Smyrna times., 1892-02-03
NJ aryland Items.

Maryland Items.
EastOn is trying to get a 100000
furniture factory.
st. Paul's P. f. Parish at Centreville,
Md. is 200 years old.
Nearly all the Peninsula creek
schOOners are in winter quarters.
Mrs. Ann Johns. preachers widow
is pcstmistress at Zion, Cecil Co, Nd.
The Maryland legislature elected
Colonel Spencer Z. Jones of MOntgOm-
cry county, state treasurer.
The State lunacy commission report
2,034 white and 435 cOlored persons in
homes for the insane last year.
f. Emory, of Queen Anne's coun-
ty, has bought two thoroughbred colts
at the StaI ford sale at New York.
A number of Maryland Peninsula
papers favor the Railroad Commission
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A man aGvertises in the Talbot Times
for one lost gum boot. He must have
accidentally put both feet in one boot
when he started home. EdstOn Gazette.
Colored Alex. Whisker, of Denton,
created panic among his neighbOrs by
unfortunately firing a revolver
and throwing his household goods
through a window.
Washington's Birthday will be cele-
brated at Berlin by horse back par
ade. and all neighbOrng towns and
villages have been requested to send
mounted delegations.
Elktou fnanciers have los 100000
in the San DisgO, Cal, bank failure.
The next boomer of Western banks,
or in fact any other kind of stocks,
who visits ElktOn will strike a cold
welcome and will probably return
with empty pockets.
Thomas Thompson, cOlored, was
hanged ut ChestertOwn, Md, at 6 80
O'Clock Friday morning for the murder,
on the night of August %, 1891, Of
Vim. Adams, also cOlored. About
80 persons witnessed the execution,
the first in the county since the hang
ing of the three COsden murderers in
1851.
He Came to Life-A Galena, Md,
correspondent writes as follows "A
very interesting case which occurred
here during the past week was that
of IA cOlered man who was supposed to
be dead and for whom a coffin was
ordered After he had been laid out
and the assistant undertaken asked the
cOlOred assistant for the measure, he
was answered in this wise BLESS the
Lawd, Boss, the man amt dead.
Double Wedding at Groue Church
4 double wedding took place at Grove
Methodist Protestant Church Wednes.
day evening at 7.30 o'clock. The par
ties were G. K Kelley, son of County
Commissioner T. f. Kelley and Mrs
Lone Patchett, p S. Messick and Miss
Clara Butler. Gilbert HagadOne, son
of County Commissioner Peter Haga-
done, and Miss Dora " Swami, daugh-
ter of VIM. T. Swami, of the second
district, were married at Rdgeley
Methodist Episcopal Church Thursday
evening, Rev. J. ID. Reese officiating.
Rev. Vaughn S. Collins writes
that the statement published in the
Wilmington Erery Erening that Rev.
DR.. Caldwell will apply for superannu-
ated relation is an error. Rev. Mr..
Collins, says: "As the statement that
he will probably retire from the active
ministry will prevent charges asking
for his services that might otherwise
do so, the publication of such state
ment does DR.. Caldwell an injustice
that am sure you did not intend.
hope, therefore, that you will make
this CORE ctiOn as public as the error"
4 State Heather Serrice The bill
to De introduced in the Legislature for
the establishment of State weather
service in Maryland is one that will
doubtless commend itself to the com
mittee of the Farmers Alliance which
has been delegated to bring before the
= General Assembly certain measures
involving agricultural interests An
efficient weather service IL, however,
important not only to the farmers, but
to all classes aud sections, inasmuch as
the public prosperity in State, as we'll
as in the country at large, rests mainly
upon that of the agriculturist.
One of the enterprising merchants Oi
Stevensvlle, who is always ready tC
wait upon a customer, sprang lightly
to his feet on Friday morning of last
D week to fill the order of a cOlored boy
who is the cook in one of the families
: in town The order was for one pound
e of hominy be very readily wrapped j
e up, but m 4de the mistake of giving
n him rice instead of hominy. The boy
e as he supposed, put the pound of HON
J. my on to cook for dinner, in a small
+ vesse'. In about an hour he was bach
to the merchant, declaring it was tn,
2 queerest hOminy he ever saw, as h'
e had filled up all the pans in the kitch
e en-, and with no better satisfaction
II than to see it boil all over the floor
/ We think the merchant has learne
the difference since
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