Smyrna times., 1873-05-14
MAKYLAND ITEMS.

A~ AANND bkEhSs
:, Bishop. Lay will dedicate new Protestant
Episcopal Church on Taylor's Island, Dor
chester county, on the 18th instant.
In Dorchester County Circuit Court last
week George Wallace was sentenced to the
pehltentIaly for seven years for an attempt to
Ourn the jail IN which he was confined.
town meeting was held in Princess Anne.
iast week, to devise means to procure straw
perry plckers. 1t IS estimated that from 700
to 1000 plckcrs will have to be imported there
from the cities, or some where else.
At the corporation election held in Cecilton
last week, the vote on the question of issuing
license to sell liquor within the corporate
l'nltS' resulted IN the casting of three rotes for
Incense and thlrty-tour against it, The town
is decidedly opposed to the whisky traffic.
Str"ck by Ltghtning.-On last Saturday
night there was group Of the cOlOred pOpula-
sioh paying cards III tenement house about
Two anu bali miles from Warwick. Duripg
me thunder storm, the lightning struck the
mouse ana Killed the proprietor of the house
Where they were playing his name is Benz
York. The remainder retired to Mr.. Arm.
strongs store, at "Bunkers HIM." when
another electric shock struck the store. with
out DOING any material damage 1t appears
they were IN the habit of playing cards, in the
a LIrSt named place, from Saturday night until
Sunday morning.
1he CUmty Of Churches. 1t IS said that
there Is no county on the Peninsula which can
ray claim to greater number Of churches than
caroline. In addition to the large supply IL
already has, new VI. i. Church was receD,Iy
dedicated at Wesley's, and four more are
either under way or talked of with reasonable
prospect OF an early commencement These
are Presbyterian church at Pederalsbure.
nearly finished an NJ. F. church at Greens,
poro Tor which the material is being gathered
together COngregatiOnalist church at Po4erTs
Landing, about to be commenced, and an
Episcopal church at Denton, the site for which
VIII De donated whenever the congregation is
ready to build.
4 railroad 10 Chnrystone "A big effort Is
oelng made to construct a railroad TO Cherry
stone. The Crisfeld Lea,ler says all that a
number ct Pennsylvania capitalists want is the
right OF way from NewtOwn to Cherrystone.
Dr. d. l. Y. McAaster, President of the Wor-
cester and Somerset Railroad and w 7
Clarke, Esq, of Ncwtown met committee Of
consultation at Wilmington, Del, and it was
understood that the Company is to be organic, d
on or before the last Monday in May. The
amount OF capital subscribed by Pennsyl
VanlanS Is SAID TO amount to $IOO. 900, two per
cent OF which is to be paid over at once. From
thls there seems a strong probability that the
enterprise may actually be completed within
twelve months. The distance from Newtown
junction to Cherrystone is estimated at
seVenty-five to eighty miles, and from the line
OF Maryland and Virginia about sixty five
miles,
Tie Low Price of Land IN Talbot Comntu
The Easton Gdzette says: Our lands which
Tor many. generations had gone on gradually
approaching IN value, have. since 1866, when
they reached their maximum of price, under
tne Imitation OF the currency, and the expecta-
ton OF large northern emigration, suddenly
fallen to price so low as to evince the existence
OF land panic. Farms for which in the wear
mentioned offers of purchase at 800 per acre
were made and refused, will not bring one.halfl
that sum; and those that were held at $50 |
and 500 then, may be bought for $l2 and $l5l
per acre. This is not loose language, but liter.
ally true. n tIrm was recently sold in Oxford
Neck for less than $50, tor which the owner
declined overturcs OF purchase of $l0O The
splendid estate OF Samuel Dickinson decd. |
upon the ChOptank, sold for about $4,000
under Judgment or Mortgage, for which he
refused bona fdc offer Of $4,000. Yafford' |
Neck sod tor little upwards of 5000, $50
acres The owner would have been almost in !
suited to have had less than $50 600 offered for
."C tidCI SlA years DeIOTe. lhe farm Henheld, |
Immediately adjoining Easton, was bid in by |
the Mortgagee at less than $50 or about that |
For portion of this same farm the mortgagor
paid 800 and the whole of it would probably |
have at that time brought the same price. |
lhe woodstock property within q miles of !
Easton, was bought by DIR. Cherbonnier of
Baltimore, for S2S per acre, or about $ll 900 |
Tor the whole tract, nearly four hundred acres,
an amount which would not rebuild the elegant
mansion and the farm buildings should they
be consumed. A farm on Choptank was re-
Gently purchased by Capt HardcaStle for about
Sl5, 900 for five hundred acres, hardly the price
OF the line buildings, upon the property. A
farm Is now advertised for sale of 3l5 acres on
Choptank river, near the last, beautifully
situated, having what is said to be the finest
house in Talbot County upon it, which cost, in
1866, the sum of $4,000. the land having
been bought the same year for $40 per acre,
making the total cost to the owner of $40, 900.
This farm is reported to be Offering at private
sale for $1,000. Many other instances of
actual sales, and proposals for sale, at these
ridiculous low prices, might be given but it is
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