The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-11-20

morning just above Perryville BY .
freight train. Smith was walking to
his work, having charge Of Drake &
STATIONS steam shovel, and stepped
from one track to avoid a train and
Hin front Of q freight train. His neck
and one leg we're broken.
| At q meeting of the stockholders
Of the Cecil County Agricultural
Society, on Tuesday, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: George 5. Woolley president;
q. Porter Lusby, vice-president Geo.
A. Blake, treasurer; John Partridge,
secretary. The grounds were put
under the charge OF Chalkley Phillips
"Meat from the shell''-the oyster at
Heagy's.
! The county commissioners have
appropriated $40 to defray the ex
lpense of pair of Artificial limbs for
Walter BIackston. of Appleton, this
county, boy aged about twelve
years who had to have his legs am
lputated some time ago on account Of
being cut so badly by q moving
machine. which ran into him while
at work in field.
j Henry Diston & Sons. the great
Philadelphia saw manufacturers have
sent their annual Christmas order TO
A. p. Shockley for 1900 turkeys
which they present to their workmen
| for their Christmas dinner. Shockley
has filed this order for several years
and has paid out in that time for
turkeys over $4,000. The turkeys
must be of good quality and MOI
under prescribed weigh.
| The phenomeon in the heavens.
the total eclipse of the moon oD
| Sunday night, was viewed by all who
wished to see Luna veil her face.
j Clouds overcast the sky later in the
evening and the going of of the
eclipse was not visible. In Baltimore
the sky was overcast and the eclipse
was hidden. from view. This is said
to be the eclipse that Columbus
! frightened the Indians by predicting
400 years ago.
/ The greatest sleight of-hand perfor-
nance ever seen in Rising Sun will be
given Nov. n and %.
| The West nottingham and Elkton
foot ball teams win play at Elkton
on the fair grounds to. morrow at $50
o'clock. The EIkton team began
practice last week and some very
promising new players have entered
the list of competitors for positions
on the team. So says the Elkton
papers. The Elkton ball "teams"
are generally scared up from suniry
places with few Elktonians among
them. The Elkton boys have strong
lungs and are famous "rattlers" how
ever, which IS often an important
factor in the game.
i The theory that fiction dealing ex.
clusiyely with refined and poetical
love is best written by women will be
4 proved true If other women can write
such ardent and topical rhapsodies
as Mrs Amelia e. Barre latest work
"Love for an Hour is Love Forever !"
1t may, however, be justly doubted
whether any other women can pro-
duce SO exquisitely tender, so warm
and so charming love story as this.
| Mrs. Barr's fayorite and masterpiece.
This much Of the theory is certainly
true: that no male author can com.
pete with Mrs. Barr in the portrayal
IOf idyllic love. "Love for an Hour
is Love Forever" will begin in the
New York Ledger of November FL.
| Benjamin Nields as Solicitor for
4 Austin w. Godell of Philadelphia
has filed bill in the United States
Circuit Court at Wilmington, DEL.
asking for the appointment of q
receiver or receivers for the Theodore
G Knauff Organ Company of Newark
Del. The Newark people made con-
] siderable sacrifice to get the organ
|, factory established at that town. 1t
lis risky business TO attempt new
i enterprises in an era of falling prices.
, The syndicates and trusts, those
!. financial vultures OF the present era
are Watching every opportunity to
pounce onto and gobble up every
enterprise that shows signs of weak.
ness, or freeze out and destroy what
they cannot control.
The following piece of remarka able
news is published in the Oxford
. Press.
Lewis RYAN of Pittsburg. former
lily of Rising Sun, while on bis way
to bis home last week on the Penn
sylyania railroad was severely hurt.
The train be was aboard of was run
into at Tyrone. Mr.. Ryan was about
to step from one car TO another when
the wreck occurred. One of his feet
was crushed, being pinned down by
, heavy piece of timber and it was
, almost half an hour before he was
r relieved from bis painful position.
! He is resting at Rising Sun while
t recovering from the injury"
RI Winfield and Lewis Ryan have
8 moth been at work on the Buckley
e building in Rising Sun for a couple
of weeks and we had never heard OF
either being mashed up on the cars.