Smyrna times., 1874-08-19
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The tax levy for Queen Annes county has
been fixed at 87{ cents on the $lVh
The 18th OF September has been fixed upon
as the day to hold the proposed tournament /
at Elkton Cecil county.
The Salisbury Eastern .Sh0rS,ann kindly
mentions the Smyrna TINES as one Of the best
pa pers on the Peninsula.
4 rattlesnake, measuring FIVE feet three
inches in length, was killed near Salisbury
few days since. 1t had ten rattIes
The farm belonging to the late Mrs. Ann
Story, near CentrevIile- was sold last week tor
nine dollars aud Que cent per acre-l6D acres.
L. > Messlck was the purchaser.
Rev. Howard T. Alexander, against whom a
charge was brought of criminal intimacy with
the daughter Of a Mr.. Shorter, of dorchester
county, has been houorably discharged.
4 big poplar tree was GelIed iD Caroline co.
last week 1t measured eight feet across the
stump and took two days tos one man to throw
it. He got forty pounds Of honey out Of the
tree.
4 Gooi Wheat Crop-Mr Thomas c.
Crook kshank, OF Sassatras Neck, thrashed trom
one hundred and five acres, twen;y-iour bun
dred bushels OF prime wheat-22t bushels per
acre.
4 Fine Calt-Mr VIM Ford, residing DeaT
Che>tertOHu. has a cali which weighed Oh
Wednesday last, when it was tour mouths and
six days OLD, five huDlred aud five pounds. 1t
has received 10 extra care IN feeding.
Some of the peach growers 10 Kent county
r are becoming dIscourigI by the poor crops
and are taking up their trees to devote the
land to other uses. Robert h. 'u1, near Uric
vile, is said 10 be removing a very thrifty
ard # finn thrss.a MI froa
On Thursday, August 9th, steam threshel
z engaged ia threshing out wheat in Miles River
Neck, exploded with terrible violence, sending
pieces OF the boiler in every direction and
T lnjuriDg six or eignt persons, one Of them
> cOIUred msB named Kit Gibson seriously.
VIM. Smith, of Fulton township, Cecil CO.
burnt his barn on Friday, 3lst ut., in attempt
5 ing to burn bumbebees nest in some Ole
It corn fodder in the barnyard. The bumbebee
e were entirely destroyed, so was the barn
y wagon house, corn crib, crops, &c. Loss
e $1,000; no Insurance.
Il Pleasure Farty The Salisbury Erster
u .ShOrem1n of the 18th says: Yesterday com
e pany OF jolly blue hens chickens G
Smyrna, passed through Salisbury on thei
4 way home from Chincoteague Island, wher
they had been for day or two inspecting tn
le wonders of that wOndrous isle. The party wa
~ composed OF the following gentlemen: j. L
% WiIds, y. F. Wilds, A. Lee Cnmmins
:, Morris Cloak, J. w. Denney, J. II. Hofeckt
!e and Robt. S. Wds.
as Speaking of the threatened resignation G
A Rev Vaughn Smith from the NJ. E. pulp
IN of Centreville, the Denton Union says: TT
ne MISUNDERSTANDING between the Rev. gentlema
K and the congregation, grew out Of the discu
:" sion of the question of Local Option; ii
parson dealing some Of the sinners as well as
r. portion of his congregation some telling blow
ay We believe the Rev. gentleman was right, al
sh think he would have been justifiable in h
his course to resign his charge sooner than cor
at pound crime with the true principles
he christianity.
ne Land Sails IN Tdlbot-A large amount
er farm lands has recently been sold in Talb
ri county, as follows: Mrs. Alex. B. Newman
It's rs farm in Trlppe District, 225 acres, to G.
ell Williams, of Crawford county, Pa, for SO, 81
er- another farm of l47 acres, of Mrs Newman
me to Geo. F. Williams, of Pa, for 81, 2,OOO; NJ
i, John Gallop's farm in Oxford Neck, of
me acres, to Capt o. S. Porter, of Pa,
me $4,000; a farm of r. B. Dixon's in Cha
h yer district, l40 acres for $1,000; small farm
ltn Solomon Love, in Chapel district, to
as Ritzman, of N. Y, for $3.50, and DR.. A.
we Whites farm, in Miles River Neck, to Ow
,as n Norris, Esq, of Baltimore, for $500 cash.