Smyrna times., 1894-07-11
Maryland Items.
The gowing crops around Norfolk ney
looked more PROMISING

The gowing crops around Norfolk never
looked more promising.
The Ledger, Easton taken a new. lease
on life and its editor has associated his son,
Arthur f. with him.
Messrs. p. B. Darrell, VIM. and Allie
M. Culp rode from Smyrna to Chester
town a distance of % miles, in less than
four hours.
A Chestertown man so years old has
never seen a wedding ceremony. lie gives
as his reason that he has too much SYM
pathy for the men.
The peninsula is being flooded with lot |
lery tickets. A well-known Kent coun- |
tian is the latest to receive package with
a request that he sell them.
Fourth of July Races at Poplar Grove
was attended by about 1900 people. 1t was
a great reunion of friends and race lovers
from Queen Annes, Kent, Caroline and
Talbot.
As usual the greatest crowd was at Toll
! chester. on the 4th, the number from Balti-
more being placed at 1900 from Queen
! Anne's $500, and from Kent 5000 making
total of 8, 500.
The first tramp of the season made his
appearance in Chestertown last week. he
| walked from Smyrna to Chestertown in
nine hours. He has visited Kent every
summer for the past five years.
The base ball game played on the Sud
lersville grounds between Hartley and
combination of Sudlersville and Church
Hill was complete victory for the latter
towns. The game stood 10 to Z.
Kents peach crop is estimated at $4,000
baskets. One grower will get 1000 baskets
from as many trees, while another will not
get more than so baskets from 10000 trees.
Another grower expects baskets from
l,200 trees
Hon. James H. Eckels, comptroller OF
the currency, came to Elkton on Tuesday
| evening and spent the Fourth of July with
| Mr., William Singerly, the Democratic
' nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, al
= his cottage in that town.
Cecil farmers complain that the railroad
Z surveyors drive their stakes in wheat, oat
l and hay fields so that they stand a foot o.
more above the ground but are hid by thu
, growing crops Then the binders run in
q to these stakes and get damaged
v Wheat threshing is now general throug
4 out the county The straw is very heavy
h but the yield of wheat is only fair. MI
G. S. Hurlock, of near Masseys, raise
Il u twenty bushels to the acre; G. II
q Stevens. q bushels; James Ringgold, {
AiONA ANNS0' NV A"z S'7ASAS' AAN's' ~'N'U'
- The wheat crop in Cecil is considered
} medium one, the straw is heavy and j
y some sections of the county is we'll filled
)r while in other sections the wheat was il
\ jured by the wet weather in May, especial
,e in the low lands. The oat crop is good an
= the prospect for corn was never bette
~ The hay crop is an average one.
as Kent Must Try Agai,e.-The Eastc
ii Democrat as a comment on the announce
n ment that III. Clay Sutton, of Kent has
a cabbage weighing eight pounds" say
~ "On the 18th ult., Mr.. John l.. Fisher r
g ceived from his brother, Mr.. Peter
20 Fisher, of Patapsco Neck, Baltimo
ed county, four heads of cabbage weighing
the aggregate sixty pounds.
The Death Penalty.-Friday two color
men were hanged in Maryland. Villa
ke jackson at Centreville, Queen Anne
9k county. for the murder of George
IN Leager, and James Allen at Upper Ma
u u bOro, for felOnous assault The crime
IN which Jackson suffers the death penal
* was most atrOcious, cold -blooded murd
ch without palliation and apparently withC
ll- prOvocatiOn.
on The crime for which James Allen "
"A executed was a felonious assault up
w. Cora Simpson, white girl.