Smyrna times., 1891-07-22

Several orchard ha been bought
by Lamotte & Co, jn At county at
40 cents per basket monR The num-
Der is that of Mr. Clay Lnsby's on
Judge J. A. Wickes larph
VIM. Temple, of Queen Anne's who
has been a student at St. Mary Semi
nary, Baltimore, viii 20 to Rome next |
fall and finish his studies there. He is
being educated fer the priesthood.
The peach crop abont Galena will be
cut short At least one one third, SO say
the peach growers, From the appear
ance of Che trees pow the peach grow
ers say they are prematuringvery badly
indeed.
C.J. Collins on Burhcinal's wharf is
preparing to make baskets. de ex-
poets to begin operation next Tuesday.
The capacity Of the factory IS lO,OUO
a day 9hat IS if sufficient hands can
be secured.
Gov. Biggs took a ear load OF peaches
to New York Tuesday OF last week TO
test the aEctiOn scheme and says he
has enough. He cleared ten cents
basket, while other fruit brought sixty
and seventy cents.
The home farm of DIR. William ].
sudler, near Sudlersville, Queen Anne's
county, was purchased at public auc-
ton. by c. J. Sudler, at $50 per acre,
and the Knock farm by Joseph E.
George at $60.30 per acre. Both
farms are highly improved, and ad
Joining the town.
4 Heavy IieId.-The Cecil Wing
says "Mr. M. Jones on the Landing
farm reports so far the highest yield of
wheat this year, it being 258 bushels
from six acres, being an average of 43
bushels to the acre, and on Is acres in
Guiding the six reported, a yield of
756 bushels, or an average of 40 BUSH
els per acre.
At Still Pond, Md, on Wednesday,
the WOman's Christian Temperance
Union, of Kent county, held its sixth
annual convention, which was largely
attended from Delaware as well as
Maryland, Resolutions were adopted
in favor of prohibition, local, state and
national; also deprecating the saloon
influence in politics.
Fruit at AuctiOn.-A new fruit eX-
change was opened in Philadelphia
with an extensive sale at auction OF
two carloads of California fruit and %, :
500 boxes of oranges and lemons from
Mediterranean ports. The prices OBJ
tanned were very good. Much of the
fruit from Italy had a "pedigree"
duly set forth in an illustrated cata'
lOgue.
4 Threshing Disaster.-A threshing
accident occurred on the threshing yard
of Edward WoOdall, near LambsOn'.
Station, Md, ON Tuesday. 4 stack OF
straw caught fire, and in about five
minutes the straw, the machine
stacker and the spOkes from one of the
thresher narrowly escaped. Forum
ately, the wind set in an opposite direc
tiOn.
HeaUv LOss.-We heard of several
cases of the loss of poultry but that o
Mrs. Stewart Mathews several day
ago was the worst that has come tC
our knowledge. A fox or foxes made
a raid on her hen-hOuse and killeC
about one hundred chickens!
1t was but recently that a fox go
into Mr.. Greenwood's poultry on tn
DR.. Thomas farm, and carried OF
twenty young ducks.-Kent NelOs.
Biz Work at Thre8hing WheGt.--JOhi
E. George, residing at SudlersVille ha
, a threshing rig that passes any thing Q
the kind in our county. One evening
, last week he began threshing at about
O'Clock and before sun set had threshe,
600 bushels of wheat 1.-THE entire Gro
of the farm) and moved to anothe
farm. He has this season thFesheC
22OO bushels in one day. VIM. BOylei
; on the Cedar Dale farm thrashed 24O
!, bushels in less time than one an
y one half days.-ObseTUer.
In reply to the demand of the Farm
!, ers' Alliance to have a majority of all
= ance men on the primary ticket {
= both parties, the Caroline democrat
;, executive committee say they have 4
J power either to accept or reject such
!, demand, and that to comply would /
- to attempt to forstall the unknow
10 wishes of the people. They sugge
that all the democratic alliance me
10 take part in the primaries and by the
of votes and efforts secure the nOmin
- tiOns they wish.
~ Worrying the Elevator Conductor.
70 The decoration of elevators has bt
Ie come quite an art in some of the dow
re town Office buildings. One of the pic
ID heers in this work has transformed a
as elevator in the New York Life buildin
&? into a sort of japanese bower. He say
at he has to spend most of his life ther
st and believes in softening the asperiti'
Ve of labor with attractive surrounding
While he easily holds the lead in tn
sort of finery, others of his kind ha'
" done very well. The nabOb of ol
S- | cobOoea douyn town who Is alWa1