Smyrna times., 1895-07-17


his farm, Dundee, 275 acres, in Miles |
River Neck, Talbot county, to James
NJ Cowgirl for $4,000.
Republican primaries were held in
Cecil, and the county favors Master
for Governor and H. NJ. Mccullough |
for States Attorney.
A well-known business man of
Smyrna created some Consideration in
MillingtOn a few days ago by riding
through the streets in sleigh. He
must have been celebrating the fourth
in his own peculiar manner.-Kent
NelUs.
The vestry of Hallow's parish, Snow
Hill, have extended "A call to Rev. Ed
ward Rich, of Greensboro to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Rev. RoLert Scott, who is at present at
JOhnstown, Pa.
In Dorchester county, at the demo.
cratic primaries Saturday, there was a
determined contest between Cleveland
and German democracy The Cleve-
land democracy carried ten of the six
teen districts.
Dogs attacked the flock of sheep of
Philip L. Davidson, near Queenstown
last week and killed fourteen of his
flock. On Friday night dogs attacked
the flock of Louis G. Quinn, on Eastern
Bay, Queen Anne's county, and killed
seventeen.
Uriah w. Dickerson, OF Sussex
county, Senator Charles Houston. of
Delaware, and V. Perry, of Wicomico
county, have purchased $4,000 acres of
timber land in Gloucester county, Va.
and will erect a mill on their property.
The dwelling on the Fisher farm on
the road from GreensborOugh to Den
ton owned by Arthur J. Grennlee and
occupied by Dowder Messick, was
burned about 3 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Mr. Messick saved most of
his household goods and clothing.
Caught a Mark.-Mr. A. Waddel
and a companion, of Chestertown.
while hauling a short seine for crabs a
few days ago on the Queen Anne's
side of Chester river, found that their
net had encircled larger game than
crabs. Upon investigation they found
an eight foot shark in it. They de-
clined an interview with the fish and
made for the shore while the shark
sought safety in deeper water.
John w. Fields, who was last week
buried at Millington, in his last
moments stated that his money would
be found in an old trunk, and that he
had concealed silver and gold in tin
box in woods, but before he cOuld
locate the place death resulted and the
mystery was left unsolved. The
money in the trunk was found, and
search will be made for the buried
treasure in the woods. Fields was
ninety-fOur years of age.
The Texan fly, which does much
damage to the cattle in Texas and
the Southwest, has made its appear
ance in Kent county and along the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. The
fly attacks the animal at the base of
the horn, and eats the horn off. fire.
quently causing the death of the ami.
NAL. The farmers have found a
remedy which they think will prevent
much destruction. They wash the
lower part of the horn with tar each
day, and this keeps off the pests.
Wheat Crop Injured. Says the Centre
Uilte Observer: The unusual amount
OF rain, followed generally bv bv hot
weather, has caught the shocked
wheat IN a bad shape, and farmers COM
plain that many of the cap sheaves
are beginning to sprout. This means a
loss OF many bushels of grain, as the
sprouted grains are, of course. dam.
aged, and 1t also means that some far
mers in the haste to save the bushels
will probably thresh before the sheaves
in the shocks are dry enough to thresh.
Many Baptists Meet.-Beginninc to.
morrow the fifth session of the Inter
national Convention of the BaDtist
Young Peoples Union of America is To
mark an epoch in Baltimore, for it is
predicted that it will be the largest
gathering of Baptists that the world
has ever seen, and numerically the
greatest convention ever held in the
Monumental City. Within the next
three days fifteen thousand of the
flowers OF young Baptist manhood and
womanhood will have assembled in
that city where everything is in read.
mess for I'll cir monster convention.
The convention will be in session four
days, during which time there will be
rallies and prayer meetings in all of
the Baptist churches of the city and
houses of worship of other denomina-
tions, beside the great gatherings in
the mammoth tent, specially erected
and delightfully."- located near the main
entrance to Druid Hill Park. The
tent will comfortably seat more than
10000 persons. The platform from
which the speakers will address the
audience is provided with seats for
two hundred. Behind the platform
six tiers of seats will be used bv
chorus of five hundred voices and an
orchestra of fifty pieces under the
direction OfProfessor H. w. Peter.
DOrchester's &auhch Democracu
only three counties of Maryland SO far
has Senator German been the main
issue at the democratic primary meet.
ings, and in every Que OF these he has
been repudiated by the people. The
returns from Dorchester county shou,
that at the primaries there on Satur-
day the issue was clear out and we'll
understood by the votes. The result
was, as it was in Garrett and Alleganv
counties, where the same question was
presented, an overwhelming defeat for
those who have arrayed Themselves
against the national democracy. While
II IS true that Senator German has the
delegations from Talbot and Oueen
Anne's, the primary contest in those
counties did not directly involve the
Senator In both cases it was local
These victories of the Cleveland demo-
cracy are of no ordinary import. No
mere malority could have achieved
them. The undisciplined masses of
the party We're fighting against
machine, and arrayed against the
democratic administration were the
men whom Mr. Cleveland appointed to
office and who use all their official in
nuence against the body of the party.
These county victories seem to show
that the long reign of men who have
mlsmanaged the marty and humiliatad