Smyrna times., 1873-05-07
MARYLAND ITEMS.

There are five base ball clubs in Salisbury.
They have certainly ''got it bad"
The Commissioners of Cambridge have pro-
hibited the tearing down of birds nests under
the penalty of 81.
The Cambridge Chronicle says the people of
that town are puzzled to know which is the
butt end of ram.
Salisbury does little or nothing but play base
ball. Another match game between it and
Seaford takes place tomorrow.
An ElktOn painter created a row last week
by walking up the street with ladder on his |
shoulder and turning round every few minutes, |
to see if anybody was making faces at him.
A Salisbury paper says that forty Wicomico |
hens challenge the forty Roxana Sussex county
hens-which laid $25 worth of eggs since
January lst-to lay match game. The time
to be left to the Sussex poultry.
The Episcopalians of Berlin, Worcester CO,
give up their church every Sabbath afternoon
to the cOlored people for Sunday School pur-
poses, and run the school for them The
rector and his people are the officers and
teachers.
Camp Meetino.-An effort is to be made in
Centrevlle to obtain suitable woods on the
line Of the railroad, and secure the cooperation
of other charges in the county, in order to have
a large Uni)n Camp. This is to be in lieu of
the old Wye camp.
Defaulter to the GOUernment-T Baltimore
American says it is stated in that city that Mr.
Henry NJ. Nichols, Deputy Collector of the
First Maryland Revenue District Eastern
Shore) is a defaulter to the Government He
has resigned and returned to his home in
Elkton.
Berlin, about six miles from the sea shore,
in Worcester county, expects to have fashion
able summer seaside resort The Baltimore
Sn is going to build a mammoth hotel at
once, and it is now quite certain that railroad
will stretch from Berlin to the beach in time for
visitors the coming season.
Alleged attempt to Poison q Fdnti7u =
A colored girl was lodged in Jail at Elkton last
week for an alleged attempt to poison the
family Of Mr.. Benjamin B. Price, of Sassafras
Neck where she had been employed as ser
want, by putting poison in the coffee The
coffee did not taste right. and when the CIR
was told to drink of it she refused
Andrew j. Crow, young man of Baltimore
recently OF Cecil county, was accidentally shO
and killed by a young friend on Saturday week
The friend playfully pointed a gun at him
thinking it wasnt loaded. Perhaps that frent
had rad Over and over again just how sucl
foOlIshnesS had caused death, and then tried
himself, only to add to the list of casualties.
Singular Freak of Luuatic-One day las
week an insane inmate of the Aims House Q
Somerset county, named Thomas Fleming, VIII
has beeu confined 10 that institution for man
years, by some means secured pair of scissor
and cut off all the toes on one of his feet an
when discovered by the keeper had commence
on the large toe of his other foot.
Prtent.-The Elkton Democrat says ths
Hon. James McCauley, Chief Justice of II
Orphans Court, has obtained letters patel
for very ingenious cOntrlvance to be apple
to the axle of railway cars by which the ca
can be readily adjusted to broad or narro
guage as the exigencies may demand. JudI
McCs invention has received the endorseme
of eminent practical men.
Crisfcld The Cris6eld Leader says CIR
field, the actual business metropolis of Some
set county, is scarcely excelled in amount
business by any town on the peninsula.
have upwards of twenty oyster packing house
that ship about one million gallons of oyster
solid meats, during the season; +; there a
licensed at this port nearly seven hundr
vessels. large majority of which employ fro
four to eight men each, engaged in catchi
millions Of the bivalves; there are probably I
less than five thousand persons to whom ii
interest affords steady AMI profitable empio
ment.
Strawberries in Son.erset-A corresponds
OF the Baltimore Sun. writing from Somer
extensive field of strawberries, all of which
in full bloom. From appearances he will 81
thousands of quarts this spring. He has
this time from eighteen to twenty hands pla
ing new vines for next year. Mr.. Thon
COulbourn is also in the berry business large
his field is in the most excellent condition.
will yield largely this spring. Mr.. II. j. 10
son has 6ne show for berries he has not g
into it so largely he is raising onions, potato
peas, &c. Captain +. Scott has fine crop
peas, which will, from present appearance, t
out well. The farmers and truckers have
planted Irish potatoes largely. Mr.. Hollar
peafield looks well; his crops are so exten
that we think he will find it difficult to
hands enough to pick his berries and p
Almost every man that has any land in
section has planted strawberries accordin,
his means. Annamessex is a thrifty settleu
as regards agriculture. They do not, howe
look to raising stock as they should do for t
own advantage, and set too much value on
or two crops.