Smyrna times., 1874-05-20
MARYLAND ITEMS.


Breeze. Look out for squalls.
| VIM. T. Spry, Esq, prominent citizen of
Kent county died at his residence near Ches.
tervile, on Monday morning week, aged fifty
nine years.
Joseph Graham, of Easton, has an Alderney
COW, from which he made last week III lbs.
of splendid butter, and which gives four gal
Ions and three pints of milk per day.
Bound to Stick.-Capt. James Stewart has
been reappOinted Postmaster at Oxford. The
Captain is bound to stick, as he has been twice
removed, and twice has the removal been re-
considered.
1t is said that recently many changes have
taken place in the proprietorship of land
between HillsbOrOugh aud Greensborough
One firm at Rdgey station have sold thirty
one farms since the first day of February last.
Hons. p. L. Thomas and Edwin Lloyd, of
Talbot; and VIM. e. S4ttertield, of Caroline
county, have been appointed by the Board Of
Public Works Of Maryland, Directors on the
part of the State in the Maryland and Della
ware Railroad.
The new NJ. L. Church at ST. Michaels was
dedicated on Thursday last with interesting
ceremonies. Rev. Joseph Smith of Whining
ton, delivered the sermon, in the morning, aud
DIR. Dashiell, preached in the evening. The
church cost $4,000, all of which had been
raised but $1,000. $1,000 was subscribed
during the dedication exercises towards liqui-
dating this balance.
Death Rather than Disgrace Wise,
colored, had fight in Newtown the other day
and after he had whipped his adversary the
officers of the law interferred Wise ran from
the town and was followed closely by the Off
GERS. Determined that they should not cap.
ture him alive, and preferring death to dis
grace, he jumped into Horsey $ creek, Somsr-
set county, and drowned himself.
Camp .ueeting-A meeting of the com
mittees from ChestertOwn station and Still
Pond and Kent circuits, NJ. f. Church, was
held in ChestertOwn on Tuesday afternoon,
when it was decided to hold camp meeting in
Baker woods, to commence on Tuesday
July 2Sth, and continue ten days A resolu
ton was adopted extending cordial invita-
tiOn to the members of the VI. =. Church tC
tent with them.
Church Organi=dtion.-On Tuesday, MAY
18th, Presbyterian church was organized al
kennedyville Kent co. by a commission from
the Presbytery of New Castle. DIR. VIM.
Maxwell and Mr.. Robert Stewart were theI
, elected elders and Mr.. Stewart ordained. Tht
i new church starts out with twenty-five mem
bers and more are expected at its first com
munion. A Sabbath School was organized il
March, which now numbers twenty-seven, O
which Alr. Stewart is superintendent. A
movement has been started towards building
church for the new organization, and $2,35-
have been subscribed by the citizens of Ken
nedyville and vicinity.
The Peach Bugs.-This new enemy of tn,
/ peach, ravaging the nurseries at Denton, is
e very destructive insect. Mr. Kerr, nursery
I man there, being unable to kill them by tn,
e use of kerosine oil, tobacco solution, &C., las
week put in a force of laborers to pick off tn
bugs. One days labor resulted in capturing
l. one bushel of bugs the exact amount bein
ascertained by actual measurement whcl
were placed in a fire and burned. The secon
day was spent i'll going over the same trees
g. second time, when another half bushe of bug
were gathered and burned. Such is thei
e power of reproduction. Mr.. Kerr thinks h
e had not gone over moro than the one-twentiet
o part of his nursery OF $4,000 peach stock, tn
II largest portion of which he believes to be en-
1t tirely destroyed by their depradations.
z says the Denton Union.
er Homicide IN Somerset County, extr
le from the Office of the Crisfeld Leader state
lg that difficulty occurred near Marion station
n on the Eastern Shore railroad, six miles frOl
In Crisheld, in Somerset county, on Friday last
d. between Charles w. johnson, II. johnson an
n, a man named George w. Hall, which rcsulte
r. in the killing of Hall by II. j. johnson with
a gun. Deceased was about forty years of ag
Il q carpenter by trade, and leaves wife an
several children. johnson was also carpol
ter about thirty-fve years of age and ma
of rid man. The dispute occurred about tt
he setting of pair of gate posts. 1t is state
rk that Hall fired on the Johnsons first, viii
he they were standing close together, but neith
he sustained any injury, and, johnson bavir
v. provided himself with gun, rushed upl
ew Hall with the above fatal result.
'eII A Remarkable Octogcaaridn There liv
OF in the Drawbridge District, in Dorchest
~ 10 county, a citizen, whose modest but honOrah
e. career deserves to be placed on record. v
ne ne aude to Cain Hurley, Esq. He is now
w. years of age, and for AZ years, with two she
on intervals, has been Justice of the Peace
Gu Dorchester county, and for more than so yea
~ has been member of the Baptist church.
no all this time, he has never had judgme
IN reversed or even appealed FROM until at Il
u.s. ! last term Of Court an appeal was taken frC
'ar his docket, but the judgment was sustaine
Having no conveyance, when discharged as
,us witness, this hale old gentleman set out aft
nu dinner and walked home, a distance of
ge miles from Cambridge. lie has never in
e'' life tasted tobacco or whiskey, nor indeed an
thing stronger than milk, eschewing even cOfft
OF and is q living example of the beneficial resu
IN 10 of sober and virtuous life.-CdmLrid
.m ~" Chronicle.
ing The Kent County r. R-The annual me-
63S ing of the stockholders OF this Railroad {
+. was held at ChestertOwn on the L lth inst.
I'm. Paynter, the President, made his annual
the port, from which it appears that the road
srS: not paying institution. Its receipts for I
and year ending May lst, 1874, was onl ly $l3,0
ng' all of which was consumed in operating exp
, ,eir ses, leaving deficiency of $9,973 unpa
10 10 So, ,533 of this deficiency is duo to the hal
S o. on the road for wages. The annual election
aU0 ~, Directors was then held. OF this the X
% arv' Ne'os says: The following gentlemen, "
Tbe were understood to represent the interest
late Jay Gold, wore selected, receiving on W
die. full vote, an average Of over one thousa
| in shares more than the ticket representing w
ject Painter, late president of the road: Rich
ros. G. johnson, Robt. Nicholson, Isaac Parse
. Moses w. Serat, John L. STAN, Thos.