The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06

Albert TAYLOR is canvasslng for very
useful little household article called the
Xxi door check. 1t is intended to
fasten to the lower portion Of the door
and by springing the check down with
the foot the door is held open at any de
sired place,
The Rising Sun w. c. T, U. will meet
iii the lecture room of the church OH
Thursday, April 18th, at $50 p. M. All
members of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society are asked to be present
at the meeting as business of importance
will be discussed.
While John McNamee was driving a
young horse near Harts Meeting House,
Elk Neck, Friday last the animal be-
came frightened, ran up an embanknent
and threw Mr.. McNamee out of the car
rage Mr. McNamee's collar bone was
broken and he was otherwise Injured.
Miss Clara v Scott, only daughter of
James H. Scott, of Elkton was married to
Thomas R. Freeman, of PHILADELPHIA, and
formerly of Elkton, on Thursday of last
week. The ceremony took place i'll
performed by Rev. R. w. Todd uncle of
the bride
P. NJ. Groves lost a registered letter. in
a recent accident to the mail bag at North
East, when several letters were torn out
of the bag and destroyed. By a miss the
through mail train S catch hurled the mail
bag from its hook under the cars, instead
of landing it i'll the mail car. The register
ed letter lost contained IS. So sent from
Bay View by Mr.. Groves, and directed to
the Singer Sewing Machine Agency at
Baltimore.
The Maryland Legislature closed
out its business on Monday night.
A good many titles of laws have
been published in the papers but
not much knowledge of them can be
gained till the acts are published.
Eliza Wright, a farmer residing
near Barksdale while engaged sledg
ing rocks was struck in the eye by
a "spal," which seriously injured
his eye. He went to Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore for treat
ment.
Rev. George Coulson, pastor of
Perryville Presbyterian Church,
rendered his resignation, but it was
not accepted by his congregation.
They appear to want the parson
to say with Ruth where you die |
will die and there will / be buried.
Isaac Dean of Bohemia Manor,
has a duck which lays jet black
eggs. Her blood must be super
charged with-reporter's ink. The
story though seems to be straight
the Cecil Democrat says;
eve were shown one of these
eggs by Mr.. Jacob Dean, of this
town, and it had every appearance
of an Easter egg being almost jet
black with wavy lines through it.
Mr.. Dean stated that every egg the
duck had yet laid had been black. )"
The Arena for April is as usual
full of live articles. Hon. John
Davis, NJ, G. has another article on
the Bank of Venice in reply to
criticisms of Mr.. Geo. w. Gait, who
in the interest of Wall street policy
attempted to question Mr.. Davis
history of the bank.
The Arena is the peoples maya
zine and opens up new field of
literature in the living political
questions of the time. The world
is knocking at the door of an ad-
vanced civilization which the Arena
proposes to open.
The practice of summonsing
multitude of witnesses to try trivial
cases at court is growing into an
intolerable abuse. Hundreds of
witnesses were summoned to attend
the last term that were of no earth
ly use. The .juries were wearied
listening to the repetitiOns of
wholly unimportant testimony. 1t
looked more like a scheme to make
fees for the sheriff than to promote
the ends of justice. 1t is time the
sheriff's office was made salaried
Office like that of the States Attor-
ney.
1t is rumored that the plants of
John Diebert and Diebert Bros,
boat builders, may remove from
Elkton, owing to the owners of the
property which they occupy raising
the rent.
Here is q fine chance for friend
Purnell to get in a good sermon on
single-taX with an object lesson.
The rental values of land in Elkton
would pay the town tax, furnish
electric or gas light and water
woRA and leave all the personal
pre- ~ free from tax and soon
double the population. If you
don't believe it try it by arithma-
tic,
An attempt was made to burn the
druO StOra nf TObn T. NTOoca ~,