Smyrna times., 1881-09-07
MARYLAND Items.


Caroline county, is dead.
r Roe's canning factory at Greens
hornurh turns out 5000 cans of corn II day.
.The mash is chuck full of rails and
,eqdvs." so says riparian inhaDitamt OF
the Little Elk creek.
Caroline has six would-be sherlflS' VINO
Gll ultimately be squeezed no"h lhto
NJ successful candidate
Roy Vaughn :. Collins, of Berlin. has
bsen appointed pastor of AnnamesSeX
circuit. vice Rev. Mr.. Quigley, deceased.
The Baltimore Oriole, Mardi-Gras and
r,rnival will be held October 10th, llth
and l2th-Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
DAY.
A snake killed on the Eastern Shore Il
sw days since was found to contain
even ounce stone that had been used rs u
nest egg.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad Com
rsny's new elevator, ut Baltimore was
Gpeaed on Monday. 1t will add 1,SOO,OOO
bushels TO the storage capacity of the city.
Thomas Mallalieu. of MillingtOn, has
been appointed to succeed the late EX-
Governor salisbury as delegate to the
Methodist Ecumenical Council in London.
Rev. r. J. Prcttyman. OF Newark. the
Oreat reyivalist. lost a child by death ON
Monday. making two of his children who
have died within u month, leaving only
one.
A Princess Anne young woman heard a
auttering among the chickens few nights
ago. She got down her big brothers gun,
took aim at the rOOsting-place and pulled.
Aman dropped, crawled through fence
and made off.
Washington College Mt ChestertOwn,
Kent county, will be one hundred years
old in 1888. General Washington visited
the college the year after it was founded
and saw play performed by the students.
Next year the college will receive large
addition to its endowments, lands to the
Ialue of $4,000, held under lease of 80
years. then reverting to the institution.
The Denton american Union. says: "A
reat amount of sickness prevails in our
county and throughout the Peninsula
Much of it caused by the old fashioned
bilious. frequently resulting in typhoid
fevers and dysentery. The latter disease
has been fatal mostly with children and
the number of deaths from this disease
has perhaps doubled those of former
years.
The health of Rev. Mr.. Mowbray, pastor
Of the VI. f. Church at st. Michaels. has
failed since be has been living here; and
he is now not able TO attend to his pastoral
duties. He is troubled, apparently, with
some pulmonary disease, which has not
yet yielded to treatment. Mr.. Mowbray's
congregation in st. Michaels are much
attached to him and wish earnestly for hi:
speedy restoration to bealth.-COmet.
The editor of the st. MichaeIs Comet i:
as sensitive about the cost of the new iai
Of Talbot county as an elderly maiden
lady is about her age. 1t is a matter o.
Indifference TO US, whether It cost s.. .OOC
@$JO,0OO, but if the cost stated by tn,
papers (which we do not now remember
vas not right, let the editor give the Figb
lgures and we can then zee what occasion
mere IS for such manifestation of spleel
about it.
The Democrat aRd Ners of Cambridge
'ays> The Zion M. +. Church is nov
ragidly approaching complexion, and whel
hnished viii be second TO no church o.
ths shore It will have a massive, soil,
appearance, relieved by many architeC
ltsstseR, R,helli4sments that make it reall
aaalisOme. This church viii remain
monument for religious worship thrOug
many future. ages, and its present pastor
key. y. L. HOffeeker, for his untiring zes
and energy certainly deserves large cred
nor TIE Improvement, for we have hear
i 1aiked of for many years, and doubles
NWould have still been only talk had nc
some thoroughly energetic man. like tn
fresent pastor have taken hold of tn