Smyrna times., 1897-08-04
MARYLAND ITEnS.

The Rev. Alfred Smith, d. D., and fam
lily of Dover are summering at Oxford.
The Rev. E. Rich, Greensboro. has been
invited to become dean of Trinity Catbed-
raj, Easton.
Judge T. W. Straughn has purchased
Charles W. Wallis property at Ingleside,
and will reside there.
Winfield Richardson, Alvin J. Russell and
Margaret E. Slocum, of Cambridge. have
been adjusted insane.
Crane, Trenchard & Bro, of Chestertown.
have shipped $4,000 peach baskets to Still
Pond, and are filling several other orders.
each for 10000 baskets.
State Senator Thomas A. Smith, of Caro-
line county, has been nominated for the
comptrollership of the State of MARYLAND
by the Democratic State Convention.
Several attempts have been made in and
around ElktOn to wreck threshing ma-
chines, the miscreants bending the shafts
and placing large pieces of iron in the
sheaves of wheat.
10 DEDICATE A TABERNACLE.-Rev. s.
Nj. Morgan, now of Snow Hill, will dedi-
cate the Methodist Tabernacle at Ocean
City next Sunday. He will preach there in
the morning and night.
A DELAwAREAN HoNORED.-At the last
meeting of the board of election SUPERVISORS
OF Salisbury. Nd, George Grier Ratclitf
formally of
the board, in place of G. W. D. Waller.
An insect known as the stalk borer is
doing considerable damage to the corn cron
in lower Cecil county: fifty acres on the
farm owned by the Eldridge Brothers. of
Philadelphia, have been ruined by the in.
sect.
ADDRESS AT A ACHURcHCENTENNIAL.-
Jonathan S. Willis delivered the chief adj
dress at the centennial celebration of Pres.
ton NJ. E. Church, of Preston. Md, SUNDAY
week. Through his efforts a large sum of !
money was raised for the church.
Senator German is very lively corpse
in democratic politics of MARYLAND. At the |
primaries his cunning hand brought victory |
out of hard fought battle and those who
predicted German as a back number under |
rated the man. So it may be with Senator
Gray.
PENSION .ExAMINERs APPOINTED. - DR.. |
John W. Cooper, of ElktOn; DIR. S. T. Ro-
man, of ROwlandville, and DR.. T. A. Wor- |
rail-, of North East, were notified on Thurs |
dap by the Pension Department at Wash. |
lngton, of their appointment as pension |
examiners for Cecil county. The retiring |
board is Drs. lamar and Ellis, of Elkton.
and DR.. Wallace, of Chesapeake CITY.
The POstOfice Department has at last
reached an agreement with the Queen |
Anne's Railroad Company about the carry
ing of the mails ON that line and the new |
service will begin on August 9Th. The
mails will be carried from Baltimore to |
Queenstown by steamer. From there they |
will be taken over the Queen Anne's Rail- |
road to Glendale There will be two mails |
each way daily.
There are those who attest that there are |
towns on the Eastern Shore far more hill |
ariOus and lively than is EastOn, but these |
good people do not pause to consider that |
Easton and EastOnians have a certain dig |
nifty to maintain, as this fOurishing city is |
conceded, even by Baltimore, to have been |
the original site of the Garden of Eden
we have the fig tree here to prove it.-EaS-
ton Gazette.
William McKenney, who died recently at |
Centreville, Md, left an estate valued at |
nearly half a million dollars. His will pro- |
vides that his stock in the Centreville Ma |
tiOnal Bank, amounting to S2G, 900, shall |
remain intact. His personal property, in |
Guiding the grain crops on the various |
farms, will be sold and the proceeds used |
in the liquidation of existing debts. 1t is
probable that this provision will leave his |
large landed estate totally unencumbered.
DEMOCRATIC CoNvENTION.-Th Demo- |
cratic State Convention, met at Baltimore, |
on Wednesday, and nominated Thomas A,
Smith, of Caroline, and J, Frank Ford, of |
st. Mary's county for comptroller and |
clerk of the court of appeals. The reso-
lutiOns adopted contain sweeping denunci- |
atiOns of all the Republicans have done for |
the past two years, and make "straddle'' |
on the currency question by declaring for |
international bimetalism. German was in |
control.