The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-26
PORT DEPOSIT RHEIMS.

q. f. HaM. -Mcssrs. West x Carroll were
the successful bidders for the Odd Fellows
Hall the letting vas had on Saturday last.
They contemplate commencing work on the
foundation in lev days, or as soon as they
can get possession of the lot. The frame
building belonging to the Union Club of
Port Deposit, stands on the lot and will
have to be removed or torn down before
anything can be done toward digging cut
the foundation. There appears to be great
difficulty in getting lot of ground on which
to put the club room, and it is feared that it
will have to be torn dowa, which will be a
great disaster at this time, as the Club were
calculating to hold their grand glorifcation
meeting in it over the election of Grant and
ColfaX, but
The best laid schemes Of mice and men
Aft gang aglee."
Ercursion. a large excursion of
Sunday school children and others arrived
here on Tuesday, from Georgetown, on
board the steamer Commerce, in charge Of
our old friend and former citizen, Captain
Solloway. The excursionists appeared to
enjoy themselves very much, and after re-
manning :, couple of hours, started on their
return.
4 Myste,y.-Our neighbors on the oppo-
site side of the river, in the vicinity of Lap
idum and Rock Run, were considerably sx-
cited over what appears to have been
rather mysterious movement on the part of
stranger, who made his advent there, a
few days since, and represented himself as
being from Buffalo, NY. He arrived at
Lapidum in the afternoon, and proceeded at
once to Rock Run, where he endeayored to
procure boat for the purpose of going to
Snake Island, small island just below
Rock Run, and but short distance frSm
shore, and on which is small fishery. Not
| succeeding in getting boat that evening, he
came over to Port, where he remained over
night, and next morning returned to Rock
! Run, and succeeded in getting boat from
Mr.. j. r. Smith. He would suffer no one
! to go with him, and remarked to Mr.. Smith
that he had been on Snake Island five years
/ ago-in 1868. His evident anxiety and per
sstent refusal to have any one with him,
caused the people to set 4 watch on his
! movements. Oae party stationed himself
. on an island opposite, whilst others watched
from the shore. On reaching the island, he
commenced walking about, apparently max
ing observations as to his position, when he
tn Ell n,
barricade, as if in search Of something. AT
ter Il short time thus spent, he sprang into
his boat and returned to the shore, and start
ed Immediately for Lapidum; on reaching
which place, he went to Il stone quarry where
some men were at work, and spoke to one
of the men, (who had come there a stranger
a few days before, who at once asked hin
if he had succeeded. lie replied ~ have
we are all right when the two started off
the other not even waiting to receive his pay
for his few days work. That was the las
seen of either of them. On examining the
island Immediately after the stranger hat
left it, his steps were tracked to the wall al
luded to above, where few stones wert
found to have been removed. Our Hartford
friends have not yet obtained any clue t,
the mystery, though they arc making per
sistent efforts to do so. They have found {
man living near there, who says that on,
night, in the Spring of 1868, he was accoste,
by a soldier who desired to be put on Snak
Island; he procured Loaf and put him OF
the island, and left him there. How h
got off, or when, he never knew. The sup
position is that some stolen or contraban,
| treasure had been hidden there by the sol
der, where it remained undiscovered, til
, he returns after five years and finds it. No,
the question is, Who can unravei the nays