Smyrna times., 1878-08-28
xxApYLAND ITEMS.

0'N court house at Salisbury is near
The neI ot;on. and when finished will be
ing com PNo,,est structure of the kind on
The ilo Fasiern naRusp Shore.
'H' ,...,ore brass band recently seren9ded
"a a CCSestertown Transcript ONCE ana IN ms
the G"S ;n.ne the editor tells us about IL IN
,aST spven different places
r...or. few days ago, tramp
Near LaS' tbe pasture field of Mr.. Morey
crept hIU W. ant valuable horse, causing its
ni",onst anu ro Instant dea'h'
"''-'O .,.u,on BY the name of Carter, near
Agen. Caroline county, shipped, last
ne7 n1aE as baskets OF peaches 10 New ork.
Which w netted him the neat little sum OF
sl,294.47.
-. onOOO boxes of peaches will be
AsJ in Baltimore from Ohio and the
TgcenS; W's. tS;s season. Dealers say were it not
we we, .base western shipments Maryland
moocbes ,Ua would bring 50 box.
rhoro are thirteen persons confined in
,be iail Of Cecil county at this time, ten OF
tne ne., awaiting trial at the coming term of
.nurt Of the whole number five are
HACKS and eight whites, and oil the former
two are woman.
The Choptank district grangers and Agri-
..,I,ural Society of the Eastern Shore have
OI.Ived not to buy any more fertilizers
IssGi' %ti rrices are reduced. The dealers say,
Snrever. that amonia is considerably higher
his season and prices cannot be reduced.
Sealing at Camp Mectiag--On the last
NIGHT OF the Seegar's woods camp, some
Hon. B. T. Biggs; also set of new har-
from Mr.. William II. Faulkner, includ-
inc. blanket, whip, and almost everything
necessary to his outfit.
P,ot;sD1 Jy ImmuSi0n.-On Tuesday after
noon Of last week, Rev. VIM. B. Gregg,
bontised Miss Lucy Jane Palmer by i'm.
mersion, in DR.. Jumps mill pond, not far
from Henderson, in Caroline county. Rev
lanes A Brindle, who was present with a
resnectable company of the neighbors, took
mart in the services which preceded the
baptism.
More peaches are going to market from
Chester river than was expected some
weeks since. One day last week, says the
Ksnt Nqcs, the Ford carried about nineteer
hundred boxes, and the average for tn,
week has been from twelve to fourteen
hundred. Prices range from 81 so to $2.5(
per box, and some choice lots have brought
as high as 50.
Rev. 7. o. Ayres, formerly of this town
now stationed at Pocomoke City, uses
trenchant pen in showing up the baC
practice on the Eastern Shore in man
towns, in putting q settled pastor of one O
the churches in the office of principal Q
their graded schools. The object is to ali
the pastor in a chronic state of lost salary
but as he shows, is detrimental to both tn
pulpit and the school.
New Market is fighting Cabin Cree
since it went into the hands of Norther
owners, who set it up for town that shoul
beat New Market "all hollow" Th
Marketites have dredged out their cree
and made it navigable for steamboats,, an
have secured the boats, and this puts thel
up even with old "Cabin Creek" no
called Yates on the Choptank. Let them pus
on the rivalry in a friendly spirit.
T6,unament.-The tournament at Queen
town on Thursday last was attended
about 1000 persons. Fourteen knights e
tered the list. VIM. H. r. Sherwood,
Talbot CO., won the first prize, crownil
Miss N. Clara Skinner, of Talbot CO., QueC
Of Love and Beauty. j. Griffin Clement
second, of Queen Anne's CO., crowned Mi
Clara Wilson, of Baltimore, First Maid
Honor. Major VIM. E. Stewart was Il
orator Of the day.
The town commissioners of Easton ha'
followed the good example of Chestertov
and passed an ordinance declaring tram
vagrants, and compelling them to work
the streets. The Star says about fife
arrived in town Thursday afternoon, al
seeing notices of the ordinance at the dep,
came up town in body that night a.
told the authorities to give them place
sleep and they would leave in the morniI
and this was done.
Blind Staqgers-On Thursday, three hor
of Sheriff Griffin, on Springdale farm
Bolingbroke Neck, were taken with
blind staggers. Two more were stricI
on Friday morning. Two of the hor
died on Friday morning and three on
urday morning. They were worth at lie
FIVE hundred dollars, being frst-class ia
horses. George Bartlett also lost q m
valued at $3.50 last week with the sa
complaint. Since writing the above,
learn that two more of the sherff's hol
have been attacked by the same discs
and will not get over CentreviLle Obser
A Shooting Afray.-A few nights
Mrs. Eugenia Brown, of Colora, Cecil
parted in anger from her lover, VIM
Cunningham, and retired to her room.
few minutes after, while standing at
room window, she was startled by pi
shot the ball of which ratified uncomforta
close to her head. Next day she had
lover arrested on a charge of firing
shot, and he was held in $500 bail for
pearance at court. Cunningham del
firing the shot. or even hearing it, and
the whole affair is a "put up job" by
young ladys parents, who are prejudi
against him.
4 SeriOus Accident.-In Kent county,
week, Mr.. Walter F. Griffith was cut
his seed clover with wheat reaper, '
four horses attached, and driving sit
sideways. While halting a few mom
Tor some purpose bee stung the h
upon which he was sitting causing hir
Jump and frighten the other horses, W
they all started to run, Mr.. Griffith fal
on, and his right foot was caught by
knife and cut almost squarely off just
low the instep. Mr.. Griffith held on to
feins, and was dragged some two hum
yards in this condition before the he
could be stopped by the men in the I
fhysclans were summoned and the VOL
dressed. 1t is stated that Mr.. Griffith
50 absorbed in trying to stop his h,
mat he did not know his foot was cut
tne team was stopped.
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