Smyrna times., 1880-11-10
MARYLAND ITEMS.

C,oLridoe is to have a national bank,
Fify.two tons of straw, prepared for use
.,ths Easton paper mills, were burned on |
Monday Loss $500.
Three Somerset county colored men |
,.,o been sent to the penitentiary for !
Lave lIarsn years for burning barn.
The Dorchester & Delaware Railroad |
company have paid off all old bills and now
mset their current expenses promptly.
Talbot county's school board is out of
dabt. employs 70 teachers, and has 3,44l
pupils on the roll for the present year.
Oxford, in Talbot county, was settled in
1894 II was Maryland's first port of entry
and came within one vote of being her
capital
TIE fruit packing house of Charles
Rbineart, at Chestertown, has put up 400,-
COO cans during the past season, and given
employment to 100 hands.
The papers of the Lower Peninsula report
that Klei Grange" the new agricultural
settlement in Worcester, is become place
of considerable Importance.
AtBayyew Cecil county, last week, Lewis
H. Thompson attempted to put Jesse j.
Riddle out of his bsr-room, when the latter,
who was intoxicated, stabbed Thompson in
the side with knife, inficting a dangerous
but not fatal wound.
Mr.. John Tracy, in digging a we'll at
his new house now being erected in Sails
bury, came across a bed of Cyprus roots and
muck some 20 feet below the surface, indi-
eating that at some period this land was a
low bog or cyprus swamp, where the ground
is now 25 feet above tide water.
Rev. R. II. Adams went for the scalp of
theSt. Mchaels Comets editor and came pref
ty near carrying it off under his belt. The
reason was some savage structures OF the
editor on the preachers meeting of Will
mngton for their resolution condemnlng
the riotous attack on Ezion church.
Further returns from Maryland show
that the majority for Hon. George w.
Coyington, Dem, in the first district will be
about 1000; and Mr.. Talbot's, Dem, in
the second district, 1900, while in the sixth
district, Hon. Milton G. Urner's, Rep,
majority is 500, which is a considerable
falling off from 1878.
Cecil county has spoken in a very decisive
manner against the licensed sale of liquor
in that county and the legal sale of all in.
toxicating drinks, except by druggists on
physicians prescription, will end on April
3Oth, next. There will be very percept
BILE increase in the percentage of sick mer
in Cecil after that date.
At Elk Neck curve, on the Philadelphia
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, tn,
oil n half wi in
themselves leisurely along on a hand-ca
when lightning express train came dow
upon them like fash. The men leapet
from the car instantly. Hardly had thei
heels struck earth before the car was strucl
by the locomotive and sent flying into
thousand bits.
1t is estimated that 5000 wild ducks wer
taken on the Susquehanna flats in tn
vicinity of Havre de Grace the first day O
the ducking season. A number of promi
nent gentlemen from New York, includiD
Judge Gildersleeve, participated in tn
slaughter. The greatest number of duck
killed by any one box was that of Messrs
Mahan and Dobson, who secured $40; tn
highest number killed by any sneak boa
was that of Captain Todd, who got lie
The flats still abound with ducks, and it
said that there is no perceptible decreas
since the day before the cunning seaso
opened.-BaLtimOre Sun.
4 Local Option.-It has been stated that i
SIX OF the counties of Maryland the questlo
of prohibiting the sale of intoxicatin
liquors was submitted at the general ele
ton. In two counties majorities wei
given for prohibition, as follows: Mon
gomery 1880, Cecil 1,643. Allegany, Was
lngton, Carroll and Charles counties vote
Tor license and continuation of the sale
liquor. The majorities in these counti
we're: Allegany 800, Carroll SIT, Charl
decisive, carrying all but one of the district
and Washington $40 But in WashingtC
the measure was made a district loo
option issue, and as six districts vote
against license, prohibition will prevail
tnose localities, notwithstanding, the vo
Vi the county as a whole TO the contrar
In the other counties the matter was not
district local option measure, but for Il
counties. 1t is estimated that the count
Wnere prohibition now prevails compri
nearly half the territory Of the State. II
counties which are wholly without licen
70 cell liquor are Kent, Caroline, Calvel
1rinee Georges, Cecil and Montgomery,
prohibition in partial, ! others, as follow
u somerset, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Dorch'
ii Nr, Frederick, Washington and Baltimo
81 cO1ntles. High license prevails in GarrC
ana Worcester. In Baltimore county t
Pronl6ltion includes territory surroundi
MI Washington and Woodbury., Mt. "
non and Warren factories. In HarfO
ana other counties particular localiti
:ueh as the neighborhood of schools, cam
ggrounds and resorts, have been unc
ohioltory restrictions by act of Assent
Il Vt long while. and the growth Of
a :s.raint has been for the past seven
tisnt years marked for its steadiness.
s ae Legislature OF 1880 no obstacle v
v;nered to acts when desired by the dele
SUhs representing the respective count
"a submitting the question to their gu
Y xee voters In this way the matter Y
EU.ed on in Prince Georges last April,
frederick in August last, and at the !
NaeIal election in Allegany, Washingt
NIL 'gomery, Cecil, Carroll and Char
WIN the results above chrcnicled.