Smyrna times., 1879-01-01
MARYLAND ITEMS.

An ice barricade Of the rivers ero,,n
into the ChesaPeak is reported. '"a
The steamer Ruqgi.a has been to,yol
Cambridge. She was disabled by 8a,". mo
ice. N5
Chester river IS unnavigable on acc,n..
Of the ice. The steamer F,c{ enls
down trip at Kent Island. He'
Dr. Thomas J. Smithcrs has moral .
the three story house, corner WasL;ra,..|" -"
and Cabinet streets, Easton gym
An Eastern Shore farmer. ljvinc
Millington, had his pocket picked Of ;sga: $sa.
in Wilmington, on Saturday morning.
At Elkton, the other night. a crovl
| disorderly co!ored men drove the rrea,Il.
and his congregation from the church
Bids ranging from 10000 to $99oos
dredging the Pocomoke liver baye ~ ~
opened at Snow Hill. No award has bear eea
made.
! Temperance agitations are stormingClr,,.
Hill, one of the stronghods Of rum on =,
Eastern Shore. Fifty conversions have baos ,..'
made so far.
| Dcqh Of NercLan,-Wrn. T. M,~.
ment, Esq, Of the firm Of McClyp-,,',
Co., and a prominent merchant q, ~
treville, died on Saturday morning las,
James A. Roseberry. an exCounty c,,.
missioner Of Kent, died near Cne..cr,a,'.
on Sunday. He was a friend and n.j,iI,.
of Colonel wilkins. His age was ,.y,y
four years.
Christmas Eve was lively dav in I'm.
trevlle. Whlskry flowed freely and m,v
got drunk, there being perhaps as many a.
fifteen drunk at one time. Then of cons
things got lively with fights. &c.
There are gloomy reports from the ,oY
J lands Of Dorchester and Somerset COUNTIES
5 The high tides last fall having inundatrd
; the farm lands, all traces of fertility /,
most of the farms have been DESTROYED
Alice Duer, the young woman vii,
/ caused the death of Miss IIcrn. at POGO.
n mOke City, is not insane, as was stated bv a
a. Snow Hill paper. She is at her fathers
n house in P0comoke City, in her rig!t mind
and in good health.
It SeAiny Liguor Without License.-By ,;i,ac
|. ton of the Collector Of L. S. Iptprrg,
d Revenue deputy, L. A. G. Gerry, o. For,
o Deposit, has caused the arrest Of Jos,pb
v II. and Kate V. Mons Of Kent county. tor
selling liquor without license, and alsoJobr
= w. Wall on the charge Of runnin, an
- illicit distillery. The parties were taker
"a to Baltimore, and given hearing before
~ U. ). Commissioner Rogers, who held therl
j" for further hearing.
Colonej E,{card wilkins, of Riverside
! Kent county, died suddenly on Saturday q
~ heart disease. His son Miflin asked tn
Il. Colonel how he felt and the latter replied
- Better than for some time" Mifilln steE
4 ped to the mantelpiece for moment an
when he turned around his father wa
dead. Colonel Wilkins was sixty-fve yeal
u old. He was born in Kent. His first wifi
r. was Miss Jones; his second wife a Nj.
i. Merritt. Their children fill leading Dos
w tions in society. At the breaking out {
ay the war he avowed himself a Union ma
ey and raised the Second Maryland Easter
Shore Volunteers. He was buried o
Monday. Colonel Wilkins was the first
II II introduce successfully peach culture on Il
- Eastern Shore and at the time of his deaf
~ was the largest peach-grower on the ShoE
- During the last season he made $4,000 {
90 the peach crop. Riverside is considers
" the finest estate in Kent. 1t is situated
nc few miles from Chestertown and compris
about four hundred acres sofhighly.mproy
70 land with a fine mansion. "Bond Chape
eft another peach estate belonging to BIZ
10 contains three hundred acres. At the
in cent Dairymen's Convention in New 70
he Colonel wilkins said that the people of I
he Delaware Peninsula must place less
Ara pendence in fruit culture, which was look
N upon as q significant utterance