The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-30
NTY NEWS.
FRIDAY, April SD 1897.
Mil>.ORLOCALS
Copeland tomorrow evening

Copeland tomorrow evening
Six persons are under arrest at Eastor
on the charge ofviolating the local option
law.
The Spring exhibition of the Oxford
Agricultural Society will be held on June
9, 10 and II.
The Young Ladies Home Mission will
hold a sociable at the home of Mrs. S. P.
Ryan on Friday evening, May 9TH.
The six year old daughter of w. H.
Shallcross, Jr., of North East, fell out of a
buggy on Tuesday and broke her arm.
Three mad dogs were killed in Hartford
county this week, together with scores OF
other dogs that had been bitten by the
rabid animals.
L. F. Copeland will deliver his popular
lecture, Seeing the Elephant" i'll the
town hall tomorrow evening.
Fire broke out Wednesday in the woods
near Bacon HILL along the line of the
railroad, and did considerable damage
before it was controlled.
Lawrence Riggs, of Baltimore, has ex-
changed the Adam R. Magraw property,
at West Nottingham, for the Drummond
Mills, near Middletown, Del.
Benjamin Stewart, committed by
Magistrate Cutler for an assault on w. A.
Raglan ofConowingo, furnished bail Tues
day and was released from jail
Woodlawn w. c. T. U. will hold a
strawberry and ice cream festival at the
home of Mrs. H. H. Keilholtz, near
Principle, Thursday evening, May E.
Mrs. Eliza S. Perkins, wife of Ross
Perkins, died at the home of her mother
in Elk Neck, three miles below North
East, on Wednesday last in the goth year
of her age.
Mrs M. A. Durney, widow of the late
DR.. Michael Durney, died Tuesday while
on visit to Judge and Mrs. D. P. Davis,
near Cecilton. Her husband died two
months ago.
The peach buds of the peninsula are
thought to be destroyed by the cold snap
of last week, some estimate amounting to
Is per cent. which others place it as high
as 90 per cent.
A bicycle club has been organized in
Elkton. The officers elected are Ricketts,
Nelson. president; Miss Lidie Frazer, vice
president; Miss Laura lamar, secretary:
J. M. Post, treasurer; John P. Evans,
captain.
Nathan Haines Bale of New Windsor,
Md, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, spent a few days with H. H.
Haines and family this week. Mr.. Bale
is cashier of the First National Bank of
New Windsor
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Burlin of Port De-
post celebrated last Saturday evening
their thirteenth anniversary. Friends
were present from Lancaster, Oxford,
Rising Sun, Chestertown, Perryville,
Colora, Nottingham and Port Deposit.
Mr. H. H. Haines is spoken of as
candidate for the State Senate next fall.
AS a member of the senate he would
make a strong fight against the race
tracks, which is to be the leading local
measure for the county in the next legisla-
ture.
Andrew Hudson & Co., of Elkton, who
have been running turf correspondence
bureau for some time past, have been
declared fraud by the post office depart
ment, and will not be recognized by the
service. All mail addressed to them will
be withheld.
A small colored child, while playing in
the road near Chestertown was bitten by
mad dog which happened to be passing.
A piece of the little ones cheek was
bitten out. An effort is being made to
send the bitten child to the Pasteur In
stitute in Baltimore.
The cases of VIM. J. Smith of Elkton,
and Mrs. jenkins and VIM. Reipel VS.. the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company, which were removed
from Cecil to Kent county, have been
further removed to the Circuit Court for
Hartford county for trial.
John Boyd, an old and respected citizen
of Cecil county, died at Havre de Grace
Friday, aged about seventy-ive years. A
widow and five grown children survive
him.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon,
interment being made at North East.
The Zion Presbyterian Sunday School
reorganized for the summer on Sunday by
by the election of the following officers:
Superintendent, Edward Carhart; assist
ant, Milton Campbell. secretary and
treasurer, Cecil Mackey; organist. Miss
Katharine Rutherford; librarian, Ernest
+. Mearns.
There were temperance lectures in
Friends Brick Meeting House on last
Saturday and Sunday evenings. The
attendance was large. The subject of the
first was Neal Dow, the second on Pro-
hibition and the inconsistency oil
Christians talking for temperance yet
voting with the liquor parties. The
subject of Inconsistency" might be
csxriad into t1auy other wallis IF life