The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-29
OUR NEIGHBORS.
DELAWARE,


cent. i'll the last ten years. $7609.69 was
expended during the past year for the relief
of brothers, care of families and education
of orphans.
VIM. NJ. Willoughby has purchased an
organ for St. Anne's Chapel, near Middle
town, and an effort is being made to i'm
prove the music at that church. The Mid
dletoacn Transcript thinks the wealthy con-
gregation ought to erect handsome Gothic
Church, in Middletown, and leave the old
church for cemetery purposes.
young man by the name of Heller. en-
ployed in the Tile yard of Mr.. VIM. Van
dyke, Odessa, had his foot caught between
the cog wheels of the large clay grinder,
which crushed his foot and ANGLE SO horri-
bly, that amputation was necessary.
Mrs. Muzzy, wife of former Missionary
to India, lectured in Middletown on We'd
nesday evening, 10Th inst, in the Presby-
terrain Church, giving very interesting &C
count of her experience and observation
while connected with the mission in that
distant land.
The Jewish rite of circumcision was adj
ministered to Solomon, infant son of I. K.
Shortman, of Smyrna, two weeks since,
when 8 days old.
The citizens of Smyrna are about to erect
a Town Hall, not to cost more than ten
thousand dollars.
DR.. Prettyman, L. S. Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue, has removed his Office to Will
mington.
The Medical Society of Delaware will
meet at Georgetown on the Sth of June.
B. B. Comegys, formerly of Delaware,
President of the Philadelphia National
Bank, has been granted six months leave
of absence, and presented with $4,000 in
| gold, to visit Europe, by that bank. He
will sail with his daughters on the 22nd.
Mrs. Rebecca Warner died in Smyrna
last week. She had been unable to speak
or swallow for over a year, and had not lain
down for over nine months. Her food had
to be forced below her palate. Her disease
was paralysis
Capt. Samuel Lace, of Roxana, Sussex
county, went to shoot a dog with pistol
the other day and the ball missed its aim
and passed through the leg Of a Mrs.
Lynch. She is doing well.
Five car loads of peas and strawberries
| went up on the railroad from Norfolk one
day last week.
The Annual Meeting of the Fruit Grow
ers' Association of Delaware and Maryland,
will be held in Odessa, on Saturday the 18th
of June, at l o'clock, P. NJ, at the Hotel of
Mr.. VIM. T. Chance. A full attendance is
desirable as the business is important.
Mrs. F. E. w. Harper, talented colored
woman, born slave, in this Peninsula, but
who has educated herself, and made ma
| tional reputation, delivered lecture on
''Our new citizens Monday evening in
Institute Hall, Wilmington.
The Peninsular Fruit Growers Associa
ton met at Dover last week. They esti-
mate the number of baskets of peaches to
be shipped from the Peninsula this season
at 1,5S5, 900
The clothing store of Messrs. Turkheimer
& Catlin, Chestertown, was entered on
Thursday night, Goth inst, and robbed of
several hundred dollars worth of clothing.
The Sunday-school exhibition held at
Galena, recently, was success.
A camp meeting, under the auspices Of
the NJ. +. Church, South, will be held in
the woods of David Clements, Esq, near
Chesterville, on Friday, the 9th of August
next
QUEEN ANNE's.
| The Crumptonian says the work of lay
| ing the track on the branch railroad from
Townsend to Masscy's is making satisfac-
tory progress. About six miles have been
laid, and it is thought the track to Masscy's
will be finished early in June. The laying
of the rails from Massey's downward by
the Queen Anne railroad contractor, will
be commenced without delay, so that in :;
few weeks Sudlersville will be reached
This is probably as far as it will get in time
to be available for carrying the peach crop
to market this season. The Delaware r.
r. Co. offer to put on engine and cars, and
thus open the finished portion of the line
without unnecessary delay. 1t is supposed
that sixty thousand baskets of peaches will
be shipped from Sudlersville this year.
VIM. P. Armstrong, of Crumpton, was
thrown from dearborn, and badly hurt
last week, by the running away of the
horses.
An arrangement has been effected by the
adherents of the NJ. p. Church for holding
divine service i'll the school-house, near
Crumpton, every second Sabbath.
1t is thought Gov. Bowie will pardon
Geo. 7. Burgess, convicted of assault, for
shooting John Woodall.
There is a fine opening at Crumpton for
good tailor, there being none within five
miles of that place.
CAROLINE.
Christian Rock has sold his farm. con-
| tanning SO acres, to DR.. J. III. Mclean, of
Norwalk, Conn, for So, 500.
| Thos. Urry has been made keeper of the
| Court House.
The Bloomcry mill dam was recently
washed away. The Enterprise Mills have
an improved Turbine wheel.
| A Teachers Association has been formed
in this county.
| The causeway at Denton is in bad con-
| dition, and petition is in circulation look
ing to its repair.
| The railroad station on the land of John
| w. knotts is not to be removed as erro-
neously reported.
o. P. Sparks has been appointed School
| Commissioner to fill the unexpired term of
John r. Scott, decd.
The May term of the Circuit Court for
| Talbot county commenced on Monday, Eth
inst, His Honor Judge Stump on the Bench.
| The corncrib OF the editor of the Easton
Gazette was broken open last week. but the
thief only finding half a bushel of corn in
the ear, concluded the prize was not worth
carrying off. We congratulate our friend
Council upon his being the only one of the
fraternity We ever knew to own corncrib.
| and that he was spared his ears.
Since the above was i'll type, we notice
| that the editor has been married, where
upon we renew our congratulations and
think perhaps it would have been as we'll if
the thief had got his ears.
The farmers complain of fly in the wheat
The colorod people dedicated their new
church. on Sunday, 10th inst. They sue
ceeded in collecting in cash $20S, and a
much larger amount was subscribed to-
wards paying off the debt Of the building.
This circuit is supplied with preachers by
the Wilmington Conference, being under
the jurisdiction of the NJ. L. Bishops. and
not under the colored Bishop S of the Afri-
can NJ. E. Church.
The Baililf of st. Micliaels is to be uni
formed.
The members of the NJ. Z. Church, South,
at Hillsborough. are erecting new church.
1t will be completed about the first of July
| John Tahan was recently arrested on the
charge of stealing watch and other ar
ticles, valued at 1913, the property of Capt
S. l.. Caster, of the schooner Isabella Dart.
Capt John Henry Harrison, of the
schooner Sarah Elizabeth, sailing from
Broad Creek, was lately robbed of his peck
et-book containing $3.50. About
three weeks since, the vessel of Captain
| Costin grounded in Tilghman's Creek, and
had to be unloaded by means of lighters
While the Can't and crew were ashore and