Smyrna times., 1888-08-01
MARYLAND Items.

Concord camp will commence Friday.
The watermelon growers of Wicom-
leo county made their first shipment
this week.
The Republican Congressional Con-
vention Of the First District will be
held in Centreville August 9Th.
Rev. J. B. Quigg, of North East, and
Rev. Isaac Jewell, of Rising Sun, will
visit Brandywine Summit campmeet-
ing.
A corps of engineers under charge of
J. ". Tharp are at work on the Bay
side Division of the Baltimore and
Eastern Shore r. R.
Mrs. Ann Dunn, mother of F. NJ.
Dunn, of Dover, Del, departed this
life at her daughters residence at Den
ton, Sunday, July 22d.
Rev. T. E. Martindale, of Salisbury,
left for Clifton Springs, n. Y, on Mon
day. to ioin his wife and daughter, and
to spend vacation of some weeks.
Finley Roberts, of Sudlersville, has
sold his entire crop of peaches, which
will aggregate about 1000 baskets, to a
northern buyer for 35 cents a basket,
delivered at the depot.
The annual pOny-penning on Chin
| colleague Island will take place about
| the 18th of August. The occasion this
season is expected to be the most inter
esting and numerously attended for
many years.
A decision as to the cause of the col
lision between the yacht Clean and the
steamer .Joppa, in which I. Harrison
! Garrett lost his life on June 9TH, was
rendered Yesterday by the Baltimore
hoard of steamboat inspectors. Cap
tain Frank Torrey of the Clean was
found guilty of unskilled navigation
and his license as master and first class
pilot was revoked.
The Elkton Fair catalogue for the
fair of 1888 has been issued. 1t u
filed with interesting news for exhl0'
itors. and fully 80 special premiums nj
its pages. The work was done By th'
Cecil Whiq, of Elkton, and is neat u
design and workmanship. The nintl
annual fair promises to eclipse al
former exhibitions, and the dates VIII
be Oct. ID, Sd, 4th and 9th.
The canneries and evapOratini
houses. It is feared, will make corne
on the ChestertOwn cook market. In
average cook is held by uncertain tie
at most times. but when the peach es
|. tabIishments offer the inducement ofal
: everyday campmeeting, in addition t.
tho monetary considerations, man,
Cbestertown families will find som
fine morning, the cook flown, an
/ breakfast a thing of misty uncertainty
Transcript.
During a game Of base ball Saturda
week between the Kennedyvllle an
q T.ocust Grove clubs quite serious az
a cident occurred in the ninth innini
= Svbich disabled Clarence Hayes, OF u
1 T.ocust Grove club, and Harry Fauli
!, ner of the Kennedyville club, neith'
~ vhom were able to continue th
game One with fractured and Dadl
i 6~1ised nose. the other with sevel
\ concussion Of the side and breast. Fo
d tunately DR.. ]. X II. JACOBS was
:. hand and was quick TO administer u
e necessary remedies.
= Easton's Handsome CelebratiOn.-Ti
: centennial celebration at Easton la
. Thursday Of the creation Of the TOW
q under its present name by act Of a
sembly was handsome AFFAIR renTS 1,i
inc oreat credit on its citizens. ~
N nrogramme comprised an intereslil
: ! eentertainment BY school children
" the courthouse green, the reception
at lord Baltimore and his retinue, PI
= eession Of military and civic organic
= tions and a trades display, and an o.
4 tion by Gen. Bradley 7. Johnson;
az parade was one Of the largest ana nn'
II tbat has ever been seen on the Easte
= shore. and some Of the floats were We
N elaborate and handsome. Inc to'
"a was gay with flags and bunting q /,
= handsome arches, and altogether I
"a dav was one that will be long rene
- - beyed IN the thriving and enterprise
Of town once the capital Of the Easts
Shore"