Smyrna times., 1880-01-28
MARYLAND ITEMS.


Church Hill has twelve stores and is
growing town.
a. hundred rooms are being added to
Atlantic Hotel at Ocean City.
r.s Centreville Town Library, was sold
!. nnblic auction on Saturday last.
rho Denton Union says there are 900
.ab,sable voters at from S. to $40 each in
carolina county.
Tn. son of Denuey Williams, of st.
,c.boels who accidentally shot himself
S.,uroay week, at last accounts was inl-
proving
Paw Vaughn Smith, of the NJ. E. Church.
nurchased the farm of Dominic Nc
F FIwse, near Elkton and will take possession
in a short time
Dr VIM. D. Noble, prominent physi-
IAN Of fredericksburg died in that town on
Sunday week of appoplcxy. He leaves a
,,idow, a daughter of Robert A. Houston of
Cr.ssx, and one child.
The license required of runners from
.,ber States in the State of Maryland has
Ian decided to be unconstitutional and the
Eourts of Mary land have found verdict of
,1.nsiltv against a travelling agent indicted
far selling goods without license.
In tho Easton Gazette, among the land
LOS for last week, we notice that six farms
= that neighborhood have been sold to New
Vork men; one to Michigan man and one
a.. Pennsylvania. This looks as if the
,;ls of immigration had returned to the
Peninsula.
An o,d-fashioned clock that had dene
jrtv IN the family of the late Thomas
Calvert Of ChariestowR, Cecil county, for a
quarter of a century, " stopped short upon
he sudden death of that venerable gentle.
man. and all efforts to make it "run again"
have been futile.
The Rev George w. Wilcox opens COM
municaten in the Snow Hill Messenger as
follows: Wanted imms diately, in the NJ.
F Church in Berlin, one hundred men and
women to seek their souls salvation"
That man has some lessons yet to learn in
Christian prorriSty.
4 man named Speer, who was denounced
by the Dentsn Journal of Saturday as an
inpostsr. was in Wilmington Monday,
irving 10 dispose of notes on several farmers
Of the peninsula. Speer IS said to have
hoodwinked a large number of the Della.
ware and Eastern Shore people.
4 story comes from Washington that one
of our distinguished fellow citizen, Hon. J.
A. J. Cresswell, ex-senator and ex-Post.
master General, violated the Sabbath by
entering into violent controversy with one
Capt. F. c. Adams well-known literary
man, whom he accused of having libeled
him IN the public prints.
The Cambridge Meas of Saturday last
saws: " Farmers ia this section of the
county are extremely uneasy about their
growing wheat. They state the fly is
making sad havoc in their fields, and if
thors is no severe weather to kill the fly
between this and Spring the greater portion
Of their wheat crop will be cut off"
S!,~J1y.-The visitor to Salisbury has a
rare luxury for mid Winter-turnip green's
fresh from the garden. This is simply in
csdental. The menu Of the PeHinsular
House embraces the luXuries of both the
Winter and Summer seasons, and mine
host Rider the worthy successor Of Tracy
has warm greeting for the weary traveller
And, ia this particular he is not ahead OF
the representatives of the press, bros.
Malone and Graham. Col. Malone who
stands at the head of the craft, is as genial
as he is wise. The Salisburyan has no cause
10 be ashamed Of his city, and lie is not.
In the latter part Of April, three years
ago, Howard l.. Smith, a colored man was
rowing at the mouth Of the Sassafras river,
which runs into the Chesapeake Bay near
Locust Point. As he rounded the point a
squall suddenly came upon him, and he was
about 10 seek the shore when he saw a boat
upset an eighth Of mile to the windward.
'he waves were choppy and the gusts fire,
~ .nt, but Smith bent to his oars and the
resc ne. A hard short pull took hiln to the
uptul ned boat, near which two boys were
strugg ling with the waves. Smith saved
them b,Nth, and taking them ashore deliv-
cred thea to their father, Mr.. Ball, of
Baltimore. The Maryland papers spoke of
Smith at t.1e time as 1.-The niger rescuer."
Smith, who was graduate OF Howard Uni.
versty, and by profession An editor, went
10 Boston, and as he was in danger of starry
ing in the newspaper business set up new
business as a sign painter. During the
Centennial he wrote for the Ecenng 1dc0cate,
a snort.lved paper of Philadelphia, and
later for the Christian Recorder, of the same
place. A few days ago Mr.. Ball, man OF
great wealth, died, and by his will 81, 000
is bsouethed 80 to Howard L. Smith for the
gallant rescue of my sons in April. 1877"
Smith says that he shall continue the sign.
painting business and salt down money
-Pkila. Times.