Smyrna times., 1873-07-30

Lecompte for $24.25 per acre. 1t contained
l07 acres.
The resignation of Rev. A. Heaton, from
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at
Princess Anne, which he has held for 10 years
was rendered. it is said, because he did not re-
ceive sufficient salary to give him a living. |
The resignation has been accepted.
Mr.. Thomas Councell living on one of Col. |
Loyds farms in Miles River Neck, had his |
crop of wheat destroyed by fire one day last |
week. The fire was caused by spark from a
steam threshing machine, soon after Mr.. COun-
cell commenced threshing.
Mr. Richard Wilson and Barney n Poe, of
Fair Haven, Conn, have leased from the town
commissioners of Oxford half an acre of marsh,
just at the steamboat wharf and will imme
diately commence the building of an oyster
packing establishment thereon.
An Immense K,elR-Mr. John Warner, on
the "Sayles' farm in Oxford Neck, sowed two
bushels of wheat on one acre of land, from
which he has reaped IS bushels of grain.
This wheat is known as the "FultZ new
variety, so the Eastern Star says.
A man from Templeville, named VIM. 6.
Spry, went to Baltimore to look for work. He
succeeded last week, and was put, with others,
to tearing down an old house. While at work
part of the wall fell il on him and killed him.
He leaves wife and was soldier in the lst
Eastern Shore volunteers during the war.
: DEATH Of an Aged Womdu-On the 22d
inst cOlored woman named Hetty, supposed
to be between ninety and one hundred years
old, died at Cherry Hill, Cecil county. She
: /, belonged to Captain Henderson, of French,
town, when that place was burned by the
English army in 1912, and was compelled by
: h.l dor tn ,nt 10 m
A negro woman in Easton, last week, made
, a right good explanation about how she came
a by duck First, she diGnt steal no duck
! second, she took duck in out OF the street ia
keep the boys from stoning it; and third
, although she had cut its head off, that was
II nothing, as she didn't intend to eat it because
e it was too poor. Now she tells visitors to the
Jail that she thinks the folks around Eastor
make themselves the biggest fools over ducks o
h any set of people she ever saw.
3, A funny circumstance has happened in Ken
e county. An Over-ZealOus correspondent of tn
D, Ne,cS, living at place called Fairlee, recent
le sent an item to the paper that preacher ther
le had cruely hOrsewhipped a servant boy becaus
Mt be was late in driving up the cow. Ithappens
ty however, that there are four preachers in tn
IN place, and they are all clamOTing for the CORES
lie pondent to name his man, but the coYrespOn
le for active service, keeps very quite. Th
in amount of religious rather stirred by the iteT
ed is fearful, and but for the fact that two Of th
as preachers, being Methodists, assert that the
are two poor to keep either a servant boy or
cowhide, there is no telling how thick til
es wrath would get.
Id The Big Canal Wheel at Chesapeake CIT
re The immense water wheel that feeds th
OF canal at Chesapeake City sone of the curositi,
OF of the country. There is no other establishmel
IN of the kind in the United States This i'll
a menSe lifting wheel is &c feet in diameter,
so feet face, with twelve buckets. These buckle
ce lift four feet OF water at every dip which rur
1t to the shaft or centre Of the wheel, and is ths
ng discharged into the races, one on each sid
ID through which it is conveyed to the cana
by The amount of water thus lifted and di
ng charged, as near as it can be estimated, is l
tons a minute. There are two $50 hOr.
power engines employed and two immen
IN. boilers which consume eight tons of Cumbe
he land coal daily 1t runs eighteen hours out
he the twenty-four. Some time ago break G
AN CURED in the bank of the canal and the wat
,ur was let out for nine miles. After the rep;
Oy. was made this water wheel filed the canal (
lys nine miles in lenght in the short space of t
six days, one of the greatest teats ..in hydraul
vas ever recorded. The water is received frC
!u- Back Creek on flow tide into large basi
as which contains enough to last from tide to tiC
cir From this basin the water flows into the res
,on voir under the Wheel and is then disposed
as stated.