Smyrna times., 1883-09-12
Maryland Items.

During August five farms in Talbot
county, containing from so to 2I5 acres
each and in all 337 acres, were sold for
$25,S00.
The 500 or 600 canning houses in
Hartford county have all been opera
ting on sugar corn, the tomato crop |
being late.
The product of the canneries and
evaporators in the town of Greensbor-
ough this season, says the Free ITesS,
will be worth 100000.
VIM. D. Tarbutton, Justice of the
Peace at CrumptOn, Queen Anne's
County, died recently of heart disease
while walking in his garden.
The growing corn throughout Cecil
county, says the Democrat, looks so
well that it is the opinion Of cOmpe-
tent judges the present crop will exceed
any heretofore raised in this county.
By the will of the late Rev. Green
bury w. Ridgeley he leaves his property,
valued at from $4,000 to $4,000 in
trust, naming his son, w. S. Ridgely,
ESQ, and his son-in-law, Il Mr.. Howard,
of Baltimore, as trustees.
The Journal u Democratic newspaper
of Denton, Caroline County, says that
aside from politicians, Otfice-hOlders
and Office-seekers, four-iifths of the
Democratic party of the county hear
tily indorse Governor Hamilton's Off
cial course.
The Easton Ledger says that rail
birds have made their appearance in
the Choptank marshes; that the indi-
cations are that cartridges will be nu-
merous this season; that wOOdcOck
have not been abundant, while robins
and dove have.
Colonel +. Carroll Goldsborough, of
Talbot county, has flock of Oxford
shire sheep, the first of this breed ever
brought into the State, it is said. They
number ninety, including lambs. Mr..
Goidsborough receives $50 for eve
lambs, and $50 to $50 each for ram
lambs.
The design for the monument - the
memory of Majur General tins baron
Dekalb, to be erected in Annapolis
has been approved by the Secretary OF
State, who, by the act Of February -
1883, making anappropriatiOn Of$l0,00C
is given the management and cOntro
of the monument.
l The fredericksburg Courier has dis
covered that the tramp has Il scent 70
whiskey pretty nearly as keen as tina
r of the hazard Tor cdrriun. 1t says
I've notice that all towns in Whicl
Whskry is sold are bothered will
! l. Isl
:. Local Option communities are entirel.
i free from them.
Something Netr in IOmdtOcS.-S. n
n HYDE, of Long Green, Baltimore county
r who has done SO much to develop gar
!, den produce to the highest possibilities
r seems to have made still another ste
a in the cultivation of the tomato. Iii
y latest is called the Maryland Wonder
e They are smooth, fiat and firm, and a
a improvement even on the Trophy Vi
riety, for which his gardens have bee
well known heretofore. Mr.. Hyde
If so well satisfied with the Marylan
r Wonder that he offers to give hun
i1e dred dollars to the poor of Baltimol
for Il showing by any one in the Unite
States of as good tomatoes as the ne
Ii. variety.
a. GrOwing Scarcity of Oysters in ii
i Chesdpedke.-The Canned Goods Z.
!" change, of Baltimore, recently distri
utcd circulars through the tide-watC
L counties Of Maryland and Virgin
m asking replies to the questions wheth
- the supplies ofOysters was diminishir
and, if so, what was the cause and Il
! Il
received all of which were to the eflt
that the supply was rapidly diminis
ing throughout the whole area Of Il
Chesapeake bay and its tributaries al
that some remedy must be found
= once. Nearly all the parties WI
. answered the circulars agreed in Il
opinion that the causes of the troub
are the distribution of spawn but tho
who operate under the law allOwi
five bushels of oysters day to
i taken by each planter, the removal
n such oysters to Northern waters, al
n the theft Of oysters all night by vcss,
= which then sail away into free waite
- to escape detection and there q
d them, thus sacrificing all the seed.
TO this way the law is causing precise
'e what it intended to preventive
c. structiOn of seed oysters. 1t is We
I. evident that the oyster laws are Ian
= somewhere. This thieving OF oystt
n in forbidden waters is carried on cxtC
h. sively in the Chesapeake, notwithstm
Sc ing the fact of Oyster Police Sloc
ID that are sailing down the bay. r
1e dredging boats have a regular set
~ signals to warn one another when
id police sloop is in sight, and as the Il
Id requires that they shall be taken
ic forbidden waters with oysters on tn
ur decks, they have only TO sail into Fl
- water before the slOop arrives. 7
~ committee of the Canned Goods ]
nd change which has the subject unt
cd consideration hopes to be able to OF
of an efficient substitute for the la
-, under which the oyster supply is IL
IN IN rapidly diminishing.-SeGjord Ent