The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-02-08
NEWS,
Friday. Feb. 8 ls0 ;.
MINOR GOALS

This has been a week of solid
winter.
Next Thursday will be Saint
Valentines Day.
r. E. Todd; has removed from
Rock Springs to Leslie.
On several mornings this week
the thermometer dropped below
zero.
La grippe is reported prevailing
to a considerable extent in the fifth
district.
Farmers owning plug loses are
wanting to trade them for dogs as
soon as the price is fixed by legal
status.
Edward Barnes, of Woodlawr,
has made an assignment 10 Robert
X. Rawlings, for the benefit of his
creditors.
The scholars of Elkton Academy
have adapted "regulatio scarf
pin in shape Of a flag with the
letters e. A.
EIDE. WOrrall is booked for a
course of lectures on physiology
before the pupils of North East
public school.
Mr.. Granville w. Lynch has
purchased of Mr.. John keilholtz,
the Job Gatchell farm of about 60
acres, for the sum of $17O0.
Nichols Bros. killed the cham
pion hog last week, which weighed
$50 lbs. dressed. 1t was fed by
VIM. Phillips of Chrome, Pa.
Henry G. Cummings has entered
suit against the commissioners of
the borough of Rising Sun for 500
damage for a dog shot by the town
bailiff.
Alex. Crow and Morris Kitchens
of Elkton, on Sunday were on the
river, when the ice gave way, and
before they were rescued almost
drowned.
VIM. Adams of Rock Run, will
move to Conowingo in the spring
to run boarding house, and has
rented the Fountain Inn for that
purpose.
The fine sleighing this week has
made it rare season of love MAX
ing, which often is of "few days
and full of trouble" springing up
slike a flower and is cut down."
619 shares matured and were
paid by tie Mutual Building AS
ISOLATION of Cecil county in January.
The value of the shares is 5000,
which makes the amount of SO, 800.
The Messrs. Diebert at their boat
yard at Elk Landing, have con-
tracted with Jennings and Lowe #
Philadelphia for building a barge
157 feet long, 49, feet wide, 16 feet
deep.
The directors of the Lancaster,
Cecil and Southern r. r. Co. will
meet in Elkton to-day. 1t is thought
that at this meeting steps will be
taken to complete the road from
Providence to Oxford.
The engagement of Miss Wanna
maker, daughter of eX-Postmaster
General Wanamaker, to Barclay
III. Warburton, is announced. The
bridegroom elect is a cousin of w.
T. Warburton, Esq, of Elllton.
Daniel Golf, of Millville, N. j.,
who is interested in the clay pits
at Welsh Point, Elk river, had a
desperate encounter with lunatic,
Hiram Jones, last Saturday night,
who used an axe and cut Mr.. Goff's
scalp open before restrained.
The streams are filling up with
ice and every indication points to
destructive freshets and ice gorges
between this time and the middle
of March. The Susquehanna will
have immense gorges to float out
and Port is likely to suffer severely.
The first monthly sociable was
held at West Nottingham chapel on
Friday night last. An attractive
program was carried out to the
enjoyment of the company and the
satisfaction of the finance committee
Ofthe sociable church fund. West
Nottingham enterprises are always
successful.
A colored Elkton barber was
examining a pistol Cooling with the
weapon) and it went off, as pistols
are in the habit of doing, and sent
the ball through his hand, The
bullet grazed the leg ola man stand
ing near. A loaded revolver is
about as dangerous to handle as a
copper head snake.
The case of William Flowers, the
young man who was charged with
stealing suit of clothes from W.
II. McVey, of Pleasant Grove, Pa,
on December ID, and who was
arrested in Conowingo, this county
was tried in the Lancaster county
Court and sentenced to three months