The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-08-02

de Grace where the wild celery grows
have had an extra deposit Of mud laid
over them burying that canvas back
duck feed out of sight. Let the gun
ners apply for government appro
pr;ation to uncover the plants That
will help to reducetse surplus.
| Eleven inches OF rain fell in Bal
timore in July whichis an unprece
dentcd quantity. The downpour OF
Tuesday and Wednesday night,
here, almost cGnaled cloud bursts.
The excess of rain for July over the
normal or usual quantity was g. in
] II. Medary & Co. of Baltimore,
who supply our public schools with
books, have placed their advertise ment
in the MIDLAND JOURNAL this week
The firm does business on the princi.
pie OF large sales and small profits OIL
they would not be patronized by our
economical board of School Com MIS-
sioDers.
MilIcent McCabe, better known as
aunt Milly McCabe," who was prob
ably the oldest person in this county:
died in E!Itop, on Sunday last, of old
. dSSs ItOuI VIZ bcSi hSttC ObAl can &c
had it is pretty certain she was be.
tween 1872 and 1914 years of age.
So says the Elkton reporter but we
don't believe that Aunt MilIy was
near that old.
The creamery at Cecilton is doing
n flourishing business. The separator
at Earleyille, connected with the
Cecilton creamery, is receiving about
1000 pounds of milk daily Many
of the farmers of the district intend
! TO increase their stock of mich
cows and do less gram raising next
year Wig.
Dyspepsia in its worse forms will
Yield 10 the use of Carter's Little Nerve
/ Pills, aided by Carriers Little Liver Pills.
! They NOT only relieve present distress but
strengthen the stomach and digestive APP
| paratus.
! Miss Clara H Keilholtz of "Blo0m-
ing Dale Farm" Principle has been
visiting her cousin Miss Bea Keilholtz.
Miss Rhoda V. Wilson, who has been
| visiting Miss Laura B. Staley of Ship.
pensburgh, Pa, for the past month,
returned home yesterday,
Mrs. Crothers, wife of DR.. r. r.
Crothers, and her sister, Miss Neil
Christie, have returned from tour
to Ocean Grove, Long Branch, AS
bury Park and other points of in
terest On the Jersey coast.
A small dark bay horse with pale
star in face was stolen from the hotel
stables of s. c. Raglan at Conowingo,
on the night of July %. Mr.. Raglan
offers reward of S25 for the recovery
of the animal. The thief, after getting
the horse and harness, went to the farm
of Dr. Peoples, in Lancaster county,
and stole new buggy. There are one
or Two men missing from the neigh
| boIhood and it is suspicioned that they
may have been the thieves.
Thomas r. Stewart, while out gun
ming for woodcOck last Saturday with
some friends from Newark, was acct
IDENTIFY shot by one of the party, who
| fired at bird, and did not see Mr.
Stewart, who was about thirty yards
distant and concealed 10y the interview
ing bushes, hitting him about the face,
breast and arms. Fortunately he was
far enough away to escape fatal result
although the wounds received were
quite painfui.-North East Star.
The vacant scholarship in St.
Johns College, Annapolis, was
awarded by competitive ex animation
to Ralph Hughes of the Elkton pub
lie school. Other candidates were
Messrs Coleman Beaston, of Cecil
ton and Philip Cameron, of Melmar
Academy. Master Hughes was pre-
pared in mathematics and ancient
languages to enter the Freshman
class as required by the Faculty of
the College,
All in want of 8 first class pillow,
should call on Haines & Kirk and
see the "south BEND 1t cannot be
excelled
The heavy floods in the Susque-
hanna river have secured the riprap-
ping material and mud from one of
the p w. & B. railroad bridge piers
till the piling on which the masonry
is supported is exposed. The company
has divers employed and are filling
in about the pier with stone. A hun
bred car loads we were told have been
used and the work is still going on.
Stone from the quarries are dumped in
and the u. S. Government is applied
to to dredge out the mud which the
dam arrests.
The managers of the Oxford Agricul-
tural Society at their meeting Saturday
adopted the following speed schedules:
Wednesday, September %. purse 500
for green horses in Chester, Lancaster
and Cecil counties, to go to carts and
be driven by oa-professi0nal drivers.
Purse of $50 for colts between 5 and
years, Thuraday, Sept. 26-Purse of
$3.50 for 300 class and purse of $3.50 for
= 40 class. Friday, Sept. 27-Purse Of
$l75 for go class and purse of $500 for
2.35 class.
The new principal of the Friends
Normal Institute has not yet reach
ed our town but expects to be here
in short time. The school will open
in full force on 9th day of 9th mo-,
1889. The complete outfit Of cleo
trical, philosophic and chemical APP,
paratus affords unusual facilities for
teaching and studying the scientific
problems of the day. Parents would
do well to look up this school before
deciding where to send their children.
Two weeks ago a horse thief was
chased out of Elkton and through that
nelghborhood but he got away. These