The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-09-30
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept, 80, 1892.
MINOR LOCALS

Inc cecil county sunday Ocnoo
convention will meet at Bay View,
Saturday. October l.
Protracted service began at Sylmar
last Sunday night and will continue
each night this week.
Levi Kirk has purchased E. l.
Duyckinck's farm containing SO
acres, paying $4,000 for tue same.
Mrs. Ellen Gillespie, near Prin-
cipio, has sold her farm of IS acres
to Mr.. Cherry of Philadelphia fol
$1,000.
A farm of fifty acres in the fourth
district was sold by W. T Warbur-
ton, Tuesday, last week for $4,000 to
Lewis Buchanan.
Gov. Brown has appointed DR.. r
G. Mackall school tax commissioner
for the Second Congressional Dis
trict. An excellent appointment.
The Elkton Methodist Church ha:
procured a pipe organ which will be
introduced to the congregation mex,
Sunday. A large audience may be
expected
Miss Annie Rogers of near Calvert
fell down stairs one night last week
and broke her thigh. Miss Rogers
is about IS years of age. Her recovery
is doubtful.
The separator which is about being
started at Elkton is intending tc
skim the milk of 400 cows The
cream will be sent to the Newark
factory to be churDed.
Miss Martha Biddle is principal OF
Perryville public school. She held
q memorial session in memory of the
later John g. Whittier, a few days
ago. Martha always had a streak Of
poetry in her make up.
The Messrs. Ryan tore down The
ancient building on Main street this
week which e. M. HINT purchased Of
Mr.. Sheppard, and found a large
silver spoon under the floor marked
S. NJ. S. A part of the building is
reputed to be more than a hundred
years old.
Prof. V. Roland Watts and Miss
Anna Hubbard were married at the
residence of the brides parents in
Chestertown on Tuesday, Sept. goth
Mr.. Watts is a product of the 9Th
district of this county, and fills the
chair of Mathematics in Washington
College. The eighth turns out some
mighty good men, and no loafers.
The Oxford caramel factory is
shipping candy to London. The
next thing we may expect to heal
from the Britishers is clamor for 6
protective tariff to keep the ''paupel
labor products of the United States
from competition with England's
we'll paid labor. The Oxford factory
has fifty per cent tariff to protect its
goods from foreign candies and til
for tat would be reciprocity.
A colored woman living at War
wick, in the first district of this
county named Martha Johnson was
aecidently shot by her brother who
was fooling with revolver. Thu
ball lodged in her stomach and sh'
died the next day. Another warning
to boys handling pistols. The small
arms manufactured nowadays arr
very dangerous and of no possible
use to the ninety. nine hundreths o
the persons who have them.
The Golden Wedding anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Lambert o
Lombard was celebrated last Thurs
day. Sept. 22d. Mrs. Lambert
maiden name was Mary Adams. Sh
is q grand daughter of George Read
one of the singers of the Declaration
of independence.
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert are age
respectively "A and &c years ant
enjoy good health. There are four
teen grand children.
A large ash tree in the yard o
Jacob Reynolds residence, nea
Cecil Paper Mill, was struck an
splintered by lightning on Sunda
morning Two young men sleepin
in room with the window ope
near the tree were stunned by tn
shock.
A cedar tree in the lawn Of job
Keilholtz was struck aad shattere
by the same gust. The telephon
wires of the long distance telephon
which runs through Rising Sun wer
burned at the pole near the Bank an
pieces of the wire fell on the grount
One of the compauy's line me
climbed the pole-65 feet from th
grouud-on Tuesday and spliced tn
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