The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-04-03
COUNTY NEWS
Friday, April 3 1856.
MINORLOCALS

meet Saturday afternoon at three
o'clock.
Twenty one interments were
made. in Rosebank cemetery since
April LIST 1895.
Geo. P. Wright has moved back
to the Kirscht property and will
reopen restaurant.
Presiding Elder Barrett will hold
conference in the M. E. church in
this town April 18th.
Chestertown was selected as the
next meeting place of the Whining
ton M. Il. Conference.
The Rising Sun w. G. T. U. will
meet in the lecture room of the
church on Thursday, April 9th, at
2.30 o'clock.
To-day is Good Friday, when the
banks and schools will take hol-
iday, but charge the public for the
time all the same. a"
Alex. Hoffman, has relinquished
the bakery at Rising Sun and has
been succeeded by his brother-in-
law Mason Wilson.
VIM. 7. Warburton, Esq, trus
tee, sold at public sale last week
the Blackson farm of So acres
near Andora to E. E. Janney for
81 1915.
Miss Mary johnson died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Caroline
Hall, Elkton, Wednesday evening
of last week, in the 10Th year Of
her age.
Abel J. Mearns who was recently
appointed trustee of the Almshouse,
on Saturday was elected secretary
in place of Thomas Hammond, re-
signed.
A deck hand fell off a vessel on
Thursday night last week at Court
House Point Elk river and sank
before the vessel could be put about
to pick him up.
The merchandise in the store of
r. L. Thomas, North East, was
seized by constable Murray last
week on the suit of number of
outside merchants.
The Rowland planning mill and
preparing to fish are about all the
business enterprises Port Deposit
can boast of this spring. Some
people say times are improving.
Misses Violette T. and Halle III.
Haines, and Horace Duyckinck of
Swarthmore, Saba Scott of George
School and Barclay Reynolds, Jr.,
of Bucknell are home for the Easter
holidays. '' -.'a' by -
The "knee- deeps" are crying in
the swamps and the fish hauler is
a-blowin' his horn and the good
times which the goldbug papers
have been predicting have come
Gin a hOrn.'
James Clifford has sold the pro-
perty of Mrs. Ellen G. Gillespie,
near Principle to Robert Cherry of
Philadelphia, for $4,000 subject to
a widows dover of $4,000. The
farm contains 20 acres.
All the cases of diphtheria at
Woodlawn have succumbed to
treatment and the isolated case in
the family Of John w. Astel at
Zion proved to be only a mild
attack and the patient has entirely
recovered.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage ofNorris Lewis, of Singerly,
s,county, to Miss Mary White
lock Kessler, of Florida. The
ceremony will take place in the
First Baptist Church, Pensacola,
Florida, Wednesday evening, April
Sth, at 8 O'Clock.
The Dutch will take-not Holland
this time but the Eastern Shore.
About 800 natives of Holland
will within the next few weeks be
domiciled in Caroline, Talbot and
Dorchester counties. Some of the
number are now in New York and
will proceed to their destination
within a few days.
Perry Barnes alone will fish a
hauling seine ON the North East
river this spring. The pounds
having ruined the seines on the
Eastern shore and also nearly ended
Che shad fishing.
The government spends large
sums to stock the rivers with fish
and permits the trappers to destroy
them.
The Rev. Wilfred w. Shaw
sectuFed on China, illustrated by
stereoptiean views, on Friday even
ing 9th, in the Assembly Hall
Tome Institute.
S1r. Shaw's lecture on the celes
fials is said, by those who have
heard it to be very entertaining
Chinese farming is almost of the
Adam and Eve class of agriculture
The carts they use are little above