The daily gazette., 1876-07-24
Detascarc and MARYLAND d Notes,

DetasCare and Maryland Notes.
The watermelon crop of Wicomico
county is very large.
A Tilden and Hendricks club has
been organized in Salisbury.
Esquire W. N. W. Dorsey PROPOSES
to build a market house in Milford.
A Miller time lock has been placed
on the safe of the Rising Sun Banking
Company.
The corn crop of Caroline county ia
promising. but the whsat is giving
only an ordinary yield.
MIR. Thomas +. Hammersley haa
been elected cashier of the Milford
Branch of the Smyrna Bank.
Mr.. Geo. Haddaway has purchased
the st. Michael's Comet and will here
after be its editor and proprietor.
A barn on the farm of VIM. Rankin
near McClellandsville, was blown
down by the storm on Thursday night.
The apple crop is good, and apple
instead OF peach, brandy will be man
ufactured by the State distillers this
year.
Or five deaths which occurred in
Queen Annc's county within the past
fortnight, only one was under 10 years
of age.
The Delamqrtan thinks that the es.
timated shipment of 0,450 baskets of
peaches from Dover station will not be
reached this year.
Last week, during the raising Of a
Democratic pole in Georgetown, Hen
ry Simpler had his leg broken by the
pole falling upon him.
The Conference Academy, at Do
yer. will resume operations, under IA
vorable circumstances, on Monday,
the 4th OF September next,
The day fixed for the opening of
camp at Wood Lawn. August 10Th.
draws near. The committee are very
busy putting everything in good order.
e The barn of Abner Rogers, in Cecil
county, Nd, on the Brick Meeting
llousc Road. near the Chester county
line, was destroyed by fire, on Sunday
evening last.
The Ricaud mansion farm, at Bay
View, Cecil county, Md, was purchas
ed at public sale, last Saturday, by
George Simcoe. Esq. of North East,
for $40, 900 cash.
The real estate of the late 1T. w.
Ringgold, on Grey's Inn creek Kent
Co., Md, about SAT acres, was sold
on Tuesday to Mr.. Alex. Harris, of
Baltimore, for $11, 500
J.J. W. Taylor, of Hartford county
has constructed an application to rail-
road cars which is proposed to relieve
passengers of the manifold discomfort
OF cinders. dust and smoke.
MIR. Dick Harrington is speudfnr
the summer at the Prospect House on
the Canadian side of the Niagara Riv-
er at the falls. A gentleman who met
with him there gives this information.
Milford Nems.
Owing to the storm of Thursday
night. Mr.. VIM. Morrison, near Mil
ford \ Roads had but seven shocks of
oats left standing out of three hun-
dred, and his corn sufferedconsiaerable
portion of it being torn up by the
roots.
David Ash and Frederick Marks. ero
ployed as laborers by John +, Dayia
on the John A. Johnson farm. two
miles above Elkton, were overcome
by the heat on Thursday, while haul
ing hay. Ash recovered, but Marks
is.still very ill,
Frlday morning, a boy only 10
years old, son Of James Breaton. who
lives near Angola, while drinking a
team OF oxen. hitched tho chain about
his body when the beasts began to run
and were not stopped until the poor
boy was terribly mutilated and drag
ged to death.
a tramp, temporarily in the en-
ploy of Thomas Fassitt, near Rising
Sun, was horribly cut last week with
razor by negro,in Fassitt's employ.
The only provocation was that the
tramp called from his sleeping apart-
ment to the negro who was below
making noise. to be quit. The negro
whose name is Black, made his es.
cape
SALES OF REAL LEsrArE.-During the
past week, Sheriff Cooper of Kent
County, made the following sales:
William ii. Bedweil's property, near
81 acres, to Mrs. Sarah T.
Doubleday. for 5000. John d. Adams
farm. in Mispillion hundred, 100 acres,
to N. ?. Luff, for $500; Peleg Taylor's
farm, in Milford hundred, 100 acres,t to
Joseph S. Truitt, for $515; James
Virden's farm, in Dover hundred. 1888
acres to William Virden, for $2,S00;
Isaac Potter's farm, in Milford hundred
10 acres, to Rebecca B. Wolcott, for
$3.50; the Jonathan Catlin land near
Green's chapel, North MurderklI hund-
red, farm of 159 acres, to II, e.
for 81 800, also farm of
l72 acres, adjoining the other, to Mary
Barnett, for 81 ,655.
THE GRocpRy,5EN IN MApUrn -Jtio