The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-08-14
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Aug. Ia, 1886.
MINORLOCALS

Great mortality among horses
from the heat is reported.
Six tickets were sold at this
station for the Atlantic City ex
cursion On Thursday.
Mr.. John S. Green and Miss
Henrietta Hague will continue il
the Office of Clerk of the Court, as
Mr.. Williams deputies.
Woodlawn camp opened on Tues
day evening with a praise service.
The initial sermon was preached
by Rev. w. L. S. Murray, d. D.,
Wednesday morning.
The Mccullough Iron Company
has closed it's works at the foot Of
Seventh street, Wilmington, for al
indefinite period. 1t is expected
that the plant will resume in the
early fall.
Sunday was the hottest day OF
the year, the mercury rising to 9S,
blood heat in shade in Rising Sun.
Many sunstrokes are reported in
the large cities, and the death roll
from that cause was very large.
Considerable wind and lightning
this week but no rain of any con.
sequence has visited this parched
neighborhood. The heat has been
intense, sometimes reaching nearly
a hundred degrees in the shade.
The Groome farm in Back Greek
Neck consisting of $50 acres, was
sold at mortgages sale at the
Court House door on August 4th
by John S. Writ, assignee, to Henry
j. Pensel, of Chesapeake City, fol
$500.
The Local Preachers Camp came
to close last Friday. 1t was the
largest and considered the most
successful yet held. The attendance
was very large each day. There
wese about % converts. At the
sale of tents sites, thirty-six were
disposed of.
Attention is directed to the adv.
of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, College Park, Md, in this
issue. One of the many excellent
features of this institution is the
ten weeks course in agriculture,
especially adapted to the needs OF
farmers children. Read the adv.
and send for catalogue.
George Crawford, a colored man
employed near Perryville, was
robber of a grip at the P. w. & B.
railroad station in Wilmington one
day last week. He reported his
loss to the police and Samuel I'll.
Roberts, who claims to be a run
away sailor from a British ship,
was locked up charged with the
theft.
A young man by the name OF
Gillespie, from the upper part OF
the county fell in with vicious com
panions in Elkton, and while he
was somewhat under the influence
ofliquor he claims they robbed and
assaulted him. The trial resulted
in the discharge of all three of those
accused of robbery and fine OF
$500 and costs being imposed upon
one of them for assault, to which
he had plead guilty.
Mr.. Elijah Glen, the last survivor
of the "Old Defenders of Balti-
more on September II, 1914, cele-
brated his one hundredth birth day
August 7.
Mr.. Glen was born and raised al
Carpenters Point, in Cecil county.
but now makes his home with his
son, Stanley Glen, at Newark, N. j.
He is at present visiting at Galena,
Kent county, Md, and rounds his
century in excellent health.
lit cdSc dSdIllSl OoAn VI Nul VI
and James Adams, who were al
rested on the testimony of B. f
Jordan, charging them with the
murder of Mrs. j. G. Richards al
Rising Sun on the night of Apri
II, 1891, will likely be investigated
at once, as States Attorney, w. 5
Evans has returned home and
stated that while he put little faith
in the story told by Jordan, he
would nevertheless make an inves
tigation.
Bailiff Lambert of North East
has removed the lamps and taker
up the lamp posts, and the town is
now without the means for light
ing the streets at night. The lamps
and posts are the property of the
company that has heretofore Lighted
the streets. The commissioners
declined to make a new contract
the old one having expired on the
LIST of August, because OF the lacE
of funds, and the Indebtedness tx
the light company caused by thu
failure of last years board to levy
and collect taxes. North East il
evidently preparing to economic
to suit the times.