The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-06-10
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, June 10, lS0S.
MINORLOCAIS

ROsebank festival last week.
James Vansant, of Sylmar, lost a
valuable young mare last week.
Hambleton's creamery paid Is
cents pound for butter last month.
A festival was held on the lawn
a. Hopewell church on Tuesday
evening.
The annual orchard grass harvest
on the Bell farm at Conowingo was
gathered this week.
Children's Day exercises will be
held in Rising Sun M. E. church
next Sunday evening at 1870 o'clk.
Z. III. Jackson and wife, of Como
wingo, have bought from III. c..
Nesbitt farm of 80 acres at Wood
lawn.
Burglars ransacked the house of
John Myers, near Elkton, on Sun
day during the absence of the
family.
Twenty four probationers were
admitted to full membership at
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church last
Sunday.
The Oath annual commencement
exercises of the Friends Normal
Institute will be held on Friday,
June II, at s p. m.
The Bay View M. P. Sunday
school will hold a festival tomor-
row evening. If stormy, it will be
held the following Monday evening.
A shipment of $500 barrels of
herring was made from Havre de
Grace last week to Richmond
parties, on the barge "Swanboro."
Last Sunday was Children's Day
at Zion and Bay View and the exer-
cises of the Sunday school casses
were witnessed by crowded houses.
Ben, the young son of Thomas
Vandergritt of Elk Neck, has been
taken to the hospital in Baltimore
for treatment of dead bone in his
left arm.
Headstones will be erected over
the unmarked graves of the Con-
federate dead in the cemeteries at
North East by number of the cit
liens of that town.
1t is reported that fish are dying
in large numbers in the canal near
Summit Bridge. The supposition
is that the iron in the bank along
the deep cut poisons the water.
A barge 175 feet long and % #.
beam was launched at Dibert's
boat yard, Little Elk, last week.
Two other barges are in course Of
construction at the yard.
George A. Steel, principal of
Elkton High School, has opened a
school for teachers in the building
and proposes to instruct them
during the vacation season.
G. G. Hopkins this week trans
ferred the Bryan monument from
the station to Brookyiew cemetery
where it was placed in position by
John M. Creswell of Port Deposit.
The gross receipts of the Me-
chanicS festival in Rising Sun last
Friday and Saturday evenings were
SIG. Homard Terry won the first
prize, set of single harness, and
Alfred Brown the lap robe.
DR.. j. B. Slicer, of Pennington,
secured Is English pheasant eggs a
few weeks ago and set them under
two hens. He now has II young
pheasants as a result, the time of
Matching requiring three weeks and
two days.
Thomas Spear, while tempo
rarily insane, shot his wife serious
ly injuring her, and committed
suicide, recently. He resided in
Cincinnati and was son of e. ID.
Spear who was formerly superin-
tendent of Providence Mills.
Joseph Wright, young colored
man formerly of Cecilton, this
county, was convicted at Easton
last week of murder in the first
degree for the shooting of William
Newcomb in Kent county last
August. Judge Stump sentenced
the prisoner to be hanged at such
time as the Governor may appoint.
Caroline "Corbett" and Hannah
Fitzsimmons," two colored dam
sells OF this town, got into dispute
last Saturday evening while the
Mechanics festival was in progress
and proceeded to settle their diff
ferences according to London prize
ring rules. The "mill' took place
at the corner of DIR. Kinks drug
store porch and during the first
round was fast and furious, neither
party asking nor giving any favors.
Bailiff Morrison appeared on the
scene before referee Davis gave his
decision and the fight was declared
off and all bets withdrawn.
Last Tuesday was ':LincOln Day.