The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-28
Miss Gertrude S. Dare is visiting
Miss Linda w. Brown, of Camden.

Miss Maggie Haines of Philada.,
is visiting Miss Mary E. Haines, of
this town.
Harry Minker of Principle Fur
mace, and Miss Cora Hartenstine of
Theodore were married Wednesday
evening last.
Miss Jennie Ward and Mr.. Alex
ander Craig, both of Perryville,
were quietly married on Wednes-
lday evening, 10Th inst.
Lewis r. Kirk, Jr., of Philada.,
who has been very i'll with typhoid
is convalescing at the home of his
parents on Cherry street.
The Atlantic Refining Company,
through its Wilmington branch, is
negotiating for piece of land near
the depot at Elkton, with the pur-
pose of erecting storage tanks for
oil and gasoline.
The gold miners have thirty
hands digging in the Sth District
at several different places. The
wages are ten cents an hour. Last
week was pay day and $500 was
distributed among employees.
The Funeral Benefit Association
of the Junior Order United Amer
lean Mechanics of Maryland and
the District of Columbia will meet
in Elkton February %. Que hun
dred and fifty delegates are expect
ed to be present.
A bill has been introduced by
Senator Crothers to abridge the
title name of Tome Institute, by
emitting "of Port Deposit" Also to
provide for annual reports by the
institute to the Secretary of State
of the workings of the same.
DR.. William Lee, Secretary of
the Maryland Lunacy Commission,
made an official vi it to the Cecil
County Insane Asylum at Cherry
Hill, and the Elkton Jail last week.
In his report on the Insane Asy-
lum, he says:
81 found thirty inmates, all of
whom seem to be well cared for and
properly treated. The rooms and
hallway were clean and free from
fault, and the attendants are com
petent and very Jealous i'll their
duties. At the county Jail l Was
accompanied by Dr.. j. II. lamar,
physician to that institution. The
object of my visit was to investi-
gate the mental condition Iof two
colored men who were reported to
me as being insane, but neither of
them were found to come under the
lunacy act"
DR.. Lee proposes to organize
board of women visitors in Elkton
who will interest themselves in be-
half of the unfortunates at Cherry
Hill.
The lack of practical engineering
in the attempts recently made in
road improvement is manifesting
itself, particularly so on South
Queen street, which was dressed
with crushed stone on a bed of
four or five inches of mud. This
was all right as long as dry weather
reigned, but the long wet season of
last fall and the present winter is
showing the defects of the practice.
The constant rainy weather has
converted the strata of earth be-
tween the original turnpike bed
and the top layer of finely broken
stone into a soft paste, through
which the heavier stone was bound
to settle and which is now rising to
the surface and presenting a mud,
in place of a stone street. And if
the mud is covered with another
layer of crushed stone it will again
appear on the surface when similar
conditions occur. Scrape the mud
off and cart it away till the solid
stone floor is reached, then place a
layer of stone on the old bed suf-
ficient to level and smooth the sur
face and you have street that will
last and keep comparatively clear
of mud.
A public meeting was held at
Elkton on Saturday evening in the
interest of the starving Cubans,
when several stirring addresses
were made.
An appeal to the public has been
issued for donations signed by Mrs.
l.. Marshall Haines, Mrs. Henry
Vinsinger,. Mrs. w. III. Makall and
Mrs. II. ID. M. Howard. The ar
ticles most needed as advised by
Consul General Lee, are summer
clothing for women and children;
fever medicines, principally qui-
nine; hard bread, corn meal, bacon,
rice, lard, potatoes, beans, peas,
salt fish, any canned goods, and
especially large quantities of con-
densed milk. Money, too, is
needed.
These proceedings which are
taking place all over 'he country,
though highly commendable from
"A charitable point of view, are very
much like locking the door after