Smyrna times., 1896-06-17
Maryland Items.

Robert H. Kay of Risin ging Sun.
Nd, was among the graduates at Laf-
ayette College yesterday.
Maryland delegates will attend the
eighth triennial international Sunday
school convention, which will meet in
Boston June %.
A fruit Buyers Union just organized
III Baltimore proposes to have inspect
Ors to see that the samples at fruit
auctions shall be of uniform grade.
The statistics of the Democratic
State Convention of Wednesday show
that about One-third the Delegates
favored free silver.
Great interest is being shown in the
coming camp meeting of the local
preachers, which will be held at North
East, Md. Seventy tents have already
been taken.
Elkton people are looking for fakir
called Electric Bill" He appeared
there recently, and by working an
electric belt trick, swindled the crowd
out OF $3.50 and then disappeared.
The old Maltby House, Baltimore
which Will close its doors on June 80,
will be sold by the estate, so that the
proceeds may be divided among the
heirs
The marriage of Mr.. William Alex
ander of Chesapeake City, to Miss
Lydia b. Hargrave, of DeLand, Fla.
is announced to take place at the home
of the bride Wednesday, June II.
The Heptasophs of Denton are MAX
ing elaborate arrangements for an all
day picnic at Chilton's Camp ground,
on "Wednesday, June 24th. The con-
claves at Greensboro, Hillsboro,
Ridgely, Preston and Harrington have
been invited, and large attendance is
expected.
The Wicomico County Commits
sloners granted two liquor licenses for
the city of Salisbury, Md, on Wednes-
day. The licenses were granted to S.
Ulman & Bro. and o. J. Schenck, of
the Peninsula Hotel. The Reform
League was represented by James E.
EllegOOd. Senator TOadvin appeared
for the petitioners. The town has
been dry for a month although it had
thirteen saloons.
New PERRYvILLE CHURCH. - The
new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Perryville is nearly finished. It is of
Perryville granite and will take the
place of the old frame church. Presi-
ding Elder Barrett says that it is one
of the prettiest churches on the PENN
sula. The new church will be dedi-
Gated on June 2Sth. DIR. George Reed
of Dickinson College will preach in the
morning; the Rev. Merritt Hulburd,
in the afternoon, and the Rev. L. E.
Barrett, ID. D., in the evening. Rev.
ii. G. Budd is the pastor.
Cornelius William Prettyman of
Winston, n. c., son of the Rev. G.
W. Prettyman of Salisbury, has been
awarded a fellowship, the emolument
of which is $500, by the Johns Hopkins
] University, of which institution he
has been studying German. The uni
versity has conferred the degree of
doctor of philosophy upon Alfred
! Goodman Bryan, son of the late
James +. Bryan, an eX-pastOr of Asbury
Church, Wilmington, and upon James
! WllkersOn Chapman, Jr., of Chester.
town, Md.
Among the graduates from Ceci
county from Jne d1IIerenG colleges our
ing the past week were: from Dickin
son College, John F. Porter, son of r
G. Porter, of Cherry Hill; Swarthmor,
Albert L. Burlington and Violette T
Haines degree of Bachelor of Arts
Halle H. Haines degree of Bachelo-
of Letters, all of Rising Sun; Hanson
q. Wilson, of Sylmar, degree of Civi
Engineer; Princeton, Warren Jackson
Haines, son of L. NJ. Haines, ESQ.,, o.
the ElktOn Bar, degree of Bachelor O
Arts. Mr.. Haines will read law will
his father in Elkton.