Smyrna times., 1875-08-11
MARYLAND ITEMS.

MARYLAND ITEMS. ,
\ new bridge has been erected over the ,
Chester river at MiIlngton.
Peach cannerirs are established at both
Church Hill and SuCllrisvillc this season.
The hotel keeper at Chctcrvillc has
grown cabbage heal weighing I0l lbs.
Baltimore company i. bringing TO
Frc,lcriclltown Heating drying apparatus
Capacity six hundred basket. per day.
Mr.. Amos Stoutlrr, of Chanbcr,burg, Pa,
is about erecting portable fruit dricr in
Warwick requiring about fifty prc!"rs.
\ man in ST. Michacls last wccI; threw
some potato vines into his yard and his
COW ate of them and died. Paris green
had been ON the vines.
large IjdL-Ben. Wilson. .Jr., sowcd on
the F. r. Mcrrick farm, at Beaver Dams,
81 bushels of Fultz wheat and made 1000 |
bushels 1t was Sowrd /! bushels to the |
acre.
Sunday School Institute for Ea-tom
District will be held in the II. f. Church |
in Mllington on "Wednesday and Thursday, !
September 18th and 10Th Roy. +. Stubs
conductor.
There will bc calnlrmcctng, to com
mcncc on the 3d Of September, III Scigar's
woods, Queen Annc'e county, miles
! from Millngton, under the auspices of the
| NJ. f. Church South, of Millington Circuit.
\ colorcd girl, who lived in tenant
house on the farm Of Mr.. G. W. Lockwood,
near Warwick, was 50 severely burned by
her clothes taking fire from coal oil on
Friday of last week that she died on
Saturday morning. She attempted to
kindlc fire 10y pouring oil over the wood.
DIR. Cherbonnicr. on his farm on Miles
river, raised the best crop of wheat we have
heard of in Talbot county this season. lie
sowcd &c bushels ON - acres, and threshcd
ops bushels of merchantablc wheat,
fraction over 81 bushels per acre.-Eayton
star.
homicide occurred at Queenstown,
Queen Anncs county, on Sunday morning
of last week which was the result of too
much whiskcy. Henry Dyer, colorcd,
being drunk, got into an alteration with
one Charles Brandan, white, and was by
him kicked in the stomach, so that he died
the next day. Brandan travelled, and is
still on the pad.
Mrs. Thomas Nandykc, residing near
, Cecilton, Cecil county, died very suddenly
| on Monday evening week. She retired in
seeming good health. Quite early in the
9 night she rose up in bed and requested her
: husband to hand her drink. Mr. V. i'm
mediatcly complied, but she could not take
it when offered and fell backward and
: expired instantly.
e Sale of F;um-Mr j. F. Mancha has sold
i Mr.. James A. Rocs farm of 2l4 acres,
t situated in Chapel District, to Mr.. VIM.
; Sisson, of Wisconsin, for $1,000 in cash.
: DR.. James Seth has purchased of Mr.
@ Stran, of Baltimore, the Emerson Point
farm, situated on Miles River, a few miles
below st. Michaels, Md. The price paid
was $4,000 for l47 acres.
John Thomas Ford man between 4;
and 80, living at st. Michacls, Talbo
o county, was found brutally murdered il
n his own garden, on Saturday week. Iii
d skull was split open, and evidently scvera
1T heavy blows had been dealt him on tn
S, head with hatchet or some other heav
10 instrument. Up to the present writin
a there seems to be no clue whatever to tn
Y. preparation of the decd
" A Baltimore fruit dealer is fitting II
rs rcfrigerators in sections on Light street ic
ed the reception of peaches. He says he ca
Lo handle 1000 boxes day, and that he hi
es demonstrated satisfactorily that peach,
T., when once put through chilling procc
'ot will remain in firm condition for tw
ho i'o weeks, exposed to the regular tcmperatur
He has arranged by construct for l00,0(
he boxes Of peaches, and his experiment wi
he be fully tested.
as A N0o Process for Cunning PcaeAcS.--NI
en- ii. |. Coe. of the American Fruit Compan
ne of st. Louis, has visited this place al
.hc made arrangements with Capt, Ruth {
nts putting up quantity Of peaches by
be recently patented process, Theingredier
NJ; used are not made public, but pure wat
lIo. is said to be an essential element, and
for analysis of Morgans spring, on the subur
ave of this town, is said to discover the quail
ave desired The peaches are packed in h
,tos barrels, and the process which has be
nm. tested for two or three seasons, is claim
to be an entire success. 1t is believed
lgs the patentees that their method will,
on p the course Of a few years, work q colnpl,
of revolution in the manner Of peach paclxil
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