Smyrna times., 1882-01-04
Maryland Items.

Miss Nella F. Brown will read in Eas-
ton ON January 27.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel NJ. Carter, of Car
Oline county, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week.
Easton has corporation debt of $1o,-
600, which was contracted for works of
public improvement.
Talbot county paid sixty-eight dollars
for hawks heads last week, which means
that 1876 hawks were slain.
Many of our Eastern Shore exchanges
issued only half sheets last week and
there is little news from that side of the
Peninsula.
Capt. Matthew c. Pearce, former we'll
known resident of Cecil county, died in
Washington last week. He married an
aunt of the Hon. Jas. Black Groom.
Rev. d. C. Ridgway, now member of
an Ohio conference, is to be re transferred to
this conference, in the Spring, and proba-
bly, located at ElktOn. So says the Uhiq.
Mr.. San1 Mallalieu, of Queen AIMS
county, prominent Republican, and can
didate for State comptroller against Mr..
Heating several years ago, is severely ill
at his residence.
Mr.. James d. Eliason and Miss Laura
F. NlcIntire, daughter of Samuel McIn-
tire, Esq, all of Delaware, were united in
marriage at the Presbyterian Church.
Chesapeake City, Md, at $50 o'clock on
Thursday evening.
James Dixon of Easton had family re-
union on Christmas day, at which time he
presented each of his five children with
$1,000 as Christmas gift, a grand total OF
$4,000. Quite a nice old papa" that.
The Baltimore Gazette has not been
swallowed up in the new Times, as was at
first anticipated. twill be conducted with
renewed enterprise" The Sun, in well
coming the Times, says there is plenty of
room for more newspapers in Baltimore.
The poles for the new telegraph line to
Centreville have been settled as far as
Ashland, and the wire has been strung az
far down as NillingtOR and is moving on
rapidly. In one day the wire was strung
from Townsend to Massey's, a distance Of
nine miles.
Thomas Cornish, George Woolferd and
William Taylor, young colored men, are
charged by Mary Toxin, colored, of Tai
bot county, with breaking into her house
stealing what money she had, and then
committing an outrage on her. Woolford
and Taylor have been arrested and officers
are on the lookout for Cornish
Capt. Hedge Thompson, Of Easton has
rap Mnntn.Y,. ID.
of wild-turkeys-tw turkey hens and
one gobler. Capt Thompson will try to
dOmesticate these fowls and hopes to sue.
cessfully introduce them into Talbot CO
as valuable addition to their stock OF
farm fowls. He also has plan to intro
duce and raise pheasants.
! The town council of Easton has deter
Mined to obtain an act of assembly au
| thorizing the issuing of the bonds Of the
! town to the amount Of its outstanding in
debtedness, $10O00 and also to get legis
lative authority to levy a special tax Of
! 124 cents on the hundred dollars Of asse.
sable property, to pay the interest on tn,
bonds, and to provide fund for their uiti
mate redemption.
Mr.. Hazleton, editor and proprietor O
the Baltimore Times, which will take tn,
place of the Gazette on the first of Jan
vary, denies that his paper will be .
Stalwart organ" The prospectus ISSUED
by him declares that the Times will be .
thoroughly independent newspaper" ;" anC
that ''its editor will advocate what he be
lieves to be right and will oppose with al
the resources at his command, everythin,
which seems to him to be antagonistic t.
the welfare of the people" Now lets Sc,
if he sticks to it.