The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-21

Mr.. j. .. rogue ~ Don report
brisk business in their line, carriages
and agricultural machinery.
The W. .. T. U. will meet in the
lecture room of the church on Thurs
day, April 9th at 2 30 o'clock.
Spring Lawn Paper Mills have
been shut down for some time
lsumor has it that they will soon be
purchased by MIR. VIM. NJ. Singerly
Mr.. VIM. j. Payne, late inspector
of the Trenton. n. j., Watch Com
pany, will open next month a watch
and jewelry establishment in Elkton
Galena, undaunted by the destruc
tive fire which came near wiping the
town clean out, is preparing to buld
at once and better than ever. That
the way Chicago did.
The members of Rising Sur
Cornet Band are requested to meet
in their room at S o'clock sharp
Saturday evening, April 22d.
j. F. MCCLURE, Pres.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will hold a parlor meeting al
the home of Mrs. Ryan, on Wednes-
day. NAV Sd at 2 o'clock. All persons
having Easter offering envelopes are
requested to bring them.
Mrs. J. R. Milligan, of the first
Presbyterian Church, Wilmington
Del. formerly of Zion, has taken
hold of the juvenile temperance work
meetings being held on the second
Saturday of every month.
Miss Elizabeth U. Yates of Maine
will lecture in the NJ. E. Church
Rising Sun, on Monday evening
May 1st at o'clock She comes
under the auspices of the w. G. 7. U
Further announcements later.
The Joseph Simmons farm situated
on Spesutia Island, and containing
264 acres, has been sold to Messrs
Murray Vandiver, of Havre de Grace
and VIM. Whitaker, of Cecil county
two of the Boyce and Simmons bonds
men, for $4,000.
The Peach Bottom Slate Company
of Hartford county have shipped
several very fine pieces of slate tc
the Worlds Fair, to be exhibited in
the Pennsylvania Building. The
same company will also have some
exhibits in the Maryland Building
E. r. Buf1iugton has decorated his
furniture ware rooms with handsome
signs and plenty of them, and ha:
stored the large rooms with furniture
much of it highly finished and of al
elegant and expensive class, though
not dear for the quality and styles.
The stockholders of the Mccullough
Iron Company last week elected the
following directors: E. A. Harvey
and G. W. Mccullough, of Whining.
ton, Enoeh Mccullough, of Rowland
vile, w. Irving Walker, of Balti-
more, Henry Whitley and Huxley
Harvey of Philadelphia.
In the Superior Court of Baltimore
the case of Haines and Stokes as
signees of the Waring Manufacture
ing Company of this county, against
the Fidelity Deposit Company, on s
repievin bond of $4,000, was tried
last week and verdict rendered fol
81 ,464.72 in favor of the plaintiff.
One of H. c. Cummings livery
horses while out on duty on Sunday
evening got loose from where he was
hitched and started home in a hurry
In making the turn for the stable al
Nichols Brothers store the buggy
got afoul of the hitching posts, was
overturned and received some
damage.
Charles McFsdden, the extensive
poultry dealer, moved his commodi
Gus henaery from the Horse Shoe
Friday, on the Octoraro, Lancaster
county, to near Rock Springs anC
will continue the traffic in juicy fowls
shipping to Baltimore, Wilmington
and probably to Chicago from Como
wipgo station.
William NJ. Singerly, Esq. edito
of the Philadelphia Record, has pu
on exhibition the great steer Prince
Victor, which he claims to be thC
biggest in the world and which is tt
be sent to Chicago. Prince Victol
weighs $50 pounds. is six years
old, stands 6 feet 2 inches, measures
10 feet inches in circumference ant
is 10 feet long.
The marriage licenses issued by
the Clerk of the Court for Ceoi
county since April 4th, are as follows
April 10, Edward A Gillespie, o
Nottingham, Pa, and Louisa r
Simcoe, of Bay View; April IL, S
Kennard Blake, of Elkton, and Ann'
NJ MeCauley, of Leeds; Bartholo
new Collins and Bertha NJ. Morgan
both of Chesapeake City; April 13
Jesse G. Rose, of North East. ant
Alice M. Mahoney, of Cherry Hill.
Richard D Hail died at his resi-
dence nes- Rowlandville on last Mon
day, aged 81 years. He was a son o