Smyrna times., 1881-06-22
Maryland Items.

Commencement at Washington College,
Chestertown, takes place July IL. -
Col. Joel Thomas has sold his farm near |
Ingleside, Queen AIMS county, to IL. A
Merrick for $4,000.
The hay crop in Cecil county, pronoun-
oed a failure a few weeks ago, is turning |
out finely after all.
The strawberry crop of Wicomico county |
sold for a fraction over 100000, of which |
the growers received little over half after |
paying all expenses, j. .&%
Mr.. VIM. McKenney of Centreville will |
realize this year about 10000 bushels OF
wheat from his various farms. Last. year
his crop was considerably over $1,000
bushels. - -
The President has decided that Mr..
Collins shall be left in the post office at
Chestertown, and that the commission of
Mr.. Hamilton made, out but unsigned,
he revoked szSssssl Ilasa. sss-sss7asss-s
! Thomas Scharf is soon to publish
history Of the Eastern Shore, with maps
and charts. The publication of the book
depends in part upon the number of sub
scribers obtained. ..- E9sTE 8.
Charles Spencer, colored, has beencOm-
mitted to await the action of the grand
Jury of Worcester county on the charge of
an attempted outrage on Mrs. Hetty
Groves, white woman.
Mr.. Isaac solomon has sold his farm,
Esperanza, ON the Patuxent river, in Cal
vert county, TO northern capitalists for
$4,000. 1T will be the terminus of the
SOuthern Maryland Railroad Company.
Mr.. Anthony Bell, of Baltimore, has
purchased the % Forest Farm 80 acres,
in Kent county, for $l4 4,034. J: I'll. Porter
has purchased 80 acres the Vanhorn part)
of the Clark farm, same county, for $2,OO3.
The Centreville Observer says The
wheat harvest is upon us and the prospect
for large yield was never better. The
growth of straw is not so large as last
year, but the heads are well filed with
grain
Mr.. Fish Commissioner Thomas Hugh
lett has hatched. and deposited in the
waters of the Eastern Shore this season
7,55O,0O0 young shad 8, ,s35 900 perch and
S,275000 herring, aggregating 19,66O,OOC
little fishes !
Bergh,s agent In Salisbury, for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to animals gives notice
that persons bringing chickens to marke
tied by the feet are subject TO fine of 5
for each offence. They should be put in
a crate, or basket covered with net work
Some of the people down the road d.
not seem to know the difference between
hen and a rooster The Salisbury Adrer
tiser says: Mr. Richard Hodgson, O
Delmar, has roosterywhich has laid sew
eral we'll formed eggs. A match egg-lay
ing is talked of among the sporting men
for 500 a side
The real estate of D. c. Blackiston, il
Kenteounty was disposed of at trustee
sale last week as follows: Davis's Industry
$50 acres. to ID. NJ. Cochran, for Sc, ,675
Willow Hill, y acres, to R. c. Johnson
for $500; Benson's lot, IL acres to ID. NJ
Cochran, for 1888; Home farm, 1S0 acres
to Samuel Hurlock, for $10,023; Fores
woods lots, $238-total, $21 $50.
Kirwin Lodge, No. A, 1. o. NJ, a
Oxford. Talbot Co., will give "Bi
Dinner on Monday, July 4, 1881, at
o'clock. Independent of solid and sui
staBtial Dinner, there will be attraction
Of a Slow Boat Race and Yacht Race o
the Tired Avon River, together with Othe
attractions. The object of the Dinner
to raise funds to aid in building Hall fc
Kirwin Lodge. sr
EARLY POTATOES, This week the pot;
to growers of the lower peninsula con
mence shipping their crop to New YOrl
Inc yield is large one and the JunctiO
Breakyater, BreakwateF & Frankfor
ssd@Woreester roads have been aFrangin
lOr It's transportation. They furnish tt
growers with barrels in which the potatO'
are packed and last week shipped fro
franklin City fifteen small vessels load
rney are also having made at FrankfOI
''OOO new barrels for the same purpose.