Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
MARYLAND Items.

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Chestertown has forty-six widows
and only six widowers.
A new building association is about
to be organized at Millington.
Ry petition to the county commits
sioners the Telephone Company has
been authorized to run lines to any
town in the county.
A telephone line between Preston
and Choptank, formerly MedfOrd's
Wharf, is being constructed, and will
be ia working order shortly.
Baltimore is to have canned goods
exchange. Possibly the project of the
Delaware Fruit Exchange has caused
the trade in Baltimore to bestir itself.
The Crisfield Ledger says that jam
aica ginger is frequently used there as
substitute for whisky, but the drug
gists of Crisfield will not sell it to those
who use it thus"
The season for catching oysters in
the waters of this State closes on the
10Th of April, except for small guam.
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borhOOd where caught.
A farmer near Lynche's Station has
all his wheat unthrashed and most of
his corn in the field unhusked, because
he will not pay the advanced wages
now demanded for labor.
Lively competition in Baltimore has
resulted in the reduction of the price
of gas to one dollar per thousand feet.
Not long ago Baltimoreans were pay
ing three dollars per thousand.
John Walton, white man of Church
Hill, Queen Anne's county, is under
arrest on the charge of an attempted
; criminal assault upon the year-old
daughter of John Neal, a farmer.
Col. Richard c. IIollylay, of Talbot
county, has written a letter for the
press in which he recommends reOr-
E ganiZation of the Democratic party as d
cure for discomfort now said to be eX
isting in the ranks.
The wheat fields of the lower East
ern Shore are said to look well, being
green and full all over. The winte
has been considered unusually hard
: the ground freezing and thawing at in
l tervals of about Uwenty-four hours al
winter long.
5 The family of Edward L. Garrison
5 of Chesapeake City, has been greatl
: afflicted with pneumonia for the las
Y two weeks. An aged aunt of Mr.,
= Garrison died about two weeks ago
Mrs. Garrison died Sunday week an
n a cousin of hers from Delaware, VIII
c came to nurse her, died on Wednes
r day week, and Mr.. Garrison on Thur.
: day afternoon.
Il Railroad Men PrOspecting.-Jerom
> Bradley, President of the Sussex Mic
q land Il. r., and Engineer Dorner VII
q tied Kent Island a few days since
= take their first look at the country an
. people, where they say they are to ru
;, the road, making their terminus some
! where on the bay. 1t is thought wor
on the road will commence sometin7
&c during the present year. The IslanC
A ers will receive them with open arm
~ Railroads Entitled to Damages Too
I'll BY a recent decision of Court of A
g peals of Maryland persons who
Is negligence permit their stock to tire
y pass upon railroad track are mad
u responsible for any damage done
40 the railroad cOmpany's property
te means of collision, &c. The case whiC
vi drew out this decision was one instit
T'GG ted by the Annapolis & Elkridge Ra
NJ road Company against farmer
CT Anne Arundel county whose cattle G
lp out upon the track of the railroad, al
III caused the almost total destruction
Vs. an engine and serious damage to Il
10 cars.
IN The dormant condition of pea
M buds at the present time is not ia
orable indication for crop of fri
this year. w. ID. Pennington, one
our practical peach growers, was
terviewed on the subject a few da
=. ago, and replied, 1 am not expecti
-" " a crop this year; will be thankful
III IN one. Our twenty thousand trees 10
4o W as thrifty as they ever have, but |;
~ " blooming has always proven a faill
Iil ;I with me. Frosts have always spoil
III III my peaches when they bloOmed lat
MM MM From present prospects peaches v
III bloom about May 10th.-SW PC
o1,l nr correspondent Chester'OWn Transcript
to Fires in Queen Anne's County.--1
cd. barn of DOminick Waldron, near Ha
the Cross Roads, Queen Anne's Coun
600 was destroyed by FIRE on Mond
400 Two horses, stabbed in the buildi
the perished in the flames. A five-ye
-ro- old boy started the fire for amusemC
evy Loss, 5000; no insurance. On
u0- same day and in the same height
ION hood the straw stacks, stables ;
adj granary of Lee Legg were burn
together with one hundred barrel:
ong corn and fifty bushels of wheat in
,k's granary. Mr.. Legg was burning
OILS dried weeds and grass off a field n
bill his stacks, and the fire got beyond
ap,, control, reaching the straw in spit
tied his efforts to head it off. He suceC
OF ed in removing his live stock from