The midland journal., 1894-08-31

last Friday and Saturday evenings.
Rail birds are reported plentiful
on the Elk river marshes, and
poachers have been killing the birds
in the closed season.
Some miscreant (?) painted Smed-
ley's sign over with brown paint on
Monday night. Mine host of the
'Smedley Hotel" offers $50 reward
for the wretch's head.
A fair and festival will be held at
Harmony Chapel, near Rowland
vile, this evening and tomorrow
evening for the benefit of the chapel
and improvements ON the grave
yard.
Charles Murrey, son of Thomas
Murrey, of Port Deposit, was ac-
cidently shot by his playmate on
Wednesday of last week while play
ing with a loaded revolver. The
shooting was not serious.
A canvas covered wagon con-
tanning man and his family from
Kansas passed through Frederick
town, first district of this county
recently enroute to Dorchester
county. They left Kansas on June
22d and had driven the entire dis
tance of over 1900.
Carter's paper mill, near Cherry
Hill, which has undergone repairs
lately, will start up on Monday
next. The new iron building of the
Providence paper mill will be COM
pleted next week, and the mills
will then start up with full force,
giving employment to nearly 200
hands.
Bass fishing is extra good in the
Susquehanna. J. S. Green of
Liberty Grove, at present deputy
clerk in the office of j. T. Graham,
caught 13 large bass one day last
week off Wallace's Island. Now
green fishermen don't think you
can all do it. Jack is an expert
hunter and angler.
Theodore Garvin and Clinton
White have been renewing and re-
pairing the sidewalks of the town
and have put them in "apple pie
order". On Saturday w. J. Nc
Dougal will be ready to gather in
the taxes at Squire Taylor's office
to pay for the new walks and other
furnishing of the town.
Mr.. Reuben Clayton, a son of the
late Thos. ID. Clayton, who left
Rising Sun fifty -four years ago and
settled in the state of Arkansas is
visiting his sister, Sarah j. Clayton
of this place. There are but two
persons now living in the borough
whom Mr.. Clayton can remember
of his boyhood associates.
Arrangement are now in pro-
gress by which the Cecil county
telephone company will make con-
nection with the Delaware &
Atlantic at Newark. The latter
company has through the efforts of
Mr.. G. r. Maxwell agreed to accept
the offer of the local company to
meet the latter at the state line by
building from Newark to that point
while the Cecil company builds
from Elkton to meet them. Through
Newark connection may be had
with Wilmington and Philadelphia
which will be of great advantage to
Elkton merchants and others.
A man calling himself w. T. Nc
Gee has succeeded in swindling a
number of farmers in Kent and
Queen Anne counties by selling
them district rights for a patent
wire fence. One Of his victims, S.
A. Wallen, after contracting and
giving his note began to suspect
that the fellow was a swindler and
demanded his note. He told
Wallen he had disposed of the note
and Mr.. Wallen had him arrested
and put in jail to await the grand
jury's action on his case. This
brought the rascal to time and he
agreed to surrender the notes and
contract, when he was released and
lost no time in getting out of the
state. Soon numerous kilograms
and letters began to come in from
farmers who had been victimized.
1t hasn't been very long time
since the hulless oats swindle was
worked in the same section of the
peninsula. There is no man so
suspicious of his own class as the
farmer, and so easily gulled by a
stranger.
Country Gentleman Corn.