The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-19
COlJ NTY NEWS
Friday, Nov. 10. 1897.
ML\ORLOCALS

Wild pigeons are reported mum
erous in the woods near Elkton.
Several cases of scarlet fever, il
a mild form, are reported in North
East.
Holmes G.. L. S. G. will meet to.
morrow evening at the home Of
Mrs. Mary l.. Brown.
The teachers institute to be held
at Elkton will soon fire the ambi
ton of the school marms of Cecil
county.
Geo. r. Ash, School Commits
sioner, is representing Cecil county
this week at the meeting of the
Board of Health in Baltimore.
A boy, a refugee from the Penn
sylvania House of Refuge, was
arrested in Port Deposit last week
and returned to the institution.
Don't forget that next Thursday
is Thanksgiving day, and have
your gobblers and cranberry sauce
ready with celery as an appetizer.
The West Nottingham Academy
Tome Institute foot ball game at
Nottingham last Saturday resulted
in Il victory for the w. n. A.
Score, 9-G.
Goe. r. Grason has on exhibition
in Reynolds drug store a large flat
top purple turnip which he raised
in his garden in the Sun. 1t weighs
a trifle over A. lbs. and measures
49, inches around.
Two mad dogs and a mad cat
were killed in Port Deposit last
week. Business seems to be brisk
ing up somewhat. Two other rabid
CANNES are reported at large in
that neighborhood.
Gunners from the cities have in
vaded Cecil county since the legal
cunning season opened, the list OF
November, and killed off rabbits
by the score. cartridges are a
scarce bird in recent years.
Chief Judge James Alfred Pearce
and associates, Judges Martin and
Stump, will preside at the Decem-
Der term of Court at Elkton. This
will be Judges Pearce and Martins
first court, Judge Stump having
been elected for a third term.
Arrangements have been made
by DIR. Poole of Middletown, Md,
to quarry flint on the Murphy
estate near Port Deposit. There is
every indication of an abundant
supply on the place, and it will be
shipped to the Trenton, N. j.,
potteries.
The steamer now being built for
the Baltimore and Port Deposit line
will accommodate 1000 passengers.
She will be 100 feet in length, 80
feet beam, with a four foot guard
rail, and a depth of 10! feet, with
three decks. The vessel will be
finished by June.
A serious fire occurred Monday
on tne farm of j. Claud Elliott near
Newark. Sparks from locomotive
set fire to some corn stalks; the
flames spread to the woods and it
was only after an hours hard work
the neighbors succeeded in extin-
gushing the blaze.
The Delaware College foot ball
"team" had to disband owing to
the number of wounded the "team"
had to furnish with splints,
crutches and canes and place in
in hospital. But it's a glorious
game, only a trifle inferior to the
prize fight with two ounce gloves.
DIR. G. NJ. Ellis looms up as one
of the men in the Elkton section
engaged in agriculture in which
improved stock forms prominent
part of the business. The Doctor
will hold a public sale on his farm
near Elkton on Monday next of his
entire lot of thoroughbred dairy
cattle.
The Orphans Court was in spec
ial session Tuesday to hear the
objections to the confirmation of the
sale of certain real estate in Perry
vile belonging to the estate of the
late James T. Grahm. After hear
ing the evidence the court over
ruled the objections and confirmed
the sale.
Albert Constable, Esq, of Elkton,
spent several days in Centerville
last week, being one of the counsel
in the case of w. H. Benedict VS..
w. A. Potts. Benedict was injured
in an accident on the Pixies Peak
Railway at Colchester and sued
Potts for $4,000 damages. The
caSa was withdrawn