Smyrna times., 1880-06-23
MARYLAND ITEMS.

Gen. Garfield is relative by marriage of F. A.
Ellis, of Elkton.
From half to threefOurths of crop Of peaches is
anticipated in Cecil county.
The Kent & Queen Annes railroad cleared 81. .s67
during the year that closed with May.
DR. George R. Dennis has been reelected president
of the Eastern Shore Railroad Company.
John NJ. Collins, residing near Centreville has a
variety OF peaches that are ready for market.
The Courier says drunken man in Fredericksburg
would be as great curiosity as baby elephant.
Mr.. Ruth. carpenter in Centrevile, has recently
fallen heir to an estate in Wilmington valued at Aoout
$1,000.
apple crop promises to be unprecedented IN yleu ana
quality.
Louis Boulden. of Cecil county had horse for
which he had refused 5000 gored to death Dy Dull
last week
Prof VIM. Fl. Dashiell of the Crisfield High School,
Europe this Summer
At Chestertown, last Sunday Bishop Becker admin
istered the sacrament of confirmation 10 cass ol ~
in the Catholic Church.
The Agricultural Society of Caroline county will
hold their annual fair at Bethlehem on the l4th 10Th
and 10th of September next
Talbot county farmers are not at all sanguine Of
good wheat yield when the threshIs teS' cones Inc
best estimates are two'thirds OF crop.
The census Just taken shows the population of Cen
.-av;iIe as 90 nm Increase of 295 since 1876 The
gain between 1860 and 1870 was only 6l.
The Sunday School of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Centreville will make an excursion to
bombay Hook on Thursday, the LIST of July.
Miss Clara Goodwin. a charming young lady. of
Crumpton died of typhoid fever ON Friday last She
was about % years old, and general favorte.
Dr. William G. Smith, who graduated with honors
from the Pennsylvania Dental College succeeds his
father DIR. VIM. I. Smith, deceased ofsalisbury.
The centennial of Methodism in Dorchester county
is TO be celebrated at Cambridge Aug Is, on which
occasion of the leading ministers OF the church
will be present.
Rev j. P. Otis and family left CentreviLe last Mon
Slay for Northern New Jersey, and Ocean Grove. The
CONGREGATION have given vacation OF several weeks
% recruit his health.
15o,, Cor Hamilton Nils Potato Bugs.-Governor
uamiItOn saws that he has cleared atweve-acre field
Of potato bugs by attaching small brushes to either
side the plOw which he used frequently IN the crop
The hing is brushed off and buried and by frequent
blowing is reburied, if it manages to exhume itself
lie uses no Paris green.
Edward Prtchett. a young man of Denton, some
ays ago acted as bearer at the funeral of
who had died from the effect of fall from window
Pritchett wiped the face Ofthe corpse with handker
chief which he afterwards used upon his own face.
His head being swollen to such an extent that his
eyes closed. His condition considered very pre-
cartous.
BY Friday nights fire. The steam saw. planning and
Touring mill of Richardson, Moore Il Co caught fire
early in the evening and in three hours had been
totally destroyed. One million feet of lumber and
large quantities of grain were burned The Salisbury
Fire Department arrived at midnight and subdued
the flames which the citizens had been fighting des-
perately for hours The loss is about s25OO0 no in
surance.