The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-03-29
Friday, March 20 1895.
MINOR LOCALS
The roads are improving.

spring fair June 9TH, 9th and 18th,
A new M. E. Church is to be
built at Perryville which will cost
$4,000. The building is to be OF
granite.
A dog belonging to DR.. Brown of
Woodlawn went mad, but was not
killed until he had bitten several
others.
Considerable woodland was
burned Saturday night on Bacon
Hill, on the line of the P. w. & B.
railroad.
W. ID. Schuyler, aged thirty
years, a machinist at Providence
Paper Mills, accidentally shot him
self in the leg while handling a
revolver.
Mr.. Edward Harmon who has
purchased building lots of G. c..
Crothers, between Conowingo and
Pilot Town, is having them cleared
off and expects to build on them
the coming summer.
The Perryville reporter for the
Wing says: Mr.. Wilson P. Mahan
will attend a course of lectures at
Philadelphia, sometime in the
near future, intending to launch in
the practice of the medical profess
sion.
The property of the late Moses
Nesbitt, near Colora, consisting of
thirty five acres of land, improved
with good stone dwelling house
and other outbuildings, was sold
Tuesday afternoon to Stephen j.
Woodrow for $3,999.5O.
Last Saturday about 100 acres of
timber land was burned over be-
longing to the Mccullough Iron
Co. George w. Shippers was burn
ing trash at the time, when a whirl-
wind passed and carried the fire
into the timber land nearby.
The plant of the Chestertown
creamery and ice company was
destroyed by fire last week. The
plant was established five years ago
and was one of the most valuable
on the Eastern Shore. There was
an insurance on the property of
$4,000.
The freight depot at Elkton was
entered by burglars ON Wednesday
evening, March 20, and articles
amounting to several dollars were
taken. Some of the articles taken
were found the next morning on
the track of the P. w. & B. rail
road near the town.
The tomato business is one of the
important farm industries that
seems to have entirely succumbed
to the gold bug times. The Gamers
find no sale for the goods at prices
that will pay for raising and pro-
cessingand have generally concluded
not to can any next summer in this
neighborhood.
The Oxford, Pa, Equal Suffrage
Association has issued a challenge
to any lawyer, doctor, professor or
clergyman in Chester county to
debate the question: "Should the
elective franchise be given to
women?"-the debate to take place
in Oxford in May or June. The
affirmative will be maintained by
Rev. A. P. Hutchinson and Mary
Head Way.
Senator (of Maryland) Hayes
attended the Farmers Club meet
ing at Col. John r. Bonds last
week and talked to the farmers
about the need of a new assessment
and the advantage of the listing
plan of making assessment. The
Senator is a Democratic candidate
for governor. The Senator belongs
TO the Baltimore ring, So those who
ought to know say.
VIM. c. Conwell, of Dover, a
student at law under r. G.
Thackery, Esq, and John Cuttings,
of Elkton, who has been reading
law under direction of Albert Con
stable, Esq, on Friday evening last
were examined by John S. Writ
ana Clinton Mccullough, Esqs.,
before Judge Stump, for admittance
to practice law at this bar. They
both passed very creditable ex-
aminations.
Henry Smith, of Elkton, died at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti-
more, last week. Mr.. Smith was
in the employ of Reuben Haines,
and was taking a horse belonging
to that gentleman, to the black
smith to be shod. While passing
behind horse belonging to Benz
Davis, the animal kicked Mr.. Smith
in the stomach, hurting him very
seriously. He was taken to the
hospital where an operation was
performed but the injury from the
kick was so serious that he did not
survive the operation but a few
hours.
increase In Wealth.