Middletown transcript., 1875-07-24
Maryland Affairs.

The Maryland Citizen, published at Zen
treville, Queen Anne's county. Nd, for the
last fifteen years, BY Mr.. John T. Hand, sus:
pended publication Oh Saturday last, for the
reason, as the proprietor says, 'since 1868 it
has scarcely paid expenses" The Citizen has
always supported The republican party, and
was : weff-conducted journal. -,i,le-l.i s,jg
1r [Since the above was 'sset up We have an
derstood that Mr.. Hand has recopsidered his
liberalization to suspend and has coHclnd-
/ ed to 90 on as long as the paper will pay ex-
penses, ,geyen il he doa't make anything eii
A violent thunder storm occurred in the
vicinity of .Chestertown, 81 Kent county, on
Thursday night week, says the Kent News,
the rain descending ID torrents for several
hours. The dam. Of Whalan's mill, near
Charlestown, and that Of Beck mill; near the
rrappe.l were washed out Dr,.Whalan's loss
wilr ~ about $400, and that Of Nj. Beck sup
posed to be muchlarger. Numerous bridges
on thspubiic roads are reported to have been
carried away. The bed Of the Kent county
railroad was also damaged to a considerable
av,s.4 a..i 4saiHan isf, ggifaa sursIec
III al; x; zssg issa =; 81 I'd +.
Ata meeting Of the ischool commissioners
lof Cecil county, last week, among other pro-
|iceedings, il VAS resolved toiboid 4 compsti-
tive examination Of applicants for scholarship
in st. Johns College on the second Tuesday
in Angust and an examination ofteachers at
Elkton II Sdiy zs, and At Port Deposit on
july II. ltwas resolved to. epea the schools
On the lst cf September, Miss, Emma A.
Hynss vss recommended ~ q pupil Of the
State Normal School. q agssAl 10 zi7lnexa q
+, A goyernment engineer visited Elkton last
week forths purpose Of making preliminary
sanitation Of the channel Of that part Of
Elk liver between the bridge and the section
which was diksd and despsnsd last fall. The
channel of that part Of the stream will Be
dsspened and widened. and { place for turn
ing stsamboats excavated at the end of the
wharf below the bridge, where the channel is
st present too narrow for that purpose
n A. rsmarkahle instance is reported to. us of
child being Killed by a snake, in the sixth
district. of this county. The child, about
seven years old, was missing, and when
searched for, was found in the woedyard
dead, with = large black snake coiled round
its body, and its head in the child's mouth.
The child's limbs were broken. its name was
Brinkley, and We give the story as we heard
it.-Ctca Demoer@. isise u aai
II AtCrumpton, Queen Anne's county, new
Methodist Protestant church was dedicated on
Sunday. Rev. L.; W. Bates, Of Baltimore,
preached in the morning, Rev. H. P. Jordon,
Of Baltimore, in the afternoon, and Rev. J.B.
Jones, Of Chestertown, at in the evening.
A very satisfactory collection was mades
1 REAL ESTATE SALEs.-J. H. Hunt, Of Kent
county. has sold bis farm, 22e acres, to
sentlemss named spNd, Of Philadelphia,
for $1,000, and moved into Millington. On
the s'llotk lihst., the farm Of Jos! A. Harper,
ls7 acres, near Church Hill, was sold at
public sale to Daniel Mckee, for $2572.
+ "A shark was caught ina net BY Captain
Clark few nights ago near Frenchtown,
which was SO large that the net would not
hold him, supposed TO weigh about Eve hum
drsd pounds. -5neftr 4Tss,.
The work of building new Methodist
Episcopal church at Easten, Talbot county,
has commenced, and when completed is to
cost aboat Sd, 900. c'l1A1,s5~ I
Millingtoa came near having a Chicago FIRE
on > small scale last week. Louis Coles
summer kitchen was burned down and the
people had considerable trouble to prevent .
spread Of the fames.. ~.