Smyrna times., 1892-03-16

n0auo DuI uOO using more WOleuCo
than is necessary to accomplish the
object.
The decision has the smack of sound
judgement and is safe from being
cOntrOverted. Trains stop at stations
to take on and leave off passengers.
Those getting on give way to those
getting on, and when there are no
more TO get off, the signal is given, and
the man who attempts to board the
train after that becomes tresspasser
In the case decided, the plaintiff,
Adams at Harrington, not only ran for
the train after it had started, but
caught hold of the railing, apparently
not realizing the danger he was in.
MARYLAND Items.
Peaches in WicomicO county will, it
is said, be a complete failure.
Twenty-Five persons recently united
with Elkton Presbyterian Church.
]. V. Crosby, of near Edesvile, has
one of the best paying ewes III the
county. She has raised Str lambs an
CHITteen mOnJHS.
The Easten, Md, authorities have
decided that hereafter, no frame build
Ings shall be erected in the business
section of the town.
Forged prescriptions for whiskey are
so numerous at Centreville, Md, that
the State Legislature has been asked
10 pass an act preventing the tOrgeries.
On Thursday evening Joshua COun-
Gil, No. s, Royal and Select MasOns, a
Masonic body, was instituted in EastOn
with a membership OF eleven with
which to start.
MIL Sold The mill property known
as the Goodwin mill near CrumptOn,
was sold on Tuesday by Thomas Hill,
under mortgage, and was purchased
Oy the Rev. Albert Chandler for 5000.
One of Cecil cOunty's largest indus
tries, the Mccullough Iron Company,
has asked for Receiver, and its affairs
viii Ue wound up and the property
sold. This is quite blow, and III
| some respects unexpected.
The managers ot the American Straw
| Board Company, whose plant was de-
stroyed by fire at ChestertOwn, Md,
has announced the intention of the
company to rebuild the plant as soon
as the insurance can be adjusted.
The Maryland legislature has passed
a bill apprOpriauug the $4OO,OOOO that
the state received on account of the
direct tax, toward the liquidation o.
the State debt. Delaware paid hel
money to the individual claimants.
A. NJ. Heating, a member of the firm
of Bryan & Keating, and Miss Lizzie
Green, daughter of Nathan II. Green
ESQ, were quietly married at the NJ
E. Parsonage on Wednesday afternoon
in the presence of few relatives, Rev
V. S. Collins officiating.
Robert D. Llmdin, of st. Michaels
Md, will make and exhibit a pine lOi
canoe at the Chicago Worlds Fair
These canes are generally made witt
three pine logs shaped entirely wit
axe and adze, and then bolted together
They appear to have been made G
one big log and are generally swift
I sailing craft.
> Charles Richardson, cOlOred, wa
killed at Taylor's Island, Md, OI
Friday last, by Henry Wiley. Tn
two men were engaged in a quarrel i
a store at that place, when Wiley dreN
a knife and plunged it into Richard
sons neck, killing him almost instant
ly. Wiley was arrested and taken
Jail at Cambridge, Md. He is quite
young man and the son Of Captai
John Wiley OF Kent Island.
The Hillsboro EpwoTth League ha
. elected the following officers for th
ensuing six months President. n.
Clark; Department of Christian Work
Mrs, 5. NJ Morgan; Mercy and He'll
Mrs. NJ. E. Fisher; Literature. Mr.
VIM. Mason; Entertainment, Mis-
Nellie Morgan; Correspondence, Mr.
n. Z. Clark; Finance, Mrs. Indiann
Gales, Mrs. N. E. Clark.
A telegram was received at Centre
Vile from Washington announcing th
, sudden death of Mr.. John 7. DeFOr'
/, a former well-knOwn resident of Quee
Anne's county, but for the past thirt
wears connected with the TreasuT
Department. Mr.. DeFOrd married
Miss Harper, a member of a prOmineI
: Queen Anne's family. He leaves OIL
sou. About 80 years ago Mr.. DeFOl
lived in smyrna several years.
:, The bill to amend the Sunday la
was defeated in the House of Dell
gates on Tuesday. The debate upC
!. the measure was lengthy and anima
!. ed and, as one reporter expressed
partook more of the character of a r
D. iigiOus experience meeting than le
r. islative argument. The object of Il
el bill was to amend the law SO as to pc
n nit the sale of cigars and sundry 9th
articles now prohibited, and to gene
- ally make the law less stringent. L
measure met with much OPPOSITE
r. aud was defeated by vote of SO TO
,r In their Night COthes-Fire at
~ early hour Friday morning destroy
the two and half story frame dive
ing house on the farm of William Ro
ne erts. two and half miles north
r. Elkton. The inmates, Mr.. ROber
$ his wife and niece, who were all aisle
le on the second floor, we're not aware
IL the fire until nearly suffOcated by
Is smoke, and made a narrow escal
IS clad in their night clothes, by jump
Is from the second story window. L
o; morning was bitter cold, and when t
Ia neighbOrs found them they w
up huddled together in the carriage hot
W. nearly perished. The loss is estimat
up at $500; partially insured. 1
n origin of the FIRE is not known, but