Smyrna times., 1875-10-20
MARYLAND ITEMS.

MARYLAND ITEMS.
The st. Michacls Comd says that there |
are nearly as many bushels of commercial
fertilizers sown this season in Talbot as
bushels of wheat.
George Vickers as Trustee, has sold
part of the "Stepney Farm" i'll Broad
Neck, Kent co., containg 1867 acres, to
Samuel A. j. Wiclles, for $50 per acre.
Notwithstanding the low prices ofpeaches
most growers in Maryland have realized
something over and above expenses. One
farmer in Queen Anne's ncttcd over so
per acre from his crOp-B0h S"n.
Captain Elijah Chance, of Accomac co.,
Va, met with an accident a few days ago
by which he lost his life. While preparing
for fishing he stumbled and fell down stairs,
breaking his neck and causing instant
death.
VIM. j. S. Clarke has recently sold a
mammoth barge, built at his shipyard at
Newtown, Worcester county, to a party in
New York for the sum of $4,000. When
loaded the barge carried $1,000 bushels of
wheat, and drew but seven feet of water.
4 correspondent of the cell IIIig. writing
from Frcdericlltown, in that county, says:
q know one farmer who sent | 300 baskets
of peaches to New York, (all one weeks
shpment,) and the whole brought him
eight dollars in debt, besides the expenses
of picking, &c.
A dwelling, with nearly all its contents,
! mile from Mliington, was burned on
g 1 ! =
Robert Butcher, cold. The inmates were
smoke house, in Millington. was also burned
on the Sth, and her dwelling narrowly
escaped.
Thomas b. White, a prominent citizen of
Worcester county, residing near Hollands
Mill, was killed on Thursday last under
peculiar circumstances. He was managing
the steering tongue of machine that was
moving school house when it slipped and
gave him terrible throw, from which he
died in few hours.
Burned 10 DEATH Jy CoaI OH-Some colored
childrenin Elkton, who had been left alone,
on Monday week, fell toplaying with coal
oil lamp, when it was broken and the oil
was spilled on the clothing of a child about
two and-a-half years old. Later, while near
| the fire, the clothing famed and the child
was burned 40 badly that it died i'll short
time. The body was partially roasted.
O,,Ste,p,cp at Loggc,hcahs.-For nearly two
years past-ever since by means of a local
oyster law certain waters in Talbot county
were opened to scrape boats, there has been
a fierce contest going ON in the oyster dis
tricts of the county between scrapers and
tongmen. The tOngmcn claim that the
scrapers are trespasslng upon and break
ing up their grounds on which they depend
for the seasons work, and the scrapers re-
ply by saying that the scraping of the rocks
and bars improves the quality and increases
the quantity of the oysters. The rocks and
oyster grounds around and near Poplar
Island, are especially the bone of contcn
tiOn, as they are very valuable to both
tongmen and scrapers, and lie in depth
of water in which tongmen can readily
work. The tongmen complain bitterly
that the scrapcrs destroy their business a
Poplar Island, which, they say is the main
stay of the Broad Creek Neck and Thigh
mans Island oystermen during the early
part of the season. They say that these
places should be forbidden grounds to th'
} scrapers.-iSt. MichaeLs Comet.
A Short ColUtship.-On Monday morning
two oyster pungies were sailing on til,
Chesapeake Bay bound for Baltimore Boil
were reputed to be fast sailers, and as
|, stiff breeze was blowing at the time, all can
vass was crowded on, and both pungie
were doing their " level best" On boar,
; one of the boats was remarkably hand
' some young lady, daughter of the captain
{ who was sitting on deck waving her hand
kerchief, and otherwise demonstrating he
enthusiasm at the apparent success of he
fathers boat. SO deeply interested in tn
! race had she become, that, forgetting he
t situation, she rose up, and just as she di
r so, heavy sea struck the boat, whic
e caused her to lose her equilibrium, and sh
Q tumbed over the rail into the water. Quic
as fash the captain of the competing boa
took in the situation at once, and givin
}. the helm in charge of his colored man, h
n took off his boots, and plunged into tn
, foaming waters, and when he arose to tn
c surface he held the form of the girl in h
). arms. BY this time, the first boat ha
). rounded to, and sent off boat to the
@ assistance, and they were taken on boar,
d BY skillful man9uvering the colored ma
g kept his boat as near rs possible withol
y colliding, and his captain was soon agai
q treading his own deck. On arriving
d Baltimore, both boats landed at the san
n wharf, when the father of the girl declare
N that the brave man must be rewarded, bl
c. herefused everything offered him. "Well
Ie exclaimed the old man " ef you won't tab
1T money, take my darter; she's willin',
d, you be~ The young fellow, after m
IS, ments reflection, accepted the offer, an
" toward the close Of tho daythey were Marie
is And the old man told him to take her, f
he he was "deserving of her."-,Seqtord Cftize
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