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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1888
Page
3
Denton area notes report talks of a proposed local military company, church vestry elections, and religious services by ministers in Denton Hillsboro and Christchurch. Other items note a $50,000 derailment damage, pension for a Mex Mexican War survivor, local traffic with cabbage, fair dates, and obituaries including Isaac Parsons a Kent county farmer.
Wheat and corn prices shown with varied grades and changes. Wheat Jultz 94 longberry 96. Corn White 58 yellow 56 to 47. Oats 39 to 42. Rye 71 to 72. Prices reflect multiple quality brackets and recent movements.
Messrs Geo T and O J Reddell will soon begin the erection of a new caging house in Denton. They will have everything ready for next season's peaches and tomatoes.
The bill amending the pay of witnesses for Caroline county was passed on Tuesday, along with a second bill to protect a gnome in Caroline county. Both measures were introduced by Senator Goldsborough.
Chas E Daily son of the late John Daily died at Marshall Infirmary Troy New York on Friday. He started home after learning of his father’s death but was detained at Albany and could not attend the funeral. He returned to Troy and shortly after fell ill.
During March clerk Gadd issued marriage licenses to parties including James H. Trice and Roxana Liden, James Brodes and Annie Fisher, Lewis Borch and Emma Cohee, Alonzo E Griffith and Mamie N Adams, and Richard E Smith and Harriet E Hill.
Lloyd Wilkinson of Pocomoke City Maryland sued New York Philadelphia Railroad for 72 dollars alleging sickness from riding in a car without heat on February 18 from Salisbury to Pocomoke City. The case was heard in Pocomoke City before Justice Robinson and Wilkinson won the full amount.
The April term of the Circuit Court for Caroline County will start Monday and is expected to last about a week. The docket totals include 16 appearance, 41 judicials, 132 trials, 17 appeals, 2 references, 4 petitions, 10 criminal conditions, and 24 criminal appearances, with one case moved from Talbot County, a slander suit where Samuel H. Fluharty sues Thos J Rowens for 10000. Fluharty resides in Caroline and Rowens in Talbot.
The Democratic and Republican contestants in Talbot County election cases sought about 1700 to cover expenses. The House Ways and Means Committee cut the Democratic claim from 740 to 454.60, with 200 for attorney Wm. E. Stewart. The Republican claim dropped from 920 to 720.85, with 150 each to attorneys J. C. Mullikin and George M. Russuin. Total expenses tally 1,171.45.
Mr A P Sharp and a party of gentlemen returned to Baltimore after a trip along the Eastern Shore of Maryland to consider land for a game preserve. Unfavorable weather hindered sightseeing and no decisions were made. They may revisit the Shore for the same purpose. Caroline county is noted as a favorable peninsula location.
The County Commissioners met Tuesday and assigned remaining Third district roads. James W. Saulsbury receives routes from Lloyd Haines's mouth to Ames Chapel and Potter's Landing, plus roads to Peallquoi and Todd's mill. James Beachamp gets Anderson town to Hainesville, Potter's Landing to Concord, and connections to Todd's mill and Wim Stevens's farm. No action on Wingate Neal et al petition for a new county road through Wingate Neal and others in the Third Election district.
Under the river and harbor bill Maryland 89 receives 345600 dollars distributed to numerous sites. Key allocations include Baltimore harbor 240000 dollars Choptank river 7500 dollars Susquehanna river 10000 dollars Chinco in bay 50000 dollars Patuxent River Benedict to Hills Landing 35000 dollars Cambridge harbor 5000 dollars and additional funds for Somerset La Trappe Talbot Kent and Cecil county waterways and rivers including Sassafras Still Pond and the mouth of the Potomac.
Mr Wm FE Dunnock registrar of the vestry has received a letter from Rev J T Louden Tynes of Cannellsville Indiana. The east of St Marys White Chapel parish is accepted. The rector will arrive here during the latter part of April.
