The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-03-10


The County Commissioners, Schoo
Commissioners and Orphans Court viii
meet next Tuesday.
States Attorney Austin l.. Crothers is
seriously i'll at his room i'll the Howard
House with kidney trouble.
DR.. H. H. Mitchell, who is at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, is reported much
better, and his sister, Mrs. John Stump,
of Perryville, is also growing stronger.
Complaint was made to Justice Par
fridge on Tuesday that the four children
of Calvin Shippers, who resides in a
tenant house on the Blue Ball road about
mile above Elkton, were i'll destitute
and starving condition.
Next week Wilmington Conference Of
the M. E. Church will be in session when
the change of preachers will be named.
Rev. J. E. Bryan of Rising Sun pulpit
has pleased his congre cation SO we'll that
they will ask for his retention.
Mrs. Hanna Beaston Taylor, wife Of
Jesse Taylor, died of apoplexy, at her
home near Big Elk School on Monday
last, in the 72d year of her age. Mrs.
Taylor was Miss Mendenhall, of West
Chester, Pa, and had lived in the Fourth
district for more than forty years.
VIM. Brown, executor of Luke Brown,
decd, will sell at public sale household
goods and other personal property at his
residence in Rising Sun on March 23d.
He will also sell lot of new farm nachin-
cry. J. M. Campbell will sell part of his
household effects at the same time and
place.
Harry Woodrow and DR.. Crothers
narrowly escaped drowning short
time ago at Conowingo. Their horse
frightened while on the bridge and
jumped into the race. The men were
helped out by assistants who we're
fortuna tely at hand.
The suit of the Copper Smelling
and Rolling Company against the
Eureka Fertilizer Company. which
was tried in BeIair court went against
the Eureka Company for damages
for S2,0S4 which was for injury to a
boat belonging to the former CON-
pany.
Mr. Delphos Price, of Elkton, who
had leased the felton, House, and
expected to take possession on the
Goth inst. has sold his lease to PAila
delphia parties who have also bought
out Mr.. Phillips. who is the present
landlord. Mr.. Price will continue at
his present location.
Mr.. Samuel J. Harlan who last
year was tenant on the Gillespie
property, near Colora, will remove to
the farm of Joseph Coudon. at Perry.
vile. Mr.. Harlan will find room for
the exercise of all his ability in
agriculture on the fine farm of Mr..
Coudon. This is the neighborhood
that produces good practical farmers.
There are five mild cases ofinsanity
in Elkton Jail. Confinement in
prison and doing nothing Is a good
system of producing insanity. There
is large field inviting Improvement
in our system of criminal "punish.
ment' and restraint of the insane.
To punish is to avenge and the state
should be superior to such sordid
animal passion.
The contract for driving the stage
from Earleyille to Middletown, by
way of Cecilton and Warwick, has
been given to Albert Jones of War
wick. Md. for $40 per annum.
No individual could have hired him
to do it for proba oily twice that amount
of money. The horse feed and wear
of harness and carriage will cost
close to 5000 People do like to
work for Uncle Sam.
A number of the most enterprisipg
Elktonians who incline toward
culture" have organized for the pur
pose of establishing public library.
They propose to have the association
chartered under the name of The
Elkton Library of Cecil County. The
most difficult part to overcome in
town libraries is to get the citizens
to read the books. The popular taste
for reading is both satisfied and de-
PRAYED by the daily press.
George Matthews, the negro who
is suspected of setting fire TO the
barn of William K Lockwood. near
Warwick. and who is also charged
with being the author of several other
fires, has been traced to Wayne, Pa.
A letter was sent from him to mis-
wife at Massey's post office, and in
this way the c'ew was gained.
Measures were taken to secure his
arrest. That tell.tale letter back
home has been the means of captur-
ing many a criminal.
Bailff Boulder, of Elkton, says
from a record kept of each night that
he has lit the street lamps during the
ttirty.four months that he has been
baiiff he finds that in lighting. put
ting out and filling them he has walk
ed over five thousand Eve hundred