The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-03-24
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday. Mar. 81 1898.
MINOR LOCALS

MINOR LOCALo
A freight boat will ply this season
between Port Deposit and Baltimore.
The sun crossed the big line fence on
Tuesday and is coming up this way
slowly.
The w. C. T. u. of Rising Sun VIII
meet in the lecture room OF the church
IN Thursday, March 30th at $50 p. m.
Fitful March keeps up its record for
Sudden change of moods. Most of the
moods are very shrewish. They are
most all storm.
BENJAMIN Thomas, James Roney
and John L Moore were elected town
commissioners of North East Monday.
Archibald Lambert was again chosen
bailiff.
Eighteen head of hogs belonging to E.
A. & III. B. Pugh. East Nottingham,
have died from cholera within the past
few DAYS. The firm has had SO head to
die from this cause during the last few
weeks.
The Wilmington Fair Association
has determined to dissolve. 1t has
sunk $50 600. TIE buildings, &c. will
be sold by the sheriff for the benefit of
the creditors.
There was a trustees sale of George
Anderson's property at Port Deposit on
Monday. The drug store was sod to
Geo. Stengle. editor OF Port Deposit
Press. for $3.50. The drugs and farm
were Withdrawn.
What is claimed II be the largest and
finest Percheron draught horse in the
State is owned in Havre de Grace by
Mr.C, C. Pusey. The horse weighs
1900 pouuds, takes 20 inch collar and
stands 1919 hands high. Too big
Mrs. Susan Maxwell, relict of the late
Thomas Maxwell of this fthe 6thJ dist,
died at Haverford Pa. where she re-
sided, March 18th. aged IS. The deceas-
ed suffered a paraiytic stroke last
summer from the effects of which she
never recovered.
A freight wreck. in which fifteen cars
were derailed occurred at North East
on the Philadelphia. Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad. about half past 8
o'clock on Thursday night of last week
by a collision of two trains. One OF
the engineers was slightly hurt.
Riyertro Franiccelo, an italian. aged
about twenty-five years, labo1er on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was
instantly killed bv train Tuesday
morning at Les lie station. He was
hurled over one hundred feet and near
" every bone in his body was broken.
State Comptroller Marion DeK.
Smith has made the quarterly distribu
Al coH 70 n III
more CITY and the several counties.
drafts for same being payable on aud
after the 25th inst Cecil countv's share
Ia: White, So, 46l .09; colOred, S457 ,36.
Mrs. Maria Culley of Hayre de Grace.
while on visit to her daughter Mrs.
Laura Duane, near Avonda'e. Pa. suf
fered stroke of paralv sis which caused
her death. She was 81 years old One
Perryvile for the P. w. & B. r Co.
Another sou. R. ]. Culley. is telegraph
operator for the B. & o. Company.
Mr.. McCrery of Fremont. has shot
a hawk which had spread of wing So
inches. Hawks wings have great
deal of stretch in them 1t the next
hunter will pull little harder he can
add an inch or two more to this record.
to be protected and not destroyed. 50
aay the naturalists who have made the
hapits of the birds study,
If our town commissioners would
borrow one of those road scrapers. the
property of the county, that are said to
be living about in the woods, and scrape
the mud off of South Queen street 1t
would be good job. The wheels have
ho n a
stone ia covered in some place inches,
and If the matter Is not attended to the
street will again lapse into an old
time mud hole.
Censns bu' letin No. $40 gives statis-
ties of churches. Among the figures
are the following respecting the Metho-
dist Protestant Church on this PENN
sula: Cecil-Number of organizations.
ii: church edifices, II; seating capacity.
$3.50 value of church property. S32, $50:
communicates or members, $685. The
animal expense is not stated.
The Episcopal branch of the church
is much larger in the same territory.
MIS-. L. Denny ofSvlmar, has recent
ly erected an engine room as an ad
dition to his factory and placed a
twenty-horse-p power engine in it He
is now engaged in manufacturing
machinery.
Mr.. M. Taylor Nesbitt, of the same
town has recently added new store
building to the Improvements of the
place, and the new NJ. E Church folks
talk of building hitching shed. Merci-
full men are merciful to their horses.
The Appeal is enthusiastic in praise of
the electric lights. Among other things
it says:-On Fridas night last the trus-
tees of the Presbyterian Church, with
out a dissenting vote, adopted the
electric light for the church, after one
months trial The church is beautifully
lighted, both the main audience room
aud the chapel, and it is now one of
the handsomest, if not the handsomest
lighted church on the Peninsula. Our
streets are beautifully and brilliantly
lighted all night in every part of the
town Electric lights will soon illumi
nate almost every house in Elkton.
A gang of railroad carts passed
through Newark, Del, one evening
last week, and the President of the
society for the prevention of Cruelty
to Animals observing that the mules
drawing two of the carts were about
tagged out notified the boss of the gang
that the animals must be put up and
remain there till rested. The tender
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