Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
KINDS OF Dry GOODs

The Baltimore papers report the
smallpox in that city on the decrease.
John Collins has sold his home farm
of 248 acres, situated on the county
road leading from fredericksburg. Md. |
to Denton, to Walter Jones, ESQ. OF |
Walsill, England, for 5000 cash.
Jim Barwick, colored, who was re-
moved from Easton Jail on the suppo-
sition that he had smallpox, turns out
TO have been feigning. Jim had
rubbed his face with croton oil, so as
to produce soreness that should be
mistaken for the eruption of smallpox,
his fellow prisoners believing that if
the disease were discovered in the iail
they would be liberated.
The Sailors Smallpox Hospital situ-
ated about one mile from Crisfeld, was
destroyed by fire early on Saturday
morning. One of the patients while
delerious knocked the lamp off the
table and then plunged into the river.
The nurse followed and rescued him
but the man died soon after. The fire
could not be extinguished, but nearly
everything in the house was saved.
There was u corpse in the house at the
time and it was burned up.
Sales of Real Estdte.-Messrs. Mancha
& Heller, Ridgely's real estate agents,
report the following sales recently
made through their agency. Part of
Oakland " containing ITO acres, %
miles north of Ridgely. Sold for VIM.
S. Ridgely to A. r. Brigden, of Cayuga
county, n. Y, for $50 per acre, cash.
Ninety nine acres of Caroline county
"Sleeper Tract" to John Winans OF
Pennsylvania, for $40, cash. The
Carpenter or Montgomery Farm at
BoOnsboro, containing ISL acres, to
, Henry Bell, of Seaford, Del, for 50 500
} cash. The" DIR. H. Comegy's Farm, .
8 miles northwest of Greensborough
containing 315 acres, for VIM. G. Sat
terield to TheO. Ernst, of Cooperstown
n. Y, for 5000. One hundred anC
] ninety-seven acres for L. H. Gadd tt
t Smith Good, of Canada, for $4,000
Three miles east of Denton, ON tn,
Burrsville road. The "Abram Juml
Farm" one mile west of Ridgely, t.
: Israel Kline, containing 130 acres a
). $25 per acre. Also several other smal
placeS.-Denton Union.
: The Dorchester Era is responsible
e for the following: 1.-THE Rev. ]. A.
l. Wilson is a member of the Wilmingto
Conference and is stationed at Fai
. mount, a place somewhere in Some
" set. Mr.. Wilson appears to be up
his knees in the hottest kind of waite
p 1t seems that he takes occasion to r
~ prove the disorderly among his foe
for which he is prosecuted by the III
r. ruly element at Fairmount who a
n in the habit of circulating the vile
n slanders against him. The last a
,e tempt to annoy Mr.. Wilson occurr'
ON Friday evening of last week, wh'
he went from his pulpit down amol
a the congregation to preserve order, al
is seating himself by the side Of yOul
on man named George Hall who was M
Ill behaving said to him: You mU
!. be quiet or else / must put you ou
Hall said: If you are the better m
ne you can put me out, but if not l W
rs remain here > whereupon the past
81 collared him and gently lifted him O
90 the door. Hall went home and G
~, his gun and declared that he wou
shoot the parson, but better couns
prevailed and no blood was shed. I
W church officials at once convened a
re- passed resolutions condemning th'
Ae acts of lawlessness and indOrsing
NJ acts of their pastor. Later on the r,
nc erened gentleman, after having his
threatened by the mob was arrest
be for illegally ejecting Hall from
as. church at the instigation of MAJ
or trate in the locality who informed
tbs infuriated mob that the preacher
md exceeded his authority and could
ith handled for it."