Smyrna times., 1879-02-19

present, as lively time is anticipated.
Resolved, That Smyrna Grange, No 81, Patrons of |
Husbandry of the opinion that the present mode
of assessing real estate and personal property in Kent
County is unequal and unjust and that the contem-
plated change of the mode OF assessment by the Levy
make the assessment meets with our appreciation.
F. w. GRIFFITH, Sec'y.
Editorial CorrcspOadcncc
A Run Down to Baltimore and Washing
ton.
BALTIMORE.
An unaccustomed traveller finds nothing
more disagreeable than to be set down i'll
city with which he is unfamiliar on
"muggy" day with rain above, murkiness
all around and mud beneath the feet.
These are the times and circumstances
when the clever hackman is ready to take
one in to the extent Of his limits. But
once at the hotel, the elements can be
viewed from comfortable quarters and
reckoning made as to the extent of the
city and route necessary to this and that
important locality.
4 bright morning succeeding such a day
as above described puts everything in new
aspect. The city appears brighter, people
look more cheerful while the streets are
alive with the rattle and hurry and tumult
of busy commercial traffic. Baltimore
while ranking as a third rate city in popula-
ton, (about 300000) is claimed 10y its
citizens to be in the first class in CONNER
cial enterprise. AS a shipping port for
grain they claim to exceed either New
/ York or Philadelphia, and in the matter Of
| imports, especially from Southern coun-
tries, it does an immense trade. Not
only in groceries but in articles of domestic
manufacture, notably tobacco, as well as
glass and china ware they lead the market.
AS city of manufactures it falls behind,
the heavy tax levied by the authorities
on engines and for water privileges amount
ing almost to prohibition. The most i'm
portant productive business in the city is
! that of packing" in which it excells to
an eminent degree, and the River and Rail-
road fronts are lined with oyster and fruit
packing houses. The Patapsco waters are
alive with the everchanging crafts of steam
and sail that come up from the numerous
rivers that indent the east and west shores
of the Chesapeake, and the ports Of the diff
ferent Atlantic States.
TO a visitor however, the city itself is
the principal object of attraction, and it is
fair to say that Baltimore is an attractive
city and pleasing to strangers. Some forty
years ago, more or less, they built mOnu.
ment in memory of their sons who fell in
defence Of the city when attacked by the
British in 1914, and the event gave it the
name of "the Monumental City," which
,S0Jri9uet it has ever since retained. The
! Washington monument built since, is a tall
and magnificent marble shaft surmounted
with the full figure of the "Father of his
Country"
There are a number of fine structures
hotels, stores, banks, private houses, &c.
The new City Hall, built of marble, is one
Of the finest buildings in any city i'll the
nation, a structure of which the citizens
are Justly proud. Baltimore is city of
churches, the two most imposing being the
church Of our former citizen, DIR. j. f.
Grammer, and the Mount Vernon Place NJ.
f. Church. The Bishop Cummins Me-
mortal Church is not so large as many
others. but noticeable from its style Of struc-
ture. The new-Western part Of tho city
is very attractive and contains a number
of streets of very handsome dwellings.
1t would be almost impossible for New
York or Philadelphia to present more
beautiful street than Eutaw Place. The
Baltimorean is not slow to contrast the
uniform semblance of whole blocks-every
house, door, shutters and steps in Philadel
phia being just alike; with the variety o.
material and style of structure of this city
"Why," said one of them in discanting or
this subject to us, "if you meet cross
eyed child at a corner in Philadelphia, al
the other children you meet on that block
will be cross.eyed also"
The newspapers are we'll conducted ant
WELD large influence. The chief morn
} ing papers are the American, Sun and Gazette
| and evening; the Ne,0S and Bulletin
t Through the courtesy of the conductors o
the EUening Ne,0S, we were shown through
the mysteries of daily journalism-its pre-
else routine,-a place for every man anC
every man in his place, the business, edi
8 toriaI, composing, stereotyping, down t.
the press room where a new Bullock pres
| was, from o continuous roll, cutting, print
0 ing, counting, &C., much faster than an,
f one could count. The stereotyping-ever!
e paper is stereotyped, the type not beini
o used at all as in our country ofices-was
: department of especial interest.
: There are several Delawareans in Balti
more who gave us warm hand, as they ar
r always ready to do to visitor from tn
8 Diamond State" Our young friend Rich
!. S. Culbreth we found in the Evening NeaO'
# office, to which paper he is attached con
n siderable part of the day as legal repOrte
Il of the courts. In addition to this, in tn
pursuit of the study of the law, he
e taking two courses in one at the Law Uni
d versty viz, double studies, and in the lat
examination got the maximum marks il
II all his studies, point which not anothe
student even of the single course arrived al
Mr.. G. may not thank us for this statement
but we must offer in excuse that we ar
\. speaking Of q Delawarean. lie expects t
y graduate next June, Thos. ,. and Fho'
t A. Lockwood, father and son, former res
!. dents of our town, are here, the forme
- experimenting the manufacture and sal
:, of his patent hoe, the latter with VIM. II
e King & Co., paint store cor. Charles Il Lun
l. bard SITS. Thos. C. Roe, q former clerk c
4 James P. Hoffecker, has q drug store %
Columbia Avenue and is doing remunel
ative business. Abraham Sharp, son c
William Sharp of our town, has an office a
o attorney at law 35 Lexington St., Rev.
s. j. Poulson, pastor of one of the NJ. i
@ churches, and DR.. Nickerson, who marrie
?, Miss Ella Lockwood then of our town, W
s did not see.
Among tho notable events in Baltimor
this winter are the meetings of Rev. d.
5. Moody, which, though in progress all tn