The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-12-11
NEWS,
Friday, Dec. Ill, 1896.
MINORLOCALS

Skating was quite good ON mill
dams and ice ponds for a day or
two last week.
The free delivery has been re
stored by the Adams Express
Company at Port Deposit.
Henry M. Mccullough, Esq, of
the Elkton Bar, was admitted to
practice before the Court of Appeals
at Annapolis ON Monday last.
There is some difference of opinion
about the mills running but there
is none about the mortgage running
ON six per cent schedule time.
The clerk to the board of review
and control has completed the first
election district, and the third
district book has been commenced
on.
Marriage licenses were issued last
week to Benjamin F. Cutlery and
Annie L. Alexander of Providence;
J. Lewis Minker of North East, and
Alice M. Howard of Zion.
Tle Cecilton and neighborhood
people have recently donated the
free kindergarten of Baltimore a
liberal contribution of potatoes,
apples, turnips, cabbage, canned
fruit, preserves and jelly.
While engaged in laying pipes
for the water works company at
Port Deposit, Jimmy Collins,
colored, had hot lead dropped into
his eyes accidentally. Several
particles were picked out by DR.. S.
G. Fisher.
William Hamilton, pipe filter
at Providence Mills, while uncoupl-
ing a pipe had his eye badly in
jured by the bleach and soda ash
that was in the pipe He was
taken on Saturday to the Wills
Eye Hospital in Phila.
The University Extension lecture
at Elkton ON Monday night was
"The Federalist Party" which was
an excellent subject if well handled,
the descent to the present republi-
can party being direct and un-
changing in characteristics as the
Bourbon dynsty.
The belled buzzard has made his
appearance again. This time in
Elk Neck. The bell strap must be
composed of good material, that it
hasn't worn out or rotted in all
these years which the bird has
carried it's bell. Who belled the
buzzard anyhow
Another raid was recently made
on gang of tramps, who have
their rendezvous along the railroad
between Elkton and Perryville.
Two were arrested and placed in
Jail.
The tramp is the Ishmealite of
the United States.
A painful accident happened to
Washington Taylor while at work
at Diebert's boat yard on Monday.
He was holding a punch on the
head of a spike while his brother
used an eight-pound hammer. In
delivering a blow the hammer
slipped from its handle striking
Washington in the face, breaking
and loosening several teeth and
badly bruising his face.
Miss Catharine Biggs was APP
pointed to a scholarship at the Art
School, Maryland Institute. The
school commissioners disapprove of
the introduction of vertical writing
into the schools. 1t was decided to
hold the colored institute at Mt.
Zoar Church, eighth district, in
June next. G. B. Royston was
awarded the contract for furnishing
school books for next year.
The case of George r. Ash VS..
Georges. McVey, from this county,
an appeal which Ash had taken to
the appellate court from the lower
tribunal directing by mandamus
the appellant, Ash, to vacate the
Office of school commissioner of Cecil
county and surrender to McVey,
was argued on Monday before the
Court of Appeals at Annapolis, the
opinion in the case will not be
handed down until some time in
January as the Court adjourned on
Monday to meet on January ), 1897
The Fair Hill Viva Club has
been reorganized for the winter
entertainments. The officers of the
merry club are-President, Mr.. G.
G. Brokaw; Vice President, Miss
Sadie Ewing; Secretary, Miss Louie
Rogers; Treasurer, Mr.. Jesse
Cameron; Corresponding Secretary,
Miss Harriet Gatchell. 1t was de-
cided to hold the first meeting at
the home of the President, Mr.. G.
G. Brokaw on Tuesday evening
December 10Th.
On Tuesday night, Dec. l the
barn and wagon house on the farm
of Albanus SaXton, near Andora,
was burned to the ground together
with two horses, one COW, forty