The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-10-25
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. 25 1895.
MINOR LOCALS

inc COUNTY.
The Bank building is receiving {
coatof paint this week. II. G. Price
of Principle has the job i'll hand.
Rising Sun Band accompanied
the Sixth Dist. Republican Club tC
the mass meeting at Elkton yester-
day.
The hog cholera is prevalent in
the vicinity of ElktOn. DR.. Ellis
has lost seventy-five on his farm
near town.
John e. Alexander husked from
his field Of three acres in the sub
urbs of Elkton, over three hundred
bushels of corn.
w. n. Let's, a successful stock
and dairy farmer near Bay View,
died at his home on Thursday night
October 18th, of consumption.
The canning factory and fixtures
of McGaw & Smith, at Elkton, have
been sold to Mrs. n. j. Smith OF
Washington, ID. c., for $1,000.
The house and lot of e. S. Drum
mond, at North East, were sold by
John NJ. Terrell, auctioneer, on
Friday to VIM. V. Moore, of Cherry
Hill, for $50.
Captain Philip II. Ellis, brother
of DR.. G. NJ. Ellis, of Elkton, has
been promoted to the rank of major,
and is stationed at Fort Porter,
near Buffalo, N. Y.
Cards are out for the wedding of
Miss Helen Boulder, of Bel Air,
and Mr.. John A. Evans, from Cecil
county, in the Emanuel p. E.
Church, Bel Air, Oct. 29th.
John McCabe, colored, of Elkton
was arrested, charged with shooting
a carrier pigeon belonging to Elk
View Homing Club. He was fined
IS and costs, amounting in all to
$685..
w. F. McSparran, attorney for
Marion McSparran, will sell at
public sale ON Nov. 18th on the
farm of David Bentz, near Oak
wood, farm stock and other per
sonal property.
James T. Graham, clerk of the
court, left EIkton on Saturday for
Asheville, N. c., where he will
spend the winter, if the climate
agrees with him otherwise he will
go further south.
Mrs. Foster, in Calvert neighbor
hood, had several bags of apples
taken from her barn last week.
The rascal waited till the apples
were picked and sacked, then he
came for them.
There is a superhuman effort
the application to be to politicians
only-tO change the offices in this
county from one set of men to
another. That is all there is in the
rubadub now going on.
The Gloucester races are in full
blast this week at Elkton. Every
house and store in Elk that is
worth breaking into will be ex-
amined and burglarized if possible
about the wind up of the affair.
The county commissioners have
contracted with McQuilkin Of
Elkton for a new iron bridge to re-
place one of the bridges at North
East. The contract calls for its
completion by the LIST of December.
An unknown man, supposed to
be tramp, died at Perryville Sun
day from injuries received by falling
from a freight train at Charlestowr
the night previous. His legs were
cut off and he was otherwise injured
VIM. S. Evans, as trustee, sold
the farm of the late James N
Cleland on Tuesday to Thomas
Conrey, of Chesapeake City, fol
$500. The property is situated
south of Elkton and contains IL
acres.
An epidemic of the nature o.
diphtheria is proving fatal il
Havre de Grace and vicinity. A
number of children have lately
been attacked and but few of then
survive il. Two deaths were re
ported from it on Saturday last.
Reynolds & Hunt are laying
pipe along Cherry Street, from tn,
wind mill at III. G. Cummings
livery stable to the house occupied
by Miss S. j. Clayton, for the pur
pose of conveying water thereto
Mr.. Cummings will remove there
next spring.
Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, widow
of the late Rev. John Armstrong
died at her country residence nea
Port Deposit Sunday evening. Mrs
Armstrong was a sister to Mr.. j
Harvey Rowland. one of the oldes
families of Cecil county. She wa
6S years old. A paralytic strok'
caused her death.
Thomas w. Tyson, an old resi-
dent of Cecil county, died on Frida.