Smyrna times., 1885-07-15
MarNIand Items.

The Talbot county wheat crop of
1885 shows that the estimated yield
will reach Is bushels to the acre.
William NJ. Ruark's steam grist mill
at Westover station, Somerset county, |
burned July 9th. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance, 81 900.
The children of the late Rev. Henry |
COlclazer have erected to his memory Il
neat and substantial monument in Cam
bridge cemetery.
A Dorchester county Methodist is
opposed to camp meetings, on the
ground that wheat is too cheap to en-
able farmers ''tO have such frOlics."
The Maryland Branch of the Nation
al Temperance League has issued an
address to the people of the State de-
claring the movement nOn-partisan.
Walter Blackson, a three-year-old
son Of John Blackson, who lives about
five miles north of ElktOn, was run
into by reaper on Wednesday on his
fathers farm and had both of his legs
cut 50 badly as to necessitate amputa-
ton.
The Segar's Woods Camp meeting
near Millngton, will commence on
August 18th, and continue until the 25th
inst Mrs Emma Hurt of Milling
ton, well known to many in this section,
will have boarding tent as has been
her custom for some years.
w. w. Busteed, senior member of
! the firm of w. w. Busteed & Bro, pub
fishers of Centreville Observer, has sold
his interest to +. Suder Roberts and
G.. Clinton Roberts. G. A. Busteed, the
Junior member of the old firm, will re-
tain his Interest in the paper. The
editorial department will be conducted
by c. \. Busteed and T. Sudler Rob
erts.
Howmd Cooper Lyached at ToUsOa By
Masked Men-IIOward Cooper, the
negro man convicted of committing q
felonious assault on the 2nd of April
on Miss Kate Gray about 6 miles from
TOwsOntown. Baltimore county, and
under sentence of death since his trial,
was taken from the Baltimore county
Jail by masked men early last Sunday
morning, and hanged him on a tree Il
few yards from the Jail The delay in
the execution of Cooper was caused by
} his council taking the case to the
= Supreme Court of the United States
but the friends of the outraged lady
were not disposed to allow the delays
of the law to cheat Cooper out of JUS
tice. The case was a most outrageous
one, and he has but received his JUS
? deserts.
The Easton star says "There is no
c the least danger that the J. +. MOwbra.
: scandal will swerve the Peninsula from
B. the fast land Of Pennsylvania, and sent
5 it, like an iceberg, on southern tou
r to the gulf stream, neither will on
O preacher less in the Wilmington Con
e ference, even if did get out rather tha
II accept trial, stop the onward marc
O Of the NJ. +. Church on the Peninsula
5. Mr.. Mowbray may be the hero of a
t. hour, but his glory will not survive
few months, without he meets and rC
flutes the serious charges preferre
against him before he surrendered h
Le parchments and retired to private lif
N lie is "A smart fellow, but his mOralit
e. is not Of that solid kind to entitle hi
a, to place in the Christian ministry.
q. Col. Fred Gerker, the lessee of ii
n Baltimore & Delaware Railroad Bon
IN ba Hook & ChestertOwn rOad) has bee
C. appointed collector Of internal TeVenl
he for the first Pennsylvania distriC
in The appointment is said to be one
IL the most popular ones the President h
)n vet made Of internal revenue collector
.e. lie has bonded in the sum of $4,000
'al five men being his bOndsmen, three
Or whom are Republicans and TWO Dem
he Gratis. Col. Gerker has also been a
IS pointed custodian of the pOstOfii
building Of Philadelphia and will
obliged to give security in addition
lth the S24O, 900 in two bonds, one of 81
ETY. 600 for the dispensing of salaries, u
on the other of $35, 900 as security in
ND capacity of custodian of the buildil