The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-12-25
Friday, pee %. 1891.
MINOR LOCALS


The Port Deposit Granite Quarry
closed down last week.
The stores and banks will be closed
to-day. tits Christmas "you know"
Last Monday, 2lst was the short.
est day in the year being 8 b. % m.
Cecil county's oldest citizen is
Mrs. Sarah Kirk, near Zion, 1902
years.
Joseph Ferguson, of Port Deposit,
has leased the smith shop at Rock
Springs.
Harry Martindale had bis horse
blanket stolen while attending a
sociable at Zion.
Thieves recently Invaded Crouch
Chapel near Elkton and carried of
several dollars in change.
There were only ten of the forty
two postmasters of the county attend.
ed the salary raising meeting at Elk.
ton last week.
A Bay View farmer few nights
ago fred two shots at man who was
carrying off his ducks. He dropped
the ducks and took to his heels.
Messrs. ". G.. West, of Sylmar
Jefferson Haines and E. M. Hunt, oil
Rising Sun, have cropped out their
farms and will engage in other bus.
mess the coming year.
DR.. Fenner's Catarrh Remedy is
always tup and dressed" and "tende
right to business" He has never
failed to cure any case. For sale by
DR.. L. r. Kirk and all dealers.
The seventh districtcame very near
being the whole court this term. 1t
furnished the judge, the clerk, the
deputy clerk and eleven Of the jury
men, five on the grand jury and six
on the petit jury.
That annual turkey dinner of The
Rising Sun Detective Association
will be served the first Saturday in
January which is the second day.
Only one week from to morrow. Bring
your wife and give her a "day of
Mary Ann"
General agent r. G. Smith, of the
Baltimore Building and Loan
Association was canvassing Rising
Sun last week for the purpose OF
establishing branch of the society
in this town but had not succeeded
in accomplishing the object.
J. Newman Davis, youngest son OF
Col. |. D. Davis, cashier of the Second
National Bank of Elkton has accept
ed position as stenographer and
typewriter with the Pusey & Jones
Company of Wilmington, Del. We
wish Mr.. Davis every success.
A Maryland man made wager Of
$50 with Delaware lady that she
could not eat a partridge for break
fast each morning for thirty consecu.
tive days, he to furnish the birds
The lady proved game though
thoroughly disguised she won the
wager.
Jefferson Haines is going to build
himself town house on lot adjoin-
ing Thomas Kinks, which he pur.
chased Of E. R. Buffngton's lad.
dition." Mr.. Haines is s.natural
mechanic and proposes to follow
the bent of his inclination rather than
the pillow.
Silas Lowe of Rock Springs has
taken out within the last month from
his feld-spar quarries. over so tons,
which was shipped to Newark, Del
Mr.. Lowe has leased his quarries to
parties in North East, who will com
mence operation Immediately on o
more extensive scale.
The grip. the grip, the grip is the
one wide wall of affection. The
disease is every where. 1t seems to
be much more general than in any of
its former visits. A much larger
number of persons seem to be suffer
ing from the disease than last winter
or that of its first appearance.
George Karl, of Elkton, employed
by J. e. Alexander & Sons, while
cunning Sunday with a rife, near
Newark, DEL, accidentally shot him
self in the abdomen. The trigger Of
the rifle caught, and as he was trying
to fix it the cartridge went off and
the bullet pierced his left thigh. 1t
is thought the injury is a serious one.
William Smith Campbell of West
Nottingham, Chester county, through
his attorney Albert Constable, ESQ.
brought suit in the Circuit Court 81
Cecil county, on Wednesday last
against Job Haines, Hanson H
Haines, John d. Haines and Edwin
H. Haines, for $4,000 damages, fol
conspiring to have him convicted OF
q felony.
Mr.. w. B. Sands has sold the
american Farmer. published in
Baltimore for the last so years and
the Oldest agricultural paper in the
state. The Farmer has been bough,
by company of farmers and will be-
moved to Middletown, Frederick
county. where it will in future be
published by THE FARMERS PUBLISH
ING Co.