Smyrna times., 1885-12-09
MARYLAND Items.

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The Susquehanna river has been
closed by ice, and the G. and o. Canal
frozen up.
Fire destroyed the lumber warehouse
of Long, Colbourne & Co., at Crisfeld
loss $500, partially insured.
Gov. Lloyd has fixed January 8th as
the date of Charles Williams, colored,
convicted in the Circuit Court of Dor
chester county Of felOniOus assault.
Senator Wilson says the matter of
postOffice appointments on the Eastern
Shore will be taken up Immediately
and pushed with all the yigor neces-
sary.
Twelve vials of laudanum were re-
Gently taken from the person of John
Revel Sturgis, who is in Jail at AccO-
mac for shooting to death his neighbor
Mears.
George w. T. Perkins of Chester
town, died suddenly on Thursday
evening of heart disease. The deceased
was prominent citizen and left an es-
tate valued at 100000.
rally that James Russell Lowell smokes
a clay pipe. What concern can it be
to the people of Talbot county what
kind of pipe a man in Boston smokes.
John Taylor and James Johnson, col
ored, of Baltimore, were arrested on
Thursday night for body snatching,
from Laurel Hill Cemetery; they have
implicated a grave digger and several
physicians and surgeons.
A Delmar wife fOrwarns the public
by announcement in the Salisbury
AdUertiser, against giving, selling, loan
ing, or procuring for her husband in-
tOxicating liquors. She has suffered
fifteen years with a drunken husband.
E. w. F. Shippers, one of Chester
towns most popular and energetic
young merchants, was married last
Wednesday night to Miss Mary Wilkins,
daughter of the late James F. Wilkins,
at the NJ. E. Church in Chestertown.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. r. d. Kemp.
The negro Charles Wright, alias
Spencer Allen, who escaped from Cen
treville Jail in company with George
Taggart several months ago, was re-
captured at Townsend, Del, on Satur-
day night last about o'clock, by John
| Chapman, brakeman on the Queen
| Anne's and Kent railroad.
Theresa Nash, a colored school teach
er of Williamsburg, Dorchester county,
was brutally hOrsewhipped November
9th, by Edward Stevens, white, OF
that place for resenting an insult offer
ed by Stevens's sister by pushing her
out of the path. Stevens has been ar
rested and will be given hearing next
Monday.
There is a movement in Easton, to
build q new NJ. Z. Church. Their
present structure was only built in 1856
and is large and substantial brick
but the society desires to build larger
and handsomer edifice, and in more
desirable location. The matter is il
the hands of a committee, and the ole
church is offered for sale.
The Fair that was recently held il
the Odd Fellows Hall, Galena, for the
benefit of St. Dennis Roman Catholic
Church, has netted the handsome sun
of twelve hundred and fifty Isl ,250
dollars, about half of this amour
having been collected at St. Mary
Parish, Wilmington, the scene OfFathe
Flynn's recent labors.
William H. Slay, Esq, member Q
the ChestertOWn bar, was united il
marriage at noon on Thursday to Mis-
Augusta Eccleston HynsOn, daughte
of Richard HynsOn, Esq. The cere
mony took place at the residence of tn
brides parents, and was performed b
Rev. DR.. J. Houston EcclestOn, of Ba
! timOre. The wedding was quiet but
, very pretty one.
At a meeting of the directors of Th
Kent County Telephone Company
9 held in Chestertown, December 3rd,
new schedule of charges was adopted
: The new tolls are 10, 10 and 20 CEN
a per message, according to the distanC
t it is to be sent. Heretofore the chaTg
t has been 10 cents per message betwee
q all offices. The offices of this cOmpan
d in Kent county now number twent!
s one; those of Queen Anne's count
l. number fifteen.
d Jesse /. WOOdcock, who was sent
, the Maryland penitentiary some tin
e ago for setting fire to his jewelry stO
II in EastOn, and was pardoned out b
5. fore the expiration of his term of SCI
tence, has been caught again, this tin
2 in Philadelphia, and sentenced in Il
- Eastern Penitentiary for one year al
!, fined $3.50 for "devising a scheme
of defraud by use of the mails" Woo
T oTf cock advertised for persons to do wr
of ING cat home" and then, after recei
a. ing ten cents in reply, for paper
% sent a copy of paper for which t
y anplicants were TO write.-Kent Ne'