Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1888-02-15
MARYLAND Items.


Prof. Wyatt is at Millington with his
Queen Esther Oratorio.
Wilmington has about 800 people, with
good country around, and vet there
is no timer inside of twelve miles.
Rev. J. D. Kemp, of Chestertown.
has received an invitation from the NJ.
b. Church at Georgetown, Del, and
will probably be sent to that charge.
The oyster feet in Chesapeake Bav
Is almost entirely idle, as ice still COW
ers most of the dredging grounds and
the smaller class of vessels cannot COM
bat the floating ice.
The Legislature of MARYLAND has
already consumed one-third of the time
allowed it, the limit of its session being
ninety days, and as far as ascertained
has passed about two bills.
Thos. M. Sumption, son of Rev. Thos.
Sumption, the postmaster of Havre de
Grace, who has just been superseded
by J. Frank Woodrow, has held the
Office for twelve years. That he was
retained for three years under a Dem
ocratic administration is strong evil
dence of his popularity.
Messrs. Spur &. Perkins met the
farmers of Kennedyville and vicinity
on Saturday last, and they will prob
ably put in separatOrs at Tat place,
and send the cream to the Middletown
creamery. The farmers count on IT'S
cows at present, and they can increase
that number in a short time.
Literal Obedience.-In a certain pub
lie school in Kent county this incident
occurred last week:
Teacher observing one of her pu-
pills eating an orange Put away that
orange instantly, Charley
Charley eating faster i am, Miss
Nettie, putting it away fast as can =
Kent NelCs.
Three fruit and vegetable canning
factories will be started in the spring
in Talbot-two those of W. L. Hubbard
and the Shannahan & WrightsOn Com
pany at Easton, and that of Messrs.
Tunis & Wheeler at Tunis Mills.
Farmers are making contracts to grow
tomatoes at Sc a ton, and sweet corn at
$40 ton.
The taxpayers of Worcester county
want to ecOnOmiZe on crows, hawks,
and owls. The bounty on these pred
atory birds last year cost them over
5000. Although they advocate free
trade there, they want to be exempted
from it in the case of birds which draw
bOunties, since their supply is largely
drawn from Delaware and Virginia.
The Baltimore Herald is authority
for the report that there are ominous
whisperings in the air. Is it possible
that Senator German and his friends
have joined in a revolt against the re-
nomination of the President and prom
ised Messrs. Randall, Mcpherson, Bar
mum, Hill ct al, that Maryland should
swing out of the Cleveland column?
1t would appear that Baker Brothers,
of Aberdeen, have not fully decided to
build their proposed large new canning
house, at Odessa, as has been pub
lished. George w. Baker, of this firm
was in Port Deposit on Monday and is
said to have expressed his willingness
to locate there, provided he could in
| duce the farmers of the vicinity to grow
not less than 400 acres of corn.-Cecil
Wing.
DR.. William E. Thornton, q promi
nent druggist and member of the
Baltimore City Council, died OF
Saturday from the effects of a fall
Friday night With some friends he
went to a house, and in pulling the
bell for admission, his hand slipped of
and he fell backward Into the area, {
distance of nine feet. His head wa:
crushed and he was not again con.
scious. He was well-known on the
Eastern Shore.
The finishing touches are being pu
on the two handsome new churches
built in Salisbury since the fire. Tit
Protestant Episcopal Church is a flint
brick structure built after the Italian
style of architecture, and finished in
side with different cOlOred bricks. Thu
church will be adorned with a numbe
of memorials. The church will cos
when complete about $4,000. Tn,
new Methodist Episcopal Church i
built entirely of Port Deposit granite
and is probably the handsOmest churcl
of its kind on the shore, and whei
completed the church will have cos
about $25, O00.-BGLtimOre Sun.