Smyrna times., 1896-08-05
Maryland Items.

VIM. P. Pratt, of Clayton, is at Lynch's
Station buying peaches.
The Denton journal calls dead people
Travellers to the Great Beyond"
Tuckahoe Neck, is one of the greatest
cereal producing regions of the State.
100 of the best citizens of Crisfeld have
formed a law and order league to suppress
the 20 illicit rum shops supposed to exist
there.
Charles W. Slagle, of Baltimore, has
bought at mortgagee's sale Col. John Gales
Worton Manor property on the bayside OF
Kent for $4,000.
Nine hundred baskets of peaches have
been the largest shipment from Millington
any day the past week thus far. The prices
range from Is to 40 cents.
A prominent Chestertown grain buyer
has made the remarkable if not altogether
unprecedented record of buying over 1OO,-
600 bushels of wheat in twenty three days.
The CLOUGK WILL CAsE.-John A.
Clough of Centreville, who filed caveat to
his fathers will in Denver, Col, some
months ago, has wired home that the case
has been decided adverse to him.
Maryland Democrats Friday held meet
ing in Baltimore and organized 1.-The
honest Money Democratic League of Mary
land" A committee of seventy was ap-
pointed to manage its affairs during the
campaign.
In Caroline Sunday George w. Richard
sons barn was burned, and in Calvert two
barns belonging to James Cox were set on
fire by lightning and destroyed. The
dwelling of James Whitaker in Hartford
was burned.
A DWELLING BURNED.-The residence of
Levi King, TuckahB Neck, about two and
q half miles from Denton, took fire Satur-
day about O'clock and was destroyed, to-
gether with nearly all the furniture. No
insurance ON the property, valued at $500.
The old sore which was occasiOned by
the ignoring of the Eastern Shore Senatorial
law will be largely healed says the EastOn
Gazette" by making Barber the Congress
ional nominee at Easton on Aug. II. 1t
will undoubtedly be ripped afresh if the
nominee is named by a Western Shoreman.
| Harry Leonard, of Wicomico, treats dogs
so that they will never run mad" He
claims that there is worm i'll every dogs
tongue and that it is this which causes the
animal to be afflicted with rabies. With the
wcrm removed the dog will never be
| troubled, and he has treated over twenty
dogs in Worcester recently. Quite num-
ber of Snow Hill people examined the worm
taken from the dogs tongue, and they say
they believe Harry knows his business.
The Rev. Merritt Hulburd of Wilmington
preached the missionary sermon at the
camp meeting on Deals Island, Md, last
Thursday morning, and in the course of his
sermon he no doubt startled his audience
and set them thinking by the statement
that the success of the mOvemant for the
free coinage of silver would paralyze every
foreign missionary enterprise of this country
in sixty days if the silver scheme should be
adopted the exchanges would cost nearly
~
abroad.
FATAL MENINGITIs.-Wha is pronounced
by local veterinarians as cerebo spinal men
ingitis has broken out in its most fatal form
among the horses of Charles Brown, near
st. Pauls Kent county. A valuable driving
mare fell dead on Wednesday after being
fed and turned out into the pasture field,
On Thursday valuable young driving
horse died in a short time after being fed
and turned into the pasture. A fine six
year-old animal was also in adying
condition yesterday. Two days ago
these horses were turned into a stubble
field along a creek. 1t is supposed that the
drinking of impure water caused the
trouble.