The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
COUNTY NEWS,
Friday, April 6, 1894.
MINOR

church Saturday, April Z, at 3 p. M
Wednesdays rain eXtinguised
the forest fires along the railroads.
The Home Mission will be enter
tanned at the home of III. @. Cum
mings, this friday evening.
An extra bar mill and an extra
set of shell rolls were started in the
mill at North East on Monday.
VIM. R. Richards left Rising Sun
last Tuesday to accept the position
as engineer with the Pencoyd (Pa.
Iron Co.
1t is reported that trouble is
brewing in Newark College. The
luck of that college seems to run in
that way.
The appointment of the post
master of Port Deposit has not yet
been made and the candidates are
on the anxious bench.
The members of the Elkton Catho-
lie church presented Father Der
mingham, their priest, with purse
of 5000 on Easter Sunday.
A bill increasing the bounds of
the borough of Rising Sun to con-
form with the recent survey was
passed by the legislature last Satur-
day.
The Port Deposit Amatures are
rehearsing the shepherd Boy to
be presented to the public next
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 10
and IL.
J. T. Mccullough has of late
been severely attacked with vertigo
several times. On Monday he fell
on the street and sustained badly
sprained wrist.
Mrs. Thomas Ferguson died at
her residence near Fair Hill last
week in the S1st year of her age.
Her remains were inferred in st.
Johns Cemetery.
Miss Mary A. Porter's store of
Chesapeake City was again entered
by thieves on Thursday night last
week and a lot of flour, yeast,
powder, sugar, etc., was taken.
The State Council of Maryland,
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, will meet in Elkton on
Tuesday and Wednesday, April II
and IS. Elkton Council No %,
expect to give a parade on the 18th
and grand banquet in the evening
in Odd Fellows Hall.
Howard Brown of Calvert has re-
ceived an order for 10000 feet of
walnut lumber to be shipped to
London. A great deal of American
walnut is being exported to London
where it has become the most
fashionable wood for furniture as
well as in this country.
Mr.. Henry M. Warner has been
presented a gold headed cane and
silk umbrella by the West Amwell
Sunday School in evidence of their
esteem and appreciation of his faith
full and acceptable service as teacher
for the past twenty five years. Mr..
Warner has removed to Zion.
A forest fire was reported raging
at Bacon Hill ON Monday along the
line of the P. w. & B. r. r. three
miles south of Elkton. The fire
burnt over several hundred acres
of woodland. The timber is owned
by DIR. John III. lamar of Ellkton,
and the Mccullough Iron Company.
The case of DIR. Joseph Reynolds
of the 8th district against the
Farmers & Mechanics Fire Insur-
ance company to recover for insur-
ance on his barn which was burned,
has been moved by the company to
Hartford. The costs of suit will
probably be more than the insur-
ance.
Mr.. Benjamin Wells, ticket agent
at ElktOn of the p. w. & b. rail
road, will soon reach his S0th year.
Mr.. Wells has held the position for
81 years, and has served as railroad
ticket agent, probably longer than
any other man in the world. Rail
roads at that early day were in
their infancy.
Marriage licenses were issued
last week to Michael Dignon, OF
Warwick, and Lucy M. Boyles, OF
Cecilton; w. j. Genevan, of Balti-
more, and Anna Gardner of Perry
vile; Arthur j. Connolly and Susie
A. Polk both of Cecilton; Howard
A. Krauss, of Philadelphia, and
Rebecca Barr, of Colora.
The reduction in wages of track
men and other laborers on the p
w, & B. r, II. caused much dis
satisfaction among the hands and q
number of them refused to go tC
work ON Monday. The men will
now receive 81 day, ten hours &