The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-08

Pogue.
Mrs. S. w. Lewis of Kennett
Square, spent several days this
week with Mrs. Amy Reynolds.
Miss Mollie r. Wilson spent sew
eral days this week with Misses
III. Jennie and A. Mabel Reynslds.
Mrs. Anna L. Haines of Princess
Anne, spent several days last week
with A. L. Duyckinck and family.
About fifty young folks rendered
a surprise to Miss Cordelia Touch
ton at her home near Sylmar last
Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson Tosh, OF
Colora, are on six-day trip visit
ing relatives in York and also to
attend the York county fair which
is being held there this week.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Bertha Elizabeth,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. III. G.
Nesbitt of Port Deposit, to Mr.. B.
Brentnall Lathbury of Philada.,
Wednesday evening, Oct. 20, at 6
O'Clock, in Tome M. E. church. A
reception will be rendered the bride
and groom by Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Tome at $3.50 o'clock.
! Webster Brown of Lombard, and
Miss Harriet McMullen of Fair
fax county, Va, were married on
last Wednesday evening, by Rev.
A. P. Prettyman of Zion.
Henry Burkins, of Hartford Co.,
and Miss Margaret Shade, of Rising
Sun, were married Thursday, Sept.
3Oth, at Chestnut Hill, Hartford Co.,
by Rev. G. II. Littleton.
Mr.. VIM. P. Gilpin, of Philada.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Gilpin,
of Elkton, was married ON Thurs
day, Sept. 80, to Miss Mamie Had
dack Buchler, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. G. Buchler. The cere-
mony took place in Holy Trinity
Memorial Chapel, Philadelphia.
Joseph L. Wells, of Elkton, has
received the appointment of Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, with
headquarters at Wilmington, salary
$1,000. Joseph was head rounder
up of the colored brother sof Elkton
on the eve of election. He was
considered the best COW boy on the
ranch.
There was a desperate fight last
week amonga lot Of tramps in box
car attached to a moving freight
train. When near Charlestown a
negro was shot in the right side
and pitched from the train, where
he was found in a serious condition
and sent to a Baltimore hospital.
Two white men were thrown from
the train above North East.
The new Jewish year was ushered
in on Sunday evening, Sept. 26,
with twilight. 1t is the 565Sth
year in the Hebrew Calendar,
which is dated from the period at
which the world is calculated to
have begun.
1t is now well known that the
old "patriarch" who fixed this date
was several million years behind
time.
The postoffice department has
furnished a comparative statement
of the receipts at the presidential
offices in Maryland for 1896 and
1897. The following are the three
in Cecil county: Elkton, 100,
$5, 22O.25; '97, $5,69S.53. Port
Deposit, '96, S2,763.9O; '97,
81, 766.S5. Rising Sun, '96,
81, SS3.93; '97, $2,536.77. The
Rising Sun office shows one of the
largest proportionate increases in
the State and Elkton comes next.
The Tenth Annual reunion of
Battery B, LIST Md. Light Artillery,
commonly knownas Shows Battery,
was held at Perryville last Satur-
day. Thirty-nine members were
present and most enjoyable time
was spent. Speeches were made by
Revs. Harvey w. Ewing and F. B.
Short and j. G. Mulliken, Esq, of
Easton, Md, republican candidate
for Associate Judge of the Circuit
Court. The ladies of the Art Circle
furnished the Battery with a boun-
tiful repast.
On Saturday morning last while
Joseph Richardson, who lives a
short distance from town, was driv-
ing some horses in from the field,
one of them whirled and kicked
him on the leg breaking it about
three inches above the knee, and
at the same time severing an artery
When found some time afterward
Mr.. Richardson was very weak
from the loss of a quantity of blood
Mr.. Richardson is about IS years
: of age and few years ago fell from
a ladder, fracturing his leg at the
hip. His advanced age and weak
ened condition will greatly retard
his recovery from this later
. accident.