The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
MINORLOCALS
Lent began last Wednesday.

in Elkton which will employ five
hands.
The Loyal Temperance Legion
will meet tomorrow afternoon at
three O'Clock.
Miss Lula Booth of Bay View
was the guest of her cousin Miss
Blanche Hindman, this week.
John Patched, of West Noting
ham, has been granted pension,
and back pay amounting to $500.
John Crompton aged IS years
died at the Cherry Hill Asylum on
Friday last after being there one
week.
Pogue & Hartenstine are paying
75c. for wheat, and are selling best
bran, free from cakes, for $14.5O
per ton.
Rising Sun public school will
hold an entertainment tomorrow
evening for the benefit of their
library fund.
Excelsior Lodge, I. o. o. F., will
treat themselves and families to-
night by holding an oyster supper
in the lodge room.
Last Saturday was the warmest
day of the winter and Monday the
coolest, the thermometer dropping
down to 2 above zero.
The February meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held at
Mr.. Joseph Coudon's (of Jos. near
Perryville on Tuesday last.
Catharine and J. G. Bennett,
admrs., will sell at public sale at
lakewood, on March 6 and 7, the
store goods and fixtures of j. j.
Bennett, decd.
The Rising Sun and Charlestown
Gun Clubs held their third match,
at Charlestown, yesterday. The
score resulted in a tie-2S9. In
the shoot -off Rising Sun lost by IA.
Ezekiel Thomas, a colored man
from Brooklyn, N. Y, engaged in
driving piles on the railroad
improvement near Elkton fell a
distance of eighteen feet Tuesday
and fractured two of his ribs.
The members of Port Deposit
Presbyterian church surprised their
pastor, Rev. w. W. Shaw very
agreeably one evening last week by
dropping in with abundance of
good and substantial things for the
family use.
Tickets for the drama, "The Mil
ler's Daughter" which will be pro-
duce in the Town Hall Saturday
evening, Feb. Doth, will be placed
on sale at E. r. Buffington's and
Il. H. Worthington's stores on
Monday next.
Henry M. Mccullough ESQ.,, of
the EIkton bar and Miss Carrie G.
Brady, daughter of Mr.. HI. H.
Brady of Chesapeake City will be
married on Tuesday evening next,
25th inst, at the residence of the
BRIDES parents.
Several additional hands were
put on at the Deibert boat yards,
Elk Landing last week. The firm
has large number of contracts on
hand and this industry is flourish
ing. A large steam barge is now
under construction.
The Democrat reports:
GA crowd Of drunken negroes
came down on the midnight train
on Saturday night. After leaving
the train they engaged in free
fight at the station. Several of the
participants in the fight were cut
and bruised. They were arrested
and taken before a magistrate on
Wednesday, but all were released. I"
Must have a whipping post put
up at Elkton to fog "them" Della
ware niggers.
The Elkton Academy and public
school have severed their cOnnec-
ton which has been in existence
for several years, under which a
part of the scholars of the public
school have been taught at the
Academy. The change will take
place at the end of the present
scholastic year.
Next year the Academy will be
conducted strictly as such, and a
principal will be employed by the
board for that purpose.
Messrs. Blake, Warbuton and
Mackall were appointed a committee
to arrange schedule of studies
and rates for the ensuing scholastic
year, and were directed to report
to a meeting of the board, to be
held on the 9th inst.
A Lyceum has been organized al
Colora. Robert l.. Christie is
President, S. M. McCardell Secre,
tary and William Pierce Treasurer
Thirty members were enrolled the
first evening, the first question dis
posed of was whether poll-taS
should be laid on every voter, and
the subject was so badly handled