Smyrna times., 1898-04-20
The SMYRNA TIMES.
,SnsVan0, DeI.
Wednesday Afternoon, April 20, '98
MARYLAND ITErIS.

vested in Dorchester county, Md,
during the past season.
Chestertown is having placed within
its corporate limits an electric light
plant and few miles of wire.
The Centreville, Md, board of trade
offers Mr.. F. H. Burgess inducements
to operate a shirt factory in that
town.
The biggest ball game in the State
will be a match game between Wash
ington College, at Chestertown, and
Harvard, on April 21st, on the college
grounds.
Upwards of 100 bills were introduce
ed in both Houses of the Legislature
during the recent session, of which
about which one-half of them will be-
come laws.
Thomas Price, Kent county, Md, |
negro, committed suicide Sunday week |
by drowning, the only reason assigned |
for the rash act being embarrassment,
the result of having too many wives.
Alonza L. Miles, of Cambridge, will |
remove to Baltimore to practice law,
having formed a partnership with
Arthur p. German, Jr. The Eastern
Shore loses a favorite among her
younger sons by the removal of Mr.
Miles.
Commander Emerson of the Naval
Militia says he advises the arming of
the Chesapeake bay oyster dredgers to
fight the Spaniards where brave and
daring and ingenious men are required
on any kind of a fighting vessel, and
particularly on torpedo boats.
Private Anthony, the hero of the
Maine disaster, is from the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. Senator Foraker,
who offered the resolution in favor of
Cuban Independence, came very near
being a Delaware boy, and would have
been if his father hadn't moved from
Bombay Hook to Ohio before the Sen
ator saw the light of day.
st. Johns NJ. E. Church, of Sassa-
fras, whose doors have been closed to
public worship for two years, due to
an insufficient membership justifying
its being kept open, were again opened
last Sunday afternoon for public wor-
ship. This church was at the recent
session of the Wilmington Confer
ence united with the Colts and Della
ney charges, with Rev. Irving B. Tay-
lor as pastor. The opening again of
this church has been the source of
great Joy to some of the old residents
of that town.
Reports from all parts of the Della
ware and Maryland Peninsula indicate
a good crop of peaches. NOtwithstand-
ing the cold, freezing weather of last
week, there is still bright prospects
for plenty of fruit, unless something
unforeseen kills them between now and
June, when they are considered safe
Growers are puzzled, as they al
thought the tender buds could no
withstand the severe weather, and o.
course are very much gratified an(
elated
The Denton Union thus NEEDLES
with Delaware matters: Congress
man Handy and State Senator Kenney
two free silver cronies of Delaware
talked war last week at the fOrma
opening of the new clubrooms OF tn
Democratic League, Wilmington. Mr.
Handy made fierce attack on the ad
ministration, and the Spanish as well
and as a climax used Oaths to empha
size his feelings. If Mr.. Handy rep
resented the Diamond State for NOR
ality or even common decency, sh
would be differently considered fror
what she is. Does it not seem strang
that any party in this enlightened da
should elect such a specimen of hu
manity to represent them in Congress
The better element of Delaware mus
hang their heads in shame at the mel
tion of Handy's name.
A QUIET HOME WEDDING.-Mis
Bessie Cliff, of Baltimore, Nd, wf
married to Mr.. Francis Whitake
Battalile, of Virginia, on Tuesda.
April 18th, at the home of the bride
mother, 632 North Carrollton avenu
that city. The young couple left Ba
timore that afternoon for SoutheI
trip.
BARN BURNED NEAR MAssEY's.-
barn on the Cacy farm, near Massey
Kent county, owned by Isaac Gibb
of Cecil, and tenanted by Samu
Blanchfeld, was destroyed by fl
I Monday week. The flames first brol
J out shortly after 10 o'lock in a col
crib in which there was a quantity
oat straw, and it is impossible to q
sign any other cause for the origin
fire than that of a mouse igniting