Smyrna times., 1878-08-21

A county temperance convention was
held at Chestertown, Kent county, lasC
week. Different sections of the county
were represented, and resolutions passeo
strongly condemning the sale OF splrltuous
liquors in that county
Land renters in Queen Anne's county
are complaining greatly of the scarcity OF
farms for the coming year. This IS caused
by many farms being purchased by partles
from other States, who propose setting
upon them themselves.
Tile 1f;ll;ngton Camp closed on Tuesday
morning The attendance on Sunday is
said to have been the largest of any camp
ever held there. A young man, named
| Morris, was found selling liquor on the
! ground and was promptly arrested and fined.
The low fares on the Choptank steamers
has awole our people out Of the Rip Van
| Wrinkle sleep of a century and the steamers
are constantly crowded with passengers.
The crowds are so great that even the pick
pocket has been moved to join the throng
and finds it a suitable place to ply his voca-
tion.-Denton Union.
The storm on Saturday week damaged
the steeple on the Methodist church at
Easton, $1,000, swept the colored peoples
camp at st. Michaels clean, took all the
starch out of the white cravats and the
dresses of the colo'd gem'men and damsels,
and passing over into Caroline county made
havoc of the corn fields in the vicinity OF
Bethlehem and Harmony.
Destruction Of fFgsh.-Baltimore seine haul.
crs caught one hundred big rock one day
last week. There are more foreign seine
haulers i'll our waters this year than were
ever known before, and the result is, says
the St. Michaels Comet, that there are no fish
in our local markets. The beginning o.
the season promised good supply of rock
| and taylor.
Wye Camp.-The Wye Camp, Talbot co.
has been the most successful of any CAM
on the Peninsula. The camp was sue
cess notwithstanding the rainy weathe
? which prevailed during its existence. One
hundred and twentysiX persons professeC
conversion; of this number about Gl wer
reclaimed on the closing night Of the camp
when the meeting was kept up all night
Damages Againt Co,naty.-It is said tina
q the friends of DR.. Grice and daughter
!, who were recently drowned at Chesapeake
. City, will bring a suit for damages to til
= amount Of $4,000 against Cecil county, Of
f the strength of the verdict of the coroner
. jury, which was to the effect that the per
] sons drowned "came to their death fror
S accidental drowning, through the failure c
the commissioners of Cecil county to pre-
vide proper crossing over Back creek."-
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), Nd. oC DEL Ship Canoi-At the last Sc!
:. sion of Congress $4,000 were appropriate
Q for ship canal, between the Chesapeake
v and Delaware bays. The work Of maxim
:. | tho Ci1rvav hos bnau f,loood in tho ho op6S Z
i Col. Craighill under the charge of Majc
4 n. II. Hutton, of Baltimore, with Cap
d William II. Smith, engineer of Easton,
" his assistant. Capt Smith will have con
}. mand of the field operations. Surveys wi
v, be made of all the proposed routes an
If estimates Of the cost and availability
e. each, submitted to Col. Craighill. Parti,
,e will be put in the field next week. Majc
% Hutton and Capt. Smith are now passir
d over the lower route for the purpose of r
)f connoitering- Star.