The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-08-06
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Aug. 6, 1897.
MLNORLOCALS

Peaches are beginning to 60 into
market from Delaware and the
Eastern Shore.
Candidate for Clerk of the Court,
Williams, was in town Monday
taking observations of the lay of
the land.
Thieves broke into the clothing
store of VIM. Grossman, in Havre
de Grace, Tuesday night and got off
with considerable booty.
The real estate owned by the late
Joseph Wells, ex-postmaster of
Illkton, was sold at the court house
door Tuesday and Melted $6,045.
George Z. Trobridge, employed
in the Rowland Planning Mill at
Port Deposit, had his left hand
badly mangled by rip-saw last
week.
Over one thousand person en-
joyed the Mccullough excursion
last week from Port Deposit to
Colchester on the steamer emma
Giles
A little daughter of Harry Hath
away and wife died at the home of
her parents, near lakewood, last
Saturday, Of whooping cough and
dysentery.
The COLCHESTER excursion yester-
day consisted OF two trains of eight
coaches each over the B. G. r. II.
Fifty four tickets were sold at
Rising Sun station.
e. G. Passmore, one of the parties
who opened the North East Char
bon works a few weeks ago and
suddenly disappeared, returned last
week and promised to pay all bills
within a few days.
The hail storm last Saturday APP
pears to have been most severe
over Mr.. G. G. Hopkins farm. Mr..
Mr.. Hopkins corn crop is entirely
ruined and his garden truck was
completely demolished.
JOS. S. Pogue has improved his
property on Cherry street by stone
tlaging in font and marble step
ping block with name on top. Mr..
Zehnder, proprietor of Rising Sun
marble yard, dressed and lettered
the marble block.
The brick making business has
been lively this year at Elkton,
two hundred and sixty thousand
bricks having been made, and two
hundred and forty thousand will
yet be made. John Gilpin is pro-
prietor of the yards.
The Perryville Record reports
last Sunday big day at the Local
Preachers camp at Leslie. Prob
ably $500 were present. Among
the number was a good crop of can.
didates. No converts are reported
among the candidates.
a wreck occurred at Elkton sta
ton, on the p. w. s. b. railroad,
Tuesday afternoon blocking the
outh-bound track for several hours.
A through freight ran into con-
struction train which was at the
water tank. Noperson was injured.
When frightened horse has the
least sense of any animal. One be
longing to Charles A. Sims & Co.,
contractors in charge of the rail
road grading at Bacon Hill, got
away on Tuesday and ran till it
dropped dead on the street in North
East.
During the severe hail storm in
Wilmington Saturday afternoon
John Malavin became bewildered
and walked in front of a train. The
engine struck and hurled him from
the track, but, with the exception
of cut on the head and one on the
left shoulder, he was uninjured.
A rumor that work could be had
in the Port Deposit quarries Undue
ed number of Philadelphia stone
cutters to start for that town. On
reaching Perryville they found the
report was a canard.
A good deal of this kind of fraud
has been practiced by the good
times newspapers.
Aberdeen, Hartford county, has
had water works put in and the
event was celebrated by the citizens
in fine style on Wednesday of last
week. Congressman Baker deliv
cred an address and turned the
works over to the town commits
sioners. The town was in holiday
attire and large crowd present to
witness the event. In the evening
the ladies banqueted the town otfic-
ials, firemen and invited guests.
DR.. Charles M. Ellis, of Elkton,
met with an accident while driving
to see a patient at Lewisville, Pa.
He was accompanied by Daniel S.
Terrell, a clerk in the drug store of
Henry G. Wells. When near
Sharp's Graveyard the carriage was
overturned and the occupants