The midland journal., 1892-04-15

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on Thursday.
The cold wave struck this part of tn
universe on Saturday and has beef
keeping itup lively ever since.
There will be an entertainment ii
the public school of this town Ito
morrow, Saturday evening, at O'Clock
Admission free.
The contract for building the new
4 railroad from Childs to Oxford ha
been given to New York parties. Worl
will begin on the Goth inst.
The seventy-nine acre farm of Johr
McKane. situated near Cowantown
was sold at trustees sale on Tuesday tc
DR.. Charles NJ. Ellis of Elkton for So,
515.
Johu Quincy died at his residence in
this town on Wednesday morning after
a protracted illness Of several months
aged about SO years. Funeral on Satur-
day at Little Britain Presbyterian
cemetery.
i There was double wedding in
Lancaster, Thursday, 7th inst. the
interested parties being from Chester
Lancaster and Cecil counties. With
one ceremony Rev. D. w. Gerhard
married Mr.. Clayton Fl. Greist OF
Fremont and Miss Ella G. Towson OF
Edwin, and Mr.. Amos Allies of Cecil
Paper Mills and Miss Mary S. Greist
of Fremont. The bride of the latter
party and the groom of the former
couple are sister and brother.
! An effort was made for new trial
| by the counsel of the negro who was
found guilty at the last term of the
/ Hartford court for the murder Of Geo
Ditnore, an aged farmer near Cbesa-
peake City and the petition was
refused by Judge Waters. His
counsel will take the case up to the
court of Appeals. 1t is very difficult
/ to convict criminals and keep them
convicted at our courts. but it
appears easy to mulct an innocent
man if the trial is before jury.
The stockholders of the Mccullough
Iron Company, at their annual meet
ing held at North East on Tuesday,
elected the following board of directors
for the ensuing yerr: Edward A
Harvey, Huxley Harvey and George
Mccullough, of Wilmington, Dell;
Enoch Mccullough and John VINO
Cullough, of Cecil county; Henry
Whiteley, of Philadelphia, Pa, and w.
Irving Walker, of Baltimore city. Ed
ward A. Harvey, of Wilmington, Del.
was elected president.
It is the Intention of the new
management to get the plant in this
county, which is a very extensive one,
in operation again as soon as possible.
E. r. Burlington is having the
grounds and cellar of the Passmore
Hall building cleared pand repaired
Garvin is doing the carpenter work.
]. s. Pogue. the man OF enterprise
has the cellar of his proposed new
dwelling dug out and ready for the
builders.
JEFF Haines is collecting material
| for a new house which he is going to
build on lot adjoining Thomas
Kinks. Mrs. Buckley is hurrying
the mechanics up to finish the
double dwelling on South Queen st.
If it was some other town the in
habitants would be Dragging about
the place "booming." A new fence
and COW stable or two is sufficient
for "boom' in some towns. The
Sun isn't built that way.
A "special' published in Sundays
Philadelphia Press says :-Phineas
Morris, young man formerly of
Upland, this county, is in the city
prison here, while the relatives of
two young women, whom, it is chaTg-
ed. he has wronged, are preparing to
prosecute him.
After his first affair which occurred
in Upland, he went to Oxford,
Chester county where he got into the
same trouble. He was arrested for
the Chester county affair and locked
up to await hearing. when one of
the local Aldermen heard of it and
Morris was taken to his Office and
held in $500 bail for the Upland
offense.
The Chester county authorities
must now wait uatil the Delaware
county case is disposed of.
The gay Lothario quilted the Ris-
ing Sun about two weeks ago. He
had been conducting barber shop
here for several months.
A very enthusiastic meeting was
held by Crystal Lodge in their lodge
room on Wednesday night of last
week. Chap. Mark W. Larkins, Dist.
Chief Templar of Crawford county,
Pa. ofliciated as Chief Templar, after
the opening exercises and general
business the literary program under
the good of the order was taken up
under this head. Bro. Myers read q
selection. sister Rhoda v. Wilson
favored the lodge with one of her
beautiful musical nro,inctiona. Rro