The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-12-29
The Cornet Band paraded the
etroots nm Christmaa mornioU.

Miss Lulu Worthington enter
tanned the Loyal Legion on Thurs.
day evening of last week.
MISS Nettie Brickley, near College
Green was given surprise party by
her friends in masquerade dress one
evening last week.
James Hill died from an attack OF
the grip at the residence of bis son.
in.law, Mr.. Harry McCrea. in Elkton,
on Monday, in the nlnetieth year of
his age.
John Keilholtz one of our most
prominent citizens has been danger
ously i'll for fortnight at his home
near Rising Sun. Grip was the
beginning of his sickness.
The horse belonging to Amoor
Todd, of Fair Hill, reported as hav
ing been stolea from the Howard
House yard on Monday night, was
recovered the next day.
The Burnite property, containing
49, acres, situated at Cowentown,
Cecil county, was cold at mortgages
sale on Tuesday to Joseph johnson,
of Philadelphia, for $1,000.
Mr.. John M. Dunbar has been
elected leader of the Principle Silver
Cornet Band.
Mr.. Dunbar has several times play
ed with the RisingssSun Band.
Christmas turkeys of 1892 brought
18 to 20 cents pound, this year 10
to IA cents. Aud every thing the
farmer raises though not so much as
poultry, perhaps, is on the down
grade.
Two boys PLAYING with matches in
a stable in Millington, Kent county.
started q fire that at one time threat
ened to destroy the town. The loss
was about $4,000, with very little
insurance.
Mrs. Sarah B. Aldridge, of Elkton,
died OF an early hour Tuesday
morning at the residence of her SON.
in law, VIM. G.. Mercy. in West
Elbton, of the grip, in her seventy
eighth year.
The property of the late William
j. Collins. one mile north of Elkton.
containing 81 acres of land, was sold
at trustees sale at the courthouse
yard Tuesday to VIM E Hardness,
of Elkton, for $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stump. parents
of Judge Frederick Stump, celebrated
the fifty ninth anniversary of their
wedding on Monday, Dec. Is. at their
home near Perryville. None but the
immediate family we're present
Thomas Buckwitb, farmer of the
second district, died at his resi-
dence, near Chesapeake City, on
Friday morning, after an illness of
two weeks. He was ffty.f four years
of age and leaves a widow and five
children.
Michael Foley was arrested Thurs
day night last week near Rising Sun
charged with stealing Coulson
Reese's horse the previous night. It
is also charged that he stole set of
harness and buggy from Robert
Christie and John l.. Osmond.
The Telephone Company have, we
are informed, discontinued their ex-
change in Port Deposit. The service
not paying. Hard times Is hitting
the corporations as we'll as the poor
devils. Even the biggest railroad
trusts in the country are going into
the hands of receivers.
Complaint is beginning to crop out
that the electric lights of Elkton are
not as bright as we're bargained Tor.
If municipalities would take the bull
by the horns and put in their own
plant for lighting. water. etc., the
cost to the citizens would in the end
be less and service better.
The cantata held in the M. E
church on Christmas night was a
decided success, the church being
crowded to the utmost. The pro.
gram was we'll rendered throughout
rejecting credit upon the partici.
pants. The church was very prettlly
decorated with evergreen and an
immense X mas tree adorned the
pulpit.
Ben Henderson, a colored man,
was arrested in Cherry Hill on
Monday night for cruelty treating q
horse which he had hired from Jas.
Smith. Constable Lee made the
arrest and Justice Spence fined the
prisoner $500 and costs, amounting
to 1925. Had he been brought up
before an Elkton Squire his costs
would have been more than they
were.
DR.. j. j. Wright of Warwick
whom we met in Rising Sun short
time ago met with what came near
proving a serious accident on last
Sunday week. He was crossing
Sandy Branch, small stream below
Murphy's Mill, and stopped to allow
his horse to drink. The horse put
his foot through the bride rein, and
becoming tangled up and frightened
upset the carriage, throw ing the
Doctor out, and ran up the stream
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