Samuel \.
. Smith, at Willoughby Shops, Queen Anne
county, and robbed it Of between four and
live hundred dollars worth of goods and
: about five dollars in money.
S The Chesapeake bay oyster dredgers have
Y already commenced making targets Of each
l other for rifle practice. John Lutz has
: already had his arm shattered, and he and
, seven others are now in Chcstertown iail
S for dredging in forbidden waters.
Religious Rcrival at Pre8t5u.-A religious re-
e vival Of unusual promise is now going on at
\ the NJ. +. Church at Preston, under the paste.
: rate OF Rev. W. B. Walton. The revival
Q has been in progress for little over weel;
. and from twenty to thirty person have pro
/ tessed change OF heart, amongst these are
f some of the old, stad and most reliable
G citizens of that place and yicinity-Dalton
Union.
c James Ford, who was arrested in vii
s mlngton few weeks ago, for stealing a
), horse and buggy from parties in Kent CO..
:. and taken hence to Chestertown iail to
r await his trial. concluded to hunt another
d boarding house, and so, on last Tuesday
v removed his leg irons and when the deputy
sheriff entered with his supper Ford darted
e out and after lively chase distanced all
pursuit and has not been heard from since
l. The Fat People in C0,ut.-The negro bow
i that stole the money of John Powers and
l. his sister--the fat ShOwman-was convicted
:. in Denton court and sent to the peniten
1 tlary. 1t Is reported that the grand Jury
G room was so small that the Powers could
not get into it and in order to make the
T presentment, the grand jury had to vacate
l. the court house and hold a session on the
;. court house green, in order to take the
g Powers testimonies John only weigh!
Cos, and his sister Mary SIS.
,, Pere Wilmer, Esq, of Queen Annes, We
u learn from the Centerville Record has trans
y ferred his real and personal estate t.
. Ormand Hammond and Charles II. Gibson
e Esqs., OF Talbot county, trustees, for tn,
o benefit Of his creditors. The real estate
: embraces some of the best farms in tn,
county and aggregates ,S32 acres of land
The personal property is also extensive anC
= embraces some of the finest stock to b.
found on the Peninsula. The propert
; transferred is estimated as amply suffcien
to hquidate all Mr.. Winners obligations
' Nothing more honorable could be asked q
IS Mr.. Wilmer.
Tile C2OW Fort,me.-As notice in the las
- issue of the Observer the Glow and Have
> heirs held meeting at Templevile O.
Tuesday to take into consideration the prc
- - priety of raising $500 for the purpose {
{ sending New York lawyer named Gree
to England to hunt up and recover tn
T. property supposed to belong to the Glow
at and Hayeses in this country. Mr.. Greer
5, was not present at the meeting. owing t
e, the Illness OF his daughter, but gentlema
IL from Dover named Miriam presided, an
lie it is said that he is also negotiating wit
or the heirs for the purpose of getting tn
Or money for them. A gentleman who wa
ut there informs US that the heirs seemed will
a ing to send Green to England, and nearl
I'd SlOO was subscribed on the spot for thf
lie rpose.-CcnterpiUe Observer.
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te THE Russians hnye turned about and ~,