Smyrna times., 1880-07-07
MARYLAND ITEMS.

year, were S95,5ooUO.
The new paper mill at Easton will soon
be ready for operation.
The population of Easton is 1920, an in.
crease of 9l0 since 1870.
The population of Elkton foots up 1,75l,
falling off since the census of 1870.
The Elkton Building Society disposed of
$1,000 on Monday night for premium Of
rs cents.
Edward Cheers, colored, ST years of age,
has resided in the same house near Centre
vile for 76 years.
The next annual fair of the Kent county,
Agricultural Association will be held on the
18th, 18th and 10th of September.
The workmen at the Westamwell iron
works. which have been idle for some time,
will resume work on Monday next.
The Rising Sun, Cecil county, Banking
Company will shortly organize under the
National banking law as the National Bank
of Rising Sun.
Some of the peach growers of Sassafras
Neck commenced shipping the early varle-
ties to Phiadelp phia last week. They sold
for high prices.
Cecil county gets $2,9594S for white
schools and $542.97 for colored schools out
of the school tax recently distributed by
the Comptroller.
DR.. J. II. Frazer on the first of September
proposes to start a new paper in Elkton, to
be known as the Cecil County NclcS. 1t will
be Independent in politics.
Capt David Evans, of Chestertown, went
fishing for perch, in the Chester river, on
Saturday, and caught seaturtle weighing
one hundred and fifty pounds.
The crab canning establishment at Oxford,
is said to be idle, the demand for the can
ned goods not being brisk. Customers
prefer the fresh crabs to those in cans.
The managers of Woodlawn camp meet.
ing, near Port Deposit, have decided to
devote one day, the first Friday of their
meeting, to the cause OF temperance.
Congress Hall, Ocean City, has been en-,
larged, greatly improved and refurnished;
and is now under excellent management.
Mr. j. Harry Goodwin will occupy the Office
this season.
Elkton and vicinity has not been favored
with good old fashioned rain for many
weeks, III consequence of which the potato
garden vegetables but little better.
A wheat field in Sassafras Neck which
was invaded by the army worm in full force
has turned out about thirty bushels to the
acre. There WAS not beard or blade to tie
seen, indicating that the worms had done
their work well.
Mr.. Daniel Collins, oi pI.Alvss Anne, has
contracted with DreXel, of New York, to
make about one hundred and fifty thous.
and bricks for the new village to be built
in Worcester county, about eight or ten
miles from Pocomoke City.
Oakland Camp meeting commencing
Friday July 23d, cordial invitation is
hereby extended to brethren of the minis
try to attend and to the people of adjoining
charges to tent with us on the ground. j.
+. SMITH, Preacher in charge.
Morris Dunbar Is the owner of one OF the
.most precocious heifer calves that ever
lived in this part of the county. 1t is not
quite five months old yet, nevertheless is
giving milk and sucking younger calf that
pastures in the same tield.-EZkton Whiq.
The Free Methedists of the Phiadelphia
District, New York Conference, will hold
their annual camp meeting, in the grove
used Iy them last year. situated two mile.
northwest of North East, on the Por
Deposit road, the said meeting to com
mence on August 18th, and continue on,
week.
hIled.-A colored man named William
Wright was run over and killed while asleel
on the railroad bridge, at the county line O
Somerset and Wicomico counties, on Tues
day morning last by the early train, up Of
the Eastern Shore Railroad. The enginee
saw something lying on the bridge an
Thought 1t was dog, until it was too lat
20 reverse his engine. Wright had bee
drinking at the time.
The crab business at Crisfeld is larg
one. One firm in the place ships from so
to 900 dozen every week. They hav
twenty large boxes in which to shed thei
crabs, and several person are employed b
the firm in catching" peelers." When tn
crabs are caught they are placed in thes
shedding boxes and are visited everymornin
and night, and from five hundred to on
thousand soft crabs are taken out at eac
trip and prepared for shipment to cit
markets.
The oldest person found in this part
the county by the census enumerators
elizabeth Thompson, of the 2nd distric
she is a native Of Ireland, is % years of az
ant hearty enough to be employed washin
dish,'s when her domicile was visited by tn
enumt Tator.-CecH Democrat Her paren
should L'uard against her being so constan
ly emplo, ,'ed in washing dishes as to fin
her unpre pared when such an importai
person as .'he census enumerator com
around We suppose her grandmother
dead We can easily beat this and have
least ten years 1 spare.
Burnedto Dcah.. On Tuesday of last wee
Mrs. Emelia A. .Nunford, wife of WI
Mumford, of Popla. town, while in fit
is supposedly fell into the fire, and befo
assistance came she was so badly burn
about the head and fac G that death ensu
Immediately. 1t seems that the hired W
man was out milking the COWS at the tim
Some one passing happened to smell t
burning hair and person Of Mrs. NJ, al
stepped into the house, but too late to re
der any assistance. She was about 60 yea
old and in good circumstances. She h
been afflicted with fits recently.
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