Middletown transcript., 1877-09-01
EASTERN SHORE MATTERS.
TOWNSEND, Aug. 81, 1877.

A workingman's party has been organized
in Talbot county.
The rate of taxation in Caroline county this
year is So cents on the 500.
The Hartford county almshouse is selfsus-
tanning.
John T. sangston's fruit drying establish
ment at Greensborough, Caroline county, was
destroyed by fire last week.
John Walls dwelling house, at Crumpton,
Kent county, was destroyed BY fire on the 22d
instant.
A camp meeting will commence at Parsons
burg, seven miles east Of Salisbury, on Sept. 2.
II will last ten days.
Right Rev. H. C. Lay, Bishop of the diocese
of Easton, has preached several times at Ocean
City this season in the large parlor Of the At
lantic Hotel.
The Kendall Scarborough farm, 226 acres,
in Worcester county, has been sold to Daniel
Scarborough for 50, 600. This farm has never
been out Of possession of the Scarborough
family since the land was first taken up.
Hon. Stephen Taber, Of RosIyn, N. r., has
donated one of his most eligible lots at Ocean
CITY to Bishop Lay, for the erection thereon Of
an Episcopal Church, which win be erected be
fore the next bathing season sets in.
James Massy, proprietor of the Seaside house,
Ocean City, will enlarge his hotel before the
next season. The Excursion house has closed.
A large new hotel is talked of to be ready by
next summer. Owens viii keep his house open
through the winter for gunners.
The Newtown Record and Gazette: '0n
Saturday last, as Mr.. James Robinson, accom-
panied BY a little boy, his son, was crossing
the dam at Selby's mill, near Stockton, the
oxen ran into the water, and the body Of the
cart coming off Mr.. Robinson and his son were
caught beneath it and drowned before assist
ance could reach them"
A singular freak Of lightning occurred near
Berlin, Worcester county, on August llth.
Isaac Gibbs was struck, the fluid singing the
hair off his head, passing down his person,
burning his flesh as it went, tearing the clothes
from his body, and yet inficting no serious
injury.
A little seven-year old boy, son Of Mrs
Emily A. Marshall, of Cambridge, fell off the
bridge over the creek at that town, on satur.
day morning and was drowned.
Monday was the biggest peach shipping day
Of the season at Cambridge 24OO boxes were
shipped from the wharf in that town to Balti
more
A severe hailstorm passed over the lowe
part Of Dorchester county one day last week
It did not do much harm, however, its rayage;
being confined mostly to stripping the blade
from the corn.
THE TRANSFER MADE.-The Queen Annes 3
Kent Railroad, from Centreville to Townsend
was transferred to the P W. & B. Co., las
week, at Centreville. This road has neye
been profitable. 1t cost $3.50, 600 to construc
it, in 1869, and it was sold under the sheriff
hammer in 1875 for SIS, 900, to some of tn
stockholders who held the first mortgage
Now the P. W. B. Co. pay $50, 900 for
little over one half the stock They don't owl
the road-only controlling interest. A mum
ber of the old directors were retired and P "
B. directors put in their places. Hon B. 7
Biggs will still act as President of the Co.
RAIN AND HAIL SToRM-Portions Of Ken
and Queen Anne's counties were visited with
severe hail storm on Tuesday afternoon. 1
the neighborhood Of Georgetown, and abou
Galena and on towards Locust Grove it wa
particularly severe. Many corn fields are a
bare as if the farmers had deliberately pulle
every blade from the stocks. At Galena, th
Cecil Wing has the authority of Job, the stag
driver, for the statement that the ground wa
covered ankle deep in hail. 1t extended int
Quaker Neck, from whence it crossed int
Queen Anne's and extended below Centrevillt
spreading devastation in its course. Some {
the hail-stones measured four and a-half inchC
in circumference and it was the severest storr
witnessed in Kent section since the memorabl
one of 1854