Smyrna times., 1883-03-28

Rev. E. L. Hoffecker who was trans
ferred to Indiana from the Conference
at Cambridge is stationed at Washing
ton, Daviess County.
Farmers of Talbot county. are
getting their hands for farm work from
Castle Garden, New York. German
emigrants are readily secured when
the proper effort is made.
George w. Lockwood, Cecil County,
has just completed fish pond, 60 by
200 yards, on one of his farms near
Warwick, and has deposited therein
two lots of young German carp.
w. S Goslin, of Caroline county,
challenges the farmers of the whole
county on the yield of corn of a four
acre patch. He makes no conditions
as to soil, cultivation or fertilizers. but
the winner is to have both crops.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Rail-
way did not pay expenses last year by
$l6,111.18. But it carried large
amount of freight and passenger money
into the treasury of the Delaware and
p. w. & b. roads, which more than
made up the loss to the owners
| EdstOn Star.
! The residents of Caroline, Talbot and
Dorchester counties, have numerously
signed petition asking the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company to establish a
line of steamboats, from Oxford and
Cambridge to Baltimore. The pur-
chase of the steamboat GeOrgiannG by
the railroad company is denied.
Samuel Hurlock, of Cecil county,
has COW that has produced him four
calves within thirteen months. Mr.
III. is wonderfully successful in the
business of raising stock. He sold veal
calves last year to the amount of 500
and will have 60 calves for sale this
year. His sales from his calves, sheer
and wool last year aggregated him
$1,70O.
Young Fish DiStributed.- Mr.. Thomas
Hughlett, State Fish Commissioner
has recently distributed 10000 young
trout and white fish in the waters O
the Eastern Shore and in Anne Arundlt
and Howard counties. Considerable
f distributions of carp have also beer
made. Mr.. Hughlett says some fin,
carp have been found in Miles river,
salt water stream, where he placed
them, which goes to prove that the,
thrive in running salt water as we'll a
in fresh water ponds.
A mortgage of $1,65O,0OO, of whic
+ the Union Trust Company of NeN
: York is trustee, has been made by tn
New York, Philadelphia & NOrfol
Railroad, the proposed line on tn
Peninsula, from Delmar, UiG Pocomok
: City, to Cherrystone. The money is t
= be paid at the rate of $26, 500 per mill
/ as the construction work is done. A
: additional $1,000000 of income bono
v will also be issued, which will make
= total bonded indebtedness of 50, $500
i The length of the line will be about
miles.
. Captain L. d. Crew, living ne:
It Stanley, Kent county, left home {
q Sunday in company with his wifi
Q Their five children were in charge of
cOlored woman. The children amus(
themselves by playing in the hay lO
lr and, it is supposed, carried match
IN with them. The hay was set on fiji
G. and soon was beyond all possibility
m control, even if there had been an
body to make the attempt at cOntro
ing it. The oldest three of the childr
n, in a panic of fear rushed to windC
p and jumped out, leaving the t'
~ younger children, aged respectively
~ and years, to the horrible fate
being burned alive. The barn, wi
g, the two children in it, was burned
~ cinders.