Smyrna times., 1896-03-18
Maryland Items.


Wheatly to be postmaster at Chester
town, Nd
During the thunder shower Satur-
day week the lightning killed valua-
bic COW for Mr.. j. T. Barwick, near
Sudlersville.
Rev. Mr.. Galloway is having grand
success in his meetings at Zion, Md,
M. E. Church. The conversions to
date number twenty-five and the good
work will continue few more nights.
A Caroline county man sent 81 in
answer to an advertisement, How to
cure a horse from SOLDERING" and re-
ceived by return mail the answer.
Teach him to spit Star Democrat.
You are mistaken, brother; that fellow
was a Talbot county man.-GreenS-
borough Free Press.
States Attorney Harper, of Queen
Anne's has secured the services OF De-
tectives Humphrey and Seibold, of
Baltimore, to investigate the Rash
murder case. They have caused the
arrest of Henry Gibbs, cOlOred, who IS
said to have been intimate with
Thomas Brown, previously arrested.
A strong combination of anti-Well-
ington and anti-administration men is
developed throughout Baltimore and
the State, the aim of which is to defeat
the ambition of the SenatOr-elect to go
to the st. Louis convention as a Mary
land delegate. The Gray and Malster
factions are conspicuous in this coall-
ton.
AMATEURS. - The Old Homestead
will be presented i'll STAINS Hall
Chestertown next Friday evening
under the auspices of Chester League.
Mr.. Walter Jefferson will take the
leading roles assisted by a company of
our young people including Misses
Lilly Grow, Carrie Sappington, Bessie
Cannan, Ollie Hill, Messrs. l.. B. Rus
sell. J. r. RollisOn, Jos. Owens, Vern
Barnett, George Burke and others.
PENINSULA RAILROADs.-Th PENN
sula Construction Company, which has
in charge the building of the Queen
Anne's Railroad from Queenstown to
Lewes, Del, last week awarded the
contract for building the section of
road from Denton to Greenwood, Del,
about "A miles. This contract went to
Baltimore company, and work has
already been commenced. 1t will be
completed very nearly as the first sec
ton, running from Queenstown to
Denton.
SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL MEETINGS. -
Unusual interest has been manifested
in revival meetings held in Greensboro
and nearby towns. The revival in the
Methodist Church there is said to be
the greatest held in the Church for IS
years. There have been 112 CONVEX
sions in the Church alone. At Hen
derson and Goldsboro' Methodist
Episcopal Churches there nave been an
unusually large number of converts.
Altogether the revival interest in this
section this year has not had parallel
for a number of years.
An organization has been effected
for the purpose of building and Operat-
ing an electric railway in Ceci, county.
The company was organized on Satur-
day last under the name of the Cherry
Hill, ElktOn and Chesapeake City
Electric Railway Company, of Cecil
county, and certificate of incOrpOratOrs
named in the certificate are J. G.. Price
r. Duhamell, John Banks, George S.
Woolley, Manly Drennen,C. H. Smith,
w. j. Smith. Frank H. Mackie and L.
Taylor Reynolds DIR. Mackie was
chosen president and Mr.. G. H. Smith,
secretary and treasurer.
MAYOR HOOPER, OF BALTIMORE, WID-
EMS THE BREECH IN HIS PARTY
Mayor Hooper played his last card
Saturday in his fight against the Coun-
cilmen and his party, by refusing to
swear in Noble H. Creager, the new
City Tax Collector, chosen last
Friday night by Councils. He fatty
turned down the young Republican
leader, who secured him the nOmina.
tiOn for Mayor. Monday Mr.. Creager
will appeal to the Courts for q ,manda.
mus to compel the Mayor to recognize
him. There is no telling how long the
fight in the Courts will last. The re
sponsibility rests mainly on the Mayor
who could have saved the city lots O
expense and trouble by simply recOg
nizing the political claims of the COun
cilmen.
THE RASH MURDER CAsE.-Centre
vile, March 16.-The hearing O
Thomas Brown on the charge of con
nectiOn with the murder of Samue
Rash will take place Wednesday befor
Justice Hopper Smith. Messrs. Sci
bold and Humphrey say that they hav
collected evidence sufficiently strOn
to cause Browns recOmmitment fO
court. This consists of facts alread
stated. Brown is in good spirits eai
ing and sleeping well. He places him
| eolf 4I,o IL
sci, and seems relieved at the prOspeC
of hearing. He is allowed the free
dom of the secOnd-story of the jai
there being no other prisoners on tn
} floor. He is apparently confident {
his ability to prove that he had no col
nection with the crime.
, The LOCAL OPTION BmL.-In d,
= ference to the opposition to the lOca
I veto bill, owing to the questioned col
stitutiOnality of the enactment of la
) by petition, its friends have withdraw
2 it and substituted q local-option bill
: with which Maryland and the who
5 South are so familiar The State
/ Virginia has somewhat similar Law
= Should the new bill prove impracti,
= able in any of its features, it is easy
s amend it. There is no valid reaso
! why the people, under proper saf
S guards, should not be allowed to sett
this vexed question themselves. Th
= will take the responsibility from Il
= legislators and place it with thepeopl
e where it belongs, amp thereby say
j: much valuable time to the General A
+ sembly and the people The questiC
f before the Legislature is whether
: not it is willing to grant the petition
:, in some form of the Women's Chri
e tian Temperance Union, the Allianc
e Christian Endeavor Society and Il
It various churches that have taken su,
e an active part in this measure. The
1t are all agencies of good for the Sta
ie and have no selfish motives, but a
is earnestly working TO promote VIII
y they sincerely believe to be the publ
is welfare and deserve the respect of a
g -BdLtiDlOre San.
!, DEATH OF JOHN MEaREDY McC GLEN
lc HAN.-John M. McClenahan q prom
1t nent citizen of Port Deposit died
d Monday night week Although N
g. | McClenahan had been in impair
" health for some months, yet his dea
m was totally unexpected by his frien
~ it resulting from congestion of I
n lungs. Mr.. McClenahan was bo
Of near Port Deposit in December 1S
40 and was the oldest son of Ebene,
n Dickey McClenahan, and Margaret
a. McClenahan. John M. McClenah
Ia had during all his business life be
m connected with the quarrying