Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04
MARYLAND ITEMS.

Salisbury is still moving in the matter of
establishing bank.
F,.derick Douglass will lecture in Sails
bury on the oath instant.
pstsr Tarr, formerly of Easton, died at
Salisbury, Monday, aged 90 years.
The Elk river fishermen are catching
forty and fifty herring at each haul.
Elkton has psttioned Congress to appro-
Driats $4,000 for improving the Elk.
Some thief has stolen so feet of hose from
SaIisburys newly organized fire company.
Henry Whitacre, former merchant of
Denton, died in Delaware last Sunday
week.
Diptheria has made its appearance with
fatal effect at Merrickton, Queen Annss
county.
Chas. C. Wilson, of Kent county, had
thirteen fine Cotswold sheep killed by dogs
last week.
The Cecil Democrat says it is safe to con.
cluds that if the Peninsula Ship Canal is
ever built it will be by way of the SasHafras
river route.
Joseph A. Graham, editor of the Sails.
bury Times, has been appointed supervisor
Of the census for the district Of which the
Eastern Shore forms part.
Edward B. Bates, ESQ.,, late of the Balti.
more bar son Of the Rev. DR.. L. w. Bates
has removed 70 Snow Hill and commenced
the practice Of his profession at the wor
cester bar.
Lloyd, the negro recently acquitted for
the murder, at Cherry Hill, of Elmer
Redifsr, has been committed to the Ches.
tsrtown Jail to answer fer another crins,
The penalty for which is seen through the
loop of the moose.
Tho Maryland Annual Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church, which
Includes all Of Maryland, the District of
Columbia and part Of Delaware, meets in
Ninth street Church Washington, D. c.,
on March 10, with Rev. D. w. Bates, presi-
dent. la this conference the limit Of pas
toral charges is five years.
A Long Delay.-A couple of photographs
sent by Adams Express from Memphis,
Tennessee on the 18th Of June 1862 to Miss
Helen Davis Of Denton says the Union were
received on Saturday last. They have been
nparlS Is years on the route, but whore
they have BEEN or in whose possession all
these years, is not known. They ara ia
good state OF preservation.
CsloNe Ay,lelotte has resigned from his
eldership In the Presbyterian Church at
POcemoke. He wishes it to be understood
however, that the resignation must not be
construed as Ia any sense an admission OF
guiltin thu matters which had been charged
against him. A correspondent says
There Is elimination and recrnination
going on trtween other parties here of
like nature with that which Colonel AYtls.
lotte has been accused. but whether they
will ever result in legal investigation it is
hard as yet Ia determine.
The Snow Hill Messenger states that a
colored man catered the chamber of an
estimabie yOung lady of Stockton, one
night last week, for the purpose, as he
afterwards confessed, of perpetrating an
outrage, but was foiled by tho young lady
giving a vigorous alarm. The rascal
escaped for the time, but was caught few
evenings afterwards and taken by a body
OF disguised men to an adjacent woods, tied
up, and received the worst horsewhipping
on record. After the crowd was satisfied
that he had been sufficiently punished he
was allowed to depart, with the injunction
to never again make his appearance in
Worcester county.