Middletown transcript., 1897-01-16
my Maryland.

Chesapeake" a horse for which an offel
| of $25, 900 was at one time refused, was sold
under the hammer in Elkton Tuesday for
$500.
The new Qneen Anne's railroad, which
10 now completed to the state line, but will
eventually run through the lower part Of
Delaware, will PROBABLY be opened to travel
on February Is.
Mrs. Katharine Bristow, wife of the late
Captain John Bristow, died at the residence
other daughter, Mrs. Frank Benson, in
Chesapeake City, on Sunday morning at 8
o'clock, after lingering illness.
Cards are out for the wedding of Mr.. Geo.
K. Houck. of Chesapeake and Miss Corabel
Jackson, of Downs Chapel, Delaware, on
Wednesday evening January 20, at 7.30
o'clock at the Methodist Protestan Church
Downs Chapel
Mrs. John Richie, State Regent IF the
Maryland Daughters of the American Re-
volution, has appointed committee which
will award gold medal to the pupil in the
public school of the State, who will write
the best essay upon Maryla land history.
A mammoth porker was butchered this
week at Salisbury. 1t tipped the scales at
s274 lbs There were $50 guesses as to his
weight, 10cts being charged for guess.
Ernest B. fitch was the lucky one who
named the exact weight and won the whole
amount paid in, over sixty-dollars.
John W. Cris6eld, one of the best known
and foremost citizens of the Eastern Shore
died at his home near Princess Anne, in
Somerset county on Tuesday in his Goth
year. He was the founder of the town of
Crisfeld and in his day was one Of the
most enterprising men in the state.
Mr.. Frank s. Everest, President of Cecil
county School Board, was found dead in a
small spring on his farm near Port Deposit
on Wednesday. 1t is supposed that he had
an attack of vertigo while looking after a
pipe that conveyed water from the spring
to trough, and fell, face down, in the
water. He was sixty years old and an in
luental citizen of Maryland.
Elihu Kitchens, of Nelson's, is "a years
old. His wife is 80. He was 1S and she
IA when they were married. They have
fourteen children, the youngest 35 years;
thirty-seven grandchildren and forty seven
great grandchildren. During the past year
Mr.. Kitchens senior cultivated $4,000 corn
bills, and lie says he can jump a six rail
fence. He was born in Sussex county, Del.
On Saturday evening the many friends
of the Rev. Benjamin F. Price rendered the
venerable clergymen and his wife q sur
prise party at their home in EIkton. They
took complete possession of the reverend,
gentleman's home, and when departing
left many tokens of their friendship, in
cluding table luxuries and purse and con-
tents for Mrs. Price. The Junior Epworth |
League presented Mr.. Price with hand
some nickle lamp.
The historic old White Marsh Church |
near Hambleton. in Trappe district, Tai
bot county, was destroyed by fire Tuesday.
A man was burning brush on the premises,
and the fire caught the building and
was soon beyond control. White Marsh |
was the Oldest Protestant Episcopal church
in Talbot county. All the bishops of the
diocese OF Maryland had ofnciated there
and also Bishops Lay and Adams, of the
Diocese of Easton. The church had not
been in use ass regular place of worship
for quarter of a century, a parish
church having been built in Trappe.
Among the tombstones in the old grave
yard of White Marsh is that of Robert
Morris, the father of the great Robert
Morris, the fnancier in revolutionary
fionoa