The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-19
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, August 10, 1892
MINOR LOCALS

VIM. Browns cannery whistle
sounded on Tuesday morning and
he commenced canning corn on that
day.
Fifteen Italian stone cutters arrived
at Port Deposit last week and were
put to work at McClenahan brothers
quarries.
The doctors of Chester, Lancaster
Hartford and Cecil counties will hold
their annual picnic at Happy Valley
on next Thursday.
A temperance meeting under the
auspices of the quarterly meeting
committee will be held at East Not
tipeham Friends meeting house on
the 9th inst. at 10 o'clock and
First day school union in the after.
noon of same day at 2 O'Clock. AL
interested are invited to attend.
WE. Burns, formerly Of Rising
Sun and employ ed in j. S. Posue &
Sons carriage factory, now OF Havre
de Grace, has filed claim for
damages, also an injunction, against
a Baltimore firm for infringement on
his patent for a road cart. Mr..
Burns claim is for $40 600 damage.
Record Of marriage licenses Aug
W. Roy Fryer, of Chester, Pa, and
Ella D. Fryer, of Cherry Hill. Aug
9, Frederick Baker and Lydia Ii.
Shockley, of Warwick August H.
Fren f. Strickland, of Elkton, and
Amey Badders, of Fair Hill. Aug
l, John G. Grier and Edith M
Richey, OF Conowingo'
Cecil Grange meets to morrow and
all members should make an effort to
be present. The meeting will be an
important one, arrangements for the
Woodlawn meeting which is on next
Tuesday and Wednesday will have
to be perfected at to morrow's meet
ing of the grange. Let all the mem
bers be punctual in attendance.
The P. w. & B. r. r. Co. are
making important Improvements in
Strengthening the track in this county
A lengthy piece of curves near
Charlestown has been Strengthened
and the engineers have been locating
lines about Elkton for the purpose
of taking the curves out, When the
change is made the track will be
north of the depot, which will be
moved it is said further east on or
near North street.
At Woodlawn camp meeting
grounds, in Cecil county, on Sunday,
Henry Jordan, during an alteration
with VIM. Hess drew revolver,
with which he accidentally shot him
self in the left thigh. The ball took
a downward course and produced a
bad wound. After medical attention
he was arrested and sent to Jail.
A great deal OF whiskey and
whiskey disturbance were reported
on the suburbs of the camp ground
on Sunday. 1t will ne ever thus
while part of the church and some OF
its members have synpathlzIng
word for poor, much abused whiskey
A fatal disease known as anthrax
has made its appearance among
cattle on the peninsula. 1t is warm
weather disease, attacking the blood
intestines and spleen. After COW
is attacked death is matter of but
two or three hours. The disease
does not spread very rapidly to diff
fferent herds, but when it enters one
herd it is liable to 90 through it
Near the Maryland and Delaware
State line six herds are reported
affected, and eighteen cows have dice
and more deaths will probably follow
Two cases of blood poisoning, result
ing from cutting up cadavers of COWS
whose death was caused by the
disease, are reported from this
vicinity.-Cecil Democrat.
J. Newmon Davis, son of Col. /
D. Davis cashier of Second Nationa
Bank of Elkton), and who is in The
employ of the Pusey & Jones Com
pany, Wilmington, is engaged il
transIating from the German, a work
on paper making, written by Car
Hoffman,, formerly of this county
but now residing in Germany.
Carl Hoffman, was for a number o
years foreman of Marley paper mill
in the employ of G. W. Childs of The
Ledger, and while in this country
prepared most of his book on paper
making, which is handsomely Illus
trated, and is claimed to be very
thorough and exhaustive work, goins
into details of all branches of thu
paper making business.
A Middletown lady few evenings
ago ordered her servant to secure {
piece of ice from neighborins
restaurant and serve at tea time
q pitcher of iced tea. At the appoint
ed hour the ebony hued maid bore I
pitcher of piping hot tea into thu
room, and upon being questioned
regarding the disposal of the ice sale
she "biled it with the tea.
This story is apropos of one VI
once beard of a West India gentle
maa in the Older times when ice il