Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-11-18
M arYland Items.

Mr.. Samuel Wiley has bought the st.
Mich@ls Comet.
The public school in st. Michals' Talbot
county, has been closed on account of a
mild form of scarlet fever.
i. Z. Williams and a syndicate of SAILS
bury capitalists have applied for a charter
for an electric street railway for that town.
Ex-COngressman Charles H. Gibson, of
Maryland, has opened his canvass for
clerkship of the House, and is very much
encouraged by written pledges and personal
assurances of support.
Cards are out Announcing the Golden
Wedding of Stephen and Caroline Bailey,
a worthy and highly esteemed cOlored
couple, living near Denton, at their home
on November 18th, 1891. Among their
many invited friends are Rev. A. w.
Wayman and Hon. Frederick Douglas.
Cards are out announcing the marriage of
Miss Catharine Augusta Hobbs, daughter
of Mr.. and Mas VIM. G. Hobbs, and j.
Howard McFarlane q compositor III the
CentreTiLLe Record Office. The ceremony
will be performed at St. Peters Church,
near Queenstown, on Wednesday, NOvem-
Der 18th, 1891. at o'clock, p. m.
Romano Wickes was arrested and placed
in ChestertOwn jail Wednesday, charged
With felOniOus assault upon Emma Reed
a reputable colOred woman at Edesville
| She was found at her home Wednesday
morning in a critical condition, with eyes
| closed, several bad cuts on the forehead
and her face entirely covered with blood
| She Tegained consciousness under the
treat nent of DR.. Fisher.
1t is reported as a rumor in the Sua tina
Gov. Jackson will appoint Hon. RObt. F
Brattan, president of the last state Senate
! United States Senator to succeed the lat
| Senator Wilson. The term is short on
and will embrace the period from the frs
Monday in December until the Legislator,
in joint session shall elect Senator wilson
successor. 1t is likely Mr.. BrRttan will no
be candidate before the Legislature, a
Gov. jackson covets the place and is max
ing desperate fight for it.
Results of Practical Joke.-The eye
sight of Hazel Benjamin, aged twelve. sol
of johnson Benjamin, of North East wa
destroyed Wednesday by fire and he wa
otheswise badly burned as the result of
practical joke perpetrated by John Drum
mOnd and George Stewart, furnace tender
at the Mccullough Iron Works. The
shOvelled coal into a furnace while tn
boy was standing by, it is alleged with tn
intention of frightening him. The flame
uesLIOyeu MS eyesiBnL anu Durneu MS lac
and hands badly. Drummond and StewaI
, were given hearing and held for court.
: Fighting Diphtheria RavGges.-J. 1
lamar, Secretary of the Cecil county, Md
{ Board of Health, has requested DIR. Char
] cellOr, of the State Board of Health, Balti
more, to meet him in Port Deposit for til
purpose of taking some action toward pre-
] venting a further spread of diphtheri
3 which has prevailed there to an alarInin
= extent for the past two or three weeks,
= deaths having occurred within that tim
= The disease is not confined to Port DepOs
= but prevails to some extent throughout u
county. The schools have been closed
Principle Furnace and at Fair Hill.
Is Four persons were sentenced for Il
n crime of murder at the session of the Ke
q county Nd, court at ChestertOwn, on Fl
!. day November 10. James q. lamar W
a. sentenced to six years Imprisonment
q Lawrence Burkardt and Mary Brow
cOlored, to eighteen years for manslaught
and Thomas Thompson, eOlOred, to
hanged for murder in the frstdegree. 7
Is execution of Thompson will be the I'll
d that has occurred in Kent county since
n hanging of the COsden murderers in lS'