The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-08-21
The hay barrack of the Mccullou


Monday night. 1t is supposed to b.
the work of tramp, who was captures
by William Cawley and others, brough
to North East and placed in the lookup
to await hearing. There were abou
| 125 tons of hay in the barrack.
A very pleasant social dance was helt
in Denny's Hall at Sylmar on Wed
nesday evening. Forty-fou couples
were present. Taylor's Orchestra bano
from Lancaster furnished the music
Messrs. Norman Patterson, Harry
Ewing, John Swisher. G.. g. Sill ant
VIM. NJ. Pogue were managers. Guests
attended from Rising Sun, Oxford
Avondale, Doerun and other points.
The Pennsylvania and Maryland
| Union Medical Association will hold
their annual union this year at Happy
Valley, near Port Deposit. The meet
ing has been arranged for August 9th
next Thursday. Preparations are being
made by the doctors to spend happs
day at Happy Valley, with their guests
and all who attend may anticipate q
rare fete.
Mr.. VIM. Brown will, commence
canning corn on Monday or Tuesday
next at his Rising Sun cannery. He
has introduced new machinery and
the cannery is in better trim for
processing than ever Before. Farm
ers who have corn ready FOR the fac
tory are requested to send it in with
out delay.
Mr.. Richard White and Miss Lizzie
A. Mahoney, daughter of w. J. Ma
honey, were married OH Monday even
ing at the home of the brides father
Mechanics Valley. Rev. T. B. Hunter
of Cherry Hill. performed the ceremony
in the presence of many friends and
relatives of the young couple. The
bride was the recipient of many hand
some presents. Mr.. and Mrs. White
are away on wedding tour.
Mortimer Whitehead, the National
Lecturer of the Grange, will tell
farmers why they should organize, at
the Woodlawn Meeting.
Two wheat stacks on the farm Of
Mrs. Vail, near Kirkwood, were
destroyed by fire early Monday even
ing Aug 10th and other stacks and
some Of the outbuildings were only
saved by hard work on the part of
the crowd which gathered soon after
the blaze broke out. About IT'S
bushels of wheat were burned. The
fire was of incendiary origin.
Robert Blackway, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed
farmers of Sasafras Neck, attempted
suicide at his home, one mile south
of Cecllton, Tuesday of last week.
He made two efforts, first taking
laudanum, which failed fits purpose.
and then attempted to cut his throat.
Mr.. Blackway has been melancholy
on account of pecuniary disaster for
many months.
Sunday was ''big day" at the
camp. Thousands of people were
in attendance. The services were
conducted by j. B. Jones of Cecil
Circuit with experience meeting and
love feast. Able sermons were
preached by Rev. G. H. Lewis, D. d.,
in the forenoon, Rev. j. w. Trout
in the afternoon and by Rev. D. L..
Greenfield in. the evening. Camp
closed on Friday.
Buffington's choice coffee still in the
lead; when it gets there it stays.
Some of the hucksters vegetables
and fruit report dull times at Port.
One of these produce men writes to
a Baltimore paper. There are only
Sc men working now where formerly
there were $50 and 800. l am en-
gagged in the truck gardening business
there, and used to send three wagon
loads of produce to maket every day
and found ready sale for it. Now 1
can only dispose of one load day.
Some body writes the Oxford
Press from Conowingo.
A man whose name is withheld
out Of sympathy for his relatives aid
friends, got so bcastly drunk on last
Friday that he imagined himself a
whale or some other sea monster and
jumped into the mill dam. After
swimming around for short time he
dried himself on the opposite bank
and scrambled up the hill, where it
is supposed he spent the afternoon in
drunken stupor.
The directors of the Friends Normal
Institute, Rising Sun, express their
thanks for mineral specimens for the
cabinet to Cecil Ewing of the MIDLAND