Middletown transcript., 1899-02-25
Ny Maryland.

The national banks of CentreVille have
been very kind to those who had notes due
last week and who were unable to attend
to them. The banks would not protest the
notes.
Colonel William P. Lane Of the First
Marylaud Regiment o. 8. ", now in camp
at Augusta, Ga, has been officially notified
from Washington that the 2sth of Febru-
ary has been fixed upon by the War Depart
ment for this mastering out of the regi-
ment.
James Lee MCGOWAN, died at his home
in North East on Sunday, 18th inst, OF
diabetes, aged So years. Mr.. McGowan,
who has been resident of North East for
over year, was formely of Baltimore. He
was son of Mr.. Harry MCGOWAN. proprie-
tor of Point Breeze summer resort. A
widow and one son, aged IL years, survive
him.
Farmers report the severe weather as hav-
ing been very trying upon young lambs.
Mr., J. Walter Skirven states that he had
over fifty when the cold spell set in, and
it was most difficult matter to prevent
the younger ones from being frozen. Other
farmers give similar reports. Mr.. Geo. s.
Biddle lost twenty five young pigs.--Ches-
tertown Transcript.
Mrs Caroline D. Orr, widow of. James
Orr, died in Port Deposit Saturday night
in the eighty first year of her age. She
leaves two sons and four daughters
Messrs. w. B. Orr and D. W. Orr, Mrs. J
Dixon West Mrs. G. w. VanFleet. Mrs
E. L. Gilligan and Miss Fannie Orr. She
also leaves eight grand children and five
great-grand children.
The Maryland State Game and Fish
Protective Association has sent advertise
ments to papers in Raleigh, n. c., Nash
Vile, Tenn, and Atlanta, Ga, for stock
| partridges. President Penniman stated
that be had received orders for 800 bird:
and thought the orders would soon amount
to 5000 or more, as most of the partridge:
have died from exposure.
Eight crows were caught at one time dur
ing the freeze in the chicken coop of Mrs
T. w. Seabrease. The black scamps were
hungary and had gone to the coop to share
the food of the chickens. Four we're killed
and the servant girl took the others for
pets. Buzzards grew very tame and fire.
quently alighted in back yards, looking fol
food.-Sallsbury Advertiser.
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The Maryland Evaporating Company ha'
bee.i organized in Baltimore. Nearly al
common vegetables are to be used by pa
tent process. Vegetables of all kinds. wher
the water-which forms the greater bulk
is extracted, will keep an indefinite length
of time. When ready to use the water i!
restored by soaking, and they are cooked al
fresh vegetables are cooked.
Mr.. Ebenezer Turpin Bennett died las
Sunday morning at his home in Baror
Creek district, near Mardela Springs, aget
76 years. His remains were prepared fo
burial but not inferred until Friday morn
ing, in the burial grou nds of the Methods
Protestant church, at Riverton, after funer
al services by Rev. Mr.. Jester at Sneathel
chapel the little place Of worship near hi
home. lnterment was delayed because o
the impossible condition of the roads.
The annual report of the Lunacy Com
mission, Just submitted to Governor Lown
des, shows the total number of insane il
the various state institutions at the close o
the fiscal y ear November 30 1898, to be 2,
382 There are 165 males and 1.217 fe
males. These are distributed in the differ
ent classes ofinstution as follows: four STAT
and city hospitals, l, ,l52; seven private anC
corporate institutions, no; four county asy
lums, 307; fifteen c,unty almshouses, 152
Jeremiah Mcdonnell, a farmer of Talbo
county has been overwhelmed with misfor
tunes the last three weeks The first weel
three of his children died of diphtheria; th
second week his barns, stables and agricul
tural implements were destroyed by fire
last Friday night his home was burned t.
the ground, and he and his wife and thei
remaining child narrowly escaped. They
were nearly frozen before they could react
neighbor's house, as they had little OF
but their scanty night clothes.
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Mr. John Metzlorff was working on tn
Queen Anne's Railroad, Thursday, had
very close call from death on his way nom,
at $50 pm He left the pier and starteC
for his home. When he reached the resi-
dence Of Rev. A Bate he got into a snow
bank and could not release himself and re-
mained in the snow bank until IL o'clocl
when he was found by his brother, Mr.
Chas. Metziorff, who carried him home
John was soaking wet and numbed, anl
only by hard work that he was revived.
Many years ago George Percy. oldest sol
of the then Duke of Cumberland, come tt
America and was welded in Baltimore to
Miss Aisquith. American girls had not a
that time acquired their present popularity
with the noble families of the Old World
and when the young man returned 20 Eng
land his family refused to recognize him
lie returned to America, where he spen
the remainder of his life. He left two sons
Algetnon Percy, of Vienna, and George
Percy, father of Mr.. George Richard Percy
of Cambridge. Accordingly William A
Percy, of Vienna, is the Duke, while ou
townsman would, in England, have sue
ceeded to the title which his father bore a,
second son of the duke which would prob
ably have conferred an earidom upon him
Cambridge Chronicle.
KENT COUNTY.