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

Joseph Groves of the ninth district
well known in local politics has lost
fine COW.
The rain on Tuesday night came
down in something after the M amer
of "cloud burst"
A "third grand picnic will be held
in j. w. Crothcrs' woods on Tues
duy evening August 9th.
William Baker. an Elkton veteran,
has taken up comfortable quarters at
the Soldiers Home at Hampton.
The wheat yield is about 20 bushels
per acre. The grain is of inferior quail
ity, and the price of new wheat very
low, 65 to IS cents.
Bishop Curtis of Wilmington Diocese
will read mass and preach in the town
hall, Rising Sun, on Sunday August
18th. at 1890 a. m. The public are cor.
daily invited to be present.
The canning season is here again
and you can get your tin cans, pre-
serving kettles, etc from Haines &
Kirk.
Brickley & Mccullough are going to
have another COLCHESTER and Bay Ridge
excursion. The excursion is specially
arranged to accommodate the farme 5.
Read their advertisement in this issue.
Cherry Hill Sunday school. Rev.
T. A. H. O'Brien, pastor, and Job
+. Grant, superintendent, will picnic
in Mrs Persons Grove, on August
7th.
Great loss of peaches and grain are
reported on the peninsula of the eastern
shore from wet weather. There is a
great deal of wheat and oats out in
Cecil and considerable loss may be
reasonably expected.
Post Master Hambleton will remove
the post Office, in the Spring, from
the room now occupied for that pur.
pose to that used. by DR.. Jenness as
an office. in the Haines block.
Mrs. Sarah J. Mahan widow of the
late Benjamin Mahan, died at the
home Of her son, Reese Mahan, near
Fair Hill, last week after short
illness in her seventy first year.
Services at James M. E. Church
next Sunday 1880 a. nj, subject,
Gods Ransomed. p. m. subject,
Seeking for Pleasure.
l. JEWELL, Pastor.
Smart Weed and Belladonna COM
bined with the other ingredients used in the
hest porous plasters. make Carriers S. w.
& B. Backacbe Plasters the best in the
market. Price Is cents.
David Tucker, who had been lying
with paralysis for s.nearly eleven
months, died at his residence in Perry
vile, on Saturday the goth inst. He
was II years of age. and leaves a widow
and several grown children.
Insect powder mixed with water and
applied with sponge to the parts
where flies collect on horses or other
animals is said to be great relief to
the beasts. We presume the y. O.,
Dust would answer the purpose well.
W. Preston Reynolds carp pond
burst with the heavy rain on Tues.
day and emptied all his carp into
Stone Run and Bud received them
into his carp preserve,-Haines mill
pond.
A festival will be held at Moore's
Chapel, Cecil county, on Thursday
evening, August s. A nice supply
of refreshments will be provided and
the public is invited to the feast of
good things.
The pastor, Rev. George Buckle.
of Little Britain Presbyterian Church
is about to relinquish his charge of
that church and accept call from q
church of the same denomination at
Elizabeth, N. J.
The heart breaking game of Lawn
Tennis has court established here.
and a club which does the breaking
in the orchard on fair afternoons.
These kind of afternoons are beguil-
ing creatures.
The excursionists to Colchester
last week had more crowd than pleas
ure. 1t required three sections of
the train or in plain terms, three
trains, to bring them back, late in
the night sad and weary.
The Young Peoples Christian
Endeavor Society of West Noting
ham have on the tapis picnic to
Gilpin's Rocks or some other point
of romantic and beautiful scenery,
which will come off next week.
Geo. B. Hagan and wife of Evans
vile, Ind, is visiting his sister Mrs.
VIM. Grason at Rising Sun. Mr.. aud
Mrs Grason with their Indiana friends
started to Washington ID. G. on We'd
nesdry morning to visit relatives there
and view the sights at the capital.
A fight occurred on Wednesday night
in the square at Rising sun, between
Joe Durham and Will McCummings.
The fight grew out of some rivalry
about female, but whiskey was the
impelling cause. McCummings is the
smaller of the two men and Jared the
worst.
Mr.. Joseph P, Brown of Colora
commenced laying the foundation
walls, on Tuesday Of Mr.. G.. K.
Bechtel's Female Seminary, at West
Nottingham. Mr.. Zach Gray of the
same place is the contractor and
builder.
The trustees of the Poor on Saturday
a nd a Id l, n