Smyrna times., 1877-08-29
MARYLAND ITEMS.

MARYLAND ITEMS.
Millington is progressing. new steam
saw mill a new machine shop; drying
establishment; u new store and one or two
new dwellings have recently been added to
the town.
Hon. Stephen Taber, of Rosyn, n. Y,
has donated one of his most eligible lots at
Ocean City to Bishop Lay, for the erection
thereon of an Episcopal church, which will
be erected before the next bathing season
sets in.
Fire at Cr,tmpton.--The large double
house within the boundaries of Crumpton,
occupied by Mr.. John Walls, was burned |
down on Wednesday night last The
origin of the fire is mystery. The house |
was comparatively new, and was not in
sured, we believe.
a singular freak of lightning occurred |
near Berlin, Worcester county, on the 18th |
instant. Isaac Gibbs was struck the fluid |
singeing the hair off his head, passing down
his person, burning his flesh as it went,
tearing the clothes from his body, and yet
inhicting no serious injury.
Ocean Ctty.-This season has been the
most prosperous in the history of Ocean
City, exceeding the most sanguine cxpecta-
ments have been made for the erection
there this season of a large hotel by Balti-
more parties and also one by Washington
parties.
On the 18th instant as Zadock Robinson,
accompanied by his little son, was crossing
dam at Selby's mill, near Stockton, Wor.
cester county, 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 assistance could
reach them.
attempted dSuicide.-At Cambridge, Dorches-
ter CO., on Tuesday, ayoung man, Eugene S.
Bradshaw, attempted to commit suicide
by taking laudanum The attempt was
quickly discovered medical aid was sum-
moned and the mans life was saved. lie
is deputy clerk in the Office of Francis J.
Henry, clerk of the Circuit Court, and
mental depression is the cause assigned for
his attempt to take his life.
. What the Ifamps did to a Sleeping Beauty
4 Last Wednesday four tramps caught a
Y farmer near Chestertown whilst mapping
:. and deliberately went through him. They
took his hat, coat and shoes, and then
e maltreated his person in the most indecent
:, manner. Three of the mscreants who
4 committed the outrage have been commit
o ted to Jail. The other scamp, who it ap-
C pears got the shoes for his share of the
}. booty, escaped arrest. So says the Ches-
v tertown Transcript. The sleeper must have
t been drunk.
Buried IN the Darkness and Thunder
q StOrm-Miss Hester Powell, an esteemed
= maiden lady of Preston, Caroline CO., died
" on the llth inst. She weighed over 800
- pounds, and her abundant flesh, together
7 with the warm weather, rendered decom.
= position so rapid that the corpse had to be
= buried a few hours after death, in the
- night and during heavy thunder shower,
~ by the flicker of one or two lanterns. A
y correspondent of the fredericksburg Co,triel
=, says: 81 have witnessed many sad scenes
- !, in my life, but never one sadder than this.
ut The Transfer Madc.-The Queen Annes 4
lg Kent Railroad, from Centreville to Towns
ct end, was transferred to the p. w. & B. Co.
last week, at Centreville. This road ha.
n. never been profitable. 1t cost $390,000 tt
Il. construct it, in 1869, and it was sold unde
"a the sheriff's hammer in 1875 for $4,000, t
ls some of the stockholders who held the
IS. first mortgage. Now the 2. w. & B. Co
te pay 100000 for little over one half the
Of stock. They don't own the road-only
n. controlling interest. A number of the ole
l. DE-
,s tors put in their places. Hon. Benz. r
or Biggs will still act as President of the Go
-; -; Rain and Hail Storm.-Portions of Ken
III and Queen Anne's counties were visitet
- with a severe hail storm on Tuesday after
~ noon. In the neighborhood of George
IL town, and about Galena and on toward
"S Locust Grove it was particularly severe
Many corn fields are as bare as if tn
had 1nls KnI,r III HIoI
N. from the stocks. At Galena, the Cec
he Wig has the authority of job, the stag
m. driver, for the statement that the groun
at was covered ankle deep in hail. 1t e2
ed tended into Quaker Neck, from whenc
nc it crossed into Queen Annes and extends
oh below Centreville, spreading devastation i
INC its course. Some of the Maidstone
.0e measured four and a-half inches in circun
de ference, and it was the severest storm wi
NO messed in Kent section since the memori
,rv BILE one of 1854.
an A Strange GrcumStdnce.-We have hereto
Mt. fore spoken Of how q peculiar worm ha
gh been destroying the foliage of trees in Care
TX, line county. The Milford Ne,cs tells th
incident about the woods in which tn
od Concord camp was held, near Dentor
Ins The Ne,0S says: The woods was attacke
i by myriads of small green worms whic
nJ rapidly consumed the leaves of the trees j
i"a ,u the vicinity and left them denuded {
i1s ~ foliage so that the shade was destroyed
Ibm ~, When they attacked the camp meetin
oSS grove the noise Of their munching was lilS
~ ~ rain falling, but no sooner had they con
- menced their work of destruction upon th
80 leafy roofofthis tabernacle than an immens
III army of blackbirds attacked them an
U ~d utterly destroyed them from the face
~, az the earth, so that the grove was saved froi
t2g their depredations, while all around III
'n nn trees were stripped"
of An attempt to iSsoindle.-A scamp in Car
Dut line attempted to swindle Thomas