Smyrna times., 1880-05-05
MARYLANn ITEMS.

,,uhtripp is already killing COWS in Cecil.
80 Pootb. of Cecil has 1000 square feet of potato
ort Island cow was killed by lightning last
Monday. .,oo
Ono trucker near Rockawalkng expects to plant 90
OOO hills of melons,
rno Rev Enmegabbowe, Chippewa Indian, has
me e,Issching nsF in Christ Church, Easton.
- po.,ord proposes to enlarge and otherwise
): iaI a. his cannery at Greensboro station.
T McCann, colored, will serve as juror at
:, axt session of the Carroll County Court.
nrLo Oromising young mare "Sade Bell of Cecil
Ihe hdn purchased from Manly Drennen by r. I. c.
Crouch.
mare belonging to A. H. Lord, Of Somerset
county recently gave birth TO three perfectly oeVei
oped colts
" Buseed, editor of the Observer, is President of
hO newly @ elected Board of Town Commissioners of
Centreyille
1ohn s Carroll of Round Top, recently killed bald
yn which measured six feet and a-half from tip to
tip of wings
e II. Leach recently travelled from Cambridge to
rston IN the distance being twenty miles bicycle
in two hours.
Tho State Teachers Association of this State, will
hs year hod their meeting ct Ocean City on the 9th,
Tth and Sth OF Jul!
rock fish weighing sixty pounds and measuring
four feet in length was caught at Oilers Hole on
the North East rNer'
,ttbe drawing of jury in Queen Anne's county,
last week names of coored men were put in the box
bnt none of them were drawn
coaral farmers in the vicinity of Ekton are break
an; Gronnd for sugar beets under contract with the
DeSware Sugar Beet Company
Tho bailiff of Salisbury threatens to arrest some
nnr ladies of thss town for riding their horses on
he street faster than the legal speed
There is maltese kitten in Elkton just weeks old
Cor which the eXtravagant price of Sl3 has been
oOaared bv gentleman feline tancler.
Corner Stone Ldying.-The corner stone of a new
Nethodist Protestant Chapel at Lynch's in Kent
county, was laid last Wednesday afternoon.
The local option election in Prince Georges county
ncSdav resulted in majority of SO against license.
The colored people voted solidly for license.
Psv lanes H. Lghtbourn, having received a call
20 church at New Milford Conn, has removed, with
his family from oxford Neck to that place.
About year ago little boy. son of Geo NJ Upshur,
ofSnow Hill swallowed some concentrated lye, and
was q fearful SUFFERER alteTWdrus, uhtlL 4tsI Week
when he died.
When the workmen were tearing away the walls OF
the vault of the Easton Bank gold dollar was found
embedded in the cement of the arch 1oO6s the date
upon the coln
note received to-day from Rev. VIM R. McFarlan
was carried here yesterday 10y 81 majority, Crisiied
was almost unanimous.
The harm stables and carriage house of DIR. Chas II
Rose at Chapel Talbot county, destroyed by fire
on Friday night. Two horses calf and two carriage!
were W. also destroyed by the flames
Many crabs have been caught in the Elk river as fa
up as Locust Point Their early appearance is attrib
Uted TO the mild Winter, it not being customary TO
them to visit this latitude before July.
David Howard colored, was arrested on Wednesday
last near Westover on the charge of arson. He Sc
fire TO barn belonging to Geo. b. Zell but it dis
covered and eXtinguished before much damage Wa
DONE
According to the latest reports of the Marylan
peach crop SasSafras Neck Millington and Sassafra
river sections will supply full crop. These section
embrace portions OF Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne
counties.
Oxo-i has one of the greatest curiosities of the da
til a boy So feet high who weighs 96 pounds an
II inches across the chest He is fat th
his cheeks lay on his shoulders and of his eyes
nearly closed on account OF flesh.
Dr. George r. Dennis of Somerset county, shippe
a lot of lambs last week to New York and got So
and S. apiece for them. The doctor says there wOul
be more profit i'll raising sheep in Somerset count
than any other stock if were not for the dogs.
Perhaps the oldest temperance society now existil
in the country is that Friendship, Caroline count
Organized in 1882 or 50 about the time when tempe
first began to be agitated on this Peninsula it II
been kept up until the present day-SuSSer Journal
J.H. T. Hubbard caught an old cannOn-ball in /
seine day last week. while fishing in the Chopal
below Dover bridge. The ball bore the date of 16C
the theory is that it was fired by Capt John Smith
the hostile ChOptank Indians about the year 1908
CriSfeld Leader.
Capt Sydney A. White left at our sanctum on Tu
day petriied oyster shell. weighing two pOun
which the captain informed us was taken from t
earth 60 feet below the surface, near the SUNNI
Bridge, on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. ST
posed to have grown there before the formation of Il
Peninsula.-SdtisbuTy AdprtiSer
Sunday School convention for Somerset Cou1
will be held in Princess Anne, commencing Frid
May 7th. at , P. NJ, and closing Sunday evening NJ
9Th 1880. under the auspices of the Maryland SunC
School Union. The Convention will be composed
pastors and superntendentS of all the Sunday Scho
In the county, and two delegates to be elected fr
each school.
Another movement toward building the ElktoT
MiddletOwn Railroad has been made by its friends.
certificate of Incorporation has been taken out un
the general law of the State by Jacob Tome lhOI
Drennen, John II. lamar, Henry II. Brady, r.
Mackall and William II. Gilpin. and by an act of
late legislature S5S000 heretofore appropriated to
ElktOn and Masseys road. was transferred to
EiktOn and Middletown.
Try II II naunr disannnints Dir R1ll,s Co