The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-28
Oxford Fair closes to-day.

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Rev. Mr.. Ochford and family arrived in
Port Deposit ION Saturday and he was
duly installed as pastor of st. James P. E.
Church.
The Young Mems Home Mission
Society will hold sociable on Friday
evening, October S, at the residence o.
Mr.. S. P. Ryan.
The County Sunday School convention
which was announced to be held at Row.
landville Saturday and Sunday, October
6, and I, has been postponed.
The Loyal Legion will meet in the
church Saturday, Sept. 2oth, at 3 O'Clock
All members are requested to be present
on account of election of officers. Also a
parlor meeting is anticipated in the near
future.
The Woman's Relief Corps of Rising
Sun will meet in their room, Thursday,
Oct. a, at I O'Clock. All members are re-
quested to be present, as the Dept. Pres,
Ruth A. Graham, and Dept. Inspector,
Sallie A. Moore, will be present
Capt. E. L. Gilligan of Oxford received
Monday, a handsome bronze badge OF
Grand Army Republic distinction 1t is
a mark bearing the profile of Capt. ]. G.
B. Adams, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the
G. A. R., IS93-94, of whose staff Captain
Gilligan was a member.
Mrs. Sarah B. Nichols, on Pearl street,
was surprised OH her 10Th birthday by her
children calling on her Tuesday evening,
and presenting her with handsome arm
chair. B. P. Nichols read the 25th Psalm,
followed by the reading of a few lines
written by Ellwood Nichols.
A Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle has been organized in Rising Sun
with membership of about 10, and the
following officers elected: Pres, Walter
R. Burlington; Vice Pres, 1. Wayne Rey-
nolds; Secy., Miss Addie Smith; Treas,
Miss Mabel Reynolds; Censors, Mrs
Lettie Reynolds and Miss Anna Bryan.
Chief Burgess Stubs warned several
confidence men to leave Oxford on We'd
nesday morning. They were on hand
among the rest of the fakirs pick pockets
and general black leg fraternity who
follow the horse race agricultural fairs,
which are the disgrace of the country,
and few years hence will be held in
similar repute to lottery and other dis
business.
Miss Annie M. Cameron, former prin-
cipal of Rising Sun public school died of
typhoid fever at her home in Pennington
on Wednesday evening. Miss Cameron
had been in pecarious health for several
months and about three weeks since she
contracted typhoid fever which caused her
death. Her funeral will take place to-
morrow at II o'clock. Services at the
house. 1nterment at West Nottingham
Cemetery.
Bailif Bond of Port Deposit, received a
telegram from a sheriff in the interior of
New York state to arrest woman by the
name of Hood the lion trainers wife of
Huntings circus. Mr.. Bond had a warrant
sworn out before Squire Caldwell and
made the arrest and placed his prisoner
at the Falls Hotel, on Wednesday of last
week. About s O'Clock in the evening
while absent short while from the hotel
he was told that his prisoner had taken
wings and escaped. Mr.. Bond immediate
ly secured buggy and in company with
constable Barrett started in pursuit and
within mile of Aiken station Mrs. Hood
and Justice of the Peace B. F. Caldwell
were overhauled. Officer Barrett jumped
out of his buggy and caught the fleeing
horse of B. F. Caldwell and the squire
dashed the horse and cut the officer and
threatened to shoot but the plucky officer
held on and finally with the assistance of
Bailiff Bond brought the fleeing parties to
stand still. Then it was that the plead
ings of the woman were brought to bear
on the officers sobbing and fainting and
swooning and offers of money. Fearing
she might do herself some harm Bailiff
Bond released her. The prisoner told the
officers that Justice B. F. Caldwell plann-
ed her escape from the hotel and met her
with buggy at the lower end of the town.
This is the way the story runs, but the
truth is the bailiff had no authority out
side of borough limits.