The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-04-24
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, April "a, 1896.
MINOR LOCALS

CEOWH NSuCCA VI uAStys
The Rising Sun w. G. 7. U. will
meet in the lecture room of the
church on Thursday, April 3Oth,
at $50 o'clock.
Truss the Chesapeake City
murderer is to be hung on Friday
the 26th of June. Poor Friday,
all the murderers are turned over
to this ill omened day to see them
safely out of the world.
The heated term was broken on
Monday night by thunder gust
and copious shower of rain, and by
Wednesday morning the weather
was decidedly cool with a stiff
breeze from the nortn- west.
Miss Sarah Shippers an aged
maiden lady residing near the
Union M. E. church, died on Wed
nesday of last week at the age of S8
years. Her funeral occurred on
Sunday. Services were conducted
in the Union Church, burial in the
church yard adjoining.
A Christian Endeavor convention
will be held at Havre de Grace, on
Friday, May 9th, in the Presby-
terrain Church of that place.
Endeavors of Kent, Queen Anne,
Cecil, Hartford and Baltimore
counties will be invited. Speakers
of great reputation are on the pro-
gram.
Willie, son of w. J. Tibbett, of
Elkton, fell while playing see-saw
and broke his right arm. The
child is but Z years old and has
had his right arm broken twice and
the left once.
1t is something out of the ordinary
for children's bones to be easily
broken.
Joseph Reed of Bay View has IA
ewes, and the fourteen ewes have
among them thirty lambs-all
living. Farmers who keep sheep
ought to have nice lambs this
spring, potatoes plentiful and no
sale for the tubers. There is no
better feed for ewes and lambs
than potatoes and meal.
A negro went into the store of
P. J. McGready in Elkton and
asked for coal oil. Mrs. McGready
started to draw the oil when the
negro attempted to take Mrs. Nc
Gready's purse from her pocket.
She detected him in the act and
threw the can, oil and all at his
head. The negro made hasty
exit and escaped.
Charles Keilholtz whose residence
and farm is near Woodlawn, who
suffered from sun stroke several
years ago, and from the effects of
which he never wholly recovered,
was removed from his home to a
Baltimore hospital few weeks ago,
died at his daughters in that city.
April 19, aged siXty-three. The
remains were buried at Hopewell
on last Tuesday, Dist inst.
:, Mrs. Sarah Kennard widow of
the late Thomas Kennard, died at
her home in Little York, Pa, on
Thursday, 14th inst. Mrs. Ken
>nard resided with her husband at
Mt. Pleasant, this county, until his
death several years ago, when she
returned to her native town OF
York, and made her home with
relatives. The funeral occurred on
Friday 18th inst. Interment at
York.
AS soon as the temperature rose
to summer heat the shad, herring
and rock fish commenced coming
up the bay in schools, seeking their
spouning grounds in the fresh
water streams. Large numbers of
these fish have been caught. Shad
have been selling at $40 and $12 a
hundred and herring for 35 cents a
hundred.
Rock fish always sell by the
pound, the size varies so much that
by weight is the only practical way
they can be handled. Rock are
mostly sent to the cities.
Mary Haines, sister of III. I'll.
Haines, President of the National
Bank of Rising Sun was fatally
stricken with paralysis on the
morning of the 18th inst. and after
lying unconscious for rs hours died
on the morning of the 10th. She
was entirely unconscious after the
attack, her case being hopeless on
account of the impossibility to ad.
minister any remedy.
She was a native of Hartford
county, although she lived almost
all her life in Lancaster county, Pa
At one time she was a resident O.
Rising Sun, having lived with hel
brothers, l. H. and III. III. Haines
from 1860 to 1870 where E. r. Buff
tington now resides. Of late years
she has resided with her sister, Mrs
Brown, near West Grove, Pa.
where she died. She was buried
at Penn Hill burying grounds OF
the Doth inst.
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