Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-01-05
MARYLAND ITEMS.

Tuesday evenings " OAOCA.
MARYLAND ITEMS.
Jonathan Pratt, of Marydel, has removed
to Dover.
~ : Grouse, school teacher, and family
n,nved from Dover to Preston Caroline
county.
The wharf property at Still Pond, Kent
oounty, has been sold to James q. Roseberry
fr$l,200.
IN. Suortsmans Club Of Cecil county
ill nav a liberal price for all live cartridges
delivered to them.
John Bennett residing near Delaware
CIV has purchased farm of 243 acres
near Kennedyviile.
On Christmas eve Kent county lost two
we'll known and highly esteemed citizens,
LAWN Csilton and Thomas Baker.
DR. 5. Downs, has decided to leave
Davpr and remove to Wilmington, to take
charge of DR.. Clarke's practice there.
The dwelling of r. H. Crosswsll, the
6ra.t house In Cristirld, Was burned on
Sunday night Loss 5000; insurance S4,.
900.
There are about ten thousand bushels Of
oysters on the boats at Crlsheld. The
owners are holding them ut 70 cents and 81
per bushel.
The Easton Star says: Mary Skinner,
acolored woman, l04 years OF age, died III
Easton Sunday. Her family says she did
not take any food for Fix weeks before her
DEATH"
The editor Of the Easton Gazette has
given his sons, Harry G. and WIN. +. COun.
cell. an interest IN the Gazette and it will
hereafter be published under the firm
name of W. II. Councell d Sons.
Cambridge has lost its Bailiff, John New.
lille which would have been matter OF
inhnitesilnal regret to the people Of Cam
bridge were il not that the town treasury,
containing $500 disappeared with Neville.
Paper Sold.-The Easton Ledger was sold
at mortgages sale, on Tuesday last, for
&.4lO IL Geo. E. Hathaway, Esq, OF the
81. Miehaels Comet Mr.. Ii. is a vigorous
writer, and will doubtless well balance the
Ledger each week.
Down towards the Pennsula's jumping.
af place is u man named Joshua JOyne-,
who at one meal recently ate 10 pounds OF
psrk, 3 links OF Sausage, sOOse, chicken,
II biscuits and several other things to
numerous to mention.
C.y, -" Tho ChaV horo
farm, in Queen Anne's, containing 6l8 acres
was sold At public sale on Wednesday, and
purchased by DR.. 5. E. Ford, of the Chester
River Steamboat Company, at $50 per acre,
aggregating over 1000.
Colonel James Wallace and ". w. Byrn,
Of Cambridge, are at the head OF a project
TO construct a canal from Cambridge Ia
the Blackwater river. The first meeting oil
citizens to discuss the progressed improve
meat was held yesterday.
Near Denton lives Mr.. Curtis And ews
who hasn't had match in his house Ion
forty years. When he began housekee pine
IN 1910 he built fire in a large Old.ia a.
iOnrd fireplace, and since then the fire
never has been allowed to go out
The lee BIockade.-The Chesapeake bay i,
frozen over below Annapolis, but the Bnili
more city ice boats MaryIand and LatroJ,
Keep track open, SO that steamers Cal
come and go. A great many vessels are
frozen IN the ice in various parts OF the bay
trick enabled Daniel Pinket, colored
10 get into the house of John Wrightson
Of Vienna. Pinket stole $500 from tn,
ot1AQ AL IL. -
oy the help of the thiefs tracks in thu
anow caught the thief, who now occupies
cell in the Dorchester Jail.
As soon as the weather will permit th,
Delaware & Chesapeake railroad will ex
Tend their pier, at Oxford, $50 feet, which
viii enable ships of heavy draft to Loaf
from the pier. The pier is now over 30
Ieet In length. The company also contem
plate erecting an elevator.
Another census of the Eastern Shor
neat will be taken. 1t is limited that tn
Ieares were tempered with for poitica
purposes. The last returns of the enumer
atcrs place the population at IS, 240, whicl
:. Just enough to give the county an add
gonal member in the House of Delegates
ils thought that the returns may hay
"sen padded in order TO reach that result
n, Ice IS reported in great quantities il
Nhester river, and vessels are unable T.
make landings. At Cris6eld there are sal
70 Dc several hundred oyster vessels frOzr
up, unable TO get out, with their crews fros
Olltsn and suffering greatly. Many of til
srews have deserted and trSmped off, Leaf
ing their vessels to take care of themselve
several men reached Baltimore MOnda
Isht from Crisfeld having walked to ths
wy They report that several schooner
gae OF them the Mass, came over from tn
.t o'omac during the recent cold snap wit
."eir crews so badly frostbitten that the
'0uli scarcely work the vessels.