Smyrna times., 1877-09-26
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The basket manufacturing company at
Cambridge has failed.
new Protestant Episcopal church is to
he erected at Cccilton.
The corn crop of Wicomico this year is
less than half an average yield.
The canning factory at Sudlcrsyille has
put up about 100000 cans of peaches this
season.
Three vessels were wrecked on the beach
at Ocean City, during the storm OF last
week.
A North East hotel keeper has brought
suit against minister of that town Tor
SANDER.
large wheelwrght and blacksmith
shop is being built at Sudlersvilc by Chance
& Booker.
A new NJ. F. church at Ridgely, Caroline
county, will soon be finished 1t is hand
some building
There is lively steamboat competition
from Easton, Denton and Cambridge |
Fares are dirt cheap.
Francis b. Croolschank, of Sassafras
Neck, father of the editor of Cecil Democrat,
died suddanly at his residence on Wednes !
day evening last Of paralysis.
Two prominent citizens of St. Michaels,
Talbot county, have gone to Texas to
engage in stock raising. Just now, however,
about many leave as arrive in that
State.
Clement Sullivane, editor of the Cam
bridge Chronicle, has been nominated for
the State Senate by tho Democrats of Dor
chester, and Jos. Ii. johnson, editor of
the Democrat a},d Ne0S, for the House of
Delegates.
EFF. c. Jeffries, who was arrested last
week charged with setting fire to his father
in-law's farm. on Kent Island, has been
held in $l,S00 to answer at court. In
default of bail he was committed to the
Centreville Jail.
4 Bad Cain a street row in Chester
town, on Saturday week, youth named
Miller, living near town, had his upper lip
nearly cut from his face. A knife was also
plunged in his neck. The perpetrator had
not been identified at last accounts.
The St. Michaels Comet and Adycrtiser
says: On Thursday of last week, while the
large oyster pungy James Thomas, owned by
Captain James Duncan, of Tilghmans
Island, was at anchor in Black Walnut
IIarbor, Talbot CO., she was boarded by
unknown persons, and stripped of her
mainsail, foresail and large quantity of
rigging. The loss is about $780, No clue
To the robbers.
The Newtown Record dai Gazette says:
John ]. Taylor, living near Girdletree Hill,
was charged before justice Mrssick, OF
Snow Hill last week, with committing an
outrage upon Cornclia Sturgis, of the same
neighborhool. The case was dismissed
the evidence against Taylor being insIfi-
cient. Both of the parties are married,
and several of the witnesses swOrc they
would not believe the woman on her oath.
Forced Sales.-The following trustee sales
of Kent county lands took place at Ches-
tertown last week The farm of Jervis
Spencer, 2S4 acres, near Blacks station, to
Col. George w. Spencer Cor $l5,lO0. The
Glascoa farm, offered at the same time, was
Withdrawn at bid of $4,000. Also, at
Galena, the Davis Hill property, II acres,
for $Gl0. cash. This is more than double
the price expected by those acquainted
with the land. John c. Wood Of Della
ware, was the purchaser"
D17inq Oysters-Edward Wiley ir.. who
has one of the new Patent Fruit Dryers,
has been experimenting this week with
oysters, which he places in the evaporator
and subjects to sufficient degree Of heat
to extract the moisture. His theory is that
oysters can be thus dried packed away in
salt, and kept any length Of time; and that
when put in hot water their Original
plumpncss will be restored. The idea i:
new one, and Mr.. Wiley proposes t.
work on it until he proves either the
feasibility or impracticability of preserving
oysters in this way.-,S. Michaels Comet.
4 Sad CaSe.-As poor man named
Landing was sailing from Somerset count
to Baltimore with his family in a littl
canoe, last week, his wife was attacke
with typhoid fever and in addition sh
gave birth to a child. The boat was pu
ashore at Lewe's Point, Talbot CO., wher
a colored family kindly took the poo
woman in, but there is little hope for he
recovery. She desired to see her parents
in Baltimore, and as her husband owne
this canoe, it was decided to risk the jour
ncy in it, but the exposure, fever and sui
sequent affliction has terribly PROSTATE
her Three other children we're in tn
boat.
Big Lot Of Visitors.-On Friday wee
about two hundred members of the Amer
can Pathological Society, then in session i
Baltimore, visited Colonel Edw. Wilkins
at his residence, Riverside" near Che
tcrtown. There was nearly steamboa
load of them. They brought a band {
music with them, and the Colonel ente
tanned the whole crowd and many of h
hclghbofs at immense tables spread IN II
beautiful lawn, on the banks of the Chest
river. Col. wilkins may perhaps be terme
the peach King Of the world. Riversid
his estate, contains one hundred ar
twenty-five thousand peach trees. His pc
orchard contains fifteen thousand trees
Fred Douglass IN CamJridge.-Frederic
Douglass, United States marshal at Was
ington, and John NJ. Langston, Unit
States minister to Hayti, also a distinguis
ed colored man, left Baltimore Frid
evening on visit to Cambridge, where tht
made addresses on Saturday. The color
people Of Dorchester county made the
casiOn \ holiday, and turned out in crow
to greet the visitors. The speaking was
the camp grounds adjoining Bethel ChurC
where both white and colored peor
gathered in large numbers Marsi
Douglass was introduced to many of t
citizens Of Cambridge, and was entertain
among others by Mr.. Byrne, president Of
Dorchester railroad When the rnarsl