Smyrna times., 1886-01-13
Maryland Items.

ton of MillingtOn has become very
popular and considerable business is
transacted.
Representative McComas of Marv-
land, has introduced a bill in Congress
providing for the redemption of the
trade dollars.-This may meet with the
same fate that befel a similar bill in
the last Congress.
Charles H. Dorsey colored, left Still
Pond village at s o'clock Saturday
night to walk to his home, half a mile
distant. Sunday morning he was
found in the snow frozen to death,
within few yards of his home.
Fayette Gibson, editor of the St.
Michaels Comet and a member of the
Talbot bar, was married atGuy's hotel,
Baltimore, on Tuesday evening of last
week, to Mrs. Mary Sniffen, of New
York. Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson will spend
the Winter in Florida.
Governor Lloyd in his message to
the Legislature says the net debt of
the State is 6,451 ,562, with a sinking
| fund of $645, ,525. In the oyster inter
est 4O,712 persons are employed, and
last season 100000 bushels were
taken from the waters in Maryland,
the aggregate value of which was So
225,0OO.
J. T. Parsons, Esq, of Salisbury,
who was sued by L. G. Bailey for kill
ling his dog last Summer and mulcted
in $40 damages, found said dog on
Tuesday alive and well, except he was
a little thin from exposure. Where
the dog has been is a mystery. The
| dog is valuable beagle. Some of the
witnesses at the trial valued him as
high as $50.
Owing to the large number of burg
laries and petty thefts which have been
committed in Cecil county during the
last three months, and which have
caused a general feeling of insecurity
in the minds of the people of the
county, the County Commissioners on
! Tuesday Of last week offered a reward
of $500 for the apprehension and con-
| VictiOn of the parties who recently as
saulted and robbed Granville J. Rich
ards. The Rising Sun Detective Asso-
citation had previously offered 5000 re-
ward for the arrest of the parties who
robbed Mr.. Richards, which makes a
thousand dollars now offered for their
arrest.
A party of gypsies are encamped
near MillingtOn. Last week one of their
number a little boy died. The afIec-
ton and demonstrations of grief particu-
larly on the part of the father was very
great though having a wife and two
children still living he wanted to die
and begged the doctor to give him
something that would take his life.
He went round the camp and even
through the streets of MillingtOn bewail-
ing his loss. 1t was rumOred that a
rude box would serve as a coffin but
such was not the case; instead fine
casket was obtained and Rev. T. L.
TomkinsOn was invited to the camp
and preached funeral sermon, after
which the remains were taken to Bal
timOre for burial.
Much interest is manifested in the
convention to be held on the 10Th of
January to formulate some plan for
constructing the proposed railroad from
| Greensboro to fredericksburg. The
road, besides touching Denton, the
smaller towns of Hobbs, Anderson
town and Concord, would open up q
valuable trucking country. 1t is said
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany wants the road built, and will
put it through providing the land
owners give the right of way and fur
nish ties for its completion. The new
road, besides being the most direct
route from Clayton to Cambridge,
would have passed over it nearly all
the freight from the lower Peninsula to
Clayton, via Seaford and fredericksburg,
thereby Obviating the necessity of
building a double track from Clayton
to SeafOrd, which the increased num-
ber of trains caused by the Norfolk
line seemed to demand-Mornin Q
Ns,0s.
4 Maryland Hanging.-Charles Will
liams, colOred. convicted of outrage on
Mrs. Eliza J. Keene, white, was
hanged at Cambridge, Md, Friday.
From the time of his arrest, during his
trial, and since his conviction he ex-
hibited an almost total Indifference to
his fate, and it was not until Thursday
night he manifested any apparent con
cern. He protested his innocence OF
the crime. The Offense was commit
ted in the lower part of the county
= which is sparsely populated, and the
assault was made on farm road while
I Mrs. Keene was passing from the
= county road, where she left her hus-
/. band, to the house of a friend. He
was more defiant than otherwise, but
Tursday night partially broke down
| and wept, declaring that he was to be
murdered, and spoke with much bit
+ terness against Mrs. Keene, the prose
5 cutting witness. Clergymen, botf
white and colored, were with the
doomed man, and when they spoke tC
q him about preparations for eternity
!. he replied "It is too late; / an
> going to hell, where 1 shall meet my
accusers."
Field for MissiOnGry.-Fr thu
1 reports that have been received almos
= daily from the lower Peninsula, espec
= tally from the Virginia portion Of it
2 during the last two months, it seem
I as though all the evil in the pOpula
ton is fast cropping out. There i
p hardly another area of land so clOsel!
Joined to the higher civilization, wher
# deeds of violence and pure malicious
e ness are so frequent. The lower strati
d of the community, by far the large
n portion, is ignorant, ambitiOnless, de
4 praved. The world hardly reache
v further than the stretch of land washe'
7 on one side by the Atlantic and on tn
g other side by the Chesapeake. Thei
d sole object in life is to crafty the ami
a NAL in their nature and secure fror
d day-to-day an existence. Ofcourse tn
K civilizing effects of railroads and news
\ papers have done much to elevate tn
social standing and to cultivate tn
tastes of those who for so many year
II were, and are still, in a measure, isola
y ted from the great centres of progress
Is hut there vet remains much to be don
ID in the way of enlightenment. Th
d Rev. A. d. Davis, of FrankfOrd, in tn
ID State, has recently been selected to d
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