Middletown transcript., 1874-07-25
Maryland Affairs.

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DECAMPMENT OF AN ELKToN MERcHANT.-Wm.
McCleland, Jr., son of William McClelland, Sr.,
who resides in Delaware, suddenly disappeared
from Elkton on Monday week, abandoning his
store and family and has not been seen nor heard
from since. He left a letter in the family bible,
bidding goodbye to his lends, and stating the
reason for his sudden departure, which the Wing
says was on account of failure in business and
the detection of numerous forgeries upon his
fathers credit which he knew to be inevitable
The senior McClelland held bill of sale of the
goods remaining in the store unsod, and dis
posed of them for what they would bring few
days ago. popularity of the decnmping Nc
Clelland was that he kept journal, ia which he
| noted down among current events, the parties
name with whom he had pecuniary transactions
and who helped him over difficulties by shaving
his notes and other obligations. On these friends
| in time of sore need, it is ed he reflects in
his journal with considerable asperity.
| The following land sales were made at Chcs-
tertown, Kent county, on Tuesday last; The
farm on Still Pond creek, containing 2l5 acres,
to Alfred Jsryis for S25 per acre, and h IIur-
eek farm, containing l22 acres, to James A. Ros-
berry for S33 per acre, being the estate of the
late james Gale, in Still Pond. On the same da,
two lots in the upper part of Chestertown were
sold, one containing four acres, 10 John X. Willis
for S7s5 and another of two acres, to W. r.
Uiiston for 1881.
| KENT County RALRoAD.-At meeting of the
board of directors of the Kent Co. Railroad Com
pany, on the 10th instant the road was leased to
Mr.. NJ. W. Serat, the president of the company.
We underetand there is some probability of a
change in the running of trains and reduction of
freight.-Kent Necs.
John W. Griffin, coored who was convicted
at the May term of the Cirut Court for Queen
Anne's county of stealing brass ring from
Jacob II. Galloway, Of Queenstown, and sentenc-
ed to three months imprisonment in the county
jail, died in that institution on Thursday of
last week, of typhoid fever.
On Tuesday last son of Mr. Jerry Irwin, aged
four years while playing in lot adjoining his
fathers residence at Cambridge, Dorchester
county, was kicked by horse upon the skull
and arm, bruising and smashing them in a fear
fnl manner. Fears are entertained for his re-
covery.
A fraternal camp meeting will commence at
Old Bay Side, Talbot county, on the 10th of Au-
gust, under the auspices of the Methodist Epsco-
pal Church South, in which all Methodists are
invited to participate
Henry Benson, negro, arrested on the charge
of an attempt to commit II felonious assault upon
the person of Mrs. Sarah E. Denny in Talbot
county, last week, waived examination and
was committed to await the action Of the grand
jury.
The Groome Guards, of Elkton, numbering
forty-two members, wer. mustered into service
on Wednesday evening last by Assistant Adju-
tant General Burlington and Colonel McWil-
liams.
farm in Landing Neck, Trappe district Tai
bot county, formerly the property of Mr.. Isaac
Henry, containing 1873 acres, was sold on Tuesday
week to Mr.. William Calhoun, for So, 500.
Saturday spark from steam thrasher de-
stroyed three hundred bushels of wheat for Mr..
Albert Willis, and also burned the corn house
and other adjacent buildings.
The Cecil county temperance convention will
meet at Ekton, on Wednesday, goth instant free
to all who have heretofore been connected with
the temperance work.
The new Catholic church in Meekins's Neck
Dorchester county, was dedicated on Sunday
morning last by Rev Thomas A. Becker of Will
mington, Del.
Mr.. Barclay Reynolds has disposed Of II acres
of land, adjoining the borough of Rising Sun,
Cecil county, for $lo0 per acre.
The Queenstown circuit Caroline county, con-
template holding camp meeting on Wye camp
ground on the 7th of August
The young men of Elkton are about making
arrangements for tournament, to come off
about the 1st of September.
The camp-meetng in Bakers woods near
Chestertown, Kent county, will commence on
Tuesday, the 2sth instant
Camp-meetng will commence the Rock
Run camp ground, Hartford county, on Thurs
day, the 30th instant.
| John Stalcup, of Port Deposit, on Saturday
was bitten twice by copperhead snake. He
will recover.