Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
MARYLAND ITEMS.

Mr.. l.. I. Bennett, of Cecil county, has a
horse 80 years old.
A disease known as 'blooIy murrain''
prevails among cattle in Cecil county.
| Jonathan Keitley of Elk Neck, killed
eleven wild geese at one shot on North East river
! Wig says
The Elkton papers say that wild fowl
Monday one gunner killed $40 ducks; another killed
| eleven geese at one shot
Chestertown came near having conhagra.
ton on Friday night The house of a Mr. Purneli was
went oil and left it,
AT the election in Kent county last week
there was no opposition 10 the regular Democratic
ticket except to Mr.; Davis the candidate for sheriff
touSh time to get through.
Two prisoners at Talbot county iail cs.
capped last week. They made a saw of a steel truss
d sawed through bolts and planks and picked a
Oe IN the wall large enough for their cgrcSS lower
ing themselves TO the ground by their blankets one
OF thcin Is cripple and cannot walk except BY aid
OF Il crutch. ~
L90kiag for Peninsula Landy. The steamer
lhgtdnd Light one night last week took from Balti-
neghborhood Of Penn Yam, Western New York for
GS1 DSSrc9ester county on a land buying expedition
me New GOrkers are welto-do farmers and ii suited
ulc! expect TO buy large tracts of land and settle
The St Michapl's Comet SAYS that Levin
H. North living on James H. Covey's farm. ON Thigh
man Island on going out early on Saturday morn
ing 70 fee1 Ills stock much SURPRISED at seeing
tine deer-a full lgrown UNDERSTANDING in the fa11j
After much difficulty he captured and attracted
great deal attention. as crowds of visitors Vent ~
see the deer. Where did he come from?
Judge Thomas A. Spence, of Snow Hill
asslstahI superintendent OF railway mail service and
bImery assistant attorney general for the postoticc
department died at his residence in WaShinon rity
on l. o3lq1Iday 1y morning Of pneumonia. His remains
were taken to Cambridge for interment He was con-
sldered one OF the finest stump speakers ON the Es
@ IGIm snore. lie was Republican and ran for Con
gresS SIX years ago, but of course was defeated
Sic Stuck To Ter HusJand.-Mrs. Laura
Linden. wife of Capt John Linden of the Baltimnro
bark Rtdbo died at sea last month on her husbandS
vessel, while on the voyage To south America Mrs
Linden had been the constant companiGn of hcr
husband in his many voyages to different narts Of ne
wUFd ana h9d good knowledge of seamanship and
- III OLL one occasion when Captain Linden
was down with sickness, she took command of the
vessel ana came safely TO port
Tie Oyster Trade at ClisfeM-At Girls.
field there are fifteen oyster packing houses now
n operation in that place, furnishing employment To
az az least TWO hundred and fifty men, women and
5 Sn!luIen some OF whom average much as 81 per
gay opening oysters at twenty cents Der gallon The
@ plvaves aiter being opened, or "shucked" as they
Ier are put up in barrels of thirty forty gallons
edch lor Shipment and there some parties there
that send to the Baltimore market as high as twenty
oaIrels daily OF these opened oysters.
Burglars IN CccH-Three masked rufins
entered the dwelling of Isaac REYNOLDS near RISING
sun, IN Cecil county on saturday night week abor;
mluIlGht while the occupants were in bed Miss
2neI!, the nuusekeeper. attempted to give the alarm
Dut was seized and chORed by one Of the gang and
she' together with Mr. Reynolds and his s0noboth
lnVallds-were bound and secured in one of tho
rooms with one of the burglars standing guard over
theln While the others plundered the house About
SluV III money and vauaDlcs were secured when they
decamped. ~ my
Ne'o Enemy to tie Wheat Crop.-The Ches.
tertown Transcript reports that the fallow ground
wheat especially that seeded early is being rapidly
killed III that vicinity by insect said by most
farmers to be the common muck worm but s1ne Say.
Is an entirely different insect and new enemy i'm
those parts at least to the wheat crop Its operations
are similar 10 the grub on corn in the sDrino
cutting OIL the plant just below the surface of the
ground ltS ravages appear TO be confined TO falow
nlus, corn ground wheat being unmOlested It's de-
suruGtNe WORK can be readily detected the wheat
turning red and whitening away
Local OptiOn.-At the election in Mary |
land on the 9th inst local option was carried in KaI+
county by vote of 473 for and O73 against it. The
HOte was taken as test and voluntary on the mart Of
the people, to show the Legislature that Ken comfy
wanted local option The majority in favor of II is m
III he county In number of the counties of the Eas
tern Shore local option to prohibit the sale of liouOr
prevails ana the effect on the community has been
50 good That 1t is evidently spreading The voice of
kent county is unmisakabe, and Cecil county also
Siar test IN the sixth district resulted as follows:
for local option 267 against it f. The Cecil Dcm0cr0t
says that the matter was not generally known or nm
9erstood otherwise the vote would have been larger
or at least hreeOurths of the voters in the strict
are in favor of local option