The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-05-12

the Columbia ana Fort DepaSlC IL. IL.
at McCalls Ferry, Thursday, May 4th.
The papers and paper correspond
ents report great catches of herring
in the Susquehanna, and sbad too.
The haulers report them scarce. They
ought to know. But then they don't
"most always tell"
The boundry line between Mary
land, Delaware and Pennsylvania
has at last been settled officially.
When will the line between Mary
land and Virginia be permanently
established we wonder?
Miss Addie Physick, daughter of
the late Lyttleton Physick, and niece
of the late Commodore Conner, died
at her residence, near Port Deposit,
on Sunday afternoon, from a COM
plication of diseases. Miss Physick
was about fifty years old.
The Baltimore African Methodist
Episcopal Conference convened in
Baltimore last week, the following
appointments being made for Cecil
county: Elkton, Arthur Jones; Port
Deposit, George W. Brodie; Cecilton,
J. W. Brown; Chesapeake City,
Thomas NJ. Cole.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Columbia & Port
! Deposit railroad held in Philadelphia
on Monday, May lst, the officers
elected were President W. H. Wilson;
directors, W. H. Barnes, John P.
Green, Jacob Tome, Henry D. WEIGH,
w. A. Patton, Samuel Rea.
1t Was expected that Rev. S. A.
Gayley would preach his farewell
sermon to the West Nottingham con
gregation next Sunday That decision
however has been changed and the
first Sunday in June which will be
the 4th is the time fixed when he
will delyer his farewell sermon.
A few timber and spar RATS find
their way to tide water down the
Susquehanua on the high water in
the spring. There used to be miles
of lumber RATS and arks loaded with
various articles of merchandise. filling
the old Maryland canal and lining
the shores of Port Deposit. But it
is past as dream in the night.
The Epworth NJ. E. Church of
Wilmington of which Rev. Isaac
Jewell is pastor will be dedicated
May 21st on which occasion it is
announced Bishop Mallalien will be
present. II has been arranged to
give the Bishop reception BETTING
the occasion and the dignity of his
Reverence, on Monday, May 22d in
Fletcher Hall.
A number of school teachers
throughout the county have complain
ed that trees, shrubs, &c. planted on
the school premises have been in
jured and destroyed by malicious
persons. Any one found guilty of
this misdemeanor will be given the
full penalty of the law, and the
school board will take every means
of detecting parties so trespassing
and prosecute them.
To morrow Mr.. and Mrs. Tome
will place the keep safes in the
corner stone of the new Institute
building at Port Deposit A note of
the old Cecil bank coated in wax and
placed In glass Theoretically sealed
bottle would be an appropriate relic
which might prove treasure invalu
able 500 years hence to the anti
quarian of that far in the future time.
The Egyptians did such things 5000
years ago and we are now tracing
out by those relics of the forgotten
past what manner of people they
were.
The dredging machine James D.
Leary, Captain j. I. Atkins, accom-
panied by the tug Willard and four
scows arrived at Elkton on Wednes-
day morning of last week from Cam.
bridge. Tie work of digging a
channel one hundred feet wide and
eight feet deep, low water, from the
iron bridge, crossing Bridge street,
TO Clay's shore was commenced, the
completion of which will consume
five or six weeks. The appropriation
is SIS 900. The same work was done
several years ago the channel having
since filed in. The contractors are
James Caller & Son, of Norfolk, Va.
Similar sums have been appropriat,
ed and spent on the + and other
creeks within the memory of young
men. And this constant drain of
, the public treasury will go on, and
millions spent every year. the creeks
filling up as fast as dredged. But
comparatively few persons profit by
this congressional log rolling expen-
: diture. If it were expended on the
public roads, if expended at all, every
: body would be the beneficiary, and
the work would be permanent If
:, this thing is to be continued, we
f move the money be kept out of the
a water where it is lost and put on the
I land where it would remain.
g Edward nunmore, who was likely
e the Oldest man in Pennsylvania, died
c at AYondale, Pa, on Monday night,
y aged 100 years. He was an ex-slave
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