The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
Several horses are sick with epezooty
n the Svlmar neiphborhood.

| invited; admission, Ioc.
The Spring examinations for admission
to the Tome Institute will be held at Port
Deposit on June 1e and 20.
The Happy Harvesters Mission Band Of
Zion met at the home of Miss Lalla B.
Grove Saturday evening, with good
attendance.
! The game of base ball between Rising
Sun and Oxford Jrs., at Rising Sun last
Saturday resulted in a score of 26-I2 in
favor of the home nine.
H. H. PECAN, night operator at Octoraro
Junction, has been removed to Spring
Grove, Pa. Miss B. H. Morrison takes
the vacancy at Octoraro.
The Trilby dance held at Sylmar last
Friday evening proved a very pleasant
affair, about 80 couples being present, II
of the couples being from Rising Sun.
The festival held at Mt. Pleasant last
Friday and Saturday evenings was a
flattering success, the gross receipts being
$Io2.I7. The amount cleared was $5I.o
The attendance at Children's day
service Sunday morning at West Not
tingham Presbyterian Church was very
large, numbering in all about 500 persons.
George Ramsey, son of Allen Ramsey,
of Blue Ball, aged years, died Monday
morning. Funeral service was held
Wednesday at O'Clock in Mt Olivet
Church.
Principle Furnace Silver Cornet Band
will hold festival i'll Whitaker's grove,
Friday and Saturday evenings, June Fl
and 22. Several visiting bands will be
present.
On Monday, Henry M. Mccullough,
administrator of Elisha B. England, sold
the farm of Mrs. Ruth A. England at
mortgage sale to Mrs. England, mortgag-
or, for $500.
Miss Jane Elizabeth McCleary, daughter
of John McCleary, of Fair Hill, died on
Thursday morning 9th inst. aged ST years.
Her funeral was held on Saturday after
noon; interment at Sharp's Cemetery.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Louie Haines, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. Haines of Colora, to Mr.. w.
Scott PIERCE, at Mt. Pleasant M. E.
Church, Wednesday evening, June 10Th.
A. ]. Mearns of Zion, met with very
painful accident while butchering, caused
by calf kicking a knife through his
fingers, severing the artery in the first
finger and cutting the flesh to the bone.
Rev. Geo. Alcorn will preach in the
Rising Sun NJ E Church next Sunday
morning and evening.
Children's Day service at Sylmar at 80
D. IN. at which Mr.. Alcorn will deliver an
address.
When Harry Clark of Calvert was
driving home on last Friday night from
Oxford Fair, his horse ran off, splitting
him out and damaging the buggy. Mr..
Clark received some bruises, but escaped
serious injury.
Miss Annie Cleaves of Wilmington was
killed by Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore express train at Stanton, Del,
on Sunday evening. Miss Cleaves mis-
took the express for way train and at
tempted to cross in front of it. Her body
was badly mangled and death must have
been instantaneous. She was "a years
old.
The attention of the ladies is directed
to the adv. of Mrs. K. L. Lynch, who is
prepared to launder ladies shirt waists in
the most approved manner, without harm
to the finest fabric. Mrs. Lynch has
made special study of the work in this
line and can guarantee satisfaction
Residence adjoining Pogues' carriage re-
pository.
Elias Renno has bought from Doctor
and Mrs. c. E. Turner lot of timber on
the farm of the late William Evans, one
mile west of Rising Sun, to which he will
He has also bought IS to 20 acres of
timber from William B. Biles, adjoining
the tract he is now operating on the farm
of William R. Kirk, near Blue Ball.
The I54th annual commencement exer-
cises of West Nottingham Academy was
held yesterday afternoon. The feature of
the occasion was the debate. The question
being resolved, That the Imprisonment
of Napoleon Bonaparte on st. Helena by
the English was Justifable," was con-
tested by ]. B. Wiley, W. A. Shaw, ]. A.
Nesbitt and J. F. Gillespie.
H. R. Torbert and H. L. Hodge de-
livered addresses.
The Press gives the following sorry
account of Oxford Agricultural Society's
''show."
A most valuable feature of the Oxford
Spring Meeting last week was the grand
weather, bright, bracing and beautiful.
The attendance Thursday was not as
large as usual on the first ''pay admission
day." On Friday 1t was estimated be-
tween 5000 and 1000 people were present.
There was nothing extraordinary to draw
the public, the program comprising trot-
ting sandwiched by potato picking and
bicycling. The running race by home
horses, two of them reported graduates
from Gloucester track, New Jersey, on