The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-08-17

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ing Mr.. Jos. S. Pogue and family.
Mr.. Jocob Tome reached his
S4th birthday last Sunday. Mr..
Tome at this green old age pre-
serves all his mental faculties as
perfect as man of so.
A surprise was given Miss Carrie
Cameron at her home near Farm
ington, on Tuesday evening, 18th
inst, in honor of her 18th birthday.
About fifty young folks congregated
to enjoy the festivities and a very
pleasant time was spent by all
present.
The Magistrates of Elkton are
doing land office business filming
and failing "drunks" and commit
ting the incorrigible ones to the
House of Correction. The more
sensible and effective way would be
to stop the drunk holes in the town
of Elkton.
Robert T. G. Crouch died Satur-
day morning at his residence, near
Elkton, of consumption, in the
thirty seventh year of his age. He
was superintendent of the Elkton
Stock Farm, William NJ. Singerly,
proprietor, and was well known to
all the horsemen throughout the
country.
Hog cholera still RACES about
Mechanics Valley. Sprinkling the
hogs with a weak solution of car
bolic acid twice a day for several
weeks is prescribed as stamping
out remedy for the plague. One
tablespoonful of the acid crystals to
a half gallon of water.
All friends of temperance are
cordially invited to be present at the
preliminary meeting to be held on
Woodlawn camp ground Monday
Aug. Goth, at l p. M, to help per-
feet a thorough organized of the
friends of Prohibition in the ap-
preaching campaign against license.
William G. Burnite, son of Will
liam and Martha Burnite of Cowan-
town, Md, died at the residence of
Rankin Armstrong, Newark, DEL,
ON the night of August 5. He had
been sick with pneumonia and died
suddenly when he was apparently
improving. He was 26 year old.
Burglars at Chesapeake City
broke into P. Steel's butcher shop
and Harry Metz's pool room last
week. At the former place they
got some small change and carried
away a lot of tobacco and cigars
from the latter. On the same
night two men were frightened from
the roof of +. Bouldon's store in
the same town.
Pits of valuable clay have been
opened on the farm of Warren r.
Crouch, near Bacon Hill, on the p.
w. & B. r. r., to Philadelphia.
The clay is blue, suitable for pot
ters' use, and found in ineXhaustible
quantities. Preparations are being
made to ship a car load a day.
Buildings, derricks, etc., have been
erected at the pits.
Seventy five men of the McCul-
Tough Iron Company, in Whining
ton struck last week, because the
company refused them an advance
of 10 per cent ON wages. This is a
bad season to strike for an advance
of wages. There are so many idle
men hunting work that the places
of strikers are easily filled at the
same rate of wages refused.
AT the meeting of the directory
of the Farmers National Bank of
Oxford last Monday, David M.
Taylor, cashier, was elected to
the presidency made vacant by the
death of James Wood. Teller
Robert A. Walker was elected to
the cashiership. Mr.. Taylor has
been cashier of the bank since its
organization in 1888 and also of the
preceding Oxford Banking Com
pany.
Samuel G. Bye, secretary of the
Farmers and Mechanics Fire Insur-
ance Company, and a well-known
and very estimabie young man OF
the Fourth district was dangerously
injured at North East last week.
His team was hitched in front of a
porch of which Mr., Bye was sit,
ting. A runaway team caused him
to go to the pavement to watch his
own horse. The. runaway horse
swerved in on the pavement and
knocked Mr.. Bye down and ran
over him. His breast was injured,
and his collar bone broken.
The third annual farmers picnic
will be held in L. ID. Boulden's
woods, Chesapeake.,City, on Thurs
day, 23d inst. Fine music will be
furnished both afternoon and even.
ing.
The farmers in this end of the
county don't seem to be able to gel
/ up a meeting this year. Ceci
} Grange organized several annual