Smyrna times., 1896-03-11

Mr.. E. f. Hudson, of Kennedyville,
shipped seventy fowls and 400 eggs |
last week to VIM. X. Vanderbilt for |
his magnificent estate at Asheville, n. |
G.
The contract has been awarded for
rebuilding Trinity Episcopal Church
at ElktOn, which was recently burned.
The work will be pushed forward as
fast as possible.
Homer ManlOve, boy from Cecil
County. Md, is at the Delaware Hos
pital, Wilmington, suffering from
serious injury caused by falling while
at play and running stick into the
roof of his mouth.
Farmers in Kent are persistently OPP
| posing the growing of tomatoes for
less than S6 per ton. They were
astOnished this week to learn that some
farmers of Talbot county have offered
to grow them for 81. so per ton.
The farmes of Kent county have the
past year been engaged in raising
orchard grass-seed, and as a result
about 5000 bushels have been shipped
from that county to market the past
week, one farmer shipping 1900.
Delegate G. NJ. Wingate has intro
duced bill to reduce the license for
grabbing in Dorchester county, from
S9 to 50. 50. The ChOptank river is
not included in the bill, the crabbers
never having been required to get out
a license to crab.
) Mr.. VIM. H. Blakeney, Jr., of
. Chestertown has applied for a patent
= | l.. IL. Il 10. 10
of rare merit He has received several
= GOOD offers from street car companies
and manufacturers and hopes to dis
p pose of it at high figure.
A new market has been opened to
Kent county owners of poplar timber
a representative of William Singerly
of PHILADELPHIA, has been in the county
: having s. and 81 per cord. The WOOD
: Is cut in G-foot blocks, barked, split
: and will be used for the manufacture
!, of paper.
e The Directors of the Baltimore Cen
tral Exposition, which it was proposed
N to hold in 1897, have decided to aban
v don or postpone the project, owing u
r. the unsettled financial condition OF Tn
v country, the failure of the Is: ana ~
n and the refusal Of the wealthlest clti
% zens and corporations to subscribe.
y The engagement of J. q. c.. Legg,
prominent Young lawyer Of Centrevill
p andMiss Carlotta Eliason, daughter {
. q. w. Eliason, of Greensborougl
Caroline county, has been announced
l. Their marriage will take place 500
er after Lent. Mr.. Legg is q son Of Co
ID onel William Henry Legg who reside
f. in Baltimore.
- Burglars Friday night broke ope
~ the ticket Office Of the Philadelphia
te | Wilmington Il baltimore Railroad
- Flkton. and rihed mail pouc
! Checks and drafts for about $1,000, an
- belonoin'g to the two banks here, we
10 found along the railroad tracks,
W Smith Premier typewriter, No. 1910
\ beIonoin0 Ia Charles q. Wells, a
a;stanf AGENT. was stolen. The har
ny ware store Of John E. Alexander x s.
At was also entered.
I'd DIR. James A. Stewart, secretary
~ tbe State board Of health, and ID
he .John III. lamar, secretary Of the los
~ hoard visited WQodlawn, Cecil coun
- ~ ;nvestioate the cases Of diphthel
~ ~ tbst nave been prevalent about Elkt
Ia. Cor several weeks. They found II
\, tbaro had been seventeen cases OF :
,a disease Of the most malignant tyI
- sonfnad to five families, and that {
IL IL ~ I'm had died frorn the disea
lly Theessher cases are reported. AZ IN
ex. ing. The cases, IN the opinion y
,ut physicians, originated irom cav
! fected by the disease.