The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-09-20
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 20, 1889.
MINOR LOCALS

ing rocks in his grass field this week.
The heavy rain on Tuesday after
noon raised the creeks over their
banks.
A colt of Job highlands, near Zion
hung itself few nights ago with
the halter.
The Alligator Jewelry at Browns
will soon be gone. 13s2t
Mrs Dawson Jackson and daught-
er, of Sacramento, Cal, are visiting
relatives in Cecil county.
Cards are out for the wedding of
DIR. Chas, f. Turner and Miss Clara
l Evans, on Thursday next.
DR.. Dare threshed 297 bushels
machine measure-of merchantable
wheat from 10 acres, which is a good
yield for this year.
A democratic club will be organ
lied at Colora to morrow afternoon,
we are informed by the generalisamo
of the party in the Sixth
The prohibitionists will meet in
Elkton on Tuesday next and nomi-
nate full ticket See call in this
issue of the MIDLAND JOURNAL.
Mr.. S. Ryan's tomato patch was
raided few nights ago and cleared
out The thief took ripe and green
fruit being no respcctor of color or
condition.
The Rising Sun and North East
base ball clubs have been selected by
the Managers to contest for the cham
pionship of the county and prize,
at the Fair, on Oct. 8th.,
That tired, languld feeling and dull
headache is very dsagreeable. Take two
of Carriers Little Liver Pills before retiring.
and you will find relief. They meyer fail
TO do good.
The members Of Shows Battery
have made arrangement to hold q
reunion in Noyember. Thomas
Kirk Of Rising Sun is chairman and
has charge of arrangements for the
reunion.
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Keilholtz, having
sold his farm, will have public sale
of farm stock and implements and
feed on the premises, on Monday,
Sept. 30th. See adj in next weeks
JOURNAL.
Buds very latest is fish pot
which is bolted to the rocks under
Hector's falls in the Susquehanna.
The pot has border of chicken wire
round the sides to keep black bass
from jumping over.
DR.. Kinks store was entered on
Sunday night through one ofthe win
dows in the second story and some
cigars taken-two or three hundred
he thinks. Nothing else was miss
ing. The thief did not 60 down into
the store room.
A party in want Of good fire.
place heater, suitable for heating one
room down stairs and one to three
rooms upstairs, or good parlor
stove, both in good order. should
apply at once to A. l.. Duyckinck.
The ''road scraper" was put to
work on South Queen street yester
day and in half al hour you could
walk dry shod" in the middle oil
the street where before the mud was
six inches deep. The MIDLAND
JOURNAL "told you sou
The corn is in bad condition gen
orally. The late storms have broken
and blown it down. The fodder is
rendered nearly worthless by the
constant rains, and the fodder crop
will be the poorest within the mem
DRY of our oldest inhabitant."
The heavy wind last week lowered
the water SO in the Susquehanna
river, that the flats on the Hartford
side near Lapidum were bare, and
the plover focked on them thick as
black birds in the spring. Two gun
ners killed 260 birds in few hours
Nearly all the roof of sixty foot
hay barrack on the farm of John 4
Wilson, Esq, on Red Hill near Elk
ton, was blown off during the biz
blown on Tuesday night of last week
Mr.. Wilson says the wind blew hard
err than ever before since he has
lived on the Hill.
Among the portraits got up by the
Baltimore american of the officer:
who participated in the sham battlt
was one of Lieutenant lamar, bro
Their of Register of Wills, Renben f
lamar. The portrait was q pretty
good likeness of "Mitch," and bore
considerable resemblance to the doc
tor too.
The rabbits will soon be ripe ant
Haines and Kirk have the guns anC