The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-06

Tips, 2.254.
The Methodist Church at Zion has
been improved at cost Of 81, 100.
1t will be reopened shortly.
L. A. G Gerry, of Port Deposit.
an officer of Shows Battery during
the rebellion, has been granted a
pension.
Thomas T. Worrall, who was for
merly engaged in the general mer-
chandise business at this place, died
at Wayne, Pa, on Dec. 22d.
John Mitchell, an aged colored
man of Milford, was frozen TO death
there on Saturday morning. Mitch
ell had been drink-stop right there,
"nut said"
Jesse Seedlings, one of the old
residents of Port Deposit, died on
last Saturday. His remains were
inferred at West Nottingham Pres
byterian cemetery on Tuesday.
Mr.. Joseph Hopkins, of Elk Neck,
and Miss Fannie Lynch, of Prin,
cipio, were married at the M. E.
parsonage Havre de Grace, by Rev
S. NJ. Afford, on Saturday, Dec. 9th.
Hindman sold 81 head of cows for
Jesse Lukens, at this place last week
at auction. The cows brought fair
prices two of them going at $40 each.
Mr.. Lukens will have another sale of
cows soon.
Miss Martha Biddle, now principal
of the public school at Perryville, in
April next will have completed her
fortieth year as a teacher, during
which time she Las never been
without school.
The congregation of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of North East.
presented its pastor, Rev. VIM. G.
Rooms, with'a handsome gold watch
at the Christmas entertainment for
the Sabbath School.
A petition has been fled with the
county school board asking that the
public school at Perryville be made
a graded school. The names of 107
pupils are carried on the roll, and
the average attendance during the
last term was eighty-five.
Yesterday afternoon, says the Will,
miDgton Daily Republican of Tues
day, about four o'clock, Harry E,
Giles saved man about fifty years
of age from being frozen to death
The man was lying dead drunk
stop here. Which is guilty of cruelty
-whiskey or the cold :?
Alfred Stout, colored, the murderer
of George Dittmar, the old German
farmer, who is to pay the penalty of
his crime on the scaffold in the Jail
yard Enclosure 5efore 2 p. m. Jan.
uary 81, still maintains that COM
posure of mind be exhibited two
weeks ago. He denies all guilt of
the crime and says he is ready to
hang if the Lord is willing be should
He occupies his time in singing and
prayer. The gallows on which he
will hang will be built by Calvin
Merrett, carpenter, of Elkton. Stout
will be the first man executed in
privacy in Cecil county and the
second hung since 1854.
One day last week young boy
employed by Mr.. Silk at his bakery,
drank such a large quantity of
brandy that it was feared be would
die. Mr.. Silk had received an order
for several mince pies and had pur.
chased quart of brandy to put in
them, he had only used a small por.
ton of it; the boy found the bottle
aud drank what was in it excepting
few spoonfuls. 1t was necessary
to work with him almost all night to
save his. life. In the morning be
again came across the bottle and
drank the remainder of the liquor,
but this time it acted as a stimulant
and helped him to regain his former
strength. -Democrat.
1t does seem like the very devil of
whiskey had been unclaimed and is
roaming at large. Every brat of a
boy who sees bottle of whiskey
makes for it like hungry hound for
a swill barrel. 1t didn't used to be so
Beats Farming.
At the last meeting of the directors
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