The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-01-19
Maryland Items.

thunder gust passed over Cambridge
census of Cambridge, Just completed,
makes the population 2,lss.
Phil Yates claims to be the champion egg
dealer IN Dorset county, having shipped 30
o4o dozen last year, beating S. w. Noolford
4 Co., by % dozen.
The oyster trade at Crisfeld is unusually
dull, some of the oyster houses have SUSPEND.
ed operations, and Others are running at half
their capacity. The mild weatheris the cause.
John X. Franklin, Associate Judge of the
FIRST district of Maryland, died on Friday,
llth inst at his home in Worcester county.
de had been Speaker of the MARYLAND
house of Delegates, and also a member of
| Congress.
| In the Circuit Court at Frederick. on
Saturday last, the suit of Eli Strickner, for
msr freight conductor Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, to recover damages from the
company for permanent injuries received by
oe,ng knocked on his train by a bridge, re-
suited in verdict for $1,000.
The advocates of local option bin propose
holding mass meeting and convention in
Annapolis on the last Wednesday Of January,
for the purpose of demonstrating the feeling
OF the people of the State on this subject.
The meeting is to be held under the auspices
of the Maryland State Temperance Alliance.
On Wednesday Capt. Mitchell, of the State
Oyster Police, fred on the Maid of Enie for
illegal dredging for oysters, near Annapolis,
and fatally wounded the Captain. This is the
second man shot by Mitchell within the last
four months. The entire Baltimore delega-
ton, headed by Hon. r. NJ. McLane, waited
on the Governor, on Wednesday, and de-
manded his dismissal.
Several weeks since the dead body of a
white infant, few days old, was found in
small stream on the premises of Daniel
Beckley, Esq. An investigation by the au-
thorities at Towsontown, has resulted in an
indictment against Anna NJ. Hare for infan-
ticide. The accused is quite good looking
young woman.
The family of Mr.. Charles Dockety. at Oak
Hill, near Woodsboro', Frederick county, has
lost three of its members from diptheria
within the last ten days, and three others are
lying seriously i'll of the same disease DIR.
Wagner, the attending physician, has been
Frustrated, and also DR.. Legett, who was
called in after DIR. Wagner became unable to
attend to his professional duties. The af.
hicted family is now under the charge of DIR.
Densife.
The early sown wheat IN many parts of the
Peninsula is suffering terrible rayages from
the Hessian fly. The warm weather has been
so favorable to them that many fields sown
later than usual, with the view of escaping
this pest, have been attacked, and the de-
struction has continued almost up to the pre-
sent fine. Some fields in Sussex have been
almost destroyed. and in Kent, Queen Anne's,
Somerset, Dorchester and all over the lower
part Of the Peninsula the injury inflicted is
greater than ever before known.
The State Temperance Alliance intends to
make vigorous efforts during the present
session of the Legislature to secure the mas
sage of local option laws. At present the
sale Of liquor is prohibited in eight election
districts out of nine in Somerset county; in
ten districts out of thirteen in Dorchester, in
four out of five in Talbot, in two out of Ave in
Queen Anne's, and in all the districts of
Caroline and Calvert counties. At the last
election vote on the subject was taken in
Kent county, for the purpose of instructing
the members of the Legislature chosen at the
same election, and the return was Lab in
favor of local option and 1,073 against A
similar vote was taken in the ninth district of
Cecil county, the result being 267 in favor to
only four against.