The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, July &c, 1895.
MINORLOCALS

The wheat is not turning out 81
well as expected.
The heat on last Sunday an(
Sunday night was the most oppres
sive of the season.
Barclay Reynolds, Jr., is laid III
with an injured knee, an old foo
ball injury which had sudden re
lapse last week.
That part of Tidewater cana
which lies in Pennsylvania il
ordered by the court to be sole
September 9TH at the court house
in York, Pa.
There will be a fruit and ict
cream festival held on the lawn il
front of Zion M. E. Church, Oh
Wednesday evening, July 31st
Proceeds for benefit of the church
III. G. Cummings trapped car
rier pigeon in the stable yard last
Sunday. The band on its leg is
marked with the letter C and No
931 which was too indefinite tt
locate it's home or the owner.
Joseph P. Brown of Colora has
the contract for building new
court house at Denton, Caroline
county, Md. The work has beer
commenced. The corner stone OF
the new building was laid last week
The will of jeremiah G. Price
was filed for probate in the Orphans
Court on Friday. Mr.. Prices
estate will amount to about $50, 900.
The executors are jeremiah G.
Price, Jr., and Fredus Ambrose
Price.
Robert Wilson, who has been
running the old hotel in Elkton, on
the corner of North and High
streets was arrested, charged with
selling liquor. That old rookery
looks like it would be good place
for speak easy.
Benjamin Campbell a livery man
of Newark, hired team on Sunday
to couple of coons. They drove
the horse to death. Campbell had
them arrested. The Cecil Democrat
recommends a dose of whipping
post. They'll be mighty apt to
get it.
Some harness was stolen from G.
r. Ford of Elkton, some weeks ago,
and has been traced to a cOlOred
citizen named Fred Holland. The
harness had passed through two OF
three hands and was discovered on
a team and identified by the owner
last week.
An original pension has been
granted William M. Let's, of Bay
View. Pensions have been re-issued
to William Cooper, of Blythedale
Robert G. Heath, of North East;
Charles G. Sayres, of Rising Sun
Jesse w. HambletOn, of Calvert and
Joel r. Craig, of Port Deposit.
Democrat primaries to furnish
delegates for the state convention
only appears to be on the tapis fol
tomorrow. The whips appear to
have beaten the Constable-Hess
call out of the ring. Well-there's
a good chance at the polls. "Venge
ance is mine" sayeth-the boss.
Complaint is made that German
carp are becoming very plentiful in
Big Elk creek and that they eat the
spawn of other fish. There was as
much fuss made over these mud
suckers when they were first
brought to this country, as over
the English sparrOws, and they are
about as worthless. We have
better fish and birds in America
than Europe can supply.
Dolphus Price of Elkton who was
lately on visit to jamestown, Va.
secured a brick bat from the ruins
of the first church built in thu
United States by Englishmen
Pocahontas, the wild Indian cir
who fell in love with Captain Smitl
was baptized in this church. Thu
font used ON the occasion is still
preserved.
Monday morning Of last weel
the new barn on the farm of DAME
Arbuckle, near Providence, wa
discovered to be on fire by SOM
workmen who were employed there
Assistance was summoned and tn
flames extinguished but not befor
considerable damage was done
Three horses were burned, one s.
badly that it had to be killed. Tn
origin of the fire is not known.