The Greensborough Cornet Barn Minstrels plan a burlesque entertainment at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Efforts have been made to deliver their best performance yet with popular admission prices. Preserved seats are on sale at George Redden’s drug store.
Prof James Swann secretary of the Agricultural Mutual Aid Society of Caroline county spent last week in Dorchester and Wicomico counties arranging agencies for the society Miss Annie Fisher attending West Chester Normal School spent last week with her parents in Denton Miss Phoebe Elwanger of near Greensborough was Sunday guest of Miss Deweese in Denton Miss Amelia Fisher of Sykesville Md is guest of Mrs Annie Emerson Mrs Harry A Roe spending a few weeks in Philadelphia
A letter urges Thr Jovanan editors to promote year round road improvements across the county. The writer cites an eighty acre unimproved tract beside a railroad in Caroline county that would fetch little at private sale due to lack of roads, arguing that infrastructure stifles life and calling for collective action to improve all sections.
Real estate transfers recorded in March include Henry S Fisher and wife to Samuel Murray for 11 acres at $247.50, Joshua W Anthony and wife to Robi W Anthony for one seventh of 601 acres, Joseph J Gough to Alex Butler Henderson town property for $350, Elizabeth Stevens to John H Norsey Hillsborough town property for $1,000, Thomas E H Slaughter to George W Thomas Denton town lot for $50, County School Commissioners to Daniel S Brockway lot for $30, Sebastian Grandall and wife to Thomas H Gough 8712 square feet for $210, Hannah M Green to Harrison Tyler 13 acres for $500, Nathanial Turpin and wife to Orlando J Redden town property for $225, W P B & L Association of Talbot County to Paul J Hoffman 252 acres for $33,765, Percy M Lewis assignee to John E Wilson 31 acres with no named consideration.
The Easton Ledger profiles Thomas Cannon of Crumpton as a 66 year old patriarch with seventeen children and a growing line of descendants totaling about 150. His wife survives, he remains active, and seventeen of his offspring have wed, with some twice married. A Felton correspondent notes South Murderkill claims a similar or larger lineage record, citing Jonathan Longfellow of Whiteleysburg with twenty seven children across two marriages and many descendants.
A society gentleman in Lexington asks if a young woman may kiss him before marriage during leap year. The speaker could not determine an answer for the hopeful suitor.
Isaac Slinckley, president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, died at his Philadelphia home after a long illness. Born in 1815 in Hingham, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard in 1834 and led several New England railways before becoming PW&B president in 1855. He also headed the Eastern Railroad Association and helped PA Railroad gain control of PW&B. He chaired the Junction Railroad, jointly owned by PW&B, Pennsylvania, and Reading.
Minor matters note Wednesday minstrels. Federalsburg man EK M Stack named salesman in Baltimore. Logan and Whiteley buy J Frank Wheatley saw mill. A D Smith shows four craft buggies during court week. Foreman thanks for minutes of the 20th Wilmington Conference. Senator Wilson praised for fisheries documents. Ridgeley man Thomas A Smith Jr hurt in accident. John Webster, Dorchester leader, dies at 88 leaving $175,000 estate and sixteen farms. Youngest daughter marries into Choptank Steam Boat Co. The Kent Island storm proves advantageous with little damage while shores abound with timber and cargo including flooring and brandy.
The Maryland Editors Association banquet drew about thirty editors and many legislators to the Maryland Hotel in Annapolis on a Wednesday night. Mayor Claude and President Geo. T. Melvin spoke, with toasts by Senator William Melfing, W Scott Roberts, Frank I Dunero, Col L Victor Baughman and P J Campbell among others. The House of Delegates adjourned early to attend.
The piece surveys April Fools customs from Rome and Venus legends to Huli Festival in India and English pranks like hunting the gawk. It notes French and Parisian tricks, a 1810 Napoleonic quip, and a 1817 Paris watch theft charged as an April fool, ending with a caution to keep fun harmless.
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