The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-01-23

OhUhlCo w. A'OdAN, VI GlhIOb, Ids
secured patent on potato
dropper.
Mrs. Levi o. Cameron, of Elk
ton, suffered the fracture of one of
her wrists as the result of a fall on
the icy pavements in that town
last week.
Counterfeit silver dollars are re-
ported as being circulated on the
Peninsula. The coins are well
made, but the milling is rather
defective.
Sylvester w. Mahan has sold
his residence in Nottingham, Ches
ter county, to J. G. Brown. Thos.
Mahan has sold his property in the
same town to John Macklin, of
Hartford county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Finkbiner,
of Wakefield, Pa, have issued in
vitations for the marriage of their
daughter Cora S. to Howard E.
Nesbitt, on Wednesday, January
%, at twelve o'clock noon.
Mr.. FL. G. Rineer, of Port De-
post, who for some time past has
held the position of opener and
packer in the Appraisers Depart
ment of the BALTIC. Custom House,
has been appointed a Custom Store
keeper at Locust Point, at $1,000
per year.
A new democratic Sunday news
paper will shortly make its appear
ance in Wilmington under the
name of the delaware Jeffer-
sonian." A prize was offered for
suggestions for the name of the
paper which was won by Mrs. l..
B. Eastman, of Wilmington, who
suggested the name adopted.
Talbot county has recently had
an addition to its population of
three Nebraska families, composed
of twentythree persons. The
party travelled in five special cars,
and in addition to their household
goods brought with them Is horses,
II hogs, 81 cattle, all registered
shorthorns, and 700 chickens.
They will take up their residence
on farms in Talbot county.
Two Italians entered the store of
l. Katz, in Port Deposit, last week
and attempted neat little conf
dence game. While one of the
Italians engaged the storekeeper
in conversation the other slipped
some goods under his overcoat and
attempted to escape with them.
He was detected and after lively
chase overtaken and landed in the
lock up. He was afterward fined
and released and the goods he
didn't get stood him S. and cost,
with nothing to show for his money.
The Continental Trust Company,
of Baltimore, acting for a syndicate,
made payment, to the United Rail
ways and Electric Company, last
week for the stock of the United
Electric Light and Power Company
and the Mount Washington Elec-
tric Light and Power Company,
and the companies were turned over
to the syndicate. The syndicate
that has purchased the lighting
and power plants has plan to
utilize water power of the Susque-
hanna river in generating electric
current and transmitting it to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Will
mington, Del. 1t is said that the
project will involve an expendi-
ture of about $4,000, 900, and the
deal closed last week is prelimi-
nary to beginning operations.
The National Grange Lecturer,
Mortimer Whitehead, will deliver
a lecture in Grange Hall, Lincoln
University, on Friday evening,
January 23rd.
Mr.. Whitehead will be remem-
bered by many in this vicinity who
heard his convincing speech on the
silver question, delivered in this
town on the afternoon of Saturday,
August 29th, during the Presiden-
tial campaign of 1896, and also on
the evening of the same date in
joint debate with VIM. III. Marine,
when "Billy" made such a ludi-
crous attempt at ohampioning the
goldbug side of the question, and
possibly never before or since spent
such an uncomfortable evening on
the public platform, his endeavor
to refute the silver speakers argu-
ments being as painful to his audi
ence as it was to Billy himself.