The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-06-03

recent 1alr.
The soda fountains in the drug stores
in town are the places to get a nice cool
drink this hot weather.
The Democratic congressional Con-
vention will be held at Port Deposit on
next Monday, June the 9th.
The w. G. T.. u, will meet in the
basement of Rising Sun M. E. Church
on Thursday, June 9th at 2,30 o'clock.
Mrs. &. G. Hopkins gave an old
fashioned quilting bee to number
of friends yesterday. The fete was q
novelty among latter day amusements,
but very enjoyable.
DR.. H. H. Mitchell who has been un.
der treatment for number of weeks
past at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more, came home to Elkton on Tues
day. He is greatly improved in health.
A new post office has been establish i.
ed at Blue Ball, in this county, with
John B. Roberts as postmaster. There
was formerly post office at that place
but for a number of years it has been
abolished.
A child of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil c. Bid.
die, near Chesapeake City, died of the
diphtheria on Saturday morning last
and was buried in the afternoon. -Four
other children are now sick with the
same disease.
An old man was badly beaten ON
Thursday of last week, between Port
toughs who relieved him of suit of
alO Gh nd 210 in
Justice Ewing sent him to the aims
house.
A fibr0us tumor, about the size of a
hens egg has been successfully remOv-
ed from the finger of Edward Ellison :,
near St. Augustine, by DR.. H. l.. Clay
ton, of Middletown. The tumor was
caused by piece of gun cap about two
years ago. When the piece was found
it was as bright as on the day it entered
his finger.
w. T. Warburton, Esq, attorney for
public sale on Tuesday last ten shares
of the capital stock of the Eureka
Fertilizer Company of Cecil county.
The stock was purchased by Clerk of
the Court James T. Graham for 500
share, the par value.
A coaching party stopped at the
Maryland House on Saturday night
and the Band was out on street drill
the same evening, when it was sug.
gested that the strangers be given a
serenade. Hon. W. N. Hensel, At
torney General Of Pennsylvania was
one of the coaching party, and during
the serenade calls were made for
"Hensel," "Hensel' Mr.. Hensel
did not appear in person but box
of cigars came out. A majority OF
the band did not know there was so
distinguished stranger in town, and
one of our prominent citizens having
name very similar in sound the
boys of the horns supposed the calls
were for him and when the cigars
made their appearance credited the
treat to their own fellow citizen.
ALPS well that ends well Shakespear
says.
The latest addition to the collec.
ton of farmers pests OF DR.. Kinks
drug store is the Corn Bill Bug, or
Corn neutrality-suspicious. rob
sstusi order, Coleopterai family,
Curculion5dae. The beetles are
nearly one.half an inch in length,
dirty-brown above, black beneath,
and are provided with hard, rather
long q in.) bill. They puncture the
young corn stalk at or near the sur
face of the ground. and suck away
the sap. Mr.. Amos Evans, who fur.
nished the specimens, reported that
his corn crop was almost entirely
ruined. 1t is also said that Mr..
Chas. Reisler, of Calvert, has lost l 5
acres by the same visitor.
The Bill.bug made its first appear.
ance about 40 years ago in the South
Carolina rice fields, and since then
it has made its way to various parts
of the United States.
A driving party from Lancaster
and Lebanon made Rising Sun, the
terminus of drive through southern
Lancaster county and northern Cecil,
and arrived at the Maryland House
on Saturday evening. The party
consisted of W. N. Hensel, Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, George
Nauman, Esq, Eugene G. Smith,
Esq, W. N. Apple, Esq.,, G. c. Ken
nady, Esq, all of Lancaster Bar,
George N. Reynolds, of Lancaster,
General Agent OF the North Western
Life ms. Co., also W. B. Middleton
and James Lord, iron manufacturers
of Lebanon, Pa. They expressed
themselves as highly pleased with
what they saw of Cecil Co, having
driven over the Octoraro hills to old
Nottingham settlement, and ap.
preaching Rising Sun by the Port
Deposit road.
Mr.. Hensel was the guest of H. Fl.
Haines. We like to see such excur.
sions through our section, for we are
not ashamed of it, and not afraid OF
the verdict of such pleasant, intelli.
gent and congenial gentlemen as
they seemed to be.
A young lady belonging to the
better class of society was caught in
the act of stealing pair of gold ear
rings from the store of Henry Erbs-
mehl at Milford, Friday. She had
gone to the store pretending she
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