Middletown transcript., 1873-08-02
Maryland Affairs.

THs Bio CAsAt WmExL AT CnxsArEAKg CRY
The immense water wheel that feeds the canal
at Chesapeake City, 10 one Of the curiosities Of
the country. There 10 no other establishment Of
the kind In the United States. This immense
lifting wheel Is 36 feet In diameter, 10 feet face
with ~ buckets These huckeis lif feet Of
water at every dip which runs 10 the shaft or
centre OF the whsel, and IL thea discharged into
the races one on each side The amount OF
water thus lifIch and discharged as near rs 1t
can &c estimated Is iTu tons minute. There
are two 10 hur,r power IN zines employed and
two immense oilers which consume eight tons
Of Cumberland coal daily. II runs eighteen
hours ont nf the twenty.iour. Some time ago
break occurred in the bank OF the canal aud the
water was LEI out for nine miles. After the
pnr WAS made this wairr-whccl filled the canal
tor nine miles in length in the shor, space Of ten
days, one Of the greatest feats in hydraulics
ever recorded. The water is received from Back
Creek on flow tide into n large basin, which
contains enough TO last from tide 10 tide
From this basin the water flows into the rcser-
roir under the wheel and is disposed OF rs
stated.
SUICIDE or AN AGxp WoxAS-on Friday
morning, the 18th inst, an aged white woman,
named Ann Montgomery, who was staying AT
the time with the family OF Mr. Adam iiilit
near Jarreits,illc, committed suicide by cutting
her throat with n shoemnkcr's knife. After
breakfast she was observed TO 20 TO the grind
stone aud sharpen the knife with which she com.
miucd the deed, In, nothing Was though, OF the
circumstance AT the time. She then seated her
self on the back porch, where she was discovered
some time afterwards. dead hu, s,ill seated in
her chair, With her head resting on her breast,
and the fatal knife lying In her lap She WAS
wiihou, friends, md helpless, and il had been
determined to send her TO the almshousc Some
days before her death IL is stated that she had
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could not lie found after her death IL Is supposed
that she must have los, IL. The loss OF her
money or her grea, dread OF being seat to the
aim'boisr, u IS supposed, led her 10 take her
own life. The knife IS quit, dun but she seems
10 have Gs'd !, ~i'''H firm hand, having cow-
ple'ey severed the jueuiat vein and wihipipe
She vas upwards Of seventy wears Of age.
TINS wlconico ,Sn pocpSnxr n, tnoAp The
annual report Of the off crs of the nbdve road
iur the year euaGg April 81. 1873, show, the
amount OF money received to have teen a. fol-
lows
From passengers. g. a2r &, from freight.
s22 33l Ia from Adams Express saii NJ
from mails. Sili0; total cuniugs s33 s5s 4.
The expense for operating the road tor he same
period "rs so, ;GG IS Net earnings Si4 100 =
81 THe total amount Of money passing over
the rool M express wa. S1i7ola II whilst the
total pounds o. freight was 6sg3,74
Axe. containing 80 acres WS5 soli AT Green's
borough, Caroline CuUEfV. uu Sn'aTIy last 10
Emma Lowe aud ! + E,rrs- 'uf 5000 The
Buly Farm. Va he same caunt. containing
!, 80 acres Was sold on fgcsday IL samuel Morris
for Sy6! The harm briongiHg 10 Tue heirs 1f
the late " \ Nichols, IN the same county. con-
tiinlpg 100 acres was sold 20 George Lcechsdcn
Tor $500. ,r'ct Of Woodland adjoining, was
sold 'e' s5s same purchaser
M.
inst, q c1lofrd woman uamci Hriiy. supposed
70 hc between n.ne.g .nl vac hundred years !
did At Cherry HI Crr,i cuUufy Shs heInn rrd
% Captain Henderson. u Frrnehtnwu. when
that place "a, burned by the Euslish army in
1872. and MAS compelled by the commander 10
act Us guide ic Elkion.
PoliIicAt-Thc Democratic AMI Conservative
voters " tcci. county Will bold primary meet
my. on Saturday, second 81 August to scitc,
;ifr delegates from zach district 10 a county con-
vcn,'oa 10 he held IA Eik,on on the olowiu.
Wednesday
Tie sir.a stack. uf Hr Z u Rnuse. scver-
teen 70 nnnaer ~ Fafl.r Nrak Kent county
were sirnta y lightning nu ttr isfh inst AMI
DESTROYED \ '.Uih5r hlr.r 'eIUnging 10 Mr.
Edwin tragsh rrsi.i"f pf N.Iis ia the same
county wts sl-o NiIled
Jercmiah Sat.hrr respectable farmer rcdi.
ins near HoNlauil.,iir Cet. rnunty, died On
SUNDAY, -utA after ~ Illness ui atuut tarutv-
FOUR hours. pfs Rowland ani Roman, his al
tending physicians, pronounced the disease
cholera.
The unprecedented drough, ~ this summer
Is playing havoc With thu corn crop III Cecil
couniy. Much Of 1t Is alrctl, ruined, and the
mos, promising fields failing fast
The farm oil Mrs Edward Carter, on Grey s
! Hill, near ElktoA, teci county. was sold las,
week Ny Sheriff Thomas, iur - s3a iew
| years ago, Mrs Carter paid $40 600 for the
! property.
dangerous counterfeit iify-csnt note Is ia
+ circulation Ia Elkton. which is 50 wei executed
/ that q is well nigh impossible TO distinguish tic
+ counterfeit from the genuine
The National Bank Of Elkion. Cecil county,
! has purchased the old Bank OF MARYLAND In thai
/ town 'Ur banking purposes, for So BOO
/ Mad dogs are said to he numerous in the for.
est, short distance from Miliaglon, Kent
county