Smyrna times., 1880-09-15
MARYLAND ITEMS.

An Elkton man has collected $4,000 old !
postage stamps.
4 tournament in which the riders are to |
be ladies will come off at Salisbury on |
october 1S.
The crop of corn in Talbot county prom
;sos to be larger than was ever known in
tbe memory OF the oldest inhabitant.
Four prisoners escaped from tho Easton
ioiI Monday night. Three of them have
bean captured but the fourth is still at
large.
The Denton Union says diphtheria is pre-
vailins to some extent among the children
at Potter's Landing, several cases having
proved fatal.
Two new enumerators have been appoint
cd TO retake the census of the upper dis
trict of Kent county, and work will be COM
menced at once.
Grison Ohaney, colored, of st. Michael's,
has been held to court on the charge OF
aiding Susan johnson in an attempt to kill
her new born child.
George Conner, colored deck hand on
the schooner Aureia, fell overheard in
Crisfeld harbor Friday morning and was
drowned He hailed from Newton.
In a small onestory house, near Princess
Anne, there lives colored man named
William Hayman, his wife and Is children
making nice little family of 20 persons.
A Greensboro man says lie saw a sweet
potato I feet 8 inches IN circumference.
lie says it took it four years to grow. We
don't know how long it took him to make
this up.
Maj William Z. Stewart of Easton,
through Hon. A. z. German, has made an
engagement with the National Democratic
Committee to canvass for Hancock and
English in other States.
Whisky is now sold in a Crisfeld saloon
through an ingenious arrangement of slid
ing doors so arranged that the purchaser
never sees the bartender and consequently
no one can say who sells the liquor.
North East, Cecil county, can boast of
the " boss" baby; it has five fingers and a
thumb on each hand, and six toes on each
foot. Three of the toes are webbed. The
little fellow don't seem unusually proud
either
William Armstrong of the 4th district,
Cecil county, Nd, has nine profitable
Southdown ewes. The increase last Winter
was fourteen lambs, which sold at 81 SO
each, and the fleece Of the ewes sold for
s255 each, making the clever sum oi
SS595 profit during the year.
The friends of Mr. R. ]. Jump will bt
pleased to learn that he has so far improved
as to be able to sit up the most of the day
and to pass about the house. Though still
weak he may be considered out of danger
The wounds have all healed except the one
over the left eye, and this is curing W
nicely.-Dent0n Union.
Deserves a Premium.-Mr. Benjamin NJ
Reed is the happy owner of remarkabl,
COW. The animal is twenty-four years old
Of the graded Alderny stock, and for nint
years has given milk that averages pounC
OF butter per day, having no offsprin,
during that time. She is an excellen
feeder and can readily eat the hardes
grain. Is there another such a one in tht
county2 If so, bring her to the fair
Cecil Wing.
wedding in Jail is described by tn
Every Evenings Elkton correspondent
Sheriff Logan threw open the prison doc
on Thursday to allow one Of the prisoner
TO ascend the matrimonial altar with
lady who awaited him in the par!or.
friendly lawyer presented the necessar
license to the groom bridal gift an
W. W. Weberton, of the Presbyteria
Church tied the knot without charge. II
was one of those unfortunate cases abou
which little had better be said. The pri
oner now happy groom, returned to hi
former home with his bride.