Smyrna times., 1896-11-04
Maryland Items.I

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Otho Holland Williams, Jr., was
fatally shot by a revolver in his own
hands Saturday at his country home,
the Hermitage, on the Chester river
about seven miles from Centreville.
No one was with him at the time.
The Port Deposit Water Company,
organized in that town on Thursday,
with a capital stock of $4,000. The
incorporates are VIM. B. Leach, How
ard Frederick, of Millersville Pa, Geo.
H. Buck, John Falls, John S. Writ,
Adam Peoples and Joseph NJ. johnson.
The gravity system will be adopted
with reservoir.
PLENTY OF MARYLAND OYTsERs. -
Cambridge, Md, Oct. 3O.-A leading
Cambridge oyster packer says there are
more oysters in the great ChOptank
River this season than there has been
at any one time for ten years. Reports
from Hooper's Straits and Honga Riv-
er are to the same effect. Considering
the fact that the oysters in all these
waters are nearly all caught by the end
of each season, Oystermen have come
to the conclusion that the bivalves will
grow large enough for market in one
year.
BALTIMORE CLOTHING MAKERS ANx-
IOUs.-The ten thousand iourneyman
clothing makers of Baltimore are lined
up for Mckinley and sound money.
TwO-thirds of them in 1892 voted the
Democratic ticket. The clothing in
dustry is one of the largest in Balti-
more. This city ranks second as a
wholesale clothing manufacturing CEN
tire, being excelled only by New York.
In the large establishments here, in
private shops and at homes 40, 900 men,
women and children are given employ
ment the year aound, and about $10,-
600, 600 is annually distributed in wages
The tailors who thus Obtoined employ
ment are mostly BOhemians, Poles and
Germans, although large number of
native residents also find in this indus
try a livelihood.
BIRDS ARE SCARCE, AND TREssPAss
SIGNS ARE FOUND EVERYWHERE Kent
county partridge and rabbit shooting
will begin Monday Partridge shoot
ing promises rather poor sport to the
general gunner, for while in some sec
tions the supply of birds is up to
scant average, in other portions of the
county Bob White is extremely scarce.
Rabbits are abundant this fall, but
since the local "tresspass advertisers"
make no exceptions it will be danger
Gus to follow the animals. The adver-
tising system was made necessary not
only because of the frequent incursions
of market gunners from the cities, but
some of the finer shots in the counties
found the sport lucrative. Then, too,
the number of colored gunners and
boys had increased to such an extent
that after the first two weeks of the
open season the game in accessible
places had been almost totally des-
troyed.
ST. MICHAELs SUFFERING FROM A
DIPTHER1A EPIDEMIC. st. Michaels,
October 28.-This town is suffering
from an epidemic of diphtheria, which
broke out among the children two or
three weeks ago. Four deaths have
resulted. There are at present about
/ 20 cases of the disease well developed
in town, in addition to which are fifty
or more cases of severe sore throat
Where and how the disease originated
is a mystery. Ever since the north
east storm of three weeks ago, sore
throats have been prevalent among the
people here, both old and young; bu
Mr.. Wallach's child was the first t.
develop diphtheria. The malady be
gan in the southern part of the town
and has confined itself pretty much t.
that section. Some attribute the caus,
to a number of hOg-pens which fOurisl
just outside the town limits. Other
say that the disease was brought by
!, travelling Snowman who recent,
brought a merry-gO-round here, Will
another theory is that the malady ha
, resulted from diseased oysters. S.
, great was its spread that on Friday tn
school authorities deemed it advisabl
to close the public school. It is a sin
gular fact that not a single case c
3 diphtheria or sore throat can be foun
I among the colored people, and thei
| school has not been closed. The locf
physicians say they now have the d
Q sease pretty well in hand.