The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-10-02
MINOR LOCALS

Haines & Kirk have their October ad.
in this week s issue. Read it.
Mr.. Eugene McDermott and sis
t r, of Washington, are visiting Miss
L zzie Briscoe.
Tomorrow and Sunday the Mary
land Sunday School convention will be
in session at the NJ. E. Church in this
town.
Israel Rhoades of lower Lancaster
county, aged 20 years. died at his home
on Saturday from dysentery brought on
by drinking sweet cider.
The finest animal exhibited at the
Oxford Fair was the imported French
Coach stallion three years old the pro-
perty of Jonathan Pickering of Zion.
The raw box is open at Heagy's.
Lewis R. Kirk, Jr., left home for
Philada., last Monday. where be has
position as drug clerk and will at.
tend the College of Pharmacy.
The officers and members of the
L. I. L. are requested to meet at
the residence of Mrs. n. G. Browns
on Thursday, Oct. s, at 1870 p. m.
Enos c. Baker farmer of West NAL
borough township, Chester Co., Pa,
was badly gored by bull on his farm
on the 18th ult., and died the following
night.
David Ell. Burwell of GAINESVILLE. Ohio,
a young temperance orator and singer
will lecture in Friends meeting house,
Calvert, on Wednesday evening, Oct. Z
at s o'clock. Everybody come.
Thirty.two lots were disposed of at
the pdblic sale of town lots last Satur-
day at Oxford ranging in price from
$3.50 up to $256.50, averaging $3.15 per
front foot and aggregating $4,000
A bay horse strayed or was stolen
from the stables of Thomas Hopes,
near Russelville on Friday evening of
last week. 1t belonged to M. F. Hopes
Of Northbrook, Chester county, Pa.
Too old to go on long visit.
Mrs. Sarah A. Jones, of Coleraine,
Lancaster county, died September 9th
at Ithaca, Ohio, while visiting her
sister-in-law. She was So years of age.
Dover Fair closed on Friday and is
reported as grand success financially.
Pool selling and all sorts of gambling
were rampant until the last day or two,
when the Attorney General threatened
to prosecute the managers.
Fire insurance companies will be
marking up rates ofinsurance on barns
where steam threshers are used If des-
truction by fire from them continues.
Every week We notice the loss of barns
and grain stacks from them.
Jenkins and Nesbitt the knights of
the paint brush are laying the fashion
able colors-cream and olive green on
VIM. Grason's carriage and furniture
house; aud the same artists are paint
ing Mrs Grason's bakery building on
Main street.
Miss Mamie McKinsey. Of Phila.,
and Frederick P. Southgate, of
Memphis, both formerly of Elkton,
were married in Philadelphia on
Monday last by Rev. William Schoul.
er of Elkton.
Fresh Pork at Nichols Bros.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin 4. Brown re.
turned from their wedding tour last
evening and were rendered q recep.
tion at the home of the groom's
mother. The Rising Sun Band was
presant to welcome the newly wed.
ded couple.
EsRot is playing havoc with the potato
crop in this neighborhood. Several of
our farmers who had large crops are
losing the potatoes after being taken
up. Others haye abandoned the crop
leaving them in the ground. Last year
the potato crop was destroyed by the
rot. This will be a great loss.
Jacob Rambo refused to comply
with what he considered the un-
reasonable requirements of the
School Commissioners in relation to
the construction of the colored
school house in Elkton, and the con.
tract has been awarded to Levi Il.
Patterson, the next lowest bidder.
& Henry Talbot, colored, about Is
years of age. who has been serving
term in the Elkton Jail for larceny,
made his escape at noon on, Wednes.
day. He had been working 10 corn
field in the rear of the Jail, and got
away while the deputy sheriff who
had him in charge was at dinner.
Talbot is an important witness in the
Ditmore murder case.
The Wilmington Every Evening
of Tuesday says: The Rev. Isaac
Jewell lectured interestingly to
Apollo Castle, X. G. E.. last evening,
Oh the objects of the order. There