The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-06-04

Children's Day exercises will be
held at Octoraro NJ. Il. church next
Sunday at 10 Il. m. and Z 80 D. III.
Samuel Lewis has bought the
house and nine acres Of land belong
ing to John Reed, at Bay View for
5000.
A mad dog was recently killed
on the farm of Phillip OFT at Locust
Point, near Elkton, after having
bitten three dogs there.
AS the Elkton High school did
not begin its work until the first
of October, it will be continued
four weeks longer in order to make
the full year.
Posters and stickers are up all
round the neighborhood announcing
the Oxford Spring Fair which will
be held June 8, 10, IL. A good
display is promised.
George A. Blake, Esq, OF Elkton,
delivered an address to the gradu-
ates of the Port Deposit Night
School at the annual commence
ment exercises held last Friday.
Sarah d. Zell, wife of David Zell,
died at her home near Rising Sun
on last Saturday, after an illness of
several weeks. Interment was
made Tuesday at Union cemetery.
The enterprising citizens of the
two boom towns Of Perryville and
Aiken are talking up a boulevard
connecting the twin cities with
shade trees along the curbing and
fountains.
The Peninsula Press Association
has made arrangements to attend
the Tennessee Centennial Exposition
at Nashville in September. They
will go by the Southern Railway,
stopping at Asheville, N. c., and
other attractive resorts.
The weather has been unseason-
ably cool throughout the month of
May and June was ushered in with
one of the most cool, dark, cloudy
days of the present spring. Bad
weather for gardens, grass and corn:
good for wheat and weeds.
The annual commencement eX-
ercises of the law department,
University of Maryland, were held
in BALTIC. last Monday evening.
There were 80 graduates, among
whom was Enoch l.. Harlan, a
former resident of this town.
The McClenahan Brothers firm
have secured the contract for fur
nishing 800 yards of Port Deposit
granite (what quantity is "yard
ofgranite?'') for the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. The Perryville Co.,
areawarded the contract for crushed
granite.
A slight earthquake occurred on
Monday afternoon last at 3 O'Clock,
the vibration lasting at some points
several minutes. The motion was
from north to south. 1t was felt
from Pennsylvania to Georgia and
through Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
and Tennessee. One lady in Rising
Sun felt it quite perceptibly.
Mr.. j. Harvey Rowland thinking
something the matter with his well
sent George and Walton Campbell,
Doc. Nichol and Henry Gibson to
fix it. One of the men lit candle
and put it down into the well,
either the gas or foul air made an
explosion, knocking them all down
and hurting some of them severely.
Joseph S. Pogue and II. J. Shep-
pard appear to be the only favorites
of the nymph prosperity they are
having their houses painted and
put in proper condition for the
millennium which is promised when
the DingleyAldrich tariff bill is
passed.
Solomon Brown is also having
his Pearl street property dressed
up LOT the occasion.
The will of Mrs. Maria Louisa
Bayard Beltarina of Florence, Italy,
was filed in the registers Office last
week. Mrs. Baltarina was a
daughter of Mrs. Mary S. Bayard
of Bohemia Manor, this county,
who died in Florence, Italy in 1881.
The will was written in Italian, and
the object of filing it here is to
make title for the benefit of heirs
to property in this county, valued
at $4,000.
Some teachers are experiencing
trouble in having books returned.
1t is the intention of the School
Board to take legal steps to recover
all books &c. belonging to the
schools, that the pupils or patrons
fail or refuse to return. The books
issued by a teacher are the pro,
perty of the State and are merely
loaned to the pupils. A failure to
return them will be duly reported
by the teacher and the Board will
then proceed to recover them in a
DrODer legal manner