The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-07-03
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, July 3. 1891.
MINOR LOCALS

The Elkton Fair will positively be
b. Id on September Is, l6, IL and IS.
Twenty marriage licenses were issued
b. the clerk of the circuit court, last
month.
l!eagy has the luscious watermelon ,
Brickley and Mccullough will run
their annual excursion to COLCHESTER
on July 81.
Ellis p Kirk of East nottingham
township, Pa, died on the 18th ult.,
aged Is years.
Mr.. Basil H. Browns family, from
Philadelphia, arrived in town this
week to spend the summer
Carter and Campbell are about to
commence the erection of a new ware
house at sylmar SO by 26 feet.
Chesapeake City is going to cele-
brate the Fourth of July also. North
East is not to have all the glory.
The Rising Sun w. G. T. u, will
meet in the basement of the VI. E.
Church on Thursday July 9th at 2.3o
O'Clock
Deputy Sheriff Harvey Mackey
has been in Port Deposit for the past
week guarding McClenahan Bros.
quarries.
About twenty-five quarrymen left
Port on Monday. They were all men
who had been out of work since the
strike of May 1st.
Miss Nellie Blackburn of Pleasant
Grove has a bunch of pinks ofsix years
standing which by actual count con-
tanned 1718 blooms.
Jonathan Reynolds shipped a
superior lot of fat cattle to Baltimore
on Monday, The cattle will be
shipped to England.
Happy Valley Park will be opened
on July 4th with boom. Every thing
will be conducted on grand scale, and
big day is anticipated.
The Rising Sun Base Ball Club hav-
ing organized for the season of 1891 is
open to challenges. Address the
manager, L. R. Kirk, Jr.
A. L. Duyckinck 6 Co, are build
ing new warehouse 60 by 80 feet
at their lumber, coal and grain depot,
east of town. Business increasing.
e Postmaster Hambleton will close his
office from IL a. m. until clock D. M.
on July 4th excepting Is minutes for
the 8 o'clock mail, to walk around and
enjoy the fourth.
The vestry Of the P. E. Church of
North East have invited the Rev.
Giles Fl. Cooke of Denton. Nd, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna.
ton of Rev. E. X Miller.
There will be a picnic at Mount
Pleasant Church, July 4th in the
afternoon and festival in the evening,
music by Rising Sun Band. Go see
the boys in their new uniforms.
Professor H. Weber, teacher Of
the school near Warwick, had the
misfortune to break a leg a few days
ago while removing the stove after
the closing exercises of the school.
The Rising Sun Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will celebrate
Worlds day on Saturday July 18th in
James M. e. Church at o'clock. A
special program has been has been pre-
pared.
Sallie Davis, a young colored woman
of North East, has been committed to
Jail by 'Squier John B. Anderson on
the charge of larceny. She was brought
to Jail on Sunday night by Constable
George McKenney.
Timothy Hartnett, the father of IL
year old Daniel Hartnett, who is
lodged in Dover Jail to keep him
from clipping with Jennie Sudler, the
negress, declares that the latter has
conjured his son. There is no doubt
she has.
The North East correspondent of
the appeal says THE cleaning out
of the channel by the mud machine
is said co be wasteful expenditure
OF money. as it don't amount to
shucks. The channel is in very little
better condition than it was before.
The contract is about finished.
Under the new adjustment of third.
class postmasters in Maryland the
salary of the postmaster at Port
Deposit is increased from $1,100 to
$1,000, and at Havre de Grace from
$1,000 to 81 400. The Elkton Office
shows some increase Of receipts Blu
not sufficient to change the salary.
Bananas, lemons and oranges at
Heagy's.
Nathaniel Carson. of California,
and brother of S. r. Carson and
DR. William Carson ia VISITING Port