Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
MARYLAND Affairs.

| MARROW ESCAPE OF H. s. CoUDoN, ESQ.,
On Monday, September 18th, enc Of our best
citizens and well-known sportsmen, Mr.. Henry
s. Coudon, narrowly escaped losing his life.
He was shooting black ducks in Mill creek
and had killed nine. He fortunately sent his
son Wilson after the last duck (which proba-
bly, saved the latter's life) when the accident
occurred He informed me the last thing he
remembered was shooting at bunch Of ducks
flying over, and, to take better aim, laid on
his back and shot backward over his head
The gun used was long double-barrel and
well known as the best on this side of the
river and had been used by Mr.. G. for nearly
thirty years. 1t burst in the act of being dis
charged, tearing the barrels loose from the
stock, throwing the latter some ten or twelve
feet, and lodged it on the limb of bush, and
the exception of the right arm being burned
with powder, the right eye slightly injured,
and confusion on the right jaw, supposed
to be caused BY the stock in passing, Mr.. G..
received no serious injury.-CscI Democrat.
DAMAGE BY THE RAINs.-The late beavy
rains have caused considerable damage. On
Monday the train on the D. D. road was
unable to proceed any farther than Federals-
burg, owing to land slide at that point
The rest of the route to Seaford, a distance of
ten miles, was made on hand car, which
conveyed passengers and mails each way, in
consequence of which the train was about two
hours behind time. All the early trains on
the Delaware road were detained by washes.
The town Of fredericksburg was flooded, the
bridge across the river which cost the county
So, 900, having been carried away. Mill dams
are overhowed, &c Cambridge Chronicle.
BLOODY ATrRAt AT MnI1Naros.-On Satur-
day night Sept. 9th, James Stanly who has
for some years enjoyed an unenviable motor
iety as successful fighter, was attacked by
John Wood, in the street opposite to Mr..
Johnson's restaurant, in Millington. Wood
struck Stanly, and as he did so remarked that
"you know why do this" he followed up
the flows so rapidly and punished Stanly SO
badly, that he (Stanly) had to be carried
home as limp as dead man, and for time
his condition was considered very critical
His face was fearfnlly cut by the severe blows
Of Wood, and his upper lip was split clear to
bis nostrils An old grudge caused the fight,
but what the grudge was is not stated.
PROBABLE MURDER AT CRIsFIELD. Saturday
last Renj Riggen shot and probably fatally
wounded Jas. Ford. Riggen had been pay
ing his addresses TO the daughter Of Ford,
and it is supposed that trouble arose from the
opposition manifested by the girls parents to
her marriage with Riggen. The assailant
escaped in boat to the Virginia shore.
The third annual fair of the Cambridge
Agricultural Society. which began on We'd
nesday and closed on Friday, was not so
largely attended, nor were the exhibits as
numerous and creditable as on former occa-
sions. The rain prevented q great many from
attending on Friday.
The water in Chester river during the big
storm was higher than ever known before,
submerging the bridge over the river at Ches-
tertown, the wharves and the lower floor of
the granaries. The damage to grain stored
in the granaries amounted to some fifteen
hundred bushels.