The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-30

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Miss Mary Null of Fair Hill were
married ON Wednesday, Nov. 81.
A vessel containing 800 tons of
phosphate for the Scott Fertilizer
Company of Elkton was wrecked
last week ON the Florida coast.
The condemnation case of the
Bloomer land, acres, below Pivot
Bridge, resulted in damages from
the r. r. Co. to Mr.. B. of 81, 800.
Alfred Kirk of Mechanics Valley,
who lost the past summer about 20
hogs from cholera, has purchased
about 80 shoats, to be fed from his
creamery.
Saturday, connection was made
from the main line west of the
station at Elkton to the newly
graded north end of the new rail
road, and the rails will soon be laid
across the town, to the river.
A fine colt the property of John
White of Mechanics Valley had it's
leg broken. The fractured limb
was put in a plaster splint and the
colt swung. The knitting of the
bone and recovery of the animal is
expected.
The colored woman who was
| shot by Cooper. at COkeSbury on
Sunday, 18th inst, died the follow
ing Thursday. There was no at
tempt to arrest the murderer till it
was pretty certain he had left the
neighborhood.
Rumors are current of speedy
erection at North East of a new
structure in place Of the one recently
burned at the Mccullough Iron
Works, to be larger, more modern
and to contain additional furnaces,
new engines and equipped for the
economical handling of a large pro-
duct.
Jacob Leach, an employee at
Providence paper mill, while clean.
ing out the digester, found five gold
rings. The rings were lost by
parties in the city, where the old
paper stock was bought, as the
stock had to go through this piece
of machinery as boiling process,
the rings were uninjured.
The first number of the new
Knights Of Pythias paper made it's
appearance this week, it is issued
from the Office of the Cecil Star,
North East. The paper is very
neat and tells all about Order
affairs. Brother Carey is an Order
loving man and tries to keep every
thing about him in order. He
found the saloon rather tough to
regulate.
County bridges have recently
been completed as follows: One
over Broad creek, another near
Jackson's mill, two over Bacon run,
and one ON the Colora road. The
mason work is completed for the
bridge at Russell's mill, It'll dist,
also the new one at Singerly is
finished. The new iron bridge at
Earleville, over Scotchman's creek,
is approaching completion. 1t is
$50 feet long.
Miss Carrie Edwards of Baldwin
Mills has been afflicted with melan-
choly. Last week she left note
stating she was tired of life and in
tended walking herself to death.
Some time after leaving home the
note was discovered which naturally
created much alarm to the family
and search was instantly made for
her. In the night she was met on
the road going towards her home.
She had walked to Newark, Del.
and returned.
In Queen Anne's county, Sept.
174S, a man stood in the pillory
with the word "cheatn on his back,
while he was pelted by the popu-
lace. His crime was reducing a
lpeck measure below standard. We
have now many petty thieves,
cheats. drunkards and tramps, to
whom imprisonment is little hard
ship,-as they prefer lying in jail
to earning an honest penny. The
revival of the whipping post in
Maryland, or an arrangement
Whereby these offenders might be
kept at road making, in Cecil and
the other counties, might prove OF
great advantage to the general
public.-Appeal.
Backward, turn backward, oh,
: time, in your flight.'