Smyrna times., 1885-10-28
MarYland Items.

Maryland Items.
G. w. Warner, prominent citizen of
Kent county, died Saturday.
Rev. r. X. Stephenson of Trappe, has
been invited to become the pastor of
NJ. f. Church Wilmington.
Each political organ in Cecil county |
says the other is not an organ but Il
lyre.-Only they don't spell the latter
name that way.-NOrtI East Star.
The Denton Union under editor
Todd is manifesting a piquancy and
force that may place it i'll the front
ranks of Eastern Shore journalism.
Trying to do business without adver-
tising is like winking at a girl in the
dark. You know what you are doing,
but no one else does.-SnOlV Hill Mes
seager.
Hepburn BlackistOn, first assistant
clerk of the Circuit Court of Kent
county, died on Saturday Of paralysis.
He served in the first Maryland caval-
ry, Confederate army.
Next Wednesday, Will Straughn, of
Baltimore, and Miss Bessie @. Mitchell,
of GreensbOrOugh, formerly of this
town, will be married in st. Lukes
Episcopal Church, at Church Hill.
That belled buzzard called upon the
Cecil NeCs man last week. He must
be an old one and a traveller, 1--WE mean
the buzzard) for we remember hearing
about him 80 most forty years ago." be-
fore we came to Delaware.-MiddLe-
torn Transcript.
Temperance men and Christians
should vote as they pray. 1t is the
sheerest mOckery to pray. Thy King
dom come and Thy will be DONE" and
then vote to license the sale of that
which is making hells where there
would otherwise be hOmes.-NOrth
East Star.
Thomas G.. Deford, hitherto repu-
able citizen of ChestertOwn, was found
guilty of embezzling material for 400
tons of fertilizer, the property of r. J..
Baker & Co. of Baltimore. The SEN
tenee, which was deferred, will proba-
bly, be five years imprisonment in the
penitenitary of Maryland.
The P. f. Church of Chestertown,
has Just been apprised of credit OF
81 400 on the ledgers of the Eutaw Saw
ings' Bank of Baltimore. This amount
is the principal and interests of a sum
deposited there many years ago by
Judge Chambers, being the proceeds OF
the sale Of an old parsonage which had
been forgotten.
The Democrats Of EastOn feel very
indignant at the scaling down that Gen
eral Bradley T. Johnson Of Baltimore
gave his fellow Democrat, Senator Cor
man. at a mass meeting of the party
held at EastOn on Tuesday even
ing. The Democratic papers of EastOr
barely mentioned it, and the telegraph
operator there denies that he sent thu
despatch to the AssOciaed Press, whicl
made the affair public.
The ladies of the Protestant EpiscO
pal Chapel, of Millington, intend t.
J hold a Chocolataire" in Mrs. Hurtt'
J new warehouse, on the Both and 3lst 0
this month, for the purpose of payini
off the Indebtedness of the Chapel
, The march will take place at $50 fol
lowed by supper and refreshments
Oysters. &c, will be served extra. TIL
enicv part of the entertainment will b
4 contest for handsome mufller. Th
+, candidates are Prof. A. +. Iwliord, {
Chestertown, representing Kent count
: and DIR. J. g. Hackett, representa-
= Queen Anne's.
Loca Option in CeciL'-The report
, the Cecil county grand jury at the n
. cent session of the Circuit Court d.
a ceares that "after the examination OF
large number of witnesses at q heaY
, ex6ense to the country without satl
factory results" the jury finds it =" in
(, DossibIe TO enforce the local option la
4 as n now stands" Rev. l.. Il. Barret
6 port Deposit, recently of Still Pom
severelV criticised this report in la
Snndav's sermon. He cOntended tn
the failure of the grand jury to entoor'
4, the law is no ground for its abando
nent. that the law is a good one NJ
nanst he enforted. The local optic
le law was passed by the Legislature
N 1850 and adopted by an overwhelmiI
s. majority of the popular vote oi Ce'
n county.
n, Death of Rev. d. 4. Price.-Rev.
Y A Price. of MillingtOn, died sudden
y on October 23d. The deceased, W
h. was 81 years of age, had been suiierl
from paralysis for several years, 0
n the cause of his death is thought
have been apoplexy. Mr.. Price, was
el native of Maryland, was licensed at
20 early age to preach and 81 years a
> filed the position of junior preacher
70 Smvrna circuit, but never united III
with the conference. A year or
m later he married the sister of i. f.
smith and settled down to farming n.
,el Millington, which he continued unit
-er wear ago, when by reason OF impair
nm health, he gave his farm up to his
and moved into town. He maintain
in. an active relation to the church thro1
his life in the capacity Of local preaccE
r. One Of his sons, Rev. T. l.. Price, IS
the Methodist itinerancy now, IN
M nois. whittier he went a year or
on ago to enter upon the work OF
ministry.