Smyrna times., 1871-09-20
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The ST Mchaels Comet has received a 81
pounds sweet potato, raised in Talbot co.
IIolt's is the name of new station on the
Md. 4 Del II. r., near Tuckahoe creek
Eighty Car loads Of peaches were shipped
from Mington to New York this season.
A pig PSI days old and weighing 325 pounds,
dressed, was killed i'll Cecil county last week
The Maryland oyster dredging season com
menced on the 18th, when the oyster police
went into service.
The streams and wells in the lower part Of
the Peninsula were drying up, when the rain
Of last week came
Col. John Il. Emory, living near Centre
vile, was seriously injured last week by being
thrown from his carriage by runaway horse
lie is recovering.
A masquerade ball was held at the residence
of Mr.. Joshua +. Bddle, in Cecil CO.. five
miles from Middletown, last Thursday evening.
Mr.. j. Tilghman, whose farm is near Cen
treville, raised this year 2I0 bushels Of pears
oft less than half acre, which averaged him
81. 30 per bushel
Several young men in Cambridge have
bought or rented lots and will put them down
IN strawberries and cultivate them by their
own labor This is certainly better than loaf.
ing
The committee which met on Wednesday OF
last week to select a cite for the residence of
the Bishop of Eastou, failed to agree, and ad-
jOurned to meet again in November The
contest is between Easton and Oxford.
One night last we k the masts of schooner
were sawed off by some dangerous specimen of
humanity at Salisbury, who had a grudge
against the owner, a Mr. Parsons. The
damage, by this sneaking act is about $l25.
Mr.. Eugene Arringdale, conductor on t e Nd.
Il Del railroad, made a narrow escape from a
severe If not fatal accident On Saturday week
by getting his head caught twerna couple of
ears he was coupling. A brakeman on the
Delaware road was killed few weeks ago un
der precisely similar circumstances.
\ big picnic and supper was held near
Gaena, Kent CO., last Thursday Ha>,lcr'
band, Of Phla, was in attendance aud dancing
on large platform was the order Of the even
ing. The affair was gotten up for the hauef,
ot new parsonage being erected for Father
NiIlagcr, of st. Dennis Catholic Church.
The Caroline county temperance convention.
held at l1lllsborough last week, adopted reso,
luton tavOrlng the passage Of law by the
next Legislature, giving the people Of each
election district the right to determine for
themselves, by ballot, whether intoxicating
liquor shall be sold or not in their respective
districts.
The Democratic nominations for Dorchester
seem to have caused some dissatisfaction and
convention was to be held last Monday to
form an independent ticket. The regular
ticket men are asserting that this is Radi-
cal dodge to split the party, and the malcon-
tents say that that cry is ring dodge to
save the bacon Of the ring
The wife of Mr. S. L. Chaffinch, living near
Denton, set fire to some lose straw in the
poultry house last week to destroy the hen
lice. The plan worked too good. 1t destroy.
ed the lice, the chicken house, the carriage
house, smoke house and hog pen, and it was
with some difficulty that the dwelling was
saved Mr.. G., who lost about $3.50, thinks
the remedy worse than the Zee.
The oyster business on the Eastern Shore is
next to the peach crop in importance, and is
rapidly increasing. Treirc new oyster pack
ing establishments have been put mp at Girls
field and one at Deals Island The price of
oysters, it is thought, will be high some few
bushels having already been shipped, which
cost ~ cents per bushel at Cri>field the price
last year having been about ~ cents
A Democratic County Convention met in
Elkton, last Wednesday to take into conSidera
ton and determine whether there should be a
change in the manner of selecting their nomi-
HCcS' anu ucClulug against cnange 10y vote
OF thlrty-tour to ten 1t might not be amss to
state that the change proposed in lieu of the
present delegate system was the one known as
the Crawford county plan.
The Democrats of Somerset are in somewhat
of muddle. They made their nominations
last week, which are not altogether accepta-
BILE. The Newtown Gdzcttc says: The
parties In Somerset are SO nicely balanced (nOt
over seventy-fve of democratic majority J
that the utmost harmony is absolutely necessa-
ry to secure success, ana we regret to learn
that few sore heads who failed to get a
nomination, have already signifed their in-
tehtlOn to run as Independent candidates