The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-30


Mrs. A. L. Duyckinck has ;
number of tulips and hyacinths il
full bloom in her yard which ar
perfect beauties.
There are four applicants for thu
shoes of the present postmaster O
Port Deposit whose term of Office
expires June 9Th.
If Saturday May first is a fail
day a large crowd will gather al
Red Point fishing shore, J. G
Crothers' fishery.
Harmony Castle, No. Is, K. G
E., will celebrate it's ninth ami
versary with a social gathering il
the castle hall, Monday evening
May 10th.
Manly Drennen has purchased al
public sale the Howard farm, two
miles from Elkton. The farm con
tains 1O5 acres and the price paid
was $1,000.
Susquehanna Council, Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, and the Daughters of Amer.
lea of lakewood, and Colora Coun
Gil, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will attend
services at Octoraro M. E. church
on Sunday next. Preaching at 2
O'Clock, Ivy Rev. w. L. Cam,
assisted by Rev. Ernest Greenfield
Samuel Boyer, a Union Veteran,
died at his home in North East on
Wednesday, Dist inst, of rheuma
tism, after a prolonged illness, aged
about 80 years. He served through
out the war as a member of Comp
any G, I'd Regiment, Delaware In
fantry. A widow and six children
survive.
While City Register VIM. F.
Stone, of Baltimore, and his family
were visiting friends at Woodlawn,
in this county, on Sunday last, his
dwelling on North Caroline street
was entered by thieves and ran
sacked. The robbery vas not dis
covered until Monday when a
colored servant entered the house.
VIM. f. Smith, young colored
pickpocket, was arrested on the
Elkton fair grounds Saturday after
noon by private detective Charles
Helmsteadt. He was charged with
abstracting bookmakers' tickets,
representing $l02, from the pocket
of a Philadelphia racing man. AT
a hearing Tuesday Smith plead
guilty and was sentenced to 5
months in the county Jail.
Rufus D. Rowland of Elkton and
deputy register of wills, was elected
to the highest Office in the order,
State Councillor without opposition,
by the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics of Maryland,
at their annual meeting held at
Frostburg last week. Mr.. Bowland
is a son-in-law of Major William
G. Purnell.
The Order made the following
revision in its laws:
That the executive board issue a
notice not later than May 80 to the
subordinate councils to appoint or
elect a committee of one to form a
committee to celebrate the 10Th
of September, "Junior Day." that
the sum of 5000 be appropriated
for periodicals of the order, the dis
tribution of the same to be left with
the executive board; that we pay
our State councillor $3.50 in equit-
able payments, in place of 800;
that the Office of district deputy
State councillor be abolished, except
for Baltimore city, and that an in
structor and organizer be appointed
by the executive board to visit each
and every council outside of Balti
more city, to instruct them in the
unwritten work, and render such
service as may be beneficial to the
subordinate councils, he to receive
such compensation as the executive
board may regulate; that the
services of a competent member of
the order be obtained to act as an
instructor and organizer, and that
he visit all councils outside the city
of Baltimore to aid them in exem-
plyfying the private work, and
give such other instruction as they
may require.
All Cecil county ballots cast in the
National election of last fall, will be de-
stroyed by burning them in the furnace
of the Singerly Pulp Mill on Wednesday
next. The law requires that they be de-
stoyed in the presence of the Supervisors
of Election and at least one Judge of the
Orphans Court
Senator Wellington was one of the ear
Hest callers at the White House Thursday
of last week, and introduced to the Presi
dent, James T. Bradford, leading colored
citizen of Baltimore, who is an applicant
for the position Of Recorder of Deeds fol
the District of Columbia. Congressmer
Baker and Mcdonald accompan ied
Senator Wellington, and strongly urged
Bradford's appointment.
Flag Raising.
This afternoon at = O'Clock Cecil Conn.