The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
COUNTY NEWS
Friday, Jan. 3, 1886.
MINORLOCALS

The Elkton Hunt Club gave a
dance in Odd Fellows Hall on Tues
day evening. No fox.
Some of our Elkton typos are a
little off il locating Cecil Grange at
Sylmar. Its local habitation and
home is at Rising Sun.
Henry Dickson, James Sanders,
and Scott Sewell were committed to
Jail on last Friday from North East
ON the charge of fighting.
John Everist on Saturday sold
his farm in the Fifth district to
Edmund H. Seth, of Chester, Pa.
The consideration being 81, 300.
Another attempt to sell the Sus-
uuehanna and Tidewater canal is
to be made on the 18th inst. at
York, Pa, by the receivers OF the
company.
Elk and North East rivers are
quite brackish up to the towns, or
as far as tide water rises, on account
of the very low stage of water In
the streams.
Our new governor, Lowndes, will
be inaugurated on Wednesday next,
January Sth, the anniversary of the
day Jackson licked the British at
New Orleans.
Next Tuesday the circuit court
will open it's doors again and the
chin music of the lawyer will be
heard pleading with the blind god
dess for-fees.
Cecil Grange will hold installa-
ton of officers tomorrow after
noon. All members should attend
the imposing ceremonies and hear
the addresses of the officers.
A Savings Fund Department has
been established at the National
Bank of Rising Sun. Franklin says
ga penny saved is two-pence clear
pin day is groat a year"
Mrs. Anna r. lamar of Elkton,
widow of the late Reuben d. lamar,
has entered suit against the Elkton
and Middletown r. R. Company
for damage to her property.
The engineer corps of the P. W.
& B. r. R. Co., is now engaged in
making survey at Bacon Hill look
ing toward the Strengthening of the
tracks there as at Iron Hill.
Oehm's Acme Hall, on the corner
of Charles and Baltimore streets,
Baltimore, was burned out on
Thursday night, Dec. 26. The
contents are almost total loss.
Another heavy rain and wind
storm was experienced in this
neighborhood last Monday night.
The wind at one time rose to almost
a hurricane, and the rain fell in
torrents.
The Trustees of the Poor and In
sane on Saturday awarded the con-
tract for provisions for the Aims
house for the ensuing four months
to W. D. Price, provisions; w. IL.
Silk, for the necessary bread.
A well is being sunk on Singerly's
Elkton Stock Farm twenty five feet
deep and twenty feet in diameter,
and will have a capacity of 5S,752
gallons. Steam power will be used
to pump the water to various parts
of the grounds instead of a wind
mill, now used.
The Preston farm near Porters
Bridge has been sold by Franklin
T. Mackie who recently purchased
it, to Howard Bradley of Lancaster
county for 81, 800. The farm con-
tains 22O acres and popular repute
claims it to be one of the best farms
in the county. The farm is good
one but not one of the best by a
long sight.
Giffey Hall who blacksmithed for
the McClenahan Brothers at the
auarries was sent to Maryland
University hospital for treatment,
died from the effects of an opera
ton. His remains were inferred
at West Nottingham cemetery on
Thursday, December 26. His wife
and several small children are left
to face the world in a hard struggle
in all probability.
The small quantity of water
supplied the earth from the clouds
last summer and fall is causing the
streams to dry up rapidly. The
Susquehanna river and all its tribu
taries have not been so low for a
generation, butdame nature appears
inclined to make up the loss. The
frequent rains we have had recently
ifcontinued will saturate the ground
and fill up the springs and streams.
The Elkton Fair Managers have
, appropriated a thousand dollars of
the ill got gains towards paying off
the mortgage on the property.
$4,000 now covers the debt on the
property.
re. Lewis, J. W. Harriott and