Smyrna times., 1896-03-25
Maryland Items.

Snow Hill has a new Democratic
paper called The Free Lance.
The shirt factory at Denton has been
shut down temporarily.
George Robertson, prominent citi-
zen of White Haven, WicomicO county |
is dead.
Mr.. George T. Truitt, member of the
House of Delegates, died at his home,
in Pittsville.
Hon. G. H. Gibson will engage in
the practice of law i'll Washington after
his Senatorial term expires.
Three hundred farmers from Holland
are expected to settle in the southern
part of Caroline county this spring.
The cannery owners at Crumpton,
who failed recently, have offered to
settle with their creditors at 10 cents on
the dollar
James S. Willis has abandoned his
contest against w. G. Todd, who was
returned as elected county commits
siOner in Caroline last fall.
Mr.. John Stump, father of Associate
/ Judge Frederick Stump, died at his
home near Perryville, Cecil county
Sunday, aged eighty two years.
Rev. Thomas f. Bell, a sepernumer-
ary member of the Wilmington Meth
odist Episcopal Conference, and AlOis
Reiser, photographer died Sunday, in
Easton.
With very few exceptions, the press
of Maryland, is Enthusiastically opposed
to the mortgage tax feature of both the
assessment bills now pending in the
Legislature.
Henry B. Davis, a prominent farmer
of Worcester county, who lived alone,
was found in his house paralyZed. He
had been without fire, food or water
for three days.
William H. Cooper, while returning
from ChestertOwn, was thrown from
his carriage and had both bones of one
wrist broken and the elbow of the
other arm dislOcated.
A Conference committee Of the two
branches of the Legislature is now en-
deavOring to reconcile the difference
between the reassessment bills which
each has passed. Comparatively speak
ing, the differences are slight
The will Of the late John NJ. Nc
Clenahan, of Port Deposit, was filed
for probate in the Orphans Court, for
Cecil county, on Wednesday. The ex-
ecutOrs are Mrs. Laura f. McClenan an,
widow, and John McClenahans estate
is estimated at 100000
A company to export oysters has
been organized at Cape Charles, Va.
Charles $. Hirst of Philadelphia, is its
president, and the capital is $500 900.
The shells of the oysters will be rive
ted, and it is said that they can be
shipped long distances and retain THEN
freshness.
Samuel Cecy, one of the most wide
ly-know and prominent citizens of Kent
county, Md, died suddenly at his res
idence, near Masseys, Saturday night
from paralysis, aged go years. He haC
been stricken twice before during the
past year. He represented Kent county
{ in the Maryland Legislature i'll 1882.
The preliminary hearing in the case
of Thomas r. Brown, in custody il
connection with the murder of Samue
NJ Rash was concluded before Justice
Smith Thursday, and Brown was helC
without bail for the action of the May
term of court Among the witnesse,
:. examined was Mr.. Z. B. Walls. VIII,
was at Rashs on the night of tn,
murder
1t is reported that the cOntrovers,
between the tomato growers of Talbo
and the packers has eliminated in favo
of the growers, at any rate the canner
are contracting for tomatoes, and it i
inferred that they are paying ST ton
the price demanded by the growers
The Gamers early in the season SAT-
they could not afford to pay more thar
So per ton.
Rev. $. Reese Murray, for the pas
two years pastor of the Methods
Protestant Church in ChestertOwn ha
severed his relations with the Mary
land Conference and has joined tn
, Baltimore Conference of the Methods
- Episcopal Church. He is a son of Dl
John J. Murray, an ex-President of til
!. Maryland Conference. He was paste
of Queen Anne's circuit from 1889 t
1892.
Simon S. Hartman, of Tunneltol
West Va, has been subject to ATTACK
of collie about once q year, and wOul
have to call doctor and then suffere
for about twelve hours as much {
y some do when they die. He was take
recently just the same as at OthC
D. times, and concluded to try Chambe
lains Collie Cholera and Diarrhot
Remedy. He says: 81 took one dos
K. of it and it give me relief in five mil
utes. That is more than any thin
else has ever done for me-" For sa
by Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna,