Smyrna times., 1886-02-03
MARYLAND Items

FrOst-bitten dredgers are quite num-
erOus in Baltimore.
Il. q. Vandegrift, of Middletown. has
purchased farm near Kennedyville,
where he will remove in the Spring.
A bill has been placed before the
legislature to prohibit the sale or dis
posal OF tobacco in any form to minors
under eighteen years ofage. ItshOuld
become law.
d. Z. BlackistOn, Esq formerly clerk
OF Kent county and recently of WOrces-
ter county, has removed to Massa-
ponax, Spottsylvania county Virginia,
near Washington.
The high license men and the "strike
out the cider clause" men seem TO clash
some little in Cecil county over the
veXations question of the best mode of
reforming the people.
Frank II. Greenwood, of Massevs
was on Wednesday last appointed rail
way postal clerk on the Kent road vice
tredus Aldridge. Mr.. A, had express
ed desire to be relieved.
Stedman T. Wickes, son of judge
Wickes, having passed a very credita-
Die examination at ElktOn last week
was, on motion of Hon. Alexander H.
Evans, admitted to the Elkton bar.
Rev. r. K. Stephenson, of Trappe,
and Judge Lindsay, of Baltimore. have
been elected delegates to the Great
Council of the United States, l. o. r.
NJ, which meets in Detroit, Mich, in
September.
The friends of high license in Cecil
county will hold a convention at Elk
ton on February 4th. George w.
Cruikshank, William Schouler, DR.. C.
M. Ellis and George Johnston have
signed the call.
The Maryland legislature has before
1t proposition to enact a general law
authorizing county commissioners to
regulate in their own way all matters
pertaining to dogs, hawks, owls and
fences in their respective counties.
EastOn has organized Water Works
Company with DIR. l. /. Adkins. RIB.
Dixon, j. F. Turner, J. H. White, w.
p Shanahan and c. f. Shanahan as
directors. Water will be obtained
from drilled wells of about one hun
dred and fifty feet depth.
A year or so ago Frederick R. Pal
matory of HillsbOrough lost his wife
| and children through death. This
shock was followed by a very severe
attack of typhoid fever, from which he
recovered only in body. Last week
he was adjudged insane and locked up.
The warm weather of the past week
has broken up the ice in the Chesa-
| peake bay and its tributaries, and the
steamers and vessels are resuming
navigation. There is considerable
broken ice floating in the bay, but not
enough, it is said to interfere with the
movements of vessels and steamers of
the larger size.
The number of foreign steamers
chartered for grain during December,
January and February at the port of
Baltimore is said to be very large, and
they are expected to carry out some
thing more than 100000 bushels of
| grain or more than will be shipped from
New York, and ten times as much as
is likely to 60 out Of Philadelphia.
Hard on the Oysters. Those who are
posted on the oyster tell us that the
late severe cold weather killed more of
the bivalves than have been caught by
all the vessels during the past three
months. The ice having completely
sheathed the surface of the water and
shut out the air, the oysters have
suffered immensely, and, strange to
say, those in the deep water have been
killed to a greater extent than those in
shallow water, which we are told, is
the inevitable result of severe cold at
all times.