The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-18
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, March Is. 1892.
MINOR LOCALS

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VIM. C. Henderson has been APP
pointed postmaster at Cowantown.
John Falls has bought the Farmers
and Commercia! Hotel in Port De-
posit.
The Circuit Court for Cecil county
will meet on Monday next, the 21st
instant.
Twenty-Five members werereceived
into Elkton Presbyterian church on
Sunday week.
Mr.. G. NJ. Childs' family moved
from DR.. Dare's place near this town
to Elkton last week.
There will be fun at the Hall to-
morrow evening when the humorist
B. F. Duane appears on the stage.
The Wilmington Conference of the
ME-. Church began it's annual session
at Grace church, Wilmington, on
Wednesday.
The Elkton boys played the bee
tree game on young Jew drummer
who visited the town. He made ex-
cellent time when the signal gun
fred.
The dates of the Fair of the Cecil
County Agricultural Society, at Elk
ton, are September 9th, 7th. 9th and
9th, about one month earlier than
usual.
Caleb Brinton, former resident OF
the fourth district of Cecil county,
died Saturday night of cancer of the
stomach, in Wilmington, aged
eeventy.two years.
Mr.. j. G.. Richards has moved
into the house on Dr. Dare's place
which was occupied by G. M. Childs
last year. Mr.. Childs moved bis
family to Elkton last week.
The farm of the Tyson Mining
Company, near Calvert. containing
1853 acres, has been sold to John
Trainor, who has occupied it for
several years for $4482.50.
Hosea T. Riddle, formerly Of Bay
View, Cecil county, died Sunday
night at the residence of his daughter,
in Wilmington, of the infirmities OF
age, aged eighty six ycars.
On Wednesday last week, W. T.
Warburton sold at attorneys sale. at
the Court House yard, EIkton. the
farm of the late James T. Simpson.
Ut Elder station, to Lloyd Rogers. Tor
$500.
Elizabeth Wilson, colored, who
was constructively confined in Elkton
Jail charged wish-theft broke Jail last
week from the sheriff's kitchen where
she was making herself useful doing
house work.
Mr.. Thomas J. Davis, formerly Of
Rowlandville, who has for several
years past worked for Foreman Lewis
Craig, P. W. & B. R R. was run
over at Gray's Ferry, Friday last
He died Of his injuries few hours
after.
Mr.. Aloysius Wentz died at his
home in Port Deposit. on Tuesday
evening the 9th inst. Mr.. Vent
had been q citizen of Port Deposit
for q number of years. His funera
was held on the following Thursday
morning, from st. Theresa Catholic
Church.
Clementina West residing at Ceci
Paper Mill woman aged 70 year.
was seriously, and possibly fatally
burned by her clothes taking frt
from her pipe. Being feeble from
age she was unable to smother The
flames. Her son hearing the screams
Of his wife rushed to the assistance
OF his mother and smothered the firt
with bed clothes.
Curious Customs Across the Sea
was the tisle Of Hon. T. X. Stubbs
lecture, delivered before the Friends
Normal school students on Friday
last There was a good house not
withstanding the very cold windy
night. The lecture was highly
interesting and was in some particu
lars departure from the customar,
lecture on Europe and travel.
Dr.. j. T. Whitaker, of Cherry Hill
met with q painful accident recently
He was in the store of Clark Grant
who was handling cat rife, whicl
was accidentally discharged, the bal
entering the leg of the doctor. Th
wound began to be troublesome ant
another physician was summone'
but could give no relief, and he wen
to Johns Hopkins Hospital, il
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