Middletown transcript., 1878-04-06
MARYLAND MATTERS.

i Queen Anne's county farmers are planting
corn.
Eggs are worth only eight cents dozen in
Denton.
Queen Anne's county will vote on local op-
ton on the 23d instant.
Newtown is no longer Newtown, but POGO
moke City, Sir
The Cecil Whig says the fishermen along the
Elk River are catching but few herring. They
have been selling at 50 per hundred on the
shore
Bro. Haddaway, editor of the St. Michaels
Comet has been elected collector Of taxes for
Talbot county. Edit are generally poor
collectors, but they have considerable practice
in that line.
SALE OF REAL EsTATE.-Messrs. Mancha g.
Gibson, Real Estate Agents, sold last week
the farm of Miss Maggie Gafford, containing
Gs acres, to George Wilson, of Republic, Mich
igan, for $50 per acre also the farm Of G. H.
beaverton, containing l475 acres, to James
Strahan Jr., of Albany, n. Y, for 81, l85
cash. CentreUiHe Record.
Fishermen both in Queen Anne's and Caro-
line complain of the great scarcity Of fish On
the Tuckahoe creek the seines are doing very
little business, and fishermen there look dis
consulate People need not be afraid in visit
ing Caroline this season Of the proverbial sau-
ciness of the people in the spring. They are
not saucy this season. CentreuilIe Observer.
COMMITTED FOR RAPE.-Joseph Cooper, col
ored, aged about 80 years, was committed to
Jail in this place on Tuesday last, charged
with attempting to commit rape on white
girl named Sarah Bedwel, aged about 10
years, on Sunday morning last. The parties
reside in the first election district and the
young girl maintains an excellent character
Denton Union.
Mr.. Paist, residing few miles from Port De-
posit while at work in his garden with his
son few days ago, struck something hard
with his shovel, and upon digging it up found
it to be a decayed wooden box. 1t contained
SI8O-in $50 gold pieces, besides q quantity
Of silver and copper coins, bearing Did dates,
one Of them being stamped 1853. 1t is not
known how they came there nor by whom
they could have been buried.
ATTEMPTED BANK RoBBERY.-A Chestertown
dispatch to Every Evming, under the date of
April 4th, says An attempt to rob the bank
il this town was made on Tuesday night The |
robbers made a hole six inches square through |
the wall Of the building but before they could |
enlarge it sufficiently to effect an entrance,
they became alarmed at something and fed, |
leaving some tools, such as a hammer, a brace, |
bits &C., behind them. No clue to their iden- |
tity has thus far been discovered.
A duel was fought on Thursday Of last week |
in Northampton county, Eastern Shore of Va,
between Sidney Pitts and A. P Thomas, two |
young men of good families who had diff
Guilty and quarrelled about fence that sepa-
rated their farms. The weapons were pistols |
and the distance only six feet. AT the second |
round, Pitts fell with bullet through his
heart and Thomas received a bullet in his |
head and is thought to be fatally wounded
The above particulars are from the CFisfeld |
correspondent of Every Eceaing.
New CHURCH AT CECILroN. building
committee have contracted with Reynolds &
Bro, of Port Deposit, for the erection Of an
Er;zno,oI rbaDa1 ~ Coalition
agreed upon is So, 249, the committee to bear
the expense Of hauling. We learn that the
building is to be ornate and tasty, and will
add much to the attractiveness of the village
in which it is to be located. The purpose to
build was made practicable by the munifcence
of Col Alfred G Nowland, of New Castle,
Del, who donated the lot and subscribed, in
addition, a sum nearly equal to half the entire
cost of the structure Cecil Democrat.
The PEACH CRoP IN TALBOT Co.-The Eas-
ton Ledger says: Reports from all parts of the
Peninsula announce severe injury to the peach
crop by the cold of Monday week. In some
localities the loss was very heavy, and in 9TH
ers light. Taking an average Of the prospect,
we think there will, if no other disaster ensues
be medium crop. Some growers, however,
win be so unfortunate as to have none to sell.
a careful examination by three gentlemen Of
experience, on Tuesday last, of DR.. l. L. Ad-
kin's orchard near Easton, revealed the fact
that about half crop would be made if no
other disaster occurs. Every variety was ex-
amined. and from three to seven buds out of
every ten were found to be dead. The Chinese
Cling bore the freeze with the least injury, on
ly three out of ten being killed; the smocks
were injured the most, seven out of ten being
killed. This is about an average orchard,
some being more and some less exposed.
THE PEAcHEs.-A Cheering Report from The
Eastern Shore.-Considerabl contrariety of
opinion exists among our fruit growers as 10
the amount of damage done to the fruit by the
recent cold snap. While a few have lost all
hope, The opinion as gathered from a number
Of those engaged in the trucking business, who
have carefully examined their peach trees and
strawberry vines, several days after the cold
spell, and when its effects could be better de-
termined, would seem to indicate that the
damage is not so serious as was at first sup
posed They say that all of the peach buds
from which the blossoms had blown were de-
stroyed, and, judging from their own orch
ards, the number so destroyed did not amount
to more than one-third Of the entire crop. This
view is very likely a correct one, as il viii be
remembered that a high wind prevailed on the
evening preceding the freeze, sufficient to dry
the buds and put the protected germs cut of
danger Should the loss be no greater than
estimated, the growers will be rather benefited
than otherwise, as they have frequently, in
previous years. lost about as much by over
production as by scarcity of this fruit As
regards Strawberries, the general impression is
that those of most advanced growth have been
destroyed, and that the season will thereby be
delayed several days later than usual. Upon
the whole it would seem, that, unless we are
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