Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-14
MARYLAND ITEMS,
v;ol.tors Of the oyster law on the CheSa-
nooIre are sternly dealt with.


Csntreville Observer.
1,surancs Commissioner Haines, of this !
c,ate. last year turned into the State Irea-
surv $4,000 more than last year.
The Centreville Observer has raised its |,
.Lscrintion price, after testing the matter |
ornrinting one year at ruinous prices.
Pov. Jas. II. Lightbourne has been living
Lie farm near Oxford for three years past.
He IS contemplating return to the min
istry.
lanes Smith, coored, died near Princess
,ons few days ago at the age of 100 years.
Thero is indisputable evidence that he was
horn within year Of 1870.
Tbos. B. HvnsoA, of Chastertowa, has
boueht of Dr. James Brown, of Baltimore,
the Nichols farm in Quarter Neck, Kent
county. 456 acres, for $500.
A public meeting Of farmers of Wicemico
county, will he held at Salisbury on the 20th
inst to consider the question involved in
the fence and stock laws now in existence
Thirty eight thousand dollars were paid
ont Of the State treasury to about Is or 20
MARYLAND newspapers for the publication OF
the batch Of laws passed at the last session
The Pocomoke Record and Gazette is busy
defending the town from unpleasant con
illusions drawn from late occurrences iere.
1t appears that the Rev. Mr. Bowen salary
is paid in full.
malignant type of typhoid fever has
prevaiIed in the Lakes and Straits districts,
fn alarming RXfRnt
during the last month, and many deaths
have occurred.
The following distribution of the public
school fund has been made by the Comp
troller for Caroline county: TO the white
schools the sun of 81 ,54474. For colored
schools $57605.
Queen Anne's County gets s2,2lS.72 for
white and $995.69 for colored schools
making total of $3,2l4.4l The white
normal school receives also $2,625, and the
colorsd normal school $500.
A new post of the Grand Army of the
Republic WAS established at EIkton, Cecil
county, on Thursday night last, by ThOs. l..
Matthews and D. Il. Knull, of Baltimore.
The Pest starts with AZ charter members.
The Baltimore american shows that nearly
all of its successful local politicians are
either total abstaiuerS, or very moderate
users of alcoholic stimulants, and deduces
that in politics, as ~ everything else, cool
head and undimmed faculties are sure tc
win in the long run.
The Montgomery idcocate is informed
that the gold mines in the neigheorhood o
the Great Falls are being actively worked
All the heavy machinery has arrived and i
being put in working order, and it is expsc
ted that the crushing mill will be in opera
ton by the the Goth of the present month
4 .Nsp Enterpris..-Messrs Hubbard
Brother, from Wyoming, have leased Of X
B. Dixon a part Of his wharf property a
Etston Point, having front on the waite
OF $50 feet. and early in the Spring wi
put up on the lot .arge factory and all tn
necessary machinery for the manufactur
of Hubbard's Standard Phosphate.
A Methodist preacher in Philadelphsi
wrote to SIR. Chambers, Real Estate Broke
at fredericksburg to sell a farm of his in on
OF the lower couRties, or exchange it tC
city property. A German doctor offered
corner hotel in Philadelphia in exchange
The parson wrote in reply, AS | do nc
want to 60 to hell, do not want cornt
hotel
4 Religious Rtr;ca{- A tremendous rev
val of religion is now being held at the \
{. Church, at HilsborOugh. Rev. Mr. j
Ssrlev, the pastor, in assisted in the wOT
BY Rev. Mr.. Galloway of Wilmington. II
alter is nightly crowded with peniteni
there OeIng as many as forty forward at Il
- h. (, ha AT
held in that place for years.
Marylander whose admiration for p
headedness in the guise of grit leads hi
into the common blunder of inticting up
sons names Of which the victims always "
be ashamed, has christsnsd one of his he
less innocents "Garcelon." son so nam
ought to have the privilege IN after days
calliRg his father "Old Greyhpad." "C
Man" or old anything else, for the retail
tien would be just.
The Denton Journal is fearfullv distress
about the Psrpetuity of the Union. I
money power, the journal thinks, will ov
throw the Union. It's the Federal Uni
and not the Denton Union, the journal
weeping about, and the Administrat
pocketbook, and not Emerson's plethc
1 purse I0aL causes lis tears 10 uOW. l.
Melvia whom will you have to wipe y
weeping eyes? Bayard, or Tildsn,
Thurman, or Hancock, or Seymour
Hendricks. or Daniel Fields ?-,% Mich
Comet.
Narylaads Nes0 SerGtor.-Hon. Arthur
German, of Howard county, nominated
United States Senator, TO succeed VIII
PInkney Whyte, and is not quite Al y
of age. He has represented his ma
county in the Legislature for the past
years, two terms in the House and two
the Senate, being at present in his sec
Senatorial term. When a boy of g he
appointed page in tho United States Sen
and from that post he rose to other
more Importance, being finally made
master Of the Senate. When Presi'
Johnson broke with the Republican, P
Mr.. Gormon followed him, being REVEAL
with Office. 1t is said that it was Jeffs
Davis advice 20 keep with his State
decided Gormon at the opening Of ths
to favor the subjugation Of the South.
German is now President of the Chessp
Ohio Canal Company, and Chairma
the Democratic Slate Committee.
political influence in this State is tire
do1s.
III Desperate Fight Citl. a buH-On Thu
II last Thomas Cheers, residing with
N Emery, Esq., in Spaniard's Neck, wa
M gagged with an OK team hauling nea
Ia barn yard, when Mr.. EmOry's short
bnll.-a 1000 poundar-cams uncomfoI
close, and apprehsadng trouble bstwe'
call and oxen. Mr.. Cheers drove the {,
iRt0 field. The fellow moved off sui
and in order to get him as far away a
sible and thus prevent mis- return
III Cheers drove him fat into the Geld.
SEINE distance frosn any fence the
turned and raads towards Mr.Cheeri
fortunately was armed With heavy
hide whip. with the butt cad Of viii
dealt the bull a blow on the head,
him on his knees. This appiicatio
repeated two or three times, when