Smyrna times., 1885-07-29
MARYLAND Items.


to Baltimore for three cents per bushel.
Elon S. Hobbs, associate editor of the
Denton Journal was admitted to the
Annapolis bar on Tuesday.
Wye Camp commences August 4th
and continues ten days. Fifty or more
tent sites have been taken.
The only State officers to be elected
in Maryland this year are Comptroller
of the Treasury and Clerk of the Court
Of Appeals.
Y. p. Steele has purchased c. w.
Byrn's interest in the Caroline Demo
cadt and will hereafter conduct the
business alone.
Edward B. Emory, of Poplar Grove,
Queen Anne's county, got 354 bushels
of wheat to the acre on his tallOw, and
% on his corn ground.
The smallest yied of wheat so far as
we can learn is two bushels, from eight
bushels sowing. The party used two
tons of phosphate WicOmicO Record.
The authorities of North East have
purchased lot upon which they will
erect council chamber, and lookup"
for those who drink too much pear
cider.
Nearly $4,000 of the stock of the
new bank in ChestertOwn has been
| subscribed for; as soon as it is all taken
the stockholders will proceed to or
ganize.
The Kent county Republicans held
their convention on Tuesday and de-
termined to nominate no ticket ut
present. They will perhaps make a
ticket later.
The NJ. +. Church, South, of EastOn,
is to be improved. 1t has been minus
steeple for five or six years owing to
the effects of a heavy storm. The
proposed improvements will add much
to its present appearance.
Salisbury we think must be about rs
pleasant a place after night as there is
in the country. With all our hot wealth
er in the day, and even then the ther-
mometer has not been above 9O', the
nights are cool and pleasant, and the
sleeping is splendid.-RecOrd.
Walter H. Thompson & Co., of Eas-
/
on the Maryland peninsula, have sold
out to J.. r. FARRELL and NJ. b. Nichols
of that town. NJ. Thompson retires
to private life after an honorable busi-
ness career Of nearly fifty years.
William H. Council, the senior edi-
tor and publisher of the EastOn
Gazette, last Saturday announced his
retirement from journalistic labOrs, and
the severance Of his connection with
the newspaper he has worked on as a
boy and man, as printer and editor, for
40 years The Messrs. TylOr appeared
as publishers on Saturday morning.
The anti-bribery convention of Caro-
line county met at Denton, July 2lst,
and appointed committee of ten COM
posed of five Democrats and five Re-
publicans, with instructions that this
committee wait upon the county nOmi-
mating conventions of both parties and
urge the cause of clean elections be-
fore them. About 200 persons were
present, and the feeling was strong and
fairly unanimous.
Geo. w. Tyler's large steam oyster
and fruit packing house, built out on
I 1lsN - =
was totally destroyed by fire on Friday
night week. All the steam packing
house and about 81 800 worth of can
, ned goods were consumed. The steam
er Nellie White used room in the
building for a freight room, and a
small amount of freight was destroyed.
, The loss is estimated at $4,000, insur-
ance on building, machinery and goods
$500.
A curiosity in the way of hen egg
was sent to this Office this week by A
, Q. Hamblin. The egg, before being
! broken, weighed five ounces. After
/ the shell was broken, it was found tC
contain another egg inside, apparently
perfect, and of about the ordinary size
+ This is a popularity in hen eggs We
have never heard of before, and no one
seems ever to have seen anything lik'
+ it. We think this will beat the East
K ern Shore. ."-Er.
! A barn and stable belonging to Jos
VannOrt at ChestertOwn, was strucl
4 by lightning and set on fire on Tuesda,
n week. Both of ChestertOWn' engine
n were run down to the fire, and one 0
them was broken inside of five minutes
# In half an hour steam was gotten up il
the water-wOrks engine and two stream
of water put upon the flames, when tn
], building was nearly consumed. Blu
" the supply Of water was sufficient t
k prevent the flames from spreading an!
st further. The loss is about 5000. In
le sured in the Kent Mutual COmpan
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=. One of the most successful agricultul
"a lists in Dorchester county is q woman
10 a lady of superior business capacity q
- we'll as refinement and culture. He
fertile fields are always pointed out
the traveller as models of farming Th
es woman-farmer is Mrs. GOslin, residin
G. near Linkwood. She directs all the d,
m tails of the farm management ThOug
Sc drOughts or rains may come, her crOI
a never fail. She delights in her Occup;
nd ton. A wheat field of 900 bushe
h has Just been garnered by Mrs. GOslil
g and her peach orchard will net
e, many dollars. The corn field on I'll
er place is admired by all the cnunti
81 round, 50 promising is the growth
in Cambridge Chronicle.
Peaches.-Peach dealers and shippe
'A' | have been IN kenG during Jne wee
&c and a number of sales of orchards a.
res reported. James w. Chapman sold Il
II. crop on his farm near Lynch's at
~ cents per basket, the purchaser to fu
OF nish the baskets and the fruit is to
Il. delivered at WOrtOn Station. He W
les have between six and eight thOusal
or, baskets, mostly red fruit. Other {
re. chards in the same neighborhoOd ha
nd been purchased at similar prices, al
at they will be shipped by rail directly
Dol the Western markets.
There is some talk of the establis
no ment of fruit exchange at some &C
av tral point in the county, where buy'
raj will gather and purchase stock duri
ON the season and make shipments dir
nee to distant points, thus saying the del
&C. of water transportation and trans
he and the middlemen profits, and gvi
an the growers the advantage of selling
'ar' sbipDers direct. At Wyoming, De
vet ware, there is such an exchange a
ibe all the peaches in that fertile fruit $
Mr. ton are sold to great advantage there
for Peaches as well as corn are beginn
of to suffer for rain.
The New York dailies, which gr
49,, annually in their columns imme
'rui; 'ii; peach crops on this Peninsula, h'
Iieu Iie reduced their estimates from 1000,
,naV baskets to 100000. Should
afS. 1.o,,0bt oontinua the crOD NAV be