The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12


Mrs. Clara w. Rooms of Bridge
vile, Del, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Wilson.
Mrs. Thomas Riale is spending
two weeks in Philadelphia and
Bucks Co., Pa, visiting friends
and relatives.
Cards have been issued for the
wedding of Miss Jennie McIntire,
of near Chesapeake City, and Mr..
j. S. Ogden, Of Dover, New Hamp-
shire. The ceremony will be cele-
brated at the home of the BRIDES
brother Fred McIntire, on Wednes-
day, Nov. 18th.
Mr.. j. G. Richards returned
from New York on Tuesday where
he was ordered by the Secretary of
the Treasury, to represent the port
of Baltimore at a meeting of tobacco
experts from New Orleans, Tampa,
Elpaso, Chicago and other impor-
tant ports, to consult as to the
proper classification of tobacco
under the new tariff law.
Jos. It. Riale was compelled to
kill his most valuable butter COW
last Tuesday. On Saturday some
miscreant broke one of its front legs
with stone and rendered the an
imal useless. Mr.. Riale will pay
a reward CT $25 for information
leading to the conviction of the
person who so fully deserves the
limit of the law for such an I'M
provoked offence.
w. F. Benson, near Pocomoke
City, grew a Keifer pear which
measured sixteen and onefOurth
inch in circumference and Weighed
two pounds and ten ounces.-Ex.
We cannot vouch for the above,
but we can for the following: DR..
j. B. Slicer, residing near Farming
ton, showed us two Keifer pears
last week which he had grown, one
of which weighed % ozs. and the
other II ozs. The larger one meas
ured 10 inches in circumference.
While walking between his home
and Duyckinck & Co.'s warehouse
last Sunday morning, VIM. Efing,
II year old son of H. j. Effing, was
seized with cataleptic fit and in a
few moments fell over as though
life were extinct. His companion,
Fred Mitchell summoned help and
the stricken lad was carried home
where he lay unconscious for over
an hour. After coming to he felt
no i'll effects, excepting a headache
which soon left him and he has
since been in his usual health.
Aaron j. Michner, residing near
Colora, appeared before Squire
Taylor last Saturday and swore out
a warrant for the arrest of Mary
Burke, a domestic employed in the
family. The woman had been en-
gagged through an employment
agency about two weeks previous
and proved to be of a rather
peppery disposition. On that
morning she had been reproved for
some piece of negligence and be-
coming enraged threatened to carve
out Mr.. Michener's heart and then
wipe the entire family off the earth.
Constable Briscoe arrested her and
she was placed under 5000 bond,
but the matter was adjusted by
her agreeing to pay the costs and
leave the State.
The way the gold hunters are
worrying the Eighth districters
may be imagined from the follow
ing item furnished the Oxford Press
from the Cecil Klondike
Orchard West, one of the party
who recently contracted for the
property of G. A. Grubb at Oak
wood, and others at Pilottown, is
trying to buy the small places
owned by A. G. Hess and Alexan-
der Trimble, which adjoin the
Grubb tract. The place called
Bald Hill and Red Hill is in most
respects the poorest section in this
district, there being one spot on
which nothing ever grows. 1t is
rumored that the men who are
buying these lands will soon put a
large force of men to work.
Whether they intend to dig for
gold or some other mineral is not
stated"