Smyrna times., 1878-07-03
MARYLAND ITEMS.

More than alfdozcn camp meetings viii be held
i'll Dorchester county this year.
At Marion station. in Somerset county, there were
over 5OOO barrels of potatoes shipped last week
Cambridge has 5000, of the late River and HarbOr
Bill grab 1t is to improve the harbor of the town.
Queen Anne's county, died suddenly at his residence
near Church Hill last Thursday.
Every sail vessel in Dorchester county is fitting up
and making all necdfu preparations for carrying the
wheat crop to Baltimore market
The county levy in Somerset county for the
year has been fixed at SGI cents on the 500, one
quarter of a cent more than last year
John W. Zimmerman fell under rcaping machine
near Buckeystown. and received terrible cuts about
the back and chest which will probably prove fatal.
Prof John G. Robinson of Baltimore the well
known EStey Organ agent has been giving series of
successful concerts lately in of the towns the
Eastern shore.
The wheat which is now being threshed out in the
Eastern Shore counties is generally yielding well,
though in some cases where the attacked it there
is light yield
a white girl, Il years Of age, daughter of John
White residing near fredericksburg whilst gathering
berries, attacked and outraged by colOred man
on Wednesday last. The man was a stranger.
The Centrcve Observer says it has been definitely
settled that the next session of the Methodist Proes
tant Conference shall be held in that town. The Con-
ference Will meet on the second Wednesday OF March
next.
Nc1o Cjtlolic Cllrch-The Catholics of Church Hill
and vicinity recently purchased the old Presbyterian
Church i'll that thriving town. and on Monday work
was commenced on the building which Is To be reno
waited.
On Wednesday evening last, about seven o'clock,
Ema NickcrSOn son Of William NickcrsOn, of SasSi-
fras drowned i'll Dreka's mill l-pond while bath
ing. The body was recovered about three o'clock
Thursday morning.
The Methodsts of Sudlersville have decided to turn
their old church into Sunday School room, ana to
build a new church in front connecting with the old.
The new Episcopal Church in the same town IS ap-
| preaching completion.
| A two year old child of Mr. F. Greenwood of Mil
| lngtOn. last Thursday swallowed q sleeve button,
which lodged in the gullet and prevented the passage
of food to the stomach He taken TO the city for
surgical treatment which was successfully accom-
plishcd.
! Eclcascd dnd Mturied-Mr. Shadrack Murphy and
| Miss Catharnc CoulbOurn who it will be remembered
were confined in Cambridge Jail for sometime, charged
with causing the death of coored girl released
| last Saturday and immediatly married by Rev.
| I. p Barber OF the Protestant Episcopal church.
The Wheat Crop in TalJot-Harvest was finished this
! week, and threshing begun. The yield does not
| promise to be a large one. Crops that have been
| threshed in this neighborhood average about ten
bushels of yield to one Of seeding, which is hardly
rcmunerative crop when grain is so lows. Nctacis
| Comet, Jttne 18th.
! Delaware Justice seems to have an admirer. Vir-
ginia by her new criminal code, which will become
ping posts to be established in each city and county
This does away with imprisonment for petty arcenies
except an second Ofensc. WeOught TO have similar
| law i'll this StatC.-hcIt NClCS
The Denton Journal says that Alexander Hardcas!lC
has 10000 baskets of peaches and that he has refused
offer Of $4,000 for them He says he has the bes
crop he has ever grown. In the same neighborhood
Mr.. :. j. Jarman, Mr.. y. 3. Roe, Mr.. II. c. Culbreth
Mr.. Robert Culbreth and q few Others have gOOC
crops but beth above and below this point the croI
is small and Of little account some growers not having
ing none at all. There is said to be Il few good or
chards between Henderson and Greensborough.