Smyrna times., 1885-04-29
MARYLAND Items.

Centreville, has resumed business.
Cecil county almshouse has bought
10000 herring at 81 cents Il hundred
The postmaster at Bozinan. Talbot
county, receives the enormous compen-
sation Of 7G cents.
". F. Hartman, whose bakery at
Centreville was recently burned, is
about rebuilding.
Sarah Hitch, a Friend, died at
GroensOorOugh, April 18th, aged 81
years and 4 months.
Tho Cecil county school commits
sioners decided to close the public
schools on May 22nd.
Pound net fishing has almost super
cedrd the hauling seines on the Elk
and North East rivers.
Thursday morning Sheriff Melvin
discovered that during the night pre-
viots .I.t out Of eleven prisoners con
iincd Ia tambridgc Jail had escaped.
The Salisbury truckers are ignoring
the straw berry this season and devot-
ing th,ir soil TO the cultivation OF other
products They fear that the Norfolk
/ Strawberries will iniure the Peninsular
product.
The Southern Methodists have re
Gently purchased comfortable parson-
age in Trappe, which is occupied bv
their pastor, Rev. J. W. Grubb. With
a population Of 800 the town Of Trappe
has five churches.
Richard s. Dodson, of Norfolk. Va.
has purchased Navy Point, a place i'm
st. Michael's district, Talbot county.
which touches on the Chesapeake Bav
1t is thought that he will convert Il
into Summer resort.
Captain Alonzo Adams. of Barren
Island, killed forty-four wild geese and
nearly six hundred canvas-back and
red-head ducks during the Winter.
The Eastern shore is veritable
"Sportsman's Paradise"
The Maryland Steamboat Company
has bought large lot 20Ox3OO feel.
fronting on the Choptank river. at
Cambridge, for $4,000 The company
has also bought Of W. J. Thomas a
wharf adjoining its lot, for $4,000
Rev. w. r. Valiant, son of Rev. r.
d. Valiant, of Bel Air, who entered
the NJ. r. Conference of MARYLAND. in
1877, recently resigned his membership
in that body, and has Joined the VIII
mington Conference, NJ. f. Church.
A young man in Cambridge on Wis
iting his fair maiden, asked: How
do you like my new style Of standing
collar?" "Why," said she, "it re-
minds me very much of a whitewashed
fence around lunatic asylum" He
departed in misery.
The fishermen are very busy Just
now. Herring are plentiful, more be-
ing taken than the market demands.
On the Susquehanna river two or three
thousand are taken at a drift. The
hauling seines are doing a fair business.
On Tuesday week the catch of herring
was so great that it was found neces-
sary to liberate a portion of them.
Prices range from % cents per hun
dred upwards.
Farmers on Local Option-We pub
lish elsewhere in the Ledger to-day the
action of the Agricultural Association Of
Kent county, Md, which has decided
for local option This Association is
one of the most active of the agricul-
tural societies on the Shore, and, we
are advised, at the meeting at which
this "lOcal option resolution was
passed there was full attendance of
members, over fifty being present, and
the resolution passed without dissent
in the shape in which it was formula
ted. This, we believe, is the first time
a body Of this character has considered
the prohibition question, and the ac-
ton this association has taken is inter
esting as Indicating the business view
of agricuturists respecting the licensed
sale of liquors in rural communities.
This action of the Kent county far
mcrs seems to be in accord with a SEN
timent generally prevailing in thrifty
agricultural communities throughout
the country. At the bottom Of it is
the idea that country grOg-shops de-
moraliZe labor, and the labOrcrs too,
and that It is better for employers and
employees that the sale Of Intoxicating
liquors should be restricted or prOhib-
tied, so that temptation may be re-
moved. No farmer, nor any other en-
ployer, wants u drunken workman
EdstOn Ledger.