The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-03-25
NTY NEWS
Friday, Mar. 25 1SOS.
Mll>.ORLOCALS

lIdSt, lids DttH SIdulcu bONClH
ment pension.
Diphtheria has made it's appear
ance at Cecilton, and the school ha'
been temporarily closed.
Edward Mulherin has purchased
of G. r. Grason, the Adam Jam
ison property situated near thu
State line.
The Cecil Farmers Club will hole
its April meeting at Mr.. Maurice
G. Reeder's on Wednesday, Goth o.
that month.
On Wednesday of last week Jesse
Poplar of Havre de Grace killed
155 ducks on the Susquehanna flats
within two hours.
w. j. McDougal has purchased
the shop adjoining his property and
formerly occupied by Samuel Krew
son, of III. II. Haines.
A new counterfeit two dollar
treasury note has made its appear
ance and a few are reported in Cir
culation in this county.
Today is moving day. If your
post office address will be changed
in the general shake up drop line
to this Office so your paper may be
sent to the new address.
The name of VIM. j. Smith was
sent to the Senate on Tuesday by
President Mckinley, for confrma-
ton as postmaster at Elkton to
succeed Frank r. Scott.
Wilmington M. E. Conference
is in session this week at Lewes,
Del. 1t is expected that Rising
Suns pastor, Dr.. S. J. Morris, will
be returned for another year.
II. Linn Worthington spent last
Wednesday ducking from sink
box at the mouth of Furnace creek
He returned in the evening with
ten ducks as a result of the days
sport.
The John M. Dougherty farm, in
the fifth district, containing fifty
one acres of land, was sold Friday
by Albert Constable, Jr., attorney,
to S. H. Wallace, of Baltimore, for
81, 300.
The overseer on the farm of DIR.
S. T. Roman near ConowingO, has
enrolled in the service of the Gov
eminent, as an all around mechanic,
and is now serving at the Brooklyn
Navy Yards.
Messrs. Spencer & Silver OF
Havre de Grace, met the farmers at
North East last Saturday to con-
tract for tomatoes. They were
willing to pay $3.50 ton and
wanted contracts converting 100
acres.
Fire Sunday night destroyed the
frame dwelling house and two barns
nearby on the Clarkson farm neal
Iron Hill. The loss is about So 1000.
The buildings were not tenanted
and the origin of the fire is
unknown.
The County Commissioners have
been notified by Robert P. Graham,
State Tax Commissioner of Mary
land, that the apportionment of the
rolling stock of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
taxable in Cecil Co. is $3S, 2S3.76
An entertainment with the Edi-
son vitagraph or projecting kineto
scope, supplemented with j. Stuart
Blackton, artist and humorist, and
Albert L. Smith, impersonator
shadowgraphist and general fun
maker, will be given in Rising Sur
hall April 80, under auspices o.
Harmony Castle, X. G. E.
1t is reported that parties inter
ested in the Cecil "Klondike" re
Gently approached Albert Reyn
olds, of the Eighth district, with {
view of purchasing a strip o
meadow land along the Octorar(
for the purpose of erecting works
thereon, for the separation of the
ore being taken out. Mr.. Reynolds
refused to sell unless all of the cash
for the property was paid at ont
time.
Wilson j. Sidwell, son of Job B
Sidwell of Sylmar, died on las
Sunday, in his 18th year. Tit
cause of his death was an acciden
which the lad received the Monday
previous. He was perched on ;
one. horse load of straw driving
along the road near home when thu
horse took fright and threw the boy
to the ground. One wheel passed
over his stomach and another Over
his legs. The former inflicted sucl
serious internal injuries that deati
ensued week later, although a
one time it was thought he would
recover. His funeral was held oil
Wednesday last, interment at Rose
bank cemetery.
Bills are up announcing an en-
tortninnnnnt in Rising Sun hal