Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
MARYLAND Items

Rev. A. II. Lightbourne. of Easton
has returned from California triD.
The EastOn Methodists will " excurt''
to the Philadelphia Zoo on the 10th OF
thismOnth.
Mrs. Ann Hughey and Mrs. Michael
Holland, both residing in Queen
Anne's died suddenly, last week.
A prominent farmer near Massey.
Cross Roads, ran two self-binders in
hIs harvest field all day last Sunday.
1t will take $4,000 from the Cecil
county treasury to repair the the dam
ages to bridges and roads By Thurs
day. storm.
George N. RussOm, Esq, leading
member Of the Caroline county bar
VIII edit the Denton Union during the
Presidential campaign.
900 reapers and selfbinders were
used to harvest the 5000 acres of
wheat in Queen Anne's this season and
the yield IS estimated at 100000 BUSH
els-2OO,OOO less than last year.
Governor McLane has signed the
death warrant of Bug" Cephas, cou-
Ficted in Dorchester county Of the
murder Of Mrs. Celia Bush NIurphv
hxmg Friday, August 1st, ~ the date
of execution.
1t is expected that the lines of the
overland Telephone and Telegraph
company OF Cecil county, CONNECTING
the towns and villages Of that county
with Baltimore, will be finished dur
ing October next.
About 100 men are at work on the
extension Of the Peninsular railroad TO
Nherrystone and are pushing il ut the
rate Of one mile per day. Forty miles
nave been completed and the road
VIII be finished in September.
The Chestertown Transcripi. CON
tains number of protests from Kent
county peach growers against the
MoIdlng of the Baltimore Oriole during
the peach season this year. It states
INA. very great loss was OccasiOned
III mat county alone during l8S2-83.
Mrs. p. VI. Jerman is visiting at J .
1Ailen MoOre's' Her presence in the
muse makes curious grouping. Her
name Is Mary and her daughter, grand
"aughler and great-grand-daughter
under the same roof are named Mary
ana az neither Of the four generations of
Press.
AZ the sale Of the real estate Of the
ia'e W. Il. Massey, at Greensborough,
~ 'a' thursday, Joseph Brown, OF
Queen Que Anne bought the judd farm,
~ acres, at $26 per acre; NJ. Hooper
NIay bought the twenty-six acre lot
az uJoinlng GrcensborOugh for 81 600.
ana William G. Satterlield the town
dwelling for $76j. Marblehead farm
Union. ''0" "''' '''
during a drunken fight in a grog
IInop near Salem, Dorchester county,
ipo1ween IhOs. II. Webster and his
niiotnler-ln-law, John Short, Monday
nilsnt, the former drew a revolver and
ngI LaT snort through the head. The
@ o.''l entered just above the left eye and
"ut under the right ear, inhicting
n wound which IN all likelihood will
'lEe natal The shooting is attributed
'he Intoxicated condition Of both
ny rIh as there is no other motive for the
'''''e' 50 far as can be learned.
viii VIII large gray eagle, one Of a pair
a MN MN ior many years past had hatched
nas, Osood on an old tall dead tree in that
Vs. u bohemia Manor known as
the thOGeon, aud had become a terror to
',a,: Sas farmers for distance Of some
tbs tb'.s5 +. around that place, on account Of
tbsiu epredatiOns they committed upon
did poultry and sheep folds (for they
cbieLos sernple TO carry Off lamb If
was wNsnS IIS could not easily be found,
51llled BY ex-sheriR William Il.
Itme"au az his farm at Locust Point.
to tinSsiifed tiSSSufed nearly seven feet from tip
ledger. 1's'Fe1ehed wings.-sastoR