The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-01-02
Correspondence of The. Cecil Whis.i
From EOWlandg.i lic.
ROwLANDsv,LLE, Dec. 2S. 81

ROWLANDSvlLLE, Dec. IS. 81.
The Rou'nndsrMe Iron WorkS- Remorai Of
J. J. McCmiough Tile on Nryiand and
! Itdc Water Canals Repairs Of me Formef
The Robbery md Bma,ng of Puson' S
Siore-Arresi IF Desperate Negroes, &c.
Mr.. EDlroR:-! have feared fJr some time
that the pane would reach our villcgc, and
for week or two we have fairly realized that
event. The Iron Works here have been
standing still and we feared would continnc
SO during the winter. but we are agreeably
disappointed, as the Company have detcrirIn-
I'd to resume operations to day, and continue
during the winter unless prevented by bard
freezing. | deeply regret that the interest S
Of the Company required Mr.. J j. Mccullough
to remove from our village again to the North
East Works, which are more central in their
business; while our community snffrls the
loss of an eslimabe family, North East can
rejoice over their accession. Mr.. Nice, con-
tnues to give the works here general super
vision assisted by his eldest son and Mr.. S.
Burgess, both practical Mechanics.
Mr. D. +. Shuie the Superintendent of the
Maryland and Tide Water Canals, is now
preparing to make improvements on the form
er. The dam taken away last winter was
temporarily repaired in the spring, bat will
now be permanently iiniShcd and other mes.
Scssary improvements made to insure the
navigation Of the work The ensuing season.
The Columbia dam has been thoroughly re-
paired which was a hard job, requiring
most Of the sumner: so also has been the
wing dam of the Md. Canal which was the
cause Of no lumber passing through the past
season.
had intended before this time to give You
the particulars Of the Lancaster county store
robbery and burning hut haze Offered il
until could give you the facts correct. -
The principals in the affair are mostly
fueit,ycs from this state, You rcmcm Der
the notorious Dennis Foreman. who was tried
IN your Court for stealing corn from the MesaiS
Roman and aquiIcd; this encouraged him,
TO go on with many pretty thclts. He thcn
figured quite cnnSpicousiy in the abduction Of
the white girl from Mrs. Clark. to Iorl;
County. to a miserable negro horde, where
she was found and returned to Cecil and her
rights projected. a states warrant was
then issued for him but he succeeded in
cScapcing to Pa, and there took up his abod,
in the vicinity of the above store. He and
three or four sons have been placed in Lancas
ter Jail on suspicion another is young
negro, fugitive from Lancaster City, who
has been lurking about this ncighborhood for
some year or more, who was suspected for
robbing Mrs. West last summer, but made
good his escape from the officers in pursuit. -
He was subsequently, suspected for entering a
store on the Tide Water Canal and stealing
some money and six shooter, which it i
said he has carried ever since. Previous tc
bis ahsconlins from Lancaster it is said he
stabbed youth with dirk knife, who died
from the elects of the wound. He too has
been an nnatc of Forlnan's house for somt
months, and is now i'll Lancaster Jail. Some
nine to fifteen men, women and children
, have been arrested; the latter, | am told, are
in the aims house. The loss Of the Parsons
is very heavy. Our neighbolhood by the
above arrests have been rid Of Il pest which
has annoyed US for many years. Z.