The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-02

relatives in Oxford.
Miss Gertrude Dare is the guest OF
Miss Linda Brown of Camden.
Miss Mary Little, of Perryville, is
visiting her cousin Miss Alice Harten.
slime.
Miss Sadee Wilson of Oxford was the
guest of Misses Rhoda and Emma
Wilson this week.
| Miss Mabel Robinson of Baltimore
spent several days with Mrs. Eli T.
Reynolds this week.
Attention is called to the adv. of s.
T. Wiley in this issue.
Jennie Gillespie offers some bargains
in the millinery line. See ad. in an
other column.
J. w. Williams has sold his farm,
close to the Woodlawn camp grounds,
to 1. III. Hammond.
Philip Brown is lying very i'll at his
fathers. Tobias Brown, near Rowland
vile with the typhoid fever.
The NJ. E Quarterly Meeting will be
held in the Gnu CHI at Calvert next
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Margaret Manchester of Wood
lawn and Mr.. Archer H. Januett of
Baltimore were married Wednesday.
Please note that J. A. Kirk offers a
very fine farm adjoining the Borough
of Rising Sun for sale, also stable.
See ad.
Our gulf stream temperature proved
to much for the cold wave that reached
this latitude last week and after days
struggle the "wave'' had all the snap
taken out of it Our spring tempera.
ture seems to melt all the ice out of the
waves and the prospect for natural ice
is growing small by degrees and beauti
fully less.
Senator Crothers has q bill to repeal
chapter SIS of tho acts of 1892 relating
to school district trustees, and to re-
enact it with certain changes. The new
bill provides that no teachers certifi-
cate shall be issued to a man under
nineteen years of age nor a woman
under eighteen years.
In the recount Of ballots the FIRST
district gained one for Boyd. In the
second the gain was one for Boyd. In
the third the gain was three for White.
In the fourth the gain was fUe for
White. 10 the fifth the gain was one
for White. In the sixth the gain was
t,oo for Boyd. In the seventh we have
not the difference To the eighth the
gain was tour tor White. In the ninth
the gain was one for Boyd. These diff
ferences are between the original and
the recount, but large numbers of bal
lots were objected to on both sides
which the court will have to decide and
it is impossible to tell which will be
declared elected until the decision Of
the court has been announced. The
court will meet on February Is to take
testimony aud pass on the ballots object.
ed to by counsel on either side.
The Pussy & Jones Company, of
Wilmington, have just completed a
machine for rolling plate glass, which
is the only one in the world, glass
having heretofore been rolled by hand.
The machine weighs rs tons. is All
feet long. IA feet wide and IA feet
high. cost $4,000 and took year to
make it.
The socialist papers notice this in
vention and comment on the fact that
it will throw many men out of work
Labor saving machinery and its relation
to unemployed labor is question that
is eliciting much discussion among
writer's on political economy. The
Single tax school contend al! that is
needed is the destruction of land
monopoly by the single tag and idle
hands will all be employed.
The socialists on the contrary con.
tend that the sngle.tax would be no
remedy at all, that nothing short of
monopolizing all machinery by govern
ment will meet the case.
The farm of IS acres near Rising
Sun owned by Charles Craig, of New
jersey, has been SO d at private sale
to w. johnson for $4,000.
Charley was in town last week.
He lives in Gloucester of race
track celebrity. The races he said
were run every day in the year
Sundays possibly excepted In
freezing weather the track is dragged
with heavy harrows to soften the
surface of the ground and if neces-
sary to form sufficient cushion to
prevent injury to the horses thin
coat of sand is shoveled on. In the
forenoon the track is put in order
and the races are run in the after
noon. In case of q fall of snow large
scrappers are used to move the snow
from the track A large crowd Of
gamblers and spectators is always
present often numbering severa
thousand people.
| Social, political and economic
themes are discussed 10 the mammoth
of Midwinter issue of The arena by
Rev. Hiram Vrooman, who writes or
How to Organize the Moral Forces"
/ j. H. Bellangee on The Relation o
the Land Question to other Reforms"
, Congressman John Davis on "Honesl
, aud Dishonest Money ,; and the edi-
} tor of The arena on "The Onward
March of Uninvited Poverity.' This
issue contains a Symposium or
n l"Rational Dreaa for Woman0 II /,